Dick Morris Re: Israel & Iran

[armedandsafe]

This is a bit frightening.

THE DEATH OF ISRAEL

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

Published on DickMorris.com on May 24, 2009

From Caroline Glick, deputy editor and op-ed writer for the Jerusalem Post, comes alarming news. An expert on Arab-Israeli relations with excellent sources deep inside Netanyahu's government, she reports that CIA chief Leon Panetta, who recently took time out from his day job (feuding with Nancy Pelosi) to travel to Israel "read the riot act" to the government warning against an attack on Iran.

More ominously, Glick reports (likely from sources high up in the Israeli government) that the Obama administration has all but accepted as irreversible and unavoidable fact that Iran will soon develop nuclear weapons. She writes, "...we have learned that the [Obama] administration has made its peace with Iran's nuclear aspirations. Senior administration officials acknowledge as much in off-record briefings. It is true, they say, that Iran may exploit its future talks with the US to run down the clock before they test a nuclear weapon. But, they add, if that happens, the US will simply have to live with a nuclear-armed mullocracy."

She goes on to write that the Obama administration is desperate to stop Israel from attacking Iran writing that "as far as the [Obama] administration is concerned, if Israel could just leave Iran's nuclear installations alone, Iran would behave itself." She notes that American officials would regard any harm to American interests that flowed from an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities as Israel's doing, not Iran's.

In classic Stockholm Syndrome fashion, the Obama administration is empathizing more with the Iranian leaders who are holding Israel hostage than with the nation that may be wiped off the map if Iran acquires the bomb.

Obama's end-of-the-year deadline for Iranian talks aimed at stopping its progress toward nuclear weapons is just window dressing without the threat of military action. As Metternich wrote "diplomacy without force is like music without instruments." By warning only of possible strengthening of economic sanctions if the talks do not progress, Obama is making an empty threat. The sanctions will likely have no effect because Russia and China will not let the United Nations act as it must if it is to deter Iranian nuclear weapons.

All this means is that Israel's life is in danger. If Iran gets the bomb, it will use it to kill six million Jews. No threat of retaliation will make the slightest difference. One cannot deter a suicide bomber with the threat of death. Nor can one deter a theocracy bent on meriting admission to heaven and its virgins by one glorious act of violence. Iran would probably not launch the bomb itself, anyway, but would give it to its puppet terrorists to send to Israel so it could deny responsibility. Obama, bent on appeasement, would likely not retaliate with nuclear weapons. And Israel will be dead and gone.

Those sunshine Jewish patriots who voted for Obama must realize that we, as Jews, are witnessing the possible end of Israel. We are in the same moral position as our ancestors were as they watched Hitler rise but did nothing to pressure their favorite liberal Democratic president, FDR, to take any real action to save them or even to let Jewish refugees into the country. If we remain complacent, we will have the same anguish at watching the destruction of Israel that our forebears had in witnessing the Holocaust.

Because one thing is increasingly clear: Barack Obama is not about to lift a finger to stop Iran from developing the bomb. And neither is Hillary Clinton.

Obama may have held the first White House cedar, but he's not planning to spend next year in Jerusalem.

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[kutaho]

I believe Israel has had the ability to turn the desert into a pretty green glass for awhile , all the while not being a part of those allowed (by u.n. decree) I may be wrong, that may have changed, But it was common knowledge in the early '80s'. I remember when china first got the 'bomb', the comic caption was death holding a nuclear bomb, and the caption was "what do we do with it now?"
and lets not forget India and Pakistan.

Not only that, but Isreal is a pretty tough cookie!!

[bcj1755]

Well, Barry sure does seem to be taking the standard Muslim view of Israel. But he's a Christian Yeah, right. If Barry's a Christian, then I have pointed ears, green blood, and was born on Romulus.

[Trouble 45-70]

My prayers are for Israel and her leaders. They will do what they need to do. They were promised by G*d that they would return and reestablish their nation and they have. Something that no other people have ever achieved. There will at some point be devine intervention but not before a lot of grief. G*d promised that Israel would survive. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.

[Tony22-250]

Why do i have the feeling that crap is about to hit the fan here and abroad? This situation doesnt look good at all! Obama is just another brick in the wall that we are tearing down and Iran is just another link in the chain of the wrecking ball!