By BARRY RUBIN, PJMEDIA—
It is not every day that one can announce a shift in world history, but this day is today. And we are now in a new era in the Middle East and the world. This is not a joke-definitely not a joke-and as you will see, it is not an exaggeration.
Let me explain. For the last seven weeks I have been in the United States, mostly in Washington D.C. I have spoken and listened to many people. As a result, I am in a position to describe for you with a high degree of accuracy what the policy will be for the next 3.5 years, and perhaps for many more.
The administration has crossed a line to, in simple terms, backing the “‘bad guys.”
This is literally true in Egypt, Syria, Sudan, the Palestinian Authority, Bahrain (with its support for the opposition), Qatar, and Turkey.
And in some ways, as we will see, the war on terrorism has been turned into the war for terrorism.
Too extreme? On the contrary, this is not a conservative or liberal analysis but merely a true one. Come along over the next few weeks, and let’s take a serious analysis 0f Obama’s Middle East policy in the second term, from 2013 to January 20, 2017.
The real diplomatic line is: Bad boy, Bibi (and Israel), why can he/they not be moderate and flexible (unlike releasing 100 terrorist murderers in exchange for nothing), like Palestinian Authority Leader Mahmoud Abbas (and the Palestinians, who in fact is inflexible, constantly; escalates demands; and rejects U.S. strategy on the peace process); or like Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan (throwing intellectuals and journalists in prison, betraying U.S. strategy 0n Iran, backing anti-American Islamists, and sending former army officers for long jail terms on phony charges)?
During the coming months, and even years, if they are given to me, I will pursue these themes. You may not believe what you read here today or tomorrow, but you will, oh you will see it.
But before we begin, let me repeat that this is going to happen. It will not change, and as shocking as it is, this is already happening. It is unavoidable, because with a president who will not learn, a bought-off elite, a sold-out second-term Congress, and a remarkably cowardly or partisan media, nothing will change. The situation will only get worse and more obvious.
In this series of articles, I will describe eight very likely things that will almost certainly happen during the rest of Obama’s term, extending far beyond Israel, and how to minimize the harm to the interests of the United States and of its would-be Middle Eastern allied people and governments.
Here are the inevitable themes, any one of which would be horrid enough but note they can all be mitigated and delayed.
ISRAEL CANNOT DEPEND ON THE UNITED STATES.
That doesn’t mean that Obama and others will not provide military aid or say nice words at every event. But there is no commitment that one can assume would be fulfilled nor any Israeli initiative that will really be implemented.
This is a complex issue, but here are some brief points:
The idea that Obama and his team are the greatest friend of Israel is a deadly insult, and I can prove it two minutes.
Minute one: The United States has undermined Israel on many issues. Do I have to provide a list?
Okay, here is a partial list: Egypt (support for a hostile Muslim Brotherhood government); Tunisia (ditto); Sinai (enablement of insurgency); Hamas (the desire to keep the Brotherhood-an ally of Hamas-government in power in Cairo); Turkey (supporting the Islamist, anti-Israel government); Syria (support of radical Syrian Islamists); Europe (lack of support for Israeli position on peace process); America itself (encouragement of anti-Israel forces among Jewish community and in Obama constituency); Palestinians (lack of criticism or pressure on Palestinian Authority, PA). I’ll save more for later, but I think this is an impressive list.
Minute two: But, there’s something more here. The most dangerous, insulting argument is this: Secretary of State John Kerry has repeatedly said-and this is the theme of the administration supporters, including Jewish supporters: The greatest danger to Israel is if Israel does not get peace soon. This is an absurd lie. The greatest danger to Israel would be for Israel to accept a dangerous and unworkable peace agreement that the other side would not implement.
In other words, the greatest danger for Israel would be to listen to the bad advice of Obama, Kerry, and their supporters.
Consider this; who should be more knowledgeable about their situation and more aware of their real interests, Israel or America? Do people think that Obama knows better than Israelis? Does he care more? That’s absurd and insulting.
Of course, people assume that states and political leaderships put their own interests first, whether or not they understand this. And that lays the basis for overruling Israel’s democracy.
For example, a survey by the very dovish Israeli Democracy Institute (IDI) showed 65.6 percent of Israelis questioned did not expect to see a deal in talks between Israel and the Palestinians within a year. And if you take into the account the don’t-knows and no opinions, that increases the percentage.
Incidentally, spot the gimmick in Reuters’ story: “The talks resumed last month after a three-year hiatus.” Actually, except for one week there have not been real talks for 13 years.” Second gimmick: “But even if the Israeli government managed to defy skeptics and secure an accord, the poll…suggested it would struggle to sell it to its people.”
Wrong, the government and the vast majority of the people agree with each other. But there is a revealing hint here. The U.S. government and its supporters believe that the Israeli government in partnership with Obama should betray the beliefs, aspirations, and security of the Israeli people. And we are not only talking about Jewish settlements, even for those willing to give every one up for real, lasting peace.
In fact, 55.5 percent of the Israeli people-and 63 percent of Israeli Jews-said they were against Israel agreeing to return to the 1967 lines, even if there were land swaps which would enable some Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem to remain part of Israel. It is not the terms ostensibly offered, but the credibility of the United States and the Palestinians. Mind you, the figure is higher, because most people feel that this simply won’t work in terms of providing more security and stability.
You cannot understand what has just happened without the analogy of the monster movie. Israel is not naïve, but it was walking down a dark alley and thought that kindly old Uncle Sam-perhaps a bit grumpier lately-had his back; then it peered over its shoulder and froze in horror at seeing a scary monster. Yet you will never ever hear an Israeli politician admit that.
Read Netanyahu’s unprecedented memo on the talks and the prisoner release. It reads as if he saw a ghost; he is trying to signal something very grim and serious, and there is no implication that he believes in any possibility of compensation for this concession.
Faced with a wasted effort of an extremely unilateral Palestinian prisoner release, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government went along because they realized something in the middle: This was not a routine exercise. During the process, they realized that the indifference of the United States to Israel’s interests was extremely high; that Congress was hypnotized; that the Jewish community in its Obama worship was largely neutralized; and that rather than fighting European hostility, the White House was conducting it.
Looking over their shoulder in the misty night, they realized that a very large monster was following them. If you read Netanyahu’s unprecedented memo to the Israeli people as to why the terrorist prisoners were released, you get that clear signal. They realized that the Obama administration was extremely dangerous and that it was necessary to buy time.
Of course, the talks will not go anywhere, because the Palestinians know that they have a strong hand and they will overplay it. But the administration’s willingness to punish Israel to win public relations points and shore up the doomed U.S. alignment with Islamists has to be reckoned with.
I don’t think that our current U.S. president has done a shift with Israel at all. I believe this is and has always been “the plan.” Why? Because he is himself a Muslim. And quite possibly a radical Muslim at that. He is certainly bought and paid for by people and organizations much more powerful than himself. There is a master plan here and that is what P.M. Netanyahu has seen over his shoulder. I believe there is indeed a world-wide conspiracy taking place and we, as the blind men trying to describe the proverbial elephant in the room, are trying to figure it all out by the one little piece we can now “feel.” There’s more, but enough said.
Just an old lady’s opinion here.
I agree with Judy Moore. None of the details stated above is a new revelation to Americans, except to those who are intentionally uninformed and stick their heads in the sand. The author of this article
appears to think that this information is the first time we have ever heard these things. It is NOT and this is not new to us. Also, Obama, Kerry, Hagel and the rest of the Obama administration do not represent most of America, but the power remains in the hands of those who are serving themselves in their own agendas, and the media is biased with no ethics and only promoting their own agenda.
I agree in that Israel will and must be prepared to stand alone……Obama and his supporters have their own agenda and it does not include the welfare of Israel nor does it reflect the will of the majority of Americans. Sadly but true, Obama and his supporters do not listen to or even care about the will of the American people. Obama does not represent the majority of Americans. I believe this is very important for Israel to grasp/understand.
Thank you, I couldn’t have said it better myself!
Are we all so self-absorbed that we can’t see what is going on. People this is the time to get back in the Bible and see where we are prophetically – where wrong is right and right is wrong. When the president of this country can stand and tell us one prevarication after another; yet people still believe and listen to him. Amazing?!? Which is scarier, that he has so much support, or he is destroying America? Either way it is not a good outcome.
Just another old ladies opinion
The situation was grim for Gideon, for Jehosaphat, in the 1948 ‘war’ , in 1967 , yet trusting in God was the key to victory,..the only answer for help you can count on in an impossible situation.
Obama is there, because it is Him , who sets one up and puts one down. Only our prayers can change things as Moses did and Daniel and others. Lets war at home. HE stands at the door and knocks, that’s what it is all about. ( to meet the Mashiach) satan does not want it to happen, beacause he is going to be locked up., at least for a thousand years. God have mercies !!!
Ditto to all the above! I’m glad Bibi and most of the Israelis are finally figuring out that Obama is not a friend to either Israel, NOR to the U.S.A.! I too believe he is a Muslim – his father was a Muslim, so that makes him one. If he defected to another religion, he would be targeted for assassination. And we can’t even figure out a way to impeach him, for our own protection! Even so come, HaMashiach!
Anna H. Israel has God’s protection and needs no one else on her side. Read Psalm 83.
Des Reed
Israel has God, and He will fight on their behalf, but they need the support and prayers of the joint heirs to Gods children, the saints.
Obama is not a friend of Israel or the Christian world, he is a four oak leaf general in satan’s faceless army and has put things into play which will result in the Gog-Magog war. Israel, do not trust the american government, how ever, thank God, the American people must stand up for the freedoms their sons and daughters died for, as do we in my home country, Australia.
Through out the bible, before God would do anything, the believers had to act first. Pray, repent and show God they ment it.
Mrs Moore, you may think you are an old lady, but still a voice that God can use.
Wake up saints of the living God, our rights have been eroded subtly for to long. We will be imprisoned and persecuted, so was Jesus for our sake. The next will be our children who are sent to their deaths, just so the leaders of the moment can puff their chests out and point the finger at Israel and what they class as intolerant christians.
Let us all speak clearly, freely and with the humble righteousness being led by the Holy Spirit.
We have this president because God gave the person we, Americans, deserve. If the Christians of America had not become WILLFULLY ignorant, apathetic, complacent, and selfish, and instead had spoken out against immorality, and depravity that has taken over America, we would not be in this state of affairs today. God judges HIS people FIRST, then the rest of the people. We as Christians should have known this would happen because it was written in the Holy Scriptures: “People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. 6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. ust as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.” 2 Timothy 3:2-9.
So how is it that Christians are surprised at what has happened when the Holy Bible spells it out so plainly? It’s because we have become WILLFULLY ignorant, apathetic and complacent about the what the Holy BIble says. We’re too busy text messaging, playing computer games, watching reality shows, so that they can spout out the names of the people on these reality shows they watch RELIGIOUSLY and give great details about shows they’ve watch months ago, BUT ask them to name the 12 Apostles of Jesus, or the names of the12 tribes of Israel, or the names of the books of the New Testament, and their minds grow blank.
We are truly living in the times of the Laodicean Church spoken of by Apostle John in Revelation 3:
“To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:
“These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation. 15I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. 17You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. 18I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.
19Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent. 20Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.
21To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne. 22Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
The Bible also says, and this is the comforting verse: “When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” Luke 21:28
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore comfort one another with these words. 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18
M A R A N A T H A ! ! ! ! !
I have considered the claim that bho is a muzlum. I don’t say that yet. However his AFFINITY for everything islam is one of his MANY disqualifiers as our president.
I have also chucked at the claim of some that bho is the antichrist, he is certainly not. However he has demonstrated clearly how the real antichrist will be able to come on the scene & fool enough of the masses into thinking that he has the world solutions at hand.
The comments of JPQ above sound like a summary of a presentation that I attended in 1972, when I was a senior in college. The presenter was Josh McDowell. His astute observations have been with me ever since. I have watched to see if he may have been wrong, He was right on!
I copy/pasted/printed JPQ’s post to share with our Sunday class.
I agree with all of the above. I want to add that before BHO was elected the first time, I saw Kissinger on TV saying that BHO will hopefully be the one to bring in the New World Order. This is the very reason that the powers that be put BHO in office. This was in the plan. The world must come to the brink of disaster to listen to the “one” who has a solution. BHO has brought us to that brink! He is merely a puppet, doing what he was ordered to do.
I agree with Judy. If true, there are multiple Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers consulting our president. Are they the ones who have advised Obama to get the world crisis going to usher in the one world rule? Also the U.S. has been hard pressed to fight a war to win with a defined goal. We have the capability to bring the enemy to its knees (with God’s help). With this president will our military be protected by our Commander in Chief or fsent to fight a politically correct strategy influenced by media so that our soldiers die unnecessarily or come home maimed? WHO are Obama’s advisers? From this country or foreign?
OBAMMY fits into the role he is doing now so perfectly that it is hard not to think he is THE A/C but I am a HAL LINDSAY buff and HAL says no to BAM being the MAN of SIN..This guy definitely fits into the camp of MOOSLIM however..He treats ISRAEl as inferior to himself..BUT BUT BUT who cares..I believe JOHN PAUL JACKSON when he said we are in the middle of a PERFECT STORM..The reason why the storm is PERECT is because GOD is directing it…GOD is moving the chessboard the way HE needs it to be to bring ISRAEL into repentance..AND as usual, the LORD is just being the LORD…HEE HE HEE…
For those who believe that their good deeds alone will get them into heaven, Jesus says in John 6: 28, when asked by the people, “What must we do to do the works God requires?” 29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
That is the gospel, the good news, that trusting that Jesus’ death and resurrection paid the full price for our sins and is the only way to heaven.
If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Romans 10:9.
What a promise! And since the Bible says it is impossible for God to lie, this is one promise we can take to the bank.
I agree with all the statement above. I pray for the Jewish people every day. I also pray Lord come soon. May GOD bless us all.
I have read each of your comments here. Your insights have comforted me and encouraged me. May the Lord Jesus Christ, the God of Israel and the church, be glorified in each of our lives. Continue to search for truth. “Fear not, for I am with you…”
And write your congressman about this matter. They need to hear from you!