POWIP Piece of Work In Progress

It’s official now; Israel is goin’ under the bus.

The Obama Bus

Gee, I wonder how all of the American Jews, you know the ones that reliably vote for Democrats, that were part of the 52% of Americans who brought Mr. Obama into power feel about this:

It was just a phrase at the end of President Obama’s news conference on Tuesday, but it was a stark reminder of a far-reaching shift in how the United States views the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and how aggressively it might push for a peace agreement.

When Mr. Obama declared that resolving the long-running Middle East dispute was a “vital national security interest of the United States,” he was highlighting a change that has resulted from a lengthy debate among his top officials over how best to balance support for Israel against other American interests.

Bamboozled perhaps?  Flim-flammed?  Hokey-doked?  Are you getting the impression that you just might not be able to reliably trust anything that he tells you?  Or, are you ready to say, "To Sheol with the holy land and any relatives we might have there, I support Obama-I'm no RAAAAAAAAAAACIST!".  So you find yourself wondering just what exactly are the other American interests Obama is talking about.

This shift, described by administration officials who did not want to be quoted by name when discussing internal discussions, is driving the White House’s urgency to help broker a Middle East peace deal. It increases the likelihood that Mr. Obama, frustrated by the inability of the Israelis and the Palestinians to come to terms, will offer his own proposed parameters for an eventual Palestinian state.

Mr. Obama said conflicts like the one in the Middle East ended up “costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure” — drawing an explicit link between the Israeli-Palestinian strife and the safety of American soldiers as they battle Islamic extremism and terrorism in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Ah, so that's what our other interest are-The Palestinians...I guess that Edward Said and Samantha Power had more of an effect on Obama's opinions than, you know, the fact that Israel-the only actual democracy in the middle east-has been one of our staunchest allies in the region for more than 50 years.

And notwithstanding General Petraeus' statement of concern about how the Israeli-Palestinian issue may effect relations with other middle east nations, it's probably not a one-to-one correlation that the conflict in and of itself is driving Al-Queda's actions.  Cap'n Ed points out correctly that Al-Queda initially had goals of driving America from Saudi Arabia, where we were based during and following Operation Desert Storm, as well as deposing the Saudi royal family.

This is just our narcissist-in-chief indulging his own personal biases that he's formed over the years, no doubt influenced by the anti-semites he's "pal'd around with"-Like Said, Wright, Farrakhan, Phleger, and...Jimmy Carter!  It's also another facet of his apologize and appease strategy.  And we all know how well that has worked so far...

Just as the Russians and Chinese will not respond in the way he thinks, nor the Iranians, neither will the Palestinians.  They will continue to milk the "peace process" for all it's worth.  And each time Obama pushes the Israelis to give more, the Palestinians will ask for another pound of flesh and square kilometer of land; until they finally say enough and are done with us by their own accord.

Just another example of our President treating our allies shabbily, while rushing to coddle our enemies in the misguided notion that they will respond to anything other than absolute strength, both militarily, of conviction, and of will.

SMART POWER!

UPDATE:  Many thanks to Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom for linking to this post in one of his own.

Rocketman