[ April 25, 2024 ]
Prayer for Netanyahu this day. On the eve of the Israeli Presidential election it is touch and go. It’s touch and go.
The perfidy and treachery of Obama’s election skulduggery is not limited to the USA. The antisemites in concert with Obama’s Jews (like the New Israel Fund) have taken their vile political tricks to Israel. They have successfully launched an organized hate campaign against Bibi run by Obama with the complete collusion of the Israel media. V15. A Senate panel probing possible Obama administration ties to anti-Netanyahu effort but their good will be too late.
The anti-Bibi campaign runs 24/7 on Israel media (notoriously leftist). We have suffered the same onslaught in the States only it is pro-pro-pro Obama despite his treason. That so vicious an enemy, anti-American and anti-freedom, could win the White House, not once but twice, is a testament to their odious power.
A powerful U.S. Senate investigatory committee has launched a bipartisan probe into an American nonprofit’s funding of efforts to oust Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the Obama administration’s State Department gave the nonprofit taxpayer-funded grants, a source with knowledge of the panel’s activities told FoxNews.com.
The fact that both Democratic and Republican sides of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations have signed off on the probe could be seen as a rebuke to President Obama, who has had a well-documented adversarial relationship with the Israeli leader.
Story continues below advertisementThe development comes as Netanyahu told Israel’s Channel Two television station this week that there were “governments” that wanted to help with the “Just Not Bibi” campaigning — Bibi being the Israeli leader’s nickname.
It also follows a FoxNews.com report on claims the Obama administration has been meddling in the Israeli election on behalf of groups hostile to Netanyahu. A spokesperson for Sen. Rob Portman, Ohio Republican and chairman of the committee, declined comment, and aides to ranking Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, of Missouri, did not immediately return calls.
The Senate subcommittee, which has subpoena power, is the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs’ chief investigative body with jurisdiction over all branches of government operations and compliance with laws.
In advance of these pivotal elections, Prime Minister Netanyahu speaks directly to voters in the English-speaking community and explains why only a vote for the Likud ensures a strong right-wing government under his leadership.
Now unfettered by electoral concerns, over the past week Obama exposed his ill-intentions toward Israel in two different ways.
First, the Justice Department leaked its intention to indict Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez on corruption charges. Menendez is the ranking Democratic member, and the former chairman, of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is also the most outspoken Democratic critic of Obama’s policy of appeasing the Iranian regime.
As former US federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy wrote this week at PJMedia, “It is perfectly reasonable to believe that Menendez may be guilty of corruption offenses and that his political opposition on Iran is factoring into the administration’s decision to charge him. Put it another way, if Menendez were running interference for Obama on the Iran deal, rather than trying to scupper it, I believe he would not be charged.”
The Menendez prosecution tells us that Obama wishes to leave office after having vastly diminished support for Israel among Democrats. And he will not hesitate to use strong-arm tactics against his fellow Democrats to achieve his goal.
We already experienced Obama’s efforts in this sphere in the lead-up to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before the joint houses of Congress on March 3 with his campaign to pressure Democratic lawmakers to boycott Netanyahu’s address.
Now, with his move against Menendez, Obama made clear that support for Israel – even in the form of opposition to the nuclear armament of Iran – will be personally and politically costly for Democrats.
The long-term implications of Obama’s moves to transform US support for Israel into a partisan issue cannot by wished away. It is possible that his successor as the head of the Democratic Party will hold a more sympathetic view of Israel. But it is also possible that the architecture of Democratic fund-raising and grassroots support that Obama has been building for the past six years will survive his presidency and that as a consequence, Democrats will have incentives to oppose Israel.
The reason Obama is so keen to transform Israel into a partisan issue was made clear by the second move he made last week.
Last Thursday, US National Security Adviser Susan Rice announced that the NSC’s Middle East Coordinator Phil Gordon was stepping down and being replaced by serial Israel-basher Robert Malley.
Malley, who served as an NSC junior staffer during the Clinton administration, rose to prominence in late 2000 when, following the failed Camp David peace summit in July 2000 and the outbreak of the Palestinian terror war, Malley co-authored an op-ed in The New York Times blaming Israel and then-prime minister Ehud Barak for the failure of the negotiations.
What was most remarkable at the time about Malley’s positions was that they completely contradicted Bill Clinton’s expressed views. Clinton placed the blame for the failure of the talks squarely on then-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s shoulders.
Not only did Arafat reject Barak’s unprecedented offer of Palestinian statehood and sovereignty over all of Gaza, most of Judea and Samaria and parts of Jerusalem including the Temple Mount, he refused to make a counter-offer. And then two months later, he opened the Palestinian terror war.
As Jonathan Tobin explained in Commentary this week, through his writings and public statements, Malley has legitimized Palestinian rejection of Israel’s right to exist. Malley thinks it is perfectly reasonable that the Palestinians refuse to concede their demand for free immigration of millions of foreign Arabs to the Jewish state in the framework of their concocted “right of return,” even though the clear goal of that demand is to destroy Israel. As Tobin noted, Malley believes that Palestinian terrorism against Israel is “understandable if not necessarily commendable.”
During Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, then-senator Obama listed Malley as a member of his foreign policy team. When pro-Israel groups criticized his appointment, Obama fired Malley.But after his 2012 reelection, no longer fearing the ramifications of embracing an openly anti-Israel adviser, one who had documented contacts with Hamas terrorists and has expressed support for recognizing the terror group, Obama appointed Malley to serve as his senior adviser for Iraq-Iran-Syria and the Gulf states. Still facing the 2014 congressional elections, Obama pledged that Malley would have no involvement in issues related to Israel and the Palestinians. But then last week, he appointed him to direct the NSC’s policy in relation to the entire Middle East, including Israel.
The deeper significance of Malley’s appointment is that it demonstrates that Obama’s goal in his remaining time in office is to realign US Middle East policy away from Israel. With his Middle East policy led by a man who thinks the Palestinian goal of destroying Israel is legitimate, Obama can be expected to expand his practice of placing all the blame for the absence of peace between Israel and the Palestinians solely on Israel’s shoulders.
Malley’s appointment indicates that there is nothing Israel can do to stem the tsunami of American pressure it is about to suffer. Electing a left-wing government to replace Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will make no difference.
Just as Malley was willing to blame Barak – a leader who went to Camp David as the head of a minority coalition, whose positions on territorial withdrawals were rejected by a wide majority of Israelis – for the absence of peace, so we can assume that he, and his boss, will blame Israel for the absence of peace over the next 22 months, regardless of who stands at the head of the next government.
In this vein we can expect the administration to expand the anti-Israel positions it has already taken.
The US position paper regarding Israeli-Palestinian negotiation that was leaked this past week to Yediot Aharonot made clear the direction Obama wishes to go. That document called for Israel to withdraw to the indefensible 1949 armistice lines, with minor revisions.
In the coming 22 months we can expect the US to use more and more coercive measures to force Israel to capitulate to its position.
The day the administration-sponsored talks began in July 2013, the EU announced it was barring its member nations from having ties with Israeli entities that operate beyond the 1949 armistice lines unless those operations involve assisting the Palestinians in their anti-Israel activities. The notion that the EU initiated an economic war against Israel the day the talks began without coordinating the move with the Obama administration is, of course, absurd.
We can expect the US to make expanded use of European economic warfare against Israel in the coming years, and to continue to give a backwind to the anti-Semitic BDS movement by escalating its libelous rhetoric conflating Israel with the apartheid regime in South Africa.
US-Israel intelligence and defense ties will also be on the chopping block.
While Obama and his advisers consistently boast that defense and intelligence ties between Israel and the US have grown during his presidency, over the past several years, those ties have suffered blow after blow. During the war with Hamas last summer, acting on direct orders from the White House, the Pentagon instituted a partial – unofficial – embargo on weapons to Israel.
As for intelligence ties, over the past month, the administration announced repeatedly that it is ending its intelligence sharing with Israel on Iran.
We also learned that the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is being fingered as the source of the leak regarding the Stuxnet computer virus that Israel and the US reportedly developed jointly to cripple Iran’s nuclear centrifuges.
In other words, since taking office, Obama has used the US’s intelligence ties with Israel to harm Israel’s national security.*
He has also used diplomacy to harm Israel. Last summer, Obama sought a diplomatic settlement of Hamas’s war with Israel that would have granted Hamas all of its war goals, including its demand for open borders and access to the international financial system.
Now of course, he is running roughshod over his bipartisan opposition, and the opposition of Israel and the Sunni Arab states, in the hopes of concluding a nuclear deal with Iran that will pave the way for the ayatollahs to develop nuclear weapons and expand their hegemonic control over the Middle East.
AMID ALL of this, and facing 22 months of ever more hostility as Obama pursues his goal of ending the US-Israel alliance, Israelis are called on to elect a new government.
This week the consortium of former security brass that has banded together to elect a leftist government led by Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni accused Netanyahu of destroying Israel’s relations with the US. The implication was that a government led by Herzog and Livni will restore Israel’s ties to America.
Yet as Obama has made clear both throughout his tenure in office, and, over the past week through Malley’s appointment and Menendez’s indictment, Obama holds sole responsibility for the deterioration of our ties with our primary ally. And as his actions have also made clear, Herzog and Livni at the helm will receive no respite in US pressure. Their willingness to make concessions to the Palestinians that Netanyahu refuses to make will merely cause Obama to move the goalposts further down the field. Given his goal of abandoning the US alliance with Israel, no concession that Israel will deliver will suffice.
And so we need to ask ourselves, which leader will do a better job of limiting the danger and waiting Obama out while maintaining sufficient overall US support for Israel to rebuild the alliance after Obama has left the White House.
The answer, it seems, is self-evident.
The Left’s campaign to blame Netanyahu for Obama’s hostility will make it all but impossible for a Herzog-Livni government to withstand US pressure that they say will disappear the moment Netanyahu leaves office.In contrast, as the US position paper leaked to Yediot indicated, Netanyahu has demonstrated great skill in parrying US pressure. He agreed to hold negotiations based on a US position that he rejected and went along with the talks for nine months until the Palestinians ended them. In so doing, he achieved a nine-month respite in open US pressure while exposing Palestinian radicalism and opposition to peaceful coexistence.
On the Iranian front, Netanyahu’s courageous speech before Congress last week energized Obama’s opponents to take action and forced Obama onto the defensive for the first time while expanding popular support for Israel.
It is clear that things will only get more difficult in the months ahead. But given the stakes, the choice of Israeli voters next Tuesday is an easy one.
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37 Comments
9 years ago
Glick is always so insightful.
More votes for Bibi could help people understand that the Left along with the Israel-hating Arab bloc do NOT control Israel.
Obama vowed to get rid of Netanyahu, claiming that Bibi was THE problem in the Middle East. I hope people remember that, because it’s straight out of Tehran. Labor, now masquerading as “Zionist Union,” is the Pelosi-Reid of Israel. All the money and strategic help from outsiders is sickening. Remember all the donations from Moslem countries that helped get Obama elected? Everyone over there knows who obama really is.
So bring Bibi and Likud in strong, or things will get bad SO fast.
And if Jewish Home can gain without damaging Likud’s chance at outnumbering stupid Labor (Herzog-Livni) and the other Leftists by a wide margin, that would be doubly good!
We need both.
9 years ago
Reply to
Steven R.
I just Love Caroline Glick – So Smart – I watched Her make a speech – Totally impressed me, That Woman is Brilliant and Tells the TRUTH even about obama with His traitor acts against Israel by shutting down all air traffic to Israel during the Palestinian up rise of thousands of missiles being fired at Israel… I Hope & Pray That Netanyahu Wins This Election and ALL Israel rallies around Him.
9 years ago
I can understand Jews in the US blinded by this hideous little man but Israelis who live with a sword over their heads 24/7 don’t see through him? Unbelievable.
9 years ago
IF KULANU STAYS RIGHT OF CENTER, THEN BIBI IS PM.
9 years ago
Reply to
reliapundit
Suppose (horror of horrors) Herzog-sans-Livni is voted in: if the bipartisan group in the USA finds Mr Obama guilty of meddling on Herzog-sans-Livni’s behalf, can the Israelis simply throw him out? Does anybody have a list of heads of state unseated by direct or/and indirect means by the USA?
9 years ago
Reply to
Lia
In that case, perhaps Obams will be impeached and Bibi can run for US Prez. I am sure we would all feel more secure with Bibi as leader of the free world.
9 years ago
Reply to
Lia
The list is long and it goes back decades. I can name a few: Salvador Allende, Omar Torrijos and Manuel Noriega, Hosni Mubarak, the Sandinistas…
9 years ago
Father, in Jesus Name I bind the devils who are trying to stop Netanyahu! May he win the Election! Amen!
9 years ago
Reply to
Youxia88
Bind Obama who has sent his agents to Israel to commit voter fraud, bus in Arabs to vote, and fund the campaign against him!
9 years ago
As a proud CANADIAN I stand with ISRAEL and the JEWS.
GOD give them strength. They will need all the help they can get.
Netanyahu is the best bet for the survival of ISRAEL .
9 years ago
Reply to
0349 JAT
Yes! I’m South African and I wear a Star of David to show my support for Israel. Dearest G-d, lease give the Israelis clear heads today so they don’t vote for Herzog-sans-Livni. Israel, do vote for them and the PLO & Hamas will be handing out candies & dancing in the streets tonight. Please G-d, for the sake of Your entire world, give Mr Netanyahu the vote today.
9 years ago
I want to thank you for so succinctly describing the whole situation. I have been following the Israeli election news and the Obama anti-Israel moves fairly closely, but didn’t understand everything going on that led to where we now stand. Now I feel competent to discuss and debate when my uber-liberal friends argue for what the president is doing… Dragging down our best ally and our country
9 years ago
Wishing Bibi good luck. He is a good man and leader.
9 years ago
The Jews are a particularly self-destructive tribe so I imagine they’ll reject Bibi and go for their Golden Calf. And with that the Die will be cast. And I shall wash my hands of them.
9 years ago
Reply to
lostlegends
Worry bout your own blind selves-The devil wont take on Jews & Christians at the same time. Rev. 12.17.” Has turned his attention towards those who proclaim Y’shua ” wake the — up!!
9 years ago
Reply to
lostlegends
You apparently have no fear or belief in the Eternal Promise made by
“the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob”:
“”Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house,
unto a land that I will shew thee:
And I will make of thee a great nation,
and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
AND I WILL BLESS THEM THAT BLESS THEE,
and curse him that curseth thee:
and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
(Gen 12:1-3 [KJB])
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9 years ago
May God Bless Israel tonight and let the devilry of Obama not destroy Israel!
9 years ago
Reply to
makeupdiva
All Christians should most sincerely:
“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.”
(Ps 122:6 [KJB])
If Pres. Obama is successful in his effort to defeat PM Netanyahu – I think that ‘Amerika’ will probably suffer at the hands of “the Lord God Almighty
– for Pres. Obama and his administration either do not know – or do not believe – or do not even care that ‘The Truth is The Truth’ of “the word of God”:
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked:
for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
(Gal 6:7 [KJB])
““Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.”
(Ps 124:4 [KJB])
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9 years ago
I STAND with Israel-Yisrael and our Judeo-Christian Nation United States of America!! I STAND with Bibi Netanyahu -> http://kristiann1.com/2015/03/16/swbibi
9 years ago
jj
9 years ago
Please G-d, be with our Jewish friends in Israel today. We need You. We love You!
9 years ago
If you haven’t voted yet, go out and vote to re-elect Netanyahu . The security and survival of israel and the world depends on Netanyahu’s re-election.
9 years ago
I have faith Benjamin Netanyahu will win today!
Let’s all pray together today!
I love Bibi! Netanyahu win win win!
G-d bless
9 years ago
Obama and his homies are so disgusting. The Democrats had better wake up or their party will be forever tarnished with the stain of treason.
9 years ago
As Chicago turns Green, Israel Turns into Chicago! The 0’s fingerprints?
On this St Patrick’s Day the Israel’s who loose will also be taking up the bottle this day!
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-Elections/Netanyahu-warns-The-Left-is-busing-Arabs-to-vote-the-Right-is-in-danger-394176
9 years ago
In the end the nation will get the leaders they deserve. Case in point, the US elected a foreign muslim to lead this country… twice! How messed up is the US?
9 years ago
Reply to
Kuffar
‘Amerika’ – in my opinion has ‘gone ’round the bend’ – and there is no desire by those in authority for anything except ‘more change’!
As it was written well over 2,500 years ago in “the word of the LORD”:
“The WICKED walk on every side, when the VILEST men are exalted.”
(Ps 12:8 [KJB])
“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice:
but when the WICKED beareth rule, the people mourn.”
(Prov 29:2 [KJB])
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9 years ago
Bibi won!!!!
This is great new for Israel and the world!
It gives me hope.
Benjamin Netanyahu is great for Israel’s security. I also hope that he will address Israeli’s concerns about the high cost of living in Israel.
Congratulations Benjamin Netanyahu!!!
Israel really is Forever!
9 years ago
Bibi’s never in trouble. Netanyahu is blessed. I knew he would win.
Congrats Israel!
Obama’s in trouble now. lol
9 years ago
Yes Canada stands by Israel! Prime Minister Harper has been very clear on his support of Israel, even back in 2014: He also has his head on straight about the threat of terrorism. I truly hope Netanyahu and Harper have long political lives.
“Canadian PM Rebukes Obama on His Israel Stance”
