Worse Than War
Filed under: International Reflections, International War, Presidential Watch, Social Commentary, Terrorism, United States at War
And God said to Abraham, “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
In the middle of the 20th Century the European people literally wiped the Jews from the continent, six million of them within a period of 5 years. Europe today is cursed what with most of its nations imploding, economically, socially and politically, while the current Muslim minority living in Europe quietly awaits the certainty that it will demographically outnumber the current secular population within the next 40 years. As recently stated by Harvard professor Ruth Wisse, “Jews are the ostensible but not ultimate casualties of the organization of politics against them.” Since it is becoming more than clear should Israel, America’s ally, be destroyed America will be, if it is not already, the next target of the enemy of the Jews. The American people instinctively know this and willingly incline to the needs of Israel a Jewish state and our natural ally. However Obama’s predisposition is to drift from the existential concerns of a free and democratic nation and place greater favor upon those who desire its downfall.
Of course relying on divine proclamations made nearly 3,000 years ago is hardly a substitute of a great nation’s foreign policy. But it assists our understanding of America’s historical presence in the world and its role in its undiminished loyalty to those nations which cling to freedom and justice. It was Reinhold Niebuhr who said that there are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
Israel’s Doomsday Bomb
Filed under: International Reflections, International War, Social Commentary, Terrorism
The most important element in the use of a dooms day bomb as a defensive weapon is to advise your enemy, immediately after its acquisition, that you possess one.
Last week the Palestinian Authority succeeded in becoming a member state in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, known as UNESCO. Immediately after its admission into UNESCO the Obama administration announced that it was ceasing its annual contribution of 80 million dollars towards that organization. But America’s action of withholding this substantial sum of money from one of the most reprehensible of U. N. organizations will have little effect on the Palestinian Authority’s ultimate goal: To further isolate Israel in the eyes of the world but more importantly to begin to create a false construct of a Palestinian state, thereby providing terrorists a home from which to launch attacks against Israelis living in the occupied territory and then ultimately destroying Israel as a Jewish state. With an ersatz Palestinian state, an Islamist Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, a soon to be liberated Syria, Turkey and a nuclearized Iran, Israel will soon be faced with an Arab/Muslim alliance far too formidable to defeat with its Israel Defense Force alone. Moreover, observing how the U.S. has dealt with Iran’s building of a nuclear bomb, it has become apparent to Israel that relying on the U.S. for its ultimate defense is a failed strategy.
Israel is now left with only one strategy: If attacked by the full force of an Arab/Muslim alliance or if terrorist attacks within Israel reach a level which places into question its existence it must announce a policy of mutually assured destruction, otherwise known as a dooms day bomb.
Iran’s Atomic Bomb
Filed under: International Reflections, International War, Presidential Watch, Social Commentary, Terrorism, United States at War
The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency will be issuing a report this week which more than likely acknowledges that Iran has produced an atomic bomb. Is anyone within ear shot surprised?
Last week we learned that Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, and his defense minister Ehud Barak, have developed a complex plan to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, some of which are underground and all of which are spread throughout various remote locations within the country. We have also learned that the Obama administration has poured cold water on Israel’s plan and has advised Israel that it will not take part in such a plan and will not support Israel should it, so to speak, go it alone.
Following such revelations Iran has through various spokesmen threatened that if Israel attacks Iran, even without U.S. support, ostensible or otherwise, Iran will release its underground network of terrorists currently embedded in the United States. Is anyone surprised at any of this?
Iran’s development of a nuclear bomb has been going on for decades across at least 3 presidential administrations. As much as I dislike President Obama’s fecklessness in addressing this issue from the moment he came on the national scene as a mere candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in 2007 he had much assistance from the policies of President George W. Bush and President Clinton both of whom actually believed they could talk sense to the Iranians with a dollop of sanctions.
In some perverse way I feel sorry for President Obama. It is a rare moment when a president’s nonsensical and feckless theories of foreign affairs, especially with respect to Iran’s nuclear ambitions, finally catch up with him, while the entire country looks on. But as sorry as I feel for President Obama, for the American people I feel trepidation.
Hypothetical
Filed under: International Reflections, International War, National Party Politics, Presidential Watch, Social Commentary, Terrorism, United States at War
As most of you know I do a daily hour show on Paltalk News Network. Yesterday a listener presented me with a hypothetical. It is something I would like to share with you.
The hypothetical goes like this. Iran has strategically and surreptitiously placed numerous nuclear devices throughout various cities in the U.S. and demands that all our armed forces throughout the Middle East, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia including our ships and planes surrender to Iranian forces or Iran will set off all the nuclear devices simultaneously throughout the country. The implication is that millions of Americans will die. What would you do if you were president of the United States my listener asked? This hypothetical was asked in the context of the recent prisoner exchange between Israel and the Palestinians. And since I expressed my vehement disagreement with it I suppose the listener thought that the hypothetical would be a good example of carrying my disagreement to its logical and ultimate, what the listener considered, silly conclusion: Namely, that sooner or later, with millions of Americans lives at stake I and the rest of the country would have to sacrifice this principal.
Well I didn’t and explained to my listening audience that when it comes to freedom there is only one principal: Live free or die. But the hypothetical is far more revealing. It represents the belief that if Iran doesn’t yet have a nuclear bomb it certainly has a clear field in obtaining one in the very near future and that the Obama administration has yet to arrive at a strategy that will block Iran in obtaining one, or two or in fact many.
The hypothetical turns out to be far closer to the truth than this current administration would like to admit. And the “strategically and surreptitiously placed numerous nuclear devices” as my listener described would only have to be “one.”
Iran Attack
Filed under: International Reflections, International War, National Party Politics, Presidential Watch, Social Commentary, Terrorism
At some point within the next 30 days the Obama administration will have to make a decision as to how to address the attempted attack on U.S. soil by Iran. Included within that deliberation will be Iran’s current nuclear capability and its defense thereof.
Since 9/11 America’s national security policy has been ambivalent when deciding how to deal with a defiant, fanatic and now a possibly nuclear armed Iran. Throughout these last ten years Iran has been wantonly involved in the killing and maiming of our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. It has been the source of power behind Israel’s enemies, Hezbollah and Hamas. And it has harbored and protected al-Qaeda fugitives and has allowed them to continue their war against the U.S.
Notwithstanding its overt hostility to the U.S. and its covert attacks upon our armed forces it has never attempted to attack our mainland believing that such an attack would result in an enraged America and therefore finding itself the subject of an armed attack upon their country by U.S. forces. This recent attempted attack by Iran reflects a possible belief by its theocratic leaders that they can now treat America with little deference since Iran has the nuclear capability to destroy whole American cities if the U.S. retaliates with armed force.
If this is true we can blame all of America’s prior administrations after Iran’s revolution in 1979 but in particular that of the current Obama administration since this is only one which actually believes that the U.S. can talk its way into a peaceful relationship with Iran. Even Hillary Clinton pointed out in the debates with Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign that such a policy was juvenile and dangerous.
On The Wings Of Hope & A Prayer
Filed under: Presidential Watch, Social Commentary, United States at War
To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln you can fool some of the Jews all of the time, and all of the Jews some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the Jews all of the time.
Retired media executive and political novice Bob Turner and a Catholic, defeated Democratic state Assemblyman David Weprin, an observant Jew, in yesterday’s special election to fill the seat vacated by Anthony Weiner, a seven-term Democrat who resigned in June. Turner took advantage of the discontent in the heavily Democratic district, which spans parts of Queens and Brooklyn and is 40% Jewish and which had never sent a Republican to the House. The race was supposed to be an easy win for Democrats, who have a 3-1 ratio registration advantage in the district. But by the election of Republican Turner the district expressed an overwhelming dissatisfaction with President Obama’s policy toward Israel and his conduct pertaining to the ostensible Middle East peace process.
Even before taking office during his campaign for president Obama reflected a shocking anti-Israel bias. As president he warned American Jews that he sought to put “daylight” between America and Israel. Throughout his presidency Obama demanded of American Jews to “search your souls” and self-reflect about their support for a country that is unwilling to seek peace with the Palestinians. The last straw for Jews was Obama’s recent demand that Israel return to its 1967 borders.
In the presidential election of 2008 78% of Jews for Barack Obama went to the polls with a hope and a prayer. In the presidential election of 2012 Jews will have stopped praying.
Jewish Liberal Orthodox Christianity
Filed under: International Reflections, Social Commentary
I really don’t know what it is about Jewish Liberals who get their underwear in a twist about Christian Fundamentalists.
Modern Orthodox Christianity has long abandoned its anti-Semitic dogma which began to appear during the European Middle Ages right into the middle of the 20th Century. Its main characteristic was hateful violence upon a small minority of people whose only crime, if you want to call it that, was their refusal to accept Jesus Christ as their Messiah. The irony is that the very concept of a Messiah was a long held belief among Jews long before Christianity even came upon the scene. And therefore if some alien came to earth and observed Jews and Christians today, at least with respect their interpretation of the universe and their ethical prescripts, he would be hard pressed to recognize any differences whatsoever. In the aftermath of World War II, observing the results of their anti-Semitic dogma, Christians adopted the view that Jews were in fact their older brothers, somewhat intransigent, perhaps imperfect, but a people to whom they owe their fundamental beliefs and find joy in their connection. Today Israel is a Jewish State and many Christians throughout the world, especially Christian Fundamentalists strongly support Israel and the Jewish people. If you believe that people have the capacity to learn and change, as I do, then here we have the perfect example. It is probably at this point, being a Jew, that I part ways with many of my Jewish Liberal brethren since I accept the hand of friendship and love of those Christians who offer it. We share the same book and the same stories. We share the love for the God who created the Universe for us and together we shall lie down in green pastures and together we shall fear no evil.
On The Border
Over this Memorial Day weekend I had my first chance to digest the liberal Jewish defense of President Obama’s recent position on the Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative. It starts with their belief that Israel is doomed.
It was approximately 2 weeks ago that President Obama stated in a speech at the State Department “We believe that the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps so secure and recognized borders are established for both states.” This one line from a speech that most Americans were in agreement induced anger and concern both in Israel and the U.S. A bi-partisan Congress welcomed Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel who gave a rousing speech in Israel’s defense. President Obama’s statement concerning Israel’s return to its 1967 borders created a bright line between those American Jews who continue to support President Obama and who constitute an overwhelming majority and those Jews who see in this President a person who has no intention of maintaining America’s historical support for Israel his soaring rhetoric to the contrary notwithstanding.
In warfare, the greatest enemy of victory is wishful thinking. And if there is any criticism to which President Obama is vulnerable, giving him the benefit of good faith, it is just that. Truth be told many military strategists contend that the current borders of Israel are less defensible than those of 1967. Moreover as long as Israel depends upon the U.S. or any third party country for its defense it will always be insecure. The liberal Jewish view of Israel is unacceptable because it assumes that Israel is not a viable nation no matter what its borders. And for those Jews that accept Israel’s existence based on the assumption that Israel will always have the U.S. prepared to rush munitions to the battlefield or help create costly sophisticated missile defense systems is simply wishful thinking. The time has come for Israel and its people to address the realities of existence. Defend yourself.
Never Again
Filed under: Elections, International Reflections, Social Commentary, Terrorism, United States at War
As a result of President Obama’s speech last Thursday given at the Department of State, probably for the first time since modern Israel was established, the American people have begun to understand to whom the phrase “Never again”, stated by Jews, is directed.
In the quiet corners of discussion among Jews throughout the world today when the matter of the Holocaust is raised there is always a certain unconscious unease about that brief period of history when half the Jews of the entire world were murdered. The reason is obvious. By the 20th Century Jews constituted one of the most dynamic nationalities throughout Europe. In art, in literature and especially in science Jews were at the forefront. Moreover in almost every European country Jews held high positions in government and the myriad of institutions that comprised democratic countries. Jews had lived in Europe for two thousand years. They followed the Slavs into the Ukraine and Russia. They were invited by the monarchies of western European to participate in trade and finance. With this history how on earth did the Holocaust happen? The “unconscious unease” to which I referred is the belief among some Jews today that perhaps there was too much reliance, too much confidence upon those whom they believed championed them. And even today as President Obama, their perceived champion, in his speech shunted aside 60 years of Jewish history in Israel still there are Jews who not hear the warning “Never again.”
Foreign Government Has No Respect For Obama/USA
Filed under: International Reflections, Presidential Watch, Social Commentary, U.S. Economics
Isn’t it ironic that the president who was going to restore America’s standing in the world has delivered it to a place where the major nations of the world now lecture us on our profligacy but worse, no longer respect us.
This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.
During the campaign leading to the presidential election of 2008 Barack Obama argued that America, because of the policies of George W. Bush, of course, had lost its standing among the nations of the world and that if elected he would rebuild and re-construct the alliances and partnerships necessary to meet common challenges and confront common threats. Of course he never considered at the time that the nations of the world have their own particular challenges and threats, in effect, their own national interests.
Well, candidate Obama has become President Obama and after nearly 2 years of having the opportunity of working toward this goal, last week he received the response of a number of South East-Asian countries to his efforts in bringing the United States back into the fold of the world’s leading nations: The response? Get lost.
During his trip India warned that America’s close ties to Pakistan will ultimately draw India away and direct its trade and interests toward China.
While in Indonesia, a country that refuses to recognize Israel as a sovereign state, President Obama chastised Israel for building residences in its own capital, Jerusalem. Now that’s a message that Indonesians will take to heart when considering America’s steadfast loyalty to its allies. Then he visited South Korea which rejected the long standing proposed trade agreement between it and the United States. Finally during the G-20 Summit held in Seoul, South Korea, President Obama was treated with a good dose of lecturing from Germany and China about America’s profligate monetary policy of printing 600 billion dollars of new money the clear purpose of which is diminish the dollar’s value in order to boost America’s exports and reduce its debt to creditor countries, German and China included.
With Barack Obama becoming president of the United Stated it seems the nations of the world not only don’t care for our policies, they clearly no longer respect us.
This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.
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