Posted by
Bert Chapman on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 7:50:48 PM
A sign of the declining influence and credibility of Obama Administration foreign policy occurred in Israel this week. Vice-President Biden was visiting Israel in an attempt to restart the delusion known as the "Middle East Peace Process", encourage the Israelis to give coercive sanctions against Iran another chance, and seek to remedy the damage done to our bilateral relationship by Obama's apology tour which has included regional visits to Turkey and Egypt but NOT to our most reliable friend in that part of the world. One of the talismanic tenets of U.S. and international policy toward the "Middle East Peace Process" is that Israel as a sovereign state is not allowed to build housing for its populace in a section of its national territory encompassing East Jerusalem and the West Bank of the Jordan River which Israel liberated in the Six Day War of 1967. Could you imagine some foreign power or coalition of powers telling the U.S. Government or commercial developers that they couldn't build housing in eastern Washington, DC or the adjacent Maryland terrain because it might offend a hostile foreign power or coalition of powers?
Fortunately, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government are made of sterner stuff than Barack Obama's multiculturalist mush. They announced that they were meeting there population's critical housing needs by constructing additional residences in East Jerusalem while Biden was in Israel. Practitioners of traditional diplomacy are undoubtedly appalled by what seems like the poor timing of slapping a friend in the face while he was visiting. However, I think we should learn that we should not pressure friends to do things they don't want to do or are injurious to their national interests. We should be putting more pressure on Arab Governments and Islamist terrorist groups that think they can push Israel into the sea even though six decades of experience should have taught these idiots the contrary. Peace can come to that part of the world, when Arab countries quit clinging to the sadistic and delusional fantasy that they can destroy Israel and when the educational systems of these countries start portraying Israelis as human beings who have made and are making valuable and essential contributions to that region. Let's burn the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and other anti-Semitic garbage and let Israel exercise the rights of being sovereign nation including the freedom to build housing for its people within territorial boundaries.