By Simon Fischler
HELLO, apparently everyone is too caught up with the protests in the Arab world to recognize the power moves Iran is carrying out at this very moment.
Two Iranian warships are steaming towards the Mediterranean Sea and Syria through the Suez Canal (courtesy of the new democratic Egypt). In Lebanon Sheik Hassan Nasrallah just announced that Hezbollah needs to be ready to LIBERATE the Galilee.
I think you know where this is going.
The Mullahs in Teheran may be crazy; they also might run their theocratic country ruthlessly, but they are not stupid.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs called the protests in Egypt “an Islamic Awakening.” Mistakenly they thought they had defeated their own opposition movement a year before with force far more brutal than anything done in Egypt. Then, just a few days after Mubarak’s resignation in Egypt, they woke up to find the streets of their country filled with protesters.
They do not intend to make the same mistake that their Arab enemy Mubarak made in Egypt. They also have a trump card President Mubarak never had: attacking Israel.
Sheik Nasrallah is always happy to abide by his masters’ commands and his Iranian rulers know that time is short. They need a war with Israel and they need it now.
They also presume that the uneducated masses in the Arab and Muslim world, along with a large portion of the virulently anti-Semitic far left will put everything aside, including their freedom to condemn Israel.
This attack, if and when it happens, will almost definitely come on the northern border of Israel with Lebanon.
Hezbollah will attempt to take over an Israeli town, thus “Conquering the Galilee”, holding it hostage and causing Israel a major embarrassment. This will also cause Israel to hit back in what the world inaccurately calls “disproportionate” force.
The Iranian warships will be more than willing to assist their Lebanese underlings and engage the Israeli Navy when it blockades Beirut. This of course will give Iran the ability to start unleashing its Shihab 3 missiles on Israel.
The Israeli government and the Israel Defense Forces must be ready for what might possibly be an immediate attack.
Tragically, once again Israel will have to defend herself, and if she prevails, she will again somehow become the scapegoat, the bad guy. Worst of all, in the process of simply surviving, she will aid the perfidious Iranians, Hezbollah and God knows who else in distracting their downtrodden, oppressed oppositions from the terrible reality existing within their own lands.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
OBAMA-CLINTON; CLUELESS ON THE MIDDLE EAST
By Schmoel Yitzhak
It is amusing in a sardonic way to learn that Barack Obama is "furious" with Hillary Clinton over the manner in which her State Department has disagreed with the White House over the Egyptian political transition.
Then again, what did the president expect when he hired Mrs. Bill to run State?
Has the pseudo-Muslim president forgotten that Madame H spent more than a year verbally ripping Obie to shreds during the Democratic primaries?
Hillary never will recover from the manner in which she blew her chance at the Democratic nomination and the likelihood that she would have gained the presidency.
Thus, whenever the opportunity presents itself to fire a torpedo at her boss, she will -- and did.
Which explains why Uncle Sam's policy regarding the Egyptian turmoil appears to be a product of a pair of sixth-graders.
On the one hand, Clinton's lackeys at State blueprinted a scenario that would have allowed President Mubarak to remain in office so that there would be a slow, reasonably orderly Egyptian transition at the top if, in fact, Mubarak chose to resign.
Nay, nay, nay. The White House wanted Hosni out of there faster than you can say, "They don't know what the heck they're doing on Pennsylvania Avenue!"
Naturally, this kind of stuff could not be hermetically sealed from the public by the Chief Executive so -- sooner rather than later -- we learned that Vice President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Robert Gates lined up with The Madame against the prez.
When Obie discovered Hillary's plan, he drafted the Democrats' clown prince -- no friend of Israel -- John Kerry who showed up on "Meet The Press" to reinforce the president's position. (It also inspired rumors that Kerry will next be Secretary of State.)
What this all means is that Uncle Sam -- more than ever -- has become the laughing stock of the Middle East, if not the lead hypocrite.
If the White House is so keen on nurturing democracy in Egypt, why hasn't Obama ripped the leaders of Saudi Arabia among other dictatorships in the area?
There's been the potential for an Egyptian-style revolution in Iran but the Administration has done everything possible to appease the Iranian mullahs and the nut case running the joint for them.
Then we have the pathetic picture of Hilary urging on the Teheran protesters about two years too late while Obama continues to do next to nothing to stimulate support for the anti-government group in Iran.
Funny, but I never hear a whisper out of the Dear One whenever Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his puppet threatens the only democracy in the Middle East with extinction.
Make no mistake, the upheaval in Egypt will do nothing to help either America nor Israel because the moderates will relentlessly be shoved aside by militant Islamics. it may not happen in a month but it will happen.
That's why I firmly believe political consultant George Birnbaum is on target when he warns about a domino-style collapse of moderate Arab regimes.
Sadly, no policy produced in either White House nor State Department policy so far suggests that America has a clue as to how the Middle East can be made safe for a genuine, Israeli-style democracy!
It is amusing in a sardonic way to learn that Barack Obama is "furious" with Hillary Clinton over the manner in which her State Department has disagreed with the White House over the Egyptian political transition.
Then again, what did the president expect when he hired Mrs. Bill to run State?
Has the pseudo-Muslim president forgotten that Madame H spent more than a year verbally ripping Obie to shreds during the Democratic primaries?
Hillary never will recover from the manner in which she blew her chance at the Democratic nomination and the likelihood that she would have gained the presidency.
Thus, whenever the opportunity presents itself to fire a torpedo at her boss, she will -- and did.
Which explains why Uncle Sam's policy regarding the Egyptian turmoil appears to be a product of a pair of sixth-graders.
On the one hand, Clinton's lackeys at State blueprinted a scenario that would have allowed President Mubarak to remain in office so that there would be a slow, reasonably orderly Egyptian transition at the top if, in fact, Mubarak chose to resign.
Nay, nay, nay. The White House wanted Hosni out of there faster than you can say, "They don't know what the heck they're doing on Pennsylvania Avenue!"
Naturally, this kind of stuff could not be hermetically sealed from the public by the Chief Executive so -- sooner rather than later -- we learned that Vice President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Robert Gates lined up with The Madame against the prez.
When Obie discovered Hillary's plan, he drafted the Democrats' clown prince -- no friend of Israel -- John Kerry who showed up on "Meet The Press" to reinforce the president's position. (It also inspired rumors that Kerry will next be Secretary of State.)
What this all means is that Uncle Sam -- more than ever -- has become the laughing stock of the Middle East, if not the lead hypocrite.
If the White House is so keen on nurturing democracy in Egypt, why hasn't Obama ripped the leaders of Saudi Arabia among other dictatorships in the area?
There's been the potential for an Egyptian-style revolution in Iran but the Administration has done everything possible to appease the Iranian mullahs and the nut case running the joint for them.
Then we have the pathetic picture of Hilary urging on the Teheran protesters about two years too late while Obama continues to do next to nothing to stimulate support for the anti-government group in Iran.
Funny, but I never hear a whisper out of the Dear One whenever Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his puppet threatens the only democracy in the Middle East with extinction.
Make no mistake, the upheaval in Egypt will do nothing to help either America nor Israel because the moderates will relentlessly be shoved aside by militant Islamics. it may not happen in a month but it will happen.
That's why I firmly believe political consultant George Birnbaum is on target when he warns about a domino-style collapse of moderate Arab regimes.
Sadly, no policy produced in either White House nor State Department policy so far suggests that America has a clue as to how the Middle East can be made safe for a genuine, Israeli-style democracy!
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