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Obama's Middle East myopia
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Monday, March 23, 2015, 4:28 PM
Updated: Monday, March 23, 2015, 4:28 PM
As sectarian civil wars consume much of the Arab world — with ISIS controlling much of Iraq and Syria while Yemen and Libya are collapsing into failed states — President Obama has keyed in on one nation of profound concern.
That is Israel, a country the American President indicts as fomenting bloody upheaval in the Middle East because he is seething at Benjamin Netanyahu, its newly reelected prime minister.
Scanning his region, Netanyahu sees the Palestinian Authority in partnership with the terror band Hamas, sees Hamas connected to Iran, sees Iran enmeshed in the Syrian civil war next door, sees ISIS threateningly close to his borders in Syria, sees Iran, whose regime has pledged to annihilate Israel, grabbing power in country after country.
Next, Netanyahu knows that a peace deal with the Palestinians would entail surrendering territory that would put Israel in direct jeopardy of attack. This being the case, what he cannot see is the feasibility of entering a two-state solution with the Palestinians — as he said, “today.”
Willfully blind to the threats facing Israel, as well as to its status as a bastion of democracy and shared values in a landscape of insanity, Obama spoke on Saturday of muscling Netanyahu:
“We take him at his word when he said that it wouldn’t happen during his prime ministership, and so that’s why we’ve got to evaluate what other options are available to make sure that we don’t see a chaotic situation in the region.”
Instant replay: Obama wants to make sure that we don’t see a chaotic situation in the region — as if the Jewish state will be guilty of despoiling a Garden of Eden.
As it happens, the President spoke to the Huffington Post as America was withdrawing its last 125 Special Operations troops from Yemen because Iranian-backed Houthis have taken much of the country, placing one of the mullahs’ proxy groups directly across the border from archenemy Saudi Arabia.
Iran’s advance and America’s withdrawal have opened up more space and security for Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, widely considered the group’s most dangerous branch.
Now, that is yet another harbinger of chaos.
Incredibly, the nuclear deal Obama is frantically trying to close with Iran — one where he’s moved his standard from a vow to prefer no deal to a bad one, to a demand that critics offer a better alternative to the very bad one he’s proposing — does nothing whatsoever to address the mullahs’ backing of terror groups and proxy armies across the region and the world.
There is a recent, relevant precedent for connecting a state program to terror. When Libya yielded to American pressure and renounced its nuclear program in 2003, it also began cutting ties to terror groups.
With Iran, Obama hasn’t put the issue on the table. Instead, his administration removed Iran from the annual U.S. intelligence Worldwide Threat Assessment list — one more indicator of how badly the President wants a deal, any deal, before leaving office, while turning unconscionably and dangerously against Israel.
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Obama's Middle East myopia
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
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