The Day Israel Died...
Jul 20, 2015 23:40:26 #
Don G. Dinsdale
Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)
THE JERUSALEM POST
Posted By Don D. - July 20, 2015
Leading figures in Washington's pro-Israel community are calling on the Obama administration to turn down the temperature.
ZÜRICH, Switzerland -- ​​Criticism of Israel from the Obama administration has intensified to such a degree that Washington's Jewish leaders are sounding the alarm.
​For years defensive of their support for US President Barack Obama and his White House, Washington's pro-Israel establishment now fears that the train of US-Israel relations is "running off the tracks." Speaking to The Jerusalem Post, their reactions ranged from deep concern to "bewilderment."
"The fact that the outcome of a Democratic e******n in Israel seems to be of great concern" to the Obama administration, said David Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Committee, "is cause for deep anxiety and puzzlement."
"Wh**ever the failings of the prime minister, the way this is unfolding runs completely contrary to the spirit of US-Israel relations," Harris said. "The US appears to have a reasoned interest in prolonging the crisis."
Since Benjamin Netanyahu secured re-e******n as prime minister last week, Obama administration officials have fiercely criticized his pre-e******n campaign rhetoric, including his warning to right-wing Israelis that Arab citizens were being bussed to the polls "in droves" and his declaration that the two-state solution would not come to fruition under his premiership.
Netanyahu has since apologized to Israel's Arabs for his remarks, and says that his commitment to the creation of a Palestinian state remains the same as it was when he first announced his support in 2009: The security environment governing Israel and Palestine, above all, must be sufficient for Israel to cede land, he told American press.
But the White House will not accept his apology, and has gone so far as to publicly question the fundamental sincerity of the prime minister. US officials have also suggested a willingness to remove their shield of support for Israel at the United Nations Security Council.
"As someone who was critical of several steps by [Netanyahu] during the campaign leading up to his re-e******n," said Abe Foxman, longtime national director of the Anti-Defamation League, "I am even more troubled by statements now coming out of the White House."
"What we are hearing from the Obama Administration raises deeper questions about their intentions and perspectives," Foxman said. "From the beginning of the Obama years, there was a disturbing indifference to the mindset of the Israeli public."
Puzzled by the developments, some pro-Israel leaders are resurfacing an old mantra from Obama's first term: Never waste a crisis. After Netanyahu's dramatic speech to Congress spared no criticism of the president's policy on Iran and its nuclear program, pro-Israel community leaders see an effort to marginalize the premier as negotiations come to a head.
They also suspect the White House seeks to pressure Netanyahu into a renewed peace process with the Palestinians, after US Secretary of State John Kerry failed to secure an agreement of any kind between the parties last year.
But that tactic, Foxman says, will serve to delegitimize Israel's policy stance on the Palestinian matter long understood, and bolstered, by the United States.
The tactic "will encourage Palestinians in their belief that they can have their cake and eat it, achieving a state without accepting the legitimacy of the Jewish state," Foxman continued. "And it will reinforce Israeli fears of being under siege."
State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said on Tuesday that the US wants to see "actions" from Israel after navigating Netanyahu's "confused" rhetoric over the course of several years.
"What were looking for now are actions and policies that demonstrate genuine commitment to a two-state solution, not more words," Harf said. "He said diametrically opposing things in the matter of a week, so which is his actual policy?"
Sharing his concerns, Rabbi William Gershon, president of the Rabbinical Assembly, said that the "action" he would like to see from the administration is "active public expression of the kind of strong US support for Israel which has often been spoken about by the administration.
"The prime minister has quickly made significant steps to repair the tensions that developed in the heat of Israels e******n," Gershon said. "The time is due, if not overdue, for the US administration to do the same."
And Nathan Diament, executive director for public policy for the Orthodox Union, accused the president of "clearly [preferring] ongoing political confrontation over trying to work with a democratically elected Israeli leader on the critical issues facing our two nations."
Diament said that "long-term" repercussions of a reassessment could include a shift in policy at the UN on the use of Washington's veto, or the issuance of a "unilateral proposal" from the US on Palestinian statehood.
The White House would not comment for this report, referring instead to recent comments from the president, his press secretary and chief of staff on the administration's commitment to Israel's security.
"Today, our security, military, and intelligence cooperation is stronger than its ever been, and thats not going to change," White House chief of staff Denis McDonough told a crowd of supporters of J Street, an organization which primarily lobbies for a two-state solution, on Monday. "As the president has said so many times, we have Israels back."
Over the weekend, the president himself made clear that Washington's commitment to Israel's long-term security and prosperity would remain ironclad. But that security guarantee, he believes, requires a dramatic shift in Israeli attitudes on the creation of a Palestinian state.
"We are going to continue to insist that, from our point of view, the status quo is unsustainable," Obama told The Huffington Post. "And that while taking into complete account Israel's security, we can't just in perpetuity maintain the status quo, expand settlements. That's not a recipe for stability in the region."
In a rare public statement issued last week, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee criticized the president for continuing the public fight.
"Unfortunately, administration spokespersons rebuffed the prime ministers efforts to improve the understandings between Israel and the US," the AIPAC statement reads. "In contrast to their comments, we urge the administration to further strengthen ties with Americas most reliable and only truly democratic ally in the Middle East."
All of these organizations AIPAC, AJC, ADL and the Rabbinical Assembly together represent the voice of the American Jewish community to its representatives in Washington, whether it be on Pennsylvania Avenue or Capitol Hill.
And as they begin to publicly acknowledge that relations between the US and Israel have reached an historic nadir, their rhetoric, too, has sharpened, to a point not before heard by the Obama administration.
Several leaders say privately that, at a minimum, they will lobby the administration to turn down the temperature on its public "attacks" against Netanyahu.
That's if they can get the White House on the phone.
Asked whether his concerns have been relayed to the administration, AJC's Harris said, "We would wish for more communication from the White House at this particular time."
In the meantime, speaking through the Post, Harris said that bad blood with Israel "hurts the United States."
"I don't want to give up on the next 22 months," he added.
[Pictures of Star of David F**g]
The Day Israel Died
Kurt Schlichter / July 20, 2015 / Townhall.com
Last year, my book Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle To Take America Back 2009-2041, predicted a liberal sellout of Israel. The prediction was wrong only in terms of who led the betrayal. In reality it was Barack Obama, while in the book it is President Hillary Clinton. The following scenario is adapted from that chapter. All of the military and other information is based on open sources.
On a warm September day in 2015, the United States Senate failed to override Obamas veto of the measure rejecting his Iranian nuclear agreement. Every one of the 54 Republicans v**ed against the agreement, which would deliver to the mullahs $150 billion, lift the conventional weapons embargo, and validate Irans nuclear program in exchange for vague promises not to go nuclear for 10 years. Twelve Democrats, coincidentally the Democrats holding the 12 toughest seats, were allowed to v**e against the bill. Because Congress had surrendered its treaty power, 67 v**es were required to stop the agreement instead of the 67 required to enact a treaty under the increasingly irrelevant Constitution.
The promised money flowed into Iran and, as predicted, the money flowed out again to Americas enemies Hezbollah, the Syrian regime, the Houthis, and even the Taliban. Their services included a massive surge in advanced IED attacks on the dwindling U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Dozens of Americans died, hundreds were maimed.
The Iranians, from the beginning, c***ted on a massive scale, and Benjamin Netanyahus government immediately redoubled its efforts to ensure the Iranians could not cross the line from aspiring to actual nuclear power. Israeli cyber warriors worked to slow the program remotely, but the NSA on President Obamas orders assisted the Iranians in hardening their computer systems pursuant to the nuclear deals notorious sabotage provisions.
But it was not the Israelis who discovered the secret Iranian parallel program that Netanyahu revealed to the world in March 2016. It was the Americans who discovered it; the Israelis found out from sources within the U.S. intelligence community who were horrified that the Obama administration knew the Iranians were steadily advancing toward completing their first bomb but was keeping it secret.
Ignoring the Iranians actions, President Obama lashed out at Netanyahu after the Prime Minister revealed the program in a press conference.
These kind of inflammatory statements harm the cause of peace and drive a wedge between allies, Obama said, his rage unhidden. This kind of behavior is, frankly, dangerous to Israels safety.
Obamas barely-concealed threat was clear; he would not tolerate any challenge to his legacy regardless of the risk to the Jewish state.
With the Mossads assessment in hand that the Iranians were just weeks from not only building an atomic bomb but of placing it atop one of the advanced Russian cruise missiles the lifting of the embargo had allowed them to buy, Netanyahu prepared to act. It would take much of the Israeli Air Force, most of its commandos, its submarine fleet, and its formidable cyber forces to execute the plan. Saudi Arabia agreed to allow overflights and the use of its remote bases. But Operation Masada would have to be conducted in total secrecy.
On July 5, 2016, with one hour to go before launch, Netanyahu received a call from Vice President Joe Biden. U.S. intelligence had seen the pr********ns and anticipated the strike; Biden, as the conversation transcript later revealed, was clearly frightened.
Benjamin, weve known each other a long time. Youve got to believe me. If you launch, hell warn the Iranians and hell order American forces to shoot down your jets. I cant talk him out of it. Hes serious. Hell do it. Please, please call it off.
At that moment, Netanyahu was handed an intelligence update. There was increased aircraft activity on the USS Reagan afloat just outside the Persian Gulf, and Iranian anti-aircraft missile batteries were alerting. President Obama was preparing to launch fighters and had already warned the Iranians.
With a heavy heart, Netanyahu called off Operation Masada. A week later, news of the fiasco was leaked by an anonymous White house source to the New York Times. In the resulting uproar in Israel, Netanyahu resigned. His place was taken by an elderly Laborite who proclaimed, This is an opportunity for peace! and vowed to work closely with the Obama administration. He was welcomed to Washington the next week and treated with respect in return for his obedience.
Israelis were going to breakfast on August 30, 2016, when the bomb went off above Tel Aviv. There was an unfathomably bright flash in the cloudless sky at about 1515 feet, calculated precisely to be high enough to maximize the thermal and blast effects but low enough to churn up substantial fallout. It detonated over the Jaffa area of southern outskirts of the city instead of where it was aimed, the government center only the Iranians could manage to miss a city with an A-bomb. Ironically, Ground Zero was heavily populated by Israeli Arabs.
Those within two miles who were in the open and exposed were charred by the heat; those closer who survived the heat received a fatal blast of radiation but, mercifully, few at those distances survived the subsequent blast wave to die a lingering death from radiation sickness. Fallout began to rain from the sky, poisoning the earth for miles downwind.
People ran and screamed as air raid sirens tardily began to wail, barely audible over the noise of the fireball. It was not a big bomb only 14 kilotons, about the same as the uranium-235 bomb that leveled Hiroshima but it was enough to k**l or condemn to death over 31,000 Israelis. That was about one in every 259 Israelis, the equivalent of 1,230,000 dead Americans.
Even as they focused on the injured and the fires, Israelis assumed that that the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) would retaliate with its own nuclear weapons. But again Obama intervened, ordering U.S. Air Force and Navy jets to stop any retaliatory Israeli strike. In the Pentagons situation room, as the admirals and generals gave the orders to prepare to defend Iran, the sole Marine among the Joint Chiefs looked around the room at his fellow four stars and said, Youre a bunch of gutless cowards. He ripped the stars off his uniform, threw them down on the table in from of the Secretary of Defense, and walked out.
Americans fighters shot down three of the Israeli planes flying the retaliation strike mission to Tehran while they were over Saudi Arabia. But luckily, within minutes, Israels brilliant cyber warriors were able to locate and disrupt the command and control nodes for the other dozen Iranian cruise missiles the Iranians had planned to fire; this was the only reason there were no additional strikes.
Obama went on television and promised accountability, then asserted that, Some here in America refused to support our quest for peace. Let me be clear. Todays tragedy in Tel Aviv was a direct result of their choice to undercut diplomacy instead of support it.
On CNN and MSNBC, Democrat strategists went on the air offering the carefully crafted talking points hurriedly drafted in the West Wing, accusing warmongering Republicans calling for retaliation against the mullahs of playing politics with this tragedy. On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton refused to take questions, and insisted that, This is no time for the kind of h**eful, incendiary language my opponent is using.
Only Fox News showed footage of Iranians laughing and singing in the streets. Similarly, on several college campuses, students marched to demand that there be no humanitarian aid to the Z*****t entity. There was also a video, widely shown on Fox and on conservative websites, but never on any mainstream media outlet, of a prominent Democratic Senate nominee high fiving some of her donors upon hearing the news.
Though the House and Senate quickly passed a massive aid bill, which the President signed without ceremony or comment after polling showed 78% of registered v**ers supported it and Hillary Clinton begged him to do so, the aid flowed slowly through Obamas executive bureaucracy to the Jewish state. Seeing the dire need, evangelical Christians led the way in raising an unprecedented $10 billion in relief donations in just two weeks.
Israel eagerly accepted the help, but saw it was on its own except for its few dedicated friends. The Israelis redoubled their efforts on missile defenses and focused on long-term self-sufficiency in arms and technology. As long as America could fall prey to another liberal offering gauzy lies and apologies to the Wests enemies, it could never be trusted by any ally least of all one that over half of one of the two parties did not support.
There would be no surrender and no forgiveness. At about 1 p.m. Eastern time on January 20, 2017, an Iranian atomic bomb detonated within the nuclear weapons storage facility at Natanz, annihilating the entire facility, hundreds of nuclear scientists, several members of the Supreme Council who happened to be visiting, and all 15 of Irans atomic bombs. The Israelis denied any connection with the mishap, but Prime Minister Netanyahu back in power stated that, Its not, and will not be, unusual that unfortunate accidents like this happen to those who threaten the Jewish people.
President Walker, who had just been inaugurated an hour before, issued a statement saying, We regret the loss of innocent life. And we warn the Iranian government that the former agreement is now null and void. The United States will consider any attempt by the Iranian government to rebuild any nuclear capability as an act of war against the United States and its allies and will act accordingly using all means at our disposal.
In the Pentagon that afternoon, the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Marine general now called back from his self-imposed retirement, finalized and sent to Americas new Commander-In-Chief the draft of a p**********l directive stating that the policy of the United States henceforth would be to react to a nuclear strike on any American ally as a strike on the United States requiring decisive thermonuclear retaliation. Copies of the directive would later be delivered to their hosts by U.S. diplomats in Tehran, Moscow, Beijing, Pyongyang and Karachi.
Israel rallied; the second Holocaust was averted but at a staggering cost. Tens of thousands of Israelis suffered burns from the bombing; the scars would come to be called the new camp tattoos. They would become a mark of resilience in the survivors and a mark of shame for those who allowed the atrocity to occur.
Posted By Don D. - July 20, 2015
Leading figures in Washington's pro-Israel community are calling on the Obama administration to turn down the temperature.
ZÜRICH, Switzerland -- ​​Criticism of Israel from the Obama administration has intensified to such a degree that Washington's Jewish leaders are sounding the alarm.
​For years defensive of their support for US President Barack Obama and his White House, Washington's pro-Israel establishment now fears that the train of US-Israel relations is "running off the tracks." Speaking to The Jerusalem Post, their reactions ranged from deep concern to "bewilderment."
"The fact that the outcome of a Democratic e******n in Israel seems to be of great concern" to the Obama administration, said David Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Committee, "is cause for deep anxiety and puzzlement."
"Wh**ever the failings of the prime minister, the way this is unfolding runs completely contrary to the spirit of US-Israel relations," Harris said. "The US appears to have a reasoned interest in prolonging the crisis."
Since Benjamin Netanyahu secured re-e******n as prime minister last week, Obama administration officials have fiercely criticized his pre-e******n campaign rhetoric, including his warning to right-wing Israelis that Arab citizens were being bussed to the polls "in droves" and his declaration that the two-state solution would not come to fruition under his premiership.
Netanyahu has since apologized to Israel's Arabs for his remarks, and says that his commitment to the creation of a Palestinian state remains the same as it was when he first announced his support in 2009: The security environment governing Israel and Palestine, above all, must be sufficient for Israel to cede land, he told American press.
But the White House will not accept his apology, and has gone so far as to publicly question the fundamental sincerity of the prime minister. US officials have also suggested a willingness to remove their shield of support for Israel at the United Nations Security Council.
"As someone who was critical of several steps by [Netanyahu] during the campaign leading up to his re-e******n," said Abe Foxman, longtime national director of the Anti-Defamation League, "I am even more troubled by statements now coming out of the White House."
"What we are hearing from the Obama Administration raises deeper questions about their intentions and perspectives," Foxman said. "From the beginning of the Obama years, there was a disturbing indifference to the mindset of the Israeli public."
Puzzled by the developments, some pro-Israel leaders are resurfacing an old mantra from Obama's first term: Never waste a crisis. After Netanyahu's dramatic speech to Congress spared no criticism of the president's policy on Iran and its nuclear program, pro-Israel community leaders see an effort to marginalize the premier as negotiations come to a head.
They also suspect the White House seeks to pressure Netanyahu into a renewed peace process with the Palestinians, after US Secretary of State John Kerry failed to secure an agreement of any kind between the parties last year.
But that tactic, Foxman says, will serve to delegitimize Israel's policy stance on the Palestinian matter long understood, and bolstered, by the United States.
The tactic "will encourage Palestinians in their belief that they can have their cake and eat it, achieving a state without accepting the legitimacy of the Jewish state," Foxman continued. "And it will reinforce Israeli fears of being under siege."
State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said on Tuesday that the US wants to see "actions" from Israel after navigating Netanyahu's "confused" rhetoric over the course of several years.
"What were looking for now are actions and policies that demonstrate genuine commitment to a two-state solution, not more words," Harf said. "He said diametrically opposing things in the matter of a week, so which is his actual policy?"
Sharing his concerns, Rabbi William Gershon, president of the Rabbinical Assembly, said that the "action" he would like to see from the administration is "active public expression of the kind of strong US support for Israel which has often been spoken about by the administration.
"The prime minister has quickly made significant steps to repair the tensions that developed in the heat of Israels e******n," Gershon said. "The time is due, if not overdue, for the US administration to do the same."
And Nathan Diament, executive director for public policy for the Orthodox Union, accused the president of "clearly [preferring] ongoing political confrontation over trying to work with a democratically elected Israeli leader on the critical issues facing our two nations."
Diament said that "long-term" repercussions of a reassessment could include a shift in policy at the UN on the use of Washington's veto, or the issuance of a "unilateral proposal" from the US on Palestinian statehood.
The White House would not comment for this report, referring instead to recent comments from the president, his press secretary and chief of staff on the administration's commitment to Israel's security.
"Today, our security, military, and intelligence cooperation is stronger than its ever been, and thats not going to change," White House chief of staff Denis McDonough told a crowd of supporters of J Street, an organization which primarily lobbies for a two-state solution, on Monday. "As the president has said so many times, we have Israels back."
Over the weekend, the president himself made clear that Washington's commitment to Israel's long-term security and prosperity would remain ironclad. But that security guarantee, he believes, requires a dramatic shift in Israeli attitudes on the creation of a Palestinian state.
"We are going to continue to insist that, from our point of view, the status quo is unsustainable," Obama told The Huffington Post. "And that while taking into complete account Israel's security, we can't just in perpetuity maintain the status quo, expand settlements. That's not a recipe for stability in the region."
In a rare public statement issued last week, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee criticized the president for continuing the public fight.
"Unfortunately, administration spokespersons rebuffed the prime ministers efforts to improve the understandings between Israel and the US," the AIPAC statement reads. "In contrast to their comments, we urge the administration to further strengthen ties with Americas most reliable and only truly democratic ally in the Middle East."
All of these organizations AIPAC, AJC, ADL and the Rabbinical Assembly together represent the voice of the American Jewish community to its representatives in Washington, whether it be on Pennsylvania Avenue or Capitol Hill.
And as they begin to publicly acknowledge that relations between the US and Israel have reached an historic nadir, their rhetoric, too, has sharpened, to a point not before heard by the Obama administration.
Several leaders say privately that, at a minimum, they will lobby the administration to turn down the temperature on its public "attacks" against Netanyahu.
That's if they can get the White House on the phone.
Asked whether his concerns have been relayed to the administration, AJC's Harris said, "We would wish for more communication from the White House at this particular time."
In the meantime, speaking through the Post, Harris said that bad blood with Israel "hurts the United States."
"I don't want to give up on the next 22 months," he added.
[Pictures of Star of David F**g]
The Day Israel Died
Kurt Schlichter / July 20, 2015 / Townhall.com
Last year, my book Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle To Take America Back 2009-2041, predicted a liberal sellout of Israel. The prediction was wrong only in terms of who led the betrayal. In reality it was Barack Obama, while in the book it is President Hillary Clinton. The following scenario is adapted from that chapter. All of the military and other information is based on open sources.
On a warm September day in 2015, the United States Senate failed to override Obamas veto of the measure rejecting his Iranian nuclear agreement. Every one of the 54 Republicans v**ed against the agreement, which would deliver to the mullahs $150 billion, lift the conventional weapons embargo, and validate Irans nuclear program in exchange for vague promises not to go nuclear for 10 years. Twelve Democrats, coincidentally the Democrats holding the 12 toughest seats, were allowed to v**e against the bill. Because Congress had surrendered its treaty power, 67 v**es were required to stop the agreement instead of the 67 required to enact a treaty under the increasingly irrelevant Constitution.
The promised money flowed into Iran and, as predicted, the money flowed out again to Americas enemies Hezbollah, the Syrian regime, the Houthis, and even the Taliban. Their services included a massive surge in advanced IED attacks on the dwindling U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Dozens of Americans died, hundreds were maimed.
The Iranians, from the beginning, c***ted on a massive scale, and Benjamin Netanyahus government immediately redoubled its efforts to ensure the Iranians could not cross the line from aspiring to actual nuclear power. Israeli cyber warriors worked to slow the program remotely, but the NSA on President Obamas orders assisted the Iranians in hardening their computer systems pursuant to the nuclear deals notorious sabotage provisions.
But it was not the Israelis who discovered the secret Iranian parallel program that Netanyahu revealed to the world in March 2016. It was the Americans who discovered it; the Israelis found out from sources within the U.S. intelligence community who were horrified that the Obama administration knew the Iranians were steadily advancing toward completing their first bomb but was keeping it secret.
Ignoring the Iranians actions, President Obama lashed out at Netanyahu after the Prime Minister revealed the program in a press conference.
These kind of inflammatory statements harm the cause of peace and drive a wedge between allies, Obama said, his rage unhidden. This kind of behavior is, frankly, dangerous to Israels safety.
Obamas barely-concealed threat was clear; he would not tolerate any challenge to his legacy regardless of the risk to the Jewish state.
With the Mossads assessment in hand that the Iranians were just weeks from not only building an atomic bomb but of placing it atop one of the advanced Russian cruise missiles the lifting of the embargo had allowed them to buy, Netanyahu prepared to act. It would take much of the Israeli Air Force, most of its commandos, its submarine fleet, and its formidable cyber forces to execute the plan. Saudi Arabia agreed to allow overflights and the use of its remote bases. But Operation Masada would have to be conducted in total secrecy.
On July 5, 2016, with one hour to go before launch, Netanyahu received a call from Vice President Joe Biden. U.S. intelligence had seen the pr********ns and anticipated the strike; Biden, as the conversation transcript later revealed, was clearly frightened.
Benjamin, weve known each other a long time. Youve got to believe me. If you launch, hell warn the Iranians and hell order American forces to shoot down your jets. I cant talk him out of it. Hes serious. Hell do it. Please, please call it off.
At that moment, Netanyahu was handed an intelligence update. There was increased aircraft activity on the USS Reagan afloat just outside the Persian Gulf, and Iranian anti-aircraft missile batteries were alerting. President Obama was preparing to launch fighters and had already warned the Iranians.
With a heavy heart, Netanyahu called off Operation Masada. A week later, news of the fiasco was leaked by an anonymous White house source to the New York Times. In the resulting uproar in Israel, Netanyahu resigned. His place was taken by an elderly Laborite who proclaimed, This is an opportunity for peace! and vowed to work closely with the Obama administration. He was welcomed to Washington the next week and treated with respect in return for his obedience.
Israelis were going to breakfast on August 30, 2016, when the bomb went off above Tel Aviv. There was an unfathomably bright flash in the cloudless sky at about 1515 feet, calculated precisely to be high enough to maximize the thermal and blast effects but low enough to churn up substantial fallout. It detonated over the Jaffa area of southern outskirts of the city instead of where it was aimed, the government center only the Iranians could manage to miss a city with an A-bomb. Ironically, Ground Zero was heavily populated by Israeli Arabs.
Those within two miles who were in the open and exposed were charred by the heat; those closer who survived the heat received a fatal blast of radiation but, mercifully, few at those distances survived the subsequent blast wave to die a lingering death from radiation sickness. Fallout began to rain from the sky, poisoning the earth for miles downwind.
People ran and screamed as air raid sirens tardily began to wail, barely audible over the noise of the fireball. It was not a big bomb only 14 kilotons, about the same as the uranium-235 bomb that leveled Hiroshima but it was enough to k**l or condemn to death over 31,000 Israelis. That was about one in every 259 Israelis, the equivalent of 1,230,000 dead Americans.
Even as they focused on the injured and the fires, Israelis assumed that that the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) would retaliate with its own nuclear weapons. But again Obama intervened, ordering U.S. Air Force and Navy jets to stop any retaliatory Israeli strike. In the Pentagons situation room, as the admirals and generals gave the orders to prepare to defend Iran, the sole Marine among the Joint Chiefs looked around the room at his fellow four stars and said, Youre a bunch of gutless cowards. He ripped the stars off his uniform, threw them down on the table in from of the Secretary of Defense, and walked out.
Americans fighters shot down three of the Israeli planes flying the retaliation strike mission to Tehran while they were over Saudi Arabia. But luckily, within minutes, Israels brilliant cyber warriors were able to locate and disrupt the command and control nodes for the other dozen Iranian cruise missiles the Iranians had planned to fire; this was the only reason there were no additional strikes.
Obama went on television and promised accountability, then asserted that, Some here in America refused to support our quest for peace. Let me be clear. Todays tragedy in Tel Aviv was a direct result of their choice to undercut diplomacy instead of support it.
On CNN and MSNBC, Democrat strategists went on the air offering the carefully crafted talking points hurriedly drafted in the West Wing, accusing warmongering Republicans calling for retaliation against the mullahs of playing politics with this tragedy. On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton refused to take questions, and insisted that, This is no time for the kind of h**eful, incendiary language my opponent is using.
Only Fox News showed footage of Iranians laughing and singing in the streets. Similarly, on several college campuses, students marched to demand that there be no humanitarian aid to the Z*****t entity. There was also a video, widely shown on Fox and on conservative websites, but never on any mainstream media outlet, of a prominent Democratic Senate nominee high fiving some of her donors upon hearing the news.
Though the House and Senate quickly passed a massive aid bill, which the President signed without ceremony or comment after polling showed 78% of registered v**ers supported it and Hillary Clinton begged him to do so, the aid flowed slowly through Obamas executive bureaucracy to the Jewish state. Seeing the dire need, evangelical Christians led the way in raising an unprecedented $10 billion in relief donations in just two weeks.
Israel eagerly accepted the help, but saw it was on its own except for its few dedicated friends. The Israelis redoubled their efforts on missile defenses and focused on long-term self-sufficiency in arms and technology. As long as America could fall prey to another liberal offering gauzy lies and apologies to the Wests enemies, it could never be trusted by any ally least of all one that over half of one of the two parties did not support.
There would be no surrender and no forgiveness. At about 1 p.m. Eastern time on January 20, 2017, an Iranian atomic bomb detonated within the nuclear weapons storage facility at Natanz, annihilating the entire facility, hundreds of nuclear scientists, several members of the Supreme Council who happened to be visiting, and all 15 of Irans atomic bombs. The Israelis denied any connection with the mishap, but Prime Minister Netanyahu back in power stated that, Its not, and will not be, unusual that unfortunate accidents like this happen to those who threaten the Jewish people.
President Walker, who had just been inaugurated an hour before, issued a statement saying, We regret the loss of innocent life. And we warn the Iranian government that the former agreement is now null and void. The United States will consider any attempt by the Iranian government to rebuild any nuclear capability as an act of war against the United States and its allies and will act accordingly using all means at our disposal.
In the Pentagon that afternoon, the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Marine general now called back from his self-imposed retirement, finalized and sent to Americas new Commander-In-Chief the draft of a p**********l directive stating that the policy of the United States henceforth would be to react to a nuclear strike on any American ally as a strike on the United States requiring decisive thermonuclear retaliation. Copies of the directive would later be delivered to their hosts by U.S. diplomats in Tehran, Moscow, Beijing, Pyongyang and Karachi.
Israel rallied; the second Holocaust was averted but at a staggering cost. Tens of thousands of Israelis suffered burns from the bombing; the scars would come to be called the new camp tattoos. They would become a mark of resilience in the survivors and a mark of shame for those who allowed the atrocity to occur.
Jul 21, 2015 11:38:54 #
In view of how many times Netanyahu has changed his position on a two state solution, is it really unreasonable to require some action from his government? Which of his stated policies is the correct one?
President Obama should consider the best interest of the United States. I have no problem with the Prime Minister doing what he feels is right for Israel. That is his job. However, it is the President of the United States and the Congress' job to do what they feel is right for the U.S. Of course we should take into account the needs of our allies in the region but our interest must come first.
If Netanyahu wants respect from the White House, he should try showing some. The U.S. has been and is a great ally to Israel but we are not his personal pit bull. If our interest coincide with those of Israel fine. If they do not we must protect our country first.
If we have learned nothing else, we should have learned just how foolish it is to get involved in another war in the Middle East. Iran will get the bomb just as Israel did. Doesn't it make more sense to slow the process down and at least have some real idea of when?
The people of Israel elected the Prime Minister to serve Israel not the U.S The people of the United States elected our President to protect the U.S. not Israel.
President Obama should consider the best interest of the United States. I have no problem with the Prime Minister doing what he feels is right for Israel. That is his job. However, it is the President of the United States and the Congress' job to do what they feel is right for the U.S. Of course we should take into account the needs of our allies in the region but our interest must come first.
If Netanyahu wants respect from the White House, he should try showing some. The U.S. has been and is a great ally to Israel but we are not his personal pit bull. If our interest coincide with those of Israel fine. If they do not we must protect our country first.
If we have learned nothing else, we should have learned just how foolish it is to get involved in another war in the Middle East. Iran will get the bomb just as Israel did. Doesn't it make more sense to slow the process down and at least have some real idea of when?
The people of Israel elected the Prime Minister to serve Israel not the U.S The people of the United States elected our President to protect the U.S. not Israel.
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