Since the start of the uprisings on the Arab Street, we have watched with growing trepidation the growing international tidal wave that threatens to dismantle the State of Israel.
Several prominent American friends of Israel and I am told the average Israeli, are under the impression that the mass movements in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Bahrain, etc. are diversions that benefit Israel. In its crudest form this line of reasoning sees the agitation and violence directed within these countries as a welcome expenditure of energy that would otherwise be directed against Israel.
This analysis is dangerous and wrong. Just the opposite is occurring. International pressure on Israel is building at an unprecedented rate. The recent Security Council vote to declare Israel an international outlaw because Israelis reside in territories which even the United Nations resolutions acknowledge is in dispute (not Palestinian) is a glaring manifestation of the accelerating movement to deligitimize Israel. Suddenly this deligitimizing movement which is a creation of Israel's Arab enemies has been embraced by Israel's closest allies -- France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and yes, the United States.
At the recent Security Council meeting headlines blared that The United States vetoed the Palestinian resolution. These headlines left the mistaken impression that the United States and Israel are standing shoulder to shoulder against the rest of the Western World. This is a total misreading of reality. Shoshana Bryen from JINSA explains in detail the betrayal of Israel by the Obama Administration here: Shoshana concludes her assessment of the actions of the United States with these words, The road they took was a cop out - just on the inside of legal, but offering Israel no comfort against its enemies and giving the Palestinians no reason to behave differently in the future.
The United States separated itself from Israel even after President Obama begged and tried to bribe Abbas to withdraw his resolution. Abbas, the recipient of half a billion United States taxpayer dollars, rejected Obama's desperate plea. Other Presidents of the United States would have exacted a price from Abbas, would have reaffirmed America's total commitment to a strong and defensible Israel -- instead Secretary of State Clinton and the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice justified the lynching of Israel. (An editorial described Rice's Security Council comments as a "loathsome attack on Israel'.) Yes a veto was cast and for an insiders report of how until the last minute Obama was not certain to cast the veto read here,
Take a moment to contemplate the schismatic shift that has taken place in the relationship between Israel and its most important allies. And if evidence is needed that the Security Council meeting was not an aberration consider these facts. After the vote Israel felt it must profusely thank Obama for less forcefully siding with the Palestinians, the so-called Quartet, made of nations that voted against Israel, announced it was going to continue to pressure Israel, and Germany's Chancellor (Angela Merkel) berated Netanyahu and made sure the press and Arab World knew she had done so.
All this action against Israel is taking place while Arabs are getting killed in the streets. While Iranians are being repressed by their tyrannical rulers. And Israel's Western critics are largely silent. There most energetic action is directed at Israel not Achmadinejad.
The heads of state of the most important Western States see Israel as the target of their energy and their wrath. Israel is the problem. Israel is the enemy. Israel most be forced to capitulate to all Palestinian demands. Those demands include: Palestinian control of the Old City of Jerusalem where Solomon's Temple once stood where the holiest site in Jerusalem -- The Temple Mount -- stands. And the demand that a million or more Palestinians move into Israel proper.
In short the official dismantling of the Jewish State.
This dire circumstance need not (most not) reach its logical conclusion. It is incumbent on us to protect Israel from experiencing this reality.
What can we do?
Israel must openly and forcefully declare its independence from the meddling of foreign forces. The United States, Germany, etc. are celebrating the emergence of supposed democracies in the Middle East and they should respect the will of the only functioning democracy in the Middle East: Israel. Stop treating Israel like an outlaw state while its undemocratic adversaries are the good guys.
Israel must reaffirm that Jerusalem will remain its undivided capital.
Israel must emphatically state that it will insist on defensible borders for its people and it must inform the world that there will be no influx of Palestinians into the State of Israel.
Israel's friends must stand up for this agenda in their respective countries. In the United States and other parts of the world friends of Israel have become dispirited as Israel has allowed all its "Red Lines" - a united Jerusalem, defensible borders, a homeland for the Jewish people, - to become blurred. Israel's bending to every pressure from Obama has created the impression that Israel is prepared to grand any demand to arrive at a deal. This strategy has failed, it has embolden its enemies to ask for more and more.
Since the founding of the State of Israel, Israel's staunchest friends have been the American people. If Israel shows that it is ready to fight for itself the American will rise up and fight along side of Israel. As the world saw in last November's elections the American people can change the course of history.
Israel is America's ally because Israel is an essential force against radical Islam. Poll after poll has shown that the American people understands the threat of radical Islam and Israel's role in winning this war.
