Prior to Senator John McCain's recent trip to Israel, I was in communication with his office regarding his endorsement of James Baker, a blatant anti-Semite/anti-Zionist and a man who has largely enriched himself via the autocratic Arab petrodollar spigot. The response I received was detailed enough to suggest that it was not just another routine form letter.
After touching base with the man I'd like to vote for in November, I then publishd an open letter to the senator
Later, I learned of the Senator's updated comments regarding Baker during an interview in Los Angeles on March 26th, after McCain's visit to Israel and our initial correspondence. Perhaps I'm reading between lines, but I believe the Senator now has his eyes open a bit more about Baker, a man whom he once considered his point man for the Middle East. Lots of other informed folks must have also made contact with his office.
Like all of us, John McCain is flawed. He is still the best all-round candidate in the upcoming presidential election. And he appears to be electable if he doesn't let people like James Baker set him back.
Like Baker?
So, what's 'like Baker,' you ask?
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has made no secret that she'd love to be McCain's Vice President. You know, the same woman who's up-in-arms because Jews want to build in Jerusalem and its environs; the same woman who compares the plight of Arabs to Blacks in America, and so forth. Making Condi VP would be like anointing James Baker III, in a skirt, to the second most powerful position in the world.
While not openly embracing his crude anti-Semitism, Condi indeed personifies the typical State Department (and petrodollar-greased) animus towards Israel. She displays the same oil-tainted blinders over her eyes when it comes to the plight of 35 million truly stateless Kurds in the region as well while demanding that Arabs have state number 22.
While victory against Islamic extremism is allegedly a goal, Rice insists on shoving it down Israel's throat anyway. When real truth proves inconvenient, make up your own. That is typical State Department policy when it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The folks at Foggy Bottom have whitewashed their Fatah good cops for decades, hiding Abbas's close friend and colleague, Yasser Arafat's, direct connections to Black September, the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the murder of American officials, and so forth. And they've made excuses for their current darling, Abbas, and the rest of his murderous crew as well.
Birds of a Feather
Condi (the secretary of state, not the oil tanker named after her) is a pea in the same pod as the former secretary of state, Mr. f_ _ k the Jews, they don't vote for us anyway James Baker, whose law firm represents Arab interests on a huge scale.
Rice has constantly insisted that Israel itself arm --and watch America arm and train--those whose prime target will be/have been Jews. Any argument Fatah has with Hamas is not about accepting a permanent Jewish neighbor...and they're both honest about this while Condi & Co. play deaf, dumb, and blind. Again, invent your own when real truths are inconvenient.
Recent polls showed 85% of 'moderate' Abbas’s P.A. Arabs supported the wanton slaughter of Jewish students in a Jerusalem yeshiva by an Arab armed with one of those weapons Condi insisted upon. And most still reject an Israel's right to exist in any borders at all.
Foggy Ideas
Like most of her earlier Foggy predecessors, Condi is intent on forcing Israel to return to its nine-mile wide, 1949 armistice line (not border). Presidents Reagan and Johnson, and Secretary of State George Shultz (a rare exception to the Foggy mold) swore that would never happen after the Six Day War.
Secure and recognized borders--a la UNSC Resolution 242--were to replace those lines, and any withdrawal was to occur in the context of real peace treaties, not hudna ceasefires, designed only to strengthen Arabs for the ultimate kill. Arafat called this 'the Peace of the Quraysh,' akin to the lull before Muhammad delivered the final blow to his Meccan enemies in the 7th century C.E.
Abbas’s Fatahniks are simply Arafatians in suits, sweet-talking an all-too-cooperative West while openly endorsing vilification and destruction of Jews and Israel among their own folks.
Arafat's Swiss bank accounts, largely filled with pusillanimous dhimmi Western cash, are legendary. Billions of similar dollars are again at stake. And, as in Gaza, what Fatah gets now in Judea and Samaria, Hamas will likely get later anyway.
Subsequently, if Condi's Crew get their way, the Jews will be left holding the bag--with an American trained and armed rejectionist enemy within a stone's throw of all of Israel's main population centers.
Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem will become the next Sderots, and nothing will be able to stop that new, sovereign, Arab state from setting up whatever it wants on its side of the American-imposed border. Think Iranian supplied missiles, etc.
Israel will once again be left, thanks to “its friends,” with a nine-to-sixteen mile wide strip with the Mediterranean Sea to its back.
Needed: Sane America
Despite the weak leaders it now has, Israel must resist this unreasonable pressure and hope a saner, less nasty American administration will soon enter the world stage.
Don't expect this to happen with a Clinton or Obama victory, so…
As I discussed in my original correspondence with the senator, a military man
who fought for America's national interests thousands of miles away from home and who calls for an adequate response to a militant Islam, it's hard to imagine McCain failing to understand what a miniscule Israel--on the very front lines of this fight--is facing.
How dare American Jews – you know, the ones the Arabs call dhimmi kilab yahud, or simply put, Jewish dogs--demand in one state what Arabs and their hypocritical supporters insist they must have some two dozen of--at mostly non-Arab Kurd, Amazigh/Berber, black African, Copt, native, pre-Arab Lebanese, and others' expense.
It cannot be pointed out too often: The desires of a 22nd Arab state--and second, not first, in the original 1920 borders of post World War I Mandatory Palestine--must not come at the expense of the basic needs, security, and national interests of the sole Jewish State, one-half of whose Jews are refugees from the so-called Arab/Islamic world.
Senator McCain must grasp these points and set himself apart from the powerful Condi - Baker petrodollarly anti-Israel click. Many will be watching his choices very closely...including a good portion of the seventy million Evangelicals in his country.
There's a lot of talent out there to choose from regarding such choices.Some of McCain's former fellow Republican contestants come to mind, as do others such as Senator Joseph Lieberman, Newt Gingrich, Alan Keyes, academics like Thomas Sowell, and so forth...many of whom are also good conservatives, backing McCain's own credentials as well.
I'm convinced that John McCain deserves to be our next President. He needs to surround himself with others who truly deserve his endorsement.
The likes of Baker and Rice don't.