Israel should not trust the Obama administration

As the drumbeat of Iranian belligerence towards Israel increases both on the terror, political, and nuclear front continues unabated, my only hope is that the Israeli government doesn’t miscalculate their  relationship with the Barak Obama led U.S. government.  President Obama’s Mideast policy is littered with broken promises, abandoned allies, and a sophomoric propensity to project Western social values on a region where tribal and Muslim values are the bedrock of society. One may be able to debate Obama’s health or economic policy, but his foreign policy has seen a disaster and has reversed 60 years of carefully crafted and consistent foreign policy.

With that said, the Israeli people should be quite concerned with the current situation: Iran is building a nuclear capability and already has a delivery system (which the Obama government is allowing to go forward), Iran is making overt declarations in the press that they have every intent to destroy Israel (which the world is ignoring), and the Obama government is demanding that Israel not attack Iran because of the economic implications to the rest of the world. Given the fact that Obama threw Egypt’s Mubarak under the bus at the first opportunity, didn’t help the Iranian revolution in 2009, and sits and watches as tens of thousands die in Syria - If I were them I would not depend on the Obama led U.S. government to deal with Iran or back them up in a war.

Israel has been under attack in one form or another from Iranian surrogates (Hezbollah/Hamas) ever since the Shah was deposed in 1979. Additionally, Iran has been directly implicated in numerous terror attacks around the world against mostly innocent Jews (Argentina, India, etc.). Israel needs no additional pretext to wage a defensive war against the Iranian government (not the Iranian people). I seriously doubt that had the USA been the victim of this Iranian treatment that they would have tolerated it for 33 years.

As for those who want to bring up the Palestinian issue as an Israeli aggravating cause of the Mideast conflict? Even if you disregard the Jewish historical ties to Israel and buy the Palestinian narrative - historical connections have no ownership implications. Ask the Indians, Incas and the Aborigines.