Israelis will never give up the Jordan Valley

A recent editorial in one of Israel’s largest online newspaper s, YNET, was pretty explicit in explaining the Israeli “consensus view” of recent U.S. security guarantees for Israel that Secretary of State Kerry failed to secure in his failed bid to keep the “peace process” on life support: U. S. guarantees are worthless.
The Israelis weren’t always of this opinion under other U.S. administrations, but events of the past 4-5 years led to the inescapable conclusion that America’s word under President Obama’s means nothing. 

1) He abandoned Israel’s long-time ally, Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak (without consultation) in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood. 
2) In 2009, when Iranians conducted massive street protests, instead of giving them minimal verbal support, he called it an internal Iranian issue. The demonstrators were quickly squashed with the brutality you would expect from the Republican Guard. 
3) When Syria used chemical weapons, Obama’s “red-line” disappeared and it was nothing less than embarrassing to see our diplomats jump at the bogus lifeline thrown to them by Russia’s Putin that didn’t stop the killing and didn’t stop chemical assaults.
4) When Ukraine was invaded by Russia – the U.S. security guarantees that convinced Ukraine to abandon their nuclear capability evaporated when the first shot was fired. 

How on earth could the Israelis, seriously entertain the idea giving up the fortified Jordan Valley seam line with Jordan – a natural barrier - in favor of American trainers supported by a U.S. trained contingent of regional Arabs? The U.S spent 10 years and $26 BILLION dollars training and equipping the Iraqi army, just to see them cut and run when the first shot was fired by ISIS. Over 100,000 well equipped trained Iraqi soldiers fled from 3,000 ruthless, motivated, religious ISIS fanatics. Can you imagine an Arab contingent going to the mat fighting to protect Israel’s borders? Israel can’t fathom that, and the Palestinians in the West Bank won’t ever admit to it because of nationalistic pride – but they are secure in the fact that Israel is between them and the ISIS fighters aiming their next assault on Jordan.

Israel has never asked for - and doesn’t want - American soldiers risking their lives to on Israeli soil. Israelis are quite capable and motivated to accomplish the task, and the reason they are able to exist and thrive while surrounded and outnumbered by Muslim hostility is because they understand their enemy - and they also understand President Obama.