POTUS Obama: Yes, you have "changed" things...for the worse.

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 negotiated agreement with Iran - U. S. guarantees, at least under POTUS Obama, 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 trust the Obama administration when they have not only made Iran a regional power a country that is Israel’s mortal enemy who has been in a constant state of war with Israel. Allowing Iran to receive nuclear arms and resume arms trading without any reciprocity regarding Iran’s state sponsorship of terrorism against Israel and numerous Arab countries is traitorous to the alliance that WAS between the USA and Israel.  Thanks to Obama, the Israelis are now on a hair trigger and feeling attacked and abandoned. The Iranians and their surrogates Hamas and Hezbollah – seeing Israel without the USA as a patron are emboldened to step up their terrorism against anyone they choose. Arab countries are already planning to build reactors and nuclear weapons. War is now certain, thanks to the appeasement of the West, led by Obama to Iran.

Israel was birthed without the help of the USA government and they will survive and thrive without them for the immediate future. Other alliances will be established, and Israel will diversify its dependency on America. Maybe at the end of the day that is not such a bad outcome in the long term.

 More friendly US administrations will surely come into power, but the nuclear agreement will haunt future US government (and Israel) forever, as they now own it. More importantly, the odds of any country trusting the USA as a true ally are nil. Obama is lying in bed with Iran, and the odds are that America will wake up with fleas for decades.