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The Day Fast
Approaches
By Kate Burch
The deadline for a nuclear arms deal with Iran is March 24.
President Obama seems to have believed that he could gain support for
his plan to make significant concessions to one of the world’s main
sponsors of terrorism by a defeat for Benjamin Netanyahu. He
tried to prevent the Prime Minister’s speech to Congress, and then
belittled his speech. He reportedly sent campaign operatives to
Israel to work in opposition and even arranged for bussing of Arabs to
the polls to vote for Netanyahu’s opponent (sound familiar?)
Now that Netanyahu has won decisively, it is clear that Israelis and
Arabs are united in opposition to our president’s stance.
It will be very interesting to see how the nuclear negotiations will
play out. Will Obama, in a fit of pique, double down on his
support of Iran and punishment of Israel?
The Israel election also made clear that that nation’s people have
wearied of repeated, failed land-for peace offers. Obama has
advocated for reinstating the pre-1967 borders despite Gaza having
become a launching pad for missile attacks on innocent civilians and
the terror group Hamas having joined the Palestinian Authority as one
of its governing bodies.
So often, we are forced to wonder whether our president is (willfully)
ignorant of the lessons of history and working to implement a utopian
vision of teaching the world to sing in perfect harmony, or if he is
deliberately bent on weakening us and our allies.
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