What Obama Did to Israel

Of course we have all heard by now that Obama gave a speech last week and suggested that Israel use the 1967 borders as a start to peace negotiations with the Arabs.  He backpedaled a few days later and said of course it will include "land swaps"...but it matters little because either way, he is the leader of America and is talking about dividing Jerusalem.

Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer had this to say;

Every Arab-Israeli negotiation contains a fundamental asymmetry: Israel gives up land, which is tangible; the Arabs make promises, which are ephemeral. The long-standing American solution has been to nonetheless urge Israel to take risks for peace while America balances things by giving assurances of U.S. support for Israel’s security and diplomatic needs.

For 21 / 2 years, the Obama administration has refused to recognize and reaffirm these assurances. Then last week in his State Department speech, President Obama definitively trashed them. He declared that the Arab-Israeli conflict should indeed be resolved along “the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps.”

Nothing new here, said Obama three days later. “By definition, it means that the parties themselves — Israelis and Palestinians — will negotiate a border that is different” from 1967.

Obama’s response to this relentless Palestinian intransigence? To reward it — by abandoning the Bush assurances, legitimizing the ’67 borders and refusing to reaffirm America’s rejection of the right of return.

The only remaining question is whether this perverse and ultimately self-defeating policy is born of genuine antipathy toward Israel or of the arrogance of a blundering amateur who refuses to see that he is undermining not just peace but the very possibility of negotiations.

See it here; http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-obama-did-to-israel/2011/05/26/AGJfYJCH_story.html

Holy blundering amateur!  The USA is being driven by a dude who has only read about statesmanship in a college textbook!  We are careening out of control and I'm not sure I see any other human in the passenger seat who is capable of taking over the steering wheel!

I'm sure glad Jesus has this whole thing managed.  If we didn't know that He did....our futures would seem pretty darn bleak.