Posted by
Always To The Right on Monday, May 18, 2009 1:12:37 PM
Obama’s U.N. Mistake
In advance of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the
U.S. on Monday, Pres. Obama unveiled a new strategy for throwing Israel
to the wolves.
In advance of Israeli prime minister Benjamin
Netanyahu’s visit to the United States on Monday, President Obama
unveiled a new strategy for throwing Israel to the wolves. It takes the
form of enthusiasm for the United Nations and international interlopers
of all kinds. Instead of ensuring strong American control over the
course of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations or the Arab-Israeli peace
process, the Obama administration is busy inserting an international
mob between the U.S. and Israel. The thinking goes: If Israel doesn’t
fall into an American line, Obama will step out of the way, claim his
hands are tied, and let the U.N. and other international gangsters have
at their prey.
It began this past Monday with the adoption of a so-called presidential
statement by the U.N. Security Council. Such statements are not law,
but they must be adopted unanimously — meaning that U.S. approval was
essential and at any time Obama could have stopped its adoption.
Instead, he agreed to this: “The Security Council supports the proposal
of the Russian Federation to convene, in consultation with the Quartet
and the parties, an international conference on the Middle East peace
process in Moscow in 2009.”
Apparently Obama prefers a playing field with 57 members of the
Organization of the Islamic Conference, 22 members of the Arab League —
most of whom don’t recognize the right of Israel to exist — and one
Jewish state. A great idea — if the purpose is to ensure Israel comes
begging for American protection.