Friday, December 12, 2008

What a PM Netanyahu faces from Washington

I think this picture says it all.

There are even more perilous times ahead for Israel with the imminent installation of Barack Hussein Obama in the White House. Caroline Glick outlines the likely scenario the next PM of Israel, most likely Binyamin Netanyahu. He will face an array of warmed over Clinton era anti-Israel cabinet members and advisors.

Compounding every problem facing Israel is the fact that even the clueless IAEA has realized that Iran will be able to produce it's first nuke in a matter of months.


FROM JEWISHWORLDREVIEW.COM:

What a PM Netanyahu faces from Washington
By Caroline B. Glick

The "international community" is eagerly anticipating the incoming Obama administration's policy towards Israel. It is widely assumed that as soon as he comes into office, US president-elect Barack Obama will move quickly to apply massive pressure on the next Israeli government to withdraw from Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights in the interests of advancing a "peace process" with the Palestinians and the Syrians.

Giving voice to these expectations this week was this year's Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Martti Ahtisaari. The former Finnish prime minister used his prize ceremony to call on US president-elect Barack Obama to make contending with the Palestinian conflict with Israel his chief focus during his first year in office. This is the same Ahtisaari who recently demanded that the West recognize Hamas as a legitimate political movement.

People who have been in close contact with Obama's foreign policy transition team have privately acknowledged that the widespread belief that Obama will move swiftly to put the screws on Israel is fully justified. According to one source who has spent a great deal of time with his transition team since last month's elections, Obama's people are "scope-locked" on Israel.
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