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| Dick Morris: True friends of Israel cannot let the Dems take power |
| 2006-07-26 |
| Ten years ago, on April 18, 1996, Israel attacked Hezbollah in Lebanon for 16 days in an operation called Grapes of Wrath. The global condemnation of Israel was fierce, especially when it bombed a U.N. refugee camp, killing 107 people, an attack that Tel Aviv said was a mistake. At the time, the United States did nothing to stop the tide from turning against Israel and President Clinton said, “I think it is important that we do everything we can to bring an end to the violence.” In private, Clinton seethed at the Israeli attack, saying he had discussed with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres the possibility of concluding a military defense treaty with his nation, pledging U.S. aid in the event of an attack. “They really want this guarantee from us,” Clinton told me. “I would have given them the commitment, too, but now I can’t because of the uproar over the refugee camp bombing.” No such treaty was ever signed. Clinton’s willingness to use American power to force a cease-fire on Israel before it had fully eradicated Hezbollah stands in stark and sharp contrast to George Bush’s insistence on letting Israel proceed with its attacks until the terrorist group is neutralized. In a nutshell, this illustrates the difference between the Democratic and Republican approaches to Israeli security. Bush and his administration clearly see the Israeli attack as an opportunity to clean out terrorist cells that have come to be pivotal in Lebanon. With Hezbollah’s power extending into the cabinet in Beirut, it is clear that Israeli military action is necessary to forestall the creation of a terrorist state on its northern border. While Clinton said he embraced the need for Israeli security, when the going got rough, he bowed to world opinion and called for a cease-fire. When the United States asks Israel to stop fighting, it is like a boxer’s manager throwing in the towel. The bottom line is that true friends of Israel cannot afford to let the Democrats take power in Washington. But American Jews have voted Democrat in the past and will continue to do so in the future. It is really the Christian evangelical right that stands up for Israel. The reason Israel has to fight in Lebanon today is that the United States did not permit it to finish the job of destroying Hezbollah in the ’90s. Now, fortunately for Israel’s true friends, the White House is letting Tel Aviv win without reining her in. Nothing so illustrates the generic anti-Semitism of the global community than its current obsession with proportionality in judging Israel’s response to the kidnapping of its soldiers and the rocket bombing of its cities. The Vatican, the European Union and Russia have said nothing about the almost daily bombardment of Israel’s northern border by Hezbollah or the constant attacks from Gaza after Israel magnanimously vacated the strip. But now that the Jewish state is defending itself, the global community is outraged at the “disproportionate” Israeli response. Only Jewish lives have to be dealt with proportionately. Israel’s defensive barrier has succeeded in sharply curtailing the once daily suicide/homicide bombing of civilian Israeli targets. Now the Israeli invasion will push back the frontiers from which the terrorists can work their mayhem through missiles. Bush and the Republican administration realize that Israel is only acting in self-defense. It is obvious that she would not be attacking Lebanon if the terrorists had not made a habit of using it as a base for attacks on Jewish cities. The global condemnation of Israel is simply illustrative of the low esteem attached to Jewish blood in this world where anti-Semitism comes disguised as morality and a commitment to peace. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #5 Throw up their hands? As in "I Surrender?" |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2006-07-26 10:46 |
| #4 I think most American Jews view their liberalism as integral to their identity as Western modern Jews. The result is that many of them are fighting old battles instead of current ones. Another problem is that Islamicism does not lend itself to the "talking cure", which makes the majority of libs (Jewish and non-Jewish alike) throw up their hands. |
| Posted by: Grealet Gliter5469 2006-07-26 10:12 |
| #3 The problem for the Jewish community is their in the mindset of the German Jewish community circa 1932. They think they are dealing with reasonable people and can work this all out. Unfortunately, the people driving the Dem bus these days are not liberals, but the neo-Marxist, like those who drove thousands of their brethren out of the Soviet state and satellites. The universities and colleges have become a bastion of anti-Semitism under their abuse of power in the name of the new Marxist mantras of 'diversity' and 'social justice'. Wake up. The environment has changed. Adapt or perish. |
| Posted by: Jese Gleresh1086 2006-07-26 09:51 |
| #2 Well yes Dick, that's true. But unless someone figures out the contradiction of the liberal Jew, they'll keep pulling the lever for the straight Dem ticket. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-07-26 08:37 |
| #1 Morris, though I don't care for everything he has to say, is certainly informative. He shines a deadly bright light into the cold dark heart of the Clinton Clan. Political Games and Moral Cowardice vs Substance and Rationality. Yep, that defines the difference. |
| Posted by: Champ Angeger5024 2006-07-26 01:42 |