By Daniel Greenfield
SultanKnish.BlogSpot.com
If there's
one thing that the Carter Administration can be given credit for, it's
creating the new wave of Islamist terrorism, both Sunni, operating out
of Afghanistan, and Shiite, operating out of Iran. The Carter
Administration cracked down on Israel and put its "faith" in Muslim
terrorists, who then went on to wage war on America, even while Carter
was in office.
28 years after Carter was removed from office, we're in reruns again
with the Obama Administration, which is not only following the Carter
line, but whose plans greatly exceed it. 28 years ago, Wahhabi Sunni and
Shiite terrorists were generally an afterthought when compared to the
standard USSR backed Marxist terrorist groups, such as the PLO.
Today, thanks in part to the Carter Administration, they control several
countries and have designs on several more. From Pakistan to
Afghanistan, from Gaza to Lebanon, from the Middle East to Southeast
Asia, the threat is very real and bigger than ever particularly as the
race by both Sunni and Shiite groups to build and deploy nuclear weapons
continues.
Like Carter before him, Obama has chosen to cut
backdoor deals with the Mullahs in Iran, offering them power over Iraq
and Afghanistan, in exchange for quieting things down enough to let him
hang up a Mission Accomplished banner and pull the troops out. "Peace
with honor", preferably before the next election. The rape law for
Shiites in Afghanistan, the push for a US funded Hamas/Fatah Unity
government in the territories and the rising expansion of the Taliban
are all fruits of this arrangement.
If Iran is to be our new best
friend under this arrangement, Israel is to be our new best enemy.
Obama stacked the deck by deploying Hillary Clinton as Secretary of
State in a position that gave her an important title, but absolutely no
power to go with it, while stacking the National Security Council and
even the Pentagon with oil appointees in the pockets of the Saudis or
his own left wing radical friends.
Israel electing a conservative
government really put the ball into play, freeing up even more resources
for attacking Israel. The strategy runs something like this.
The
Obama Administration has broken down the Israel problem into two
subsections, Israel itself, and American Jews.
Obama's people
have studied the problem and understand where Carter went wrong. Obama
does not want to have the same image problems as Carter in the Jewish
community. Should that happen, the Beloved Leader and his lapdog press
are fully prepared to unleash a Chavez style hate-on targeting American
Jews. But that would be inconvenient and messy. Even with the changing
face of America, there are significant differences between the average
American and European or Venezuelan, and what kind of ugliness they are
willing to tolerate. So Obama's people have split their attention in
handling the two factors as two different problems.
American Jews - Obama has been
clever about putting his Jewish appointees front and center. Like many
minorities, some American Jews suffer from self-esteem problems that are
soothed when they see a seeming acceptance. Of course what they fail to
realize is that exploitation is not acceptance. And that Obama's
appointees are creatures of his backers, Nazi collaborators like Soros,
who have nothing but contempt for Jews, individually or collectively.
While outwardly courting Jews, Obama's people have also been quietly
shoving Jewish organizations and their leaders into a corner. Within the
Jewish organizational world there has been a silent but deadly takeover
of major Jewish groups by left wing radicals. Former alumni of the far
left wing and anti-Israel groups like Breira or Coname in the 70's have
been elevated to key positions in such organizations as the UJA
Federation. Behind the scenes any Jewish leaders who expressed even
doubts about Obama during the primaries were intimidated and silenced.
Much as with conservatives, a list has been drawn up of those
figures who can be won over, and those who cannot. The ones who can be
won over are described as "moderates", the ones who cannot be won over
are described as "extremists".
Meanwhile a bevvy of left wing
Jewish In Name Only groups have been organized to play their part. Key
among them is the Soros funded J Street, a group created as an
anti-Israel lobby meant to eventually replace AIPAC. Meanwhile AIPAC
itself has been kept on the ropes with such things as the well timed
Harman leak. The message once again is fairly clear, cooperate and keep
quiet, or we'll destroy you.
The multi-layered approach to
American Jews can then be summed up as follows;
1.) Co-opt
existing Jewish organizations and swing them to the left using old
school 70's leftists.
2.) Create new "progressive" organizations
to appeal to a younger generation of ethnically Jewish youth detached
from any actual identity. Have these organizations generate attacks on
the Israeli government and pro-Israel Jews, while creating phony polls
indicating that most American Jews are behind them and Obama.
3.)
Silence and intimidate remaining Jewish organizations and leaders behind
the scenes.
The overall idea is to keep a happy face pasted on
American Jewry while the knives are out in the dark.
Israel - The basic understanding
in the Obama Administration is that Israel Must Go. In the worldview of
the more moderate Obama appointees, Israel is a destabilizing factor in
the Middle East. To the more left wing Obama advisors, Israel is a
Western imperialist colonialist state that must be destroyed in the name
of revolutionary justice. To the Islamist mindset, Israel is a Kufir
state that has no right to exist in the Dar Al Islam.
While intractably hostile to Israel, the Obama Administration wants to
avoid the kind of public confrontations that marked the Carter and Bush
Sr administrations. Instead they would much rather model the way that
the Clinton Administration waged a quiet war against Israel, removing
one government, and forcing extensive concessions to terrorists, all the
while keeping a happy face pasted on the whole affair.
On the one
hand that means avoiding harsh public attacks on Israel, but keeping the
pressure up for Israel to make extensive far reaching one sided
concessions, to accept Saudi and Arab League "peace plans", to
legitimize Hamas as the new government of the Palestinian Authority, and
to insure that Israel does not reply to any rocket or terrorist attacks.
There are two forms of quiet leverage that the United States has on
Israel, the first is financial and the second is military.
On the
financial side, the goal will be to bring down the Netanyahu government
coalition by destabilizing Israel economically. This is the surest and
most direct path to bringing down Israel's conservative government and
replacing it with a left of center coalition. The Obama Administration
has a wide variety of tactics at its disposal for doing so, from the
overt, such as targeting Israeli exports and imports, to the covert,
that would involve targeting the Shekel. Additionally fundraising in the
US could be investigated and groups such as the Jewish National Fund,
prevented from raising money in the US. All of these have been in play
before at one time or another.
On the military side, Obama's
people will make their non-existent efforts to stop Iran's nukes
conditional on more concessions to terrorists. Since Israel will never
be able to make enough concessions and since Obama is working with Iran,
rather than working to stop Iran's nukes, this is a hollow charade.
Furthermore while Israel has already been locked out of the military
technology pipeline for anything cutting edge, it still remains
dependent on US military equipment for parts and supplies. The decades
of US foreign aid have also served to create dependency. Unlike many
other countries, including even Sweden, Israel does not have its own jet
fighter. Israel's Air Force is heavily dependent on US weapons, parts
and equipment. Cutting Israel off, would leave the Israeli military
dangerously vulnerable in the case of a war. This is an effective
chokehold that has been used before to prevent Israel from attacking
Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War, as well as preventing Israel from
carrying out a preemptive strike against its enemies before the Yom
Kippur War.
The overall Obama
policy will be to push Israel to the brink, using financial and military
blackmail against the Netanyahu government, while maintaining control
over American Jews to prevent any protests or backtalk.
The more
Israel will offer, the more the Obama Administration will tighten the
screws. No offer will be good enough, and Israel will be blamed for
every breakdown in talks and every bit of violence that takes place. The
media will portray Israel and particularly Netanyahu as extremist and
intransigent. Hamas will be slowly whitewashed in the media, the same
way that Arafat's goons were, (assuming that they prove more willing to
cooperate in creating a positive media image of themselves than
Ahmadinejad is.)
The plan is to destroy Israel, and to do it by
pushing Israel to the edge of the cliff and then over the cliff.
Israel's enemies will be getting top of the line US military equipment.
Israel will not. Israel will be squeezed economically until the
Netanyahu government collapses, leaving a weak left wing leader like
Livni in charge of Israel, and in charge of acceding to the new
Pharaoh's demands.
Meanwhile so-called American Jewish groups
will support Obama all the way, some because they were created precisely
for that purpose, e.g. J-Street, and others because they have been
hijacked, cowed or subverted.
That is the game plan and some of
it's coming. The rest is already here.