Friends,
I write to you less these days. Less than I did during the Intifada, when buses were blowing up killing our children; less than during the wars with the Hezbollah and with Hamas. I write less because I have no words to express just how bad things are, how beyond imagination that the Jewish State has gotten to this point in its history. I write less, because I keep hoping against hope that all my fears about the new American administration were exaggerated, and that the 72% of American Jews who thought otherwise, including the 900 who left my list to protest my lack of enthusiasm for the Obamas, might be right. I keep waiting and waiting to be proven wrong. I really hate the fact that it was all so clear from the very beginning, and that we stepped right into it.
Rahm Emanuel, I was told by numerous readers, Obama’s right hand man, would never do anything anti-Israel. His father worked for the Irgun, for goodness sake! And look how many Jews Obama picked. Dennis Ross, etc. etc.
Now Israel sits with a nuclear bomb practically hanging over her head, courtesy of the biggest terrorist supporter and human rights abuser in the world, and what is Mr. Emanuel saying to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee? The unthinkable: “Thwarting Iran’s nuclear program is conditional on progress in peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.” As one of my listmembers wrote me: “The message is clear: America will bar any action against Iran unless Israel makes concessions to the Palestinian Arab thugs who seek to eviscerate all Jewish presence east of the Mediterranean.” I heard Hilary Clinton say the same. Israel will be forced into giving into Arab demands with an atom bomb hanging over her head.
Caroline Glick’s article outlines the demonic new American initiative. And who do we have to thank for this? The Israeli left who told the world “Israel wants to be raped.” And the American Jews who made believe they didn’t understand what they were doing when they voted in the present administration. My hope gets slimmer, but does not disappear. It cannot disappear. My hope is not in politicians. My hope is not in the people who got us into this mess, knowingly or unknowingly. My hope is in the God of Israel, who neither sleeps nor slumbers, and the many worthy citizens of Israel who deserve His help and guidance through these dark times. My hope is in the decency of the many lovers of Zion all over the world who understand what is happening around them, and will oppose it. Here is Caroline Glick’s clear-eyed analysis, for those of you with the stomach to understand what is coming our way. Read more >