JPost Columnist Caroline Glick: Prepare for war

A terrible scenario in the Middle East is becoming clearer and clearer. The radical, and rabidly anit-Israel, states are near the point of no return in developing serious weapons capabilities. This mostly applies to Syria and Iran, but these two nations may have armed the terrorist groups Hamas (working within Israeli territory) and Hezbollah (working in south Lebanon) with hundreds of scuds and tens of thousands of other missiles. These could decimate or at least cause serious damage to Israeli cities in an attack.

Remember, Israel is smaller than New Jersey. It's like living in San Jose and the people of Palo Alto have missiles aimed at you. (More on this here.)

So, unfortunately, Western nations have turned a blind eye to this situation, and Israel now stands alone to confront terror at its borders and beyond, in the case of Iran.

And it would seem that keeping the peace is fraught with complexity, but the case for war is simple: there is no way Israel can afford to let terrorists states acquire terrible weapons and give them to their terrorist, stateless proxies.

Peace movements are great - but only when there are two reasonable sides in a conflict. When one side simply wants the other dead and gone there is no peace movement or treaty that will do anything about that.

The brilliant Caroline Glick, at the Jerusalem Post: Time to plan for war

Quotes:

"The repeated abdication of responsibility by the Obama administration from preventing nuclear non-proliferation leaves it on Israel's shoulders."

"...diplomacy is no longer a relevant tool for preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power. Appeasement has failed. Sanctions are dead in the water in the Security Council."

"THE US abdication of its responsibility as the leader of the free world to prevent the most dangerous regimes from acquiring the most dangerous weapons means that the responsibility for preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons has fallen on Israel’s shoulders. Only Israel has the means and the will to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power."

"Syria and Iran have armed Hizbullah with some 40,000 missiles and rockets, including hundreds of Scud missiles and guided surface-to-surface solid fuel M600 missiles with a 250 km. range. This week, Hizbullah threatened to attack Israel with non-conventional weapons. Syria itself has a formidable chemical and biological arsenal as well as a massive artillery and missile force at its disposal."

"These are dangerous times. Iran, which seeks to position itself as a regional superpower, has been emboldened by the Obama administration’s abdication of US global leadership. Only Israel can prevent Iran from endangering the world. But time is of the essence."

Two Huge Tells In One Week by Obama

Did anyone else notice, that within one week Obama made friendly overtures to Iran, and was rebuffed, and received friendly overtures from Israel, and rebuffed them.

In one week he tried to make friends with enemies, and make enemies of friends.

It's difficult to destroy foreign policy that much in one week, but we as able to.

Syria's Dictator Openly Mocks Sec. of State Clinton

Every day this administration becomes more of an embarrassment. They're lucky they're Democrats, otherwise this would be all over the media.

From Mona Charen on NRO: Mostly Hope : Optimism is not a foreign policy, as recent events have shown.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did make one request though — that Syria reciprocate for these gestures by distancing itself from Iran. Last week, Bashar Assad responded. Hosting Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in Damascus, Assad ostentatiously signed a treaty of friendship with Iran and said of the secretary of state’s request, “I find it strange how they talk about Middle East stability and at the same time talk about dividing two countries.” Further mocking her, Assad joked, “We must have understood Clinton wrong because of bad translation or our limited understanding, so we signed the agreement.”

John Bolton Speaks Out Against Monkey Boy

The Great Monkey Boy of Iran recently spoke at the UN. Again.

Let me guess at the gist of his speech: "Those vile pig-dogs want to keep us from our peaceful dream of wiping Israel off the map."

Here's something to think about as a real possibility in the future... Iran gets nukes. Iran gives one to Hezbollah suicide terrorists. Said terrorists load it on a boat, and motor up to the shores of Tel Aviv. Boom. No Tel Aviv. Boom, boom. Israel answers back. The world tries to avoid premature Armageddon...

This is a distinct possibility. And yet the UN and Europe are drunk on leftist ideology, complacent in their immorality, and resolute on doing absolutely nothing to make the world safer. Barack Obama thinks he'll miraculously solve this problem by personally talking to the Monkey Boy leader. Apparently, Mr. Obama has something to say that no one else has thought to say before to the terrorist state.

And now, here's Johnnie...




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Syrians Seek Russian Missles

The Syrians are in Moscow, ready to ink a deal to get missiles and create a defense pact.


The potential missiles that Russia could deploy there - the Iskander - are no joke.

I wonder how many recall that it was Soviet Russia that that was the catalyst for the 6-Day War in 1967, between Israel and an alliance of Arab states. Michael Oren wrote an incredibly detailed and engrossing book about it.
The Soviets lied to Syria and the world about a massive Israeli build up of troops that didn't exist.

This is why the Georgian-Russian conflict is so critical and why we report on it often. Russia apparently will go to almost any lengths to assert itself as a major world power - and their actions so far are completely analogous to Cold War behavior. This has major implications for what kind of world we're going to live in in the future.