Unfortunately, our weak, woke hapless Prime Minister Binyamin Bibi Netanyahu has relinquished our sovereignty to American President Donald Trump. We never hear Bibi forcibly and confidently objecting to Trump's plans, deals and demands reminding him that he is President of the USA, and he has no authority over Israel. Actually, I don't think we hear anyone in the Israeli Government say that we're not property of the United States.
Israelis, whether politicians, officeholders, journalists or just plain citizens should be protesting in every way possible about American interference in our security. The USA is not a loyal ally. Its government and policies change with the wind, depending on the moods and priorities of its politicians, military and bureaucrats.
Please remember well that when former US President Harry Truman ordered the American UN Ambassador to vote in favor of Partition for a Jewish State and a few months later officially recognized the State of Israel, he was forcibly defying the State Department's directives.
American Government bureaucracy, like the Israeli, considers itself superior to the elected executive and legislature. That is actually what the attempt for Judicial Reform was about. Bibi didn't fight for it, nor taking down the Defense Department's glass ceiling, because he needs the support of the bureaucrats to stay in office. He's not a fighter. He loves the limelight, but his true power is much smaller than people think.
Back to Trump and his deals...
Donald Trump is a business man, a real estate mogul. He's neither a military man, a theologian nor a historian. Bringing true peace to "the Middle East" is 10,000% different from developing Manhattan's West Side and turning a dangerous deteriorating slum area into a beautiful, popular upper-middleclass neighborhood. Turning a muddy Manhattan shoreline into an attractive park walking distance from new lovely, attractive apartment houses takes totally different skills and mindset compared to turning terrorist Gaza into a peaceful society.
Poverty isn't the reason for the popularity and dominance of terrorism in Gaza. Gazans could grow their own food, plus for export if they wanted to. But they don't want to and they don't need to. Most of the outside world wants to see them as "starving," so instead of using their energies and manpower for farming and industry, as the Jewish residents of the very successful Gush Katif did, they prefer "charity" so they can use their energy and money to attack Israel in the cruelest of ways.
Think about it.
And back to the fiction that a deal can end a war...
Would a "deal" have stopped Nazi Germany or Japan?
Nope!
4 comments:
Batya
I am in total agreement with what you have published and I am very, very disappointed in
Bibi
And of course, Trump
Thanks for replying. I'm glad you agree. Trump isn't our official, and in all honesty, he's totally out of his league when it comes to war and terrorism. He's a businessman who thinks that everyone can be bought. Bibi is the same Bibi he has always been. He wants to be liked by Americans, part of his childhood as a foreigner in the states. As I've said many times, I heard him in 2008 saying he'd rule as a "centrist," which means-- no guts, no vision.
Was it today Bb said he refuses to accept the 15 point plan. Hopefully he can back up his words. Trump is not presidential material. He was a reality show host. Some deal he has made: basically giving everything to Iran. He began the war with the goal of ridding g Iran of their nukes. Now he is ready to cut and run leaving his only true ally to hold the bag. He is an incompetant. Being a billionaire who knows how to threaten and bully his allies, subsequently alienating and isolating the US isUS is not what we would expect from a US president. I agree wholeheartedly Batya. : Trump is out of his league and the Iranians are outmaneuvering him and making a fool of him. As for Bibi, I agree. He thinks like an American. Forgot he lives in the Middle East where the rules of the game are not applicable using American logic. He needs to quit but the problem is who is eligible to do a better job?
Thanks for writing. Yes, it's a confusing time. I've been around for a very long time. I'm certain that, maybe not immediately, there will be an excellent replacement for Bibi, probably not from the veteran Likud MKs. Bibi is dangerous. We've been at war for years with him as Prime Minister. Victory is impossible with his woke "warnings." The terrorists lock their opponents in the buildings to die and they escape to kill more. Bibi has destroyed more Jewish homes and young communities. He has Shabak persecute young Jewish pioneers. How can anyone think he's good?
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