Do Israelis Really Believe America Will Still Help Them?

A generation or two ago, Israel could count on help from the United States in both diplomacy and war.  Israel was touted as a beacon of democracy in an otherwise barbaric region of Soviet vassal states.  At least some presidents (Reagan, certainly) held Christian views about supporting Israel.  But the tide has turned.  Especially during an Obama presidency determined to empower Islam, Israel can at best be expected to stand alone.  The rift between the nations is portrayed as a personal rift between Barry and Bibi, but how much will that actually change if Israel elects a new leader tomorrow?

As Bassam Tawil writes for the Gatestone Institute:

"There is about to be a mistake. The only country in the region of which all the other countries are envious -- for opportunity, equal justice under law, freedom to speak without the 2 a.m. knock on the door -- has an election this week. Its citizens are tired of war -- right on schedule for its enemies' plans to destroy it. The Israelis are meant to be tired of war; that is why it is called "a war of attrition."

"The Israelis, of course, will vote for whomever they wish, but if they are voting with the thought that a new Prime Minister will save their country from being turned onto roadkill by the current U.S. Administration -- the world's next Sudetenland -- and that their current prime minister has been the problem, they have a nasty surprise coming. Everyone else has been lied to, misled, double-crossed, and tossed over the cliff – especially the American people themselves. The problem is not in whoever is Israel's Prime Minister. The problem is three thousand miles away, in a leadership that cares only about following in the footsteps of Neville Chamberlain returning from Munich: waving around a dangerous, illusory, non-existent "peace in our time." To the current U.S. leadership, Israel is just the next Sudetenland."

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