Obama to Israel: Nuclear deal with Iran is “our best bet” – but “we’ve got your backs”
“If anyone messes with Israel, America will be there.” This was the main message US President Barack Obama had for Israel in his New York Times interview with Thomas Friedman Monday, April 6. He was trying to fend off the constant stream of criticism coming from Israel, as well as Washington and the Gulf, of the nuclear framework deal the US-led group of world powers shaped with Iran in Lausanne last week.
“I respect Mr. Netanyahu’s security argument and agree that Israelis have every right to be concerned about Iran,” a country that has threatened “to destroy Israel, that has denied the Holocaust, that has expressed venomous anti-Semitic ideas.”
“But what I would say to them is that not only am I absolutely committed to making sure they maintain their qualitative military edge, and that they can deter any potential future attacks, but what I’m willing to do is to make the kinds of commitments that would give everybody in the neighborhood, including Iran, a clarity that if Israel were to be attacked by any state, that we would stand by them.”
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If Obama won't back them up NOW, diplomatically, when no funds or weapons or American soldiers' lives must be sacrificed - why should Israelis trust that Obama would back Israel militarily after an Iranian First Strike? If right now, when it would be easy to insist that before Iran can have a nuclear weapons program, they simply need to acknowledge Israel's right to exist as a nation - and Obama won't even pressure them to do that much - why would anyone trust him to have their back later under much more difficult circumstances?
Even Sunni Muslims like Saudi Arabia's leaders don't trust Iran (as Iran has also threatened to destroy Saudi Arabia) and a Sunni coalition has formed to fight Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen - with Egyptian and Pakistani forces helping the Saudis. Egypt let an Israeli warplane fly over Egypt on a mission to Libya recently. The Saudis have said Israel could fly over Saudi Arabia to attack Iran if necessary. It has been rumored that US officials said that if Israeli jets fly over Iraq to reach Iran, the US will shoot them down.
And even if the US could be counted on to back Israel and defend it after an Iranian attack, what would be left to defend? Back when the US could be counted on, and the US was focused on communist enemies and determined to contain them, our allies in South Korea counted on the US "having their back." Even when we did, they still saw about 90% of South Korea overrun by communist invaders before a US-led coalition eventually achieved a stalemate after three years of war. (And in South Vietnam, the costs proved too high for America to have their back forever - and "our side" lost. I wonder how many South Vietnamese fought valiantly to defend their freedom, only to be executed after America eventually abandoned them.)
If I were Israeli, I would much rather have reasonable restrictions on Iran now than to hope Obama would love Israel enough to accept thousands of dead US soldiers to protect Israel after a war begins. What would be so unreasonable about insisting that Iran must stop supporting terrorists across the world, recognize Israel as a nation, and stop chanting "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" before the world will allow them to develop nuclear weapons?
Of course, Obama may have other motivations that lead him to be hell bent on empowering a nuclear Iran. I think Bible prophecy clues us in to current events. If interested in my analysis - which could explain Obama's policies - Read
Antichrist 2016-2019: Mystery Babylon, Barack Obama & the Islamic Caliphate