To Say Friend That She Is Clever

Parallel to telos

Obama and Eisenhower: Some Parallels

Yoav J. Tenenbaum



Jerusalem Post Historical comparisons must be made with caution. No two events are identical. The risks of the historical analogy is as numerous as its benefits. Anyway, compare events in history can clarify and sharpen our understanding of the phenomenon under discussion.



In this spirit, it is possible to make a comparison between the new policy toward Israel of President Obama and pursued by President Dwight Eisenhower and his administration from 1953 until 1957 when it also changed the orientation of U.S. policy toward Israel .



The similarities are striking.

Eisenhower and his secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, a policy conceived as warm to Israel at the same time he was very friendly towards the Muslim world.



Upon assuming the presidency in the midst of the Cold War, the new administration sought to build coalitions aimed at thwarting further progress of communism after the fall of Eastern Europe and China and the invasion of South Korea by Korea North.



the early '50s, those taking decisions in the U.S. and Britain feared that the Soviet Union invaded the Middle East, without mentioning the political infiltration, which sought to prevent forging partnerships in the region.



Eisenhower and Dulles believed that a closer relationship with the Arab and Muslim countries was necessary. To achieve this, a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict was considered essential. Reach an agreement meant painful concessions. Israel agreed to make these concessions, it was pressure.



addition, the policy of retaliation against terrorist attacks from Jordan and Egypt was seen as an obstacle to reaching that agreement. Israel must be persuaded, pressed indeed to adopt a policy of moderation.



To be sure, ask Dulles believed that moderation was not enough if Israel did not propose any alternative for Israel to feel secure. Israel is not felt safe in the first half of '50. Actually felt very at risk, diplomatically and militarily cornered attack. His neighbors were adamant in their refusal to acknowledge its existence, let alone negotiate a peace with him. The policy pursued by the Eisenhower administration only served to make sense of isolation was more acute.



PURPOSES 1954, was conceived by the U.S. and Britain a peace plan. The so-called Alpha Plan, among other things, demanded that Israel make territorial concessions in the Negev, accept a territorial corridor on its sovereign territory to link with Egypt and Jordan to accept some refugees Arab.

vigorously opposed Israel.



Following the victory of Israel in the Sinai Campaign of 1956, Eisenhower considered imposing sanctions if it refused to withdraw from recently captured the Sinai Peninsula.



In the eyes of Eisenhower and Dulles, the existence of Israel must be reluctantly tolerated. Dulles said, though in different words. Eisenhower himself said he did not know if he had been in favor of the establishment of the state if he had been president in 1948. However, now that was a fact, USA was accepted.



The goal of his administration was clear: get the support of Arab and Muslim countries in order to confront the communist threat. To achieve that, USA should remove any obstacle on the road.



In the context of the Cold War, there was no need to ingratiate themselves with Israel. Your support in any future conflict with the Soviet Union assumed. Israel was seen as an asset to be reinforced, but as an obstacle to be mitigated.



British diplomats in the early '50s were sometimes shocked by the hostility of U.S. officials to Israel, even in minor matters that would not have much meaning in the context of the broad interests U.S. in the Middle East.



Certainly, Israel is a nation more powerful than it was in the '50s. Today, circumstances in some respects, quite different from those they were then. However, it is hard not to make some comparisons between the new policy adopted by the Obama administration and the new policy pursued in the 50s by the Eisenhower administration.



way, both Obama succeeded Eisenhower as president known for his different approach to the region and Israel in particular: Harry Truman and George W. Bush. The parallels that can be done, then, are deeper than can be at first sight.



The author lectures in diplomacy program at the University of Tel Aviv.

porisrael.org Translation: Joseph Blumenfeld
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Fatty Knees Sailboats

Lies and half-truths: Obama in Cairo
Horacio Vázquez-Rial




All Spain has learned the president of the United States makes historical errors

half a millennium. Of course, this time the thing went without much fuss

because Obama is not Bush or Jeb Bush

talking about the English Republic, or any other Republican

confusing Mexico with Colombia. The claimant was allowed to pass many things, most of them.



ignorance of political leaders who, with few exceptions, usually

cosmic is sometimes offset by the knowledge of the drafters of

speeches, which in this case is a young novelist and failed to

even appeared at the wikipedia when I get quotes in writing for the

boss.



But the problem is not universal ignorance of

a graduate of Harvard, where, moreover, chaired the Harvard Law Review, but in the

magnitude of deviations politicians. Two women as fully ignorant

instinctively like him have discovered the truth: Cristina Kirchner,

say that although he does not know, Obama is a Peronist, and Leyre Pajin, the

Peronist equate with the smile that we rules. And I found evidence

a link sent by my much-loved and admired Ana Nuño,

referring to a note by Toby Harnden, editor of information on American

Telegraph of London, where for once it is
analysis
truth content of the 56 minute speech, besides that of my respected

Arcadi Espada, which focuses in the pastoral style of the president.



Consider what Obama said, according to Harnden's article, I summarize and glossopharyngeal

:



- "Given our interdependence, any global order

rise to a nation or a group of people over others will inevitably fail "End



what Tocqueville called" American exceptionalism. " In Strasbourg,

Harnden said, when questioned on the subject, Barack Hussein replied:

I believe in American exceptionalism, as I suppose that the British believe

British exceptionalism and Greeks believe in

Greek exceptionalism ", something that reveals his profound ignorance of

concept. Harnden says that the president and reduce the American leadership.

And I say that not only confirms that this modest analyst said

from Madrid and in campaign: Obama has been put there by a

establishment that is not even mainly American-see composition

shareholder General Motors or any other large company

find dimensions and Asian capitals
amounts
unexpected - to destroy the United States the world knows

since 1776, with the nation that Lincoln consolidated in the Civil War, thinking naively

most likely slaves

wish to return to Africa.



- "I know there has been controversy about the promotion of democracy in

recent years, and much of that dispute is connected with the war in Iraq

. Let me be clear: any system of government can

or must be imposed by one nation to any other "



Obama is a Taliban of multiculturalism: how would it not be, if it allowed him to

reach the White House, and to graduate from Harvard with

more advantages than any student wasp?



He is a product of affirmative action and disregard

regarding the contents of other cultures: why would

now say otherwise? No one should impose anything on anyone. Neither Iraq nor the United States with extreme

argument, the Allies to Germany. All this after a week

visit Auschwitz and that he would never forget what was there

learned: is it necessary in 2009 to visit Auschwitz to see what was the Shoah

?



- "I'm Christian, but my father came from a family in Kenya that includes

generations of Muslims. As a child I spent several years in Indonesia and

azaan heard the call at the crack of dawn and dusk"



Besides being a dangerous idiot can not imagine a single Muslim

fascinated by these statements, which put Barack Hussein into apostasy. What

believe this man?, You ask. What will convince us that we

same? No, to preach in the Middle West for what it is: a Christian

. However, I am convinced that

establishment chose him for being a Muslim.



- "Around the world, the Jewish people were persecuted for centuries, and

anti-Semitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented holocaust

(...) On the other hand the situation (...) Palestinian people is intolerable "



This, Harnden says, is dangerously close to moral equivalence. No, dear

Harnden, not about: it is. And when you least expect, if consultants

White House are like the guy who wrote this speech, we see the president

converge with his English friend planetarily in the use of

Arafatian keffiyah. As amply demonstrated in recent times

ignore the two-state solution is even prior to birth

Israel, and that was a condition accepted by Israel and rejected by the Arabs

in 1948, should at least This gentleman, for the position you occupy

touch, know who are the common enemies of American and Israeli

. Unless, of course, that is anti-Semitic, a possibility that all

discard. Or does anyone think that being black is

guarantee anything?



- "The government of the States America has gone to court to protect

the right of women and girls to wear the hijab, and to punish those

deny it "Harnden



contains a critique of the left and a right this phrase

The first has been stated by Peter Daou: "With women stoned,

kidnapped, raped, beaten, mutilated and massacred every day around

the planet," as our president can say about it is

that protect your right to wear the hijab? ". The commentary from the right is

Stephen Hayes:" In Saudi Arabia, women can not drive. In Iran

are suspected of stoning for adultery. In Pakistan

politicians publicly defend honor killings of young women who have had the audacity

choose their husbands. "Zapatero, for all we know or assume

, became president. Danielle Mitterrand no thanks to God.

Obama is the level of what was French president's wife.



- "I am honored to be in the eternal city of Cairo", to which

added that President Hosni Mubarak is a "stabilizing force"



ignored, of course, the way that Mubarak agreed power,

repudiated the struggle of the (few) Arab Egypt for democracy and

legitimized the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist groups. And

forgot who was in one of the world's countries with the highest number of

political prisoners (and worse) in the world.



- "Although I think the Iraqi people are better, in short, without the

dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, I also believe that events in Iraq have reminded

the need to use American diplomacy and build

international consensus to resolve our problems whenever possible

"



Worth Zapatero. Hussein had to go, but I hate that it has been necessary

war. Coherent also what not to impose a system of government

other nations.



- "In the United States, standards for the exercise of charity

make it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligations.

is why I am committed to working with American Muslims for

ensure that they can make zakat

Commentary

David Frum: "It is more difficult for Muslims

to legitimize American charity. What is difficult is getting it to

terrorist groups. Is the president suggesting that relax these restrictions?



The program seems to be to say that we have nothing against Muslims

. Because the starting point is that they have nothing against us in excess

misunderstanding. Pure Alliance of Civilizations, Peronism

American weakness and forgetfulness. Faced with this, so what

the Caliphate of Cordoba and the Inquisition are separated by a few years?

Moreover, the conception itself Islamic history, as it had enough to explain

Bernard Lewis, is the timelessness.

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Trace Unknown Name Unknown Number Calls

Lies and half truths I will have a million friends

I want to have a million friends
By Aníbal Romero


El Nacional
As in all regard to President Obama, it is imperative to strive to move beyond rhetoric to the essence of things.

With regard to his speech last week in Cairo, already fully aware of swimming against a current huge blind adulation, argue that it was a room full of deliberate lies and falsifications, and that behind the lofty phrases are political decisions that will be harmful to the West, the U.S. and Israel.

First, by arguing that "No system of government can or should be imposed on a nation by another," Obama threw the trash can the policy of promoting democracy and freedom, lied about the story (as in Germany and Japan democracy was imposed war), he silenced the thousands of political prisoners in Muslim countries, and undermined the fight of camp fighting for gender equality, religious freedom and democratic existence. No wonder the "Muslim Brotherhood", the most radical and powerful radical Islamic sect in Egypt, praised Obama for recognizing "the righteousness of our cause," however, his speech was boycotted by the courageous Egyptian democracy movement "Kifayah! "(" enough ").

Second, in stating that "No nation should select which others have the right to possess nuclear weapons," Obama confirmed his acceptance of the Iranian nuclear program. Despite the euphemisms under those still trying to hide, I am personally convinced that Barack Obama has already admitted the early conversion of Iran in nuclear power (military), and that diplomatic moves being carried out are directed to minimize the possible impact domestic (U.S.) to generate the Iranian atomic bomb. The time will tell whether I have reason.

Third, by focusing the weight of the tensions in the Middle East in Israel's settlements in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, Obama sided with the radical Arab and Palestinian reinforced, blaming Israel for the absence of peace in region, without taking into account that the Palestinians have never accepted Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state. It seems clear that Obama is ready to push Israel and try to bend it, and that Israel must be prepared to experience hard and difficult tests in the times to come.

The "realism" of Obama is a sham ideology based on the thesis that the U.S. and the West are guilty of the evils of the world. Obama even gave the adjectives "terror" and "terrorism" in his speech, and referred to the perpetrators of the attacks of September 11 as "violent extremists." Obama has taken the whole course of Third World victimization of the global left, self-flagellation in a systematic way in a sort of permanent campaign, implemented globally and supported on a stage dazzling, now trying to hide the new political substance behind fireworks. But the true face of Obama will soon appear. It is not a statesman but a irresponsible "showman."

readers may remember a catchy song from a few years, tirelessly repeating the phrase: "I want to have a million friends." Obama should assume it as his theme presentation. The problem is that friends who only survives in ambiguity. For now Obama wants all their friends are. Arousal from sleep is unpleasant. Courtesy

Jorge Cohen

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