Obama's Coming Break With Israel

Dear Mary,
A Washington Post headline this week shouted, ³Obama¹s Next Earthquake.²

Those words appeared over an editorial by Jackson Diehl, the Deputy Editorial Page Editor of one of America¹s most prestigious newspapers. What was this coming ³earthquake?² The answer lies in the headline of an article that appeared on the same day in another online magazine:

³Obama¹s Coming Break with Israel.²

Both pieces are talking about the likelihood that the United States is about to add its support to a United Nations resolution designed to force upon Israel a disastrous two-state solution to the Palestinian issue.
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Why now? According to these articles, it is believed that President Obama and his advisors were willing to wait and see if their efforts to get Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voted out of office would succeed before proceeding in the UN.

Having failed in that effort ‹ indeed with Prime Minister Netanyahu¹s conservative coalition having been strengthened in the recent elections ‹ it is believed that the Obama administration is prepared to take more drastic action against Israel.

Drastic is the correct word. As Diehl stated in his op-ed, ³Obama¹s initiative would set off an earthquake in U.S. foreign relations and for Israel¹s standing in the world.² He also wrote:
³There would be other effects, of course, among them an unprecedented breach in U.S.-Israeli relations and a vast acceleration of the global movement to boycott and sanction the Jewish state in the likely event it resisted the U.N. terms. But judging from Obama¹s demeanor in assailing Netanyahu last week, the president might welcome that legacy, too.²
In other words, if Israel rejects the peace terms imposed on it by the UN ‹ and it must if it wants to survive ‹ then effort to turn the Jewish homeland into a pariah state will gain enormous ground.

These are volatile, dangerous times for Israel and for the world.

That¹s why, here at Jewish Voice Ministries, we¹re standing stronger than ever in our support for Israel and the Jewish People. And we¹re using every medium at our disposal to educate, illuminate, and persuade others.

We¹re also passionate about keeping you and others informed about these developments and equipped to live prudently and victoriously in these volatile Last Days.

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To the Jew first and also to the Nations,


Jonathan Bernis
Jewish Voice Ministries International