Friday, August 12, 2011

Will Obama administration attempt to default aid to Israel?

After Obama's speech calling upon Israel to retreat to the eggshell "pre-1967 borders," I am more convinced that he is likely to withhold aid from Israel than had been the case previously. While I have long believed that Israel would be better off if it could wean itself off foreign aid, a cutoff because of Israeli refusal to retreat to militarily indefensible boundaries (and redivide Jerusalem) is going to lend legitimacy to those who seek first to force Israel back to those indefensible boundaries, and then proceed to finish Israel off from there. If Israel is forced into that position, then not only will the fires of radical Islamism not be defused, but they are likely to be turned up to unprecedented levels - and the world as a whole is likely to suffer through scenarios of a sort that are nightmarish to contemplate.

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