Delusion's Folds Are No Longer Comforting

I have long maintained that it is easy for Democrat presidents to bully Israel into coughing up ever more of its meager territory to its enemies in the name of "peace" for much the same reason that it's easy for Democrats to run up gargantuan budget deficits: they're doing it with other people's money (witness their own typically miserly charitable contributions and penchant for tax evasion).  Similarly, the territory Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and now Barack Obama try to force the Jews to hand over isn't theirs, and it isn't their national extinction that is being hastened.

Until now.  And Bibi Netanyahu is not going silently into that eternal darkness (via Newsmax Insider):

President Barack Obama’s recent overture to Iran constitutes a “sharp departure” from Israel’s position, the Jewish publication Forward observes.

On March 20, Obama issued a video greeting to the Iranian people and leadership stressing America’s commitment to resolve its differences with Iran through diplomacy.

“This process will not be advanced by threats,” he said. “We seek instead engagement that is honest and grounded in mutual respect.”

The overture “appeared to all but dismiss the possibility of military action,” and is contrary to the Israeli view that the threat of force should remain on the table when dealing with Iran’s nuclear program, according to Forward.

“This is a sharp departure from the Israeli position,” said Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council.

“The president’s approach is that diplomacy cannot work if there is a constant military threat.”

The publication cites Israeli sources and media reports who say that Jerusalem insists any American diplomatic engagement with Iran be limited in time and coupled with tougher sanctions, lest Iran use a prolonged series of negotiations to further advance its nuclear program.

Israel delivered that message to the Obama administration during recent discussions, including a March 16 meeting in Washington between Israel Defense Forces chief-of-staff Gabi Ashkenazi and Dennis Ross, the State Department special adviser expected to coordinate diplomatic efforts.

In any case, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, for the most part dismissed Obama’s overture. Addressing a mass gathering, he responded to Obama: “Have you stopped your unconditional support for the Zionist regime? What has changed?”

He did add, however, “We shall see and judge. You change, and we shall change as well.”

His speech was punctuated by the crowd’s usual chants of “Death to America.”

Israel's position has the peculiarity of being difficult to avoid, given their miniscule size (approximately the size of Delaware), their location in the middle of over a billion Muslims ranging from merely hostile to overtly bloodthirsty, and the leader of the latter category building an arsenal of nuclear weapons.  And even they took a Kaditha-led detour into the land of make-believe over the past few years, with a lost war with Hezbollah and Hamas and daily rocket attacks on their cities the best they have to show for it.

Sanity has returned to Jerusalem in the person of the aforementioned Reaganesque Prime Minister Netanyahu.  A man who understands, as few on the planet do, that "mutual respect" must be, well, mutual, and isn't generally evinced by inciting mobs to chant for your country's death; a leader who grasps that diplomacy with the mullahgarchy is flatly impossible, as the last several years of pathetic diplodiddling have embarrassingly demonstrated; and a Churchillian visionary who knows that military force is the only thing the Ayahtollahs understand, as we and the Israelis will find out when Ali Khamenie, whether directly or through Adolph Ahmadinejad, issues his nuclear ultimatum, perhaps punctuated by a demostration in Tel Aviv or New York:

Perhaps that's why Red Barry and VP Rogaine and the Empress and every other muckity-muck in the Obamunist palace guard snubbed General Ashkenazi.  And maybe that's what motivated Bibi to lay down the facts of life of preventing an Iranian-dominated Middle East:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is putting President Barack Obama and the world on notice: if nothing is done to stop Iran’s nuclear weapons program, Israel will be forced to launch a unilateral attack to destroy it.

The former commando – one of Israel’s most experienced leaders – made that clear in an interview given to The Atlantic magazine soon after the swearing-in of his new government Tuesday. The Jewish state views Iran’s nuclear program not only as a threat against its very existence, but also a destabilizing “hinge” point that could determine the fate of the West, Netanyahu said....

The new PM explained in detail to Goldberg why Iran should lead the Obama foreign policy itinerary:

First, Iran’s militant proxies would be able to fire rockets and engage in other terror activities while enjoying a nuclear umbrella. This raises the stakes of any confrontation that they’d force on Israel. Instead of being a local event, however painful, it becomes a global one.

Second, this development would embolden Islamic militants far and wide, on many continents, who would believe that this is a providential sign — that this fanaticism is on the ultimate road to triumph.

Third, they would be able to pose a real and credible threat to the supply of oil, to the overwhelming part of the world’s oil supply.

Fourth, they may threaten to use these weapons or to give them to terrorist proxies of their own, or fabricate terror proxies.

Finally, you’d create a great sea change in the balance of power in our area — nearly all the Arab regimes are dead-set opposed to Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons. They fervently hope, even if they don’t say it, that the U.S. will act to prevent this — that it will use its political, economic, and, if necessary, military power to prevent this from happening.

If Iran acquired nuclear weapons, Netanyahu warned, Washington’s Arab allies would drift into Iran’s orbit. Furthermore, several countries in Iran’s neighborhood might try to develop nuclear weapons of their own.

“Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons could spark a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. The Middle East is incendiary enough, but with a nuclear arms race it will become a tinderbox,” he said.

Feel free to disregard Bibi's lip service to B.O.'s empty words about stopping Iran's nuclear ambitions.  He's in that tightest of spots, being nose to nose with a nuclear mullahgarchy on one side and more or less completely dependent on continued American militay assistance on the other.  And the Little President enters the equation tilted far away from Jerusalem and toward her blood enemies, as his showering of billions on Hamas rather emphatically illustrates.

The bottom line is, there's no time.  If everything has gone according to plan, the Iranians will during this very month have enriched enough weapons-grade uranium for three nuclear warheads.  I would be astounded if the first two do not already exist.  Just recently Tehran launched a "communications satellite" into low Earth orbit, demonstrating their ability to deploy nuclear ordinance for an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack.  The conclusion is inescapable that America and Israel are already living on borrowed time, and the imperative to at least buy an additional buffer by flattening Iran's nuclear facilities via air strikes is critical.

Yet the Hussein administration frets that pre-emptive Jewish self-defense would be "destabilizing".  Not so much to the Arab states of the region, which fear vassalization at the mullahs' radioactive hands as much as Israelis fear atomization from the same demonic source, but to the "friends" they're trying to make in Iran.  You know, the ones who keep screeching "DEATH TO AMERICA!  DEATH TO AMERICA!"

And when Prime Minister Netanyahu is forced to make good on his threat (since, diplomatic niceties aside, he can't possibly be noodleheaded enough to believe that False Messiah's prostrating will do anything other than embolden the mullahgarchy even more), how will the Chicago Cherubim respond to the IAF fighting our battle for us?  By belatedly joining in the fight that we'll be inevitably dragged into?  At least keeping quiet, as the Bushies did when the Jews took out Syria's North Korean-built reactor a couple of years ago?  Actively condemning the Israeli air strikes?  Or, dare I broach it, taking military action against Israel on Iran's behalf?

Hey, Israel is a lot easier to get to than Iran.  Unlike the latter, with the soon-to-be-installed latest Russian air defense system, the Jews wouldn't shoot back.  And besides, everybody hates them already, so he'd be building political capital with "the world," right?

We've already witnessed that Barack Obama is a blind acolyte of a discredited philosophy that is little more than a mental disorder who is incapable of learning from his mistakes or even acknowledging them but is more than adept at throwing even close friends, allies, and confidantes under the proverbial bus.  Benjamin Netanyahu is not found in any of those three categories.  Which simply speaks to the dispatch with which Bibi must act, before the Groveler-in-Chief can pre-empt him and his country into the Ayahtollahs' radioactive hands.