Holocaust II: Coming Soon

Holocaust II: Coming Soon

This is a very disturbing piece by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann:

From Caroline Glick, deputy editor and op-ed writer for the Jerusalem Post, comes alarming news. An expert on Arab-Israeli relations with excellent sources deep inside Netanyahu's government, she reports that CIA chief Leon Panetta, who recently took time out from his day job (feuding with Nancy Pelosi) to travel to Israel "read the riot act" to the government warning against an attack on Iran.

More ominously, Glick reports (likely from sources high up in the Israeli government) that the Obama administration has all but accepted as irreversible and unavoidable fact that Iran will soon develop nuclear weapons. She writes, "...we have learned that the [Obama] administration has made its peace with Iran's nuclear aspirations. Senior administration officials acknowledge as much in off-record briefings. It is true, they say, that Iran may exploit its future talks with the US to run down the clock before they test a nuclear weapon. But, they add, if that happens, the US will simply have to live with a nuclear-armed mullocracy."

She goes on to write that the Obama administration is desperate to stop Israel from attacking Iran writing that "as far as the [Obama] administration is concerned, if Israel could just leave Iran's nuclear installations alone, Iran would behave itself." She notes that American officials would regard any harm to American interests that flowed from an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities as Israel's doing, not Iran's.

In classic Stockholm Syndrome fashion, the Obama administration is empathizing more with the Iranian leaders who are holding Israel hostage than with the nation that may be wiped off the map if Iran acquires the bomb.

Obama does, after all, represent the wing of the Democratic Party that regards Israel as the bad guy in the Middle East, the Palestinians as victims, and our pro-Israel policy as the cause of Muslim hatred of America. So it all makes sense that Obama would tell Israel that they need to learn to get along with Iran.

Now, there are several possible outcomes:

1. Iran launches a nuclear strike on Israel--a country that is so tiny that a relatively small number of nuclear weapons would make Israel cease to exist as a nation. The initial explosions would probably kill much of the population immediately, and much of the rest would die of aftereffects, or the inevitable slaughter by Hamas and Hezbollah.

2. Israel successfully intercepts at least part of the Iranian strike, and retaliates. This probably just means a few hundred thousand to a million Israelis dead, and probably millions to tens of millions of Iranians dead. The aftermath would likely be World War III, as Islamic cells and individual fanatics across the United States would respond with suicide attacks. Europe would probably be largely left out of this, because they will studiously refuse to take sides in such a matter.

3. Israel launches a pre-emptive strike against Iran to prevent Iran from developing nuclear capabilities. This May 24, 2009 AFP report indicates that 51% of Israelis already support such a pre-emptive strike, while the rest are still hoping that our government will somehow prevent this from becoming necessary.

4. Obama looks out for the interests of Middle East peace and America's strongest ally in the region, by making it clear to Iran that they drop their nuclear weapons program, or we'll let our snarling Doberman off its leash. This is obviously not very likely, since Obama's first loyalty seems to be to the anti-Semites that are such a large part of the Democratic Party.

This is a very disturbing situation developing, because Israel's very existence is being endangered by a man that received the votes of 80% of American Jews. Unfortunately, we have a very weird situation where American Jews seem to vote reflexively for Democrats--even when they are Democrats who are clearly hostile to Israel. David Bernstein over at Volokh Conspiracy pointed out a while back that much of this is driven by abortion rights--and that he suspects that it is actually a proxy for something else:

The polls show that some absurdly high percentage of Jews believe in strong abortion rights. And my anecdotal experience suggests that many Jews do consider opposition to abortion rights a dealbreaker for political candidates, elevating it about other considerations.

This is certainly not a question of Jewish tradition. Jewish law is not nearly as hostile to abortion as, say, Catholicism, but it is not exactly encouraged, either.

So why are Jews--even elderly Jews who live in states where abortion is protected by the political process--so concerned with the issue?

My guess is that they see abortion rights as a heuristic for "a (politically) secular society." They know that most political opposition to abortion rights comes from (Christian) religious sources, and so they associate such opposition with a mixing of religion and state, something that most American Jews are very much against.

I suspect that Professor Bernstein is correct about this--and what makes this especially weird is that American evangelicals are pro-Israel to a fault--prepared to make excuses for actions by the Israeli government that deserve a friend's corrective criticism. Yet it is becoming apparent that the preferred choice of American Jews in the last election is getting ready to let Israel be pushed into a corner from which the outcome is likely to be millions of dead, not just Israelis, but Iranians (many of whom do not support the mullah), Palestinians (who will be downwind of the fallout), Jordanians, and Syrians. The larger conflagration that results could easily cause tens of millions of dead.

When I reviewed Robert Ferrigno's Prayers for the Assassin in January of 2006, I expressed my belief that there were parts of the future that it envisioned that just didn't seem plausible. It's amazing how much has changed in just three years: a man named Barack Hussein Obama is in the White House--and he has apparently told Israel that we're not going to use military force to prevent a genocidal maniac from getting a nuclear weapon--and they aren't allowed to do so, either.

Time to get my radiation survey meter recertified.