Benjamin Netanyahu: Leader of the Free World
Written on Tuesday,
November 20, 2012 by J. Matt Barber
There has been much talk of late about America’s “fiscal cliff.” As
troubling as our impending (Obama-spurred) economic collapse may be – and it is
more troubling than even our most pessimistic economists are willing to admit –
I’m even more concerned about
fast-mounting
tensions worldwide.
tensions worldwide.
As the world government ship of fools drifts unmanned amid a sea of
unparalleled global volatility, we, her passengers, behold – brewing on the
horizon – an economic and foreign relations “perfect storm.”
As so often is the case, the hurricane swirls around the Middle East. Historically,
the president of the United States has captained the ship. He has, heretofore,
been duly regarded “leader of the free
world.”
Not now. Not with
Gilligan reaching for the helm.
Indeed, the current occupant of the Oval Office spends more time with his feet on JFK’s Resolute desk than he does leading from behind
it.
But “leading from behind” he
does.
More commonly known as “following,”
President Obama’s follow-the-leader strategy in the Middle East represents, in
my view, either inherent weakness on his part, sympathy toward the Islamic
cause or both.
I suspect both.
Indeed, during his first term, Mr. Obama betrayed both weakness
personified and sympathy toward the goals of Islamic fundamentalism with his
ongoing embrace of the Muslim Brotherhood.
This extremist
group, with Obama’s help, now controls much of the Arab world. It has sworn, in
its own words, to “destroy” our “Western civilization from within … so that it
is eliminated and God’s religion (Islam) is made victorious over all other
religions.”
Not surprisingly, today the Brotherhood rushes to the aid of both the
terrorist group Hamas and Holocaust denier Mahmoud Abbas, head of the
Palestinian Authority. This, as terrorists ramp-up
decades-long rocket
attacks and suicide bombings against innocent Israeli women and
children.
Nonetheless – and clearly stemming from a cynical political calculus –
Mr. Obama persists in paying shallow lip service to support for Israel. All the
while he continues to play footsie with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Recall that, just last year, the president
touted the “Arab Spring” – which any high school history buff
could have predicted would devolve into the utter chaos it has – as “an extraordinary change taking place,” wherein,
“Square by square, town by town, country by country, the [Muslim] people have
risen up to demand their basic human rights.”
(You know, like the
Quran-given right for Muslim men to beat or kill women and homosexuals with
impunity; or like the human right for both Iran and the Palestinian Authority
to “wipe Israel from the face of the
earth.”)
Whether due to
naiveté, foolishness or pure dishonesty, President Obama’s bungling of the
Middle East crisis – let alone his unprecedented attacks on our constitutional
freedoms stateside – has disqualified him to lead the free world.
And so, Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu has stepped forward to answer the call. He has become de
facto leader of the free world – chief defender of Western
civilization. As America’s light fades under the Obama regime, Israel has become – for now at least – “the
shining city on the hill.”
With a nuclear Iran perhaps only months away, Western civilization needs
defending now more than ever. Israel needs defending now more than ever.
Consider these words from top Hamas cleric Muhsen Abu ‘Ita: “Annihilation of the Jews here in Palestine is one
of the most splendid blessings for Palestine.”
Thus, Israel defends herself. Israel defends the free world. To be sure,
the worldwide Islamic juggernaut has become emboldened by the actions – by the
inaction – of a sympathetic, do-nothing U.S. president. Muslim terrorists have,
as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) recently noted, “turned Gaza into a frontal base for Iran, terrorizing residents of
Israel and forcing them to live under unbearable circumstances.”
Yet, inexplicably, many in the West – people Vladimir Lenin might have
called “useful idiots” (i.e.,
“progressives,” mainstream media and moderate American Muslims) – willfully suspend
disbelief. They play directly into the blood-soaked hands of these terrorist
cowards.
Having time and
again demonstrated a willingness to sacrifice their own innocent people
(consider child suicide bombers), these monsters today both deliberately target
Israeli neighborhoods with rockets and intentionally place their own military launch sites and terrorist
headquarters next to mosques, playgrounds, factories and the like.
This, as intended, has created a propagandist boon. Much of the world
blames Israel when these human shields are tragically killed during pinpoint
military strikes. Who needs missile defense when you have women and children to
hide behind? To both the Israeli and the
Arab victims of radical Islam, I say this: You are in our thoughts and our
prayers. Our hearts break for you. We pray that God will cover and protect you
during these dark days and nights.
To Benjamin
Netanyahu I pledge this: Mr. Prime Minister, Christian America thanks you for
your bold leadership. We thank you for being the lone voice of freedom in the
Middle East.
Sir, you, too, are in our thoughts and our prayers.
America stands with
Israel.
We demand our
president do the same.
Matt
Barber is an attorney concentrating in constitutional
law. He serves as vice president of Liberty
Counsel Action. (This information is provided for
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