Obama can only cope and seethe, because his plan for the Middle East was to use the IRGC and the threat of its nukes as an American proxy to bully Israel into capitulating to maximalist Arab territorial demands. So his legacy is total junk now because:
1. His successor, Trump, put in place the Abraham Accords, which divide the Arab opposition to Israel instead of dividing Israel against itself. These accords are here to stay, since they survived the bloodiest war of the entire Israeli-Arab conflict. No war of similar scope is really in prospect for the next 50 years, and the economic and military ties continue to deepen.
2. Sinwar’s folly brought about the collapse of the IRGC, its proxy network, and its nuclear programme as an existential threat to Israel. Israel is now too powerful, too unconstrained, and too independent of US support to allow that threat ever to reconstitute itself. So the lever in Obama’s plan is gone, and even if some Obama heir enters the White House in 2029, they will not have the leverage over Israel they need.
3. Equally, just as the threat Obama wanted to dangle over Israel to soften it up in negotiations with the PA and Hamas has been neutered by the successes of the last three years of war, the people of Israel have hardened against territorial compromise. Israel is a democracy, so its people have a collective veto on any such compromise. There is absolutely no chance that the younger generations of Israelis, who will run the country until the end of this century, will be tempted into the same kinds of compromises their elders made in the 1990s and 2000s.
This is well deserved, since his plan to allow the millenarian psychopaths of the IRGC to reach the nuclear threshold to try to “Free Palestine” risked the future of humanity. He played dice with Armageddon in the name of Third Worldism. In a century, everyone will understand that, but find it hard to believe.
Add Obama to the long list of losers of the October 7 War.
We have contributed to the world and humanity in countless fields, earning an impressive number of Nobel Prizes along the way. Unfortunately, we have not yet found a cure for stupidity, ignorance and hypocrisy displayed by @IrelandFootball team coach. We’re not playing with ignorance, hypocrisy and stupidity, We’re playing against the coach who embodies them.
Stadium owners pulled the ONE lever they have: telling musicians that renting a venue does not mean they get a captive audience for an unsolicited political tirade. And now famous musicians with private jets, millions of followers, and sold-out tours are somehow the most oppressed people on earth. Amazing. Please everyone pour one out for the two most oppressed ethnic groups: Palestinians and Pop stars.
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Leftists: Death to America, Mao Zedong was awesome, terrorism is good
Normies: OK I don't want you on my side
Leftists: Why do you oppose universal health care
What’s likely? That all your totally normal liberal Jewish friends suddenly “love genocide” or that Israel’s Islamist neighbors bent on its annihilation used propaganda to paint Jews as uniquely evil, literally the exact playbook every Jew-hating society has used for millennia?
I find it odd that I’ve hosted over 100 episodes of a show about Jewish identity called “Being Jewish” and have never once begun a statement, “As a Jew…”
Yet folks who’ve made their Jewish identity solely about hating Israel seem unable to start a sentence without it. 🤔
I’m a lifelong Democrat. I believe the Trump administration poses a growing threat to our democracy. I also believe the DSA poses a fundamental threat to both the Democratic Party and America.
If Democrats want to be seen as the party of patriotic Americans committed to building a better future for everyone, they must unequivocally condemn and distance themselves from the DSA’s anti-American bigotry.
We Democrats rightly condemned the Republican Party’s accommodation of the January 6 insurrectionists. We should hold ourselves to the same standard by unequivocally rejecting candidates, including DSA candidates running on Democratic ballot lines, who advocate dismantling core constitutional institutions and democratic norms.
I will be blunt. I have been a Democrat since I’ve been old enough to vote, over 30 years.
But I have been Jewish all my life.
If Bernie, AOC and the DSA want to force me to choose between membership in the Democratic Party or in the Jewish community, I choose my community
Israel made peace with Egypt in 1979, and hasn’t attacked it since.
Israel made peace with Jordan in 1994, and hasn’t attacked it since.
Saudi Arabia never attacked Israel, and Israel hasn’t attacked Saudi.
Maybe Israel just defends itself against enemy belligerents.
Wow, now Iran’s regime and Egypt have objected to Seattle’s Pride Match and urged FIFA to remove Pride-related symbols.
This is exactly what I’ve been warning about: authoritarian Islamists never stop at asking for tolerance.
First: “Respect our religious practices. Respect our customs. Respect our sensitivities.”
Then: “Change your traditions. Silence your values. Adjust your society to our ideology.”
These are the same “values” that sentence women to 74 lashes for singing, execute gay people, and shoot peaceful protesters in the streets.
Free societies should never surrender their values to appease authoritarianism.