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Those American Jews who voted for Obama really should have thought about this before they cast their ballots:

Once U.S. foreign policy is based on moral equivalence — that a Western democratic state is about the same as an undemocratic, radical authoritarian entity that embraces terrorism as a tool of state policy — then anything is possible, from calling for Israeli nuclear disarmament as part of an Iranian deal, to pretending that a Hamas ten-year truce is something other than a decade of chest-thumping before the final assault.

Given the fact that the vast majority of American Jews voted for Obama — despite clear indications that he would embrace radical changes in U.S. policy toward Israel — the politics of what is to come will be as fascinating as they will be tragic.

And given the Obama method of grandly professing the opposite of the reality that will soon follow (most ethical administration nominees in history lead to Geithner, Richardson, Daschle, Solis, etc.; no desire to interfere in the private sector means near nationalization of the banking, car, and soon health-care industries; commitment to public campaign financing equals first candidate to reject it in the general election; strong desire for fiscal sobriety translates into a $1.7 trillion annual deficit; Bush shredding the Constitution means adoption of Bush’s wiretaps, email intercepts, Predator attacks, Patriot Act, Iraq plan, renditions, etc., and on and on), the tell-tale sign of the final U.S. break with Israel will be a dramatic Obama hope-and-change declaration that “our historic commitment to Israel will remain unchanged.”

When we hear that, we know exactly what follows…

The problem with doing the right thing is that it is always, at the start, much harder than doing the wrong thing. Its harder to tell a child he must study than to allow him to watch TV for an extra 15 minutes. Its harder to tell a shiftless brother that you won’t bail him out any more than to give him $100 “just one more time”. Its harder to deal with securing peace for democratic Israel than it is to reach an accord with undemocratic Islamo-fascism. Democracy, liberty, justice, mercy, truth – these are all difficult, messy things which require diligent effort and great patience…tyranny, slavery, injustice, cruelty, lying – these are all easy things which, in order to have done, one doesn’t even have to do them…just allow them to happen.

We’ve got an extraordinarily difficult problem in the Middle East. It isn’t a problem entirely of our own making. It isn’t a problem we had no hand in creating. It isn’t a problem which happened over night. It isn’t a problem which commends itself to easy solutions. It does, however, commend itself to a simple solution – the solution is to insist upon freedom. Freedom in Israel, freedom in Gaza, freedom in Egypt, freedom in Lebanon, freedom in the West Bank, freedom in Syria, freedom in Iraq, freedom in Saudi Arabia, freedom in Iran…once everyone in the area is free, genuine agreements for the long term regulation of Middle Eastern affairs can be entered in to. As long as any part of it is un-free, only the most temporary and expedient things can be done. In order to get from here (mostly tyranny) to there (entirely free) there is a long, difficult process to go through. On the other hand, in order to get to a “peace deal” all that is required is that Israel be ruthlessly pressured into agreement and then we just go along with whatever situation the enemy wishes to create as one step in their long process of destroying Israel.

For all of the time from the foundation of Israel to 9/11, American policy revolved around trying to make a “peace deal” – some set of agreements which would allow Israel to exist. The problem was that as long as the other party to the deal – the Moslems – were living under tyrannical regimes, there was really no one to treat with. In other words, people who don’t obtain their just powers from the consent of the governed cannot enter into a peace deal – not really. The next dictator might easily repudiate the deal and, as we’ve seen happen all the time, the dictator of the day just finds it too convenient to use Israel as an external enemy to justify internal tyranny. After 9/11, President Bush and others finally figured out that, come what may, the only way to have peace in the Middle East was to secure for our Moslem brothers and sisters God’s gift to mankind – freedom. In Afghanistan and Iraq, a large step forward was taken…and while it was being taken and before domestic, American anti-war efforts reached crescendo, the rest of the Moslem world was taking note of the changed circumstances and loosening up the grip of tyranny. Now we stand at the crossroads – the job stand about 1/4 done…what will Obama do?

The worry is that given his moral cowardice and lack of knowledge in this area that he will fall for the sirens of defeatism and “peace deal” regarding the Middle East. We know that Obama throws difficult problems and persons under the bus at the first opportunity and we know, just from reading his biography, that he doesn’t know about strategic and military affairs. Carried away by his own megalomania, he might think that the applause of France and the Arab League and the frightened agreement of Israel under pressure might be the real thing – that he’s bringing peace. If Obama pursues a peace deal as opposed to peace, then we might as well get ready to dig a lot of graves – peace comes from freedom, which allows justice to flourish…as our lefty friends say (quite mindlessly, as they don’t know what the words actually mean), “no justice, no peace” and there can’t be justice if most of the people in the area are held to bondage.