Abandoning Israel

July 27, 2015

3 min read

Jim Fletcher

In a terrific little book by Michael A. Ledeen, Obama’s Betrayal of Israel, we learn firsthand how the ideology of the American president has placed our top ally in peril. Ledeen writes:

“Subtly shifting American policy toward Israel is not a matter of political calculation by President Obama, but rather an expression of his own convictions.”

It is instructive for prophecy students to understand that the president’s rigid ideology is rooted in an abandonment of Scripture as, Robert Dick Wilson said, “the rule of faith and life.”

Obama’s 20 years sitting under the deeply anti-semitic Jeremiah Wright, at Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ, gives him a worldview every bit as entrenched as those he openly loathes, that is, Christians like me and you.BIN-OpEd-Experts-300x250(1)

It is important to note, too, that all this is organic. That is to say, leftist ideology is embedded in the DNA of one who embraces it. I had a private message Twitter exchange this week with Andy Stanley, in which he called me right-wing, while not acknowledging that he is left-wing. It is no accident that Stanley (yes, I know he is Charles Stanley’s son) has been invited twice to deliver prayers at Obama’s inaugurals, and that Michelle Obama spoke at Stanley’s North Point Church.

Leftists shift truth, massage communications, spin. Obama is as smooth at this as is Andy Stanley. Where Israel is concerned, Obama is openly menacing.

Perhaps his most outrageous (public) breach in relations with our true ally in the Middle East came last year, when the president held up needed munitions Israel was using to conduct a defensive war against Hamas.

What kind of person ties the hands of an ally, as that ally’s citizens are being targeted by jihadists?

American Jewish leaders are beginning to wake up to just what is occupying the Oval Office. Not long after Obama began to fundamentally transform America, Alan Solow, president of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, criticized Obama for demanding that natural Jewish growth in east Jerusalem come to a halt.

(It is interesting to note that a relatively new Jewish neighborhood, Yemen Moshe — it is indescribably beautiful, with its priceless real estate, stone dwellings, and colorful gardens — is right on the edge of east Jerusalem, just opposite Jaffa Gate in the Old City. If he had his druthers, I have no doubt Obama would give it to the Palestinians.)

There have always been alarming clues as to Obama’s true views of Israel. In 2001, he personally attended the ceremony awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Mary Robinson, who had herself presided over the notoriously anti-Semitic conference in Durban, South Africa.

The guy does this all the time.

The ultimate show of narcissism from the American president comes in his blatant disregard for prophetic scriptures that point to a disastrous decision on the part of “the nations” when they come against Israel. Obama does not in any way believe in predictive prophecy from the Bible. In fairness, I don’t think George W. Bush saw it our way, either. Otherwise he wouldn’t have advocated dividing the land.

Obama, though, has immersed himself in the radical policies of too many Jew-haters, including Wright and the Palestinian Authority. Although it’s easy to see, Obama’s anti-Israel stance is still too hard to believe for some major media figures. One gets the feeling though that people like Charles Krauthammer and Britt Hume understand exactly what Obama is all about.

One of Obama’s Chicago buddies, Rashid Khalidi, was summed-up by Martin Kramer, with regard to America’s role in the Middle East:

“There is no cause that could ever justify an American use of force in the Middle East…it is America’s use of strong-armed force — and the parallel violence of Israel — which have provoked the counter-violence of the extremists. If America were to give up its bullying ways, and address the ‘grievances’ of Arabs and Muslims, the latter would regain their respect for America. There are no pathologies in the Middle East that haven’t been caused by imperialism, and no pathologies that can’t be cured by displays of American humility and penitence.”

You see, of course, that Sherman is outlining what Khalidi, and by extension, Obama, believe about America and Israel.

It isn’t good.

I sound like a broken record, but sometimes a record needs to be broken: as bad as Obama is, God is infinitely stronger and in total control. We simply have to ride-out this bizarre moment in history.

Some of us won’t abandon Israel. Ever.

Reprinted with author’s permission from Israel Watch

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