Where is Elijah When you Need Him?

If I could be a Jew I would proudly declare it. But since I am a Christian who considers himself ‘grafted’ onto the olive tree, let me proudly declare, that the nation of Israel is part of the miracle of Prophecy and that the ‘millstone’ promised to its enemies is one Prophecy the United States should not try to ignore. That Christ wept over Jerusalem should not escape this ‘Judeo-Christian’ nation.

For the rest of you in the United States, who are not proud Jews or Christians, I hope you are at least willing to admit to the vast wealth of institutions founded on Judeo-Christian principles, and for which this nation has been blessed. Our laws, arts and charities abound from these blessings. God has never been so estranged in this nation, nor from the world, as He is now.

The United States seems more and more confused as to its sense of direction, its purpose for being and its identity. Can it be any surprise that its newest president is likewise confused?

I can’t think of any traitor in history who was not confused. In fact, Balaam, Hezekiah, Judas, Barbara Streisand, George Soros and Rahm Emanuel all seem to share a common character trait. They all have exhibited a treacherous indifference to the common welfare of their race. They are all morally confused and ambiguous regarding their loyalties.

Balaam tried three times to curse the new nation of Israel at the behest of a rival king. Hezekiah tried to buy his security from the Assyrians by wrongly assuming that bragging about Israel’s riches and offering them a high tribute would assuage them from a military invasion. Judas turned Jesus over to the Romans by identifying him with a kiss. Some historical scholars think the thirty pieces of Silver was a sign of the treacherous contempt as well, because it was then only the going price for a slave, not the price for someone like Jesus.

Barbara Streisand repudiates nearly every Jewish settlement as an affront to ‘world peace’. George Soros is by his own admission a Nazi war criminal who helped capture his Jewish Neighbors and kept some of their belongings in payment. And now, Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s Chief of Staff, and apparently a stand-in for Hillary as head of the State Department, is assailing Israel with a poorly calculated assertion that, “In the next four years, there will be a peace agreement with the Palestinians on the basis of two states for two peoples, and it does not matter to us who is the prime minister.”

Personally I am not surprised to hear this. The calculations of cause and effect, which comprise history, do not afford many exceptions for the results of treachery, either to one's race, one's family or one's faith. It seems today as always, Jews are as much confused about their degrees of loyalty to their heritage as they are about God. Perhaps this is the root of their dilemma. It has been an expensive task for the nation of Israel to keep its own times and customs, but it has always been of benefit to the World.

That nation which has been blessed by another nation, must always be abundant with reciprocity. This is the true spirit of Peace. This is how successful civilization progresses. History provides no model of Peace whereby the sponsor has benefited by the weakening itself before a proven enemy. There are no guarantees from any Palestinian entity in this century, which have been honored long enough to be considered genuine. Israel is still daily under rocket and mortar attacks from the territories it “gave up” for peace.

Israeli outrage at Rahm’s comments is justified. His own father was intensely involved in preserving the Jewish State, and now his son could not be more indifferent. After all, being a 'token Jew' in the Obama white house and a big shot spokesman who can sample canards of pithy threats at the Jewish government, has its advantages.

Obama has a demonstrated penchant for disavowing the words of his supporters when necessary. He enjoys a nearly complete mastery of deniability and can thus test the waters with the toe of Rahm Emanuel without even the slightest tickle of accountability regarding his ‘true’ regard for Israel.

I expect that if this statement reaches some three million viewers on the Fox Network, Obama will have a teleprompted response within twenty-four hours, (or however long it takes his staff of three hundred or so to agree on the same verbiage), declaring the longstanding relationship with Israel and with the same smile he recently gave to Chavez, remind everyone his efforts are for Peace.

Cut to back light, show profile, swivel to the right . . exit with shoulders straight and head high . . . It will be a trademark execution of Obama political rhetoric and a performance we will all have to get used to over and over again, for the next few years of his term.

Don’t be fooled by Rahm's statement. The White house does care who is the Israeli prime minister. Ehud Olmert has proven to be an abysmally week leader, (and thus more useful to Obama), and has allowed so much terrorist activity to go unchecked for so long, one can easily imagine him agreeing to a ‘two state’ solution.

“Thank you Jimmy Carter,” for writing the Obama approved mid-east play book, and also for your newest book, reminding us all how well you dealt with the 'problem' of Israel.

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Benjamin Netanyahu on the other hand will not roll over so easily. In fact, he is publicly announcing that he intends to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, and Israel’s airforce will need to fly and refuel over Iraq to accomplish this.

The United States has a substantial military presence in Iraq.

Can a confused president who attacks republicans with more conviction than he does this nation’s harshest adversaries, really be counted on to not bungle this opportunity to ‘let’ Israel accomplish what will buy the United States and even the world, more time to hold back a despotic and insane terrorist regime from using nuclear weapons?

I doubt it. Obama is more likely to bow, and bow low. If the symbols of Christ are to be covered for the sake of Islam in Georgetown University, if he accidentally refers to his Muslim faith, if he must publicly announce, without qualification, that the United States is not a Christian or Jewish nation, how will he ever defend Israel?

He won’t.

Milton