Most NY reps silent as O widens gap with Israel

Whether through cooperation from the mainstream media, or overt action, the Obama administration has continued its sometimes-childish “war” on the Jewish State and Prime Minister Netanyahu.

It started last Tuesday with the White House leak machine. This time it wasn’t exploiting Jeff Goldberg to call the Israeli Prime Minister “chickensh-t,” nor did it use the New York Times, a White House tool, to bash Israeli Ambassador Dermer. The latest leak was through the Washington Post’s David Ignatius who, acting as a White House spokesman, accused Israel of leaking details of the lousy deal Obama was wrapping up with the Iranians. The problem is, the approximate outline of the deal has been public knowledge for months by way of Iranian sources.

According to Ignatius, citing an administration source, “Mistrust between the Obama administration and Benjamin Netanyahu has widened even further in recent days because of U.S. suspicion that the Israeli prime minister has authorized leaks of details about the U.S. nuclear talks with Iran.”

If Ignatius bothered to do a Google search, he would have seen that three months earlier, on Nov. 4, the Los Angeles Times reported the substance of a pending deal similar deal to the one Bibi was reputed to have leaked. And the Los Angeles Times reported the deal as leaked through “a website approved by the Iranian government.” 

Later last week, NBC News released a slickly produced cartoon-like video about the charges faced by Netanyahu and his wife over excessive household expenses. I don’t recall NBC News producing cartoon videos about any other foreign leaders accused of spending too much on personal expenses. Not even one on the Palestinian leaders who have taken billions of foreign aid and deposited the money in Swiss bank accounts. It is no surprise that President Obama’s relationship with NBC News  (which runs MSNBC) is closer than with the other networks. 

According to an Associated Press report on Friday, “the White House is mulling ways to undercut Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming trip to Washington and blunt his message that a potential nuclear deal with Iran is bad for Israel and the world.”

The AP continued:

“There are limits. Administration officials have discarded the idea of President Barack Obama himself giving an Iran-related address to rebut the two speeches Netanyahu is to deliver during his early March visit. But other options remain on the table.

“Among them: a presidential interview with a prominent journalist known for coverage of the rift between Obama and Netanyahu, multiple Sunday show television appearances by senior national security aides, and a pointed snub of [AIPAC,] America’s leading pro-Israel lobby, which is holding its annual meeting while Netanyahu is in Washington, according to the officials.”

The President is acting like a high school girl who plans a party on the same night as her chief rival’s festivities and invites all the same people — just to ruin her rival’s party.

But on Monday, the Obama attacks on Israel went from childish to very serious. 

Over the weekend, the Iranians published a 129-page memorandum they claim is one of about 100 copies distributed by the Institute for Defense Analysis while under contract with the Pentagon in 1987. The report titled, “Critical Technology Assessment in Israel and NATO Nations,” claims that Israel’s nuclear facilities were advanced enough for them to formulate, design and build nuclear weapons. The Israelis were “developing the kind of codes which will enable them to make hydrogen bombs. That is, codes which detail fission and fusion processes on a microscopic and macroscopic level,” the report states.

According to Veterans Today, there are sources in the Pentagon who believe it was President Obama who ordered the leak of the documents. Veterans Today sources report that release of the documents was in reaction to Netanyahu’s impending Congressional visit.

Also on Monday, the AP broke news that may explain why the President is trying so hard to silence Israel. The deal being negotiated by the U.S. and Iran would allow the rogue nation to build nuclear weapons toward the end of the agreement, possibly anywhere from 10 to 20 years from now.

The idea would be to reward Iran for good behavior over the last years of any agreement, by gradually lifting constraints on its uranium enrichment program imposed as part of a deal that would also slowly ease sanctions on the Islamic Republic.  The U.S. initially sought restrictions lasting for up to 20 years; Iran had pushed for less than a decade.

The frightening element both to Israel and to the U.S. (now that the Russians are selling Iran long-range missiles) is that the way the deal is being structured, if Iran plays nice, the nuclear restrictions drop off toward the end of the agreement.

“If the sides agree on 15 years, for instance, the strict controls could be in place for 10 years with gradual lifting over five,” according to the AP report. “Possible easing of the controls could see Iran increasing the number of enriching centrifuges back toward the 10,000 or so it now has operating, and increasing the level of enrichment while keeping it well below levels approaching weapons-grade.”

In other words, at the end of the deal, when a different President is in office, the Obama deal will allow the Iranian nuclear program to be right back where it is now, with one exception: There will be no sanctions on the terrorist-supporting nation.

With everything the Administration has been throwing at the Jewish State, it’s hard to understand how supposed supporters of Israel such as Senator Chuck Schumer and Long Island Rep. Steve Israel have remained silent rather than telling their Democratic Party colleagues that Bibi’s speech is a must.

Over the past few weeks, the only Long Island and New York City member of Congress who has spoken out against Obama’s criticism and actions against the Jewish State is Lee Zeldin, the Jewish Republican who represents eastern Suffolk County. The rest of our Representatives and Senators have abandoned Israel to worship the golden calf of party politics.