ISRAEL ONCE AGAIN AT THE BRINK -- Just A Minute Radio for Friday March 26th 2010

Goodness gracious – it’s FRIDAY! Another week in which I *thought* I might turn the corner…but It was not so.

 

As I did my usual poking around for the jist of the news that everyone else hasn’t trampled over… I came upon a couple of articles that caught my attention.  One was R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. who believes the worst book of the year award – of which he is the usual proclaimer – should go this year to Edward Kennedy, for True Compass – except Teddy’s deceased and Mr. Tyrrell avers it isn’t good form to make fun of the dead. 

 

Another one of the usual suspects was our ever-ready, gaffer-du-jour Joe Biden – who managed to make President Obama look stupid at the Health Care signing.  Editorialists will go absolutely bonkers if Joe should suddenly vanish from the scene or be effectively silenced by the boss. He is the most dependable comic subject on the tube.

But that did not happen either – we just can’t print what Joe was whispering into the President’s ear at a solemn occasion – managing to make it a solemn kerfluffle. However, I have come upon what I believe is hiding the President’s next move – And it is the subject of today’s JUST A MINUTE.

It appears the President is taking full advantage of all the smoke and fog shrouding the health care signing – and using that occasion as a cover for what amounts to trying to pull the plug on Israel’s attempt to negotiate at least part of the peace of Jerusalem.  It’s not clear this fortuitous collision of events was planned… but given the well-noted push the White House has put on, I think I see Bob Gibbs – the press secretary -- and other White House pronouncers squeezing the most they can out of the House doing re-voting and even perhaps re-re-voting to deliberately focus attention away from what’s happening in the foreground so you and I won’t notice the kind of treatment Mr. Obama is dealing out to Israel.

 

Experienced Middle East watchers say they’ve never seen the White House in such a mood – and it has Israel preparing for the call. My take is Mr. Obama does not recognize what a tinderbox the Middle East is or how easily he may occasion a conflict which could readily become a “hot” one … not a cold one.  I’m not a foreign policy expert – but one gets to be able to recognize hot spots… and this is one of them.  I have a good friend who assesses concerns about the Middle East.  Recently he asked *me* if Obama is the “Anti-Christ” – in all seriousness. My answer right now is: ‘I don’t know.’ But I surely wouldn’t go playing with matches around a Chinese firecracker warehouse.

 

May I still say – one thing -- This current rough patch of water renews the Word of God in my soul reminding me: God still can say “Peace be still” as Jesus did on Galilee and the men with him marveled.  That’s really no assurance to those who are trusting in men or riches or arms or whatever, to say Armageddon is just around the corner. At the same time the obverse is true: We simply do not know because the Bible tells us only that only the Father knows the day and the hour of His returning.  It is more than wise to get ready, in order to BE ready.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack Buttram

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

ISRAEL ONCE AGAIN AT THE BRINK

            Just a Minute: -- A health care bonfire blazing under the Capitol Dome distracts Americans from treachery at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The President is using the year long domestic contest as a smoke screen to hide his threat to Israel.

            Benjamin Netanyahu was virtually smuggled into the White House for the President to apply unprecedented unilateral pressure for Israel to make huge concessions even before any direct peace talks began. No questions no reporters permitted because the President already had called London and Berlin securing his European allies to back his call for Israel to halt building in Gaza

            President Barack presented Bibi with a virtual ultimatum, according to those in the know, to halt any construction causing Jordan’s King Hussein to say Israel “is playing with fire.”

            Up to now Mr. Obama has virtually disowned foreign policy, but now he’s verging on alienation or abandonment of America’a only friend and ally in the Middle East. Will we awaken some morning to discover America’s friend Israel is abandoned to the tender mercies of the surrounding Arab states?

            I’m Jack Buttram.

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