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May 1, 2009
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| One of the Best
Each week we provide you with one of the week's most thought provoking articles. | |  An Israeli Surprise for Obama?
By Jim Hoagland
President Obama's national security aides are struggling to conclude a strategic review of U.S. policy toward Iran. The review is certain to be comprehensive, imaginative -- and largely silent to irrelevant on the most difficult choices about Iran that Obama will face over the next year or two. The review cannot be completed until Obama has what may be his toughest meeting yet with a foreign leader. That Oval Office session with Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's newly elected prime minister, will come in mid-May. Netanyahu's impressions of Obama's intentions on Iran will determine war-or-peace choices for the Middle East. The survey of American options on Iran forms a major part of the sprint that the president and his advisers have made toward the 100-day milestone they will reach on Wednesday.They have authored strategic reviews on Afghanistan and Iraq, dispatched special envoys to urgent trouble spots, and invited Middle East leaders to the White House to keep that region's flickering peace hopes alive. Continue Reading>> | | One that calls for a Response
Each week we take a meaningful quote, tie it to scripture, and leave you with a take-home. | |  Dr. Daniel Gordis, Senior Vice President of the Shalem Center said: Now, Israelis wonder if the Americans have quietly resigned themselves to a nuclear Iran. If Israelis become convinced that that is the case, it will be not Netanyahu or Lieberman, but American policy, which will have caused Israeli intransigence. For an Iranian nuclear weapon, even were it never used, would reverse the change in the existential condition of the Jew that Israel made possible. … An Iranian nuclear weapon would represent not only a failure of American deterrence, but the failure of the promise of Zionism, to create and sustain a Jewish state that could keep its citizens safe.
God says: “All your lovers have forgotten you; they care nothing for you; Therefore all who devour you shall be devoured, and all your foes, every one of them, shall go into captivity those who plunder you shall be plundered, and all who prey on you I will make a prey. For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the LORD, because they have called you an outcast: 'It is Zion, for whom no one cares!' … Behold the storm of the LORD! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked. The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intentions of his mind. In the latter days you will understand this.” (Jeremiah 30).
The Jerusalem Connection says: The first 100 days of the Obama administration gives a clear indication of what the future holds in terms of Israel’s relationship with the U.S. Basically, Israel is on its own if it does not bow to the wishes of America regarding a “two-state solution.” Even more sobering is the apparent fact that Israel must face the existential threat of a nuclear Iran alone. This will be our curse on Israel which will inevitably be followed by God’s curse on us. Indeed, “the fierce anger of the LORD” will be our reward. God has spoken, “I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you.”
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