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<\/p>\n Recently, on my radio show, Congressman Eric Cantor of Virginia,<\/span><\/p>\n the Republican Whip, argued that President Obama seems largely unmoved by domestic concerns, particularly when it comes to jobs and the economy. The President is a foreign-policy addict, even as the finances of the average American family crumble all around him. The example Cantor cited was telling In delivering an Oval Office speech about the end of combat operations in Iraq, the President tacked on an unrelated mini-speech about the need to now focus on unemployment and America’s crumbling finances. So far so good. Yet the very next morning there he was on television conducting a summit of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The President’s inability to sustain a consistent focus on jobs and <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n I arrived in Israel on Sunday evening and was suitably impressed, as usual, with its never-ending, rapid progress. Israel’s highways, for now rival anything the United States has to offer. Its economy suffered from the global recession, unlike the United States which remains worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. While Israel is a recent CBS news poll showing that a staggering 65percent of all <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n But whose interest is served in this effort? Certainly not the United <\/span><\/p>\n But how realistic is that? Come November Obama is probably going to <\/span><\/p>\n Two weeks ago Time magazine ran a cover story on why Israelis not wording of the cover made it sound as if Israel is the obstacle to truth of the matter is that I made the same argument in the pages of <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n South Korea is in a perpetual state of conflict with its northern neighbor <\/span><\/p>\n Has anyone tried to broker a peace between Cuba and the United States <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n I recognize that President Obama would reject these analogies because he believes in linkage, that solving the Israeli-Arab conflict is Middle-Eastern peace and that Islamic militants use Israeli check points <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Really? Netanyahu and Abbas shake hands and the Taliban soldiers slowly return to their homes? Or will they just find another pretext, as simple as a clown of a pastor threatening to burn a Koran, or New Recently, on my radio show, Congressman Eric Cantor of Virginia, the Republican Whip, argued that President Obama seems largely unmoved by domestic concerns, particularly when it comes to jobs and the economy. The President is a foreign-policy addict, even as the finances of the average American family crumble all around him. The example Cantor cited…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion-and-spirituality","category-values"],"yoast_head":"\n
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\nthe economy – which frankly seems to bore him – explains why the
\nRepublicans are set to trounce the Democrats in the mid-term elections which
\nwill make Cantor, the only Jewish Republican in the House, the youngest
\nmajority leader since 1947.It also forces us to ask the question of whether the
\ninterests of the United States are served by this latest American foray into the
\nsnarled world of Israeli-Arab relations.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\ninstance, <\/span><\/p>\n
\nno effects <\/span><\/p>\n
\nmired in the <\/span><\/p>\n
\nbooming like never before, the United States is suffering like few times in its
\nhistory, with <\/span><\/p>\n
\nAmericans believe the United States is in ‘serious decline.’ Ye tour President,
\nencumbered as he is already with the war in Afghanistan and increasing Iraqi
\nviolence, feels the need to add to his burden the gargantuan task of
\nMiddle-East peace. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nStates who will gain no brownie points with either the Taliban or Al Qaida even
\nif it were to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace. Like wise, Israel’s
\ninterests seem hardly served by this latest effort given that any peace treaty
\nwith Mahmoud Abbas will not placate Israel’s far more serious enemies of Hamas,
\nHezbollah, and their patron Iran. In other words, this peace will not bring
\npeace. And yes, I understand that Prime Minister Netanyahu is probably thinking
\nthat if he submits to Obama’s pressure to make concessions to Abbas the United
\nStates will do more to pre-empt a nuclear Iran. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nbe a lame-duck president, with both Republican and Democratic pollsters
\npredicting a Democrat thrashing of epic scale. If a strong Obama, whose party
\ncontrols both the House and the Senate, has made next to no progress on Iran,
\nare we to believe that a miniaturized Obama will suddenly loom large in Iran’s
\neyes?<\/span><\/p>\n
\ninterested in peace. Many Jewish Americans were aghast and accused Time of an
\nanti-Israel bias it has sometimes demonstrated in the past. Now granted the <\/span><\/p>\n
\npeace. But the <\/span><\/p>\n
\nthe Jerusalem Post more than a year ago when Dan Senor and Saul Singer’s excellent
\nbook on Israel, ‘Start Up Nation,’ was published. In essence I argued that
\nIsrael needed a new narrative. Not the tragic nation that was engaged in a protracted
\nstruggle with Arab enemies whom Israel was always begging for peace, but rather
\na nation who is known primarily for its booming economy and one of the most
\nprosperous high-tech sectors in the world. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nand has had, for more than a half century, tens of thousands of American troops
\nstationed on its border to protect it from North Korean aggression. But President
\nObama has not endeavored to end the stalemate and create a lasting peace. Why?
\nBecause everyone recognizes Kim Jong Il as a ruthless, nuke-obsessed Stalinist dictator
\nwith whom it is impossible to make any progress. So South Korea moves forward
\nwith one of the world’s most robust economies, preferring unity with the North
\nbut being realistic about its possibility.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nor do we simply accept that so long as Castro and\/or his brother continue a
\ndictatorship the possibility of peace is impossible and American sanctions will
\ncontinue.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nthe key to broader <\/span><\/p>\n
\nas rallying cries for recruitment.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nperhaps something <\/span><\/p>\n
\nYorkers opposed to a mosque at Ground Zero, to recruit all over again.<\/span><\/p>\n
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