Obama’s Doomsday Plan for Israel – A Terrifying Possibility

Israel and the United States need to get ready to thwart a terrible surprise.

At the moment there no such thing as an Obama Doctrine for foreign policy – but one may be coming and it could prove catastrophic.

I worry about bringing it up. It might give the President an idea he may have skipped, so it might be best to leave it unspoken.

What does Israel do when it is not Israel but Iran that has America’s back?
But we must approach the subject, like it or not, because the possibilities are staggering. In fact, I’d be surprised if it were not already the central part of the deal being manufactured between Obama and the ayatollahs toward an agreement that is entirely favorable to Iran regarding Iran’s nuclear program.

Favorable is one thing, but the cherry on the cake could be a feature, devastating to Israel, similar to the Doctrine imposed by President James Monroe in 1823, in which Europe was warned to keep hands off the Western Hemisphere. Otherwise, at any further encroachment, the United States would be bound to retaliate.

The Kennedy Doctrine was equally explicit as part of the agreement with the Kremlin that settled the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

It warned that an attack by Cuba against any Latin American country would be viewed as an attack upon the United States.

Could this be something in the works between Obama’s Administration and Tehran? The deal would read that an attack upon Iran, by any country, would be viewed as an attack upon the United States. Far fetched? Let us hope so. But nearly every part of Obama’s foreign policy is farfetched but happening.

Except for the clairvoyant (read this!) no one saw it getting this far – an American President abandoning Israel while embracing Iran, favoring a terrorist theocracy over an egalitarian democracy, and selling out Sunni partners for the Shiite monolith that is Iran.

So if that’s possible, anything is possible, including a mandate that forbids a strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities, and if such a measure failed to come from Obama’s negotiators, Iran’s ministers surely insisted, if I read the down cards correctly – cards to be out in the open any day now.

This Doctrine would be addressed against any country pondering deterrent action against Iran, but the message would be specific to Israel.

Israel is Mr. Obama’s pastime.

If you say an Obama Doctrine to exclusively protect Iran would need Congressional approval, trust Obama to find a way around Congress. He always does.

He has “a pen and a phone” and he has nearly two more years. He has all the tools and he has used these tools to putrefy the Jewish State.

The attempt to condition the general public has not worked. Americanssupport Israel. But for Obama, demonizing Israel is a work in progress. Nothing has stopped him yet, whether it’s getting even with America or settling scores with Israel. His remaining months in office are his for mopping up.

No doubt Israel has plans on the chalkboard to take out Iran’s nuclear encampments and has had these plans for years, ready to go at a moment’s notice.

But facing an imminent threat from Iranian missiles -- now what does Israel do when it is not Israel but Iran that has America’s back?

It is terrifying to consider such a doomsday scenario, and it is out of the question that we would ever face a head-on collision like this.

But Barack Obama is President of the United States and the unwelcome surprises keep coming one after another.

This one would be earth shattering. Israel’s finest minds need to think fast, just in case.

Or maybe it is simply this man’s nightmare. In that case forget everything I said and go back to sleep.

Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. The new thriller from the New York-based novelist, The Bathsheba Deadline, a heroic editor’s singlehanded war on terror and against media bias. Engelhard wrote the int’l bestseller Indecent Proposal that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. Website: www.jackengelhard.com

TOO MUCH INFORMATION

Yes, too much information, if you ask me. That’s why every single red-blooded American is watching West Virginia versus Kentucky.



Hey, it’s March Madness. That’s college basketball, to my relatives in Israel who mistakenly think that America is talking about Israel.


Not the case. Americans have other pursuits and can only absorb so much. Today we are being asked to learn how to spell Houthis – as in “Iran-backed Houthis” who are devouring Yemen. Are you kidding? Where is Yemen, by the way, and how did they sneak into the news? Last week there was no Yemen.


Who’s got the scorecard and who’s keeping score? Now it’s the Sunnis versus the Shiites. Can they tell themselves apart? We can’t.


Frankly, we don’t care. That’s what I keep telling my mishpacha in Israel. Relax. It’s okay. You don’t have to worry about pleasing us all the time.

We are on your side. Do whatever it takes to defend the Jewish God-given Land. Make no concessions. Build, build, build. Some good old-fashioned chutzpah is what we expect – and make sure to give Bibi the message. He had us and won us on “no two-state solution.” No backtracking!


America loves Israel. Don’t believe everything you read and never mind people like J-Street, that slimy crowd of lefty delinquents.
Remind him that’s it’s March Madness. Even Obama is watching. We don’t know who he’s rooting for – but it ain’t Israel, that’s for sure, although we hear that Israel has some pretty good basketball teams and maybe that’s the way to win him over, Obama, our president, the President of the United States, who has taken upon himself the Samson Option.


Some other time I will explain what I mean by this. For now, it’s enough to say that he simply does not care about his legacy. He does not care what America thinks of him and he certainly does not care what Israel thinks of him, which brings me to my next point about too much information.


Honest, we were getting quite comfortable around here when it was all about the Arab-Israeli conflict. What happened to this? This, we knew.

America needs an explanation. Please, what the heck happened to the Arab-Israeli conflict? Seems to have disappeared. Poof. Gone.


Now it’s Arabs against Arabs and we are totally confused and we do not know whose side to take. We don’t know the good guys from the bad guys. Can they all be good? I straightened all this out in this five-starbook that you should read while there’s still time. Can they all be bad?

We don’t even know the teams or the players. Explain it to us, please, it terms we can understand, like West Virginia versus Kentucky.


So now that “the Iran-backed Houthis” have entered our language, who are the other guys? Iran, those are Shiites, right? As for the Sunnis…


Never mind. Really, never mind. That’s what I mean. Too much. We know too much which means we know nothing.


But how is it that Egypt and Saudi Arabia are on the same side, more or less, with Israel? Hmmm?


That totally confounds everything we thought we knew about the Middle East. Worse, our cherished opinions are now utterly dashed and undone.

We knew exactly what to say when the subject came up about the good old reliable Arab-Israeli conflict and now? Now we’re stuck with this…


Now it’s the Obama-Israeli conflict. Oh yes it is and it has nothing to do with the United States. The rest of us want no part of this dispute. America loves Israel. This one is strictly personal between Obama and the Jewish State. Remind me not to say that Obama is peculiar about the Jewish State because it is Jewish.


I will say it again. America loves Israel. Don’t believe everything you read and never mind people like J-Street, that slimy crowd of lefty delinquents.

Those people don’t count. They are not real Americans. They don’t watch NASCAR and they don’t watch football or baseball. They are tenured sissies.


But the rest of America – we’re glued to the big game and we desire no further information on what’s really going on in the world.


March Madness is going on and the message to Israel is this – quit apologizing, quit explaining. Don’t retreat. Expand!


America loves a winner. That’s how we keep score. Act like one.

Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. The new thriller from the New York-based novelist, The Bathsheba Deadline, a heroic editor’s singlehanded war on terror and against media bias. Engelhard wrote the int’l bestseller Indecent Proposal that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. Website: www.jackengelhard.com

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Southampton Univ. Loud on Israel, Silent on UK Rape Epidemic

March 24, 2015

Apparently the British don’t care much for their daughters. That can’t be true. But I only know what I read in the papers.

So I’m reading that it’s beginning to dawn on British parents that their daughters are being sexually assaulted at a rate that can only be called an epidemic. 

Here’s a snippet:

“The scale of the abuse in Oxfordshire, a county in southeast England, mirrors similarly shocking accounts of the sexual exploitation of white British girls by Muslim gangs in Bristol, Derby, Rochdale, Rotherham and Telford, and implies that the problem is not isolated, but endemic.”

We expect this to be happening in Muslim countries like France, Denmark and Sweden. But the English speak our language.

My own introduction into the crisis came some time ago from a report about Rotherham, where the locals took it in stride, that their girls, some as young as 8, were being sexually molested by Pakistani Muslim men. People were afraid to speak up. They’d be labeled Islamophobic. So they let it go, and the raping of thousands continued. Read this for the timeliest drama about the clash of civilizations.

So now we know that Rotherham is not alone. The problem is widespread and you would expect some action to be taken.

Well, yes, absolutely, but not about that – how about this?

The University of Southampton does not have the time and does not wish to be bothered about the fact that its neighbors are being sexually violated. That it’s happening next door and up the street, so close tohome, well, well, dear, dear, but there is other business to attend to miles away – namely Israel.

Now the Jews, here is a problem that needs to be solved, again, and so it goes that Southampton, named among the top 10 UK universities, will be hosting a conference April 17 to 19, about Israel’s legitimacy. Does Israel have a right to exist and do the Jewish people have a right to live?

That is not the official wording of the program but it’s close enough and please don’t try to kid me. I hear what you’re saying but I know what you’re thinking.

Europe’s gone brothel again.

The program says that some of the finest anti-Semitic minds have been invited to present their views at the orgy, while pro-Israel speakers cannot be found.

That too is not the official wording, but I am trying to be of service beyond the formalities, which includes Oren Ben-Dor.

He is listed as a distinguished Israel basher and a leading self-hating organizer of this anti-Semitic flogging.

This is still Europe, you know. They remember Auschwitz, fondly.
That is not the official wording in the program. Officially he is a professor of law and philosophy at Southampton, which sounds like a nice job, but he wants more.

He wants Israel boycotted. So do all the other speakers, to a man, and woman. They all want Israel eliminated.

They won’t this say outright. That would be so impolite. But that’s what they mean. This is still Europe, you know. They remember Auschwitz, fondly.

They can’t deal with something happening in their own neighborhoods. 

Nope. Can’t be bothered, and who wants to offend Islamic sensibilities?

That could be trouble.

But Israel? Always open for business and no trouble at all.

Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. The new thriller from the New York-based novelist, The Bathsheba Deadline, a heroic editor’s singlehanded war on terror and against media bias. Engelhard wrote the int’l bestseller Indecent Proposal that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. Website: www.jackengelhard.com

THIRTEEN REASONS TO VOTE FOR NETANYAHU

March 15

As the result of his powerful speech before the United States Congress, Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu immediately surged to the top of the class. He became a World Leader and I agree with those who say that at the moment Netanyahu is the preeminent leader of the world.

Even if you do not agree with every comma, period and semi-colon of his leadership – a man like this does not come along every day.

To toss him out of office would be a terrible waste of a golden resource. Not since Golda Meir has Israel had a leader so admired throughout the world.

Netanyahu speaks, the world listens – can Israel afford to lose this voice?

To replace him with Yitzchak Herzog would be to replace him with a man nobody knows. Herzog would be starting from scratch.

Israel would be starting from scratch…so far as making Israel’s case before the nations.

So that’s reason Number 1 as to why it’s in Israel’s vital interest to keep Netanyahu (Likud) in office.

2. Netanyahu is a “worldly” leader. This means that he knows how the world thinks, how the world speaks – specifically when it comes to America. He knows our language, he knows our slang. He does not come across as some exotic potentate, but rather as one of us. This makes him readily identifiable as a man who shares our hopes and dreams. This is a man we can root for.

3. Like Theodor Herzl, he is “fit to meet with kings.” This is a prized virtue.

4. That he tends to be too worldly, as some argue, I would argue that with the eyes of the world so focused on the Jewish State, every step a minefield, an Israeli leader must know the skills of give and take – a time to be resolute, a time to relent. I too am not happy about Netanyahu’s building freeze or of some of his other concessions.

But I do not face the constant pressure coming from the international community. Netanyahu knows that what happens in Israel does not stay in Israel.

Next morning it ends up in The New York Times. See here for the bigpicture.

5. So Netanyahu understands how delicately he must maneuver to “bribe the devil” while keeping Israel safe.

Haaretz. This is theIsraeli paper that ran an op-ed that mocked Elie Wiesel for his “thin elderly body” and referred to Netanyahu’s Congressionalspeech as an appeal that mined “all that Holocaust jazz.”
6. None of his concessions in word and deed are as wild delusional as those being proposed by the Left, the Herzog/Livni ticket.

That’s the Party (Labor) being supported byHaaretz. This is the Israeli paper that a few days ago ran an op-ed that mocked Elie Wiesel for his “thin elderly body” and that referred to Netanyahu’s Congressionalspeech as an appeal that mined “all that Holocaust jazz.” 

Who in Israel can cast a vote for that!

And be sure of this – a vote for Herzog is a vote for Obama. Is this what Israel wants?

7. The economy is strong. In most countries, that’s all it takes to get someone re-elected.

8. Netanyahu has omitted or at least toned down any talk of a two-state solution. Establishing a separate state, an Arab state inside Israel – as the Left’s Amos Oz once again insists in Haaretz – is to invite ISIS inside Israel’s living room.

9. Instead, Netanyahu boldly proclaims Israel as a Jewish State and demands that the rest of the world, and Israel itself, recognize it as such.

10. No division of Jerusalem. To be honest, I do not know what he intends to do about the “West Bank” – Judea/Samaria.

11. But we know Herzog’s intentions. Along with his partner Livni, the wheeling and dealing has already begun.

12. I trust that there will be no drama about this from Netanyahu. Yes, I believe him when he calls Judea/Samaria a Biblical Trust.  

13. Netanyahu, as opposed to other Jewish leaders is not shy about connecting Modern Israel to her Biblical roots – the ultimate proof of her sovereignty.

Every time we vote we gamble. There is no such thing as a sure bet. But for a safe bet, Benjamin 

Netanyahu is the man.

Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. The new thriller from the New York-based novelist, The Bathsheba Deadline, a heroic editor’s singlehanded war on terror and against media bias. Engelhard wrote the int’l bestseller Indecent Proposal that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. Website: www.jackengelhard.com

Herzog, Hillary and No Promises To Keep Except Retreat

March 22, 2015

When no single candidate excites you, what do you get? Bill de Blasio is what you get.

About 80 percent of New York City’s eligible voters stayed home during the last mayoral elections, leaving the town wide open for a man already dubbed Gotham’s worst mayor in history, or as The New York Post calls him, and I quote so don’t blame me – calls him “Mayor Putz.”

Who’s even talking about New York? Not me. I’m talking about voters in America and in Israel who’ve thrown in the towel.

In Israel the only choice is Benjamin Netanyahu, not only because he’s a good guy, but mostly – have you seen the other guy?
In Israel the only choice is Benjamin Netanyahu, not only because he’s a good guy, but mostly – have you seen the other guy?

That would be Yizchak Herzog. Together with appeasement pal Tzipi Livni, Herzog is running a campaign based on the rallying cry of retreat.

When did retreat become a nation’s desirable destiny? I can’t think of any candidate anywhere stumping happily for surrender – except in Israel, where, at least in Tel Aviv, thousands gathered in support of Herzog/Livni, in other words, for moving the country backwards.

(Yes, I know. When the wartime shofar blows, Tel Aviv rushes to the front as courageously as the rest of the nation.)

Give the Arabs everything they want and you’ll be happy, goes the argument from the Labor Left.

Think small; I guess that’s the new creed among politicians vying for our love. No grand vision, not from today’s men and women who want our votes. 

Think small. Lie Big.

But in America, it’s the same deal. We have nobody, nobody that excites us when it comes to leadership. Maybe it’s just me.

I’m a Child of the 60's. I remember a politician who gave us a dream. Dreams don’t have to come true, but humans, we need something to keep us going, a grand design that promises us a future that will be better for ourselves and for our kids. Just thinking about it is enough.

Just give us a chance. That’s all we ask.

We cannot sustain ourselves with malaise, a concept that suffocates the spirit with the insistence that things will always be the same, or maybe even worse.

JKF promised us a New Frontier, a reinvigorated America, and we responded with a Space Program that got us to the moon.

Our generation walked a head taller because we were given a task. These few words set us on the path to greatness: “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” More here. We have nothing like that from this generation, neither in America nor in Israel.

Here in America, frankly, I don’t know what the hell we’ve got. Our politicians are so shallow or so corrupt that all we can do is shrug. There’s no choice but to say, what’s the difference? Hillary Clinton, for example, is both. She is both shallow and corrupt, but out of a population of 320 million, this is the best the Democrats have to offer. The GOP? Who can tell one from another?

From the men and women who run our country today, practically every word is a maneuver around the truth, a lie, and once again, we shrug.

On Hillary’s email scandal, even her most loyal supporters, like James Carville, can only can only submit: Yes, she’s corrupt. So what? (My interpretation.)

Where are the best…where are the brightest…nowhere to be found running for office.

The Democrats have no Kennedy and the Republicans have no Reagan and Israel, outside of Bibi perhaps, has no man of vision.

I say “perhaps” because here too, what’s the plan? What’s the dream? As Jews, it’s the dream that’s sustained us over the centuries. Moses’ dream was so strong that, for the love of his people, Israel, he said, “Okay, Dear Lord, if you destroy this people for being so stiff-necked, destroy me too. Erase me from your Book.” Wow!

We could use some of that stiff-neckedness today, instead of turning pansy. If not Moses, or David, we could use a Herzl.

Imagine any of them campaigning on platforms of retreat and slogans of surrender. Goodness, Herzl was full of vigor and statesmanship even without a state.

He had a dream and because of that dream he was “fit to meet with kings” and to gather millions to the cause of Zion.

Forty years in the desert we trekked in pursuit of a promise, to follow a dream. Did it pay off? You bet!

This leads me to quote this famous extract from the novel “IndecentProposal.” The PR director of a major casino is explaining why millions turn to gambling: “We give them the dream. We all feel that we’ve been cheated by life. Nobody is happy with what he’s got. That’s why they flock here by the millions, in pursuit of something better. That’s the human cry. We want. We need – something better, please.”

Without a dream, no way to run a life, no way to run a country.

Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. The new thriller from the New York-based novelist, The Bathsheba Deadline, a heroic editor’s singlehanded war on terror and against media bias. Engelhard wrote the int’l bestseller Indecent Proposal that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. Website: www.jackengelhard.com