Israel shocked by Obama’s “betrayal” of Mubarak

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Conservative Byte

If Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak is toppled, Israel will lose one of its very few friends in a hostile neighborhood and President Barack Obama will bear a large share of the blame, Israeli pundits said on Monday.

Political commentators expressed shock at how the United States as well as its major European allies appeared to be ready to dump a staunch strategic ally of three decades, simply to conform to the current ideology of political correctness.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told ministers of the Jewish state to make no comment on the political cliffhanger in Cairo, to avoid inflaming an already explosive situation. But Israel’s President Shimon Peres is not a minister.

“We always have had and still have great respect for President Mubarak,” he said on Monday. He then switched to the past tense. “I don’t say everything that he did was right, but he did one thing which all of us are thankful to him for: he kept the peace in the Middle East.”

Newspaper columnists were far more blunt.

One comment by Aviad Pohoryles in the daily Maariv was entitled “A Bullet in the Back from Uncle Sam.” It accused Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of pursuing a naive, smug, and insular diplomacy heedless of the risks.

Who is advising them, he asked, “to fuel the mob raging in the streets of Egypt and to demand the head of the person who five minutes ago was the bold ally of the president … an almost lone voice of sanity in a Middle East?”

“The politically correct diplomacy of American presidents throughout the generations … is painfully naive.”

Obama on Sunday called for an “orderly transition” to democracy in Egypt, stopping short of calling on Mubarak to step down, but signaling that his days may be numbered.

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  • http://yahoo.com tod

    Looks like Barry and Hillary are letting a New and bigger War start ,that should help them finish our country off .Poor Israel they have to feel pretty lonely about now.Barry's really making us look bad to the World,the only way to change their opinion of us is to demand his birth certificate or march on Washington.

  • Madman

    Obama is a Muslim and he's in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood and he is selling everyone down the drain. He has this faction in his adminstration and appointed in

    high places in our government. He's throwing a lot of people under the bus that voted

    for him. He just likes to use people and then dump them when he can't use them

    anymore and it's a good thing we still have a few rights or we would be lined up against

    the wall like Mao and Hitler treated their people. WAKE UP PEOPLE

  • http://aol.com sean murrey ILLInioi

    he doesnt care he wants the muslim brotherhood to take over.

  • Sir2You

    Today is a day of celebration, for the forces of Satan have finally decided to turn on their follower, Baraq Hussein Soetoro. The Commission to investigate the New Black Panther voter intimidation has found that the Tyrant and his cabal, violated the law and were racially motivated against nonblacks. A federal judge has ruled the entire Obamination Healthcare unconstitutional, and the Tyrant has declared he will ignore the Judiciary and do what he wants. The games afoot…only a matter of time before the Kenyan is in a cell in Guantanamo, with many accomplices who used to be Congressmen.

  • hijinx60

    I am definately no fan of Obama, but maybe his doing nothing was the best thing that he could have done, The Muslim Brotherhood would have used any action by the United States as a propaganda tool to only incite the Egyptian muslims to even greater hatred for us.