DICK MORRIS ON PETRAEUS’ GENERALLY DIM VIEW OF ISRAEL
Dick Morris on Gen. Petraeus
Written by: Diana West
In “Obama’s Goal: Regime Change (in Israel),” Dick Morris goes where no other conservative columnist that I know of has gone (except for me here). In his analysis of the hammer that the Obama administration brought down on Israel last week, Morris includes Gen. Petraeus’ revealing and timely Senate testimony. Morris writes:
So why are Obama and Clinton so intent on raising the profile of the construction issue and publicizing it? One suspects an effort is afoot to link Israeli resistance to the peace process with the ongoing loss of American lives in Iraq and Afghanistan, if not to the global terrorism of al Qaeda.
Gen. David Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee that “Arab anger over the Palestinian question limits the strength and depth of U.S. partnerships with governments and peoples [in the region] … Enduring hostilities between Israel and some of its neighbors present distinct challenges to our ability to advance our interests in the area of responsibility.†In other words — blame Israel.
And ultimately, the administration’s agenda may be to explain its withdrawal of support for Israel by blaming its stubborn insistence on housing construction. One can well see the Obama administration learning to live with an Iranian nuclear weapon, all the while blaming Israel for fomenting Iranian hostility by building housing. …
In one of the stranger reactions to apparently confounding news stimuli, Petraeus’ testimony has, for example, been ignored at NRO’s The Corner, whitewashed at the Weekly Standard’s blog, and ignored (John Bolton, Linda Chavez) and/or whitewashed (Brett Stephens) in the few conservative columns that came out on Israel this past week.
The Big Picture deserves better.
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