Many leftists and paleocon lunatics like to make as if the U.S. – Israel alliance has been a one-way street. Ambassador Michael Oren and Charles Johnson’s favorite television personality Glenn Beck, disabuse us of that notion.
by Debra Kamin
When a Tuscon-based SWAT team arrived on the scene of the shooting of US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on January 8 and applied a coagulating bandage to her gushing head, the US-Israel alliance was in play, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren has said.
In a nearly 5,000-word article in the May/June issue of Foreign Policy, Oren laid out a multi-tiered defense of the relationship between Israel and America, answering the critics who assail America’s annual $3 billion in military aid and contending that the United States perhaps needs Israel even more than Israel needs the United States.
The coagulating bandage, Oren pointed out, was created by a Jerusalem start-up company and has been distributed free of charge to nearly one million US soldiers. Other American troops can thank a kibbutz-based business for the life-saving armor on their military vehicles, and consumers using USB flash drives, ingestible microcameras, drip irrigation and portable MRI machines should also give a nod to their Israeli inventors.
“At a time when American companies are outsourcing to Asia, Israel is outsourcing to the United States,” Oren wrote, noting that “tens of thousands of Americans are employed by Teva, the world’s leading generic-drug producer, and by dozens of Israeli high-tech, textile, and defense plants throughout the United States.” And while three US -Israel foundations have generated “myriad US jobs,” Oren argued, it is also crucial to remember that of that $3 billion in military aid – which, he pointed out, is equivalent to roughly half of what the US spends to run one Zumalt-class Navy destroyer – $2.25 billion is spent in America, creating, maintaining and protecting jobs for American workers.
“In return for its aid to Israel,” Oren asserted, “the United States receives not only an armed but an innovative ally, enhancing America’s military edge. That contribution is real and requires no lobbyists to fabricate it.”
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In the Foreign Policy essay, the ambassador said the American-Israeli alliance goes beyond the strategic to encompass issues of humanitarian, commercial and scientific concern. At the crux of the matter, he said, is that the United States and American share crucial, unbreakable basic values.In a different venue and with a slightly more bombastic tone, conservative talk show and radio host Glenn Beck recently hosted several Fox News specials in support of Israel.
In the first special, which aired in the United States on March 30, Beck stared straight into the camera and said, “The world is being lead to water that Israel is the evil one and it’s about to drink. Don’t drink the water!”
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On April 15, Beck appeared in another full-length special entitled “Why the US Must Stand With Israel.”
Like Oren, Beck focused on the importance of the Israel-US relationship and reminded viewers that the friendship between the two countries is in both nations’ best interest, not just Israel’s.
Oren closed his Foreign Policy piece with this very idea. “[The] US-Israel relationship [is] of incalculable value to the United States, far outweighing any price.” he wrote. “Israel may be one of a handful of countries that fully fits the definition of ally, but its willingness to support the United States unwaveringly makes it the partner par excellence, America’s ultimate ally.”
Read the rest: Beck, Oren remind Americans that they need israel, too
Rodan may be interested in this:
Despite Rubio’s unfortunate foreign policy mistakes, I think he is a good addition to the Senate. This guy might make another.
Iron Fist wrote:
Marco Rubio is a diamond in the rough. I am not ready to toss him overboard. The man has a capacity to learn.
@ Iron Fist:
What was Rubio’s foreign policy mistake?
@ Nevergiveup:
He is big-time behind intervention in Libya. Send in ground forces, fight and lose men for al Qaeda in Libya. That is a disappointment, to say the least.
Iron Fist wrote:
Inexperience
Iron Fist wrote:
He has probably spent too much time in the congressional cafeteria around McCain and Miss Lindsey Graham.
Yeah,I hope Rubio re-evaluates his position on Libya. Not like many seasoned pols haven’t jumped on the popular uprising™ bandwagon too.
Speranza wrote:
Maybe he ought to spend more time with Congressman West instead.
vagabond trader wrote:
Being seasoned in DC is akin to be roasted in hell. It leaves marks on ones soul that never go away.
In an “unexpected” turn of events.
vagabond trader wrote:
I thought they were all for democracy and freedom – I guess freedom to enslave themselves.
@ Speranza:
The black cube cannot be resisted.
My conclusion re: Israel hate is simple. Anyone who thinks they are the enemy is deranged and most likely a Jew hater.
Well I feel better than yesterday but still feel like shit. Pray for my patients.
@ Nevergiveup:
At least you wear a mask?
vagabond trader wrote:
Of course. I always wear a mask, gloves, scrubs, and real comfie underwaer
http://bible.cc/genesis/12-3.htm
right there for all the world to see that an honest relationship with Israel will always be beneficial.
i’m still in FL. i have a massive headache. but, gotta get up and take a tour around the clearwater / st petersburg area ‘cuz there’s a good chance i might be moving here. property taxes seem a bit high but there is no state income tax.
met rodan for dinner yesterday evening and had a nice visit. in person, he’s exactly as he seems from reading what he writes here and listening to him on BTR.
@ Kirly:
Sinus headache? Two extra strength aspirin usually work for me. Do not take on an empty stomach.Hope your tour goes well.
@ Nevergiveup:
Are we talking about work or your days off?
vagabond trader wrote:
Work. My scrubs look like my Navy Working Uniform. Some Company makes them
things that make you go hmmmmm…..(tm)
What Next – the Potomac River running red with blood?
In the Rose Garden, rodents attend Obama speeches. In the East Room, flies utilize the President’s upper lip as a landing strip. Last Memorial Day Barack chose the Windy City over traditional ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery. As the President prepared to speak at Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Illinois:
Thunderstorms had rolled in …prompting the Secret Service to pull the president from the ceremony amid fear for his safety. Obama … told the guests… that he would wait … to see if the storm would pass…it quickly worsened, turning into gusty winds and rain with frequent lightning and thunder, and the White House cancelled Obama’s appearance at the ceremony.
Adding to the ever-growing list of Biblical manifestations occurring in the President’s vicinity, according to an observer, “A spectacular downpour started as the lightning built, with no preliminary drops; one moment it was dry, the next there was a gushing, blowing, massive water dump.
One can’t help but wonder how the President interprets the natural world speaking to him, or what he perceives that message to be. Based on the creative delivery style, it’s likely that Barack Obama would rather ignore the Scripture where Jesus said: “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven,” especially since a lightning bolt fell from heaven straight into the White House.
@ Nevergiveup:
wow… way too much info on the underwear dude…
@ rain of lead:
Is there anything in Scripture about a great crevice opening and swallowing up evil messengers?
@ vagabond trader:
if not, there should be.
MikeA wrote:
ROTFLMAO… I was going to say exactly the same thing…
@ vagabond trader:
just watched the Ten Commandments over the weekend and when Moses throws the tablets at Edward G… I kept thinking of that happening to The Zero…
It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God…
vagabond trader wrote:
Sort of, their is the story about Moses and some guys who tried to overthrow Moses.
@ vagabond trader:
thx. dunno what it is but i haven’t been having my coffee each morning and i think it’s caffiene withdrawals. weird since i almost never have more than 1 cup a day anyway. but, i know it’ll pass soon.
doriangrey wrote:
hey socks and underwear are THE most important decisions of the day.
@ doriangrey:
GET OUT OF MY MIND!!!!
@ Nevergiveup:
The decision is simple… clean, so if your hit by a car, mom is happy.
Kirly wrote:
One cup a day is all it take to suffer from withdrawals from caffeine. Yea one cup a day is all I drink these days either, and if I break that morning coffee cycle, it takes about 2 or 3 days before the headaches start, but they go away after about 4 or 5 days without coffee.
Hey it’s a shooting gallery up in Syria.
vagabond trader wrote:
No ,but it does mention a great pretender in mom
jeans that can’t toss a baseball 60 feet.
@ Nevergiveup:
Pay no attention to that. Its different from Libya. The White House said so…
@ RIX:
That in the NIV or New King James?
MikeA wrote:
Yeah it’s different alright. Syria is important and Libya don’t mean dick.
MikeA wrote:
ROTFLMAO… Nope, to keep mom happy you need to keep spare clean draws and socks where you can reach them in an emergency.
vagabond trader wrote:
I have renamed my toilet the ka’bowl, and my morning constitutional my daily haj.
My wife suffers greatly due to my twisted sense of humor.
Seven people were arraigned on riot and assault charges Monday for their roles in a vicious turf battle at a Sikh temple in Queens.
Assailants wielding cricket bats and small swords disrupted prayer services Sunday morning at the Baba Makhan Shah Lubana Sikh Center in Richmond Hill, police and witnesses said.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/04/25/2011-04-25_seven_people_arraigned_on_riot_assault_charges_for_violent_fight_at_sikh_temple_.html#ixzz1KdVIaxVy
Boy must have been some service? In my Temple people just say they gotta go piss and then sneak out
MikeA wrote:
See my post number 38…
citizen_q wrote:
suffers??? that’s hilarious! i’m stealing it!
@ Nevergiveup:
Syria is an ally of Iran and an American enemy. Helping their rebels could help American interests and hurt those of Iran. You can see why Obama doesn’t want to do that…
MikeA wrote:
King James, it’s right there.
@ Nevergiveup:
Libya is about oil and Syria has none.
No blood for oil!!! (wait… where are the liberals shouting that?)
Nevergiveup wrote:
This is why their should be a constitutional amendment declaring Islam a violent and hostile political ideology and banned from practice in the United States.
Nevergiveup wrote:
As in libya, does it boil down to much more than muslims killing muslims?
Should I care any more than I hope both sides are successful?
Trump is now going after Obamas academic carrer.
How does a self-proclaimed poor student wind
up in the Ivy League & Harvard Law Review?
Kirly wrote:
She rolls her eyes so hard I worry she might hurt herself! /
doriangrey wrote:
yeah but the Sikh’s are not muslim. They are usually pretty peaceful
Baseball’s Greatest Play, 35 Years Later
Omama, doing the America destroying that regular Americans refuse to do.
Iron Fist wrote:
Later everyone!
I have a training class starting shortly. Its on-line but very engaging, so I may visit for short periods if I have time between labs.
@ doriangrey:
Ummm, Sikhism isn’t Islamism. As well, I saw the Richmond Hill location and wondered what was Toronto news doing in a New York paper.
@ Guggi:
Lovely. I say we pull out and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure…
Iron Fist wrote:
Fuck Syria, I hope they all die in a horrible fire related work accident.
@ Kirly:
Goood morning!
I had a fun dinner and I hope you have a safe flight back!
@ doriangrey:
The MSM & too many pols that should no better
are treating the “Arab Awakening” like a gathering
of the Founding Fathers in Philadelphia.
There is no doubt a scattering of idealists and
Marxists, but at the end of the day Islamists are
driving things.
Iron Fist wrote:
A quite disturbing story, isn’t it ? We maybe lose Egypt to the MB, we bomb for AQ in Libya and Syria will become potentially another MB stronghold.
@ vagabond trader:
Rubio is a puppet of the Jeb Machine. I have no use for him. he’s one of these invade everyone and spread democracy because it’s our duty types.
I have no use for them.
@ Guggi:
Dinnerjacket better watch his ass. There’s someone else vying for top-dog of the Axis of Evil…
doriangrey wrote:
Well damn, that’s not very nice. lol
Nevergiveup wrote:
The worst terrorist action before 9/11 was the bombing of Air India Flight 182 by Canadian Sikhs. Yes they are generally peaceful, just watch out when they aren’t though.
@ RIX:
The Republicans as well as Obama are complicit in this.
I wish a viable alternative Rightwing party would emerge. The GOP is obsolete like the Whigs. A bunch of useless Eunuchs.
I can’t stand the Republican Party. But I really hate the Democrats. So by default on on the GOP’s side. But I view them as Stalin and the Democrats as Hitler, the worse evil.
This isn’t the GOP I grew up with in the 80′s. Reagan would not recognize today’s GOP.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Not a pink frilly thong with blue butterflies? Odd… I never before had my sources lie to me. citizen_q wrote:
One of my summer projects is building a “privacy cabinet” for my cats’ litterbox. I will be painting it like the Kaaba. Pictures will be posted.
MikeA wrote:
They are busy at the moment.
@ Rodan:
Damn,was afraid of that. What a disappointment.
@ PrincessNatasha:
lol,Are you sure the kittehs won’t reject the conversion? They tend to be infidels.
Iron Fist wrote:
Sanitize the cesspool. Indeed.
But leftists are happy. They think they can use the pisslamists to finally bring down the US and other Western countries later on down the road. Coincidentally, pisslamists think they can use the leftists– then lop off their stupid heads when their usefulness runs out.
vagabond trader wrote:
They’ll be overjoyed to poop in privacy. Besides, pooping in a replica of a crazy cult’s shrine fits their infidel little natures quite well.
@ m:
Good morning, you greet us with your face!
PaladinPhil wrote:
Sikhs were persecuted by the Mughals for centuries. There were attempts to carve out a separate Sikh nation-state, Khalistan, from parts of Pakistan and India.
@ Rodan:
McCain & Lindsey Graham & their pal Lieberman
would involve us in war after useless war. it
would be comical if it were not so serious.
Putting young lives at risk is not a game & should
only happen in Americas interest, like, oh I don’t
know fighting al Queda.
Philip_Daniel wrote:
Sorry, part of my post was cut off. The Air India Flight 182 bombing was part of the Free Khalistan movement. Difference between the Sikhs in this instance and the Muslimeen is that the Sikhs do not desire to subjugate the entire world as the Muslimeen do.
@ RIX:
The funny thing is that McCain is right about stopping Iran’s nuclear ambitions but wrong on Libya.
@ RIX:
Rodan wrote:
Cough cough, actually Stalin was 10 times worse than Hitler. Remember, history is written by the victor. At the onset of WWII pretty much nobody outside of the Soviet Union really understood how evil Stalin was.
The US and Briton became war time allies with Stalin mostly because Marxist infiltrators in Briton and America painted Stalin as a reasonable man who Churchill and Roosevelt could work with to defeat Hitler.
Those same Marxist infiltrators were who wrote the history books making it appear that Stalin was the lessor evil when in fact the real history of the Soviet Union proved Stalin to be 10 to 100 times the monster that Hitler was.
RIX wrote:
That “spread democracy” BS is so stupid. What if people don’t want it? Let them rot. Who cares? If they attack, bomb them to piss, and drive on.
Speranza wrote:
Right, he has blinders on, so he will be
right about half of the time.
Rodan wrote:
They are not Stalin at all, they are Neville Chamberlain.
PrincessNatasha wrote:
As in Egypt – the freedom they demand is the freedom to be enslaved.
@ PrincessNatasha:
That would be a funny sight!
@ PrincessNatasha:
n.
Right, democracy is not a fighting ideology & it
is not our job to spread it.
If we force elections, Islamists will win & it will
be one man, one vote, one time.
Rodan wrote:
Rick Perry said that had Jeb’s last name been Smith, he might very well be POTUS in 2012. I don’t think so because of his stance on illegal immigration. Jeb said that had Perry been governor of Florida instead of Texas he could be POTUS in 2012.
doriangrey wrote:
Stalin was more successful than Hitler. He held on to power for many decades. He built and ran an Empire akin to the Russian Empire before 1917. In addition, he had no delusions of some bogus Master-Race like Hitler had. Hell, he even abandoned all the Communism hokey-pokey as soon as he came to power. Sure, he kept the rhetoric and the symbols, but that was done out of convenience– no time to waste designing all the new crap, which is irrelevant, anyway. Stalin was simply an emperor. If you look at history of royalty in Europe and even Asia, he was really not that much different from many monarchs, and not as bad as some.
John McCain, meet Tam Ilmihal Se‘adet-i Ebediyye…
And…
I am more interested in preserving freedom here.
@ doriangrey:
Ok valid point on that. My whole thing is I have no use for the GOP anymore. I’m just in their camp becasue I hate the Democrats. But trust me, if there was another Rightwing viable Party I would join it in a heartbeat!
Philip_Daniel wrote:
He would greet him with
“My friend….”
PrincessNatasha wrote:
Sadly we are chained to the insane concept of “proportionate response”. The concept of “proportionate response” was invented by cowards who were afraid of loosing a conflict because their opponent might be stronger than them. You either fight to win, or you fight to loose, their is no legitimate strategy of fighting to a stalemate. Fight to a stalemate is only a legitimate strategy when you know victory is utterly impossible. i.e in other words, you are fighting to loose.
@ PrincessNatasha:
‘That spread Democracy crap was started by the evil racist slime ball Woodrow WIlson. He invaded various Latin American countries to spread Democracy. Instead he created resentment in the region that manifested itself later in Castro and then Chavez.
He was a supporter of the KKK and believed in race based Eugenics. He was an evil vile man who deserves no respect from any American.
@ PrincessNatasha:
Stalin was far more ruthless at home then Hitler. Outside of the purge of the Rohm Brownshirts in 1934 (Operation Hummingbird) and the hounding of the July 20, 1944 plotters, he did not wage war on his own people nearly as much as Stalin did to his.
PrincessNatasha wrote:
BULLSHIT. Name one other monarch who killed 100 million of his subjects out of nothing more than paranoia.
@ Speranza:
Not just Immigration, But Jeb, like his brother has a soft spot for Islam. Then again the whole GOP establishment does!
FYI- some at Hot Air are pushing for Jeb Bush in 2012. I kid you not!
Speranza wrote:
Very valid point!
doriangrey wrote:
He was responsible for the deaths of millions of his own people but 100 million is way way off base.
Rodan wrote:
The GOP leadership has been infiltrated by Marxist democrats pretending to be Republicans. I hate the GOP leadership, but I understand that the rank and file Republican does not yet understand this simple basic truth. Rank and file Republican voters are not the problem, the problem is the corrupt leadership that has sold the rank and file membership out.
PrincessNatasha wrote:
Yep. And if they really want it they have to take it and/or make it themselves for it to mean ANYTHING. Trying to force it on them won’t work.
Idjits.
Rodan wrote:
Yeah the country is demanding another Bush! Why not team him up with Kay Bailey Hutchison, Lindsey Graham or Richard Lugar while we are at it.
@ m:
The GOP leadership is obsessed with this Wilsonian spread Democacy crap. The Republicans even up until the time of Regan were never into this. Now that’s what they are about.
@ PrincessNatasha:
Since you’re of Russian ancestry, what’s your take on the Tatar Yoke?
@ doriangrey:
Well, yes, but these are Sikhs. Sikhs do not love islam one little bit, but there is a sort of world-wide rift in the Sikh faith between moderates and those who agitate for an independent Sikh nation (Khalistan)in the Punjab.
And some of the radicals engage in terrorism in support of their goal, mostly directed against India. They blew up an Air India flight some years ago, killing all aboard. A bomb, planted on another flight at the same time, blew up up in Narita airport in Japan, killing some baggage handlers. The (then-Liberal) government of Canada mostly botched the investigation, but at least one of the perps was jailed, and others never found.
Speranza wrote:
Stalin was responsible for c. 20,000,000, Mao for c. 60,000,000
@ Rodan:
Dumbasses.
@ Speranza:
Bush-Graham would be the ultimate Progressive Republican ticket.
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
I’m not worried about Sikhs.
@ Guggi:
I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you.
@ m:
Yeah they are a bunch of dumbasses. I had high hopes for Rubio. Now he’s just an invade everyone for democracy type.
I rather invade for American economic interest and get something out of it.
I’m going to start my Decline and Fall of The United States book very soon. The GOP doesn’t get it and are contributing to the decline.
@ PrincessNatasha:
@ doriangrey:
In the Worldwar series, The Race didn’t hold the Soviets in high regard because they (and Сталин was among the original conspirators) MURDERED their Emperor!
@ Rodan:
Why invade when you can….
Speranza wrote:
OK you are right, he only killed between 40 and 60 million Soviet citizens.
Rodan wrote:
Throw in Lugar (for Sec. of State) and there you have the trifecta of Republican Progressivism.
@ Macker:
I read that series also!
@ Speranza:
The GOP establishment would love that set up!
Rodan wrote:
A word of advice. Don’t do what the right did up here in Canada in the late 80′s with the split of the Reform Party and the Progressive Conservatives. The split in the vote for the right gave the Liberal Party of Canada guaranteed majority governments for over 10 years until they got their acts together and rejoined under the Reform leadership for our current Conservative Party. In fact we are still dealing with that issue because the Conservatives have never been able to pull off a Majority government yet. And the way things are going in the rundown to the up coming federal election they may still not have enough seats for that elusive majority.
@ PaladinPhil:
How close do you think the Tories will get, eh? (This also goes out to our other Canadian Friends)
@ PaladinPhil:
The problem is the GOP leadership are very disconnected from the voters. They are Progressives and only disagree with the Dems on how fast to implement Progressive goals.
@ Macker:
Right now it’s a toss up. If the NDP make the gains that the polls are showing it’s going to be a scary ride. For once in my life I hope that they are very wrong. On the bright side, most of their gains would be in Quebec which has been a Separtist and Liberal stronghold for decades.
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
Yeah, and I believe in the Easter bunny
Rodan wrote:
Exactly.
Guggi wrote:
Yea, well the Easter bunny doesnt believe in you…
Rodan wrote:
Oh I am sure of it. Maybe another run by Deede Scozzafava too.
@ Guggi:
Ha, they want to tax them to make up for the lost revenue of reg cig taxes.
snowcrash wrote:
Corrrrrrrrrect.
New post!
@ Philip_Daniel:
I remember seeing “Sikhs for Khalistan” stickers on cars in the Silicon Valley back in the late 80′s/early 90′s.
Khalistan sounds like one of those mythical places form a 1930′s British empire themed movie.
Wasn’t two of Indira Gandhi’s assassins members of her Sikh bodyguard?
I was not a fan of Mrs. Gandhi or her father Nehru.
Speranza wrote:
And not of her son Sanjay
Guggi wrote:
He was the appointed heir of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.
Speranza wrote:
He had some snappy lookin’ jackets though.
doriangrey wrote:
Actually, evil people differ only in the amount of wrongdoing that they manage to get away with before others (namely, people like us) manage to stop them. It’s our job to warn and educate everybody else and to rally other good people to take a stand.
Philip_Daniel wrote:
I think that your figures for Stalin are understated by about half.
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