{"id":3424,"date":"2008-03-22T23:05:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T21:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/22\/havent-we-heard-this-never-pressure-israel-many-times-before\/"},"modified":"2008-03-22T23:05:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T21:05:41","slug":"havent-we-heard-this-never-pressure-israel-many-times-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/22\/havent-we-heard-this-never-pressure-israel-many-times-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Haven&#8217;t We Heard This &#8220;Never Pressure Israel&#8221; Many Times Before?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.<br \/>\n<strong>Commentary;<\/p>\n<p>Haven&#8217;t we heard this from each succeeding US administration?  Don&#8217;t we hear this from<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1205420742023&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>Republican presidential candidate John McCain<\/strong><\/a> <strong>and the two major Democratic candidates?  But isn&#8217;t it true that once each succeeding administration came to power, from Carter right on forward to the waning days of the George W. Bush presidency, they each whistled a different tune from their campaign promises?  And don&#8217;t successive Israeli governments, upon hearing each one of these repeated pledges not to pressure Israel, herald each pledge as a great step forward, as if never heard before?  One who has a shekel for each time the statement &#8220;we will never pressure Israel over security&#8221; is uttered would be wealthy indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it time for intelligent Jews to stand up and say in actions and in words, as was the title to that James Bond movie; &#8220;Never Say Never Again?&#8221;  That&#8217;s if there are numbers of Jews who have internalized the meaning and relevance of Purim to today.  And once having uttered those words to the US, isn&#8217;t it time that we have a<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishisrael.org\/\"><strong>faith-based Jewish government<\/strong><\/a> <strong>which is self-reliant and which puts it&#8217;s faith in Hashem and it&#8217;s dependence in the hands of the IDF to carry out Hashem&#8217;s will, rather than craving the affection of, and dependency for security, upon the super-power or upon the nations?   MB<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/Flash.aspx\/143707\"><strong>Cheney: U.S. Will Never Pressure Israel Over Security<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Full Text;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>At a press conference before his meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Saturday night, U.S. Vice President Richard Cheney said that the United States would &#8220;never pressure Israel to take risks regarding its security.&#8221; Although the U.S. would like to see a solution to the Israel-Arab conflict, such a solution could not come at a risk to Israel&#8217;s security.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;America&#8217;s commitment to Israel&#8217;s security is enduring and unshakable, as is Israel&#8217;s right to protect itself always against terrorism, rocket attacks and other attacks from forces dedicated to Israel&#8217;s destruction,&#8221; Cheney said.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><strong><em>Related report;<\/em><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1205420750339&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>&#8216;US Won&#8217;t Pressure Israel to Take Steps Threatening its Security&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. Commentary; Haven&#8217;t we heard this from each succeeding US administration? Don&#8217;t we hear this from Republican presidential candidate John McCain and the two major Democratic candidates? But isn&#8217;t it true that once each succeeding administration came to power, from Carter right on forward to the waning days of the George W. Bush presidency, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}