{"id":3495,"date":"2008-04-22T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/22\/clinton-on-iran-attack-of-israel-not-words-of-ally\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T13:02:57","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T11:02:57","slug":"clinton-on-iran-attack-of-israel-not-words-of-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/22\/clinton-on-iran-attack-of-israel-not-words-of-ally\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton on Iran Attack of Israel; NOT Words of Ally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/HillaryClinton.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Commentary;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>During the heated campaign between Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama for the Democratic candidacy for US President, Clinton has made a number of statements specifically directed toward the Jewish vote, particularly during the run-up to Tuesday&#8217;s Pennsylvania primary.  This author takes great issue with one of these statements in particular.<\/p>\n<p>Before the masses of American Jews take Hillary Clinton&#8217;s recent statement;<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1208422655426&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>If Iran attacks Israel, the US could &#8216;totally obliterate them&#8217;<\/strong><\/a> <strong>as a great achievement and an expression of unshakable alliance with Israel, this author feels compelled to harken back to the great American actor\/comedian Jimmy Durante, who during his act, would grab his hat, shake that monstrous nose and bellow;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/JimmyDurante.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <strong><em>&#8220;Stop da music, Stop da music!&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>That&#8217;s right American Jews, &#8220;Stop da music&#8221; and look inside Hillary&#8217;s statement.  Her words are personally insulting to the intelligence of any thinking Jew.  There is nothing in her comments about an American role in preemptively doing away with Iran&#8217;s nuclear industry or Iran&#8217;s ability to manufacture nuclear bombs and their delivery systems.  And Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has already boasted having acquired, or are under development,<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/12512391\/ \"><strong>ballistic missiles capable not only of reaching Israel, but of reaching locations in Europe,<\/strong><\/a> <strong>and perhaps even reaching the US.<\/p>\n<p>Further, Clinton statement suggests an Israel remaining as a &#8220;sitting duck&#8221;, not taking any independent action to protect itself or any preemptive action, in the absence of American, to eliminate Iran&#8217;s nuclear industry and nuclear weapons and delivery system capability.  <\/p>\n<p>What Hillary Clinton&#8217;s statement represents is a presumption of a timid impotent Israel, incapable of her own independent defense. Unfortunately, this portrait and presumption seems in tandem with     Israel&#8217;s<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/web.israelinsider.com\/views\/8985.htm\"> <strong>&#8220;too tired&#8221; troika &#8212; Olmert, Livni and Barak<\/strong><\/a> <strong>and their do-nothing Shas coalition partners.  <\/p>\n<p>What Hillary&#8217;s statement represents is a fearful consequence of the Olmert regime acting as an impotent, as an entity incapable of independent self-defensive action. Her statement presumes the impotence of Israel&#8217;s national resolve and defense.  Her statement is anything but that of an ally.<\/p>\n<p>For by the time an impotent Olmert regime would absorb a first hit; by law of nature (derech hateva), Israel&#8217;s and Judaism&#8217;s epitaph would be inscribed, long before any US attempt to counterattack; to &#8220;obliterate Iran.&#8221;   MB<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1208422655426&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>Clinton: If Iran Attacks Israel, the US Could<br \/>\n &#8216;Totally Obliterate Them&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Full Text;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>It is within the United States&#8217; power to destroy Iran if it attacks Israel, warned Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Hilary Clinton in an interview on ABC television Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the next ten years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them,&#8221; said Clinton. <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. Commentary; During the heated campaign between Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama for the Democratic candidacy for US President, Clinton has made a number of statements specifically directed toward the Jewish vote, particularly during the run-up to Tuesday&#8217;s Pennsylvania primary. This author takes great issue with one of these statements in particular. Before the [&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-3495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495","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=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}