Israel Slapped Down

President Barack Hussein Obama has a fantastic notion of what the Middle East of the future will look like- fantastic because it is in the realm of a pipe dream. The first aspect of real and lasting peace anywhere is the genuine desire of each opposing party to reach a peaceful conclusion to a conflict. This has never existed vis-a-vis the genocidal intentions of Arab Muslims versus the survival instinct of the Jewish people. The Jews being forced back to "suicide borders" in no way advances the interests of peace but assures the perpetuation of the conflict with Israel's air space no longer tenable or even defensible against shoulder launched surface to air missiles. Ben Gurion Airport would not be safe, nor would any flightpath in the greatly territorially diminished Jewish State. Giving the Golan Heights to Syria now would be especially foolhardy with the Assad regime just facilitating a large incursion by Palestinian "refugees" across Israel's internationally recognized border while Assad is concurrently massacring his opponents at home. This is a stick in the eye to Israel after America allowed the security assumptions of the Jewish State to be overturned in Egypt when the Obama administration orchestrated or at least endorsed the removal of Hosni Mubarak who was seen as a peace partner, a bedrock of stability, and a hedge against jihadi radicalism in the heart of the Arab world. How can Israel possibly trust Obama's assurances when he pushed Mubarak out the door of power, has demanded Libya's Gaddafi step down but in the event, only given what is essentially lip service to removing him, and has allowed Iran's nuclear project to move forward at full force? Israel can not base her future security (beyond safety to her very survival) to an insouciant stumbler who will likely be a one term President whose term will be remembered for domestic overreach and uninformed pomposity in foreign relations. Israel can not predicate action on consideration about how Obama will afflict them for less than two years (or in a worst case, six years) but must base policy and action on a much more eternal covenant.