The sellout of Israel

Immediately following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, conventional wisdom suggested the dramatic turn of events would bring America closer together with its long-time Mideast ally Israel.

As usual, conventional wisdom was dead wrong.

In fact, very clearly now, you can detect Washington increasingly distancing itself from Jerusalem. There are even some within the U.S. State Department who are beginning to deny there is any Arab terrorism directed at Israel – at least not terrorism as defined by our so-called “war on terrorism.”

Here’s how State Department spokesman Richard Boucher explained that those attacking Israel aren’t really terrorists at all – despite the suicide attacks, the bombings and the shootings of civilians: “Essentially, there are, on some planes, two different things. One is that there are violent people trying to destroy societies, ours, many others in the world. The world recognizes that and we are going to stop those people. On the other hand, there are issues and violence and political issues that need to be resolved in the Middle East, Israelis and Palestinians. … They are clearly issues that are different.”

In other words, attacks on the United States are terrorism. Attacks on Israel are attempts to “resolve political issues.”

But it gets worse.

STRATFOR, the global intelligence company whose reports are run exclusively on WorldNetDaily.com every weekday, is suggesting that U.S. Mideast policy is about to get much tougher on Israel as a direct result of the war on terror.

“Geopolitical realities after the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon will force the United States to back away from its relationship with Israel and favor Muslim allies such as Egypt and Jordan, as well as old foes like Iran and Syria,” the report said.

STRATFOR said the change in thinking in Washington could represent a “sea change in U.S.-Israeli relations.”

Washington has become convinced it needs Muslim cooperation in its war on terrorism.

“But Washington’s close ties with Israel make such cooperation difficult,” reports STRATFOR.

Therefore, the sellout of Israel is under way.

STRATFOR claims there are only two reasons for 50 years of U.S. support for Israel: The Cold War and political pressure from Jewish groups within the United States. Well, the Cold War is over. And Muslim power within the U.S. is close to eclipsing the Jewish lobby.

“The danger of domestic political consequences for a tough policy on Israel has been alleviated to a certain degree by the emergence of a Muslim voting bloc in the United States,” STRATFOR reports dispassionately.

While Muslim political organizations do not yet match their Jewish counterparts in funding, they can match them in sheer potential voting power, according to the report. It cites estimates that there are 6 million Muslims in the United States – a number about equal to Jews.

The report says it has not gone unnoticed within the Bush administration that about 70 percent of the Muslim vote went for George W. Bush. That support made the difference in the election with 28,000 Muslim votes for Bush in Florida and only 6,000 for Gore.

Israel is about to be sold down the river, it seems, because it is politically expedient to do so.

It’s somewhat ironic. Back in 1948, support from the United States was crucial to Israel’s rebirth as a nation. President Harry Truman reportedly asked his aides how many Jewish voters there were in the United States and how many Arab voters. At the time, it wasn’t even a close call.

In other words, as far as Mideast policy goes, right and wrong have seldom entered the equation for the United States. It’s often been about counting votes, with a dash of self-interest thrown in for good measure.

It’s also ironic that it takes a Muslim attack of epic proportions on the United States to push the pendulum of U.S. foreign policy toward the Islamic world. Imagine if the attack on Pearl Harbor brought the U.S. closer to Japan.

But it’s more than ironic. It’s tragic.

If the Bush administration is determined to make foreign policy based on voting blocs, it’s time for 100 million Christians in this country to stand up in support of Israel. It’s not a matter of politics. It’s not a matter of expedience. It’s not even just a matter of right and wrong. It is, quite simply, a matter of survival for Western civilization.

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