William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, has observed that John Kerry's top foreign policy adviser, Richard Holbrooke, appeared on The O'Reilly Factor with an unsurprising yet significant claim.
John Kerry will put more pressure on Israel.
Holbrooke explained how Kerry would improve the situation in the Middle East: "He [Kerry] has said already he would start intense talks with the allies . . . and he would reach out to the moderate Arab states. He'd put more pressure on Israel, Syria, Saudi Arabia above all."
Syria is a terrorist state which has occupied its formerly Christian neighbor, Lebanon, for decades. Saudi Arabia is the home of more radical Islamists than any other nation on earth, and is the world's foremost exporter of Wahabism, currently the most violent strain of Islam.
Does Israel belong on this list?
The morning of the day Holbrooke revealed this, Charles Krauthammer explained why Kerry would consider Sacrificing Israel:
(Kerry) really does want to end America's isolation. And he has an idea how to do it. For understandable reasons, however, he will not explain how on the eve of an election.
Think about it: What do the Europeans and the Arab states endlessly rail about in the Middle East? What (outside of Iraq) is the area of most friction with U.S. policy? What single issue most isolates America from the overwhelming majority of countries at the United Nations?
The answer is obvious: Israel.
In what currency, therefore, would we pay the rest of the world in exchange for their support in places such as Iraq? The answer is obvious: giving in to them on Israel.
No Democrat will say that openly. But anyone familiar with the code words of Middle East diplomacy can read between the lines.
As we say often and regularly, what happens to Israel will happen to the rest of the world. By sacrificing Israel, Kerry and his foreign policy advisors would be sacrificing the USA.
The current administration has been more engaged in the Middle East than anyone wants to give them credit for. However, this administration has come down firmly against terrorists and their sponsors.
When Kerry or one of his policy wonks say "re-engage", what they mean is "negotiate" as in "negotiate with terrorists with blood fresh on their hands in the deluded hope that they are rational people who truly want peace as opposed to the destruction of our allies, our nation, and ourselves which they keep demanding."
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