Al-Arabiya broadcasts from modern, moderate Dubai, and is partly Saudi-owned. Yet for some odd reason it has never been a bastion of moderation -- a fact for which the prevailing paradigm has absolutely no explanation. "Will Israel fall in five years?," from Al-Arabiya, October 5 (thanks to Maxwell):
Online reports of a study by the US Central Intelligence Agency cast doubt over the survival of Israel beyond the next two decades. Regardless of the validity of the report, with what is now known about the costs in blood and treasure that the U.S.-Israeli relationship has imposed on the U.S., its key ally, Israel could fall within five years.
Al-Arabiya? Obama's favourite network...
Well, it's a good idea not to rule anything out where the Middle East's concerned...
Even if Obama takes out Iran, that still leaves the Taliban in Pakistan with that nuke...
...and it stil leaves Obama (!) who's obviously a fan of Mershimer and Walt. Not to mention a disciple of Jimmy (The Peanut Czar) Carter.
Obama Website Has Article Comparing Israelis to Nazis
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/171995
Israel has withstood the local and international onslaught for more than six decades.
Five more years is nothing.
Israel will be around forever.
"Obama Website Has Article Comparing Israelis to Nazis"
The proper response to Obama from Israelis would be....
"You call me one because you ARE one." This phrase was commonly used by children in the 50's when someone called them a bad name and is still suitable today.
now known about the costs in blood and treasure that the U.S.-Israeli relationship has imposed on the U.S."
The "costs in blood and treasure" of paying directly for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan , in order to "win [unwinnable Muslim] hearts and minds," by all sorts of reconstruction, and to keep these countries together despite their ever-present internecine hostilities, and to pay for all sorts of Muslim regimes in order that their populations might be protected from the Lords of Misrule, and the economic and political and social failures of their societies [directly attributable to Islam itself], to such countries as Egypt and Jordan and even to the "Palestinian" "Authority" that would not exist for one minute without foreign, Infidel aid that keeps pouring in, and if on top of that one adds the twelve trillion dollars that has gone to the Muslim members of OPEC (11 of the 12 members, if one counts Muslim-dominated Nigeria, where the oil revenues never reaches the Christian south), amounts that had the Saudi lobby not throttled all attempts at taxes on oil and gasoline and other measures that could long ago have diminished OPEC oil revenues, had we in our calculations noted the tens of billions of dollars we now spend (and our allies in NATO hundreds of billions) to monitor, for obvious security reasons, the Muslims in our midst, and had we compared all that cost of dealing with, most ineffectively, the Jihad (the struggle by Muslims to remove all obstacles to the spread, and then the dominance, of Islam)? Now compare those trillions spent, in the case of the aid and the military interventions quite unnecessarily, and ineffectively, because we are no better off with those expenditures, have won no hearts and no minds (and never could), and now compare what we get for giving Israel a few pitiful billion a year, and what we receive for that.
Israel is, with or without aid, a firm ally of the West, because it is part of the West, and will always be on the side of the West, will always work to fight the Jihad because Israel itself is the victim of a permanent Jihad. Stop for one minute American aid to the Sunnis of Anbar, or to Iraq itself, or to Pakistan, and see how the former recipients of such aid, who always whined for more, turn on us. See how even with the receipt of such aid, the recipients of it in Egypt, Jordan, and the "Palestinian" "Authority" are full of anti-American venom and ingratitude -- for the aid is to them merely Jizyah. It is their right, it is their due. See how that "staunch ally" Saudi Arabia, has worked to use its wealth to undercut the Infidels everywhere, in West Africa and East Africa (where the money goes farthest, and apparently unknown to the State Department but not to the terrified black African Christians, Islam is on the march -- see Togo, see Nigeria, see Niger), in Asia and Europe and North America, paying for mosques and madrasas, campaigns of Da'wa, and Islamic propaganda, some of it aided by Western hirelings in universities, the press, business, and of course the centers of political power.
Think of what Israel has done for the military security of the Western world, merely by working for its own security. What country destroyed the ambitions of that wretched Soviet ally Nasser, and upended him forever, caused his disappearance and with him, Nasserism? What country -- despite the predictable and predicted condemnation (not least from the administration of George Bush and James Baker) destroyed Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor, and in so doing, derailed for 21 years his nuclear ambitions, which is to say until he himself was removed, so that those ambitions were never realized? What country recently destroyed the nuclear installation in Syria that Iran and the North Koreans had built? whose pressure now is really the cause of whatever measures at this point the so-far dilatory and delaying Americans and others may take against Iran? And what country, do you suppose will in the end deal most effectively with the chiliastic madmen of the Islamic Republic of Iran? What country today supplies all kinds of technological advances that are then taken advantage of by the United States? [See drones] What country is best able to penetrate, and to make sense of, intelligence derived from the Muslim Arab states and from Iran?
And there is one more thing. Given all that has happened, the Western world could not survive, or rather Western morale -- among all those who think and feel -- could not survive a second destruction of Israel. Israel represents the Jews and the Jewish contribution to Western civilisation. Its survival is part of what makes the West able to survive, and its disappearanc, or its pitiful existence as a rump state dependent on the Muslim Arabs being willing not to come in to deliver a final death blow, would otself deal a blow to the West, to the idea of the West, from which that West would not recover. And the demoralization of the West from such a dimidiated Israel, unable to fend for itself, constantly under threat of easy annihilation, or in fact so annihilated, would at the same time feed Muslim triumphalism and lead to more and more Muslim demands, and aggression, all over the Western -- all over the entire -- world. That few, as yet, understand this, because most, as yet, remain so remarkably ignorant, does not mean that what has been written here is not completely, perfectly, terribly true.
I wish Israel would just hurry up and fix the Iranian and the Pakistani problems. We need to move on and Nobama doesn't have the cojones since he is a beta-male.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/did_we_elect_a_beta_male_as_pr_1.html
Stop for a minute and pray for Israel.
"Al-Arabiya network hopes Israel will fall within five years"
1947-48 deja vu.
Some fools never learn.
And what country, do you suppose will in the end deal most effectively with the chiliastic madmen of the Islamic Republic of Iran?
And, when it finally does, it will make Buraq Hussein Osama kick over his desk in the Oval Office in anger. But, for that, America and the rest of the civilized world will be a hell of a lot better off. It's just Buraq Arafat Saddam Hussein Osama's beloved mahoundianism, to which he can never apologize or surrender enough, which he can never appease enough that will be dealt a well-deserved blow in this whole process.
Al-Arabiya network hopes Israel will fall within five years
Al-Arabiya can write what it wants, and in typical Islamic ramblings it rants on how the Middle East's most advanced country will fall soon, ignoring all its Arab 'neighbors' are in greater risk of collapse if Iran gets the bomb and takes the Israel 'bait'. Iran is being set up, with some very smart people behind this very long term military plan.
As mentioned here: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/10/elbaradei-israel-is-the-number-one-threat-to-the-middle-east-given-the-nuclear-arms-it-possesses.html#comment-606735
If Iran takes the 'bait' it spells the end of Iran's Islamic theocracy, and with it goes down the rest of Islam into its Last Days. The collapse of Islam will be a momentous time in history, where their big gamble on an Israeli "Holocaust" will undo 1400 years of Arab Islamic imperialism. No amount of oil money can save them then, it's over. So when they get their bomb, it's their swan song, and watch history unfold.
In a way, Israel is the biggest danger in the Middle East... for Islam. Will they go quietly into their sunset, or will it be a grand slam ball of light to finish this? I'll gamble they won't resist the bait, so a grand slam finish is coming for Islam, not Israel.
"Will Israel fall in five years?," from Al-Arabiya,
ROTFLMAO if i had a buck for every time muslims said this i would be a rich man muslims have been trying to kill israel since 48 more mental castration IMO by wishful thinking muslim
Excellent commentary as usual, Hugh.
Gates seems very anti-Jewish or perhaps, more to the point, anti-Israeli in his stance.
I refer to a previous article Jeff Gates: "Appeasing Israel -- At What Cost?"
Without Israel's buffer zone against the Jihad, we would probably already be under Shari'ah.
This is precisely what The united Nations of Islamic States, including Obama, or so it appears, would love to see happen.
With the capitulation of Israel would come the flood of Islamic fervor to take the rest of the infidels and Jews left in the world and Hitler's Nazi dream would be fulfilled in short order.
If anyone doubts the Islamic/Nazi connetion read this telgram addressed to the Grand Mufti in 1943 by Heinrich Himmler.
November 2, 1943 Himmler's telegram to Mufti:
"To the Grand Mufti: The National Socialist movement of Greater Germany has, since its inception, inscribed upon its flag the fight against the world Jewry. It has therefore followed with particular sympathy the struggle of freedom-loving Arabs, especially in Palestine, against Jewish interlopers. In the recognition of this enemy and of the common struggle against it lies the firm foundation of the natural alliance that exists between the National Socialist Greater Germany and the freedom-loving Muslims of the whole world. In this spirit I am sending you on the anniversary of the infamous Balfour declaration my hearty greetings and wishes for the successful pursuit of your struggle until the final victory.
Signed: Reichsfuehrer S.S. Heinrich Himmler"
There is another bery interesting blog entitled ""This WAR is for REAL ! (by Major General Vernon Chong, USAF, ret.)" at Lighthouse Patriot Journal" that gives a very good defence for the support of Israel.
I pray for the preservation of Israel against the "shoah".
It's quite obvious that the current US administration and many other Western powers are not as they seek to appease the Muslim world. Why? Have they contributed much to the world? I can think of one reason and one reason only...HYDROCARBONS.