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By Harry W. Weber
April 7, 2006
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Today, in the midst of President Bush's plummeting approval ratings -- having reached 37% -- and within reach of President Nixon's nadir during the Watergate scandal, it's fair to ask: why? Why and how did President Bush's job performance drop from over ninety percent to thirty-seven percent in roughly four years? And why is President Bush threatening to overtake President Nixon as the lowest ranked U.S. president since World War II?
Conventional wisdom would have it that Iraq's failure to form a stable government, and its inability to take charge of its defense against homegrown and foreign terrorists, together, explain the President's abysmal fall in stature in the eyes of the American people. The President's slow reaction to the Katrina disaster is another reason cited for the growing lack of national confidence in the President's leadership. But are these simply apparent causes, or are they the real cause of the American people's collapse of confidence in their President?
Mr. Bush and Mr. Nixon have something crucial in common that explains their record low approval ratings. During the Yom Kippur War Mr. Nixon purposely delayed supplying Israel with desperately needed arms and munitions, thus causing the needless loss of Jewish lives and endangering Israel's survival. After the war, Mr. Nixon proposed exactly what Mr. Bush proposed -- the withdrawal of Israel from Judea, Sammaria and East Jerusalem. Unfortunately, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, has even outdone William Rogers, Nixon's Secretary of State -- for her plan calls not for Judea and Sammaria to be returned to Jordan, but for the establishment in those territories of a Palestinian, no, a Palestinazi state, a state linked at its umbilical cord to Al-Qaeda and Hammas. The same Mr. Bush who declared war on Islamic terror all over the globe has inexplicably turned a blind eye to terrorism in only one place on earth -- Israel. Now that a Hammas government is in place, Mr. Bush is devising ways of relieving that government of the economic pressure it's in, by sending "indirect" aid to the very Palestinazis who elected Hammas into office. Talk about selective morality!
The author certainly does not want to gloat over the matter, but he has probably been the only one to publish an article, as far back as March 2002, declaring that President Bush will end up as a very unfavorably ranked U.S. President, if the political principle that he discovered holds. In addition to the above Nixon-Bush commonality, I discovered that every Post-World War II President of the United States whose policies were harmful to the security and/or territorial integrity of the State of Israel, defined as its Biblical boundaries from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, suffered low rankings by U.S. historians. Furthermore, the more anti-Israel, as defined above, a President's policies were, the lower his rankings; the more pro-Israel a President's policies were, the higher his rankings.
That discovery is shocking, for it turns on its head several key assumptions of diplomacy. First and foremost, there is a leading school of diplomacy called cynically the "realism" school, whose basic philosophy is that nations' foreign policies should be determined solely on the basis of self-interest -- and that moral considerations and sentiment have no place in the conduct of foreign policy. That such a cynical and immoral policy stands as the cornerstone of U.S. diplomacy, or that of any other democratic state, is a moral stain on those nations that will never be erased! For how can the citizens of any civilized nation claim to be God fearing and God loving, yet simultaneously allow their government, in its relations with other states, to behave on the diplomatic playing field with completely different ground rules -- the ground rules of Sodom and Gemorra?
Parenthetically, it will do the President no good to claim that the Prime Minister of Israel went along with his plan for a Palestinian State inside Israel. God will punish Israel's prime ministers at least as harshly -- as can be seen by the Israeli corollary to the U.S. principle: every elected Israeli Prime Minister since the signing of the Oslo accords, which effectively call for the establishment of a Palestinian state in Israel, has either been killed, become comatose, or been forced out of office before his term expired. And for a good and Godly reason: the Oslo Accords are directly responsible for the murder of about 1,500 Israelis, equivalent to 70,000 Americans!
Three events shared the international spotlight on March 28, 2006. The first was the Israeli parliamentary elections. Ehud Olmert, in his victory speech, ignored completely the simultaneous swearing-in of the Palestine-Hammas government, dedicated as it is to the destruction of the State of Israel, and declared that Israel is prepared to compromise. And what kind of "compromise" with its "well-wishers" does Mr. Olmert have in mind? Giving up on no less than ninety-two percent of Israel's heart -- Judea and Sammaria. (If you look at the map of tiny Israel, Judea and Sammaria even resemble the shape of a heart.) Olmert said all this, while Hammas, escalated its terror war on Israel by firing, for the first time, a Katyusha rocket capable of reaching Ashkelon, a major Israeli city. Political analysts "analyze" that Israel will do nothing against this new escalation of terror until Jewish blood is spilled. So, in his first public appearance Mr. Olmert betrayed his utter moral bankruptcy, and the great danger he poses to the survival of Israel. Like all his post-Oslo predecessors he will end his career very badly indeed.
The God of history has punished each and every nation that has stood up against the people of Israel. The ancient Egyptians, the Caananites, the Philistines, the Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Persians, the Greeks, and the Romans have all tried to destroy Israel, and were destroyed themselves, their empires long gone from the face of the earth. Only the Israelites survived!
In more recent times Spain's fall from the status of superpower to also-ran in the backwater of Western Europe began in 1492, precisely the time in which it expelled its recalcitrant Jews -- those who refused to be "persuaded" to give up their religion, even in the face of the mass torture and murder by the infamous Church-inspired Inquisition.
Nazi Germany, whose main goal was the extermination of the Jewish nation, was itself exterminated in World War II. Immediately after that war, the Jewish people , instead of being broken forever, miraculously rose from the ashes of the Holocaust and returned to their ancient, divinely ordained homeland -- after an exile of nearly two thousand years.
Therefore, it's high time the world accepted the reality that God Almighty has chosen the Israelites as His children, for as history testifies, any nation which raises a hand against Israel will eventually be severely punished. Further, it's time for a new school of diplomacy, for a new "realism" that calls on all states to honor Israel, its people, and its right to fulfill its divine destiny -- to lead the world into a new age of morality, of light, to be a light onto the nations from the Holy Land that He bequeathed to His children. Let that new school of diplomacy be called "Isrealism" -- for Israel is real, and its reality should be the cornerstone of all nations' foreign policy, especially that of the United States.
The President should realize that his road show explaining his policies is utterly useless. Instead, if he wishes to reverse his historical standing and improve the welfare of the United States, he should immediately recognize the sin that is his "roadmap" for the creation of a Palestinian state in the heart of Israel's divinely ordained boundaries. He should realize that there already is a Palestinian state, by the name of Jordan, sitting on 76% of historic Palestine. Simply by making King Abdullah change the name of his Kingdom from Jordan to Palestine, Mr. Bush will go a long way toward establishing true peace in the Middle East -- peace based on historic truth, justice, and God's will as stated in the Bible.
A second necessary step in the President's historical rehabilitation would be his decision to do all he can, including the use of military means, to remove Iran's nuclear threat to Israel and the entire Western world. If he acts quickly on both these fronts, he will immediately turn himself from "goat" to "hero" in the eyes of his fellow Americans, in the eyes of history, and most importantly, in the eyes of God. There is no more "realistic" policy for him to follow.
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