Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund

Today’s top headline: US President Barack Obama has been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Please forgive my cynicism, but aside from pandering to the Muslim world, bowing to the Saudi king, scheming to prevent Israeli families from having babies in Samaria, Judea, and Jerusalem, and appeasing the world’s most notorious dictators, it’s hard to know what Obama’s foreign policy accomplishments are.

I am so impressed with the choice of the Nobel committee that I would like to already send in my suggestions for next year!

I would like to hereby nominate several highly worthy candidates for next year’s Nobel Peace Prize:

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, Caesar Chavez of Venezuela, Fidel Castro of Cuba, and last but not least, Hassan Nasrallah of Hizbullah - As is well known, these are all men of peace, proponents of non-violence and moderation, and according to Obama,  leaders  who can be reasoned with, if we would only show more understanding for their needs and concerns.

May the best man win!

David Rubin

Shiloh, Israel

Iran has threatened Israel and the Western democracies with its soon to be functional nuclear program. This is not an idle threat, somehow restricted to its Hitlerian leader, Achmadinejad, but extends to his more ”moderate” opponent in the upcoming Iranian elections. The difference is that Achmadinejad threatens both loudly and clearly. But the question I’d like to address here is this; How will we respond to that threat? There is a great deal of discussion these days in the American and Israeli corriders of power about the possibility of an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Word has it that President Obama is demanding Israeli concessions in exchange for American cooperation/silence in the face of such an attack. This apparently refers to the ongoing Arab/ Muslim/American demand for Israeli agreement to the creation of a Muslim terrorist state within its tiny borders, a sure recipe for Israel’s destruction, or at least a sharp increase in terror attacks by our “partners for peace”. According to a news report in yesterday’s papers, Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, apparently caving in to the misguided American pressure, voiced support for the so-called “Two-State Solution”, in which a Palestinian terror state would be created in Israel’s biblical heartland of Samaria and Judea.

Such pandering to Obamian and Clintonian whims will solve no problems, but will certainly create new ones by projecting Israeli weakness at a time when we need to stand firm against the Iranian Muslim regime that would love to nuke Israel as a critical first step to renewed attacks on the remaining NY coastline and American interests around the world.

Is Obama simply naive about the stark realities in the Middle East, or was his infamous bow before the Saudi monarch several weeks ago just a symptom of a much more ominous Obamian admiration for the Muslim culture that he was raised in?

More importantly, will Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu stand up to Obama and Clinton and speak truth to power?

In about two weeks’ time, we will probably know the answer, as Netanyahu leaves for his trip to Washington.

David Rubin

Shiloh, Israel