A Green Light to
Invade Israel?
American Thinker
Lauri Regan
July 31, 2009
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday
that the Obama administration is supporting the implementation of a United
Nations doctrine that would approve military action in order to prevent
genocide. While not legally required to act, the countries supporting the
doctrine (including the U.S.,
China, and Russia) have
all expressed the political will to act in the case of genocide, war crimes,
ethnic cleansing, or crimes against humanity.
While sounding well intentioned, I fear that the Obama administration and every
Israel-hating member of the United Nations will use this doctrine as a weapon
against Israel.
Prior to Obama’s election, many concerned about his stance on matters relating
to Israel looked to an interview
given by his chief foreign policy adviser at the time, Samantha Power, in which
she stated that a military invasion of Israel may be necessary in order to
create a Palestinian state and prevent genocide. Ms. Power, who is now the director of
multilateral affairs at the National Security Council, stated:
“In the Palestine
[sic] and Israeli situation, there’s an abundance of information and what we
don’t need is some kind of early warning mechanism. What we need is a
willingness to actually put something on the line and sort of helping the
situation. And putting something on the line might mean alienating a domestic
constituency of tremendous political and financial import. It may more
crucially mean sacrificing or investing, I think, more than sacrificing,
literally billions of dollars not in servicing Israeli’s [sic] military but
actually investing in the new state of Palestine.
In investing billions of dollars it will probably take also to support, I
think, what will have to be a mammoth protection force…a meaningful military
presence because it seems to me at this stage and this is true of actual
genocides as well and not just major human rights abuses which we’re seeing
there, but is that you have to go in as if you’re serious. You have to put
something on the line and unfortunately imposition of a solution on unwilling
parties…Unfortunately, it does require external
intervention…”
So here we have a high ranking member of the Obama administration who believes
that “major human rights abuses” are occurring in Israel
and that in order to correct that situation, military aid to Israel should cease. Instead, this
high ranking government official is advising the President that US taxpayer dollars should be used to invest in
“Palestine” and to sustain a military presence
in Israel in order to impose
her ideology on a US
ally.
Furthermore, the U.S.
is now on board with a UN doctrine that would support military intervention in
order to prevent human rights abuses. This is a doctrine that would be enforced
by an anti-Semitic international peace-keeping organization that has passed
innumerable resolutions condemning Israel yet ignored human rights violations
the world over (not to mention the human rights violators that sit on the
Security Council and Human Rights Council that will be making these
determinations).
The question that I have is how far will Obama take his destructive Mideast policies? Will he use this doctrine as a hat on
which to pin a “final solution” to the Mideast
conflict?