Will Obama policy on Iran work?
This is an article by a 'Richard Shulman' posted at the San Francisco Examiner. It was hard for me to believe that the Examiner would allow the Jewish man who most obviously has an axe to grind against the Muslims of the world to post such a malicious and outrageous article. How did it make it online? All articles by Jews which deal with Arabs in particular and Muslims in general should be carefully scrutinized for malice and defamation. If this article were against Jews, Abe Foxman and a thousand Jews would have been mobilized to complain. I am still dumbfounded that this article is still on the Examiner website. It looks like that it has not been noticed by many, judging by the number of people who posted messages. I did search and found some email addresses and also a phone number for the Examiner editors. I will encourage all caring people to pick up the phone and have a talk with the Editors of the Examiner. From experience, I do realize that they need to be overwhelmed with calls, faxes and emails to reach a resolution. Please do what you can to alert everyone you know.
Richard Shulman
Richard Shulman has written 17,000 articles for Internet sites, over 12 years. He was a reporter for “Our Town,” Manhattan’s largest weekly. He wrote nine articles in the “Jewish Political Chronicle” and had had about 250 Letters to the Editor published.
June 19, 9:46 AM
It certainly helps to stress the positive while still trying to isolate Radical Islam. I give President Obama credit for that much.
There is a limit to how much his approach can work. Jihad is part of Islam. Also, when the U.S. fights for Muslims, as in Bosnia and Kosovo, Muslims abroad hardly express solidarity with us. They still accuse us of being anti-Muslim. When we fight some Muslims to protect the rest, most Muslims complain that we are killing Muslims. When Muslims kill Muslims over religious ideology, few Muslims besides those in the war zone complain.
Consider the jihad against Israel. Purpose: conquer Israel for Islam. The motive is religious. Therefore, the Arabs oppose Israel, regardless of what Israel does. This means that all the Obama efforts to change Israeli behavior are futile.
To conceal jihad’s religious motive from the West, Muslim Arabs depict their struggle against Israel in terms of grievances. These grievances either are manufactured or are their own fault and responsibility.
The immediate demand of the jihadists is for Israeli withdrawal from strategic territories. If granted, new demands would follow, until Israel can be conquered. That is the purpose of the demands. That is how Islam operates.
By taking up the jihadists’ initial demands, President Obama is not helping to reconcile the Arabs with Israel. He is helping them to destroy Israel. Therefore, Arabs are less likely to reform and make peace. His policy is misguided, at best.
click here for the article on the Examiner.
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