tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post389393508812267505..comments2024-03-14T02:22:26.957+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: After the Jews, Iraqi Christians put to the swordUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-15972686115536149192010-11-14T12:23:32.157+00:002010-11-14T12:23:32.157+00:00When they conquered Iraq in 2003, the US army shou...When they conquered Iraq in 2003, the US army should have known that the Christian and other minorities there were vulnerable in a sea of Muslim hatred and bigotry and that they needed special protection. But such protection was not given. Christians, Yazidis and others have been repeated objects of hatred and mass murder. <br /><br />Since the US has not made any effort to protect their Christian brethren in Iraq in the last seven years of a US military presence in Iraq, we can judge on those grounds the worth of the current Obama administration promises made in the context of the "incentives package" offered to Israel in return for a surrender of Jewish human, civil and national rights, that is, to live throughout the Land of Israel. The Obama crowd wants a "settlement freeze" that is in fact anti-Jewish racism and apartheid against Jews. And they want to hold Jews hostage to the whims of the Arabs.<br /><br />Such promises are worthless, like the UK commitment to carry out the "palestine mandate" given it by the League of Nations in 1922 to foster development of the Jewish National Home. The UK openly disavowed that mandate in the 1939 White Paper that doomed millions of Jews to Hitler's death camps. <br /><br />Obama and sec'y Clinton have already disavowed commitments about settlements made by Bush to Israel in the letter to Sharon. American diplomatic promises are worse than worthless. They are sinister, since they may give Jews a false sense of security. <br /><br />The plight of native Iraqi Christians ought to be a signal to Jews of what to expect from hypocritical Western powers, the US, UK, EU, etc.<br /><br />In this context, we can understand a nasty article by the notorious Stephen Walt. He advocates that the US come down hard on Israel for "pragmatic" policy reasons, for the sake of "US national interests," presumably as defined by the State Dept and the national security council. Walt argues that Obama failed at the G20, where most major industrial powers rejected his proposals, because of Israel. This is ridiculous. Did China, India, Brazil, Russia and most or all EU states reject his proposals because of Israel, no matter how much the EU Commission and most EU member states may hate Israel??? Obviously, Walt and his ignorant, benighted sympathizers in the comments section will hate Israel in any case. They seem to want Israel to be held hostage by the US to Arab whims. Walt lies by calling Indonesia a "tolerant" Muslim country. Some commenters belied Walt by pointing out the massacres of Chinese and native Christians there, etc.<br /><br />http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/11/12/obama_asia_and_israelEliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-83396566883458272792010-11-14T11:24:07.957+00:002010-11-14T11:24:07.957+00:00One way for the US to have helped the Christian mi...One way for the US to have helped the Christian minorities in Iraq would have been to help fund, organize, train, and arm militias made up of Iraqi Christians to defend their villages, churches, neighborhoods, etc.<br /><br />But this was not done. Maybe the US has been applying the same logic that the British applied in 1941 when the British army --under Foreign Office orders-- allowed the Farhud to proceed. In other words, keep the Arabs/Muslims happy by letting them slake their thirst with dhimmi blood [metaphorically speaking]. Btw, the Telegraph reporter, Blomfield, although having written a good article, is not quite clear about the dhimma. He seems to think that it was created by the Ottoman empire when it goes back to early Islam.Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.com