http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-day-after-gaza-who-won-who-lost-and-what/ The Marketplace of Ideas Fri, 24 May 2013 09:11:12 +0300 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-day-after-gaza-who-won-who-lost-and-what/#comment-71368 David Ben-Ami Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:50:09 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=81890#comment-71368 As a "two-day later afterthought," should the information inspiring my article, that Obama promised Special Forces and new security technology to monitor and halt arms transfers to Hamas, as today's JPost headline suggests ('Satellites show Iran moving quickly to rearm Hamas') then it would appear that the Netanyahu Government had other motives unrelated to Israeli security for withdrawing from the ground invasion. If so, any government that puts its own interests above that of its country is unworthy of representing Israel.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-day-after-gaza-who-won-who-lost-and-what/#comment-71372 David Ben-Ami Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:55:35 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=81890#comment-71372 Surprised the hell out of me, Josh.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-day-after-gaza-who-won-who-lost-and-what/#comment-71370 David Ben-Ami Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:55:05 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=81890#comment-71370 I do not write as an Obama fan, Daniel. I spent the past four year criticizing him as at best naive regarding the region. And George W I hold in even lower esteem, as outright stupid in setting off the fall of the dominoes. If you read my earlier article I considered that Iran would provide a pretext providing Israel causus belli to take the battle to the Islamic Republic. While the US has, for twelve years (as I wrote above) done all possible to avoid confronting the Iranian bomb, even to the point of its intelligence community insisting Iran has no such weapons program, twice (2007, 2011 NIEs) with Iran supplying and training Gaza, openly fighting in Syria and threatening Israel that the US would have no super-power, face-saving option but to support Israel against Iran; to accept its long avoided responsibility to protect its Arab dependents, its national interests in Arab oil.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-day-after-gaza-who-won-who-lost-and-what/#comment-71366 Josh Korn Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:19:16 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=81890#comment-71366 If any of this is true – and there's no easy way I know of to verify it – then it does go some way to explaining why the Israeli leadership seemed content be appear as "Freierim".

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-day-after-gaza-who-won-who-lost-and-what/#comment-71362 Daniel Rosenthal Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:33:50 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=81890#comment-71362 Do you really think Obama will fulfill any promise? I almost guarantee that any help in Egypt will be temporary at best. It won't be long before "stuff" starts getting through. The fiscal cliff will distract everyone sufficiently to make this another empty promise.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-day-after-gaza-who-won-who-lost-and-what/#comment-71364 Daniel Rosenthal Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:33:50 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=81890#comment-71364 Do you really think Obama will fulfill any promise? I almost guarantee that any help in Egypt will be temporary at best. It won't be long before "stuff" starts getting through. The fiscal cliff will distract everyone sufficiently to make this another empty promise.

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