“Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says Yahweh Sabaoth. (Zechariah 4: 6)
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The Algemeiner—New York Times Columnist Recycles Advice From James ‘[Expletive Deleted] the Jews’ Baker:
New York Times columnist Roger Cohen’s Rosh Hashana present to the Jewish state is a column that violates his Times colleague Bret Stephens’ recent rules on how to write a good op-ed piece.
Cohen writes:
There are those criminal investigations of possible bribery and fraud in which Netanyahu is a suspect. One is a favors-for-pink-Champagne-and-cigars affair involving wealthy friends, including an Israeli Hollywood producer. Another involves an apparent attempt to secure favorable coverage in one newspaper in exchange for curtailing the circulation of another.
Both these may pale beside the submarine affair, an investigation in which Netanyahu is not a suspect but his former chief of staff, and his second cousin, and a former deputy head of Israel’s National Security Council are. At the center of the affair lie submarine and missile ships from a German company. Netanyahu has dismissed the whole thing as “foam.” It’s sure bubbling up and just might wash him away. [Emphasis added]
Stephens had written:
Write declarative sentences. Delete useless or weasel words such as “apparently”…
Whatever happened to the presumption of innocence? If these so-called scandals turn out to be just hype — a possibility that Cohen’s “possible…apparent…may…might” weasel words certainly allow — is the Times columnist going to issue an apology? Or are even unproven charges worthy of being hurled at Netanyahu, merely because he represents the Israeli public in their skepticism about the Cohen plan of immediately creating a Palestinian terrorist state alongside Israel’s border and in half of the Israeli capital?
Cohen concludes his column by writing:
James Baker, as United States secretary of state, once gave the number of the White House switchboard and told the Israelis: “When you’re serious about peace, call us.” Trump should give his alter ego the same treatment — and wait for those investigations to run their course.
Yet Cohen doesn’t report that Baker’s “call us” tactic did not work. One might claim that it produced the Madrid Conference, but even the Madrid Conference didn’t produce much; the Oslo breakthrough, such as it was, had to wait for a Clinton administration that was perceived as more Israel-friendly than Baker had been.
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SnyderTalk Comment:
President George H.W. Bush masterminded the Madrid Conference that led to the Oslo Accords. The Oslo Accords produced a rapid and prolonged period of terrorist activity aimed at Israel that continues to this day.
President Bill Clinton pushed the H.W. Bush agenda, but President George W. Bush pressured Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to unilaterally withdraw from Gaza. That led to Hamas talking complete control of the Gaza Strip and gaining political strength in the West Bank.
President Barack Obama ignited the Arab Spring. The most significant consequence of Obama’s actions has been an Israel-hating Iran setting up shop on Israel’s northeast border with Syria and strengthening ties with Hezbollah on Israel’s northwest border with Lebanon and with Hamas on Israel’s southwest border with Gaza.
We must not forget how we got to this point. The trajectory we are on does not bode well for Israel. President Trump needs to reverse course.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
See “His Name is Yahweh”.
