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Submitted by Yusuf Obamastani (United States), Jul 3, 2012 at 23:05

Dan Pipes analysis is very astute. There is a new dynamic going on in the world as a whole and also in the middle east. Israel has only one true friend. The ethereal Creator, Sustainer, and King of the Universe. Who gives humans and nations free will. There is no reason for Israel not to be friendly to and seek mutually beneficial alliances with all peoples and countries that don't work towards genocide against Israel and its Jewish character. The US is rapidly losing its moral standing, political economic standing and overall superpower status. History is full of both dead and diminished powers that Israel has once feared but survives their claws: Byzantines, Ottomans, Roman, Hellenistic, Britain, Canaanite, Persian to name but a few, out of chronological orde,r that once ruled the Middle East. Some of these people and powers totally disappeared while others significantly shrunk in size and power. Such may be the fate of the US sooner than one may imagine.

We are reentering a multipolar world, much like the era prior to WW 1 and WW2. Of course not all the players in the multipower world are equal. And Israel as well as all other counties not tied up in artificial blocs such as the EU should also pursue asymmetric relationships as needed. And stop pretending the Obama administration watches their back other than to stab it or to neutralize Israel from excercizing power to neutralize Iran and other Islamists.

Israel, conceptually portable in the hearts and souls of the Jewish people during their exiles from geographic Israel does have 2 current major enemies that it should work to expel their influence in and out of Israel. The UN and the Islamist bloc. These enemies are also the enemies of many counties and even many Muslims. The EU is a minor enemy due the EU's Euro-Med pro Muslim anti israel policies. Many in the non Executive branch of the US government and of course the American people are still friendly to Israel. But I consider the Obama administration and the institutionalized State Department (since even before WW 2 and Israel's modern statehood) as hostile. Ironically, US efforts to have visible daylight vs Israel will backfire, thanks to Israel's only true friend.

Everything is related. It may very well also be a shifting Jewish American vote that dethrones Obama.

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1New World Order: Sharp Power vs. Soft Power [312 words]RobertOct 1, 2022 21:43287031
1India is not tough [65 words]johnSep 22, 2012 02:29198957
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4Ignorance, Stupid, or Worse [106 words]CliffordJul 12, 2012 20:30197202
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1no need to convince Russia and China [59 words]mythJul 5, 2012 19:22197020
1As moves the wealth, so moves the influence [101 words]Jon, a Brit in EurolandJul 5, 2012 11:10197009
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6It's Time the US, the European Union and Canada Wake Up [169 words]LillianJul 4, 2012 18:16196991
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1The common enemy! [41 words]Steven LJul 4, 2012 00:49196975
Dan Pipe's astute analysis [391 words]Yusuf ObamastaniJul 3, 2012 23:05196972
Israel choosing the not-as-bad [73 words]Kepha HorJul 5, 2012 00:31196972
It's just a yarmulka, but... [151 words]J. MeschJul 3, 2012 21:19196970
1Never completely disconnected. [153 words]batya daganJul 3, 2012 21:04196969
wrong [39 words]steveJul 5, 2012 11:51196969
1Israel and Russia [93 words]UgriJul 6, 2012 11:45196969
1It's a tangled web of diplomacy as flimsy as the spider's web. [78 words]M.D.Jul 3, 2012 19:42196966
1Russian, China and Israel against Islam [64 words]dennis garwitzJul 3, 2012 18:14196964
China's global strategy... [95 words]J. MeschJul 3, 2012 16:21196961
I question the analysis in that Russia and China vote vs Israel 100% of the time at the UN [57 words]MarkJul 3, 2012 16:19196960
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2Being a little closer to someone who is helping your enemies annihilate you? [77 words]Mladen AndrijasevicJul 3, 2012 12:11196953

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