Obama Abandons Israel

Note: This opinion editorial for the D.C. Foreign Policy Examiner was co-written by is written by Sam Nunberg ACLJ Deputy Director of Government Relations along with Jordan Sekulow, ACLJ Director of Policy and International Operations at the American Center for Law and Justice.

"The [Gaza] flotilla commander said yesterday; 'We will not allow the Zionists to get near us and we use resistance against them . . . They are people who seek Martyrdom for Allah, as much as they want to reach Gaza, but the first [Martyrdom] is more desirable." This statement was made only a day before the now infamous 'Gaza Flotilla' incident by Dr. Abd Al-Fatah Shayyeq Naaman, a visiting lectuter in Sharia law at a university in Yemen who is no residing in Gaza. The six ships were organized by the Free Gaza Movement, a coalition of leftist organizations with indisputable ties to the terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, and by the Turkish Islamist group, the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), an organization that French magistrate Jean-Louis Brougiere testified hand an "important role" in Ahmed Ressam's failed "millennium plot" to bomb the Los Angeles airport in late 1999. Clearly, the 'Gaza Flotilla" was no armada of benign altruism.

After fire was exchanged, Prime Minister Netanyahu was forced to cancel his planned meeting with Obama in order to attend to the crisis. Surely Netanyahu was aptly concerned of the diplomatic onslaught that would be directly targeted against the Jewish State in the United Nations. Only four short days before, President Obama decided to abandon the longstanding agreement between the U.S. and Israel by voting in favor of the U.N.s Nuclear Non-Proliferation Final Declaration, which included language clearly directed against the State of Israel that threatens the worlds national security.  In fact, even more perverse, the NPT Declaration vote was the first time that the US accepted the moral relativism gimmick of the Iranian regime that Israel and the Mullahs are both on equal moral footing when it comes to possession of arms.  Obamas overly nuanced language is not fooling Jerusalem; the damage has been done. Israels nuclear ambiguity, a policy vital to the States security, is no longer protected by the US veto under the Obama regime.

What was most shocking was the swiftness with which the UN Security Council convened for an emergency session on Monday to confer over the Gaza Attila, when it  has failed to hold a single session in the last year over the Iranian regimes open drive toward nuclear weaponization or Pyongyangs act of war against South Korea. The Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davutoglu called Israels action a grave breach of international law [that] is tantamount to banditry and piracy.  It is murder conducted by a State.  The Obama regime used the rare opportunity to actually participate in a Security session to have Deputy Permanent Representative UR Representative Alejandro Wolff allege that this incident underscores the need to move ahead quickly with negotiations that can lead to a comprehensive peace in the region.

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Please note that in discussing political issues, candidates positions and political party statements, Jordan Sekulow is offering analysis in his individual capacity as lawyer and commentator. He is not speaking on behalf of the American Center for Law & Justice. The ACLJ does not endorse or oppose candidates for public office. Nothing contained in this article should be construed as the position of the ACLJ.