John Batchelor said...

>”There is only one issue that moves the White House, and that is the issue of money.”

I actually don’t think so. I think this White House runs primarily on ideology. Granted, there are some – Axelrod, perhaps – who look to polls and ‘Jewish checks’ in order to gage how the Administration is doing relative to previous administrations. This is their job. But the president does not listen to them. He may respond reluctantly to repeated harangues from such people, but ultimately more money or less money means nothing to Obama.

No doubt, Obama is preoccupied – perhaps even obsessed – with Israel as previous administrations have been. He knows that if he were able to facilitate a solution during his terms in office, he would be lauded until the end of history. The question is by whom? The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a hard nut to crack. On a scale of challenge it ranks with Mt. Everest – or, better yet, K2. The reason there has been no solution is because there are too many opportunists – especially on the Arab side - who do not want it solved. It is their bread and butter. It represents their access to the trough.

Obama and America in general are seen as the trough. Previous administrations all have accepted their role as that trough. They married themselves first and foremost to the task of keeping the trough filled. Not so Obama. He appears to be prepared to hand over an empty trough to all those feeding from it and inviting this hungry brood to partake of the main meal: Israel.

He knows it will erupt in conflagration. But, as one trained in community organizing, this is his ultimate aim. His bias tends clearly toward the Arab side of the equation. Note: Obama has not demanded that Arab nations recognize Israel’s right to exist. To be fair, neither have previous administrations. However, Obama’s motives are markedly different.

Whereas previous administrations were primarily troubled by the possible disruption of Middle Eastern oil flowing to the free world, Obama would welcome such a development as it would likely plunge the Western democracies into chaos. I still say that Obama’s ultimate aim is chaos.

Expect him to agitate; expect him to do all he can to bolster the chances of America’s enemies to emerge unscathed. This is how he aims to enhance his global street cred to the point of where he can no longer be ignored. He ultimately hopes to be embraced as the one responsible for having slain not only the Little Satan, but the Great Satan as well. What better resume for a man who is consumed by his own self-importance – to have been the one to have crafted a solution to what was widely seen as an impossible project!

Naturally, the world – including the Arabs – will shun him. Even they know that there is nothing on this earth lower than a traitor.