Obama gives weapons to Israel...just don't use till i'm re-elected!

Nice thread title fail.

 

Degreed!!!

 

Chicago machine style politics

typical

 

So what weapons did he give them?

 

I was just thinking earlier today how I wish our presidents and those running for president wouldn't have to kowtow to Israel.

 

This article has no substance to it. Even the part you quoted:

Ok, so Obama said that the U.S. would give upgraded military equipment under the assurance that Israel would not attack Iran in 2012. Notice how the author does not say what this equipment is or even if the deal was accepted.

An Israeli paper quotes as Israeli official that Israel had asked the United States for refueling planes and advanced bombs. That's great. Israel can ask whatever it wants, and the Israeli newspaper can tell Israeli newspapers whatever it wants. Doesn't mean the deal went through or that the deal involved these items. Or that even a pending deal would involve these items.

Check your title "Obama gives weapons to Israel...just don't use till i'm re-elected!"

Let's just say for the sake of argument that Obama did strike some type of military aid deal with Israel so that it would not attack Iran during our election period. What's the problem with that? I guess if you are pro-Israel attacking Iran you'd be against that deal. Israel is currently trying to leverage our own electoral politics against us so we support their attack or go ahead and attack Iran ourselves. This is not in our interests. If Obama believed that Israel would attack Iran tomorrow if we didn't give them some type of military aid, I'd much rather him give something small and have them have them hold off till the next president is in office so as to give the maximum amount of time to negotiate a peaceful result.

 

One might say the thread is built on a False premise!

 

That article is a joke. So Israel asks for weapons... No confirmation that we gave the weapons ... Then a source unnamed is in an Israeli paper saying that Obama said don't use them until 2012... This goes beyond hearsay... You can do better. Obama has done many questionable things, you don't need something heard fourth hand.

 

Well you can certainly tell election day is coming up.
Complete morons writing vague articles in the hopes that people take stuff out of context.

 

Actually, this is smart, IMHO, and I don't think the OP is far off on the thread title.

Netanyahu has been hammering the drums for war for some time, despite warnings from plenty of top military brass and a lukewarm response in public polls. But war always helps Israeli PMs in power. No matter how unpopular a war, dissent gets quiet fast in order to "support the troops" who are conscripted and someone likely related to you.

The gas masks are being distributed and Bibi is doing his best to scare the crap out of the electorate and his amen corner in the US. Yes, Iran is an existential threat to Israel, but so is North Korea to Japan and South Korea, and Pakistan to India and they already HAVE nukes.

There are plenty of strong arguments about why it would be incredibly stupid to attack Iran, but the least repeated is that it would only strengthen a weakening regime and draw Iran's opposition against the West.

Bribing Bibi to wait out sanctions is smart politics. For one, it averts a major disaster the world doesn't need and buys time. Second, Bibi gets to look like he's doing something. It's a fair compromise for two politicians that both hate each other but want to be re-elected.



Still, Bibi is very involved in trying to get American voters to unseat Obama because Obama threatens HIS ability to stay elected. And start wars of choice. And expand settlements. I look to him to make some choice appearances and make remarks to paint Obama as unfair to Israel or weak on Iran or some such nonsense. He is campaigning just as much for himself as he his for whomever wins the GOP nomination (well maybe not Ron Paul).

An Obama re-election will mean Obama will be able to politically afford to say no more often and more forcefully to Israel. Unless you believe Israel should have a carte blanc entitlement to annex it's neighbors and escalate tensions with everyone, this is a good thing.