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Visiting Israel for the first time several decades ago, I was shocked at being told to report any packages left on buses or park benches because these might be terrorist bombs. To Americans, this then seemed almost unimaginable.
In the wake of 9-11, we in the West are all Israelis now.
We need to wake up and smell the danger that threatens us.
This week, a modern Paul Revere arrived in Washington, D.C., to warn us that “The terrorists are coming” to cities we call home.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows this from hard experience as a battle-wounded commando; brother of commando Yonatan killed rescuing skyjacked Israelis in Entebbe, Uganda; and leader of an American ally that faces incessant terrorist attacks.
What prompts Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech before Congress is that Iran –whose theocratic Islamist rulers believe they could trigger an apocalyptic war that brings the cosmic world triumph of Islam – may be within months of producing its first atomic bomb.
Iran’s rulers are building missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads onto the cities of Israel, Europe, and the United States. For Iran, the biggest supporter of terrorism, atom-armed terrorists may also become the delivery system of choice.
The next 9-11-like terrorist attack could vaporize Washington and New York City beneath mushroom-shaped clouds – killing millions, replacing our freedom with garrison states, and crashing our economy.
“When leaders play down a major crisis for fear of creating a crisis, isn’t that an even bigger crisis?” asked Fox News Neil Cavuto of Swiss America Chairman Craig R. Smith.
Mr. Smith told Fox News back in 2014: “Obama simply does not have the executive experience to respond properly. Americans have watched this pattern of blaming others or wishy-washy leadership which belittles the real crises our nation faces.”
Our President, Barack Hussein Obama, has different concerns. He is obsessed with confiscating the guns of law-abiding Americans, yet seems unwilling to lift a finger to prevent Iran’s fanatical rulers from obtaining A-bombs. He reneged on America’s agreement with Poland to establish an anti-missile system there to reduce Iran’s ICBM threat to Europe and the U.S.
Mr. Obama was eager to give F-15 jets to the Islamist Egyptian Brotherhood government that toppled our and Israel’s long-time ally Hosni Mubarak in Cairo, but withdrew this offer the instant pro-American, anti-Islamist Egyptian military leaders toppled ruling Brotherhood Islamist radicals.
Mr. Obama has called Iranian nuclear weapons unacceptable, but he has never pledged to use “assertive disarmament” if Iran acquires such weapons. If he is serious, why is this not the declared, unchangeable American position in any negotiation with an Iran that claims to have no A-bomb ambitions?
Mr. Obama, however, reportedly in 2014 quietly threatened the Netanyahu government, warning that our Persian Gulf fleet would destroy any Israeli aircraft that attempted to attack Iranian nuclear facilities.
President Obama has made little secret of his hatred for Mr. Netanyahu. Obama apparently fears that a strong, persuasive leader like Netanyahu might undermine his weak-kneed, submissive negotiations with Tehran.
Did Mr. Obama’s Muslim father or Indonesian Muslim step-father teach him the Islamic religious doctrines of al-Taqiyya, idtirar, kitman, or hiyal – all of which hold that lying is moral if done to protect Muslims or advance Islam? Surely he recognizes, therefore, that no treaty with Iran’s doomsday Islamists can be trusted.
Or perhaps, given all his deceptions, President Obama secretly embraces al-Taqiyya far more than we know.