This article in Commentary mirrors my thinking pretty closely - from the very beginning of the putative 'Arab Spring' Israeli conservatives were my go to sources for opinions on how this all might play out - which is why what's happening in Egypt is not coming as a surprise to me and why not much of what has transpired over the last few years in the Mideast has come as a surprise to me. Israel gets that awful little corner of the world better than anyone else and it's absurd, ludicrous when Obama and those nitwits in Europe talk and act as if that isn't true, can't be true.
But the Commentary article also touches on another point which I've been thinking about lately - there are two conclusions one can draw about Obama when it comes to foreign policy: either he's a complete moron, hopelessly misguided, utterly in over his head, simply does not have a clue; or his sole motivating goal is to reduce the power and reach of America, to pull it back from the world stage as a precursor to dramatically shrinking the military - what looks like foreign policy incompetence is just the natural consequence of Obama doing exactly what he intended to do, ie in essence, castrate American power. Such an unmanning has been the cherished dream of every uber liberal academic in America [which effectively means every academic in America] for many years and unsurprisingly that's the intellectual swamp that spawned Dear Leader.
Whichever of those two views you choose to side with regarding Obama's foreign policy inclinations the implications of it are all bad for Israel either way - and so the question I've been wondering about is: how will this disturbing reality impact Israel's behavior? Not sure, but the logic of the situation seems to suggest that it will lead to a hardening of their positions, not a softening - which is why Netanyahu's willingness to surrender Palestinian terror prisoners in order to coax the PLO into peace negotiations that Bibi surely knows are almost certainly doomed to fail was such a head scratcher. Sure, Kerry's insistence put Israel in a very tough position - but, still, the gesture seems extreme - but then maybe that's the point of it: Obama's ideological prejudices are gonna force Israel into actions which will assuredly invite scorn and criticism from the usual suspects - in order to mitigate what's coming extreme sacrifices will be required.
