What good has Obama been doing since he came to power, although he believed to arrange things in the USA? The United States has never fared as unfortunately as these days. The economy does not work, unemployment is rising, and on top of all this, Obama wants to legalize millions of illegal aliens. On the economic side, he made so many ridiculous laws that encumbered trade and reduced US productivity in all areas. During the six years he has been in power, we could already have built the pipeline that will bring oil from Canada and make America independent from the energy point of view on the world market. Obama has spent a lot of money to create the production for the exploitation of solar energy, which would replace traditional energy sources. Unfortunately this only brought investment losses.
Having himself a Muslim father and believing in opening markets and elevating the Arabs, Obama has begun to change the Arab world in his own way, by creating the Arab revolutions from Tunisia to Egypt. As the New York Times wrote in 2011, "U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings.”
Obviously, this was resented by some Arab leaders. Until today they quietly shy away from any cooperation with Obama. Especially in the Arab world, if someone does something against the elite, he will not be loved. In short, some Arab countries continue relations with Obama, like Tunisia and others, despite the uprisings, which were helped by the US administration.
For six years, relations with Iran have not stopped, wanting to supposedly help Iran produce nuclear energy for peaceful use, as they claim. However, the Israelis do not believe this, and rightly so, since the Iranians still threaten to annihilate Israel. And this is repeated despite the change of government, increasing the tension in Israel. Neither Obama nor his government have done anything to appease the Israelis who are skeptical of all these so-called non-nuclear negotiations. Now obviously the Arab camp also plays a role, because it also fears Iran, which resulted in the forging of ties with Israel, hoping that the Israelis would join them to attack Iran should it prove necessary.
Netanyahu has probably ceased to believe in Obama and his team, even more so, as the Gaza war was triggered mainly by the actions of the US administration, which no longer inspired confidence to the Israelis, although the relationship continued. The Gaza war has demonstrated that the Palestinians would not have acted as they did, if there had been no direct or indirect influence of Obama and his administration.
During the war in Gaza, the Israelis realized that there had been certain actions of the US administration that did not reflect the cordial friendship that existed between Israel and the United States and that the Americans had stopped the shipment of rockets to Israel, supposedly finding ridiculous excuses. Thus, a great distrust of the Israelis began.
We remember that before the war, Hamas dared to kidnap three young students, of whom one was American. It took a lot of time for Israel to find these young people and their murderers. It was very surprising that the Obama administration had not shown any concern after the incident. Then Hamas began firing rockets against Israel, leaving Israel no choice but to fight back. So Israel has realized that Obama took the position of the terrorists, which was Hamas and that he maintained good relations with Qatar, which is financing Hamas, and Turkey, which also supported Hamas, while Arab countries like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE stood quietly on the side of Israel.
What is even more worrying is that in the midst of these events, Americans have found it necessary to sell weapons to Qatar for $ 10 million and for $ 4.5 million to Turkey. I wonder for whom these weapons are actually intended.
It is amazing that just as the war was over, riots began to be seen in Israel, even among the Israeli Arabs and what’s more, Abbas incited the Arab population, creating a danger to Israel and Jordan. Thus the king of Jordan became very nervous. John Kerry went to see him and called Netanyahu to convene in Jordan in order to find a way to calm things down. A question that comes up, who has influenced all this violence, Abbas or Kerry indirectly, to help the king of Jordan and humiliate Netanyahu. As usual, belittle one to elevate the other. In my opinion, if there had been no American influence in this violence, I am sure that Israel could have agreed with Jordan and with the Palestinians.
The US government probably wanted to push this kind of violence in order to get the PA and Jordan better conditions. Fortunately, Netanyahu showed wisdom and did not allow himself to be induced into this kind of scheme. This confirms to me that the US administration had played a negative role for Israel, as it did in Tunisia, Egypt, etc.
In reality we know who initiated this kind of riot that killed several Israelis and transformed the friction that exist between Israelis and Palestinians into a religious discord. The Israelis had no intention to get this far.
I believe that Kerry could also have had his hands in these riots, as negotiations between Israel and Abbas had failed to go as he had wanted. Despite his meeting with King Abdullah and Netanyahu, who had more or less solved the problem between them, he did not punish Abbas who had actually started the riots. This approach could only raise the prestige of King Abdullah.
Copyright 2014 Emile Tubiana
What I will say, is I wish that all "outsiders," interested or disinterested, would butt out and let only the parties directly involved sort it out on their own. This includes members of BOTH the Jewish and Arab diasporas, and American Evangelical Christianity.
Unfortunately a lot of outsiders have agendas, and perceived gains or losses if the solution arrived does not match what they want out of those agendas.
It just won't happen. Too may people who don't ownmit want a piecemof the pie.
ChipB.
Love ya!
Jane