Obama: Maybe Talking is the Problem?

Written by: Aaron Katsman | March 9, 2009

While Barack Obama disses the closest of US  allies, by both returning a bust of Winston Churchill, as well as barley acknowledging Gordon Brown’s visit, it appears that he is snuggling up to sworn enemies of the US. Kind of odd diplomacy, isn’t it? With news that Obama plans on lightening up restrictions against Cuba, sending senior officials to meet with Syria, and spending more money that has yet to be printed to help rebuild Gaza for the Palestinians, it’s is  no wonder that the world’s tyrants in both Iran and North Korea keep on testing the new president.

According to the Jpost, the Iranians are past the ‘point of no return’ and has the technology to make a nuclear bomb. According to the report: “Iran has “crossed the technological threshold,” and its attainment of nuclear military capability is now a matter of “incorporating the goal of producing an atomic bomb into its strategy,” OC Military Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin told the cabinet on Sunday. “Iran is continuing to amass hundreds of kilograms of low-enriched uranium, and it hopes to exploit the dialogue with the West and Washington to advance toward the production of an atomic bomb,” he said.”

So Obama, what’s your plan? It sure seems that all hell is breaking loose around the world and you have no answer, other than to sit down and have a cup of coffee with our enemies.

It then comes as no surprise that famed Pastor David Wilkerson is predicting that a huge calamity is imminent. He says, “An earth-shattering calamity is about to happen,” he writes. “It is going to be so frightening, we are all going to tremble – even the godliest among us.” Wilkerson’s vision is of fires raging through New York City. “It will engulf the whole megaplex, including areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. Major cities all across America will experience riots and blazing fires – such as we saw in Watts, Los Angeles, years ago,” he explains. “There will be riots and fires in cities worldwide. There will be looting – including Times Square, New York City. What we are experiencing now is not a recession, not even a depression. We are under God’s wrath. In Psalm 11 it is written, “If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” The we have the North Koreans. According to Breitbart.com: “North Korea warned Monday that any move to intercept what it calls a satellite launch and what other countries suspect may be a missile test-firing would result in a counterstrike against the countries trying to stop it. “We will retaliate (over) any act of intercepting our satellite for peaceful purposes with prompt counterstrikes by the most powerful military means,” the official Korean Central News Agency quoted a spokesman of the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army as saying. If countries such as the United States, Japan or South Korea try to intercept the launch, the North Korean military will carry out “a just retaliatory strike operation not only against all the interceptor means involved but against the strongholds” of the countries, it said.”

G-d forbid that something like this should happen, and like many I think that this prediction is beyond the pale, but I can say that he is not alone. There are some ’spiritual’ Jewish leaders who are also saying that in the next 30 days something big is going to happen.

Let’s hope that Obama and his national security and foreign policy teams come to their senses and they start showing respect to allies and contempt for enemies.

 

Hamas on The Ropes: Why Let Them Off the Hook?

Written by: Aaron Katsman | January 11, 2009

With international cries for a cease fire and the apparent lack of spine in the Israeli leadership, it appears that Israel will let Hamas off the hook and allow them to fight another day. The Jpost.com reports that IDF Military Intelligence Head Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin briefed the cabinet on how the terrorist government of Hamas was in trouble. The paper said,  “According to Yadlin, Hamas had realized its error in not anticipating an Israeli response to the ongoing rocket fire, and expecting neither a ground operation nor the cold shoulder the world has shown the group.

He spoke of the cracks in Hamas resilience, its disconnected leadership in Syria, and its waning public support following the extensive Israeli attacks on the organization, but predicted that while Hamas realized that it had no choice but reach a compromise with Israel, it was not about to succumb, and was still capable of striking
Israel
and the IDF.”

The question that begs to be asked is why would Israel stop the offensive, when they have a great chance of destroying Hamas once and for all?

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Aaron Katsman is Managing Editor of the Israel Opportunity Investor newsletter. He is lead portfolio manager for the Israel Growth Portfolio and Managing Director of America Israel Investment Associates, LLC. For more information, go to www.israelnewsletter.com or call 1-888-327-6179, or email aaron@profile-financial.com.