The accusation of ‘dual loyalty’ is made regularly against any Jew here who dares to speak up on behalf of his brothers and sisters in the land of Israel, but one never hears of such an accusation being made against the many Muslim UK citizens who blatantly demonstrate their hatred of this country and intention to damage it. Good ol’ Brit double standards!

I’ll bet he gets along just famously with Ilan Pappe, who, last I heard, was chased out of Israel and lives in the UK today. They’re probably bowling buddies. Maybe more…

In any event, my only regret about this incident is that the soldier in question didn’t give him a nice sharp buttstroke with her rifle. I suppose she’d have got in all sorts of trouble, but that still would have been GREAT.

Bet that would be the last time he’d mouth off like that in Israel!

“And both see themselves as fighting to reestablish Arab (as well as tribal and family) honor by recovering the possessions ‘stolen’ from them in the nakba of the founding of the Jewish state.”

I hope you don’t imagine that this is my position! I am of course elucidating the Arab position here.

Maybe they’ll learn something.

You describe an interesting and plausible scenario.

The big wild card here that you leave out – I suppose deliberately – is the U.S. How matters unfold here between now and circa 2018 can either make this potential scenario you describe above either a lot more manageable, or a lot worse.

One possible outcome is that the forces that brought and maintained Obama in power – i.e., the Arab petrodollar lobby, the far left academia set that have a near total lock on the range of debate on relevant issues among the “educated” class, the outrageously corrupt national media – remain in place largely undiminished in influence no matter how badly Obama’s second term turns out.

In this case, even if the GOP runs a candidate who is George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abe Lincoln all rolled into one, it won’t matter. The national media and their supporting talking heads in academia will simply get everybody chanting the same mantra they were in ’12 and in ’08: “Why can’t the Republicans ever nominate a decent candidate? Waaaahhh!”

If that isn’t enough, the Arab petrodollar pimps will make sure Obama’s anointed successor has at least as much or more $$$ than his or her GOP opponent, and if all of that isn’t enough, then the vote itself will be rigged as needed in key swing states to steal the election…just like this last time.

In this case, the U.S. won’t be that far behind Europe on the policy issues relevant to Israel (and much else besides), no matter what the bulk of the American people really think or feel. And Israel will be beleaguered indeed.

On the other hand, if the current and, in all probability, future unfolding scandals of this administration spark a great enough public outrage that translates into effective grassroots action, maybe, just maybe, we might at least have something resembling a clean election in ’16. I think that is all we’d really need…I expect public frustration and disgust to be so great with Obama and what he represents by that time that the GOP really could win with Bozo the Clown.

But we really don’t have to worry about a prospective President Bozo, at least where Israel is concerned (we’ve already got that…). If you look at the GOP field right now, virtually every potential candidate would be far more genuinely pro-Israel than Obama, and in a larger sense, determined to restore American standing/prestige on the world stage. I don’t see very many Islamist apologists among the GOP contenders; the bad guys have not turned the GOP nearly to the extent that they have the Democratic Party, at least not yet (watch out for Chris Christie, though…and the jury is still out on Rand Paul, though I think even he’d be an objective improvement over Obama).

So, what it boils down to, in my view, is that we need a clean election in 2016. Sounds simple and straightforward, but it is anything but. I honestly don’t know, one way or the other, if we’re going to have this, or if we’re stuck in “United States of Venezuela” mode indefinitely. We’re so screwed up now in this regard that the idea of a clean election next time around for president represents a very serious challenge.

IF we get that clean election, though, a resurgent U.S., allied with others such as Canada and Australia, could easily face down an economically decrepit, decadent Europe that falls under the sway of their Moslems. However bad the Europeans may be, I really don’t believe that even a heavily Moslem-influenced Europe would be suicidal on the order of mullah-ruled Iran. Thus, faced with a nuclear-armed Israel backed up by the U.S., and with further diplomatic support perhaps from the likes of Canada and Australia, even the Europe described in Vic’s piece above would not be able to do much more than whine ineffectually over Israel.

I mean, as Gomer Pyle would say, “Surprise, surprise, surprise!”

What did we expect from Obama & Co.?

I’m not overly alarmed over this because this plan depends on private sector investment. This in turn puts specific investment decisions in the hands of business leaders.

Business leaders, one would think, are more concerned about business-relevant issues as opposed to politics. They want to know that their investments are in stable enterprises, sited in secure environments, that stand a good chance of turning a profit.

What business leaders really want to place bets on behalf of their owners and stockhoders in areas controlled by the PA? A civil war could break out between Fatah and Hamas at any time. A new Intifada could break out between the PA and the IDF at any time – and some way this is already happening in ‘slow motion’ as I write this.

Even absent such conflict as I describe above, there is the basic corrupt nature of the PA. Who really wants to have to deal with them?

Maybe Obama will try to make this happen by offering U.S. guarantees to investors, but that involves taxpayer money that Congress will have say over. If Obama goes that route, he’ll be picking yet another fight with Congress over Israel.

January 2017 can’t arrive soon enough, but these lame-brained schemes hatched by morons such as Kerry are sure to fail in the meantime. This reveals a major advantage held by Israel vis-a-vis the U.S. in this ongoing tug-of-war between putative “allies”: Obama and Co. are a bunch of morons and hacks; I’m sure Netanyahu or Bogie Ya’alon have more brains in their respective toenail clippings that the entire foreign policy staff of the Obama administration combined.

Thanks, Vic. Much needed.