The Rage of Seething Desperation

"[U.S. vetoes at the UN Security Council were] predicated on this idea that the two-state solution is the best outcome. Now our ally in these talks has said that they are no longer committed to that solution. That means we need to reevaluate our position."
Josh Earnest, White House spokesman

"Get over your temper tantrum, Mr. President -- it's time we work together with our Israeli friends [against Islamist groups in the region]."
U.S. Senator John McCain

"If the Americans are finding it difficult to understand or accept our clarifications, this is certainly worrying and requires tending to."
Yuval Steinitz, Strategic Affairs Minister, Israel

"We take him at his word when he said that it wouldn't happen during his prime ministership. [The U.S. would now] evaluate what other options are available."
U.S. President Barack Obama

"I know the things I said a few days ago hurt some of Israel's citizens and hurt Israel's Arabs. I had no intention to do that. I apologize for it."
 "My actions as prime minister, including the massive investments in minority groups, prove the complete opposite. I equally think that no authority outside of Israel should meddle in our democratic processes. I see myself as the prime minister of every one of you, of all Israeli citizens, without any difference of religion, race, or gender. I see all Israeli citizens as partners in the building of a thriving and secure Israel for all Israeli citizens."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu meets with minority leaders (Photo: Likud)

Which one amongst the many who condemn Benjamin Netanyahu for his election-speech rhetoric is a mensch, certainly not President Obama whose seething anger that his underhanded interventions in an Israeli election in a concerted effort to unseat the incumbent and replace him with a U.S.-led puppet reminds one of none other than Vladimir Putin and his machinations in Ukrainian politics. And the revenge that this American president is now taking in the United Nations no longer in support of Israel speaks volumes.

The Israeli Prime Minister had the courage of his convictions. His is the responsibility to protect Israel and its people. The threats that continually afflict the country are if anything increasing exponentially as the Middle East erupts in a conflagration whose flames are fed by the Islamic Republic of Iran and the sectarian hatreds between Sunni and Shiite governments and militias. A hatred so intense that human life no longer has the proscription against mass slaughter committed by religious fanatics.

With whom should Israel negotiate for a peaceful settlement between it and the Palestinians? Fatah or Hamas; each of them dedicated to the destruction of the State of Israel; one overtly the other covertly. In the current climate of wild conflict between the Muslim sects where Hezbollah and the Iranian al-Quds Republican Guards are fighting alongside Shia militias against the Sunni al-Qaeda-linked Nusra, and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, with Hamas preparing for new assaults from Gaza, a Palestinian State in the West Bank would provide the entryway for Israel's mass of enemies to gain traction.

If the country most likely to be in the first line of fire by a nuclear-arms-possessing Iran with its grandiose plans for Middle East domination, and its tentacles reaching from North Africa to Asia and Latin America doesn't speak loudly and vehemently against the most powerful government on Earth wilfully negotiating an agreement that will be useless to prevent that achievement of nuclear arms, who then will? This is an American president whose own countrymen are in agreement with the pleas of the government of Israel.

"As negotiations between Iran and the great powers press forward, Secretary of State John F. Kerry seems to have settled on this defense of any agreement: The terms will leave Iran at least a year away from obtaining a nuclear bomb, thus giving the world plenty of time to react to infractions. The argument is meant to reassure, particularly when a sizable enrichment capacity and a sunset clause appear to have already been conceded. A careful assessment, however, reveals that a one-year breakout time may not be sufficient to detect and reverse Iranian violations."
Michael Hayden led the Central Intelligence Agency from 2006 to 2009 and the National Security Agency from 1999 to 2005. Olli Heinonen is a senior fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a former deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Ray Takeyh is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Washington Post Op-Ed 

President Obama has become increasingly unpopular. His internal relations with other elected officials in Washington are at a dangerous ebb; his hugely unpopular initiatives within the country has ensured that his presidency will not be well regarded by history. His international relations have been a shambles, leaving the once-proud United States' traditional role as world leader utterly shredded. He now gambles a legacy to restore his reputation on finding agreement with Iran over its nuclear ambitions, having been disappointed in his resolve to settle the Israel-Palestinian peace issue.

His resentful anger at all the failures he has himself garnered for his administration and his personal reputation making a parody of absurdity over himself as Noble Laureate, has been funnelled into seething rage against the 'ingratitude' of one tiny state battling to keep itself safe from the flames of the Islamist furnace that is consuming the always-fragile stability of the Middle East and North Africa. Leadership, integrity and the courage of resolve, from Ukraine to Iran, North Korea to Libya, Iraq to Syria have distinguished his presidency.