ISRAEL...Had Two Friends..

Now there is but one.


Since the Election of Stephen Harper and prior to the Election of Barack Obama, Israel could count on only Canada and the US to defend its interest across the world.


With Obama's victory, it can now only count on Canada.


Obama has turned America away from Israel for two major reasons; first, his naive belief that he can successfully negotiate with their heretofore enemies and second, due to the America's left natural symapathy for all things Palistinian.


Sadly, there may be another factor at play. The Black community in the United States has a pronounced anti-Semitic streak. One would have to think, given Obama's background of life and work on the south side of Chicago, he could not have escaped some of that negative sentiment.


Regardless, for Israel, it could not have come at a worse time.

UN resolutions denouncing Israel are becoming more frequent and more vitrolic.


More important though, it comes at a time when Israel's main enemy, Iran, is on record as saying it intends to obliterate them from from the face of the earth and at a time when Iran has or is about to have the nuclear wherewithal to do just that.

There is really nothing Canada can do to stop it - other than to continue to speak out. Israel must continue to hope that in the final analysis, the USA will be by its side. But, given the above, they must be having serious doubt.

Israel is a very small nation, both real estate and population wise. Its population of less than 8 million people is even slightly less than the number of Palistinians, The country itself is a small sliver of land that borders on the Mediterranian and is surrounded by Arab Countries. Egypt alone - a bordering neighbour - has well over 80 million inhabitants.

It is also the only democratic nation in a sea of dictatorships. Talk about isolated and surrounded!!

And yet, Israel continues to be a beacon to the world on what it continues to accomplish in such a foreboding environment.

In his dying days of office, I fully expected that George W. Bush would have worked with Israel to smash Iran's nuclear capability. Why he did not - is a mystery. Even his VP - is on record as saying he tried to convince his boss to take that step. Perhaps Bush was simply tired with all the outrage that continued to come his way for trying to do the right thing for the world. In that regard, who could blame him.

But he left the issue undone. And now with Obama in place, is it looking less likely that anything will be done by the States.

It comes down to Israelis themselves. If they do bomb Iran - they are damned. If they don't bomb Iran, they risk being obliterated.

What would we in Canada do if faced with the same situation?

I leave it to each of you to decide in your own way.

"Galagher"







Israel is a light on a sea of darkness. With only ?