Bob McCarty Writes

On the heels of Barack Obama’s visit to Israel, Barry Rubin’s recent Israel Insider article about the presumptive Democrat Party presidential nominee is must-reading for anyone interested in Israel’s future.

Appearing in the Israel Insider newspaper immediately following the author’s brief slap at “what a Harvard education gets you,” the excerpt below gives you a good sense of how the author feels about Obama’s approach to exercising diplomacy with terrorists like Hamas:

It is sort of like the famous scene from Indiana Jones in reverse.

You may remember that Jones is confronted by a sword wielding powerful warrior (Afghan-type clothes) who swings his sword at him showing off his great skill. Jones pulls out his gun and shoots the guy once. This brought a big laugh when I saw the film in a theatre. This is called: Western technology wins.

Now here’s my version. Jones, the epitome of modern sophisticated man in his expensive clothes and superior education, confronts the man with a brilliant series of arguments as to why it is in the warrior’s interest to focus instead on raising his living standards, make peace, and get his own state. The warrior pulls out a small knife and cuts off Jones’s head. Jones’s colleagues then say that Jones had it coming due to his past sins, that we must understand the suffering that led to this violence, this shows the need for more negotiations and concessions, etc.

This is called asymmetric warfare.

To read the entire article, click on this link > Mr. Obama, Meet Mr. Jihadi.