Front Lines
EDITOR'S LETTER
Israel's Enemies Realign
T
he global assault on Israel is the planted Egypt and Saudi Arabia as
result of the weakening of Arab
widely recognized leaders of the Islamic
power in the Islamic world, the
world. And Israel is at risk. Iran is seek-
stepped-up incitement of anti-Semitism
ing nuclear bombs, Pakistan already
throughout the Islamic world, the loos-
boasts a nuclear arsenal and Turkey is
ening of America's ties with its allies
dialing down its relations with Israel.
in general and the abandonment of
We may think of Pakistan, home
America's support for Israel.
base to Al Qaida, as the emerging
So says
Islamic power. But as Glick writes in
Jerusalem Post
her provocative June 4 col-
columnist
umn "Israel's Daunting Task:'
Caroline Glick, a Pakistan has only limited
Chicago native
ability to challenge the power
who made
of Arab governments — its
aliyah in 1991
nuclear and jihadist cachet
and today is a
notwithstanding.
resonant voice
Writes Glick: "Its financial
on the right of
dependence on Saudi Arabia,
Caroline
Israel's politi-
its strategic ties with the U.S.
cal spectrum.
and the ongoing war between
She earned a
its government and the Taliban/Al Qaida
master's degree in public policy from
have all rendered Pakistan, for now,
Harvard University's Kennedy School of unable to compete with the Arab world
Government in 2000. During Benjamin
for the mantle of Islamic leadership."
Netanyahu's first stint as Israeli prime
Pakistan's nuclear edge has helped
minister, she served as assistant foreign put Iran on the cusp of regional con-
policy adviser. She's now senior fellow
trol. Writes Glick: "Iran's long-held
for Middle East affairs at the Center for nuclear aspirations only became real-
Security Policy in Washington.
istic when Pakistan shared its nuclear
Her point about America abandon-
and ballistic missile technologies with
ing its support for Israel is a stretch
the mullocracy. Iran's nuclear weapons
— although it definitely has resonance
program is the stick it now wields to
in President Obama's dangerous strat-
coerce the Arab world to bow to its
egy to court our enemies more — but
Perceptively, Glick talks about Iran not
her analysis is cogent, nonetheless.
just dangling threats and coercion: "Since
Iran, Pakistan and Turkey, all non-
the U.S. invasion of Iraq and even more
Arab Islamic states, indeed have sup-
forcefully since the 2006 war between
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Israel and Hezbollah, Iran has taken the
lead in fighting the great enemies of the
Arab world: the U.S. and Israel."
As Glick explains, the Arab masses
embraced Iran after Israel fought
Hezbollah, the Islamic republic's Shiite
Arab proxy, to a draw in Lebanon in
2006. And Hamas' willingness to serve
as Iran's Palestinian proxy has given
Iran complete control over the
most active fronts against "the
hated Jews."
Meanwhile, since ris-
ing to power via the radical
Islamic AKP party in 2003,
the Turkish administration of
Prime Minister Recip Erdogan
has
brainwashed the Turks to
Glick
believe that Israel and America
are, in Glick's words, "demonic,
murderous nations that kill innocent
people for entertainment."
Just last week, Israeli naval comman-
dos were attacked by an Islamic lynch
mob aboard the Turkish ship Mavi
Marmara, which was trying to run
Israel's sea blockade of Gaza.
How telling is that?
Turkey — a decade ago Israel's most-
important regional ally — now stands
with Iran in the Islamic and global
assault on Israel. As Glick puts it, "Iran
and Turkey understand that attacking
the Jewish state is the fastest route to
the top of the Muslim world."
I pray President Obama isn't being
duped. 0
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