We had leaders who were influenced by their greed, racism, by religious imagery, by duplicitous Iraqi con men, by scheming Zionists and ideologically driven neo-cons, than anything vaguely resembling hard evidence to do something horrible. That “something horrible” cost the lives of up to a million human beings.

So let us get this straight. It seems there are two worlds. The real world of facts and evidence and the unreal world of fantasy. Our political leaders and their advisers are, apparently, stuck in the unreal one. Their words, and their policies, are built on the assumptions of this fantasy world. They go to war and kill people based on beliefs that are demonstrably false.

Most of the poor Americans are stuck in their own local niches and beyond them they do not know what is real or unreal.

So we rely on others to tell us what to believe. Who are the others?

In another president that may have worked but we here in Israel fear that President Obama is of a different character. He is not one easily moved from his convictions. We will deal with Netanyahu come election time for him.

I am a dual citizen. I move to and from Israel often. I vote in both elections. Every presidential administration for 50 years has treated Israel as an ally, and Obama is no different.

There’s not a shred of daylight between the plans of the Republicans or Democrats when it comes to Israel’s security, and you should have a listen to what is said about Bibi Netanyahu in Israel itself. People are afraid of him.

The current administration wants to solve mid-east tensions as peacefully as possible, and though the radical, violent extremists of the region get all the hot press, there are many in the region who are looking for peace and stability as well.

Sanctions against Iran are working, and the hope is that they will create internal uprisings that will create revolutionary and permanent change there. For the U.S., it is absolutely in our interest to stoke those sorts of solutions than to further stoke the extremism that results from our mideast military presence and perceived aggression.

We have no money left, we have a volunteer military, and unless you think a military draft is feasible, we can’t fight any more wars unless they’re defensible because all other means have failed. When those means have failed, we’ll have a united world behind us, as we did in the first Persian Gulf War under Bush 41 and did not in the misguided invasion of Iraq under Bush 43.

As for my beloved Israel. President Obama knows that the arabs of the Middle East are difficult to get along with. They are mostly ignorant, illiterate, immature tools of those who use religion to motivate them to do their will.

He has seen how they repay kindness. The deaths of our people at the hands of those we have help and are helping is evident. Arab men see only their own needs and wants. Even here you can see that one half of the arab world is forced into slavery and degradation by the male half in the name of religion.

Yes, we have a political party that would do the same to our women and OTWs, including us jews, if they could muster the political will, but that will NEVER happen in America while it is a reality in the Middle East, today.

President Obama understands that the “obvious” solution of treating the Palestinians with respect and giving them total autonomy who not be practical until Israel can work out a way to protect itself from attack by those Palestinians as soon as they have the power to arm themselves as a sovereign nation.

Look around you at the way the arabs repay kindness. As soon as someone tells the ignorant fools that their god says this or that they go ape shit. They are ignorant selfish men who can’t see the plight of their mothers, sisters, daughters or any females in their presence.

Who would trust dispassionate men like that armed near their borders? Those of you in America who feel for the plight of the Palestinians, should remember how muslims repaid your kindness in Libya, Egypt, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Don’t ask a country as small as Israel to risk their safety on the belief that by giving muslims an autonomous state and respecting their borders will bring peace. If they turn on Israel as they have turned on their american friends, Israel cannot pack up and go home. We are home!

Anthony