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Blaze Magazine Special Preview: A Foreign Policy to Die For?

Oct. 8, 2012 3:31pm Chris Field

Editor’s note: Every issue of TheBlaze Magazine, contains exclusive content not found anywhere else—online or in print. The magazine’s stories, research and special reports are reserved for subscribers to the print edition (and, yes, there is a digital version of the magazine, too), which is created by the same team that brings you TheBlaze.com.

The October 2012 cover feature, “What’s at Stake,” includes nine pieces analyzing the top issues of this election.

Below is an excerpt from Tiffany Gabbay’s examination of foreign policy, particularly the candidates’ stances on Israel and the Middle East. Her full essay is available only in the October 2012 issue of TheBlaze Magazine.

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The Middle East is indeed no stranger to turmoil, but the years 2010 and 2011 marked a tipping point in the region, as the United States, led by President Obama under the banner of NATO, intervened in Libya’s burgeoning civil war between civilian rebels and forces loyal to the late Moammar Gadhafi.

Preventing the carnage from reaching critical mass, America’s role in helping to overthrow the despot who ruled Libya with an iron fist for more than four decades turned out to be a thankless job.

On Sept. 11, 2012, militants—some of whom were part of the same rebel-base the United States supported against Gadhafi—breached the American consulate in Benghazi, murdering four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, two Navy SEALS and an additional civil servant.

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The Obama administration’s knee-jerk reaction to Islamists’ apoplectic protests and murder of four Americans on U.S. soil was not to fight fire with fire over an act of war, but to instead apologize for the alleged catalyst for the attacks—a low-budget YouTube “movie” that some considered critical of Islam. Later, the administration even released an apology video to quell yet another rampaging mob in Pakistan—which comprises perhaps the most staunchly Islamic population of all Muslim countries—in essence, doubling down on its appeasement efforts.

Kowtowing to Islamists outside the United States who demand Americans live in accordance with Islamic ideology—ideology that is anathema to Western laws and values—will only embolden extremists. Thus, adopting a foreign policy that assumes a more authoritative position on dealing with acts of terror might better serve U.S. interests. On the current trajectory, however, foreign policy experts interviewed by TheBlaze agree that the Obama administration’s “policy of appeasement” will do nothing to strengthen America’s standing in the Middle East and but will put more Americans and Israelis in even greater danger.

Blaze Magazine Pre election Issue: Obama and Romney on Israel and Middle East

AP Photo/Ibrahim Alaguri

Mitt Romney has consistently condemned the president for “throwing Israel under the bus,” signifying for some that this Republican may be warmer and more accommodating to the Jewish state than even former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Romney has also been outspoken about the U.S. embassy attacks and ensuing riots across the Middle East, revealing that he would not apologize to nor reward those who shed American blood.

ORWELLIAN MINDSET

The administration lives in a world where friends are foes and foes are friends. How else does one explain the spectacle at the 2012 Democratic National Convention where the party was humiliated into amending its platform to reinstate language declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel? … The controversy should have come as no surprise since the Obama State Department still refuses to officially acknowledge Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Even after the changes, the 2012 Democratic platform still lacks key components vital to Israel’s security. There’s no language opposing a Palestinian “right of return” to Israel, which, given the millions of Palestinians involved, would prove demographically disastrous to the Jewish state.

Also missing from the platform is the once-strong Democratic position regarding Hamas, the Iran proxy bent on Israel’s destruction: No longer does the Democratic Party advocate a policy of non-negotiation with the Palestinian terrorist organization.

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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THERE’S NO RE-ELECTION TO WORRY ABOUT?

In an article for National Review, Middle East Forum founder Daniel Pipes reminded readers of an exchange between Obama and Ali Abunimah, a Chicago-based anti-Israel activist. According to Pipes, Abunimah wrote about his last conversation with Obama in early 2004, while the latter was in the middle of his U.S. Senate primary campaign.

Abunimah wrote that Obama greeted him warmly and said, “Hey, I’m sorry I haven’t said more about Palestine right now, but we are in a tough primary race. I’m hoping when things calm down I can be more up front.”

The message is relatively straightforward. Once a political candidate is on his last term and is no longer concerned about re-election, he is more inclined to show the world his true colors …

Get the full piece only in the October 2012 pages of TheBlaze Magazine.

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Comments (27)

What the Heck
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 7:07am
How about countries that will not allow Bibles in their boarders yet get angry when someone wants to burn a koran? It makes me ill to see our dignitaries bow to them, put on their cloths and bend a knee.
Some countries kill Christians just for being being a Christian. We say nothing, we jsut turn our head.
But… we protect muslims every day What about seperation of church and state on that day? Selective discrimination?
Do you remember Situational Ethics being taught back in the 80′s? I do. Ok to steal if you are hungry and poor but not if you are rich.

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GoatRoper
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 10:48pm
The Jerk – Israel AND the Mental East are a problem. Standard diplomacy in that part of the world is “let’s you (Israel) and me (Muslim countries) get him (the US) into a fight.

They’re both willing to fight a war with each other…right down to the last American. Cut them ALL loose and let ‘em slug it out. We have better things to do. (And stuff that zionist crap, it’s as passe’ as screaming “racist”)

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justangry
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:43pm
Ah the foreign policy masters at the Blaze. Getting information from a bat crap crazy zealot General that can’t even speak at West Point, a Rabbi tied into some shady financial dealings, and an ex sportscaster turned terrorism expert overnight for the CBN. I remember an episode when GB was on Fox talking about how he truly believed those with down syndrome had all the answers… This is about the thing he says that he sticks with because he hired a bunch of them to write articles on the Blaze… LOL

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:05pm
  “America’s standing in the Middle East and but will put more Americans and Israelis in even greater danger.”
  
  It’s not America’s responsibility to keep Israel out of danger. America’s interests revolve around one people, Americans. Israel’s a two-bit, troubled nation, that brings with it nothing but more trouble.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:08pm
  “… reinstate language declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel?”
  
  Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel. So, not stating that Jerusalem is the capital, is agreeing with the rest of the world. Israel again, is the odd nation out.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:12pm
  Daniel Pipes is another Jewish Zionist who influences American policy for his state of Israel. He’s a neocon:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pipes#Criticism_of_Pipes.27_views
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:15pm
  Notice also, that this entire piece is about Israel’s interests, and not American interests. In short, this is a pro-Zionist propaganda article written for the historically challenged.
  
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- riseandshine
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:19pm
  Tiffany’s allegiance is to Israel. Period.
  
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afellowpatriot
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:24pm
One of these days, the truth will eventually come out as to where Obama really stands as regarding Christianity and Islam.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:41pm
  It’s not the Muslims outside of the country. It’s the Zionists in the country who are the enemy of American policy and interests.
  
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- Chromo200
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:13pm
  THE_JERK … With zionist you can have a dialogue without getting blown up. With muslims you take your life in you hand when talking to them.
  
  If you do your home work and learn you can deal with the zionist. To date Zionist manipulate you through money and they support people that side with them and Israel. But they can’t force you to vote their way. Islamist do so by force and intimidation.
  
  THE_JERK .. All this money that both sides are spending on political advertisement is a waste on me and many others I made up my mind by looking at what Obama has done and intends to do, and what Romney says he is going to do and his history as a Governor. Not very happy with his record, but it is a lot better than Obama. If you do your homework you will eventually come to a conclusion that you believe will be a appropriate for you .. which what this country is built on.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:24pm
  Chromo200, you kind of have a point. After-all, the Zionists did deal very well with Eichmann and the Nazis. They did so, because their philosophies were very similar. Both desired ethnically pure states, and both resorted to ethnic cleansing in pursuit of desires.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 5:38pm
  Silly me. Did I forget to give proof?
  http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/antisemitism/nazisupport.cfm
  
  “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine,” Ilan Pappe.
  
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Chromo200
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:20pm
Just like Arab countries want us to live by islamic rules we have our own rules that conflict with theirs. So how can we get to deal with them. stop all aid. We will buy their oil and they can buy our grain. They can use their money anyway they want. We need to have a energy policy that stops our dependency on their oil. And when they get hungry and lack medical help they will come to their senses .. at least their ruling party will.

We need to support Israel. We need to show the arabs that if they can’t control their radicals, we will use our drons and too bad if there is civilian damage. They don’t care if there is any on our side. If arabs are willing to accept our way of life without conditions, then maybe and I say maybe we will have dialogue but in the meantime they are on their own … no aid … nothing.. Nada ….

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wordsofwisdom
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:15pm
This is why we need statesmen instead of politicians. This song explains what the politician game is all about. It’s called “What’s Wrong With This Song” http://soundcloud.com/musicby-carl/whats-wrong-with-this-song

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:01pm
Win or lose in the November elections Obama will stop at nothing to finish off America and Israle while he is able to do so. The President needs to be fired, and then charged with treason.

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 3:51pm
Obama is a racist, muslim traitor. What about that fact do you (Americans who voted for him) not understand? He is a disaster and an enemy of the country.

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- Cockenballs
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:01pm
  Sounds like your mom.
- Cockenballs
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:43pm
  yeah man, I was going to report his comment too but instead I decided to make light of it!
- Chromo200
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:46pm
  COCKENBALLS .. So how much are you being paid by the Obama group to be on this site and call us names.
  
  Are you happy that someone responded to you.
  
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coyote1hell
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 3:50pm
Big “(o)” knows he will get his Eviction Notice in less than a month, and he needs, at least, his Musslim Brother-Hood followers, to respect him…

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- Chromo200
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:39pm
  you should go to English newspapers of the middle east and read about Obama .. they don’t respect him nor fear him they laugh in his face and use him to further their agenda, and O believes them. The arabs are afraid of going back to the Bush Era with Romney, that is why they want Obama.
  
  Arabs don’t respect black people.. Even though arabs are dark skinned they can’t stand africans.
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 3:45pm
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THERE’S NO RE-ELECTION TO WORRY ABOUT?

If you think four years of that bastard were bad……………. You have no idea what he’ll do,probably complete his ‘fundamental transformation of America’. Think about it a candidate even saying that shouldn’t have been even considered for the job of POTUS. Barry read a book about Marxism and thought it would be a good idea for America. We’ll just have to show him how bad of an idea real Americans think it is and fire his Marxist fraud POS ass.

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- Cockenballs
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:01pm
  Your spaghetti-O’s are all warmed up and ready for you.
- BODYBAG
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:41pm
  @COCKENBALLS
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:01pm
  Your spaghetti-O’s are all warmed up and ready for you.
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- Cockenballs
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 4:43pm
  “Clean?” That’s rich!
- progressiveslayer
  Posted on October 8, 2012 at 7:11pm
  @cockenballs You’re an idiot F off.
  
  @BODYBAG Don’t let the simpletons get to you they don’t know what they’re saying they’re just obamazombies.
  
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