The hypocrisy of Obama’s inauguration speech – and Obama’s actions the next day – was truly astounding. In his inaugural address, Obama repeatedly spoke of an end to war, saying for instance: “A decade of war is now ending,” and “We, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war,” and “We will show the courage to try and resolve our differences with other nations peacefully. Not because we are naive about the dangers we face, but because engagement can more durably lift suspicion and fear.”
Then, the next day, Obama immediately sent a gift of four advanced F-16 fighter jets to the radical Islamist Muslim-Brotherhood Egyptian government. This gift is part of a plan to send Egypt sixteen F-16s and 200 Abrams tanks before the end of the year. If, as Obama’s speech claims, the age of love, peace and harmony is upon us, why is Obama sending sophisticated fighter jets and tanks to Egypt?
How will the American weaponry that Obama is putting into radical Islamist hands be used? In all likelihood, the Muslim Brotherhood will use our weapons to attack Egyptian minorities including Egypt’s Christian Copts, Israel, and U.S. Middle Eastern facilities.
Incredibly, Obama is sending state-of-the-art fighters to Egypt less than two weeks after Egypt’s President Morsi publicly stated in a published speech that Obama “utters many lies” (well, maybe he got that one right) and that Egyptian children and grandchildren should be taught to hate Jews. In his published January 10, 2013 speech, Morsi declared: “Dear brothers, we must not forget to nurse our children and grandchildren on hatred towards those Zionists and Jews, and all those who support them. They must be nursed on hatred. The hatred must continue.”
In the wake of the Newtown tragedy, Obama is insisting on limits on domestic gun sales. And yet, at the same time, Obama is giving cutting-edge weaponry to an Egyptian regime which insists that its children must be “nursed on hatred.” The hypocrisy of this is stunning.
At the beginning of Obama’s first term, Obama insisted on sending airplane parts to Syria. Let’s think about how those were used, and whose hands these may fall into. Haven’t we learned anything about the dangers of arming unfriendly regimes?
We must again also ask, where are our New York senators and congressman and AIPAC? Why are our elected representatives, and the so-called Jewish lobby, again silent when it really matters?
Why are they not screaming about state-of-the-art American weapons going to a radical jihadist regime?
The Muslim Brotherhood’s credo is: ““Allah is our objective; the Quran is our law, the Prophet is our leader; Jihad is our way; and death for the sake of Allah is the highest of our aspirations.” The organization aspires to world-wide domination, and is the father of Hamas, al Queda and virtually every other radical Islamist terrorist organization.
I urge everyone to phone our senators (Schumer – 202 224-6542 and Gillibrand – 202 224-4451) and congressman Steve Israel (202 225-3335 ) and AIPAC (202 -639-5363 ) to urge them to speak up about Obama sending advanced weaponry to America’s and Israel’s sworn enemies – and to oppose future shipments of more of these armaments.
In addition, please urge Schumer to retract his shameful recent endorsement of Hagel, and urge both senators to vote against the dangerous Hagel-Kerry-Brennan trio of appointments (and urge AIPAC to speak up about this disaster). This trio has a horrendous decades-long record (described in my previous articles) of favoring demolishing American defense capabilities and hostility to Israel. These Obama nominees will gut American defense capabilities and damage America and our only true ally in the Middle East.
Turning back to Obama’s inaugural address: Interestingly, while Obama extolled the virtues of “engagement” with radical Islamist enemies who are sworn to America’s destruction, Obama apparently does not believe in “engagement” or unity with fellow Americans who manage to make a decent living or build a business. Instead, in his inaugural address, Obama continued his divisive war on the so-called “privileged.” (In Obama-speak, attacks on the “privileged” are used as a rationale for imposing higher taxes on almost all taxpayers – especially New Yorkers.) Obama even stated: “The patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few.”
Actually, America is supposed to be a “land of the free” for all of us – rich, poor and in-between. America’s founding fathers would have been appalled by Obama’s deficit spending, high taxation, internal divisiveness, and gifts of sophisticated arms to America’s enemies.
Elizabeth Berney, Esq.
Great Neck
