(Government Office Quarter, Tokyo)OBSERVE IT FROM JERUSALEM
From what place should the world be observed?
Washington D.C., London, or Paris?
It seems to be however reasonably Jerusalem without counting Tokyo.
Westward from Jerusalem, you can see the EU and the U.S.
Eastward from Jerusalem, you can see India and China, and Japan.
(In ancient days, you could see the Nile and the Euphrates in opposite directions.)
Northeastward, you can see oil/mineral-rich regions from the Persian Gulf to Russian Siberia; Southwestward you can see also oil/mineral-rich regions in the African Continent.
Since Abraham reached the portion of the land now called Palestine or Israel, the center of the world has been Jerusalem even through the most glorious era of Alexander’s Empire, the Roman Empire, the Mongolian Empire, the Spanish Empire, the British Empire, and the United States of America.
So, put yourself in Jerusalem and observe the world, and then you will find what is going on at this moment of 2008.
In this context, let’s check the following pieces of information:
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May 15, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama
Bush vs. Obama on Israel
Bush, in his speech to Israel's Knesset, sought to push in the wedge on Israel, and security, against Obama, casting the Illinois Senator as Neville Chamberlain to his Churchill:
"Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along," he said, with aides telling reporters he meant Obama. "We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American Senator declared: 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.'"
Obama responded quickly:
It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 6Oth anniversary of Israel's independence to launch a false political attack. It is time to turn the page on eight years of policies that have strengthened Iran and failed to secure America or our ally Israel. Instead of tough talk and no action, we need to do what Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan did and use all elements of American power - including tough, principled, and direct diplomacy - to pressure countries like Iran and Syria. George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the President's extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel.
On the facts, Obama has advocated talking to the leaders of hostile states, but not of groups like Hamas.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Bush_vs_Obama_on_Israel.html
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Indeed, while Wall Street faces the big crisis, no one would care about local conflicts on borders of Israel. But, if the economic situations get stabilized and contained, the focus will be put on Israel like the last days of the Clinton Administration when the IT boom was so flourishing.
Basically, no American citizens think that Israel is more important than the U.S. No American citizens will sacrifice their materially happy life for the national security of Israel.
But, American Judaists might not mind if Americans become unhappy so long as Israelis get happy, since Jerusalem is in Israel but not in the United Sates.
For the true believers of Judaism, the United States might exist solely to protect and defend the nation Israel and Judaists in Israel as well as in the U.S. and Europe.
But, you need a material incentive to have American Anglo-Saxon politicians help Israel financially and militarily. So, you need Saudi Arabia and its crude oil production.
On the other hand, Saudi Arabia has been under dangerous pressure from Iraq and Iran since the end of WWII.
So, it is not a surprise at all if the U.S. had welcomed the Iran-Iraq War, fought the Persian Gulf War so passionately with a coalition of Saudi Arabia, and found no reason for hesitation in militarily invading Iraq after the 9/11 Terror.
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Is the President Paving the Way for U.S. Control of Iraqi Oil?
October 20th, 2008
President Bush apparently believes that he may need to seize control of Iraq’s oil fields and control Iraqi oil at some time in the future.
It’s hard to see any other logic behind the signing statement he issued last week rejecting a provision in the military funding authorization bill that prohibited using funds to “exercise United States control over the oil resources of Iraq.” The president said in his signing statement that this provision would “inhibit” his constitutional authority as commander in chief to protect national security. The executive branch would construe the provision, he said, “in a manner consistent with the constitutional authority and obligations of the President.” In other words, the president will pay no attention to the law that Congress wrote.
The president’s signing statement sounds like he’s trying to pave the way for U.S. control of Iraqi oil. This may sound preposterous in the U.S., as it comes from a president with only three more months left to govern. But it can hardly sound reassuring to Iraqis—and particularly to Iraqi lawmakers, as they prepare to take up a U.S.-Iraq status of forces agreement that would allow the U.S. military to remain in Iraqi until the end of 2011 and give Iraq’s government the option of extending the U.S. presence further without the approval of the Iraqi parliament.
What is the president thinking? That a successor, if not he himself, should seize the natural resources of a foreign country if that president deems it necessary for national security? It seems so. Is this a corollary to the Bush doctrine of preventive war? It certainly appears to be, and a corollary that needs to be repudiated by the next president, along with the doctrine of preventive war.
-Jim Fine, Legislative Secretary
http://blog.thehill.com/2008/10/20/is-the-president-paving-the-way-for-us-control-of-iraqi-oil/#more-7494
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Indeed, while Wall Street faces the big crisis, no one would care about local conflicts on borders of Israel. But, if the economic situations get stabilized and contained, the focus will be put on Israel like the last days of the Clinton Administration when the IT boom was so flourishing.
But, you need a material incentive to have American Anglo-Saxon politicians help Israel financially and militarily. So, you need Saudi Arabia and its crude oil production to make American Anglo-Saxon politicians feel like helping Israel.
It is a little complicated as is usual in an international power conflict, but Israel wants the U.S. to link up with Saudi Arabia so that the U.S. can get a reward for its support for Israel in the form of crude oil business with Saudi Arabia.
Further, Saudi Arabia seems to want the U.S. to militarily suppress Iraq and Iran for some complicated religious problems, since the U.S. can get a reward of crude oil in return from Iraq actually and Iran possibly.
In fact, Iraq has the third largest petroleum reserves next to Saudi Arabia and Iran and followed by Kuwait.
And, it is Saudi Arabia that was the most appalled by the 9/11 Terror.
So, it is very natural that the U.S. Government immediately felt the need to deal with the tense fear Saudi Arabia had in the wake of the 9/11 Terror.
Iraq then looked like planning to exploit the situation and apply more pressure on Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, since the U.S. looked like nothing but a poor victim of Islamic terror on Sept. 11, 2001. But, the mighty guardian of Saudi Arabia, namely the U.S., could not behave like a coward. The U.S. had to stand up. The U.S. could not lose respect from Saudi Arabia. Accordingly, President Mr. George W. Bush’s mind was fully occupied by the military solution focused on Saddam Hussein’s Iraq but not on AlQaeda which had far less diplomatic, economic, and military importance.
So, the War in Iraq began, in a sense, under the disguise of the War on Terror.
In this context, Israel is secured more than ever. (Saudi Arabia and Dubai are, too.)
But, Israel and Saudi Arabia may want more security, which is why Iran can be the gravest diplomatic agenda for the next U.S. Administration.
And very conveniently, Iran has the large petroleum reserves Israel cannot offer the U.S. as another reward.
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The above stated Israeli strategy on the U.S. and crude oil might not please the God.
So, my concern is how much this Wall Street debacle has influenced Israel and Jerusalem in addition to Judaist Americans in New York and Washington D.C.
Conversely, how does the American financial crisis look from Jerusalem?
Yet, my advice is that Judaists in Jerusalem must sometimes turn to the east as far as Tokyo, since Judaist Americans mostly involved in Wall Street have not respected Japan for too long.
Finally, American voters should seriously consider whether they can launch another war onto Iran while Wall Street is crumbling down even if they are attacked again like the 9/11 Terror with any alleged involvement of Iran.
Then, who is stopping another 9/11 Terror from being planned and carried out for the sake of the world? Judaists and Jerusalem?
At least, EEE Reporter and Tokyo are doing their best to prevent it, as you see.
(I sometimes think that if she is Japanese she cannot look so nice in that fashion. But there are many people in this world living on the border facing different cultures.
http://homepage3.nifty.com/yodonokofune/m_turkishmarch.mid
Source: http://homepage3.nifty.com/yodonokofune/concert2pr_017.htm)
Mar 10:21 Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
Mar 10:22 And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions.