Not long ago, the existing $2 billion aid to Egypt was in doubt after the Muslim Brotherhood gained control over the parliament. Now that the Islamist, anti-Israeli candidate is slated to win presidential race, the aid has only been increased.

Tunisia, with its hardline Islamist government, will also be rewarded with Western money.

Even Libya, flush in cash under Qaddafi, has evolved into a laundry for international aid.

The Palestinians have lived comfortably without that money for nine months, so they clearly do not use it for police wages as the White House claims.

The GCC states have excellent air fleets. The UAE, for one, received FoF codes for its US-built aircraft, which would allow them to target Israeli planes. The UAE pilots’ training is abysmal, however, and flying through even Iran’s relatively primitive TOR-1M defenses would beyond their ability. Also, it is hard to imagine the UAE joining an attack on Iran, its behemoth neighbor.

Notably, the exercise excluded the Israeli air force.

Abbas, even though his statelet fully depends on the US for finances, rejected Obama’s demands. Quite a lesson for the White House’s puppets in Jerusalem.

Such a blockade would be legally impossible because the UNSC has instituted no embargo on Iranian oil. It will be also futile because deliveries could be made through Iraq. But most of all, it is physically impossible because Iran possesses a huge fleet of speedboats ready for terrorist missions, and NATO ships wpuld become sitting ducks in such an operation.

The American plan to mold Hamas into a moderate organization is ludicrous. Hamas is already a moderate organization, but only because the fighting is outsourced to PIJ, PRC, PLFP, and others. No doubt Hamas can be made to accept coexistence with Israel, as indeed the Muslims have offered many times. But their own state will necessarily be radical because so many hotheads remember past grievances and villages lost to Israel. There will always be tension. When Saudi Arabia sees civil war, when Iran rules in Lebanon and Syria, when Islamic radicals eye power in Jordan, there is no way to keep the West Bank state as political oasis.

US aid constitutes much a larger chunk of the Palestinian budget than of Israel’s—about 40 percent vs 3 percent. Nevertheless, the Palestinians publicly defy the White House behemoth in a manner the Jews can only dream of.

The Muslim Brotherhood presents itself to the West as moderate. In Egypt, they are religious moderates and political right-wingers, arguing against peace with Israel. The Brotherhood’s radical aims are served by its offshoots, Hamas and Jemaa Islamiya. In Jordan, away from Western news media, the MB is radically anti-Israeli and religiously fundamentalist. In Syria it is willing to join non-Sunni sects for the sake of political expediency.
Iran cooperates with the MB in Egypt and helps Assad to eradicate it in Syria.

Turkey cooperates with Iran and Syria against the Kurds, with the US and the Saudis against Syria, with the Saudis against Iran, and points a US-supplied weapons system at Israel.

And so Obama’s academically inspired policies are doomed at best, and likely to catapult the region into chaos.

Any resolution to the Libyan crisis will betray the NATO and reward Germany and Russia for agreeing to take a stand against Gadhafi. And we still doubt that Gadhafi’s family will abandon power.

Meanwhile, Obama’s hand can be seen in the resurgence of mass protests in Turkey and Damascus. A democratic government in Syria would be heavily influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood. And getting Russia to agree to Assad’s ouster almost certainly required offering the Russians the economic perks Erdogan had hoped to win for himself. Obama thus seems to have abandoned his newly acquired good friend, Turkey.

The US policy seem idiotic only until we recognize that Obama’s friends and advisers are of Samantha Powers’ ilk. Obama’s alliances with Russia (which is itself torn by internal quarrels) and Germany (whose conservatism runs at odds with Obama’s activism), are likely to be short-lived.