If Iran attacks Israel, who would you want as President?

Barack Obama coming to Israel's "rescue"? Hardly.

The irony of it all. I was shocked--nonplussed for a moment on hearing news that there are Jews actually prepared to vote for Obama! What prevails in the voting mindset of these individuals escapes me. Is it intellectual high-mindedness? Is it the very name “McCain” that falls heavy on the Jewish ear?

A liberal Jewish friend recently told me that he’s voting for Obama. Okay. "But how does that square with your abiding concerns for Israel these many years?" I asked him. “Yeah, well, . . . ” his voice trails off, then suddenly returns, bemoaning, “. . . but this guy McCain: he’s so old, befuddled; Obama at least is young and fresh,” he declares. Then, he sums up sotto voce: “and–come on–you and I know how black people suffered here . . .” So it went.

Once upon a time, Israel’s right to exist in peace was a vital political litmus test for the Jewish community. For millions of Americans, John McCain, his shortcomings notwithstanding, appears to be the more likely Commander in Chief who would actively respond, should the cat jump in the Middle East. And jump it will, sooner than later.

No amount of Hollywood or politically tendentious media histrionics can alter the reality that we stand squarely at a very deadly crossroad. You have only to watch and listen to radical Islamists and to Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ruling over a country that is just about to go nuclear, Ahmadinejad effectively demonstrates for our time what Hitler said to Germany during his late 1930s run-up to launching war in Europe . Speaking of himself in the third-person, with the smirk not unlike the grin we see on the bearded Ahmadinejad, The Fuehrer addresses thousands of rallied Nazis about how Europe is wondering whether he will make war. “Er kommt,” he tells them openly, nodding and emphasizing the point with his wagging index finger. “Er kommt.” [”He is coming.”]

Rest assured an Obama or Clinton presidency, with a Chamberlain predisposition, will further embolden America’s enemies the world over. Indeed, they already walk and live among us, and more continue to seep in. The Israelis in particular will be in for the ultimate fight of their lives. The searing question is, will they find a real friend answering the White House phone and taking action at, say, 3:00 A.M.? The answer is not moot. For all American Jews who would help put Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton in the Oval Office, a reality check is in order. Perhaps they might start by watching Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoa.”