Yechezkel Gordon: UN RESOLUTION ON IRAN IS PREDICTABLY SOFT AND PATHETICALLY MEANINGLESS

Inside the International Atomic Energy Agency headquarters in Vienna, diplomats from around the world tried to formulate a resolution to repudiate Iran for it's suspicious nuclear intentions. Sitting around a long conference table in a spacious room were the leading diplomats of the west including the US, Britain, France, Germany, and the diplomats of Russia and China.

The meeting was held in response to a report released the other week by the IAEA, indicating that they had gathered clear proof that Iran's nuclear program was not designed to produce energy for civilian use, as they claim, but rather to built a nuclear weapon.

Yukiya Amano, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, addressed the gathering. "Throughout the past three years, we have obtained additional information which gives us a fuller picture of Iran’s nuclear program and increases our concerns about possible military dimensions," he said.

"The information indicates that Iran has carried out activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device," Mr. Amano said.

"I ask Iran to engage substantively" with the I.A.E.A. "without delay and provide the requested clarifications regarding possible military dimensions to its nuclear program."

Now with such clear evidence, you would expect it to be a slam dunk that the international community would issue a strong and powerful condemnation together with a new round of crippling sanctions. But this is the UN, and nothing is ever simple at the UN.

So the diplomats spent hours together passing around a pen and paper, quarreling over the weakest possible wording for the resolution. In the end Russia outdid China, turning the resolution into one big diplomatic joke that's certain to make the Iranians erupt into laughter.

According to the AP, the resolution expressed "serious concern that Iran continues to defy the requirements and obligations contained in the relevant IAEA Board of Governors and UN Security Council Resolutions." It also spoke of "deep and increasing concern about the unresolved issues regarding the Iranian nuclear program, including those which need to be clarified to exclude the existence of possible military dimensions."

Maybe we should just put Iran in time-out until they start behaving. Or threaten to take away there dessert until they promise to be our friends. I mean are you kidding me! This is what the UN expects to force Iran to abandon its uranium enrichment program? No wonder the Israelis are preparing for a military strike to end this problem for once and for all.

Yechezkel Gordon: OBAMA'S UN SPEECH PROVES THE WHITE HOUSE IS PANICKING OVER LOSING THE JEWISH VOTE

In the history of pro-Israel speeches it wasn't that dramatic, in the history of Obama's speeches it was downright monumental!

President Obama has heard you loud and clear. You sent him a clear message earlier this month by voting for Republican Bob Turner in the special congressional election- well, today at the UN Obama has said message received.

Obama started off his speech at the UN by stating his opposition to a unilateral Palestinian state. “Peace will not come through statements and resolutions at the United Nations -- if it were that easy, it would have been accomplished by now. Ultimately, it is the Israelis and the Palestinians who must live side by side. Ultimately, it is the Israelis and the Palestinians -- not us -- who must reach agreement on the issues that divide them: on borders and on security, on refugees and Jerusalem,” he said.

Then he affirmed America's commitment to Israel's security, "America’s commitment to Israel’s security is unshakable," he said. "Our friendship with Israel is deep and enduring. And so we believe that any lasting peace must acknowledge the very real security concerns that Israel faces every single day." That was pretty much where the old Obama ended and the new Obama took over.

"Let us be honest with ourselves: Israel is surrounded by neighbors that have waged repeated wars against it," Obama said. "Israel’s citizens have been killed by rockets fired at their houses and suicide bombs on their buses. Israel’s children come of age knowing that throughout the region, other children are taught to hate them. Israel, a small country of less than eight million people, looks out at a world where leaders of much larger nations threaten to wipe it off of the map. The Jewish people carry the burden of centuries of exile and persecution, and fresh memories of knowing that six million people were killed simply because of who they are."

Israeli officials were extremely happy with the Presidents speech, and they all made sure to go out of there way and express it. Netanyahu called Obama's position a “badge of honor” and thanked him for “wearing that badge of honor.” Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman gushed about the speech saying, "I laud this speech and sign off on it with both hands. The president made two important points in his speech: first, that it is impossible to resolve the conflict in any international forum and second, he did not mention the issue of the 1967 borders. This was the speech of a friend and ally." Defense Minister Ehud Barak continued the Obama praise parade, "It has once again been proven to all the doubters that President Obama is an ally and friend of Israel. The Obama administration has lent its support to Israeli security in a broad, comprehensive and unprecedented manner."

The Palestinians on the other hand were fuming. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas could be seen shaking his head in disapproval during the speech, and afterwords his henchmen competed for ways to express their anger. "All that's left is for Obama to join the Zionist Congress," said a senior member of the Palestinian delegation. Another senior official said, "Americans massacred the Indians and now they identify with the massacre perpetrated against us by the Israeli occupation."

It seems like the true colors of the Palestinian Authority are starting to finally seep out of their carefully crafted suits and ties.

But before you start popping champagne or begin campaigning for Obama to win re-election, remind yourself that once Obama wins his second term, there's nothing stopping him from turning back into the original pro-Palestinian peace lover.

Yechezkel Gordon: EHUD OLMERT'S PEACE PLAN IS REALLY A DEATH TRAP

Ehud Olmert, the previous prime minister of Israel, tried to stick his head into the ongoing UN fiasco by penning an op-ed for the NY Times titled, "Peace Now, or Never." After reading it your left wondering how Israel ever survived three years under him.

He's obviously feeling left out and unimportant, so he's doing a politicians version of jumping up and down and screaming look at me, look at me! Well Ehud, we're all looking and it's not a pretty sight.

He starts off reminding us of his offer he put on the table back in September 2008. He writes, "The parameters of a peace deal are well known and they have already been put on the table. I put them there in September 2008 when I presented a far-reaching offer to Mr. Abbas." Now wait a second Ehud, if you have the best solution to the ever-lasting Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and you already laid it out 3 years ago, why do you think all of a sudden now it's going to be accepted by both parties if it was already rejected the first time you tried it?

Anyways, the wizard of peace continues, "According to my offer, the territorial dispute would be solved by establishing a Palestinian state on territory equivalent in size to the pre-1967 West Bank and Gaza Strip with mutually agreed-upon land swaps that take into account the new realities on the ground." Okay that's not too crazy, but wait until you read what the wizard of peace wrote next.

"The city of Jerusalem would be shared. Its Jewish areas would be the capital of Israel and its Arab neighborhoods would become the Palestinian capital. Neither side would declare sovereignty over the city’s holy places; they would be administered jointly with the assistance of Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United States."

Are you kidding me? We will be forced to get on our hands and knees and beg some Jordanian official every time we want to daven at the Kossel? Or have some Saudi Arabian official decide who's holly enough to go to the Kossel?

All I can say is, thank G-d he isn't the prime minister any more. And judging by the last election where the right wing blocks won the majority, I think most Israelis agree with me.