Yesterday Lilly Rivlin of Meretz USA invoked Amos Oz and Ariel Sharon as peaceable figures (oh well), but also said the names Brzezinski and Scowcroft not with anger but with respect, in the Jewish house. She said we are facing a big opportunity. "It looks good. It really looks good." Brzezinski and Scowcroft have removed Israel's 'worst nightmare," the refugee issue, in their statements on a peace, she said; and Obama 'will have to influence Hillary." Then there's Rahm: "Rahm Emanuel whether you like him or not, he knows what's going on in Israel, he's a Rabin supporter. I think he can influence Hillary. Because She doesn't have good politics on Israel… She needs to be educated."
Oh so Hillary is president of foreign policy. Or, more accurately, president of the Lobby. But today's WSJ says that Scowcroft is Obama's go-to man on the Middle East.
Oh so Hillary is president of foreign policy. Or, more accurately, president of the Lobby. But today's WSJ says that Scowcroft is Obama's go-to man on the Middle East.
Mr. Scowcroft spoke by phone with President-elect Barack Obama
last week, the latest in a months-long series of conversations between
the two men about defense and foreign-policy issues, according to
people familiar with the discussions.
The relationship between the president-elect
and the Republican heavyweight suggests that Mr. Scowcroft's views,
which place a premium on an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord, might
hold sway in the Obama White House.
…
Mr.
Scowcroft said his biggest piece of advice for the new administration
was that it should make a renewed push to help broker an
Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. He also endorsed Mr. Obama's call for
diplomatic engagement with Iran.
"Compared to the other alternatives we face with
Iran, we ought to give it a really good, sincere try," Mr. Scowcroft
said. "I have a hunch that we'll be more successful than a lot of
detractors think."
As to the right of return, let me say: I'm in the right of return gang, the non-Zionist pro-Palestinian left. Can it be extinguished? I care most about peace, about defusing this terrible problem for my country, the US. And maybe it can be extinguished. But you can't ask me; you must ask the Palestinians. Related posts:
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- Rahm Emanuel’s Father Was in Jewish Terrorist Organization
- More Rahm Stuff–Ketubah, and a Joke My Mother Tells Better Than I Can
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I knew Meretz had a tendency to get effed up, but this woman sounds more as if her name should be Lily Tomlin (a comedienne from the Rowan & Martin Laugh-In Show and elsewhere on amriki TV)than 'Lilly Rivlin'. Is she any relation to Likudnik Ruby Rivlin?
DON'T FORGET 'BIBI THE BARBARIAN'!!!!!!
FROM COUNTERPUNCH:
Eyes Wide Shut
Likud Rising
By URI AVNERY
Two documents appeared side by side in Haaretz last week, on November 21: a giant advertisement from the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the results of a public opinion poll.The proximity was accidental, but to the point. The PLO ad sets out the details of the 2002 Saudi peace offer, decorated with the colorful flags of the 22 Arab and the 35 other Muslim countries which have endorsed the offer.
The public opinion poll predicts a landslide victory for Likud, which opposes every single word of the Saudi proposal.
The PLO ad is a first of its kind. At long last, the PLO leaders have decided to address the Israeli people directly.
The ad discloses to the Israeli population the exact terms of the all-Arab peace offer: full recognition of the State of Israel by all Arab and Muslim countries, full normalization of relations – in return for Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 borders and the establishment of the Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital, in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The refugee problem would be solved by mutual agreement – meaning that Israel could veto any solution it considered unacceptable………
ENTIRE ARTICLE – http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery11242008.html
Lilly said:
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Brzezinski and Scowcroft have removed Israel's 'worst nightmare," the refugee issue, in their statements on a peace, she said;
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STOP THE PRESSES! No more nightmare of a Palestinian Right of Return! Oops, when did the Palestinians ever say they were giving it up? They haven't? What will Scowcroft do when he hears that that they haven't given it up? Try to convince them to be satsified with a "symbolic" return. Here again, we see the "progressives" treating the Arabs like retarded children. The Great White Father knows what the Palestinian natives want, better than they know themselves. Simply dismiss what they say…they are primitives, right? (So much for tolerance and multiculturalism on the side of the pro-Palestinian "progressives").
BTW Phil-you are not on the Palestinian "Left". You and the Israeli super-Left are actually on the Palestinian "Right". Shimon Peres once said "land isn't important, the spirit is". So let's see Peres, Phil and the "progressives" tell the Palestinians that they will be better off without land. Isn't that what Uncle "the New Middle East" Shimon says? Israel will be doing them a favor by NOT giving them a state!
Somebody should really tell Lilly – very quietly – that Rabin is dead….
If a solution is worked out (coerced) before WW3 starts, I imagine the justness of it will be measurable by the relative disappointment and resentment on each side. An enforced stalemate. All major bills
to be paid for by the bankrupt USA.
I don't recall Hillary being so horribly pro zionist before she ran for office in New York. I guess you must be a shill for Israel to be elected there.
Scowcroft is 83 and Zbig is 80. They may have some philosophical input on Obama's thinking, but Hillary, Rahm, and Larry are a generation younger and more energetic.
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