Notwithstanding his record on the neverending "peace process" (12 years, during which colonization of the West Bank marched on), Dennis Ross is said to be on the inside track to become envoy on the Iran portfolio under Obama. Well, two years ago the ethnocentric institute that Ross chairs in Israel (the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute) offered a "master class" in which at least one participant issued the call, "Bring Ahmadinejad to Justice." Demanding that Iran's president be prosecuted for various statements and threats he's made.
emergence of state-sanctioned incitement to genocide, whose epicenter
is Ahmadinejad's Iran. Here, you have the toxic convergence of the
advocacy of the most horrific of crimes – genocide – embedded in the
most virulent of hatreds – antisemitism -and underpinned by a publicly
avowed intent to acquire nuclear weapons for that purpose, as former
President Akbar Hachemi Rafsanjani put it.
The full argument is all on Dennis Ross's Israeli institute's website. That's fine. Everyone has their opinion. But is this the sort of ideological baggage America wants for a diplomat going to one of the biggest faultlines in the Middle East?
(Phil Weiss)
