Comments on: (Oy) Obama chooses 3 Jews as Middle East envoys

By: 5 dancing shlomos

5 dancing shlomos — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

haass is another zionist piece of crap. lies out of his mouth re palestine, arabs, muslims every chance he gets. he is like ross, indyk, et als. should be sent to boiling pots of uzbekistan with tenderizing stop over at abu ghraib.

By: S Kneedler

S Kneedler — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

This is terrible.

Where's Robert Malley? SamPo, as Philip calls Samantha Power? Juan Cole? William Beeman?

What matters about Obama's cowardly choices is not that they're Jewish, but that they're Zionists who liars continually about everything that occurs in Palestine-Israel.

By: roGER

roGER — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Never underestimate the strength of the lobby.

I retain a faint hope that things may change during Obama's 2nd term.

Yes, my hope features a lot of assumptions!

By: S Kneedler

S Kneedler — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

My next unworthy thoughts were that my family and I would have to skip our friends' Inauguration parties. But, no, we'll have to go and keep talking with all other activists about pressuring Obama (more, since he hasn't yet responded to our concerns) to recognize what everyone who reads this site already knows:

1. Palestine's "RIGHT TO EXIST"!, as well as the Palestinians' right to human rights!

2. Israel's many war crimes and sabotage of any possible treaty and Palestinian state.

By: Roy Belmont

Roy Belmont — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Similarities in the Bush-Obama profiles may be:
Both have serious youthful indiscretions with enough negative weight that the threat of exposure combined with their ambition and pride means they'll be good boys and do what they're supposed to, or else.
Meanwhile the presentation is shallow Hollywood imagery, in Bush's case Roy Rogers and John Wayne, in Obama's Sidney Poitier and Will Smith, with a little Cary Grant for style.
Obama went down on his knees to AIPAC as soon as he got the nomination and he hasn't got back up yet.
Obama is not going to save us.
We need to start talking about how Gaza moves toward Iran in the minds of the aggressors. We need to get ahead of them on the timeline, quickly.

By: Crimson Ghost

Crimson Ghost — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Ross has made thinly disguised calls for war with Iran unless that country gives up its perfectly legal nuclear program.

The fact that Obama would appoint him as point man re: Iran should shatter any illusions about the new regime. "Change you can believe in" is a lie as big as any Bush has uttered -- at least re: foreign policy.

Ler's face it Phil you and many others were played for naive fools

By: Jack Ross

Jack Ross — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

This is just one blogger citing an unnamed source – everyone calm down and wait for MSM confirmation.

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

American Jewish Zionists are the last people in the world who should have their hands in US Mideast policy. Morally, this group is among the worst human beings on the planet: 1)they betray their own country on behalf of a foreign power; 2) too cowardly to emigrate to the object of their affection, they instead sneakily try to pull strings for it behind the scenes; 3) many pose as pious “liberals” and lecture the world about the importance of “tolerance” even as they hypocritically line up with extreme right-wing Zionism; 4) they are even further Right on the Palestinian issue than most Israelis, because they don’t have to bear the consequences of their armchair machismo; 5) they exploit their right-wing Zionist network in America for professional advance and profit, which means a good portion of their Zionism is motivated by banal avarice and greed; 6) even as their behavior is the about as scurrilous as it gets, they shout down critics by accusing them of “anti-Semitism,” which is yet another cowardly means of hiding behind all Jews, Zionist or not.

And yet these blackguards are the people that Democrats and Republicans continue to put in charge of Mideast policy, much foreign policy, and even much US domestic policy? Brilliant, and its all worked out so well, hasn’t it?

The two-party regime just keeps digging America deeper the worse things get, somehow expecting Providence to save its bacon in the end. I guess they consider these counterfeit “chosen” as a some kind of Talisman, even though they’re the exact opposite. I have to ask: is it possible they've all made some kind of Faustian, Luciferian bargain, and we're all now reaping the consequences? That's about the only explanation that makes any sense for the continued insanity.

By: S Kneedler

S Kneedler — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

For a great essay enumerating Dershowitz's lies, go to

It's Time for Your Check-Up
Bend Over Professor Dershowitz

By FRANKLIN LAMB

Note Prof. Lamb's email address: I hate the concept of "never forget," but we need constant reminders of Israeli crimes (yes, I know, through Christian Phalangists) against Palestinians until there's a just peace.

Franklin Lamb is a former adjunct Professor of international law at Northwestern College of Law in Portland, Oregon. He is currently doing research in Lebanon and can be reached at fplamb@sabrashatila.org

http://www.counterpunch.org/lamb01072009.htm

By: S Kneedler

S Kneedler — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Thanks, Ed.