I guess I'd understand if this former top official in the State Department had something to show for all the access he afforded the Israelis. Like, a peace deal. But no, it's been nonstop settlements, and Gaza slaughter. Ehud Barak had endless access to Clinton throughout 2000, Aaron David Miller says, and that was part of the problem. Abrams, who once said that outside of Israel Jews must stand apart from the society in which they live, also calls Binyamin Netanyahu "Bibi" in this interview. He never mentions any Palestinian in such familiar terms. While saying they have no claim on the '67 border, and describing the second intifada as a "giant, ongoing terrorist attack." From an interview with his sister-in-law (our whole family is neocons, she boasts), where, in the New York Times? No, in the Jerusalem Post. Abrams:
In the case of Sharon and Olmert, president Bush trusted and had a very good relationship with both. That made it possible to conduct diplomacy not only through the State Department and your Foreign Ministry, but also to do it directly – leader-to-leader, or between senior staff just under the leaders in the Prime Minister's Office and the White House.
I was on the phone with [former ambassador to the US] Danny Ayalon and [current Ambassador] Sallai Meridor two, three, sometimes five or six times a day.
As for Netanyahu and Obama, I think they'll get along just fine on a personal level, if Bibi indeed becomes prime minister. Both are smooth, both charmers. As for the rest of it, well, that will depend on Obama's appointments, on Bibi's coalition and on many external factors that could come along and shape the way policy is determined in both countries – such as a repeat of 9/11, for example.
(Phil Weiss)
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'I was on the phone with [former ambassador to the US] Danny Ayalon and [current Ambassador] Sallai Meridor two, three, sometimes five or six times a day.' — Elliott Abrams
Was Abrams on the phone to any other embassy multiple times a day? Why of course not — there wouldn't be enough hours in the day.
Even Johnny Pollard didn't talk to his handler that often — too risky.
Abrams is celebrating his role as a DLJ [Dual Loyalty Jew] with perfect cover. Hidden in plain sight as a high administration official, he could chat all day with the emissaries of his intellectual mistress — the Israeli state.
In any normal country, a former official mouthing off like Abrams would be skating dangerously close to a treason indictment. The White House may be Israeli-occupied territory. But if the U.S. is normalizing even a little bit, Abrams may have badly miscalculated. At the least, why should this flagrant Israeli mole not be deported?
So, Obama will play Uncle Tom to the Zionist overlords. The king is dead, long live the king. White (non end-timer Christian) America will be slowly driven to support
David Duke.
What other option do they have, even if they despise Duke? That's the longer question slowly coming. History will once more repeat itself, as it slowly emerges from the classical victimhood to the principles, the eternal bloody chess game devoid of emotion.
"such as a repeat of 9/11, for example."
How he relishes the notion. I tell you: Public opinion is sharply anti-Israel, anti-war on terror, and even more anti-Obama with every day. One quick solution for this problem is another terror attack, this time instigated by Zionist and or American Empire-types.
Don't blame the Muslims if the next tower blows up.
It will be like a really big shopping center or a train or subway system, methinks.
Dirty bomb attack with the "trail" leading to Iran. Cheney has planted the memes.
Actually, Public opinion is very pro-Israel.
Public opinion is very easily manipulated. Block out certain POVs, make polls with "when was the last time you beat your wife" structure. Repeat the same lies constantly.
If Americans knew what the organized diaspora jews in partnership with the Israeli regime have been doing in their name for decades, they would not stand for it. Of course Chris Berel knows this.
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