I guess it should maybe come as no surprise, but criticism of President Obama’s Middle East policy has come from an unlikely source – one of his special envoys tasked with carrying it out. Ha’aretz is reporting that in his new book, Dennis Ross opposes a comprehensive view of bringing peace to the Middle East. From the article “Dennis Ross vs. Obama: No link between Iran, Mideast peace“:
Dennis Ross, the U.S. Secretary of State’s special adviser on Iran, says in a new book that the United States will not make progress toward peace in the Middle East with the Obama administration’s new plan. . .
In the second chapter, entitled “Linkage: The Mother of All Myths,” Ross writes: “Of all the policy myths that have kept us from making real progress in the Middle East, one stands out for its impact and longevity: the idea that if only the Palestinian conflict were solved, all other Middle East conflicts would melt away. This is the argument of ‘linkage.’”
Ross has written the new book with David Makovsky from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. WINEP is an institution closely identified with the Israel lobby, and one that Ross himself has worked for. Maybe this is why there was so much trepidation with a possible Ross appointment in the new administration? Ha’aretz says “Ross’ appointment has been controversial because he is an observant Jew and is considered a strong supporter of Israel.” I think it was the latter.
In addition to explicit Zionist operative work and spying, one of the traditional roles for Sayanim like Ross has also been to divert attention from Israeli racism and abuses of non-Jews by dragging red herrings like Iran's apocryphal pursuit of nuclear weaponry through American media and intelligence circles. This can be done by manufacturing evidence from within the government (as fellow Syanim Feith and Wolfowitz did in the Office of Special Plans in order to frame Iraq in the run up to the Iraq war) or this can be done through propaganda, as Ross has done with his book, released under the auspices of a government insider/expert: "Move along. Move along. Nothing to see in Israel. The true enemy are the fanatical Muslims to the East. The Jews are innocent as doves. Don’t waste your time looking into institutionalized Israeli racism. It’s all a myth. The root of America’s problems lie with Islam."
[cont'd] Why do the Statist keep recycling the same Zionist operatives through high government posts time and again? It’s all become so absurdly Soviet. And why are ostensibly secular Statists so interwoven with Political Judaism's Zionist religious agenda? It's akin to the Bolsheviks destroying Russian churches and leaving the synagogues untouched in the early Soviet Union. Chilling.
Ross is crazy. Yes, if the Israel/Palestine conflict IS resolved, all the other problems won't 'melt away' but they will be alleviated to a great extent, because groups like Al Qaeda et al won't have much to stand on. I have a bitter taste in my mouth whenever that guy is mentioned, especially after reading 'The Truth About Camp David'.
Dennis Ross putting Israeli interests before American? SHOCKING!! Why is he still collecting a US government paycheck?
Ed, just because you put a Capitol Letter on words like "Statist" or "Political Judaism Zionism" doesn't lend any more credence to your nonsense. You have already declared to us that Jews believe in nothing, and as they are unshriven and unnanealed, they have no place in the Great Moderate Christian Ethic of America. And if those capitol letters don't convince you there is such a thing, nothing will. On the other hand, the Zionists are always kvetching about anti-Zionism being equivalent to anti-Semitism, and you seem to be here to prove them right.
Dennis Ross was Bill Clinton's point man on the disastrous Middle East "Peace" plan – which only killed even more people. Ross now realizes all that was wrong with negotiating with a terrorist like Yasser Arafat – and how Abu Abu Abu Mazen and Hamas is even stupider. Face it – Dennis Ross has way more experience today – hard, deadly, experience – in dealing with Balestineans than community organizer Obama will be accumulate even if he spends 8 years in office.
Obviously the book was vetted by the Obama admimnistration and they either wanted Ross so badly to work for them that it didn't matter what he wrote or they just didn't care. Ross should get a promotion and a raise.
Obama stabbed his supporters in the back.
This book by Ross is very strange. He must be removed from government. His presence is making our policy on Iran incoherent and now this.
"unnanealed"? oh, Mooser.
Mooser, you appear to have fallen into a political trap that is common to "progressive" left-liberal Jews who believe themselves to have escaped the psychological hold that Political Judaism and/or its Zionist manifestation maintains over its captive Jewish audience. They have taken the control-freak compulsion transmitted culturally through the same strain of Judaism that produced Zionism, and instead of channeling it towards pro-Zionist activism, they have channeled it towards fanatical support for authoritarian Statist politics. Both strains (not coincidentally) regularly employ accusations of anti-Semitism as a mechanism to fend off critics of their authoritarian enterprise. It has become a lazy crutch that is right now in the process of being kicked out from under them. And everyone, including Jews, will be better off when it's gone.
Rowan, I charge you yield, in Queen Victoria's name! Away with him, and place him at the bar!
"they have channeled it towards fanatical support for authoritarian Statist politics." Gosh, Eddy, please tell me which "authoritarian Statist politics" I support? But wait, I've got a better idea, and one which could avoid this whole tsimmes. Why don't you simply give us citations for all (hell, some, or any) of the fantastic allegations you make about "the Jews"? So you figure the Jews will be "better off" when you say their religion prevents any moral grounding or compassion for outsiders and they say "Yes sir, Sir Ed, we know how debased we are!"? Or is Baptism and a place at the foot of the Cross the only answer? I know how you are, like Mel Gibson, when it comes to "reverence for the Cross"
So tell me, Ed, has Phil Weiss " fallen into a political trap that is common to "progressive" left-liberal Jews who believe themselves to have escaped the psychological hold that Political Judaism and/or its Zionist manifestation maintains over its captive Jewish audience" Oh BTW, how do they hold us captive? You seem to be convinced that no Jew has any independence and is a "captive" of Judaism? And that's not anti-Semitic? Of course, all you moderate-middle-Christian-ethic-American folks (hereinafter known as "the rest of us") are famously independent thinkers. That's why they're called "the rest of us"!
Gee Jake, you don't think Israli intransigence had anything to do with it? Nah, couldn't be. Cause you Israelis always do slavishly everything your American masters tell you to, right?
Sorry, Mooser, I don't think you or Ed are particularly astute. Ed is very aware of Jewish history as it played out in the 20th Century. And you, Mooser, are aware generally of jewish hypocrisy. I give kudos to both of you. But, now, please, both of you, give us your recipe for a good humanitarian meal.
Maybe the plan all along was for Ross to stab Obama in the front and then Congress was to come in and help stab Obama in the back? Queue congress: Bibi Seeks U.S. OK On ‘Natural Growth’ by Stewart Ain Staff Writer [05/27/2009] http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/1292/9212013.html "…The Israeli government launched a political offensive [aka US CONGRESS TALKING POINTS] Monday to convince the Obama administration to allow settlement expansion in return for dismantling illegal outposts, a position supported by the influential chairman of a House subcommittee. “Internal growth is not an obstacle — it is life,” said the congressman, Gary Ackerman (D-L.I.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia. “There is no moral equivalence between settlements and terrorist activity,” he said by phone shortly after leaving a 90-minute meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv. “Bibi mentioned settlements,” Ackerman continued, using Netanyahu’s nickname. “He pointed out that unlike previous administrations that said they would not build them but built them, he is not building new settlements. But he has a position that you cannot stop people on the issue of internal growth.” Ackerman said he subscribed to the position of a Kadima Knesset member, Otniel Schneller, who was quoted as saying: “I will not lend a hand to a dictate preventing my daughters from giving birth to my grandchildren…” —————— And who exactly is going to 'enforce' this "natural growth"? Such BS. However, his position is NOT surprising especially when you come to find out he is noy only the United States House Chairman on Middle East and South Asia foreign affairs but Ackerman is also President of the International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians, making sure that influencial Jews within governments all over the world can coordinate and push for Israel's position on 'all' policy matters — so says: Arik Puder, the spokesman for ICJP Israel — ICJP "…goal is to put together parliamentarians from all over the world in order for them to cooperate with one another and promote Jewish issues/AGENDAS in their respective countries…" NUFF SAID! http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/1292/9212013.html Let's also add Weiss's piece on Berman: the Chairman of United States House Committee on Foriegn Affairs — "…Berman … assumed he was talking to a friendly crowd. He said Israel "is why I went on the Foreign Affairs Committee–" he corrected himself– "it's part of why I went on the Foreign Affairs committee in the first place. I'm a great supporter of Israel." He hastened to add he was also a supporter of a "sensible" peace process that takes into account "Israel's longtime security needs…" http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/1292/9212013.html The Israel Lobby is truly embedded in our government — with recent events I believe we have the Clinton legacy and embedded party leverage to thank for that… you sleep with fleas… This expose still brings chills: David Steiner of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) The Complete Unexpurgated AIPAC Tape "…recorded without his knowledge by New York businessman Haim (Harry) Katz. Its existence was first revealed to the Washington Times and its release triggered Steiner's resignation…" giving us a glimpse how AIPAC controls our congress those they ultimately groom to get into the WH. http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/1292/9212013.html
Islam is a religion of peace, unlike Judaism and Christianity, or so they keep saying…. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/world/asia/28ps...
Fine. Let's just all agree to libertarianism, get the coercive State and its corrupt, control freak string-pullers out of the picture, and let the marketplace of ideas sort it all out. Now what could be more reasonable than that? What’s that, Mooser? Jews are at a disadvantage because they are too racist to proselytize, so they need the coercive police powers of state to even things out? Too damn bad. Don’t make me subsidize your religo-ideology because it is too systemically flawed to survive in the marketplace of ideas. Maybe you need to adjust your business model. Maybe if you had adjusted your business model centuries ago, your troubles could have all been avoided. Don’t blame me because Judaism is too “exclusive,” stubborn, stiff-necked and racist to adjust to the marketplace. When are you going to take responsibility for your own shortcomings and failures instead of perpetually running to the welfare office for subsidies?
Here is Roger Cohen's latest, which says that, in his meeting with Netanyahu, Obama blinked. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/opinion/28iht-e...
Let me amend that. The Israeli Zionists run to the welfare office; the American Jewish Zionists engage in ethnic racketeering to infiltrate and staff the American welfare office with fifth columnists in order to divert State funds to Political Judaism in America and Israel. It's really not too hard to see how a country that has allowed itself to be infiltrated and corrupted by Political Judaism quickly goes down the tubes.
I went and read the article you cited. It has no relation to the proposition you state. Look how easy it is to play the Bar Kochba132 game: Jews are not thieves, unlike Christians or Muslims, or so they keep saying… http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1088366.html
Egad Ed has no awareness of Jewish history. His understanding is based on what the fascist parties in Europe (and Henry Ford in this country) were saying about "Jewish Bolshevism". That plus some weird mixture of a pure Christian Essence (sans catholics and fundamentalist) and economic libertarianism. What it all boils down to is good old fashioned antisemitism. He needs to be called on it — for those of us critical of Israel we must always fight the charge of antisemitism and unfortunately Ed and some others attracted to this site are indeed moved primarily by their hatred of Jews.
"What it all boils down to is good old fashioned antisemitism" As I said, both Political Judaism and its Statist left-liberal partners routinely rely on the "anti-semitism" accusation/crutch to both advance their own artificial moral authority and keep the Constitutionalism and libertarianism in the vein of America's Founders at bay. (Ron Paul, for example, has also been labeled a bigot for refusing to back Big Government Statism and its warmongering, hyper-activist agenda). Sayvin, haven't you figured out yet that Zionism is the price for your Statist Faustian bargain? You've already sold your soul. Why do you think the Democratic Party staunchly supported Zionism for decades, and was only lately matched in its dedication to Israel by the Bush GOP? I'll take a libertarian so called "anti-semite" over the murderous, warmongering Zionist Statist Establishment any day of the week. So will others who haven't yet sold their souls.
Perhaps someone should tell Ross that Osama bin Laden's first major public statement was titled 'The Betrayal of Palestine' (December 29, 1994, addressed to the Chief Mufti of Saudi Arabia). According to Bruce Lawrence '[t]he letter makes it plain that Palestine, far from being a late addition to bin Laden's agenda, was at the centre of it from the start'. (Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden, Verso, 2005: http://bit.ly/K0jo9 )
oops… big big spelling mistake — meant cue… however, on the other hand, I wouldn't doubt there's 'a queue' waiting in Congress to put their knives in. Also, seems like Hillary has been told to get her butt out there and do some double speak:
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_Senators_press_Ob... Time to get the popcorn out… How long is it gonna be before Obama gets another 'really' nasty letter from AIPAC's senators to back off…?
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_Senators_press_Ob... The crap begins.
Arafat was 'your' terrorist, your tamed ex-terrorist, until you decided you didn't need him any more, and killed him, after strafing and bombing the pseudo-'governmental' buildings you had helped him to create. It's all Potemkin facades, for the ignorant Americans, and prevarication to gain time. That's all it ever was.
WINEP is a think tank for AIPAC…