Helena Cobban reports on a speech by the man who was supposed to be Barack "Change" Obama's intelligence chief, but was kiboshed by pro-Israel forces...
The experienced American diplomatist Chas W. Freeman, Jr, has issued a strong call for European and Arab states to work together to ensure speedy attainment of Israeli-Palestinian peace, arguing that "Only a peace process that is protected from Israel's ability to manipulate American politics can succeed."
Speaking Wednesday morning (September 1) to the staff of the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Oslo, Freeman argued that, in their pursuit of a sustainable and final peace settlement, European and Arab states should be prepared to convene their own values-driven peace process outside the currently shackled UN system, if necessary.
At the core of this process should, he said, be an ultimatum that if the two parties can't reach a peace settlement within a year, the world's states would impose one: This would be either a call for recognition of a Palestinian state within all the Palestinian areas that lie beyond Israel's 1967 borders-- or, recognition of Israel's sovereignty over all of Mandate Palestine and a requirement that it grant equal rights to all who are governed by Israel.
I fear that there is also an “Israel’s ability to manipulate much of European politics”.
I hope I’m wrong and at least some European countries (not just the citizens, like the brave Irish on the MV Rachel Corrie for example, but their governments too) stand up to the US and Israel.
Israel’s power is vastly decreased in Europe, and Europe has absolutely no patience for the wars that the US-Israeli axis has produced in the Middle East. I’m starting to see rumblings of real change even in Germany, and I suspect there is something similar happening to shift in England as well. And those are Israel’s strongest (and most indentured) European allies.
It is not a question of what the public in Europe thinks. The Israelis target those in power. You should have seen the speed with which the British (Labour) government reacted, when a warrant was issued for the arrest of Livni, with fulsome apologies and promises of change to the law. Although support for Israel is very low in public opinion.
I’ve regarded for a long time that a reasonable solution will have to come from European pressure and in spite of the United States. The Israeli government can literally maim and kill US citizens with absolutely no consequence at this point — for all intents and purposes, our government dances when Israel croons.
But Ambassador Freeman, there is no such thing as an Israel Lobby and if there were, it would have no influence on US foreign policy.
hahaha. Nothing to see here, move along, move along!
This is a significant statement, and one that I would LOVE to see pounced on by the Israel Lobby. Is Freeman inviting a confrontation? We should be so lucky.
almost as good a shot across-the-bow as when Admiral Mullen went to israel to tell them not to stage another USS Liberty-type false flag attack a year ago in June