The Israel Project is a major rightwing Israel lobby group, based in Washington. Its board of advisers easily mixes liberals like Senator Ron Wyden and Rep. Howard Berman with rightwingers like Rep. Allen West and Senator Mark Kirk. That’s the game: there are no political differences on this issue. And even our left-Democratic base, netroots, won’t touch the issue.
Well, today I got an email from The Israel Project bragging that it has sent “a delegation of 18 Washington-based ambassadors from four continents” to Israel and the West Bank. This is aimed at one thing, and one thing only, heading off the Palestinian statehood initiative at the U.N. next month. Your Israel lobby at work– Americans working hard for the perceived interest of the Jewish state… From TIP:
The envoys, most of whom had never been to Israel before, were scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. They also had meetings planned with President Shimon Peres, Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor, Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Strategic Affairs Moshe Yaalon and opposition leader Tzipi Livni during their five-day mission…
The diplomats taking part in the mission are:
Albania: Ambassador Gilbert Galanxhi and Etleva Galanxhi
Barbados: Ambassador John E. Beale and Leila Mol Beale
Belize: Ambassador Nestor Enrique Mendez and Elvira Rosela Mendez Benin: Ambassador Sagbe Cyrille Oguin and Hortense Dossa Oguin
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Miroslav Vujicic, Chief of the Cabinet of the BiH Presidency
Burkina Faso: Ambassador Paramanga Ernest Yonli
Dominica: Ambassador Hubert John Charles
Dominican Republic: Ambassador Anibal De Castro
Grenada: Ambassador Gillian Margaret Susan Bristol
Haiti: Ambassador Louis Harold Joseph
Liberia: Ambassador William Bull and Cecelia Zina Freeman Bull
Macedonia: Ambassador Zoran Jolevski and Suzana Jolevska
Mongolia: Ambassador Bekhbat Khasbazar
Montenegro: Ambassador Srdjan Darmanovic and Aneta Spaic
Slovakia: Ambassador Peter Burian and Nina Burianova
St. Lucia: Ambassador Michael Louis
Timor-Leste: Ambassador Constancio C. Pinto
Trinidad & Tobago: Ambassador Neil Parsan
Uganda: Ambassador Perezi Kamunanwire and Carolyn Hubbard-Kamunanwire
