Marvin Kalb
Max Blumenthal sent us the announcement below of heavyhitters coming to a Chevy Chase, MD synagogue in ten days, to support a lobby group dedicated to backing the U.S.’s stance in favor of Israel at the United Nations. The event will honor the Nauru ambassador.
Ben Cardin is a liberal Maryland senator who is surely doing double duty at the event in this wealthy suburb. “[In 2008] Cardin made numerous appearances for Barack Obama in Jewish neighborhoods in battleground states, where he had strong credibility as a Jewish U.S. senator with a solid record of support for Israel.”–Almanac of American Politics. (By the way, Maryland is not a battleground state.)
Marvin Kalb was a longtime network journalist who founded a center on the press at Harvard, and is a Harvard emeritus professor. (Similar age to the former New York Times exec editor Max Frankel, who wrote in his autobiography (and was quoted by Walt and Mearsheimer) “I was much more deeply devoted to Israel than I dared to assert.”)
Please join us on Sunday evening, March 25th, 7-9:30 PM at Ohr Kodesh Congregation in Chevy Chase, MD for this important event featuring U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) and award-winning journalist, Marvin Kalb,and Eliav Benjamin, Counselor for Political Affairs at the Embassy of Israel.
Entitled “Israel Under Siege – Combating the Use of the UN to Delegitimize Israel,” this educational and inspirational event will focus on the little understood “ant-Israel mechanism” within the UN that is responsible for all the ongoing venomous attacks and initiatives against the Jewish State in the United Nations.
Learn how the American Jewish International Relations Institute (AJIRI) founded by Richard Schifter, former Ambassador to the UN has been helping to combat these anti-Israel initiatives (including the recent Palestinian Statehood initiative) by changing UN votes. We will also be honoring one of Israel’s staunchest supporters in the United Nations. Ambassador Marlene Moses, Permanent Representative for the South Pacific Island Republic of Nauru to the United Nations
She will be the first-ever recipient of this award.
A complimentary dessert reception will follow. Admission is FREE but pre-registration is required…
Professor Finkelstein was wrong about the population of Republic of Nauru it is more than he claims, Wikipedia has it at 9,322 it is the least populated country after Vatican City. Nauru has no armed forces so just the hint of a threat from Herr Lieberman is enough to secure their vote at the UN.
“Venomous”.
It’s actually organic and on the Israeli side entirely self inflicted
“deligitimization”
hard not to laugh – look no further than israeli leadership and actions for the cause
Just when you think you’ve grasped the full dimensions of the Israel lobby, and its dozens of interconnected component organizations and front groups, you learn of yet another piece of the puzzle:
“The American Jewish International Relations Institute (AJIRI) founded by Richard Schifter, former Ambassador to the UN has been helping to combat these anti-Israel initiatives (including the recent Palestinian Statehood initiative) by changing UN votes.”
And many members of this lobby still claim that it doesn’t exist and will verbally abuse you if, seeing the evidence that is directly in front of your nose, you dare say otherwise.
In all fairness though — Nauru, along with the Marshall Islands ( also known as the KABOOM! Islands) and Paulau are wholly own subsidiaries of the US Defense Department…..
These cats are the ones who vote with the US and Israel against the “peaceful settlement to the palestine question”
Vote on Peaceful Settlement of Palestine Question(2008) —
The draft resolution on the peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine (document A/63/L.35) was adopted by a recorded vote of 164 in favour to 7 against, with 3 abstentions, as follows:
In favour: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Timor-Leste, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Against: Australia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Nauru, Palau, United States.