Last fall, neocon/Zionists such as Eli Lake attacked General James Jones, Obama's choice for National Security Adviser, because of his devotion to the idea of Palestinian self-determination. They said that he was cut from realist/Brzezinski cloth. MJ Rosenberg at TPM reports that the campaign against Jones has now gone underground:
I hear [the lobby is] already going after NSC chief James Jones, who served in Israel and does not take a sanguine view of the occupation.
Here is Michael Goldfarb of The Standard taking shots at him. The goal, a knowledgeable friend tells me, is to get rid of Jones quietly. "They can't afford another Chas Freeman situation. As with Freeman, it's all about Israel but, this time, without fingerprints."
Here's Goldfarb in the Weekly Standard, using the pretext of a statement Jones supposedly made about long working hours:
[I]n order to keep the business of government running,
it's necessary to cut Jones out of the loop. No one is attacking Jones
because of his views, he just isn't pulling his weight, and it's now
clear that he's a bad fit for that job. Obama owes it to the country to
bring in a national security adviser who's willing to work past 7
o'clock if necessary — someone who is willing to take a 3 am phone
call.
