Elizabeth Warren from her Senate campaign site
I’ve been waiting for this. Breathtaking. Elizabeth Warren is the lib-left consumer advocate in Cambridge running for Senate, and as PEP as they come (Progressive except Palestine). Max Blumenthal at Al Akhbar pulls the wool off our eyes:
While progressives celebrate Warren for her fight against the big banks and the financial industry’s lobbying arm, they have kept silent over the fact that she has enlisted with another powerful lobby that is willing to sabotage America’s economic recovery in order to advance its narrow interests. It is AIPAC, the key arm of the Israel lobby; a group that is openly pushing for a US war on Iran that would likely trigger a global recession, as the renowned economist Nouriel Roubini recently warned. The national security/foreign policy position page on Warren’s campaign website reads as though it was cobbled together from AIPAC memos and the website of the Israeli Foreign Ministry by the Democratic Party hacks who are advising her. It is pure boilerplate that suggests she knows about as much about the Middle East as Herman “Uzbeki-beki-stan-stan” Cain, and that she doesn’t care.
Warren’s statement on Israel consumes far more space than any other foreign policy issue on the page (she makes no mention of China, Latin America, or Africa). To justify what she calls the “unbreakable bond” between the US and Israel, Warren repeats the thoughtless cant about “a natural partnership resting on our mutual commitment to democracy and freedom and on our shared values.” She then declares that the United States must reject any Palestinian plans to pursue statehood outside of negotiations with Israel. While the US can preach to the Palestinians about how and when to demand the end of their 45-year-long military occupation, Warren says the US “cannot dictate the terms” to Israel.
Warren goes on to describe Iran as “a significant threat to the United States,” echoing a key talking point of fear-mongering pro-war forces. She calls for “strong sanctions” and declares that the “United States must take the necessary steps to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon” — a veiled endorsement of a military strike if Iran crosses the constantly shifting American “red lines.” Perhaps the only option Warren does not endorse or implicitly support is diplomacy. Her foreign policy views are hardly distinguishable from those of her Republican rival, who also marches in lockstep with AIPAC.
Yes, now tell me what this is about?
Another pathetic alleged liberal.
YUP!!!
Blumenthal is turning the corner, here is hoping for a continued exposing of the democratic party. And what an INDICTMENT that an american reporter has to write for a international journal in order to tell the truth.
Greenwald has been saying the same thing about Warren – though not related to the Israel Lobby: working to get her elected, let alone idolizing her, is not all that wise.
I’ve just started reading your blog and you (and your other posters and commenters) obviously have serious concerns.
But about WHAT you are concerned is not clear.
Ostensibly it is about Israel.
But your single-minded hostility to Israel strikes a false chord — it is not just about justice for Palestinians or about Israel or American Jews.
I’ll be reading and trying to understand to see if I can figure out the psychodrama. Many of your readers (all of your fellow posters) are probably decent well-meaning people. (Yes there a quite a few simple 100% bigots among the commenters.) But there is something so single-minded in your concern about Palestinians/Israel that I find out-of-proportion and unbalanced.
But I will keep reading, for a while, anyway. Maybe I’ll figure it out.
Best.
Ho-hum. I didn’t know, but am hardly surprised. She IS a USA politician, after all, and trying to be electable. Many Americans will benefit from her educational efforts w.r.t. banking. In time, perhaps she’ll benefit from education about Palestine. But consumer-protection will be quite dead if its chief spokesperson is shot down by AIPAC.
Is she openly running as an agent of a foreign power?