George Mitchell is too ‘fair’ and ‘even-handed’ to serve as Middle East envoy -- Abe Foxman »
Posted By berkeley 9 months, 2 weeks ago in News“Sen. Mitchell is fair. He’s been meticulously even-handed,” said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. “But the fact is, American policy in the Middle East hasn’t been ‘even handed’ — it has been supportive of Israel when it felt Israel needed critical U.S. support.”
“So I’m concerned,” Foxman continued. “I’m not sure the situation requires that kind of approach in the Middle East.”
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gamahuche9 months, 2 weeks ago
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For whatever reason Israel has a permanent "get out of jail free" card in the monopoly game of world politics.
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How will the Middle East ever cease to be a turbulent zone when one odd-man-out country has a monopoly on [illegal] nuclear weapons and receives 100% support from the US, regardless of what it does?
This most recent escapade in Gaza being a perfect example with the equation of 13 Israelu deaths - 3 by friendly fire - being equated with over 1200 Gazan deaths and most of the strip of land that they lived on turned into a heap of rubble.
And the total official US response something like "Carry on Boys".
Will Obama be willing to go head-to-head with the Israelis?
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hyperbola9 months, 2 weeks ago
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Israel has had a "get out of jail free" card since they helped Reagan commit treason in the 1980 election. That "neo-con" strategy (which Clinton, like in many things, largely went along with) has now died a natural death and Israel is weaker than ever. This article has a particularly good summary of history most Americans don't know and of the paradigm shift which may be possible now.
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Israel's Looming Catastrophe
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/01/06/israel39...
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hyperbola9 months, 2 weeks ago
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Well, the appointment of Mitchell is probably a step forward in comparison to what Clinton did (appoint israel-first zionists like Dennis Ross as mideast envoy). On the other hand, unless Obama and Mitchell realize that talking to Abbas is worse than doing nothing, the problems will only get worse.
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So far, Obama's missed the point on Gaza
It would have helped if Obama had the courage to talk about what everyone in the Middle East was talking about. No, it wasn't the US withdrawal from Iraq. They knew about that. They expected the beginning of the end of Guantanamo and the probable appointment of George Mitchell as a Middle East envoy was the least that was expected. Of course, Obama did refer to "slaughtered innocents", but these were not quite the "slaughtered innocents" the Arabs had in mind....
There was the phone call yesterday to Mahmoud Abbas. Maybe Obama thinks he's the leader of the Palestinians, but as every Arab knows, except perhaps Mr Abbas, he is the leader of a ghost government, a near-corpse only kept alive with the blood transfusion of international support and the "full partnership" Obama has apparently offered him, whatever "full" means. And it was no surprise to anyone that Obama also made the obligatory call to the Israelis.
But for the people of the Middle East, the absence of the word "Gaza" – indeed, the word "Israel" as well – was the dark shadow over Obama's inaugural address. Didn't he care? Was he frightened? Did Obama's young speech-writer not realise that talking about black rights – why a black man's father might not have been served in a restaurant 60 years ago – would concentrate Arab minds on the fate of a people who gained the vote only three years ago but were then punished because they voted for the wrong people? It wasn't a question of the elephant in the china shop. It was the sheer amount of corpses heaped up on the floor of the china shop. ...
...Sure, give the man a chance. Maybe George Mitchell will talk to Hamas – he's just the man to try – but what will the old failures such as Denis Ross have to say, and Rahm Emanuel and, indeed, Robert Gates and Hillary Clinton? More a sermon than an Obama inaugural, even the Palestinians in Damascus spotted the absence of those two words: Palestine and Israel.
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berkeley9 months, 2 weeks ago
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one man's ceiling is another man's floor:
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AnteUp9 months, 2 weeks ago
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Here's a piece from Mother Jones:
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I think we are all going to have to wait and see how much
of a change President Obama really has in mind. I will hope.
My pick would have been President Carter - but realistically -
the two couples (Carters and Clintons) didn't even exchange
a polite "Hello" when they were next to each other in the
hallway before the inauguration. Carter and Hillary working
together on such a thorny issue just wouldn't be practical.
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