Obama nominates viciously anti Israel Samantha powers to UN,
replacing the lying Susan Rice (famously went on every Sunday morning
talk show to lie for Obama that Ben Ghazi was caused by the video and
not al quida) who moves over to national security advisor. :
POSTED ON JANUARY 30, 2009 BY PAUL MIRENGOFF
Last
year, I wrote a series of posts contending that Power is anti-Israel,
and at times viciously so. Here is a summary of my evidence:
In
a 2002 interview, Power advocated investing billions of dollars to
impose a Palestinian state. That investment would include the insertion
of “a mammoth” and explicitly “military” force into the disputed
territory. Last year, Power desribed this approach as “weird.” But it’s
not that weird if you desperately want to tilt U.S. policy decisively in
favor of the Palestinians.
Power’s anti-Israel
sentiment is further apparent in her support of slashing, if not
eliminating, military aid to Israel (an ally surrounded by 300 million
people who wish to destroy her) and giving it to the Palestinians, whose
charters (whether the Hamas or Fatah version) advocate the destruction
of Israel.
Along the same lines, Power has spoken
sympathetically about the notion of “alienating a domestic constituency
of tremendous political and financial import [American Jews] and
sacrificing…billions of dollars, not in servicing Israel’s military, but
actually investing in the state of Palestine.”
Power’s
unhappiness with American Jews extends beyond their support for Israel
in issues relating to the Palestinians. Outrageously, Power has blamed
deference to Israel and the “special interests” that support Israel for
the U.S. intervention in Iraq. She does so in the face of evidence that
Israel had no particular desire that we overthrow Saddam Hussein, and
actually viewed that enterprise as a distraction from the more serious
threat posed by Iran.
Power showed the depth of her
dislike (if not hatred) for Israel when she blamed Israel for the
tactics the U.S. has used in Iraq. She stated that our alleged
“deference” to Israel has caused us “to replicate Israeli tactics,
which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to
be counter-productive.” Power did not state what she thinks these
tactics were, but she seems to have had in mind the bombing of civilians
which caused an international outcry. In any case, Power provided no
evidence that Israel is to blame for whatever U.S. tactics she finds
objectionable.
Still on the subject of Lebanon, Power
has expressed outrage at the way Israel has treated the U.N.’s faux
peacekeepers in South Lebanon, the ones who stood by while Hezbollah
gained a dominant position and used it to commit aggression against
Israel. In this connection, Power quotes (with no disapproval) the
statement of Sergio Vieira De Mello, the subject of her hagiography,
that the Israelis are “bastards.” Power also attributes Israel’s
incursion into South Lebanon not to the terrorism launched against it
from that area, but to the existence of dispossessed Palestinians and
Israeli “insecurity.”
Power criticized the New York
Times, which had promoted the bogus Jenin “massacre” story, for
attempting to set the record straight through a headline that said
“Human Rights Reports Finds Massacre Did Not Occur in Jenin.? Power
thought the headline should have been about alleged “Israeli war
crimes.”
Fortunately, the portfolio Obama has given
Power bears no apparent relationship to Israel. But Power’s obsession
with Israel, a nation that, in her twisted world view, is the source of
so much mischief, raises the possibility of “portfolio creep.” Perhaps
“The Monster,” Hillary Clinton, will provide a safeguard against this
prospect
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
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