Barack Obama quoted by ABC News is sounding the alarm that events will soon be sweeping him up into the greatest foreign policy debacle this nation has ever experienced. (Full article and link below) Oil futures will shortly reflect his comments today
Once Israel pulls the trigger and commits the US (by means of her extraordinary influence over US Mid East policy, as described in 'The Israel Lobby' by Walt and Mearsheimer'), the Neocons in American and the Likudists in Israel who brought us Iraq will have forced us over a Rubicon with our fresh acts of war against Iran. Obama, like Bush, will not only be a war president but a war president STILL carrying out the Neocon and Israeli agenda.
Obama's Sunday 2 24 08 speech to ~100 members of the Jewish Community in Cleveland may just possibly be one of the most critically important speeches in the history of our American experiment - certainly the most important speech in the last 50 years. It will serve as the BASIS for successful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is at the basis of the 'Neocon Wars for Israel' that BushCheney and the Israel Lobby have been having us fight. Obama has split the Likud/Neocon war criminals from Jews of Conscience everywhere and broken down the walls for ME Peace. Thank you, Barack, and Samantha - YAHOO!!!
I am STUNNED by these developments and this speech is currently reverberating around the world in Israel, Europe, and everywhere except of course America. See Jim Lobe's article below and follow the links in the Israeli papers. This is it - this is what we need - these are the conceptual underpinnings for the end of the 'war on terror' and the counterattacks for our war crimes in the Middle East.
I call on all the American Jewish community, including their leaders such as the wonderful 'Jewish Voice for Peace' group to which I belong, to support resolution of the Israeli Palestinian conflict according to the UN Sec Co resolutions 242, 194, 338, the Geneva Conventions, and International Laws Israel is currently violating, and in memory of the the 4000 Americans who have died for Israel in Iraq
Once we stop Israel in Palestine we will find a miracle begin to occur - a war of terror that many did not understand was being waged will have stopped - for what we will have stopped is the 'war of terror for Israel' the neocons and the Israel Lobby have been having us fight. Oh wait - let me say it again - there stopped being a war of terror because the US stopped carrying out our war of terror for Israel - like when we attacked Iraq for Israel. And the effects will almost be instantaneous - we won't have to send our boys to terrorize Iran for Israel in a few months
Please click on the below article link at 'antiwar.com' and then click on the links for full transcripts of Barack's Cleveland speech - YAHOO!!!
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http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/02/25/obama-distinguishes-between-pro-israel-and-pro-likud/
Monday, February 25th, 2008 in News by Jim Lobe| Comment |
Barack Obama reportedly said something very important and long overdue to a group of some 100 Cleveland Jewish leaders on Sunday — that being pro-Likud and being “pro-Israel” are two different things.
“I think there is a strain within the pro-Israel community that says unless you adopt a unwavering pro-Likud approach to Israel that you’re anti-Israel and that can’t be the measure of our friendship with Israel. If we cannot have an honest dialogue about how do we achieve these goals, then we’re not going to make progress.”
Nader's challenge to Obama's Foreign PolicyWhy did Barack back off his positions he held recognizing the slow Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people when BLASTED by the Israel Lobby (AIPAC, et al) in early 2007? Why was Jimmy Carter savagely attacked and branded 'antisemitic' for publication of 'Palestine: Peace not Apartheid'? Why do the Neocons - aka the 'Israel Lobby' - disallow even the most basic and elementary public education of our electorate deliniating - let alone repudiating - the warcrimes that through the Bush regime they have forced the Amercian people (including our GI's in Iraq and our men verging on an assault on Iran) to commit? Duh - its the Israel Lobby, stupid - it's the perfect crime: Resistance to the Neocons is Antisemitic and Futile - that’s the scam the Neocons have been running. Any discussion of the Neocons or their motives is Antisemitic and therefore '3rd rail' and therefore the perfect coverup of why the Neocon Coup that is currently running America (Bush/Cheney/Abrams/Wolfowitz/Libby/Kristol/Perle/Hadley, et al) cannot EVEN BE DISCUSSED by our media.
Bravery in the face of the Neocons? - youv'e shown it Ralph, and you, Ron Paul, and you Dennis Kucinich. And you, John EdwardsRalph slapped Barack across the cheek in a challenge to his honor this evening on Tucker Carlson and yesterday on 'Meet the Press' - what do you say to THAT, Barack?Resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the stake that driven into the heart of the Neocons will destroy them forever. Nothing - NOTHING ELSE - will do so.Thank you, Ralph. Wake up, Barack!
I'm starting to visualize my Obama dream ticket - Edwards comes on as VP and Samantha Power comes aboard as Secretary of State. Wow! - this is the ticket we need to overthrow the Neocon coup that had taken over our country. Edwards was one of the only presidential candidates to go after the Neocons by name - if anybody missed his white hot but underreported U of Iowa Speech 11 05 07, here's a couple of paragraphs and the link - it's well worth the read and showed true bravery:http://johnedwards.com/news/press-releases/20071105-a-new-strategy-for-iran/
"George Bush, Dick Cheney, and the neocon warmongers used 9/11 to start a war with Iraq and now they're trying to use Iraq to start a war with Iran. And we have to stop them. We owe our American heroes -- the men and women in our armed services who are fighting so bravely in Iraq and Afghanistan today -- no less.""In the spring of 2002, the nation was struggling to recover from the devastating terrorist attacks of 9/11. At the same time, a group of Bush Administration neoconservatives, like Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz, were strategizing for ways to start a war with Iraq. And suddenly, instead of reacting to 9/11 by working to protect America from terrorists, they saw a political opportunity to promote their right-wing ideological agenda and demonize anyone who disagreed with them."And here's what you need to know about George Bush's foreign policy -- it's written by these neocons, lock, stock, and barrel." I love that Samantha is at the Kennedy School of Government along with Stephen Walt - Walt being the coauthor of the seminal work on 'The Israel Lobby' along with Mearsheimer. Samantha is a perfect choice for stopping our neocon-led phoney war on terror EVERYBODY KNOWS is really a 'war of terror for Israel' but just about everybody in academia or politics simply don't have the cojones to say. Edwards and Samantha are visionary enough to have the guts to overcome the 'Israel Lobby's' kibosh on discussing these truths.
Obama must dump Dennis Ross from any foreign policy post considerations in his adminsitration - Dennis is a neocon - a Scooter Libby defender and fully credentialed AIPAC operative, for god's sake. Does anyone want a 'Warmonger Joe Lieberman' in his cabinet? Hell No! DITCH DENNIS - he's DANGEROUS!
Ross is a perfect example of the Israel Lobby in action in America - his long history in support of the Israel's illegal occupation of the West Bank, close coordination with recent Israeli administration policies towards the occupation and war crimes towards the Palestinians, and apologist for everything Israeli/Neocon including Scooter Libby and the 2nd Lebanon War. Ross is like Indyk or Lieberman - they are the enablers and conductors of perennial conflict in the Middle East and card-carrying members of the Israel Lobby (Walt and Mearsheimer in their seminal 'The Israel Lobby' fully delineate Ross's role in the Israel Lobby)
We must stay clear of Neocons such as Dennis in our campaign if we are to have any hope of bringing just and lasting peace in the Middle East.
Obama must dump Dennis Ross from foreign policy post considerations in his adminsitration - Dennis is a neocon - a Scooter Libby defender and fully credentialed AIPAC operative, for god's sake. Does anyone want a 'Warmonger Joe Lieberman' in his cabinet? HELL NO! DITCH DENNIS - he's DANGEROUS!
Obama's unbelieveable support of the Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza is sheer cowardice and complicity in a war crime- Israel's collective punishment of a civilivan population being a full fledged WAR CRIME (under the Geneva Conventions and International Law).
If you don't get that, Sen Obama, what DO you get?I voted for you last Saturday in Nevada- my precinct 4012 of 99 voters giving you 3 delegates out of 6 - and now due to your letter below to Bush's neocon UN Ambassador Khalilzad, I am now considering NOT voting for you in November. I won't be voting for Hillary either - it may be time for a write in if I have to but I will not vote for any US Senator complicit in war crimes against the Palestinians - whether it be you or Hillary. I'll write in Kucinich, Ron Paul, and will be Edwards another look if I must
How dare you protect Israel from the international condemnation it deserves for this CURRENT warcrime and which the US must support in order to stop Israel and her Neocons in Palestine. Your letter ranks with Hillary's Kyl-Lieberman vote for assaulting Iran.
I've got 3 'last Saturday Nevada voters' at work that I turned away from Hillary (all women - you can bet it was tough) for her sellout to AIPAC and her Kyl-Lieberman vote and support of a neocon-led assault on Iran - and they're not going to be happy to get an earful from me and an eyeful of this pathetic digusting letter you wrote
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original at http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerBlog.jhtml?itemNo=865078
copy of letter below in ext text
