On Jun 7, 7:14 am, Obama's Legion of Flash Mobs @ 7/11.nig wrote:
> Obama and Israel
>
> Obama's Nominee for U.N. Ambassadorship Ignites Concerns over U.S.
> Support for Israel
>
> Jacob Kamaras June 6th 2013
> JNS
> Samantha Powerhttp://
www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=80332&pageid=37&p...
>
> Samantha Power, President Barack Obama’s replacement for Susan Rice as
> U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, has a history of controversial
> comments about Israel, reigniting concerns regarding the Obama
> administration’s support for the Jewish state that were raised after
> the nomination of Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel.
>
> Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of
> America (ZOA), told JNS.org on Wednesday that a look at the list of
> Obama’s nominees and appointments to positions that impact
> Israel—including Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Director of the
> Central Intelligence Agency John O. Brennan, and now Power—“makes very
> clear that President Obama is no friend of Israel, and that he is
> insensitive to the interests of American Jews and the pro-Israel
> community, because all of those important posts have been filled with
> people who have been very hostile to Israel.”
>
> Power from January 2009 to March 2013 held positions including special
> assistant to the president, senior director for multilateral affairs
> and human rights on the National Security Council, and member of the
> Atrocities Prevention Board.
>
> During a 2002 interview at the University of California, Berkeley
> Institute of International Studies, when asked what she would advise a
> U.S. president to do if either party in the Israeli-Palestinian
> conflict was “moving towards genocide,” Power referenced the
> pro-Israel lobby by saying the situation might mean America
> “alienating a domestic constituency of tremendous political and
> financial import,” before seemingly vouching for an American invasion
> of Israel to protect the Palestinians from genocide.
>
> “It may mean more crucially sacrificing—or investing, I think, more
> than sacrificing—literally billions of dollars not in servicing
> Israelis’, you know, military, but actually in investing in the new
> state of Palestine, in investing billions of dollars it would probably
> take also to support, I think, what will have to be a mammoth
> protection force, not of the old, you know, Srebrenica kind or the
> Rwanda kind, but a meaningful military presence,” said Power, who
> later retracted her comments in an interview with Haaretz.
>
> In a 2007 interview posted on the Harvard Kennedy School of
> Government’s website, Power said, “America’s important historic
> relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers
> to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate
> Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer
> demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.”
>
> Power has also criticized the New York Times for reporting that there
> was no massacre of Palestinians in Jenin in 2002, commenting in the
> 2003 book Ethnic Violence and Justice, “I was struck by a headline
> that accompanied a news story on the publication of the Human Rights
> Watch report. The headline was, I believe: ‘Human Rights Reports Finds
> Massacre Did Not Occur in Jenin.’ The second paragraph said, ‘Oh, but
> lots of war crimes did.’ Why wouldn’t they make the [Israeli] war
> crimes the headline and the non-massacre the second paragraph?”
>
> ZOA’s Klein told JNS.org that the appointment of Power is a troubling
> development for the prospects of Israel at the U.N., a body whose
> resolutions already frequently condemn the Jewish state. Klein added
> that Power’s firing from Obama’s 2008 election campaign over calling
> Hillary Clinton “a monster” indicates that Power lacks the diplomatic
> tact required for the U.N. ambassador role.
>
> Klein said ZOA plans to scrutinize Power, publicly note her past
> statements about Israel, and speak with other Jewish groups about the
> issue—just like ZOA did when it felt Obama’s nomination of Hagel for
> defense secretary warranted opposition. The Republican Jewish
> Coalition (RJC), another group that was vocal in its opposition of the
> Hagel nomination, also issued a warning about the Power appointment on
> June 5.
>
> “Samantha Power has a record of statements that are very troubling to
> Americans who support Israel,” RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks said
> in a statement. “We urge members of the U.S. Senate to question her
> closely about her past statements and writings.”
>
> The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), however, praised the Power
> appointment, with Barry Curtiss-Lusher, ADL national chair, and
> Abraham Foxman, ADL national director, saying in a statement, “We are
> pleased that President Obama has nominated a true champion of human
> rights who led the effort to make averting genocide and atrocities a
> core part of American policy to head the U.S. delegation at the United
> Nations.”
>
> “As head of President Obama’s multilateral affairs efforts, Samantha
> engaged in an all-hands-on-deck U.S. campaign against Palestinian
> unilateral efforts in the U.N. to circumvent peace negotiations. She
> experienced first-hand the hostility faced by Israel and the abuse of
> the U.N. bodies to promote anti-Israel bias. As someone who
> appreciates, to the core of her being, the meaning of international
> human rights mechanisms, Samantha is clear eyed and understands the
> injustice of their abuse to target Israel’s legitimacy,”
> Curtiss-Lusher and Foxman added.
>
> The ADL leaders’ statement did not reference any of Power’s past
> controversial comments on Israel.
>
> Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, a well-known author and TV host who last
> November was a Republican candidate for the House of Representatives
> in New Jersey, wrote in a 2011 op-ed recounting a conversation he had
> with Power that she “rejected utterly the notion she had any animus
> toward Israel.”
>
> “She acknowledged that she had erred significantly in offering
> hypothetical comments that did not reflect how she felt,” Boteach
> wrote, regarding Power’s 2002 comments in Berkeley. “She said that
> opponents of President Obama had unfairly taken her disorganized
> comments further and characterized them as ‘invade Israel’ talk.”
>
> Jacob Kamaras writes for the Jewish News Service, from where this
> article is adapted.
>
> CB
> First the Bible was taken out of schools in 1962 by men in black
> robes. That act took moral authority from instilling, "fear of God is
> the beginning of wisdom" Proverbs 9:10.Then came the Age of Aquarius,
> the drug culture, Woodstock, free love, rebellion, Kent State, Walter
> Cronkite telling the American people fighting Communism in Veitnam
> isn't worth the price in blood and treasure. The fall of America's
> dominance in scholastic achievement as a nation can be traced back to
> '62'.
>
> My step mother is Vietnamese, she told me what happened after the fall
> of Saigon and how the media block all news telling of the slaughter
> because Liberalism stopped the fight against the Evil Empire(s).
>
> A generation later we not only get a cheat in the White House because
> of Liberal media blocking serving as cheer leader for Obama but also
> blocks any news of his past, (where are his transcripts/no one
> remembers him at skoo). Especially of the culture Obama brought to the
> nation from the town that has more murders this year than Beirut and
> NYC.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), however, praised the Power
appointment,
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of course, she's married to a jew, support intervention in the middle
east and is making a killing off O.