In a moment, I’ll present you with what might be the most frightening paragraph in the modern history of U.S. Middle East policy. But first, here’s one that’s among the most deplorable. It’s from a Washington Post article: “The Obama administration is preparing for the prospect that Islamist governments will take hold in North Africa and the Middle East, acknowledging that the popular revolutions there will bring a more religious cast to the region’s politics.” The Islamist forces are enthusiastic about the uprisings throughout the Arab world, knowing they will offer an opportunity to begin gradually recreating an unofficial Caliphate. Oppressive pro-Western governments, nationalist sentiments and secular forces stand in their way, but the Islamists’ organizational capabilities and clerical support give them an advantage. The Muslim Brotherhood suddenly has a chance to rapidly come to power throughout the entire Middle East and have parties and governments able to jointly reshape the region. Egypt has received the most attention regarding a possible Muslim Brotherhood takeover. A World Public Opinion poll in 2009 showed that 69 percent of Egyptians believe the Brotherhood is genuinely democratic and 64 percent give it a positive rating. Less than one-fourth consider it to be an extremist group. A Pew poll in 2010 found strong support for a judicial system based on Sharia, including 84 percent supporting the... By Ted Belman Apparantly, US wants dramatic statements from Netanyahu.. Hence, the sources estimated that the issue of borders “must be on the table,” with America expecting Netanyahu to refer to the 1967 borders as the basis for a final-status agreement and the establishment of a Palestinian state. So much for negotiations. Since US policies have been inadequate and not supportive enough of Israel or of human rights in the Middle East, I agree with CIPAC in urging the Congress to develop new policies, oversee Administration actions and change foreign aid funding criteria, to address the new Middle East unfolding before our eyes in the media so as to: * Uphold Israel’s right to secure borders surrounding all of historic Israel, including Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, Gaza and the Golan. By David Solway, PAJAMAS MEDIA In other words, Israel is treated like “dirt,” political matter out of place, an extrusion of contaminated substance that threatens the unity, coherence, and order of the whole. Such rejectionism is certainly true of Europe whose own moral cleanliness has been profoundly compromised by its millennial anti-Semitism which culminated in the Holocaust and which continues to this day. But as Europe grows ever more oblivious of its moral and political feculence, it must correlatively insist upon its nobility of intention, its love of peace, its fundamental decency — in short, its intrinsic purity, a fiction it can maintain only by purging awareness and banishing history to the Lethean waters of the unconscious. At the same time, to ensure forgetfulness of guilt, it requires a present substitute for its own sullied and problematic past. And what better proxy than the people and nation upon whom it inflicted the most heinous and unspeakable of crimes?...
Obama spells disaster for the ME
Resurrecting the Caliphate
Obama abandons a negotiated settlement.
CIPAC PETITIONS CONGRESS
Solway: “Israel is treated like ‘dirt’”
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Now We Know: How the Obama Administration is Going to Bring Disaster to the Middle East and U.S. Interests
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What? While people like me have been warning about the emergence of Islamist regimes, in contrast the Obama administration, European governments, mass media, and most academics have repeatedly assured us there’s no such danger! Those people doing the warning have been almost totally shut out of the mass media.
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Richard A Hellman, President www.cipaconline.org
* Promote the acceptance of Israel’s right to sit on the United Nations Security Council and other international governing bodies, like other nations, by such means as withholding US appropriations for the United Nations until Israel has full voting rights in that body, and work to see that UN Resolutions 242 and 338 are rescinded in support of Israel’s right to the Land.
* Stop funding UNWRA, the United Nations...
Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
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