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Who is Edward Peck and why is he important in the War Against the Jews?  Ed Peck has had a long career beginning in the Nixon administration in the early 1970’s.  He went on to work for Jimmy Carter as Chief of Mission in Baghdad from 1977 to 1980 then as Ambassador to Mauretania  (one of the last countries to permit chattel slavery to this day).  Peck is all over the media because he was aboard a small Greek boat that made up part of the “flotilla” turned back by Israeli forces.

Peck has a long history of anti-Israel activity.  A longtime supporter of The Israel Lobby canard by Walt and Mearsheimer (“Of Course There is an Israel Lobby”) and frequent guest of CAIR, the Muslim American group many of whose officials have been indicted and convicted of terrorist activity, Peck is now being sought as an expert “witness” to Israeli atrocities on the high seas.  Rounding out his “diplomatic” activities is a long association with Eugene Bird’s Council for the National Interest, the far right wing group that advocates divestment and disengagement from Israel.  I forgot to mention that Mr. Peck is also an apologist for Hezbollah maintaining that it is no more a “terrorist” entity than Israel or the United States:

Today Ed Peck was interviewed by National Public Radio and  introduced simply as “a retired American diplomat with long experience in the Middle East.” Part of that experience, not referenced by the careful fact-checkers at NPR, consisted of being a spokesman for the Palestine Authority. Listen to the complete puff piece: