IN A NUTSHELL: OBAMA’S ADVISORS
ISRAEL LIVES@GMAIL.COM JANET LEHR
OBAMA’S ADVISORS SAMANTHA POWERS, formerly at the Harvard Kennedy School and on the NSC senior staff, has accused Israel of war crimes (Jenin 2002) and argued for use of multilateral forces to enforce unilateral peace agreements in Palestinian territories. SUSAN RICE, US UN Ambassador, has been a proponent of global nuclear non proliferation treaty that would force inspection of Israel’s nuclear arsenal while continuing the fiction of engagement with the Iranian Islamic Republic over nuclear enrichment. GEN JAMES L. JONES, NSC advisor to Obama (Jan 2009-Nov 2010) had previously been involved in supervising Palestinian security force training. According to the first report since he re-entered government service in January 2009, Jones earned salary and bonus of $900,000 from the U.S. Chamber, as well as director fees of $330,000 from the Boeing Company and $290,000 from Chevron Corporation. After leaving the Obama administration, Jones returned as a Fellow at the U.S. Chamber in 2011. GEN. PETRAEUS spoke with the Arabic-language al-Hayat newspaper, published by the Lebanese Daily Star, and blamed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the existence of Hezbollah. “Hezbollah’s justifications for existence will become void,” Petraeus said, “if the Palestinian cause is resolved.” ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Obama foreign policy advisor, former Carter Administration National Security Advisor, holds peculiar views suggesting that the US consider shooting down Israeli aircraft and missiles over US -controlled airspace in any possible unilateral action against Iranian nuclear weapons development targets. PRINCE TURKI/THE SAUDI PEACE PLAN The prince darkly warns Obama to adopt the Saudi peace plan for Israel.or else. The plan, in case you’ve forgotten, calls on Israel “to withdraw completely from the lands occupied in 1967, including East Jerusalem, returning to the lines of June 4 1967; to accept a mutually agreed just solution to the refugee problem according to the General Assembly resolution 194; and to recognize the independent state of Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital. In return, there would be an end to hostilities between Israel and all the Arab countries, and Israel would get full diplomatic and normal relations. GENERAL TIMOTHY MCPEAK was Obama’s military advisor and national campaign co-chairman in 2008. He blames American Jewry and their perceived influence for the palestinean-Israeli conflict. McPeak also charged that Jews and Christian Zionists manipulated American foreign policy in Iraq. [the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) called on Obama to remove McPeak as his military advisor and national campaign co-chairman. “By choosing to have a military advisor and national campaign co-chairman like General McPeak, serious questions and doubts are once again being raised about Senator Obama’s positions and judgment on Middle East issues,”] ROBERT MALLEY is perhaps best known for a controversial series of articles in 2001 blaming Israel and exonerating Arafat for the failure of the Clinton peace efforts. Malley’s parents were rabidly anti-Israel and counted Yasir Arafat as a personal friend. Indeed, Arafat was among those “leaders” (for want of a better word) who had intervened with the French government to readmit the Malley family to France after they had been expelled for their radical activities. [Robert’s father Simon Malley, published a radical magazine about Africa, Afrique-Asie, which supported various leftist “liberation movements” as well as the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. According to the Washington Post] He is one of the most often quoted commentators on U.S. Middle East policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict, thanks mostly to his time in the Clinton administration, where he served on the National Security Council as Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs, and also as Special Assistant to the President for Arab-Israeli Affairs. Malley served in these positions despite having no special expertise in Middle East questions – he is a Harvard-trained lawyer and later spent a few years at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He worked as Senior Policy Advisor at the Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation, and is now with the Soros-funded International Crisis Group where he serves as Middle East and North Africa Program Director. While working with Obama’s 2008 campaign he was ‘caught’ in talks with Hamas and Obama was forced to fire him. VALERIE JARRETT It is undertood that neither the President not Mrs. Obama makes a move without first consulting Ms. Jarrett. Most senior adviser to President Barack Obama, American/Muslim hybrid born in Iran. In 2009, top aide to President Barack Obama provided a keynote address at the 46th Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) national convention, a gathering that attracted thousands of people and also featured anti-Semitic, homophobic rhetoric and defense of the terrorist group Hezbollah. ISNA is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case.
A 2010 New York Times article cited the Obama administration’s ever increasing involvement with Muslim groups – led of course by Iranian-born Valerie Jarrett: Muslim and Arab-American advocates have participated in policy discussions and received briefings from top White House aides and other officials on health care legislation, foreign policy, the economy, immigration and national security. They have met privately with a senior White House adviser, Valerie Jarrett.
What have we to expect as BHO moves more into campaigning mode in 2011? Valerie Jarrett will be in command in Washington DC. Jarrett told Meet the Press the president intends to be engaging the American people far more in the coming year, she didn’t note who would be directing business at the White House.
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