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Ambassador Chas. W. Freeman, Jr., former President of the Middle East Policy Council, has just withdrawn himself from consideration for the National Intelligence Council. Juan Cole has the text of Freeman’s reasoning.
The bottom line is that he doesn’t want to put up with the infantile tantrums of AIPAC and the Likudnik apologists anytime anything is said that doesn’t support the policy position for the right-wing whackos that currently control Israeli policy.
I see no special relationship with Israel. I haven’t seen a single incident in which the United States has benefited from supporting Israel. The only time there has been significant movement in the Middle East peace process was when Jimmy Carter implemented an even-handed policy.
I would like to see supporters of Israel providing some real facts to justify the US taxpayers’ money being sent to Israel, and an end to this pointless favoritism.
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I heard some talk on Air America and it seems that Lieberman and Shumer tossed this guy under the bus….he also apparently was taken out of context on some things that he said about China and Tiennemen Square.
I’m sure we’ll never really now exactly WHY he pulled his name.
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Oh, I think he tell the real reason, he was happy in retirement and the government job was going to be a hemorrhoid. LIEberman and Shumer wear AIPAC collars and won’t do anything not approved by the Likud Party leaders. They’ll cross the Democratic Party in a picosecond, but never Likud.
…heck, I guess I may be reaching back too far, but I would still like unilateral “my little buddy, right or wrong” supporters of Israel explain the attack on the USS Liberty in the context of “why should we support Israel”, but I’m confident in a sad resigned way that this won’t ever happen (seeing as how it hasn’t over the last 40 years)…
As you probably know, Jack, that is a sore point around here and with Fallenmonk because we were part of the overall system that included the USS Liberty.
Moving forward, I just don’t think we can afford to continue to make them our number one recipient of foreign aid and receive nothing in return.