This is an interview with Professor Noam Chomsky 1-13-09
President Obama, do the right thing! Appointing pro-Israeli hawks isn't change we can believe in.
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On what kind of middle east policy we can expect from Obama:
"His appointments are just pro-Israel hawks right down the line: Clinton, Dennis Ross, Dan Kurtzer. Kurtzer, who's the most moderate among them, and who is his Middle East adviser, was the co-author, or helper at least, in the speech that he gave to AIPAC which broke records in obsequiousness."
Explaining the extremeity of the submissiveness and dedication to Israel given by Obama at the AIPAC conference:
"No one has ever gone that far. In fact, he went so far that his campaign had to publicly withdraw some of his statements. He stated that, to AIPAC that, Jerusalem must remain the undivided capital of Israel. I mean first of all it's opposed to international law, it's against Security Council resolutions that the U.S. supported, it's against U.S. policy. It was so extreme that his campaign had to essentially retract it and say, "well the words didn't mean what he said." And that's what we know. So you can guess what you want. A sensible guess right now would be that he'll be like the second Bush Administration."
Obama mulls ex-ambassador to Israel, Daniel Kurtzer, as special Mideast envoy
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"President-elect Barack Obama is considering the appointment of Daniel Kurtzer, former American Ambassador to Egypt (1997-2001) and Israel (2001-2005), to become his administration's presidential envoy to the Middle East, a senior Israeli diplomatic source said this week. "
President Obama, do the right thing! Appointing pro-Israeli hawks isn't change we can believe in.
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On what kind of middle east policy we can expect from Obama:
"His appointments are just pro-Israel hawks right down the line: Clinton, Dennis Ross, Dan Kurtzer. Kurtzer, who's the most moderate among them, and who is his Middle East adviser, was the co-author, or helper at least, in the speech that he gave to AIPAC which broke records in obsequiousness."
Explaining the extremeity of the submissiveness and dedication to Israel given by Obama at the AIPAC conference:
"No one has ever gone that far. In fact, he went so far that his campaign had to publicly withdraw some of his statements. He stated that, to AIPAC that, Jerusalem must remain the undivided capital of Israel. I mean first of all it's opposed to international law, it's against Security Council resolutions that the U.S. supported, it's against U.S. policy. It was so extreme that his campaign had to essentially retract it and say, "well the words didn't mean what he said." And that's what we know. So you can guess what you want. A sensible guess right now would be that he'll be like the second Bush Administration."
Obama mulls ex-ambassador to Israel, Daniel Kurtzer, as special Mideast envoy
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"President-elect Barack Obama is considering the appointment of Daniel Kurtzer, former American Ambassador to Egypt (1997-2001) and Israel (2001-2005), to become his administration's presidential envoy to the Middle East, a senior Israeli diplomatic source said this week. "
