Rebranding Israel: Will Netanyahu get away with it?
A report in the New York Times by Mark Landler offered this insight. Interviews with several administration officials suggested that the tensions in Obama’s Middle East policy “are less the product of a debate among advisers than of a tug of war within the president himself.”
In my reading of Obama that makes a lot of sense. He knows that it’s not in America’s own best interests to go on supporting Israel right or wrong. He knows that he ought to be putting an American peace plan on the table and challenging Netanyahu and the Zionist lobby and its stooges in Congress to reject it. But he also knows that would be political suicide for himself and many other Democrats who’ll be running for re-election next year.
On 24 April there was an editorial in the New York Times with the headline President Obama and the Peace Process. It’s opening paragraph was this. “President Obama began his presidency vowing to negotiate an Israeli-Palestinian peace. He backed off in the face of both sides’ obstinacy and after a series of diplomatic missteps. Since then, the stalemate, and the mistrust, have only deepened, and it is clear that nothing good will happen until the United States fully engages.” (My emphasis added).
The U.S. is not going to fully engage. Only bad things can come out of Netanyahu’s visit to America. And I mean bad things for all of us, everywhere.
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(Rev.) Darrel Meyers:
May 18th, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Hello, Alan! Been appreciating your writings and your recent 3-vol. work on “Zionism”. You were with us in Southern California back in the late ’80s (also a memorable radio interview with anglophile ‘newsman’ George Putnam), and also I and friends Don Wagner and Don Betz, while at the UN NGO mtg. some years back invited you to join us for a Yankees baseball game(!) — your first (and last)? Hope to run into you personally again sometime. your works have been of great benefit toward truth and peace. Thanks
— Darrel Meyers
Middle East Fellowship of So. Calif.
martina tamburrino:
May 19th, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Outstanding analysis, Alan. For the next few days we’ll have to brace against a lot of nasty pro-Israel propaganda filling our screens. And yet … Perhaps Mr. Netanyahu might score some success in the U.S. with his “public relations campaign to rebrand Israel”, but certainly not in the rest of the world.
Which might not mean a lot at this point in time. Of course you are right in stating – elsewhere in your articles and interviews – that ultimately only Washington and it’s ‘Zionist’ Congress can force Israel into complying with International Law. And that looks like a Mission Impossible right now. But watching the support for Palestine accelerating everywhere, I’m somewhat confident that in the long run world-wide outrage will rise to the point that Washington – and other Western powers – can no longer ignore it. And it may happen even before American citizens will finally stand up to fight for their rights and those of the Palestinian People, so closely connected.
But right now, as you say, we’ll witness a lot more ‘bad things’ coming out of Netanyahu’s visit to America. I just watched Obama’s live speech on the ‘Arab World’ – to me it totally confirmed Washington’s unwillingness ‘to fully engage’. I hope I’m wrong – perhaps I was expecting a miracle and missed possible tiny breakthroughs – which would not be sufficient anyway to shake the Zionist rulers’ self-confidence.
Arthur Lloyd:
May 21st, 2011 at 8:10 am
I am writing to say thank you for your dedication to your subject and the contribution of “Zionism” I,like many others, have a knowledge of the word, but not of its far flung intricities and effect on our government and the world, which is thoroughly explained in your writings.
Your post of 5/10 I thought brilliant and brought many things to light. I’m 78 and while I was thinking of this post, the next one of 5/16 was here. And by now we know the outcome of Netanyahu’s visit. As predicted the outrage for “poor Israel” begins. I already checked, UN Resolution 242 is on debate. Again, Job security for the law makers, always leaving room for discourse.
I just finished reading “Web of Debt” by Ellen Brown,J.D. Her explanation of “Banking” is very helpful for the layman to comprhend basically how we of the US. and many countries have been manipulated into financial meltdown. Also on the web you can download a 3,1/2 hour documentary,”The Money Masters”. Combining this knowledge of who is manipulating who , should make your next post very challenging.
I found two sites that may help. The first one I hope is seen by every American. Our American Government.
http://www.texemarrs.com/102009/zionist_jews_in_power.htm Just copy these and paste directly into address bar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlEX1xD1wtM This I hope is some encouragement for you Allan. Also there are independents
creating CD’S for the cause and of recent I purchased two addressing the subect of Zionism. I naturally compare them to your standards and found them a good supplement. So your efforts are prevailing.
Looking forward to your next post. God Bless.—–Art
Ivan Himmelhoch:
May 23rd, 2011 at 6:41 am
Hi Alan,
Good post. Readers who are seeking confirmation of what you wrote would not go far amiss were they to read the recently released ‘Al Jazeera Transparency Files’ – these being usually verbatim records or full summaries of the now stalled Palestinian-Israeli peace talk.
issa cissé:
May 28th, 2011 at 11:14 am
you are doing a work of paramount importance by showing to the world the true side of history…the media have contributed a lot to the bloodbath that is still going on in the Middle East by conditioning the people to believe in a version of history that is not true…you are doing a very great work in telling us what really goes on, mostly in your books.
thanks a lot!
TI:
May 29th, 2011 at 4:26 pm
When will the Arab spring reach Jordan?
The Palestinian majority is oppressed under the tiny minority of the Hashemite king.
We could have a Palestinian state today ruled by the majority in Jordan today if the international community were to start pressing on the subject and force King Abdullah of Jordan to turn the state into a democracy with one man one vote!
Vera Gottlieb:
June 7th, 2011 at 3:12 pm
Israel is starting to reap what it has sowed – what does it expect?
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