SAMANTHA POWER RETURNS: I TOLD YOU SO

Back in March Power resigned under pressure from all quarters (allegedly for a Hillary slam) but we knew better. A proud anti-semite (think Robert Malley, another "fired" anti-semite who has returned to the post election fold)  Samantha Powers calls for the invasion of Israel

Yes, she's baack and that aint good, deeply disturbing though predictable.  I have been warning of her return  for months. She stepped back in March so "the one" could seize the White House.

In what can only considered a masterstroke in the machination of an antisemite, Obama has installed Power at the Arabist, Israel (Jew) hating State department where she will be right at home. Melanie Phillips explains it here:

As I have said before, Emanuel’s parentage is irrelevant. As The Forward notes, he was not only a player in the catastrophic Oslo appeasement process but also supported the informal ‘Geneva initiative’ which even doveish Israelis condemned as a suicide note for Israel.

And as for Mrs Clinton, Hillary the Moderate is itself a fairly recent piece of triangulated reconstitution. Not that long ago, she was significantly to the left of her husband; and it must not be forgotten, crucially, that she herself is an Alinsky disciple.

What is much more likely is that Hillary, a professed defender of Israel, would be used (as would, to a lesser extent, Rahm Emanuel) to provide deniable cover for Obama as his administration forces Israel to cut its own throat -- the centrepiece of what passes for his foreign policy to date.

For surrounding Hillary would be appointments which would be solidly anti-Israel: people who believe that Israel must be forced to jeopardise its security to bring into being a Palestinian state which they think would lance the Islamist boil – because they believe that Israel is not the victim but the cause of Islamist rage and global terror. It has been widely reported that Obama has been consulting the former Republican National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, who is a leading voice in this camp. Moreover, according to the Wall Street Journal, Scowcroft is linked to a number of like-minded Republicans Obama is thought to be considering bringing into his administration, such as Jim Jones as his National Security Adviser.

A few days ago, Scowcroft and Carter’s former NSA Zbigniew Brzezinski (an open enemy of Israel and another of Obama's advisers) penned a significant op-ed in the Washington Post. This appeared to be a first draft of the Obama plan to force Israel back into its 1948 ‘Auschwitz’ borders and bring a Palestinian state into being, in the quite remarkable belief that this

would dissipate much of the appeal of Hezbollah and Hamas, dependent as it is on the Palestinians' plight. It would change the region’s psychological climate, putting Iran back on the defensive and putting a stop to its swagger.

What planet are they on? A Palestinian state would be run by Hamas as a proxy for Iran. As such, it would be a disaster for the Palestinians  -- as several of them have now realised – as well as for Israel, the region and the world.

Moreover, to allay Israel’s security concerns over handing over territory to a Palestinian government that is incapable of combating terrorism, Scowcroft, Brzezinski and Jones recommend stationing an international force, perhaps from NATO, in the disputed territories.

Ah yes: to repeat the conspicuous success NATO troops achieved in bringing peace in Srebenica, for example, or Rwanda, or Lebanon?

The Republicans, who really don’t begin to grasp just what has hit them, similarly fail to acknowledge that among their own ranks are many who, just like in the British Conservative party, share with the left the desire to neutralise American power and throw Israel under the bus. Some of those people came to power under George W Bush and set him on the disastrous path to appeasement -- which his demented detractors on the left somehow failed altogether to notice.

There are other unsettling indications that Obama may already be running a shadow foreign policy. Robert Malley, one of Clinton’s Oslo negotiators, is one of America's most outspoken apologists for Palestinian terrorism against Israel and claims that Syrian, Lebanese and Iranian attacks against Israel are all Israel's fault. The Obama campaign distanced itself from Malley last May after the Times reported that he was meeting regularly with Hamas leaders. But a few days after Obama’s election, Malley travelled to Syria, ostensibly under the aegis of the appeasement-minded International Crisis Group. Yet one of his aides told FrontPage Magazine that acting on Obama’s instructions, Malley traveled to Cairo and Damascus to tell Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Syria’s President Assad that ‘the Obama administration would take into greater account Egyptian and Syrian interests.’ And as Caroline Glick reported, Hamas terror operative Ahmad Youssef told the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper that in the months leading up to his election, Obama's advisers held steady contacts with the leaders of the terror group in Gaza, and had asked that Hamas keep the meetings secret in order not to harm Obama's chances of being elected.

If Israel is to be browbeaten into committing suicide, however, it is essential that the fingerprints of the Israel-haters are not found at the scene of the crime and that it is carried out instead by someone with impeccable credentials as an Israel supporter. That person may well be Hillary Clinton who, if appointed Secretary of State, will be expected to finish the job her husband failed to do and force a Palestine state into being.

To fully grasp this, it has to be understood that there are two kinds of people who threaten to deliver Israel to its enemies for annihilation. The first are the Israel-haters who want to see it destroyed. The second are those on the left who, while believing they have Israel’s interests at heart, believe also that its security can be guaranteed by a Palestine state. They thus see Israel’s resistance to that state as the obstacle to peace in the region, whereas in fact it would pose a mortal threat to Israel (and now also to the region and the world, since such a state would be a proxy for Iran).  That’s why Clinton Mark One pressurised Israel to dismember itself under Oslo and in the process turned the Palestinians from a terrorist gang into an army with international backing.  Clinton Mark Two would be Oslo all over again -- but this time trailing clouds of Iranian plutonium.

Baehr's article (11/29) in American Thinker:

This new role is ironic, to say the least, since the new Secretary of State , expected to be announced on Monday, is Hillary Clinton, a woman Ms.Power called a "monster" back in March. That characterization by Ms. Power embarrassed  the Obama campaign and Ms. Power resigned from her formal campaign role.    Presumably, Ms Power now  understands the need to be diplomatic in a State Department role, and not fly off the handle making vicious insulting statements,  and so will be a good judge of the people who don't behave as she has.

In any case it is worth recalling why Power was a problematic associate of Barack Obama even before she mouthed off about Clinton. Ms Power is not a friend of Israel.  Will she try to find people for State Department jobs who will balance (undermine?) Ms Clinton, who is viewed as friendlier to  the Jewish state? 

The expected appointment of General  James Jones for National Security Advisor is also viewed as potentially problematic by the pro-Israel community, following his harsh criticism of Israel in a report prepared for Secretary of State Rice on Israeli security forces in the West Bank.  Both Ms Power and General Jones have supported a role for international forces in the West Bank, whether UN or NATO, a concept that is anathema to even 
left of center Israelis.

Does Ms Powers' return, and General Jones imminent appointment suggest that Barack Obama is warming to this concept?

March 7, 2008 Atlas Shrugs: Powers: Obama's Foreign Policy Appease Team UPDATE ...

Comments

[jbjd]

PG, what a disaster the voters' stupidity is turning out to be, for our country. Before she was 'fired' from the BO campaign, I tried to warn people. To find out what the man would be like as President, look at his choice of advisers now. I cited Ms. Power's writings a few years ago, that the U.S. government should unilaterally invade Israel to create a Palestinian state because otherwise, 'powerful people within the U.S.' (read, Jews) would never allow this outcome. When he fired her for referring to the former First Lady as a "monster," I asked, rhetorically, why people appeared to be so offended that Ms. Power spoke this way about a former First Lady but not upset that she would recommend unilaterally invading our ally to appease the Palestinians; or that BO, with no foreign policy experience and a history of close associations with anti-Semites, would have chosen her to advise him on foreign policy in the first place.

[Anonymous Infidel]

Do about 78% of Jews even care that Obama's going to screw Israel over even WORSE than Clinton did?!

When I say "screwed over", I mean, Tel Aviv, Haifa, and half of Jerusalem GONE.

[Anonymous Infidel]

I meant to post "Obama's going to screw Israel over worse than Clinton did Serbia"

[Sebaneau]

http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/the-most-dangerous-woman-in-the-world-will-indeed-be-part-of-obama-white-house/
The Most Dangerous Woman in the World Will Indeed Be Part of Obama White House
Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized November 29, 2008

power-dangerous

Samantha Power is the most dangerous woman in the world — someone who had to leave Obama’s campaign when she called Hillary Clinton a “monster” during the primaries, but who has now crawled back up from whatever sewer she’s been lurking in, and is a key part of Obama’s foreign policy transition team.

She is a dangerous, dangerous, naive, radical — who would celebrate Israel’s destruction and encourage prolonged American military presence in sub-Saharan Africa, embroiled in civil wars, and bogged down in minefields like Darfur, especially.

She is the very worst of what Obama’s bringing to Washington with him. People like Valerie Jarrett, Emile Jones, and other corrupt Chicagoans heading to DC with Obama are bad enough. But, they’re just corrupt and self-serving, interested in graft and bettering their own pocket books. They aren’t dangerous.

Power seemingly has no interest in graft or financially profiting from her proximity to Obama. Her interests rest in whispering in Obama’s ear, and convincing him to make the next 4 years all about Africa.

VIA CNN:

According to the Associated Press, Power is part of a team of foreign policy experts tapped by President-elect Obama to help ease the transition at the State Department — the agency Clinton is expected to head up.

Power is also formally listed as part of the State Department agency review team on the president-elect’s official Web site.

We support Hillary Clinton in whatever she wants to do, but to be honest, we’d rather she stayed in the Senate and did her own thing than be part of an administration that so values the counsel of kooks and loons like Samantha Power. It’s a great blessing Power is not National Security Adviser (as we feared she might be), but her mere presence in the administration should be great cause for concern.

Israel, and Mossad in particular, should pay close attention to Samantha Power.

[8] Comments

[Davod]

Nothwithstanding the fact that I do not know anything about Israeli parliamentary procedure, the present government has to be stopped from making any decisions on the borders and Palestinian Statehood.

[Hev]

This woman is a pig--there, I said it. Go watch her interviews and speeches on youtube, but only if you've taken your blood pressure meds today, because you'll need them when you hear her spew her vile nonsense. She is a freaking idiot, and every single foreign policy view she holds is deadly to us, to Israel, to Britain. SHE is the monster. And BHO is going to appoint every charlatan and 'academic' lunatic he can find, I guess it'll keep him in good company being one himself.

[Spartan]

Pam,

This is a very good article. You have the Obama Administration pegged just right. The Obama team will bring bad times upon Israel and America as well. The American people should fight his negative agenda with their voices and their opinions, and not allow him to damage this country or to put Israel in danger. The Jews in America and in Israel especially should not let the Israeli Government be pressured into taking positions that would put the survival of Israel in Jeopardy. A Palestinian State next door would not bring peace but only more fighting and greater threats to Israel. Let us all pray for the survival of Israel and for the United States in the dark days that seem to be moving like a storm upon us.