Yipe, with those sorts of credentials you'd think he'd do a better job of his english grammar, or perhaps I'm just getting out of step with the acceptable quality of english these days, and too picky...
-Pete On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, michael gurstein wrote: [extracting...] > Franklin Lamb, former Assistant Counsel, US House Judiciary Committee > and Professor of International Law at Northwestern College of Law in > Oregon, earned his Law Degree at Boston University and his LLM, > M.Phil., and PhD degrees at the London School of Economics. Following > three years at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Lamb > was visiting fellow at the Harvard Law School?s East Asian Legal > Studies Center. > > He is currently doing research in Lebanon and volunteers with the > Palestine Civil Rights Campaign and the Sabra-Shatila Foundation. > Lamb is the author of: Israel?s 1982 War in Lebanon: Eyewitness > Chronicles of the Invasion and Occupation, South End Press, First > Printing, 1983, International Legal Responsibility for the > Sabra-Shatila Massacre, Imp. TIPE: 42, Rue Lebour 93100 Montreuil, > Paris, France 1984, The Price We Pay: A Quarter Century of Israel?s > Use of American Weapons in Lebanon (Lamont Press) 2007, His latest > book, The Case for Palestinian Civil Rights in Lebanon, is due out > shortly. > True friends of Israel and the Israeli (and Jewish) people will be > taking serious note of this below. > > It indicates how far along towards the brink the current Israeli > government's lunacy (and the equally lunatic behaviours of their N Am > supporters (like Canada's current PM)) have pushed the absolutely > central (to Israel's very survival) relationship to the US. > > Be very careful what you wish for. > > M > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sid > Shniad > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 7:40 PM > To: undisclosed-recipients: > Subject: America Planning for a Post-Israel Middle East? > > <http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32304.htm> > http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32304.htm > > America Planning for a Post-Israel Middle East? > > By Franklin Lamb > > August 28, 2012 "Information Clearing House > <http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/> " ---- Congresswoman Illena > Ros-Lehtinen will have her hands full as she makes the political and social > rounds at this month?s Republican National Convention. Illena, is the only > female committee chair in the House of Representatives and arguably Israel?s > most ardent agent. She is a constant thorn in the Obama administration's > side, regularly castigating the president for playing "political games with > U.S. foreign policy? and being ?soft on Iran? and undermining the legitimacy > of Israel. Ros-Lehtinen is a congressional cheer leader also for her Jewish > voters in Florida -- a key battleground in the rapidly approaching US > presidential election. Most recently, Ros-Lehtinen helped shepherd through > Congress yet another bill tightening sanctions against Iran while calling for > US military action against the Assad regime in Syria. > > The Congresswomen?s focus will likely not be on pushing the republican?s > talking points regarding her party?s nominee, Mitt Romney the former > ?moderate Massachusetts governor? who she is aware is unlikely to win the > White House. Nor, according to a source at the Democratic National Committee, > frantically putting together final touches on their own Convention, to be > held the week of September 3 in Charlotte, North Carolina, will Ileana spend > much time with or promoting Mitt? running mate, Congressman Paul Ryan. Ryan, > an Ayn Rand (author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged as well as founder > of the Objectivism movement) follower, regularly tells audiences that ?Ayn > Rand?s teachings have been one of the most profound philosophical influences > of my life.? Well, except for religion and abortion and a few other matters, > as Ayn, who passed away in 1982 was an avowed atheist and strongly > pro-abortion, the opposite of what Ryan tells audiences he is. > > Rather, Ros-Lehtinen will be meeting with local, national, and international > Jewish leaders in this must win state where she has been assigned the task of > reassuring them that the Republican Party is Israel?s best friend and that a > recent US government draft report urging a US re-think of its relationship to > Israel is the responsibility of none other than Barack Obama, and it reveals > his true disdain for Israel. > > Helping her smear the White House with the findings in the draft analysis > will be William Kristol, publisher of the neoconservative Weekly Standard and > Director of the New American Century, an ?Israel first? Washington-based > lobby ?promoting joint Israeli and American political and military leadership > across the globe, while bringing democracy to the Middle East?. > > So what is all the fuss about? > > It?s a paper entitled: Preparing For A Post Israel Middle East, an 82 page > analysis that concludes that the American national interest in fundamentally > at odds with that of Zionist Israel. The authors concludes that Israel is > currently the greatest threat to US national interests because its nature and > actions prevent normal US relations with Arab and Muslim countries and, to a > growing degree, the wider international community. > > The study was commissioned by the US Intelligence Community comprising 16 > American intelligence agencies with an annual budget in excess of $ 70 > billion. The IC includes the Departments of the Navy, Army, Air Force, Marine > Corps, Coast Guard, Defense Intelligence Agency, Departments of Energy, > Homeland Security, State, Treasury, Drug Enforcement Agency, Federal Bureau > of Investigation, National Security Agency, National Geospatial Intelligence > Agency, National Reconnaissance Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency > commissioned the study. > > Among the many findings that Ros-Lehtenin and Kristol and other unregistered > agents of Israel will likely try to exploit politically between now and > November 6, by using them to attack the Obama Administration. A sampling of > the findings includes the following: > > ? Israel, given its current brutal occupation and belligerence cannot be > salvaged any more than apartheid south Africa could be when as late as 1987 > Israel was the only ?Western? nation that upheld diplomatic ties with South > Africa and was the last country to join the international boycott campaign > before the regime collapsed; > > ? The Israel leadership, with its increasing support of the 700,000 illegal > settlers on the occupied West Bank is increasing out of touch with the > political, military and economic realities of the Middle East; > > ? The post Labor government Likud coalition is deeply complicit with and > influenced by the settlers? political and financial power and will > increasingly face domestic civil strife which the US government should not > associate itself with or become involved with; > > ? The Arab Spring and Islamic Awakening has, to a major degree, freed a > large majority of the 1.2 billion Arab and Muslims to pursue what an > overwhelming majority believe is the illegitimate, immoral and unsustainable > European occupation of Palestine of the indigenous population; > > ? Simultaneous with, but predating, rapidly expanding Arab and Muslim power > in the region as evidenced by the Arab spring, Islamic Awakening and the > ascendancy of Iran, as American power and influence recedes, the US > commitment to belligerent oppressive Israel is becoming impossible to defend > or execute consistent given paramount US national interests which include > normalizing relations with the 57 Islamic countries; > > ? Gross Israeli interference in the internal affairs of the United States > through spying and illegal US arms transfers. This includes supporting more > than 60 ?front organizations? and approximately 7,500 US officials who do > Israel?s bidding and seek to dominate and intimidate the media and agencies > of the US government which should no longer be condoned; > > ? That the United States government no longer has the financial resources, > or public support to continue funding Israel. The more than three trillion > dollars in direct and indirect aid from US taxpayers to Israel since 1967 is > not affordable and is increasingly being objected to by US taxpayers who > oppose continuing American military involvement in the Middle East. US public > opinion no longer supports funding and executing widely perceived illegal US > wars on Israel?s behalf. This view is increasingly being shared by Europe, > Asia and the International public; > > ? Israel?s segregationist occupation infrastructure evidenced by legalized > discrimination and increasingly separate and unequal justice systems must no > longer be directly or indirectly funded by the US taxpayers or ignored by the > US government; > > ? Israel has failed as a claimed democratic state and continued American > financial and political cover will not change its continuing devolution as > international pariah state; > > ? Increasingly, rampant and violent racism exhibited among Jewish settlers > in the West Bank is being condoned by the Israeli government to a degree that > the Israel government has become its protector and partner; > > ? The expanding chasm among American Jews objecting to Zionism and Israeli > practices, including the killing and brutalizing of Palestinians under > Israeli occupation, are gross violations of American and International law > and raise questions within the US Jewish community regarding the American > responsibility to protect (R2P) innocent civilians under occupation; > > ? The international opposition to the increasingly apartheid regime can no > longer be synchronized with American claimed humanitarian values or US > expectations in its bi-lateral relations with the 193 member United Nations; > > The Draft ends with language about the need to avoid entangling alliances > that alienate much of the World and condemn American citizens to endure the > consequences. > > Interestingly, it notes Iran as an example of a country and people that have > much in common and whose citizens have a real interest in bilateral > associations (here an apparent reference to Israel and its US lobby) not > determined by the wishes of other countries and their agents. It also > highlights the need for the US to undertake ?the repairing relations with > Arab and Muslim countries including the drastically curtained use of drone > aircraft. > > The coming days will clarity the success of Israel?s in making an issue of > the finding in the soon to be published daft report and the degree to which > the Republican Party will gain for its findings in the race for the White > House. > > Franklin Lamb, former Assistant Counsel, US House Judiciary Committee > and Professor of International Law at Northwestern College of Law in > Oregon, earned his Law Degree at Boston University and his LLM, > M.Phil., and PhD degrees at the London School of Economics. Following > three years at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Lamb > was visiting fellow at the Harvard Law School?s East Asian Legal > Studies Center. > > He is currently doing research in Lebanon and volunteers with the > Palestine Civil Rights Campaign and the Sabra-Shatila Foundation. > Lamb is the author of: Israel?s 1982 War in Lebanon: Eyewitness > Chronicles of the Invasion and Occupation, South End Press, First > Printing, 1983, International Legal Responsibility for the > Sabra-Shatila Massacre, Imp. TIPE: 42, Rue Lebour 93100 Montreuil, > Paris, France 1984, The Price We Pay: A Quarter Century of Israel?s > Use of American Weapons in Lebanon (Lamont Press) 2007, His latest > book, The Case for Palestinian Civil Rights in Lebanon, is due out > shortly. > > > > > !DSPAM:2676,503e45fc25481606210792! > > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
