You will find a cleaner original version of Lamb's strange article at the original Foreign Policy Journal website. The editors added this note to the article:
[Editor's Note: While this report does not mention the source for the information concerning the alleged draft report, FPJ with permission from the author is able to disclose that the source is a staffer with a certainresearch unit of the CIA.] Cheers, Lawry On Aug 30, 2012, at 8:00 PM, pete wrote: > > > 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
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