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ead down and causing no offence is no guarantee that you won t be hauled off in the dead of night with your hands tied tightly behind your back and thrown into solitary confinement that is the whole idea so i am afraid i cannot see the protests about the treatment of the pussy riot members as a particularly courageous act on the part of our government and i cannot see the violation of their human rights as the case most deserving of our official attention posted by paul barratt at 6 11 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels human rights israel palestine 26 january 2012 which country is obama running in in a 21 january post on his blog the electronic intifada ali abunimah asks whether barack obama is running for re election as president of the united states or prime minister of israel and comments that a new obama campaign video makes it increasingly hard to tell and even more ominously ratchets further the israelization of us politics included in the post is the video in question a 7 minute youtube obama campaign video entitled america and israel an unbreakable bond which alternates video and audio of obama speaking before the israel lobby aipac and other zionist groups and clips of israeli leaders endorsing obama s leadership it begins and ends with the us flag and the israeli flag side by side thus bringing the israeli flag directly into the us election campaign although the clips of israeli leaders appear to have been taken from interviews they are cut to look as if they were provided specifically for the purpose of endorsing the president as such obama is legitimizing the role of foreign although certainly only israeli leaders to participate directly in us campaigns can we imagine obama issuing a video in which he is endorsed as pro mexican by the president of mexico or pro canadian by canada s prime minister it s inconceivable barack obama was elected in 2008 with expectations that he would establish a new relationship with the muslim world and bring some balance to the us relationship with israel this was always more of a hope than a reality while he made a promising speech in cairo and broadcast a greeting for the 2009 iranian new year he surrounded himself with the same old foreign policy crowd who had spent their lives looking after israel and as they say in business if you always do what you ve always done you ll always get what you ve always got sad to say too that when it comes to matters affecting israel prime minister binyamin netanyahu is both smarter than obama and more determined so by september in obama s first year in office i was ready to declare it all over as far any contest between the two was concerned see game set and match to mr netanyahu see ali abunimah s post and the video in question here posted by paul barratt at 12 09 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels israel palestine us israel 02 january 2012 children killed by operation cast lead it is just over three years since the israelis launched operation cast lead their punitive attack on gaza the one which then acting prime minister gillard characterised as israel exercising its right to defend itself 352 children were killed directly by israeli action during the 22 days of operation cast lead that is not just a statistic every single one of those children was a living breathing human being of flesh and blood with hopes fears and dreams like the rest of us they all had names and if you click on this link here you can find out the names and ages of every one of them many not yet in their teens some as young as three months posted by paul barratt at 5 29 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels israel palestine 14 december 2011 jonathan pollak on the death of mustafa tamimi in the 13 december online edition of the israeli daily ha aretz jonathan pollak one of the founders of the israeli organisation anarchists against the wall published an opinion piece on the death of the young palestinian mustafa tamimi at the hands of the israeli defence force tamimi was killed by a tear gas canister fired at his head from close range from the rear of an armoured vehicle during the weekly demonstration at his home village of nabi saleh a demonstration against the theft of their water and land by the nearby illegal settlement of halamish the settlers at halamish have appropriated for their exclusive use the water from an important natural spring belonging to nabi saleh villager mr bashir tamimi and denied the villagers of nabi saleh access to their land under the headline a courageous palestinian has died shrouded in stones pollack writes the army spokesman was right mustafa died because he threw stones he died because he dared to speak a truth with his hands in a place where the truth is forbidden any discussion of the manner of the shooting its legality and the orders on opening fire infers that the landlord is forbidden to expel the trespasser indeed the trespasser is allowed to shoot the landlord mustafa s body is lying lifeless because he had the courage to throw stones on the 24th anniversary of the first intifada which begot the palestinian children of the stones his brother oudai is imprisoned at ofer prison and was not allowed to attend the funeral because he too dared to throw stones and his sister was not allowed to be at his bedside in his final moments even though she is not suspected of having thrown stones but because she is a palestinian mustafa was a brave man killed because he threw stones and refused to be afraid of a soldier bearing arms sitting safely in the military jeep covered in armor on the day mustafa died the frozen silence roaming the valley was only slightly less chilling than the shrilling sound of his mother s laments which fell upon it occasionally read pollack s full piece here one can understand the empathy pollak feels for mustafa tamimi and his family apart from his support for their cause he has been the victim of a remarkably similar attack amongst the numerous injuries he has suffered at the hands of the idf while demonstrating on behalf of the palestinians on 3 april 2005 an idf soldier shot him in the head with a teargas canister from an m 16 from a distance of approximately thirty metres at a protest against the wall in the west bank village of bil in see here posted by paul barratt at 4 26 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels israel palestine 29 november 2011 the middle east legacy of dennis ross readers of this blog will be aware that i am no fan of us middle east expert dennis ross one of those members of the us foreign policy establishment who migrates between the state department and the american israel public affairs committee and its offshoot and its offshoot the washington institute for near east policy winep one of those people of whom i feel if you asked the question do you serve the united states or israel they would not understand the question ross who is known around washington as israel s lawyer has never made any secret of his feelings towards israel so there is nothing stealthy or furtive about his manoeuvring in support of that country but this being the case the reliance that the obama administration supposedly dedicated to creating a new relationship with the muslim world and with iran in particular placed upon him is nothing short of extraordinary in march 2009 in hillary s envoy not everyone is cheering i commented on his bizarre appointment as hillary clinton s special adviser on iran and followed up with a post in may 2009 iran hillary s envoy contd in which i noted the views of an orthodox jew who had served as us ambassador to israel and egypt who commented that in middle east peace negotiations the perception always was that dennis started from the israeli bottom line that he listened to what israel wanted and then tried to sell it to the arabs further posts included dennis ross on the move noting rumours that he was moving to the white house and making u s iran policy an extended analysis of the dysfunctional way in which the us administration was approaching iran and dennis ross s role in that andrew sullivan addressed this theme in march 2010 in a post dennis ross bats for netanyahu on the atlantic s blog the daily dish a more extended summary of ross s contribution to the failure of obama s middle east policy may be found in my 15 january 2011 post pro israel control of obama s middle east policy an interesting addition to the dossier was published as an op ed piece in al jazeera 23 november 2011 following the announcement that ross is leaving his post entitled the incomplete legacy of dennis ross it was contributed by robert l grenier chairman of erg partners a financial advisory and consulting firm grenier retired from the cia in 2006 following a 27 year career in the cia s clandestine service he served as director of the cia counter terrorism center ctc from 2004 to 2006 coordinated cia activities in iraq from 2002 to 2004 as the iraq mission manager and was the cia chief of station in islamabad before and after the 9 11 attacks during the clinton era he was the deputy national intelligence officer for the near east and south asia and saw at first hand how ross exercised his undoubted influence to undermine rather than strengthen efforts to create a durable peace following the signature of the oslo accords grenier s summary assessment of ross s contribution over his time in us government is during his eight years as chief architect of the peace process under bill clinton dennis was not so much a cause as a symptom of the deep disqualifying political dysfunction at the heart of us policymaking in the middle east without the dysfunction you would not have had a ross to exploit it and now we are told dennis is leaving after nearly three years in the obama administration his increasing prominence over those three years is a mark and a measure of obama s growing disappointment and failure for an administration which started with such elevated goals in the middle east it has come to this instead of engaging iran constructively as it had hoped it has devolved instead to a sterile sanctions based stalemate with scant international support strongly shaped by ross who advocates an israel centric posture against the islamic republic and instead of exerting judicious pressure on both israel and the palestinians to achieve the two state breakthrough which us interests would dictate obama has had to cave instead to the overwhelming political influence of binyamin netanyahu and has looked to ross as his shield against a pro israel lobby which would otherwise turn against him and may yet do so the problem is as grenier puts it in his many years of successful advocacy he has precisely mirrored both the strengths and weaknesses of his client and therefore must be assessed as having represented his client badly like the israelis he is a brilliant tactician and a strategic ignoramus a better advocate might have saved his client from himself instead dennis many years of successful temporising have helped to bring israel to the point where a two state solution is no longer possible thanks in some measure to dennis efforts israel in future can be jewish or it can be democratic it cannot be both having served israel to the point of helping to destroy zionism that is the very definition of catastrophic success read the complete grenier piece here posted by paul barratt at 9 48 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels israel palestine us iran us israel 20 may 2011 any hope for palestinians in obama s speech in this must read post on the blog electronic intifada ali abunimah puts a compelling case for why president obama s speech on us middle east policy delivered overnight changes little the introductory paragraphs sum it up obama endorses 1967 borders for israel as part of a broad speech rejecting status quo in the middle east that was the instant spin on the front of the new york times website within minutes of the president speaking but while president barack obama laid out in a little bit more detail a us vision of what peace would look like in his much anticipated speech on us policy in the middle east and north africa there was precious little new moreover the speech affirmed that the united states will not take any effective action to advance its vision of a two state solution read the entire post here posted by paul barratt at 10 03 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels israel palestine older posts home subscribe to posts atom total pageviews twitter twitter readership percentage of last 44 000 page loads australia 64 9 united states 18 4 united kingdom 2 9 canada 1 5 france 1 3 germany 1 0 new zealand 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