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12-23-2016, 05:49 PM
George Mitchell was on Andrea Mitchell last night and informed audience that all US Presidents in last quarter century (Reagan, Clinton, both Bush's) had allowed to pass UN resolutions condemning Israeli settlements on Palestinian land but Obama was the first Prez who did not allow a single UN resolution critical of Israel to pass. This despite Obama having campiagned to make Israel-Palestinian peace process top priority of his administration but after election he became the most passive Prez on this issue.
Andrea Mitchell Reports 12/22/16
If the U.N. Israel resolution fails, what comes next?
George Mitchell, former U.S. special envoy for Middle East peace and author of 'A Path to Peace,' discusses the future of the two-state solution under Trump's hard line administration. ... more (http://www.msnbc.com/)
It is not clear if Adler threat scandal few years back was one of the main reasons for such a major policy shift:
Andrew Adler Threat Scandal: Israel plans largest WB settlement expansion in 30 years ; Surprising Obama response (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?458980-Israel-plans-largest-WB-settlement-expansion-in-30-years-Surprising-Obama-response&)
But all that seems to have changed today less than a month before end of Obama term:
National Security
U.S. declines to veto U.N. Security Council resolution for Israel to stop Jewish settlement activity
By Carol Morello December 23, 2016
The U.N. Security Council on Friday passed a resolution demanding Israel cease Jewish settlement activity on Palestinian territory in a unanimous vote that passed when the United States abstained rather than using its veto as it has reliably done in the past.
The resolution declares settlements constructed on land Israel has occupied since the 1967 war, including East Jerusalem, have “no legal validity.” It said settlements threaten the viability of the two-state solution, and it urged Israelis and Palestinians to return to negotiations that lead to two independent nations.
The United States’ abstention Friday was a rare rebuke to Israel, and reflected mounting frustration in the Obama administration over settlement growth that the United States considers an obstacle to peace. With President Obamas time in office due to end in barely a month, his decision not to veto was a symbolic statement of that displeasure.
“In the absence of any meaningful peace process, as well as in the face of the acceleration of settlement activity that put at risk the viability of a two-state solution, we took the steps we did today,” said Ben Rhodes, the White House deputy national security adviser.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-declines-to-veto-un-security-council-resolution-for-israel-to-stop-jewish-settlement-activity/2016/12/23/cd4efe72-c939-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html
Is there any other explanation of this policy "shift" at this late stage other than it is a cowardly exit of a regime that through out past 8 years failed to stand up to foreign policy bullies and extremists that Andrew Adler represented?
Historic Context
Obama firmly opposed settlements before Andrew Adler threat scandal
(http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?458980-Israel-plans-largest-WB-settlement-expansion-in-30-years-Surprising-Obama-response&)
What led Obama to go from "does not want to see even one cement mixer in the West Bank" stance in 2009 to remaining completely quiet/giving more aid/weapons to Israel in 2014 when the largest Israeli settlement expansion in 30 years is announced? What changed between 2009 and 2014? Did the infamous Andrew Adler editorial (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?456039-Christie-calls-for-forceful-defense-of-Israel-says-Obama-not-decisive&p=5593230&viewfull=1#post5593230) in 2012 play a role in such strikingly different reactions?
2009:
U.S.-Israeli relationship takes new direction
By Jeffrey Heller
JERUSALEM Tue Jun 2, 2009
"The president doesn't want to see even one cement mixer in the West Bank," an Israeli political source, briefed by Netanyahu aides, quoted U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell telling an Israeli delegation that met him in London last week.
Possible scenarios for twisting Netanyahu's arm could range from U.S. inaction at the United Nations in thwarting resolutions critical of Israel to choking off some military supplies, political sources and commentators said.
"Delaying the shipment of spares for the Apaches can ground the air force," political columnist Ben Caspit wrote in Maariv, referring to Israel's U.S.-made attack helicopters.
"The replenishment of ammunition and weapons supplies in the event of another expected conflagration in the Gaza Strip or Lebanon is a matter of American goodwill," Caspit said.
Few expect Washington ever to go as far as to hurt Israel's defences, but it does have other diplomatic pressure points.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2009/0...40040020090602 (http://in.reuters.com/article/2009/06/02/idINIndia-40040020090602)
2012:
Publisher of the ‘Atlanta Jewish Times’ suggests Mossad should assassinate Obama (http://mondoweiss.net/2012/01/publisher-of-the-atlanta-jewish-times-suggests-mossad-should-assassinate-obama.html)
Adam Horowitz on January 20, 2012
John Cook reports at Gawker (http://gawker.com/5877892/):
Andrew Adler, the owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, a weekly newspaper serving Atlanta’s Jewish community, devoted his January 13, 2012 column to the thorny problem of the U.S. and Israel’s diverging views on the threat posed by Iran. Basically Israel has three options, he wrote: Strike Hezbollah and Hamas, strike Iran, or “order a hit” on Barack Obama (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/284979-ajt.html). Either way, problem solved!
Here’s how Adler laid out “option three” in his list of scenarios facing Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu (the column, which was forwarded to us by a tipster, isn’t online, but you can read a copy here (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/284979-ajt.html)):
Three, give the go-ahead for U.S.-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice president to take his place, and forcefully dictate that the United States’ policy includes its helping the Jewish state obliterate its enemies.
Yes, you read “three” correctly. Order a hit on a president in order to preserve Israel’s existence. Think about it. If I have thought of this Tom Clancy-type scenario, don’t you think that this almost unfathomable idea has been discussed in Israel’s most inner circles?
Another way of putting “three” in perspective goes something like this: How far would you go to save a nation comprised of seven million lives…Jews, Christians and Arabs alike?
You have got to believe, like I do, that all options are on the table.
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTOumPRP0NaxY6xt93qp7XuzAeH5VTpT k-ARcOi-kia74pyYQnH
2014:
'Anyone You See, You Shoot': Israeli Soldiers Recall the 2014 Gaza War (http://www.thenation.com/article/206945/anyone-you-see-you-shoot-israeli-soldiers-recall-2014-gaza-war)
The Nation.
Estimates of the Protective Edge casualty count vary somewhat, but they generally range around 2,100–2,200 Palestinians killed, largely civilians, against 73 Israeli fatalities, 67 of them soldiers. An additional 11,000 Palestinians were wounded (http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/annual_humanitarian_overview_2014_english_final.pd f) during Protective Edge, and almost 500,000 were forced out of their homes.
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/1428_smh1.jpg
Mike Carlton resigns due to intense pressure following SMH article on Gaza war
http://www.hangthebankers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Mike-Carlton-tweet.jpg
Carlton said the decision to suspend him came from Fairfax business and metro publisher
Sean Aylmer, who overruled Sydney Morning Herald editor-in-chief Darren Goodsir.
Goodsir wanted to suspend Carlton for four to six weeks after the abusive reports surfaced
in The Australian.
“They said they want to suspend me for four to six weeks to “consider”... but I said “don’t
bother I’m resigning. I hung up on them,” Carlton told the Daily Mail Australia.
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/tra..._newscomau.pdf (http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/1428_newscomau.pdf)
Obama: Israel has right to defend itself
The Jerusalem Post
Jul 19, 2014 - International community voices concern over increasing civilian casualties in Gaza.
Israel appropriates massive tract of West Bank land
Move comes in wake of kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens; intention is to build a large settlement, Gvaot, between the Etzion settlement bloc and Jerusalem.
By Chaim Levinson | Aug. 31, 2014
Outpost Watch: Obama's future minefield - and Netanyahu's (http://www.haaretz.com/news/outpost-watch-obama-s-future-minefield-and-netanyahu-s-1.278583)
By Bradley Burston | Jun. 22, 2009
Israel planning mass expansion of West Bank settlement bloc (http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-planning-mass-expansion-of-west-bank-settlement-bloc-1.271055)
By Akiva Eldar | Feb. 27, 2009 | 1:26 AM
The appropriation of 3,799 dunams (988 acres) of West Bank land between the Etzion settlement bloc and Jerusalem was announced on Sunday by the Israel Defense Forces' Civil Administration.
The appropriation was decided on by the cabinet last week as a response to the kidnapping and killing of three Jewish teens by Hamas militants in the area in June, according to the administration's announcement.
Anti-settlement group Peace Now said it was the largest land appropriation in 30 years.
The intention of appropriating the land is to create territorial continuity between the Green Line and settlements of Beitar Illit, Kfar Etzion, and Gvaot.
The appropriated land belongs to five Palestinian villages in the Bethlehem area: Jaba, Surif, Wadi Fukin, Husan and Nahalin.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomac...emium-1.613319 (http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.613319)
Israel demolished homes of 1,177 Palestinians in Jerusalem and West Bank in 2014 (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?467939-With-zionists-in-charge-of-White-House-Palestinian-homes-demolition-palooza-on-going&)
2015:
Netanyahu promises no Palestinian state if he is re-elected (http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/netanyahu-promises-no-palestinian-state-if-he-re-elected)
MSNBC
Mar 16, 2015 - With less than a day until Israel's election, Prime Minister vowed on Monday that there will be no Palestinian state if he is re-elected .
France hopes U.S. won't stand in way of two-state resolution (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?473848-France-hopes-U-S-won-t-stand-in-way-of-two-state-resolution&)
The Associated Press | Mar. 31, 2015
U.S. pressing France to postpone UN resolution on Palestine (http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.654215)
By Barak Ravid | Apr. 29, 2015
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Andrea Mitchell Reports 12/22/16
If the U.N. Israel resolution fails, what comes next?
George Mitchell, former U.S. special envoy for Middle East peace and author of 'A Path to Peace,' discusses the future of the two-state solution under Trump's hard line administration. ... more (http://www.msnbc.com/)
It is not clear if Adler threat scandal few years back was one of the main reasons for such a major policy shift:
Andrew Adler Threat Scandal: Israel plans largest WB settlement expansion in 30 years ; Surprising Obama response (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?458980-Israel-plans-largest-WB-settlement-expansion-in-30-years-Surprising-Obama-response&)
But all that seems to have changed today less than a month before end of Obama term:
National Security
U.S. declines to veto U.N. Security Council resolution for Israel to stop Jewish settlement activity
By Carol Morello December 23, 2016
The U.N. Security Council on Friday passed a resolution demanding Israel cease Jewish settlement activity on Palestinian territory in a unanimous vote that passed when the United States abstained rather than using its veto as it has reliably done in the past.
The resolution declares settlements constructed on land Israel has occupied since the 1967 war, including East Jerusalem, have “no legal validity.” It said settlements threaten the viability of the two-state solution, and it urged Israelis and Palestinians to return to negotiations that lead to two independent nations.
The United States’ abstention Friday was a rare rebuke to Israel, and reflected mounting frustration in the Obama administration over settlement growth that the United States considers an obstacle to peace. With President Obamas time in office due to end in barely a month, his decision not to veto was a symbolic statement of that displeasure.
“In the absence of any meaningful peace process, as well as in the face of the acceleration of settlement activity that put at risk the viability of a two-state solution, we took the steps we did today,” said Ben Rhodes, the White House deputy national security adviser.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-declines-to-veto-un-security-council-resolution-for-israel-to-stop-jewish-settlement-activity/2016/12/23/cd4efe72-c939-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html
Is there any other explanation of this policy "shift" at this late stage other than it is a cowardly exit of a regime that through out past 8 years failed to stand up to foreign policy bullies and extremists that Andrew Adler represented?
Historic Context
Obama firmly opposed settlements before Andrew Adler threat scandal
(http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?458980-Israel-plans-largest-WB-settlement-expansion-in-30-years-Surprising-Obama-response&)
What led Obama to go from "does not want to see even one cement mixer in the West Bank" stance in 2009 to remaining completely quiet/giving more aid/weapons to Israel in 2014 when the largest Israeli settlement expansion in 30 years is announced? What changed between 2009 and 2014? Did the infamous Andrew Adler editorial (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?456039-Christie-calls-for-forceful-defense-of-Israel-says-Obama-not-decisive&p=5593230&viewfull=1#post5593230) in 2012 play a role in such strikingly different reactions?
2009:
U.S.-Israeli relationship takes new direction
By Jeffrey Heller
JERUSALEM Tue Jun 2, 2009
"The president doesn't want to see even one cement mixer in the West Bank," an Israeli political source, briefed by Netanyahu aides, quoted U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell telling an Israeli delegation that met him in London last week.
Possible scenarios for twisting Netanyahu's arm could range from U.S. inaction at the United Nations in thwarting resolutions critical of Israel to choking off some military supplies, political sources and commentators said.
"Delaying the shipment of spares for the Apaches can ground the air force," political columnist Ben Caspit wrote in Maariv, referring to Israel's U.S.-made attack helicopters.
"The replenishment of ammunition and weapons supplies in the event of another expected conflagration in the Gaza Strip or Lebanon is a matter of American goodwill," Caspit said.
Few expect Washington ever to go as far as to hurt Israel's defences, but it does have other diplomatic pressure points.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2009/0...40040020090602 (http://in.reuters.com/article/2009/06/02/idINIndia-40040020090602)
2012:
Publisher of the ‘Atlanta Jewish Times’ suggests Mossad should assassinate Obama (http://mondoweiss.net/2012/01/publisher-of-the-atlanta-jewish-times-suggests-mossad-should-assassinate-obama.html)
Adam Horowitz on January 20, 2012
John Cook reports at Gawker (http://gawker.com/5877892/):
Andrew Adler, the owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, a weekly newspaper serving Atlanta’s Jewish community, devoted his January 13, 2012 column to the thorny problem of the U.S. and Israel’s diverging views on the threat posed by Iran. Basically Israel has three options, he wrote: Strike Hezbollah and Hamas, strike Iran, or “order a hit” on Barack Obama (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/284979-ajt.html). Either way, problem solved!
Here’s how Adler laid out “option three” in his list of scenarios facing Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu (the column, which was forwarded to us by a tipster, isn’t online, but you can read a copy here (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/284979-ajt.html)):
Three, give the go-ahead for U.S.-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice president to take his place, and forcefully dictate that the United States’ policy includes its helping the Jewish state obliterate its enemies.
Yes, you read “three” correctly. Order a hit on a president in order to preserve Israel’s existence. Think about it. If I have thought of this Tom Clancy-type scenario, don’t you think that this almost unfathomable idea has been discussed in Israel’s most inner circles?
Another way of putting “three” in perspective goes something like this: How far would you go to save a nation comprised of seven million lives…Jews, Christians and Arabs alike?
You have got to believe, like I do, that all options are on the table.
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTOumPRP0NaxY6xt93qp7XuzAeH5VTpT k-ARcOi-kia74pyYQnH
2014:
'Anyone You See, You Shoot': Israeli Soldiers Recall the 2014 Gaza War (http://www.thenation.com/article/206945/anyone-you-see-you-shoot-israeli-soldiers-recall-2014-gaza-war)
The Nation.
Estimates of the Protective Edge casualty count vary somewhat, but they generally range around 2,100–2,200 Palestinians killed, largely civilians, against 73 Israeli fatalities, 67 of them soldiers. An additional 11,000 Palestinians were wounded (http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/annual_humanitarian_overview_2014_english_final.pd f) during Protective Edge, and almost 500,000 were forced out of their homes.
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/1428_smh1.jpg
Mike Carlton resigns due to intense pressure following SMH article on Gaza war
http://www.hangthebankers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Mike-Carlton-tweet.jpg
Carlton said the decision to suspend him came from Fairfax business and metro publisher
Sean Aylmer, who overruled Sydney Morning Herald editor-in-chief Darren Goodsir.
Goodsir wanted to suspend Carlton for four to six weeks after the abusive reports surfaced
in The Australian.
“They said they want to suspend me for four to six weeks to “consider”... but I said “don’t
bother I’m resigning. I hung up on them,” Carlton told the Daily Mail Australia.
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/tra..._newscomau.pdf (http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/1428_newscomau.pdf)
Obama: Israel has right to defend itself
The Jerusalem Post
Jul 19, 2014 - International community voices concern over increasing civilian casualties in Gaza.
Israel appropriates massive tract of West Bank land
Move comes in wake of kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens; intention is to build a large settlement, Gvaot, between the Etzion settlement bloc and Jerusalem.
By Chaim Levinson | Aug. 31, 2014
Outpost Watch: Obama's future minefield - and Netanyahu's (http://www.haaretz.com/news/outpost-watch-obama-s-future-minefield-and-netanyahu-s-1.278583)
By Bradley Burston | Jun. 22, 2009
Israel planning mass expansion of West Bank settlement bloc (http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-planning-mass-expansion-of-west-bank-settlement-bloc-1.271055)
By Akiva Eldar | Feb. 27, 2009 | 1:26 AM
The appropriation of 3,799 dunams (988 acres) of West Bank land between the Etzion settlement bloc and Jerusalem was announced on Sunday by the Israel Defense Forces' Civil Administration.
The appropriation was decided on by the cabinet last week as a response to the kidnapping and killing of three Jewish teens by Hamas militants in the area in June, according to the administration's announcement.
Anti-settlement group Peace Now said it was the largest land appropriation in 30 years.
The intention of appropriating the land is to create territorial continuity between the Green Line and settlements of Beitar Illit, Kfar Etzion, and Gvaot.
The appropriated land belongs to five Palestinian villages in the Bethlehem area: Jaba, Surif, Wadi Fukin, Husan and Nahalin.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomac...emium-1.613319 (http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.613319)
Israel demolished homes of 1,177 Palestinians in Jerusalem and West Bank in 2014 (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?467939-With-zionists-in-charge-of-White-House-Palestinian-homes-demolition-palooza-on-going&)
2015:
Netanyahu promises no Palestinian state if he is re-elected (http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/netanyahu-promises-no-palestinian-state-if-he-re-elected)
MSNBC
Mar 16, 2015 - With less than a day until Israel's election, Prime Minister vowed on Monday that there will be no Palestinian state if he is re-elected .
France hopes U.S. won't stand in way of two-state resolution (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?473848-France-hopes-U-S-won-t-stand-in-way-of-two-state-resolution&)
The Associated Press | Mar. 31, 2015
U.S. pressing France to postpone UN resolution on Palestine (http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.654215)
By Barak Ravid | Apr. 29, 2015
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Philip Weiss on September 13, 2011
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“Most of the danger comes by our lack of wisdom on how we run our foreign policy,” and he repeated a statistic he uses on the campaign trail in Iowa: “We’re under great threat, because we occupy so many countries. We’re in 130 countries. We have 900 bases around the world. We’re going broke. The purpose of al Qaeda was to attack us, invite us over there, where they can target us. And they have been doing it.”
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/09/ron-paul-says-our-unfairness-to-palestinians-led-to-911-attacks
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Haaretz
Apr 23, 2007 -
For some time, the United States had had an emergency plan to attack Israel, a plan updated just prior to the 1967 war, aimed at preventing Israel from expanding westward, into Sinai, or eastward, into the West Bank.
In May 1967, one of the U.S. commands was charged with the task of removing the plan from the safe, refreshing it and preparing for an order to go into action.
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