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By Dan Fleshler | January 10, 2009
MJ Rosenberg Viagra online stores, writes, somewhat gleefully, that "AIPAC is furious with George Bush for not vetoing Security Council Resolution 1860 which calls for an immediate ceasefire. After almost eight years, the Bush administration has decided not to stand with Israel against an otherwise unanimous resolution." The AIPAC statement notes:
AIPAC...expresses its disappointment with the U.S, Maine ME Me. . administration for succumbing to pressure exerted by Arab states and agreeing to bring this vote to the U.N. Billig kaufen viagra, Security Council - a message contrary to the steadfast and overwhelming support expressed this week by the United States Congress and dozens of elected officials from across the country.As Franco-Egyptian diplomatic efforts are underway, it is particularly unfortunate that the administration has chosen this moment to engage the Security Council.
How shocking, New Hampshire NH N.H. . A few of the righties are already up in arms, viagra online stores. Here is Anne Bayefsy in Forbes:
Betrayal. Order viagra cod, No other word describes the reversal of American foreign policy that took place on the night of Jan. 8 when the U.S. refused to veto the Security Council resolution on Gaza, purchase viagra online. Viagra online stores, A president whose friendship and alliance with Israel once appeared honest, perceptive and unshakable, decided two weeks before leaving office to throw Israel to the wolves. The resolution calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and does not even mention the word "Hamas."
But I predict that, Order viagra online without prescription, for the most part, the conventional Israel lobby won't raise a big stink about this. The resolution is toothless and will have no impact, köpa viagra online. It is a tiny blip on the radar screen for those monitoring the war in Gaza. Osta viagra, Still, Obama should take note: the U.S. could judiciously, very selectively refuse to veto UN resolutions that Israel doesn't like, and while the vengeful wrath of some American Jews would rain down on the administration, doing so would not be politically suicidal, viagra online stores. It would not even be very risky, lowest price viagra, if the Obama team articulates American interests in the region clearly and forcefully, Viagra without prescription, and if Israel takes actions that are clearly against those interests (e.g, constructing more apartment buildings in disputed territory on the outskirts of Jerusalem).
More importantly, buy viagra online legally, the mere act of abstaining from such UN resolutions would send a powerful message to a vitally important audience: the Israeli public. Idaho ID , In a chapter in my forthcoming book, Transforming America's Israel Lobby: The Limits of Its Power, the Potential For Change, viagra pedido en línea, I asked knowledgeable, Cheap viagra, left-leaning Israelis to share American dipomatic interventions that they believed would be useful if Israel were recalcitrant on, for example, relinquishing West Bank settlements, comprar viagra de descuento. David Kimche, Ordering viagra pills, former Director General of Israel's Foreign Ministry and a noted dove, explicitly focused on the United Nations. He said:
Viagra online stores, “If Israel won’t budge on the settlements, America should publicly denounce Israel’s stand. It should say, Nevada NV Nev. , ‘If there are Security Council debates, Viagra for sale, we won’t use our veto powers.’ If the U.S. denounced Israel and stopped vetoing UN resolutions, it would be a powerful signal, acheter viagra. It would be a major sign to the Israeli public that something was very wrong. Illinois IL Ill. , If this happened more than once, I think the government [of Israel] would be under pressure to back down.”
It would matter because, as former Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami told me, Missouri MO Mo. , “an Israeli prime minister will have no problem getting elected if he argues with Europe. He will have a hard time getting elected if he argues with the United States.” Any sign that Israel's most important strategic relationship might be jeopardized would not be well-received by the Israeli public, viagra online stores. Pharmacie viagra bon marché, Remember, Shamir lost an election in part because of his arguments with Bush pere over the loan guarantees. Even a few small gestures at the UN could help, Kentucky KY Ky. .
I don't mean to imply that, Tennessee TN Tenn. , by itself, a new American approach to the UN would matter a great deal to the Israelis. But it should be in the diplomatic toolkit, buy generic viagra. Viagra online stores, I hope the Obama team remembers what the Bushies got away with at the UN on Friday. I hope they listen to MJ, who has worked on the Hill and has been watching American presidents chicken out on Israel-related issues for decades:
On January 20, Barack Obama. having won a landslide victory -- including 80% of the Jewish vote -- and enjoying record popularity, will be immune to this sort of salvo, leaving AIPAC on the DL.The Democratic Congres will back Obama's Middle East policies with nary a peep. (That will change if his popularity drops. But Congressional Dems will never take on a popular Democratic President on a foreign policy issue). Obama is freer than any President in decades to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict without lobby interference.
By the way, the book is due to be published in April. Note the high praise from Ambassador Sam Lewis on the web site....
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January 10th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Aside from the politics of whether Israel doesn’t like the resolution or not, if the UN were to make a resolution, it should have included language compelling (a resolution is not compulsory, and only on member states if so) Hamas to refrain from shelling civilians.
The political significance of the change is widely noted. It is a statement by the Bush administration, NOT the Obama one.
It is ironic that that vote was not dissented to by European states, that up until now had condemned Hamas for not abandoning their strategy of shelling civilians, instead increasing their rockets’ size and range.
“Enough is enough” (directed to both).
January 10th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
CONGRATULATIONS on the publishing of your book.
From all your comments here, I expect that it is truthful, insightful, considerate, effective to realize good in the world.
January 10th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Interesting, It is deemed a major triumph for the American Jewish peace camp if the world’s most powerful nation doesn’t do exactly what Israel wants, when Israel wants it done. Like you, Dan, I don’t buy into the notion that the Israel lobby totally controls American policy in the Middle East, but doesn’t the situation I just described strike you as pathetic?
January 10th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Teddy,
Yes.
January 10th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Teddy, you seem like a nice, honest guy. Ditto for Dan. So in approaching the now impossible-to-deny phenomenon of the Lobby, why bother putting up a strawman like “totally controls”? What about “effectively limits”?
The Lobby needs to be seen in the context of hegemonic American militarism, not as distinct from it. If the U.S. were not a military industrial bohemeth, with a democracy already severely compromised by prior imperialistic excess and corruption, there wouldn’t even be any Lobby. And probably a territorially much-smaller Israel.
January 11th, 2009 at 10:09 am
MM,
Actually, I would opt for “often severely constrains American diplomatic options.” How’s that?
Your description of the lobby in the context of “hegemonic American militarism” makes perfect sense to me, or at least it describes part of the context. In the ’80s, the people most responsible for the cementing of the U.S.-Israel “strategic relationship” and the dramatically increased, back-and-forth flow of weaponry and intelligence were not AIPACers like Steve Rosen (although of course they participated in the process). The people most responsible were from the Israeli arms industry/military and their counterparts in the U.S. Mearsheimer and Walt didn’t include that in their analysis…
January 11th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Vital point, Dan. It continues today with outfits like JINSA, where the linkage is obvious.
You’re right that M&W’s analysis was incomplete, for that and other reasons, but I’d contend it was important, nonetheless.
January 12th, 2009 at 12:52 am
I do not read AIPACs use of the term “disappointed” to mean “furious.” In the English language that I speak “disappointed” is significantly milder than “furious.”