Two rather interesting, if unrelated, reports from PRESS TV this morning:
Obama slammed for anti-Israeli advisor
US Presidential nominee Barack Obama has come under fire over his anti-Israeli national campaign co-chairman, Gen. Merrill Tony McPeak.
An inquiry by conservative American media outlets reveals that McPeak, who is also Obama’s military advisor, is a longtime anti-Israel critic who slammed American Zionists for acting against US interests.
In an interview with The Oregonian about five years ago, McPeak argued that the influence exerted by American Jews is responsible for the lack of progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
McPeak also said that Jews and Christian Zionists manipulated American foreign policy in Iraq.
Following the revelations, the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) called on Obama to “immediately remove General McPeak from his campaign leadership role and as a key advisor.”
RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks claimed that the Obama’s anti-Israeli advisors raise serious questions and doubts about his positions and judgment on Middle East issues.
McPeak served as the chief of staff of the US Air Force before retiring in 1994.
Rabbi: Hang Arab children from trees
A Zionist cleric has urged the Israeli regime to give the green light to the massacre of Arabs in retaliation for Palestinian attacks.
In an article published in the newsletter Eretz Yisrael Shelanu Shmuel Eliyahu, the chief rabbi of Safed, has urged the Israeli regime to officially allow “revenge against Arabs to restore Israel’s deterrence.”
“I’m not talking about individual people in particular, I’m talking about the state. [Israel] has to pain them to the point where they scream ‘Enough,’ to the point where they fall flat on their face and scream ‘help.’ Not for the sake of satisfying the need for revenge but for the purposes of deterrence,” he wrote.
In the newsletter Eliyahu proposes “hanging the children” of those who attacked the Mercaz Harav yeshiva from a tree.
The rabbi added: “We’ll stay here. We need to live with those who understand very well the language of revenge.”
On Wednesday, Mossawa Center, an Arab human rights group, called for a probe into Eliyahu’s remarks.
Obama’s supporters have a belief (or hope) that he outwardly plays the game for the sake of politics but secretly is much more critical of the neoconservative agenda.
I can accept that up to a point. Ron Paul didn’t give an inch with regard to those matters but he only got 5-10% of the vote in most states (with a few exceptions…21% in Washington state)
But after a certain point, he has to draw the line. Standing by McPeak should be the perfect defensive position. He is 4 star officer who campaigned for Dole in 1996 and Bush in 2000, but who latter condemned the Iraq war…before it started and supported Howard Dean in 2004. Obama should be able to dismiss these demands and defend McPeak as an American hero.
If he fails to do this, then we can assume there will be no point at which he will be willing to confront the neocon agenda.
I hold hope that the Lobby will grow too bold. The Salem witch hunters and the McCarthyists both collapsed when their accusations switched from targeting the helpless to targeting people of means and authority.
Going after Fallon and then McPeak may be too much for them. Or so I hope.
P.S. I’m very eager to hear what Fallon has to say after he’s out of uniform.
@Lysander,
The problem for Americans is that when the neocons over-reach and fail, they will take us all down with them. Many of them may find new homes in Israel, but the rest of us…we will broke and in ruins. Maybe, paying reparations as Germany had to do after the first world war.
Many Thanks to Vineyard of the Saker for the heads up on McPeak. I an not a fan of Obama for a lot of other reasons, and I recently declared I would never vote for the less of two evils and would vote or write in my heartfelt candidate, but I am tempted to vote for Obama because of McPeak. I think Woolsey was pointed under Clinton, and that wind of the democrats is entirely insensitive to the fifth column issue. McCain is even more in the Israeli bag.
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