[Peace-discuss] Aaron David Miller interview / the U.S. as not being the peacemaker in Israel / Palestine

[Karen Medina]

Miller is actually saying in this interview that the U.S. is not an
honest broker, or at least the U.S. is not a respected broker. He
openly states that the wars are about oil.

Though I value David Green's opinions and agree with most of what Carl
is saying, I do think Miller has a few valid points:
1) The U.S. Government should be asked to focus tremendous attention
on stopping the settlements and opening up the borders to Gaza.

2) The U.S. is a lousy peace negotiator.

The part I don't agree with is that Miller implies that we, the U.S.,
should not aim to bring Israel and Palestine to an agreement [forgive
the double negative here]. In my opinion, we (the U.S.) need to stop
supporting Israel. Full stop.

My academic adviser recently gave me some sage advice: "Even if you
think this person is half crazy, you still need to read what he has
published and consider some of his arguments. You can't just disregard
everything he says."

-karen medina

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 7:05 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
> I think we need to do more to expose the propaganda position of the US
> government - vigorously promoted by people like Miller - that the USG is at
> most an "honest broker" in the ME, regarding the warring parties with
> (even-handed) benevolent concern. The object of this propaganda (US &
> Israeli) is primarily the US public.
>
> What he says is "the question" is of course not the question.  The question
> is, Will the USG be forced to stop directing its corrupt Sparta to continue
> oppressing the Palestinians as part of the US policy of dominance of the
> region?  And the only people who can apply that pressure are the US
> population, who have to be propagandized and misled into not noticing what
> the US and its client are doing.
>
> The problem is to make Americans AWARE of what the real policy of the US in
> the ME is, against the lies of the Republicans & Democrats.  --CGE
>
>
> On 4/21/10 6:16 PM, David Green wrote:
>>
>> Miller has been part of the "peace process industry" for years. His
>> comments mean nothing and will come to nothing, such as they are.

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