[Peace-discuss] at HuffPo: Rep. Keith Ellison: Postpone Bibi's Speech to Congress

[Robert Naiman]

You and I have totally different goals. You want to satisfy a Platonic
abstraction. I want to win.



On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Carl G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
wrote:

> "...stand with the Boehner-Bibi axis or stand with President Obama?"
>
> How about condemning them all and demanding a reversal of Obama
> administration war policy, in Europe and Asia?
>
> The greatest risk of a wider war, even nuclear war, comes not from Iran's
> non-existent nukes (or even from Israel's hysterical provocations on the
> matter) but from Obama's vicious proxy war in Ukraine.
>
> Like all US administrations since the fall of the USSR - but even more
> belligerently - the Obama administration is working to damage Russia for
> control of the Eurasian economy.
>
> The American client regime in Kiev has already killed more people in
> Donbass than the American client regime in Israel recently killed in Gaza,
> and the attacks continue today.
>
> The Obama/Boehner good-cop/bad-cop charade in DC is at best a side-show
> that continues to mask the US government's imperial policy from the only
> one of its many enemies it really fears, the American people.
>
> The administration is attempting to wean Iran from the SCO and restore the
> status quo ante (pre-1979), when US control of Mideast energy resources
> rested on a Saudi Arabia-Israel-Iran tripod. Obama, who says he's surprised
> to find that killing people is his "strong suit," is willing to kill a lot
> of people to this end: his drone attacks - which have killed as many people
> as his proxy war in Ukraine - amount to ‘the most extreme terrorist
> campaign of modern times’ [Noam Chomsky].
>
> The Bush-Obama-(Clinton) regime is working for the American 1% and their
> economic advantage in Europe and Asia, as the Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon regime
> once did in regard to SE to Asia.
>
> The American people must stop them once again.
>
> --CGE
>
> On Jan 30, 2015, at 9:24 AM, Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss <
> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/keith-ellison-netanyahu_b_6575504.html
>
> [...]
>
> Controversy is spreading around House Speaker John Boehner's decision to
> invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ("Bibi") Netanyahu to address
> Congress on March 3. The invitation is controversial for three reasons: 1)
> contrary to precedent, Boehner did not consult the White House or the House
> Democratic leadership in scheduling the speech; 2) the speech will be two
> weeks before the Israeli election, essentially making the U.S. Congress the
> backdrop for a speech in Netanyahu's re-election campaign, also contrary to
> precedent; and 3) the express purpose of the speech is to bash President
> Obama's Iran policy and demand that Congress pass new sanctions on Iran,
> which would blow up the U.S./Europe-Iran talks and put the U.S. on a path
> to war with Iran, as European leaders
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/on-irans-nuclear-programs-give-diplomacy-a-chance/2015/01/21/0cdb4dcc-a185-11e4-b146-577832eafcb4_story.html> and
> the Congressional Progressive Caucus
> <http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/hot-topics/progressive-caucus-urges-senate-and-house-committees-to-postpone-new-iran-sanctions-legislation> have
> warned.
>
> J Street <http://act.jstreet.org/sign/Send_Boehner_A_Message> and Americans
> for Peace Now <http://peacenow.org/entry.php?id=10357#.VMqqsGTF-rw> have
> called for Netanyahu's talk to be postponed. Former Israeli Ambassador to
> the U.S. Michael Oren
> <http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.638809>, the mainstream
> political opposition in Israel
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/world/middleeast/israeli-opposition-takes-aim-at-netanyahu-over-planned-speech-to-congress.html>
> , former Israeli President Shimon Peres
> <http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Peres-on-Netanyahu-speech-When-the-US-president-tells-you-not-to-come-to-US-you-dont-go-389415>,
> and the editorial board of the *New York Times*
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/24/opinion/john-boehner-benjamin-netanyahu-playing-politics-on-iran.html> have
> denounced the planned speech. Even *Fox News
> <http://www.vox.com/2015/1/24/7884311/netanyahu-boehner-fox-news> *thinks
> Bibi and Boehner are out of line.
>
> Now, Reps. Keith Ellison (co-chair of the Congressional Progressive
> Caucus), Steve Cohen, and Maxine Waters are circulating a letter
> <http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/democrats-john-boehner-benjamin-netanyahu-speech-114695.html> to
> Speaker Boehner, asking him to postpone the invitation until after the
> Israeli election and after Congress has considered the issue of Iran
> sanctions.
>
> This sets up a sharp choice for Members of Congress: stand with the
> Boehner-Bibi axis or stand with President Obama? A signature on the Ellison
> letter is a decision to stand with President Obama.
> [...]
>
> ===
> Robert Naiman
> Policy Director
> Just Foreign Policy
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>
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