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

[Carl G. Estabrook]

True, if and only if stopping the US from killing people is a Platonic abstraction.

And whom do you want to win? I've wondered.



On Jan 30, 2015, at 10:37 AM, Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote:

> You and I have totally different goals. You want to satisfy a Platonic abstraction. I want to win.
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> 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?" 
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> How about condemning them all and demanding a reversal of Obama administration war policy, in Europe and Asia?
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> 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. 
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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. 
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> 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].
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> 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.
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> The American people must stop them once again. 
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> --CGE
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> On Jan 30, 2015, at 9:24 AM, Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/keith-ellison-netanyahu_b_6575504.html
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>> [...]
>> 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 and the Congressional Progressive Caucus have warned.
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>> J Street and Americans for Peace Now have called for Netanyahu's talk to be postponed. Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren, the mainstream political opposition in Israel, former Israeli President Shimon Peres, and the editorial board of the New York Times have denounced the planned speech. Even Fox News thinks Bibi and Boehner are out of line.
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>> Now, Reps. Keith Ellison (co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus), Steve Cohen, and Maxine Waters are circulating a letter to Speaker Boehner, asking him to postpone the invitation until after the Israeli election and after Congress has considered the issue of Iran sanctions.
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>> 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.
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