MJ Rosenberg wrote in January of this year, that President Obama's special envoy George Mitchell and Obama's White House adviser Ross, were engaged in a turf war to control Obama's Middle East policy. Ross won.
After Mitchell resigned, Nathan Guttman wrote in the Jewish Daily Forward:
"Ross' strong ties to Israel now make him indispensable to the administration. Those ties include his previous role as head of the Jewish People Policy Institute, a Jerusalem-based think tank founded by the Jewish Agency for Israel."
Rosenberg points to another "money" quote in Guttman's story from another Jewish leader, Abe Foxman:
"Dennis is the closest thing you'll find to a melitz yosher, as far as Israel is concerned," said the Anti-Defamation League's national director, Abraham Foxman, who used the ancient Hebrew term for 'advocate.'"
Rosenberg concludes:
"Think about it... The lobby considers the guy in charge of US policy toward Israel an 'advocate' for Israel, which he is. (Foxman's honesty is a rare delight).
When Ross leaves the White House at the end of this month, he will return to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a spin-off agency created by AIPAC.
Ross worked with a variety of titles for five US presidents. But wherever he hung his hat, his Zionist loyalties were clearly evident to those he served and shaped, in the media/religious/political leadership bubble that shields American decision-makers and decision-shapers, from seeing any Middle East reality except the Zionist version.
An Associated Press story from Jerusalem, published in Ha'aretz this week, reports the conclusion of one of Ross' final tasks for Obama, blocking President Abbas' path to the Security Council and protecting Obama from having to cast a UN veto.
"The Palestinians are slated to receive some 200 million dollars in U.S. security assistance after a top House Republican ended her hold on the money.
"Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, informed the Obama administration in recent weeks that she no longer would block 50 million dollars in economic support funds for the Palestinian Security Forces and 148 million dollars in other assistance.
"In separate letters to the State Department and USAID, Ros-Lehtinen cited President Barack Obama's certification that the funds were in the national security interests of the United States as well as word that the government of Israel did not object to the assistance. The letters were sent in September and October."
Rep. Ros-Lehtinen has the power to block funds that do not answer "yes" to her question: "Is it good for Israel?" The question is narrow. It reflects her limited vision of what is good for America.
The Congresswoman put a "hold" on the funds because Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had the audacity to secure an overwhelming victory in a vote for Palestinian admission to UNESCO. It is not nice to "fool" Mother Ros Lehtinen. For doing that, Abbas had to be punished.
An earlier vote in Congress in the 1990s, had already automatically put into law an automatic blocking of funds to any UN agency that grants membership to a Palestinian "entity." Once UNESCO embraced the Palestinians, the money stopped. That 1990s vote comes under the heading of "AIPAC's long-range planning."
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