Indyk expected to be named new US Middle East envoy

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WASHINGTON - Martin Indyk, a former US ambassador to Israel who heads foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution think tank, is expected to be named the new US envoy for Middle East peace, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the announcement could come as early as on Monday, when Israeli and Palestinian negotiators plan to resume direct peace talks in Washington for the first time in nearly three years.

Indyk, 62, served as a senior member of Secretary of State Warren Christopher's Middle East peace team in the 1990s.

He may join Secretary of State John Kerry at a State Department dinner for Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat on Monday evening.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4410941,00.html

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1. Oh good, a Middle East envoy who hates 97% of the people who live in the region

Not just a professional fellatio provider for Israel, but also the man with the plan for the mangling of Iraq during the Clinton years.

Next up; Steve King as South American envoy!

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2. Amazing that people believe what you do

Truly.

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6. Yeah, facts can have that effect. Try it sometime.

He's a former AIPAC lobbyist.

He's the director of the Saban Center for Middle Eastern Policy, a staunchly pro-Israel think tank with hawkish tendencies.

He's the founding executive director of the Washington Institute for Near east policy, an AIPAC think tank that centers on lobbying the executive branch.

He's on the Board of Directors of the Institute for National Security Studies, another hawkish Israel lobby group, this one with direct ties to the Israeli military.

He is the architect if the Clinton Administration's "dual containment" policy towards Iraq and Iran, which centered around creating economic conditions in Iraq that would lead to regime change - that is, the sanctions that we know and love, since Liberal Zionist Madeline albright declared a million dead Iraqi children is "completely worth it" as a price for this policy - which ultimately failed to do anything but harm the common people of Iraq.

Maybe he's not a wild-eyed neoconservative cuckoo bird, but he's no friend to anyone in the Middle East except Israel.

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7. It's a fact in your mind only

To claim as "fact" that this person "hates 97 percent of the people who live in the region" is just completely ridiculous.

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8. I'm not sure how else one should read a hawkish Israel lobbyist, Oberliner

Especially once who's role in policy helped create an utter humanitarian disaster in Iraq, which his superior praised because it's just Arabs, after all. Every scrap, every shred of evidence points towards this man having no interest but the empowerment of Israel, no matter the cost - political or human - to any of the non-Israeli non-Jews in the region. If you want to be precise, that percentage is 98.4%, I was allowing that maybe he "has an Arab friend" or something.

The point remains despite your valiant crusade to miss it, Oberliner, that Martin Indyk is a poor choice for this role. Even if you want to ignore his positions and actions against the people of the region (and you clearly do) you have to realize that the man's one and only interest in the middle east is Israel. Appointing him as Middle East envoy is sort of like appointing an attorney General who only pays attention to what's going on in Delaware.

Further, Kerry's decision to put him in the talking-about-talking negotiations is either John Kerry being a clueless schmuck (and really, that's always a possibility with him,) or a real effort on the State Department's part to scuttle the talks. Indyk will not act as a neutral third party and coordinator, he will act as part of the Israel negotiating team, just as he did in 2000.

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9. So can you name someone who cares about that 98.4%?

Anyone?

Bueller?

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10. In US politics? Not off the top of my head.

I regard this as a major problem in the way we handle foreign policy. How about you?

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3. Is this the US's show of good faith in overseeing the 'negotiations'?

well Israel will be quite relieved I'm sure

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4. Come come, this is drama, we've seen this many times now.

I wish I thought it was real, but I don't. And given that, Indyk is perfect, he knows the script.

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5. see there you went and did it

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and here I had faith, real faith I tell you that these negotiations were for real and true and now you've sparked my my habitual cynicism demon, tsk