Obama’s UN nominee advocated invasion of Israel
Obama’s UN nominee advocated invasion of Israel – Israel News, Ynetnews.
( This Obama just keep getting worse and worse… – JW )
Samantha Power, president’s choice for UN ambassador, said in 2002 interview US should impose solution on Israel, Palestinians, advocated deployment of massive military force in Israel
Yitzhak Benhorin
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WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama has selected as his nominee for US ambassador to the United Nations a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and academic who at one point in her career has advocated a US invasion of Israel.
Samantha Power, a former White House aide and Harvard professor, asserted in a 2002 interview in Berkley University that the US might in the future be forced to deploy a large military force in Israel in order to impose a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and establish a Palestinian state.
Asked how she would advise the president to address the situation, she replied, “What we need is a willingness to put something on the line in helping the situation. It may mean investing billions of dollars, not in servicing Israel’s military, but actually investing in the new state of Palestine, in investing the billions of dollars in what will have to be a mammoth protection force.”
Alluding to the Jewish lobby, she said such an undertaking would “mean alienating a domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import.”
Power discussing Mideast conflict in 2002
While she admitted her proposal was “undemocratic,” Power added that “It seems to me that you have to go in as if you’re serious, you have to put something on the line.”
She further described Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon as “dreadfully irresponsible” and politically destined to destroy the lives of their own people.”
However, four years after the interview Power rejected claims that Israel is an apartheid state at a Harvard University forum.
Obama, Rice and Power (Photo: Reuters)
Power caused a stir during the tense contest between Obama and Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2008 election. She was serving as an adviser to Obama at the time.
“She is a monster, too – that is off the record – she is stooping to anything,” Power was quoted as telling The Scotsman, a British newspaper, referring to Clinton.
“But if you are poor and she is telling you some story about how Obama is going to take your job away, maybe it will be more effective. The amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive,” Power was quoted as saying.
Obama, Clinton in Democrats primaries 2007
The remarks prompted her resignation from Obama’s campaign team. Obama edged Clinton for the Democratic nomination, won election that November and named Clinton as his top diplomat, a post she held until earlier this year.
Republicans in the Senate, which must approve her nomination, are likely to give her a rough confirmation hearing.
If confirmed, Power’s return to government service would be a comeback after having left the White House earlier this year as senior director for multilateral affairs and human rights on the national security staff.
(Photo: AP)
While that job was relatively low profile, Power was widely reported to have argued for the US decision to intervene militarily in 2011 to support the rebels who eventually toppled long-time Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
No stranger to the power of words, her earlier work as a journalist sent her covering the Balkan wars of the 1990s and conflicts in other countries such as Rwanda, according to her biography on the White House website.
She later won the Pulitzer Prize for her book “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide,” a study of US policy responses to genocide during the 20th century.
Power is married to legal scholar Cass Sunstein, who until last year headed the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. He was a friend of Obama dating back to their days on the University of Chicago Law School faculty.
The current UN ambassador Susan Rice was also very critical of Israel in the past but as an envoy adhered closely to traditional US policy in regards to Israel. It is then estimated that Power, now older and more seasoned, will align herself with Washington’s policies and act in favor of Israel in her capacity as UN ambassador.
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WarSclerotic 
June 5, 2013 at 10:04 PM
Woe to Mrs Power – woe to Mr Obama – woe to a nation which is led by people like those 2 : You are sticking your fingers right in the eye of the one and only God, the ONE that said : Cursed is he who curses Israel ! I’m old enough to know by experience of what I’m talking and I say that the days of the USA are definitely numbered – due to people like Obama and Power ! The downfall of the USA will hurt many others too which is sad, but if you want to mess with God you will pay the Price …..
June 5, 2013 at 10:30 PM
Susan Rice, as our UN ambassador, was not being paid to think. She was being paid to say whatever the White House told her to say, and as we all know the White House screwed her royally. Today Susan Rice is the National Security Adviser and not the Secretary of State because she did not think. Samantha Power will try to influence White House opinion. Unfortunately, as one hears from the video, she is an idiot. What the hell was she talking about? The only thing bringing in a large deployment of foreign armed forces to create a two state solution would improve would be target practice for both Arab and Israeli. She should talk to the British.
June 5, 2013 at 10:20 PM
So now in addition to the CIA director Brennan as the father of Obama’s pro-Islamist policy, Secretary of Defense Hagel who opposed the Iran sanctions, Secretary of State Kerry who compared the Boston and Mavi Marmara victims and the President who supports the anti-Semitic and anti-American Muslim Brotherhood, we also have a candidate for the post of US Ambassador to the UN who advocated the invasion of Israel! I wonder if the American electorate is just ignorant, irresponsible or perhaps this is what Americans really stand for?
The Muslim Brotherhood. Is this what Americans stand for?
http://www.madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2012/11/the-muslim-brotherhood-is-this-what.html
June 6, 2013 at 12:13 AM
“I wonder if the American electorate is just ignorant, irresponsible or perhaps this is what Americans really stand for?”
I vote for choice D – massive vote fraud. This corrupt regime is capable of anything and their worst crime of all was on the American people November 6, 2012.
Now that the tyrant has been “reelected” he is shoving it in our faces over and over again.
If our countries is still around 20 years from now, historians will wonder how all of this could’ve happened.
June 5, 2013 at 10:52 PM
Leave the US behind, side with Russia
June 5, 2013 at 11:07 PM
Reminds me of the old saying, “Show me your friends, and I’ll tell you who you are.” So what about it, Obama? You have any more ‘friends’ we have yet to meet through your appointments?
June 5, 2013 at 11:24 PM
What obavez cannot yet express openly through words, he expresses through the choice of his administration’s members.
It’s hard not to notice that many of obavez’ friends have radical views.
June 5, 2013 at 11:39 PM
Which leads me to my theory that obavez is so desperetely dependent on his teleprompter because he cannot risk revealing his true thoughts and feelings.
June 6, 2013 at 10:20 AM
After a simple googling we understand now that Samantha Power and Valerie Jarrett are very close collaborates and this ”nomination from hell” is much more easy to understand. What is happening right now in America is beyond the Watergate affair and it may lead to the impeachment of this president.
June 6, 2013 at 12:27 PM
So… would a Russian permanent naval base in Israel would make them think twice?
June 6, 2013 at 4:36 PM
Ships, it go,s faster than i thought.