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since Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:04:17.
Who Could Obama Appoint?
by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)
Will every single presidential appointee have to face a Zionist litmus test? Even the abortion issue typically only places a block on judicial, some justice, and certain social sector appointments.
Here are some past or potential candidates:
Here are some past or potential candidates:
- Joseph Zogby, j. - ZOA decries Arab American appointee to State Dept.
- Salam Al-Marayati, Arab American Named to U.S. Terrorism Panel - Los Angeles Times [Note that the spouse of Juliette Kayem, who ultimately received the appointment, is Jewish and that they both belonged to a conservative Jewish congregation at the time period]
- Robert Malley, Obama versus the Israel Lobby and Followup: Obama versus the Israel Lobby
- Stephen Walt, Lawrence Summers to Stephen Walt: 'You Could Have Been National Security Adviser, Now It's All Over' [From Mondoweiss]
I fact-checked the Mondoweiss article.
I found that then Harvard President Larry Summers told Dean Joseph Nye of the Kennedy School of Government "that it was a shame [Walt] could probably never work in Washington, as he thought [Walt would] be very effective there." Nye reported Summers remarks to Walt. Summers probably disagreed with some of the substance of the Israel Lobby article, but he considered the article to be genuine scholarship even if he thought publishing it in the London Review of Books might have been a mistake. Summers appears to have advised the KSG to treat the Israel Lobby article in no way different from any other scholarly work from a Harvard faculty member. The KSG did not follow Summers' advice in its entirety. On the whole Walt and Summers continue to have a reasonably good relationship.
I have long disagreed with Summers' recommendations in the realm of economics and finance even if his analysis is often sound, and I am not happy that Obama has met with Volcker, Rubin, and Summers to discuss the financial meltdown because these three belong more to the problem set than to the solution set, but Summers could redeem himself by recommending Walt as a national security adviser.
The Zionists would howl, but by Jan. 20 we are likely to see a crisis in the retail sector and possibly an even worse financial disaster with corporations that were recently involved in leveraged buyouts. A growing world economic crisis as a matter of national security could drown out the voice of American Zionists acting on behalf of Jewish special interest.
