Israel Names 'Pro-Republican' Hawk As New Envoy To US

[Purveyor]

Source: Agence France-Presse

AFP - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named as Israel's new ambassador to Washington Tuesday a peace process hawk seen as close to President Barack Obama's Republican opponents.

Ron Dermer, who already served a stint in Washington as economic attache from 2005 to 2008, is on the record as voicing scepticism about the wisdom of a two-state solution to the Palestinian problem.

According to US diplomatic cables leaked to WikiLeaks, he is also convinced that Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas is not a partner for peace.

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Israel's left-leaning daily Haaretz commented that Dermer's views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict were "far more extreme than Netanyahu's" and had sparked "shock" among US as well as European officials.

Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20130709-israel-names-pro-republican-hawk-new-envoy-us

[hlthe2b]

1. Yet another finger in the eye to Israel's largest benefactor...

This is wearing really thin....

[Comrade Grumpy]

12. It doesn't matter. Our politicians will give Israel what it wants.

They always do. Oh, sometimes they make clucking noises of disapproval first, but then...

[Lasher]

2. I look forward to Obama's complaint about this.

Give 'em hell, Obama!

[azurnoir]

3. why anyone would be shocked at this is beyond me

it is part and parcel to US/Israel relations since 2009

[AnotherMcIntosh]

4. Let me guess. Now we have to send our troops to Syria, and more money to the war profiteers.

[Sand Wind]

5. Asking myself how your diplomacy will react to this ?

Israel just don't give a shit about peace process at this moment, and more and more there will be colonists, the more their politicians will be dependant from them...

[kelliekat44]

6. What else is new. We know the Israeli government officals dislike Obama and help the GOP

any way they can to thwart whatever good he tries to do. So much opposition against this President, I don't know how he manages to keep that smile on his face as he tackles the myriad of issues facing the nation.

[geek tragedy]

7. Israel calls the shots in this relationship, so zero consequences.

Shame on anyone who believed John Kerry's optimism on I/P, btw.

[Sand Wind]

10. How is It that Israël calls the shorts ? How is It possible ? Nt.

[geek tragedy]

11. Both political parties in the US are excessively devoted to israel. nt

[delrem]

8. "far more extreme than Netanyahu's"

Netanyahu wouldn't have appointed him if that was true.

{edited to add: I'm not attributing this lie to purveyor!}

Why is this discussion so loaded with ridiculous pretenses like that?
Why can't we admit the truth?

[Comrade Grumpy]

13. What is this truth we can't admit?

[delrem]

14. uh: that Netanyahu's appointments don't express his wishes?

[byeya]

9. No country is required to accept a person as ambassador from another nation. Obama can

say, "Sorry, try again"