Elliot Abrams Confirms His New Role

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Abrams Confirms His New Role
Jim Lobe

Elliott Abrams just confirmed that he will be official mouthpiece of Bibi Netanyahu and his Likud Party at the Council on Foreign Relations and on the pages of The Weekly Standard (and probably in the Wall Street Journal, too).

In reading the article, ironically entitled “The Path of Realism or the Path to Failure: Laying a Foundation for Peace in Palestine,” what can’t help but be struck by the coincidence in views between Abrams and the Likud leader on virtually every single issue regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, from reviving the notion of a Jordanian option to seeing the conflict as “part of a broader struggle in the region over Iranian extremism and power.” Also noteworthy is the clarity with which he expresses his total opposition to his former boss’s (President George W. Bush) stated policy, particularly with respect to the Annapolis process (although it apparently didn’t occur to him to offer his resignation under the circumstances) and his explicit embrace of Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Salam Fayyad (”reliable and trustworthy”) and the PA’s U.S.-tutored security forces who “acted in parallel, and sometimes in concert, with Israeli forces” during Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. I’m sure both Fayyad and the PA’s security forces appreciate such a fulsome endorsement from Netanyahu’s alter ego.

With friends like Abrams, who seems to think that democratic reform — remember, he was in charge of global democracy promotion, as well as the Middle East, in Bush’s National Security Council — consists mainly of building Palestinian security forces that can maintain Israel’s occupation indefinitely and fails to mention the word “settlements” in a 3,200-page essay on “realism” and laying a foundation for peace in Palestine, who needs enemies? ... http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=231

[bdamomma]

1. that is why all these neocons need to be rounded up

they are resurfacing. Elliot Abrams what a POS.

[Me.]

2. An American Now An Intimate Part Of A Foreign Government

Hmmmm

[SpiralHawk]

4. Abrams is a Republicon Homelander

Not an American.

[yellowwood]

3. Birds of a Feather

Here is the list of signers on the PNAC letter to Prsident Clinton, written in 1998. It urged him to take action to remove Saddam Hussain from power. Of course, it took a few years to get the Bush Administration to carry out their wishes. We can see how that worked out for us.

Elliott Abrams
Jeffrey Bergner
Francis Fukuyama
William Kristol
Donald Rumsfeld
Paul Wolfowitz
James Woolsey
Vin Weber
William Schneider, Jr.
Peter W. Rodman
Richard L. Armitage
William J. Bennett
Zalmay Khalilzad
Paula Dobriansky
John Bolton
Richard Perle
Robert Kagan

The following link will tell you the facts about these people.
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1535.html

[gratuitous]

5. The outlaw Elliott Abrams?

One wonders why a political party would hire a foreign felon to represent them?

[Captain Hilts]

6. Is he a dual citizen? If so, how did he get a security clearance? nt