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Excerpt, editing, re-reporting by Carolyn Bennett
Martin Indyk was the first United States ambassador to be
stripped of a security clearance. He was under investigation for improperly
handling sensitive material. U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in
October 2000 restored Indyk’s security clearance.
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| John Kerry Martin Indyk |
Born into a Jewish family in London, England, and raised in
Australia, Martin Indyk in later years moved to the United States and in 1993 took U.S. citizenship.
In the United States he has held positions as vice president and director for foreign
policy at the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution; and, in the William
Jefferson Clinton Administration, Ambassador to Israel and Assistant
Secretary of State for Near East Affairs. In the Obama government, he has been handed the position of Special
Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations, a post that Philip Giraldi and others
find problematic.
Giraldi is a former
CIA counter-terrorism specialist, now executive
director of the Council for the National Interest. In a recent article he
expresses possibly feigned “surprise” that the Obama administration placed Martin
Indyk in the latest planned negotiations ─
except if they're not serious ─ to help Israelis and Palestinians
resolve their conflict in the Middle East. This is some of what Giraldi had to
say about the Martin Indyk ilk and the corrupt and discredited state U.S. foreign
policy: his article “Throw the Bums Out.”
Incestuous nepotistic inbreeds
“Martin Indyk is a symptom of the cancer that rots the [U.S.]
political system,” Philip Giraldi writes, “and makes many Americans despair of
our ever emerging from the darkness of the past twelve years.”
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ey players in United States policy “tend to move around a
lot: alternating between government posts and think tanks or universities with
brief forays into the private sector where they make money exploiting the
relationships they developed while in office.”
The appearance of Indyk (alongside the “new” man at State though an entrenched figure) is “an unpleasant reminder that even if
everything changes in Washington ─ nothing changes when it comes to the Middle
East.”
Though Indyk has again “been given great power to do still
more damage in a part of the world where the United States has legitimate
strategic concerns” ─ this man’s “willingness to do what is right for the
United States and its people has to be considered questionable” … as “Indyk is
a passionate Zionist completely Israel-focused.” Serious talks to aid
resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “would be unimaginable,” he
said, “with an interlocutor who has spent his entire life working on behalf of
Israel.”
Giraldi concludes that, “in Indyk’s world view,” now re-ensconced
in White House policy making, “there is nothing about the U.S. interest except as it coincides with that of
Israel.”
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ress TV has also reported on attentive observers’ view of
Indyk as a problematic U.S. “mediator” because of his “very strong connections
with the Zionist lobby inside and outside of the United States.” His
involvement throws U.S. credibility into question.
Political analyst Jim W. Dean also questions U.S. participation
in helping (or pretending to help) resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict or
aid a “peace” process. The United States, he said, “should not have anything to
do with the talks” scheduled this week because of the U.S. culpability in “actually
emboldening Israel.”
‘…We need to launch a really big
campaign publicizing the duplicity of Israel in all of the past negotiations
and how ineffective America has been … as a mediator.’”
The protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Dean says, is a
“‘horrendous situation’” from which the United States should absent itself and instead
support a clearly “‘independent mediator.’”
Results of a May 21-June 4 Gallup Poll released on July 26,
2013, found
66 percent no confidence in U.S.
President Barack Obama’s helping “the process of Israel-Palestine talks”
A
great majority of Palestinians have no confidence in the role played by the United
States in the Israel-Palestine talks.
Findings from face-to-face interviews with 1000 Palestinian
and Israeli adults revealed:
74 percent of participants
disagreed with the acceptability of solutions proposed by President Obama and
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enowned Palestinian leader Hanan Ashrawi is quoted this week
saying Israel, against the international efforts, “‘is not stopping its consecutive strikes.’” And those “‘strikes’” [not unlike the continually expanding
illegal settlements, which the U.S. has given only tepid comments, compared with
its comments against governments of Syria, Iran, Libya, Korea and others] “‘are aiming
at blocking the negotiations..’”
Disqualified as peace broker
A member of the executive committee of Palestine Liberation
Organization (PLO), Ashrawi was careful in her words when she said ─
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| Hon. Hanan Ashrawi |
‘Israel is trying to empty the
process of the U.S.-sponsored peace negotiations before it is really launched’
“‘I don’t believe,’” she said, “‘that the Palestinians are
in need of meaningless negotiations with Israel.’”
Early this year veteran Arab journalist Nicola Nasser quoted
Hanan Ashrawi lamenting Palestinians’ experience of Washington’s empty words
and actual practice. “Our experience has been really tragic with this American
administration,” she said, an administration that “started with such high hopes
and tremendous promises [but] they backed down so quickly it was incredible.”
Ashrawi stated the obvious conclusion: “The U.S. has
disqualified itself as a peace broker.”
Sources and notes
“Throw the Bums Out” written by Philip Giraldi, August 8,
2013, Martin Sean Indyk (born July 1, 1951), http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/news/opinion-a-analysis/item/3099-throw-the-bums-out
Philip Giraldi is the executive director of the Council for
the National Interest and a former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and
military intelligence officer with several years work overseas in Turkey,
Italy, Germany, and Spain. His opinions on terrorism, intelligence, and
security issues appear regularly in various U.S. news sources and at antiwar.com
Giraldi is multi-lingual and holds academic credentials from degrees London and
Chicago universities.
“Kerry names ex-ambassador as U.S. envoy to
Israel-Palestinian talks─ US Secretary of State John Kerry has named
Washington’s former ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk, as the lead negotiator
for Israeli-Palestinian talks,” July 29, 2013, http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/07/29/316224/exenvoy-named-us-envoy-in-me-talks/
“The Palestinian delegation is led by chief negotiator, Saeb
Erekat; Tzipi Livni will represent the Israeli side. Major topics on the agenda
include the future of Israeli settlements on the occupied West Bank, the status
of al-Quds (Jerusalem) and the fate of Palestinian refugees.
The previous Palestinian-Israeli
talks were halted in September 2010 after Tel Aviv refused to freeze its
settlement activities in the West Bank. Palestinians are seeking to create an
independent state on the territories of the West Bank, East al-Quds, and the
Gaza Strip; and are demanding that Israel withdraw from the Palestinian
territories occupied in the Six-Day War of 1967. Tel Aviv, however, has refused to return to
the 1967 borders and is unwilling to discuss the issue of al-Quds.
“U.S., Israel agenda behind talks with Palestinians must be
exposed: Analyst,” August 13, 2013,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/08/13/318520/us-israel-agenda-must-be-exposed/
Jim W. Dean is managing editor and columnist for Veterans
Today, a military and foreign affairs journal. Dean’s current writing focuses on
national security, intelligence, black and ‘psy ops’, and military/Intel
history including personal video archives and the current wars.
“Palestinians distrust U.S. in Palestine–Israel talks:
Gallup poll,” August 7, 2013,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/08/07/317613/most-palestinians-distrust-us-poll/
“Palestinian officials slam Israel's decision to build 1,200
settlement units” (English.news.cn), August 12, 2013, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-08/12/c_125150594.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Indyk
“Palestinians Disqualify U.S. as Peace Broker ─ The ‘unbreakable alliance,’ which will be
confirmed by the upcoming visit of President Barack Obama to Israel, will
disqualify the United States as an honest broker of peace in the Arab – Israeli
conflict in Palestine, says a Palestinian veteran peace negotiator” by Nicola
Nasser, Global Research, February 22, 2013, http://globalresearch.ca/palestinians-disqualify-u-s-as-peace-broker/5323873
Nicola Nasser is a veteran Arab journalist based in Bir
Zeit, West Bank of the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.
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