The so-called Jenin massacre, quickly revealed to be nothing more than a Palestinian propaganda hoax, was an abject lesson regarding the reflexive anti-Semitism practiced by the “blame Israel first” crowd, including substantial numbers of mainstream journalists. Ms. Power’s framing of the question is curious. Her concern with “war crimes” seems to indicate an assumption that even though Israel was innocent of massacre, it was Israel, not the Palestinians who were guilty of war crimes. It is difficult to imagine another scenario in which the order of the headlines would be so important to her.
In 2007, Ms. Power, who was Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, gave an interview concerning the Iraq War during which she criticized Israel yet again, claiming America’s relationship with the Jewish State “has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics[.]” If that sounds familiar, it’s because it echoes the popular anti-Semitic notion that the U.S. is utterly beholden to Israel and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
The appointment of Ms. Power to the Atrocities Prevention Board represents another big step in the political comeback of the woman who was forced to resign from Mr. Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign when she referred to Hillary Clinton as a “monster” capable of “stooping to anything” in an interview with the Scottsman. In 2009, she was appointed to her current director position, and her influence apparently grew when she became the president’s chief advisor with respect to Libya.
One can argue about the pros and cons regarding regime change in Libya, but the initial rationale behind it was exactly the kind of “humanitarian intervention” embraced by Ms. Power. Unfortunately, like much of this administration’s foreign policy, naivete became a viable substitute for reality. We did not so much “prevent genocide,” as precipitate the very same kind of regime change that has enabled the rise of Islamist hard-liners throughout the region, none of which accrues to the national security interests of the United States.
Furthermore, the rationale near and dear to Ms. Power’s heart, aka “responsibility to protect,” given teeth by United Nations Resolution 1973, passed on March 17, 2011, grants the international community the responsibility to “help protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity.” In an essay supporting the creation of the Atrocities Prevention Board, Ms. power notes that Mr. Obama was the “first president to establish a position at the White House responsible for policy on war crimes and mass atrocity.” The administration would like Americans to believe that yet another czar — one whose understanding of “genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity” may be colored by the kind of moral equivalence Ms. Power has expressed — is a good thing.
“Any intervention is going to come under fierce criticism,” Power concluded in 2002. “But we have to think about lesser evils, especially when the human stakes are just becoming ever more pronounced.”
Lesser evils? As defined by whom? It behooves Americans in general, and Jewish Americans in particular, to find out — before the 2012 election.
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Anti-Semites abound in this administration!!
A despicable prospect to hear again that woman talking about to create a mammoth force to protect Palestine from genocidal Israel… Only the Audacity of Hope can be your presentation card for this incredible nonsense. This show a new obsessive step of Soros- Obama anti Israeli hate, so antisemitic as always. What is wrong with this people unable to improve knowledge over their prejudices. Hands off Israel Samantha! The world is watching you and is not going to allow you to fabricate your Middle East genocide by design.
islam is the phony faith of death…it will never be at peace with Israel or any other country that doesn't proclaim mohammed the phony prophet of islam. They will never live in peace…even in America. Wake up people ..your life
and country and faith…even if its leftism… is at stake.
Just how many of these Czars and so-called advocates are we the taxpayers supporting? How much $$$ is going to this government within our government?
Islam, Sharia law, honor killings are against women.(plus other atrocities), how could any women in her right mind support such a religion, I just answered my own question, she isn't in her right mind.
Just make sure you vote on Novemeber 6th. Clean out the White House!!
What is missing from the "thoughts" of this appalling woman is that Israel is guided by and restrained by Jewish morality. THAT is why the Palestinians have not been wiped out long since. Imagine, for instance, if Russia had won the 6-day war. Do you think that the losers would be a thorn in their side 40+ years on? Or if the Chinese had won that war. Or if the roles were reversed and the Arabs had won that war.
Although I know it would invite international ridicule, I still think that Israel is making a mistake by not openly claiming that it is guided and restrained by Jewish morality. After the laughter died down, after the snide remarks by Maureen Down had dried on the page, after Gunter Grass had written another poem, what would be left? The fact that it is true! Israel has a citizen army. After a war, its soldiers go back to their families,their parents, their wives, their children. They go back to a society whose moral principles are the foundation of Western civilization.
Why not say so? The feminists were right about at least one thing: if something is not acknowledged, then it doesn't exist.
She went to the Kennedy School.
What do you expect?
This reminds me of a story that reflects how nations view matters. When WW II broke out, there was a meeting of the irish government. They decided that the country would be neutral. Then one person asks, "Who are we neutral against?"
If foreign policy, you have to make a choice.. Since September 11, 2001, I have to admit that I could not care less if some moslems are massacred somewhere. That is the world we live in.
You just know ms powers would not consider the mass killings of jew and christains to be genocide.
Funny you should bring that up, since Samantha Power is from Ireland.
Jew-hating Obama appoints Jew-hating Samantha Powers.
No surprise here. They are 2 very ugly people.
There is genocide going on right now in Sudan, Syria….starvation, squalor and death in Somalia, and constant terror and death in Afghanistan, Iraq and Egypt…but these idiotic committees do nothing, say nothing and stop none of the atrocities….they are just paper pushers and talking heads on TV.
Judge Obama by his detestable actions, appointing people who would fit nicely in and SS uniform
to one of his phony human rights humbugs shows his contempt for not only Jews but America and
all people of good will. He is the ultimate false person and acts with evil intent, see him through
who he has empowered and what they would and can do. Before he can create any more destruction
and turn our world into a litteral battlefield he must be removed from the Presidency where he
disgraces every American that ever lived and gave for righteous freedom, appointments like this
one of Samantha Powers literally spits in our face while undermining all we hold of value……William
I'm wondering something. Did Samantha Power and Schlockmotion or any of the usual Jew hating swill which pop up on this site ever date? It sound like these people have similar views about Israel.
Those psychopaths are not even capable of love or passion.
Happy Birthday, Israel. Praise God for the fulfillment of His promises to bring His people home and to make you a nation in a day. http://483years.blogspot.com/
AIPAC is not too big to fail. I am always amused when someone speaks candidly about how we really think about Israel, that Israel and Palestine are two equally sized, equally obnoxious pests that are supposed to be hammering out a peace deal, but BOTH want to keep sabotaging it until the end of time. It is unremarkable the vast quantity of people, myself included who think we should just go hammer on both of their heads, smash up all their stuff and evenly distribute the pieces between them. Jews freak out when Americans talk about Israel the way Israel talks about Palestine, or Iran. They know deep down that we think that way, and still, they chip away at opportunities, at patience, and at time, knowing instinctively that one poke will be too far and either someone will end up shoving peace up their rear ends really hard, or simply do an end run around their Lobby and leave them in the dust.
"I am always amused when someone speaks candidly about how we really think about Israel, that Israel and Palestine are two equally sized, equally obnoxious pests that are supposed to be hammering out a peace deal, but BOTH want to keep sabotaging it until the end of time."
Who is "we"? You mean depraved leftists, of course. No one else thinks that way, except the Nazis.
Apparently you aren't bright enough to comprehend the entire article or understand that moronic Leftist equivalencies don't survive the scrutiny of logic. israel defending itself isn't remotely equivalent to firing rockets at civilians from Gaza, but I guess that is too complicated for your meager intellectual facility.
Maybe someone can hammer your head until you understand simple logic. I'll refrain from countering your moronic theories on imposing peace. You don't merit the time I have already wasted.
You presume that "rightists" are all Christian Zionists. There is nothing inherent in right wing politics that says Israel is a sacred cow. You are one of those people that uses the term "leftist" to mean someone who is "bad for the Jews" though. Your repeated reference to intellect and logic marks you as a university system parasite. By intellect and logic you mean cheap sophistical discourse a la religious evangelism. Very Campus Crusade of you. Very 1990s.
You're not a "rightist," troll. You've left too many alinskyite spots on this board to infer that. Get lost already.
Where would you be if someone only slightly more intelligent than yourself hadn't written the word "alinskyite" somewhere?
The question is where would you be? I don't live by his rules, you do.
Oh yeah? What are Saul Alinsky's rules? I never studied them.
You never studied anything at all then. Just do what you're said by your senior comrades.
You're ready for the HUAC now.
This is so lame, you're way over your head even for a troll, troll.
Of course Barry (our ILLEGAL PRESIDENT) will have a radical like Power to advise him just like he had the Jew and white hating "Rev" Wright advise him. And Jews voted for this freak.
The President is only "illegal" according to the ravings of that lunatic, Orly Taitz.
She pretends to be a human rights activist but yet she orders invasion under the cover of " demending human rights"..
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