Posted on 03/24/2015 6:48:01 AM PDT by Star Traveler
Former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker harshly criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the J Street conference in Washington on Monday, echoing White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough's comments earlier in the day.
Baker acknowledged his disappointment with "the lack of progress regarding a lasting peace," saying that the chances for a two-state solution diminished since Netanyahu's reelection last week.
Baker further slammed Netanyahu's "diplomatic missteps and political gamesmanship," saying that the prime minister's "actions have not matched his rhetoric," according to Politico.
Earlier in the day, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough offered a similar rebuke of Netanyahu – specifically the prime minister's claims that no Palestinian state would be established on his watch.
“We cannot simply pretend that those comments were never made,” McDonough told the conference.
Baker continued by claiming that hardliners on both sides are the biggest impediment to peace.
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Dang..is baker senile? That is disappointing..
He’s ALWAYS had that attitude towards Israel. Fortunately he wasn’t President!
No, Baker is playing with his inner anti-semite again. He’s a longtime first class Bush neocon arabist.
What a jerk. Shut op Baker. Your days are over.
It’s like the pro-Hitler German Bund speeches at Madison Square Garden in the 1930s. These vile scumbags need to be shouted down as the Jew-haters they are. The JStreet fraud gives them a “legitimate” platform to spew their hatred.
James Baker is 84 years old.
GO AWAY ALREADY. Couldn’t care less what he does, thinks, or says.
Who will POLITICObama go to next for an opinion BOB DOL(D)E?
Wait, James Baker is still alive?
Wasn’t it just last week that el jebster annouced that Jim Baker had been added to his “advisory staff”?
Who’s really running the latest Bush Inc. venture?
The reality: it was a Druze child murdered by PLO terrorists. Israel withdrew. Hizbollah filled the vaccum. And months later Hezbollah murdered 241 Marines in their Beirut barracks. James Baker should be rotting in a cell at Leavenworth for his treason.
Yeh I’m shocked to hear Baker slamming Israel.
This BS about a two state solution is crazy anyway. The last thing the world needs is another terrorist nation state. I’m in no rush to see the state of Palestine emerge.
He is working for Jeb.
Baker has always sided with Islam.
Baker has always sided with Islam.
It was Grandpa Bush’s white house and James Baker who first showed open hostility toward Israel.
It is a mercy that they are now too old to change their own diapers.
Is this Baker of the Arabist Carlyle Group?
Call these people out for anti-semitism!
Blacks aren’t the only citizens who need protection from racism!!
Levin Rips James Baker for Trashing Netanyahu and Israel
http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/michael-morris/levin-rips-james-baker-trashing-netanyahu-and-israel-0
I’m pretty sure Baker’s family has Lebanese roots although I’m having trouble with google finding anything. It would partly explain his animus towards all things Israeli.
Re: Baker being an anti Semite.
Not so much I think. Baker is a multi multi millionaire lawyer that has been on his knees in Bush living rooms for 30 odd years. The Bush’s are bought and paid for by the Saudis. Evidence of that is plentiful but just one is George intervening to let a couple dozen or so royals out of the US hours following 911.
So, Baker wants to look good at all times inside the Saudi Royal Palaces! Pure and simple!
Then, alone with Bibi in the middle of the Indian Ocean, he’s perfectly capable (morally vacant) of slapping him on the back and saying “atta boy”!
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