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Ex-Mid East Adviser: 'Combative' Rice Harmed Israel Relations
inn ^ | 10/8/15 | Ari Yashar

Posted on 10/08/2015 10:29:06 PM PDT by Nachum

Dennis Ross, who served as US President Barack Obama's Middle East adviser from 2009 to 2011, has revealed in a new book to be published next week that national security adviser Susan Rice is largely responsible for worsening ties with Israel amid the controversial Iran nuclear deal.

In his new book "Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship From Truman to Obama,” excerpts of which were posted by Politico on Thursday, Ross writes that Rice's "combative mind-set" made relations between Obama and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu even worse than they were.

For one thing, the ex-Middle East adviser reveals that Rice intentionally kept Israel uninformed on the progress in nuclear negotiations with Iran, despite great concerns in the Jewish state that the leading state sponsor of terror would use the deal to obtain a nuclear arsenal.

In another direct example of Rice's role, Ross writes that in 2013 she neglected to take any action to heal the rift after Obama called Netanyahu in 2013 with an openly hostile tone.

“Had Tom Donilon still been the national security adviser, he surely would have understood that there was a problem, and he would have immediately spoken to his counterpart,” Ross writes. “By contrast, there was no call from Susan Rice.”

Far from calling Netanyahu, Ross describes Rice as making a racial comment in delegitimizing Netanyahu's concerns

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2013; binyaminnetanyahu; bookdeals; dennisross; donilon; doomedtosucceed; iran; israel; jihad; kgb; lebanon; pages; patricelumumbaschool; politico; rice; russia; susanrice; tomdonilon; waronterror
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1 posted on 10/08/2015 10:29:06 PM PDT by Nachum
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2 posted on 10/08/2015 10:30:24 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum

Is this the same Susan Rice who said deserter Bergdahl served “with distinction”?


3 posted on 10/08/2015 10:42:43 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Nachum

Sounds like a variation of HNIC disease, probably the B variant...

LOL


4 posted on 10/08/2015 10:43:35 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: Nachum

0 hates Israel and he surrounds himself with like minded people .


5 posted on 10/08/2015 10:50:51 PM PDT by Lera (Proverbs 29:2)
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To: Lera

One has no Leftist Cred unless one hates Israel. This is the New Democrat Party.


6 posted on 10/08/2015 10:57:04 PM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: BlueStateRightist

Yep , they could not even hide their last convention.

Jerusalem And God Vote Gets Booed At Dem Convention
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/09/05/jerusalem_and_god_get_booed_at_dem_convention.html


7 posted on 10/08/2015 11:05:19 PM PDT by Lera (Proverbs 29:2)
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To: BlueStateRightist

Yet the Jews will still vote dem. I guess that make them dim dems.

Susan Rice is something I cannot say on a family forum such as this. Just know she is the lowest form of human one can be and still walk on land.


8 posted on 10/08/2015 11:10:51 PM PDT by Boomer (Politically Incorrect and proud of it. Liberalism and Islam Share a Mental Disease of Corruption.)
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To: Nachum

She is infamous for having Shi’ite for brains..


9 posted on 10/08/2015 11:29:25 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Nachum

From what I understand, this is how she ran her desk during the Clinton administration when she was an undersecretary for African affairs. A woman of many admirable qualities, but with a self-righteous arrogance that undercuts all of them. The sort of person who will implement something that SHE knows is right, without input from anyone else.


10 posted on 10/08/2015 11:56:25 PM PDT by tanuki (Left-wing Revolution: show biz for boring people.)
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To: tanuki

See NPD, Narcissitic Personality Disorder as well as Borderline Personality Disordser

Seems like qualifiers for Obamas Administration regardless of which team you are claiming this day


11 posted on 10/09/2015 12:11:57 AM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: Nachum

‘Ross writes that Rice’s “combative mind-set” made relations between Obama and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu even worse than they were.’

The virulently anti-Semitic and pro-Moslem Obama didn’t need any help, thank you.

He was perfectly capable of destroying US relations with Israel on his own.


12 posted on 10/09/2015 12:22:14 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Nachum

They just can’t bring themselves to blame Obama, can they? Susan Rice’s job was to do carry out Obama’s policies.

Donilon... *spit*


13 posted on 10/09/2015 1:50:02 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Nachum

Dennis Ross, pointing fingers at Susan Rice? That’s rich... Dennis Ross of Directive 10,11 fame?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3298069/posts


14 posted on 10/09/2015 1:55:41 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Nachum
“Had Tom Donilon still been the national security adviser, he surely would have understood that there was a problem, and he would have immediately spoken to his counterpart,” Ross writes. “By contrast, there was no call from Susan Rice.”

Really? Tom Donilon?

JUNE 13, 2013 : (ON THE SAME DAY THE OBAMA ADMIN ANNOUNCES PLAN TO ARM SYRIAN REBELS, OBAMA NAT SEC COUNCIL STAFFERS [See TOM DONILON] MEETS WITH QARADAWI ASSOCIATE SHEIKH BIN BAYYAH [See IUMS]) .--------------- EXCLUSIVE: Deputy of banned suicide-bomb-endorsing cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi had White House meeting with National Security Council staff, Daily Mail UK ^ | June 25, 2013 | David Martosko

15 posted on 10/09/2015 2:32:20 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Nachum

Another affirmative action wonder whose worldview is shaped by a chip on her shoulder.


16 posted on 10/09/2015 3:46:09 AM PDT by exPBRrat
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To: Nachum

The problem Patriotic Americans have is that when our elected and appointed officials do not act in the best interests of the USA or the American people, we have no legal recourse until the next election.

For example, despite numerous outrageous violations of the public trust, massive abuses of their fiduciary responsibility, intentional serial abuses of executive authority and continuing violation of the US Constitution, no one has been able to lay a hand on Obama or any member of the LIEberal thugs he surrounds himself with!

Somehow, someway, Obama and his LIEberal thugs need to be stopped!

I wish I were smart enough to answer my own question: How do we stop them?


17 posted on 10/09/2015 4:40:26 AM PDT by Taxman (H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.)
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To: Nachum

she is a black woman and there fore superior to a white old man from Israel

gender and color trump nationality


18 posted on 10/09/2015 4:42:46 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump)
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To: Nachum
Good morning.

Between Rice, Powers and 0bama, there's a whole lotta antisemitism going on.

5.56mm

19 posted on 10/09/2015 4:52:08 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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20 posted on 10/09/2015 6:54:36 AM PDT by SJackson (Everybody has a plan until they get hit. Mike Tyson)
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