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Obama advisor: US Jews hinder peace
YNet ^ | Mar. 25, 2008 | Yitzhak Benhorin

Posted on 03/25/2008 7:11:52 PM PDT by Alouette

More trouble for presidential hopeful: Inquiry by conservative US media outlets reveals that Obama advisor Merrill 'Tony' McPeak is a longtime anti-Israel critic who slammed American Jews for acting against US interests

Yitzhak Benhorin Published: 03.26.08, 01:24 / Israel News

WASHINGTON - General Merrill "Tony" McPeak, Senator Barack Obama's military advisor and co-chair of his presidential campaign is a longtime anti-Israeli critic who has slammed Israel harshly during his career, according to an inquiry by conservative American media outlets.

McPeak, who served as the chief of staff o the US Air Force before retiring in 1994, made headlines over the past week after accusing former President Bill Clinton of McCarthyism. Yet as it turns out, over the years he has criticized Israel for failing to withdraw to the 1967 borders and charged American Jews were preventing American pressure that would lead to a Mideast peace agreement.

The examination of McPeak's career, undertaken by conservative magazine American Spectator among others, revealed that the general adopted a harsh anti-Israeli line in interviews he submitted to and articles he published. According to the magazine, beyond his affinity for alcohol, which saw him detained for drunk driving a year ago, McPeak also appears to take great pleasure in slamming Israel and pro-Israel Jews.

'Large vote in favor of Israel'

In an interview with The Oregonion about five years ago, McPeak argued that the influence exerted by American Jews is responsible for the lack of progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. According to the general the problem was New York and Miami.

"We have a large vote here in favor of Israel. And no politician wants to run against it," he said.

In the same interview, McPeak spoke of his personal experience with Israel.

"I've spent a lot of time in Israel, worked at one time very closely with the Israeli Air Force as a junior officer," he said, "but that's maybe the more cosmopolitan, liberal version of the Israeli population."

McPeak also charged that Jews and Christian Zionists manipulated American foreign policy in Iraq.

"Let's say that one of your abiding concerns is the security of Israel as opposed to a purely American self-interest, then it would make sense to build a dozen or so bases in Iraq," he said.

'Disturbing canard'

Following the latest revelations, the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) called on Obama to remove McPeak as his military advisor and national campaign co-chairman.

"By choosing to have a military advisor and national campaign co-chairman like General McPeak, serious questions and doubts are once again being raised about Senator Obama's positions and judgment on Middle East issues," said RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks.

"Rather than putting the blame where it belongs - on the Palestinian leadership and their continued reliance on terror, General McPeak finds it more convenient to blame American Jewry and their perceived influence," said Brooks. "This is the same dangerous and disturbing canard being promoted by the likes of Jimmy Carter and authors Mearsheimer and Walt in their book, The Israel Lobby."

"Senator Obama continues to surround himself with advisors holding troubling and disturbing anti-Israel bias," Brooks said. "We call on Senator Obama to immediately remove General McPeak from his campaign leadership role and as a key advisor."


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bhussein; hussein; israel; jewishcabal; jews; mcpeak; nobama; obama
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1 posted on 03/25/2008 7:11:53 PM PDT by Alouette
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To: 1st-P-In-The-Pod; 2ndDivisionVet; A_Conservative_in_Cambridge; af_vet_rr; agrace; Aiko; ...
FReepMail to be added or removed from this pro-Israel/Judaic/Russian Jewry ping list.

Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.

2 posted on 03/25/2008 7:12:24 PM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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To: Alouette

add me please


3 posted on 03/25/2008 7:14:11 PM PDT by proudCArepublican
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To: Alouette

Replace Obama with Osama and it still makes sense.


4 posted on 03/25/2008 7:14:37 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Alouette

Peace on Team Obama.


5 posted on 03/25/2008 7:15:24 PM PDT by RichInOC (...William Frank Buckley, Jr., November 24, 1925-February 27, 2008, R.I.P.)
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To: Alouette

And I thought Hillary was the worst-case-scenario.


6 posted on 03/25/2008 7:17:14 PM PDT by gitmo (From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
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To: Alouette

Uh-oh! Don’t tell me they goofed again!


7 posted on 03/25/2008 7:17:59 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Alouette

It’s very disappointing to find out that someone who appears to be an anti-semite was able to rise that far to the top in the U.S. Air Force. I guess you can’t catch ‘em all.


8 posted on 03/25/2008 7:19:02 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (How many more "scientists and researchers" can the taxpayers afford to support with Federal grants?)
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To: proudCArepublican
You have lost your mind. — High volume means high volume.
9 posted on 03/25/2008 7:19:05 PM PDT by edcoil (Go Great in 08 ... Slide into 09)
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To: Alouette

Obama’s Jewish problem is the gift that keeps giving for the GOP.


10 posted on 03/25/2008 7:19:27 PM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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To: Alouette
Well...look who popped out of Obama’s cuckoo clock !
11 posted on 03/25/2008 7:19:34 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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To: Alouette

Obama pretends he does not sympathize for Israel because he wants money from big Jewish donors.


12 posted on 03/25/2008 7:23:31 PM PDT by reagandissiple
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To: Alouette

The predictions of R. Meir Kahane are being fulfilled. Unfortunately.


13 posted on 03/25/2008 7:24:10 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Alouette

A Picture is worth a thousand words.

14 posted on 03/25/2008 7:27:18 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: Alouette

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15 posted on 03/25/2008 7:27:35 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: Alouette

Effing liar.


16 posted on 03/25/2008 7:31:04 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: Alouette
The biggest travesty is, a huge bloc of American Jews are more than willing to follow the Obama/McPeak/DNC Doctrine over the cliff to oblivion. I've never understood the mindset behind anyone who would embrace a philosophy that, in one way or the other, has been systematically trying to subjugate and/or destroy their bloodline and culture, all over the world, and across the centuries. And no, I don't need any look-down-the-nose, stuffed shirt lessons in theology or geopolitics. That's a constant that propagates the madness - hyperanalysis and zealous rationalization. On the face of it, it's lemming-like self-loathing.

Get off your knees, damn it!


17 posted on 03/25/2008 7:32:26 PM PDT by Viking2002 (I hope the AG pounds the Mann Act up Spitzer's ass with a sharp stick.)
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To: Alouette

bump


18 posted on 03/25/2008 7:36:37 PM PDT by VOA
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To: yldstrk; Alouette
yldstrk said: Effing liar. Explain yourself please, who is the effing liar you elude to?
19 posted on 03/25/2008 7:36:45 PM PDT by calex59
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To: calex59

Sorry—the liar is the one who says the Jews are at fault for the situation over there.....they have the one and only Democracy in the Middle east..I was so outraged I was not communicating very well.


20 posted on 03/25/2008 7:38:18 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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