Israel to keep new US security adviser busy (Susan Rice, Samantha Power)

The Jerusalem Post ^ | 06/05/2013 19:59 | JTA

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Susan Rice has said that a “huge” portion of her work at the United Nations was defending Israel’s legitimacy. Her new job will likely be no less Israel-centric.

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Rice has scored mostly high marks from Jewish groups for her defense of Israel at the United Nations, although right-wing groups were furious with her in 2011 when she condemned Israel’s West Bank settlement policies. She did so even as she cast a Security Council veto that nullified a resolution condemning the settlements.

In her new job, Rice isn’t likely to get an Israel break – particularly with Secretary of State John Kerry making a renewed push to bring Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table. The national security adviser consults with top Israeli officials about the peace process, as well as about the turmoil in the region and the potential of an Iranian nuclear threat.

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Still, Rice has enjoyed warm relations with the pro-Israel community, including from conservatives who have lauded her defense of Israel at the United Nations. Last month, she was honored by the American Jewish Committee with its Distinguished Public Service Award, saying in her acceptance speech that she regretted her mother was unable to attend.

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(Samantha) Power also has earned kudos from some conservatives for being a leading voice inside the White House for intervention during the turmoil roiling the Middle East, advocating forcefully for increased US assistance to Syrian rebels.

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Samanth Power

"Power joined the Obama State Department transition team in late November 2008, and was named Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights on the National Security Council—responsible for running the Office of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights—positions that she held from January 2009 to March 2013. In April 2012, Obama chose her to chair a newly-formed Atrocities Prevention Board. During her time in office, Power’s office focused on such issues as the reform of the UN; the promotion of women's rights and LGBT rights; the promotion of religious freedom and the protection of religious minorities; the protection of refugees; the campaign against human trafficking; and the promotion of human rights and democracy, including in the Middle East and North Africa, Sudan, and Burma. She is considered to be a key figure within the Obama administration in persuading the president to intervene militarily in Libya.[2]".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Power

Jewish Group Honors US Ambassador to UN (Susan Rice)
Arutz Sheva - Israel National News ^ | 5/14/2013 | Arutz Sheva staff
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019013/posts

[Sender]

Susan Rice doesn’t scare me, but Samantha Power does. She is an interventionist who believes in the responsibility of the US to save whichever side she likes in a conflict. She wanted to save the Libyan (al Qaeda) rebels, she wants to save the Syrian (al Qaeda) rebels, and she wants to save the poor, abused Palestinians (Hamas).

[Stepan12]

Ever see those poses she makes? She thinks she is so hot; however, she is not the Cindy Crawford or Stephanie Seymour she thinks she is. At most, she could pass for a second tier porn actress.

[Ben Ficklin]

"She is a interventionist"

Actually, she is a liberal interventionist, as opposed to being a conservative interventionist aka a republican NeoCon.

Generally, you would say that the liberal interventionist democrats and the NeoCon republicans are idealists, or Wilsonian idealists in that they both are big on humanitarianism, nation building, and spreading democracy.

OTOH the liberal interventionists are multilateralists while the NeoCons are unilateralists.

The neocons wanted to go into Libya unilaterally and the liberal interventionists insisted on going in multilaterally

After Obama made the decision to intervene in Libya, Bill Kristol proclaimed Obama to be a "Born Again NeoCon"

Two prominent Realists, Kissinger and Baker, warned that Libya could blow up in our face, which it eventually did(Benghazi).

[Sender]

I have come to the conclusion that you can’t impose western democracy from the barrel of a gun, and you can’t impose western democracy on any Islamic culture, period. The most we can hope to do by intervention is to kill the worst tyrants and dictators, realizing that the resulting vacuum will be filled by possibly even worse tyrants and dictators.