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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas M. who wrote (5418)	7/8/2004 7:59:47 AM
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Dennis Ross, former U.S. envoy for 'peace process' now works for Jewish Agency and Israel. Mid-East Realities - MER - www.MiddleEast.Org - 7 July 2004: Remember now, this is the very same 'Ambassador' Dennis Ross whom the 'even-handed' Americans insisted be the top 'peace process negotiator' for a decade or so between Israel and the Palestinians. Remember as well that the much flaunted and constantly lied about 'peace process' Ross directed erupted in recent years -- as MER had predicted all along by the way -- into the worst mayhem and bloodshed ever. It also has brought worse than apartheid conditions to the Palestinian people and a great escalation in hatred and what the Americans love to simply call 'terrorism' regardless of causes, distinctions, places, and realities. And now, after immediately moving from the U.S. government payroll to that of Washington's powerful Israeli-jewish lobby -- with which he was formerly associated by the way -- Ross has gone to work directly for the Jewish Agency and the Israelis urging still more Jews worldwide to 'return to the promised land' and settle in 'the Jewish state'. The Jewish Agency, by the way, has existed since before the establishment of the Israeli state with the main goal of bringing Jews from whereever they might be to settle in what the whole world then called "Palestine"; and whether by design or result to displace the Arab Palestinian people who were living there. Historical responsibility needs to be pointed in the right direction now, especially in view of what has happened throughout the Middle East considerably as a result of U.S. and Israeli policies. There is no doubt, regardless of how much public officials deny it, that these policies have considerably fueled the still growing hatreds which have now spread throughout much of the world for the U.S., Israel, and yes, sad to say, for "the Jews". The tremendous propaganda machine that so hyped Ross and his nearly all Jewish-Zionist "negotiating team" has grown even bolder and more outrageously arrogant and deceitful in recent years. It has as well tragically succeeded for the time being at least in a near-total takeover of 'acceptible' commentary and discourse in official Washington. The American media will not, so others beyond American shores should start investigating much more deeply, reporting much more honestly, and exposing much more courageously all the lies and duplicities that are in fact the crucial backdrop to understanding today's historical conflagrations. For unless a major change in course comes about soon a catastrophic descent over a historical Niagara Falls may well lie ahead. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New institute plans Jewish future JESSICA STEINBERG Jewish Telegraphic Agency JERUSALEM - Dennis Ross, who served as Middle East envoy for the Clinton administration, is now handling an entirely different role with a think tank created by the Jewish Agency for Israel. Ross was front and center when the Policy Planning Institute for the Jewish People opened its doors May 14 in Jerusalem. The institute "will examine the challenges, threats, needs and opportunities" confronting Jews worldwide, the Jewish Agency said. It also will "deal with formulating policy for the Jewish people by promoting professional studies" and fostering "long-term strategic thinking." According to Ross, the newly appointed chairman of the institute's board of directors and director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, "We need to be thinking about the problems emerging down the road." A group that includes Ross, Jewish Agency Chairman Sallai Meridor and Hebrew University political science professor Yehezkel Dror has been planning the institute for more than a year. The group of 15 to 20 people - half from Israel, the rest from around the world - first gathered several times to talk about major issues facing the Jewish people, including Israel's changing demographics and issues of Jewish identity. The institute was first discussed before the Palestinian intifada began in September 2000. At the time, Jewish communal leaders were concerned with Israel's lack of long-term tools to plan strategically for the future. "We're a nation that excels in responding minute to minute," Meridor said. "But we need to also think and plan for the future." What emerged from the deliberations was a collective decision to create the institute, which will be funded with $1 million annually from the Jewish Agency, with additional funds expected from Jewish philanthropists. The think tank is being structured as a public, not-for-profit company. Issues expected to be researched first include Israel's demography, as the Arab sector grows faster than the Jewish sector; the cohesion of the Jewish people; collective action and its financing; information technology in Jewish affairs; and the Jewish nation's global standing. Ross said he decided to work for the institute because it was the least he could do "as a member of the Jewish people." "I wouldn't do it if I didn't think it was important," he said. "I think it will prove itself.'' - Jewish News of Greater Phoenix - May 17, 2002/Sivan 6, 5762, Vol. 54, No.35