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2020-01-16 Home Front: Politix
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Obama’s Middle East policy team has a new home – in Elizabeth Warren’s campaign
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 [IsraelTimes] Campaign consultants’ views on brokering peace distinguish the candidate from rivals Bernie Sanders
...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
and Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.' ...
. Much of Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren
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...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless...
’s presidential campaign narrative subtly casts her as the anti-Obama, the potential president who will not broker sweetheart deals for big business.
That was the subtext ‐ actually it was the overt text ‐ of a buzzy Politico magazine article in September titled "’Why Are You Pissing In Our Face?’: Inside Warren’s War With the Obama Team." It chronicled tensions at the beginning of Barack Obama
My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it ...
’s first term, when Warren, then a Harvard law professor, was the most prominent critic of the bailout championed by the president.
It’s been a narrative useful to the Massachusetts senator as she vies with Sen. Bernie Sanders to be the no-compromise candidate the party’s left is dreaming about.
But there was a hiccup in the anti-Obama narrative last month when reports emerged that Obama was "talking up" Warren in private conversations with donors.
Now a CNN story on Warren’s foreign policy team reveals that her Middle East policy advisers are nearly all Obama-ites.
As the story notes, Warren has been uncharacteristically silent about her foreign policy, delivering only one speech and an article about it in the year or so she’s been campaigning. She fumbled at an October debate on a foreign policy question when she readily agreed with another candidate, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, saying "I don’t think we should have troops in the Middle East."
Warren later backtracked, and an aide told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that she was referring only to combat troops. But the impression remained that she was not deeply immersed in the issue.
It didn’t help that the same month she told J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group, that she was ready to leverage aid to Israel to pressure the country into compliance with US policy ‐ but was short on details.
Her campaign consultants, as outlined in the CNN story, offer a clearer picture and distinguish Warren from two of her main rivals for the Democratic nomination, Sanders and Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.' ...
, the former vice president.
Among them is Ilan Goldenberg, who helped shape Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
policy under Obama. Goldenberg later was chief of staff to Martin Indyk, who tried to broker a Middle East peace deal in 2013-14. Warren also is talking with Hady Amr, Indyk’s deputy during that doomed peace deal attempt.
They join a raft of Gen-Z foreign policy wonks who served under Obama.
Here are some takeaways from the revelations in the CNN article:
Assistance to both Israel and the Paleostinians: Warren’s pledge to J Street to consider cuts to Israel assistance notwithstanding, Goldenberg and Amr are steeped in an understanding of Middle East peace brokering that uses American carrots, and not sticks, for both sides.
Indyk and Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, unsuccessful presidential candidate, and utterly failed Secretary of State...
went out of their way to offer Israelis incentives for sticking with the talks, notably including US investment in defense infrastructure in the West Bank to assuage Israeli concerns about ceding any security control in the region.
That process was packed as well with economic incentives for the Paleostinians ‐ Amr’s brief. That’s consistent with the Warren pledge to resume the assistance to the Paleostinians that President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
has eliminated.
The anti-Biden: Biden has taken on board as senior advisers wonks like Tony Blinken and Nicholas Burns. Blinken held senior posts in the B.O. regime, but got his start on President Bill Clinton
...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is ...
’s National Security Council. Burns was a career diplomat through the Reagan, Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.
Those are resumes that reflect the last vestiges of the post-World War II vision of an expansive US role on the planet. Warren’s consultants, by contrast, are more identified with Obama’s retreat from using US military power as leverage. They have a harder-nosed outlook of the limits of US influence, but at the same time repudiate the "America first" isolationism that Trump has come to embody.
The anti-Sanders, too: Goldenberg, Amr and Warren’s other consultants are nonetheless seasoned executive branch diplomats and policymakers.
Sanders, typical of his brand, is taking advice from activists and thinkers he has recruited from outside the Democratic establishment. His top foreign policy adviser, Matt Duss, for a time was the president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, which has as its focus two-state advocacy and is sharply critical of Israel policy in a way that Democrats until recently were not. 
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