Israel lobby's fingerprints are all over #Republican letter to Iran but media won't talk about it

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https://mondoweiss.net/2015/03/israel-fingerprints-republican

Senator who spearheaded letter to Iran got $1 million from Kristol’s ‘Emergency C’tee for Israel’


The U.S. media have been sadly incurious about the origins of yesterday’s unprecedented Open Letter of 47 Republicans to the Iranian leadership seeking to block the president’s likely deal with Iran. The press has portrayed the letter as the work of Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, a 37-year-old freshman senator so new to the limelight that the New York Times got his name wrong on first impression. But as a Times commenter writes, “Does anyone really believe the ‘freshman senator from Arkansas’ wrote the letter? No.”

The media are all over the unprecedented nature of the letter — which informs Iranian hardliners that Obama’s likely deal with Iran is a “mere executive agreement.” Chris Matthews and Chris Hayes and Michael Steele on MSNBC last night all expressed outrage or surprise. Paul Waldman at the Washington Post calls the letter “stunning” and “appalling.” But apart from a passing reference to neocons from Matthews, no one is looking under the hood..................

[djean111]

1. This was my first thought, when I heard about the letter - Bibi was the first shot, the letter was

the second shot. Wonder what is next - false flag somewhere?

Bibi and the GOP and the MIC really really want war.

[father founding]

3. Thuo false flag too much

false flag's are getting old, people have caught on.

[djean111]

5. Yeah, but then we get to be called CTers and such. Which has lost its sting. If it ever had one.

The CIA is actually proud of its false flag efforts, methinks! All in the name of spreading corporatism, er, Democracy! Tactical!

That being said, blame for ISIS, etc., flying around - I do not think that anyone person or group of people can be blamed for the current Muslim unpleasantness. It is, I think, the nature of ANY religious beast, especially when wedded to power and money. I am just as scared of Mitt Romney and Ted Cruz and the Fundamentalists. Great name for a rock band, too!

[global1]

2. A Lot Of Focus On This Freshman Senator Cotton - But There Were Many Senior Senators Signed On....

to this letter that should have known better and either not signed on or killed the letter before it even got legs.

There is no excuse for a McCain, a McConnell or an Orrin Hatch to sign such a letter. That's inexcusable on their part. They should have taken Cotton by the scruff of his neck, sat him down and schooled him on the ways of the Senate and the Constitution and put him in his place as a newbie. He shouldn't have been allowed to even draft the letter and circulate it.

On the other hand - maybe they set him up. Maybe he was the patsy that they would use as a sacrificial lamb should the reaction to the letter go south. Perhaps they used him. Maybe it was part of his hazing as a freshman senator.

[bemildred]

4. They always double down. Never give an inch.

And that leads to the interesting question, what will they try next?

On the subject of the OP, who really makes these things happen, it is unlikely for example that Obama himself came up with the new follies we are pursuing with Venezuela, it reeks of the old school US foreign policy attitude towards "our back yard".

[djean111]

6. Yes, it does reek of that, doesn't it? How DARE Venezuela - or any other country in our back yard -

not just take orders from us! What is breathtakingly ironic (or something) is how much aid we give Israel and then we do Israel's bidding.

[Jefferson23]

7. I feel that way too about Obama and Venezuela and it surprised me. The AIPAC connection to the

Republican letter was a duh imo...what is there to doubt.

[bemildred]

8. Let me ask you this: Is it Obama's "style" to make absurd claims about the Venezuelan threat?

When he speaks in his own voice, as a politician, not the President, how does he sound?

Or would that be Neocon holdovers in the State Dept. who are worried about rising Chinese and Russian influence in Latin America? Whom does that threaten? People whose careers are built on treating it as our "back yard", with the emphasis on the possessive.

Obama has been relatively hands off in foreign policy, from what I can tell, not wanting to be a war President, (perhaps not feeling he knew enough to throw his weight around, and being no doubt well aware that his enemies would be watching like hawks) much to his sorrow I would say. But he has kept a leash on them so far.

[Jefferson23]

10. It's not his style, and this is my speculation too that his advisers are old school, as you

say...the neocons. They do the same, giving him bad advice on the break out theory with
Iran. Unsubstantiated and over used...and I can't ignore how much so the status quo
types have hounded him and interfered. For one, he is too smart to buy it, and he
is also not the boldest guy..yet, when push comes to shove, he wants this deal. I said so
awhile ago, if he wants this deal bad enough, he will fight back hard. I can only imagine
the language they use to try and persuade him otherwise..to me, this deal with Iran
begins to wash out the stench of our foreign policy that goes back decades..he is bucking
the system and as I said in another thread..they hate that. The Democrats for the most part
stood by him...despite their indebtedness and a rift with Israel they were not looking for.

With that said, my mouth dropped open when I read the press release on Venezuela.
I honestly don't get it..but agree, it does not sound like him. It makes no sense
to approach it this way..my question is, how come we're not helping them?

I am genuinely shocked over the Venezuela issue.

[bemildred]

9. Where the hell is John Negroponte these days anyway?

http://jackson.yale.edu/negroponte

[Jefferson23]

11. Mr Death Squad...everywhere he ever went. I can't even imagine parking my car

next to that man and feeling safe, figures he is at Yale, ack.