Uzi Arad in Washington
So controversial Netanyahu aide Uzi Arad has been in Washington this week, doing advance work for his boss's upcoming visit with Pres. Obama.
From June 2007 until this week Arad was barred from visiting the US, given his role in running the spy ring involving convicted spy Larry Franklin in which former AIPAC officials Steve Rosen and Kenneth Weissman were also implicated. Long-outstanding charges brought against Rosen and Weissman were recently dropped by the FBI.
I imagine no-one in the administration was very keen to share any actual secrets with Arad on this latest visit. So what would have been the point in sending him? Just to jab a finger in Washington's eye, I guess.
I would love to know who Arad met with in Washington, and what the back-story is regarding him getting this long-denied visa.
From June 2007 until this week Arad was barred from visiting the US, given his role in running the spy ring involving convicted spy Larry Franklin in which former AIPAC officials Steve Rosen and Kenneth Weissman were also implicated... So what would have been the point in sending him? Just to jab a finger in Washington's eye, I guess.
Not Washington's eye, in every American citizen's eye. The message is clear :
"You think your government works for you? Suckers! It works for us! We own it chumps... bought it with your money! Ah, ha ha ha! So what are you gonna do about it, huh?"
What are we gonna do about it?
Dear Helena Cobban,
You asked :"what would have been the point in sending him? " .Let's give peace a chance for a CHANGE.
There is a peace plan ready to go :
A United States of Israel and Palestine - USIP,outlined in www.hopeways.org, which received the blessings from the late leaders : Rabin and Arafat.
So, may I quote from the book :
PAX OBAMA (back cover):
"Open your eyes, baby
and listen and hear
the crowd ,the people
and feel the vibration
of a brighter future.
Hand (Obama)in hand will make
this world a better one with love."
Ervin
So Uzi Arad gets a visa but Tariq Ramadan STILL can't? What a wonderful country we are.
What Arabs and Muslims will still face after the much ballyhood Obama speech, following Bibi's visit to DC, to the Muslim world are the tanks, helicopters, guns, drones that are US made and used by both Israel and the US as witnessed in the video linked at;- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2451908450811690589
Viewer discretion advised.
If nothing wrong was done, why is Franklin still in prison? If something wrong was done, why were the AIPAC two let off the hook and why is Arad in DC?
This is typical Obama, splitting the difference, but in such away that whoever he considers powerful gets the advantage. Obama sucks up to AIPAC and Israel and sticks it to Franklin. That is a typical Obama outcome.
If nothing wrong was done, why is Franklin still in prison? If something wrong was done, why were the AIPAC two let off the hook and why is Arad in DC?
This is typical Obama, splitting the difference, but in such away that whoever he considers powerful gets the advantage. Obama sucks up to AIPAC and Israel and sticks it to Franklin. That is a typical Obama outcome.
"I would love to know who Arad met with in Washington..."
I'll bet the FBI know.
I'm amazed at how little information there is available about Arad getting his visa re-instated. Oh wait, not I'm not. I wonder why the administration doesn't want this info. out their for mass consumption?
There is nothing, nada, zip, zilch on this in the US media.
Allowing Uzi Arad back into the US makes Obama look weak, regardless of what his "tone" is with respect to Israel. At the end of the day, not all that much has changed from Team Bush.
Arad met with Jim Jones at the NSC
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1086069.html