If they sound like Jewish law firm, it’s not entirely accidental.
James Steinberg: has argued pre-emptive wars can be useful
These guys are the recently-appointed deputies to Hillary Clinton at the US State Department. Their brief is to manage US foreign policy and the institution primarily responsible for its implementation, subject to direction from the Secretary of State herself and President Obama.
Why do this Hillary? Why choose – as your deputies – not one, but TWO Zionist Jews? Both are men who at the very best have dual loyalties. Given the behaviour of some of their predecessors, both must be under suspicion from the outset for having a primary loyalty to the State of Israel.
The days when such blatant acts of Zionist bias might pass largely unnoticed and generally uncommented have gone. This latest outrage may backfire on the US Jewish community, whose approval, presumably, was the key objective of the nominations. With these men running the State Department, if things go badly wrong in foreign affairs and national security during Obama’s Presidency, Jewish Americans may well attract genral opprobrium. Coming so soon after the brazen dominance of Jewish neocons in the Bush Administration, it’s dangerous stuff.
Without claiming any prior knowledge of these individuals, a cursory Google search turns up enough in five minutes to rule both appointees out, on first principles.
In 2005, James Steinberg co-authored an article in the LA Times, entitled Preventive war, a useful tool. He wrote (emphasis added):
It would be unfortunate if President Bush’s doctrine of preemption were a casualty of the Iraq war. We should avoid waging unilateral preventive wars of regime change. But circumstances will probably arise in which the option of using force preventively should be available – whether to kill terrorists, prevent weapons proliferation, halt genocidal killing or stop the spread of deadly disease. The task is to make the idea a more limited and more legitimate tool for dealing with new security threats.
Jacob Lew does not seem to have a foreign policy background at all. The New York Times profiled him in November of last year (emphasis added):
Jacob Lew: yet another Israel-firster running the US State Department?
Being considered for: A variety of domestic policy jobs.
Would bring to the job: Extensive experience in the White House and on Capitol Hill; intimate knowledge of the substance and politics of federal programs, the budget process and appropriations.
None of these issues seem to been of the slightest concern to the US Senate, who confirmed both appointments without a formal vote.
Meanwhile, a recent AP report that Mr Steinberg has investments in Israel Bonds attracted a lively discussion at Mondoweiss but more snores from the Washington establishment.
Apparently it’s OK to invest in apartheid if you run the State Department. Just as long as you declare it.
