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Peace Process

Vote Obama, say Mid-East troublemakers Ross and Indyk


By Stan Goodenough
November 05, 2008

Two senior US Jewish diplomats who played key roles in pressuring Israel down the discredited land-for-peace road have strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president for the US.

Dennis Ross, formerly a top adviser on Middle East affairs to presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and now Obama's senior adviser on this volatile part of the world, has reportedly been telling Jewish communities around America to vote for the Democratic contender on November 4.

Martin Indyk, the British-born, Australia-raised former US ambassador to Israel was on the stump for Obama in Jerusalem last week.

Ross has himself blamed the utter failure of the Oslo Process on late PLO arch terrorist Yasser Arafat, who turned down Israel's 2001 Camp David offer of the cradle of Jewish civilization in favor of a second intifada.

Despite this Ross, who used to sit with Indyk at the YMCA restaurant on King David Street discussing how best to divvy up the Jews' historic homeland, remains solidly committed to the "two-state-solution" and is expected to renew pressure on Israel to go down that road if his candidate makes the White House.

In an interview run by the center-left The Jerusalem Post last week, Ross said he is "convinced that [Obama] will stand by Israel."

"Do I think that at the end of the day he will do whatever's necessary if Israel's threatened? I do," he added.

Just when "the end of the day" would come for this tiny nation on its postage stamp piece of land surrounded by hundreds of millions of people who hate the Jews and are vying with one another to wipe out Israel, Ross did not say.

Indyk, described by the far-left Israeli daily Ha'aretz as someone who has "made a career of Middle East diplomacy and support for Israel," was a special guest at the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Peres Center for Peace when he "spoke directly to widespread Israeli fears that an Obama White House would be less friendly than an administration run by his rival, John McCain."

In a November 1 article published on The Jerusalem Post website, Indyk expressed his belief that Obama "will be a real friend of Israel in the White House and that he will do his best to heal the world. I believe he has the intellect, judgment, temperament, character, and emotional instincts to be a great president for the United States, for the US Jewish community, and for Israel."

A recent poll of The Post readers found that 80 percent believe McCain would be better for Israel’s interests, against just 19 percent who put their faith in Obama. America's Jews, however, increasingly out of touch with their ancient homeland and their ancient people, prefer Obama over McCain by some 73 percent.

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