With the end of Michael Oren’s term of service as Israeli Ambassador to the United States, the government has tapped Ron Dermer as his successor, and a more controversial pick is hard to imagine.
Dermer is a long-standing Netanyahu ally, which surely was the deciding factor in his getting the position, but he is also considered a neo-conservative with close ties to US Republican leaders, and a history of pushing Netanyahu’s rivalry with President Obama.
Dermer was reportedly the driving force behind Israeli claims that Obama “snubbed” Netanyahu during the premier’s US visits, and also worked to convince Netanyahu that Governor Mitt Romney was certain to win the 2012 election, urging him to distance himself from Obama and cozy up to his presumptive successor.
His inclination to swing right in US partisan politics may make it difficult for him to insinuate himself into diplomatic circles for the remainder of Obama’s term, but even more disturbing are his policy positions within Israel, putting him well to the hawkish-right of even Netanyahu.
Israeli diplomats in the US are often tasked to convince Americans that Israel seriously wants peace and that the lack thereof is totally the Palestinians’ fault. Dermer will be a tough sell in that job, as an outspoken opponent of peace with the Palestinians who insists that “two states for two people” is a “childish” notion not even worthy of Israeli consideration.
America should just close that embassy.
Is its called the NEO cons artists. Some people call them Neo Conservative which is a better name for Neo fascism because there is no such thing as Neo conservatism, conservatism always been conservatism, so there is nothing Neo about them. But Neo fascism is indicating or explaining two matters involved in the words Neo-Fascist, which fascist idea is based on being a racist, as Israel government having all kind racial-apartheid matters in place in occupied land of palestinians and in terms of western governments economic as well as military acts against other nations is the modernized version of an old fascist. Iraq war is yet another example of the modernized version of Neo Fascism, the surveillance is another.
At home by creating a police state has changed and modernized to what it is surveillance and police brutality and etc.
This is a good thing. It will help end the pretense that Israel seeks peace. It will undermine AIPAC.
Good! The more blatantly the Israelis reveal to the world who they are, the sooner they will open the eyes of its citizenry. Supported by the MSM, they have been perpetrating the myth that they are "the only democracy in the region". Exposing them as the war mongering racists that they are should put paid to that lie. The victims of the Nazis have become worse than the Nazis.
Why are we supporting them again?
Because they pay well (with our own money) to get dual-passport holders into the US Congress? Just a guess…
Or perhaps they would label us all Antisemitic – though it is only the Israeli government and its policies we abhor…but they would still want us to send them the annual billion $$$ handout, of course.
Where is the American spring? I guess Egyptians are more liberty loving and free than the sheep in the US.
Israel has never intended there to be a two sate solution. It uses any and all means to steal more territory and property. The two state solution is a farce, serving simply as a deception to keep the money flowing in from the gullible US and EU.