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August 02, 2004 Kerry names new ME advisor John Kerry has named Martin Indyk as his new Middle East advisor. Its not going to be a popular choice in Israel. Indyk, per Front Page Magazine, is best known "for working for years to garner American support for Yasser Arafat and his terrorist regime." Again, according to the Front Page Magazine article: The very mention of Indyk, who served two stints as ambassador to Israel, sends shudders down the spine of senior members of the Israel defense and foreign policy establishment. For the past year, Indyk, in his new capacity as the head of the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution, has conducted a campaign to dispatch U.S. troops to intervene in the Middle East conflict. Indyk has gone so far as to say that the U.S. should sent troops or create a protectorate over the West Bank and Gaza. Such a step would place the U.S. in a virtual state of war with the Israeli army, which has always viewed some of the West Bank and Gaza as vital to the security concerns of the state of Israel. Of course we all know that if Kerry is elected we'd never send troops. No immenent threat to the US. And the Kerry Doctrine requires that. I wonder how that sets with Indyk. I guess Kerry had to name someone, with all the advisors he's been losing lately. Joe Wilson. Sandy Berger. Etc., etc ... |