"a hawkish dove"
What?
"Relentless player to push for Palestinian state; Hyannis-bred Rudman to join US envoy's team" by Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | May 19, 2009
WASHINGTON - She once yelled at an Israeli ambassador over Israel's arms sales to China....
Excuse me?
Many see Rudman's appointment as a sign that Obama intends to be exacting with both Israelis and Palestinians. "You need someone in that position who is willing to call a spade a spade," said Todd Deatherage, a former State Department official under former President George W. Bush.
A longtime figure on the progressive left, Rudman, who declined to comment for this article, is seen as a hawkish dove.... Raised in a Jewish family in Hyannis, she has the exact combination of steely determination and discipline needed to move the peace agenda forward across the minefields of opposition in Washington and Israel.
"Mara was the first student to get what I was doing," said Ian Lustick, a former State Department official who was studying how Israeli settlements might prevent the creation of a Palestinian state who served as an informal adviser to President George H. W. Bush when the White House held up $10 billion in US loan guarantees pending Israeli assurances that the money would not fund settlements.
WTF is with the BUSH (and Jewish) SOURCES, Globe?
Couldn't find ANYONE ELSE at all?
After college, Rudman took a job answering mail for Massachusetts Congressman Gerry Studds....
The NOTORIOUSLY GAY member of Congress who was having an affair with a PAGE? That Gerry Studds (why is Mass. so full of perverts)?
In 1986, Rudman traveled to Israel and the Palestinian territories for the first time, writing a research paper on civil rights lawyers who were fighting deportations and detentions of Palestinian activists. Most of the Israelis she met were more worried about the price of tomatoes than the treatment of Palestinians, whose frustration was about to explode into the first intifada, Rudman wrote in the Harvard Human Rights Yearbook in 1988.
Rudman graduated from Harvard Law School in 1990, and went on to work for two Washington powerhouses: Lee H. Hamilton, a former US congressman then chairman of the House International Affairs Committee and Sandy Berger, at the law firm Hogan & Hartson, who later brought her to serve as executive secretary at the National Security Council under Clinton.
Hamilton was also 9/11 Commission member, readers.
And wasn't Berger the one who stole and destroyed national security documents?
She played a minor role in Clinton's Mideast efforts, planning a package of US economic and military support that Israelis would need to sell a peace plan to their own public....
And she's also a former Clintonite, how nice! Whole cabinet is full of 'em; I didn't know we elected Hillary president, Obamer?
The lesson that Rudman seemed to take away was that the "US had to be more assertive about its own interests, and not be pushed around by either side," said Malley.
There is only ONE SIDE tha pushes us around -- because they pull the strings and call the shots in the Zionist-occupied territory of Washington D.C.
During the Bush administration, Rudman worked for the Cohen Group, which was hired by the Israel Policy Forum, a progressive Jewish group, to build support in the United States for a two-state solution. In 2007, she helped launched the Middle East Bulletin, a newsletter at the Center for American Progress, a liberal Washington think tank, that published writings by Mitchell.
Right, DOVISH ZIONISTS! Gimme a break!
And HOW the HELL are you going to get a STATE out of THIS?
Mitchell's three deputies will be David Hale, deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, focusing on political issues; Lieutenant General Keith Dayton, who has been training Palestinian forces, focusing on security; and Rudman, focusing on economics in addition to being chief of staff, according to State Department officials who asked not to be named since the announcements have not yet been made public.
The team, which plans to open an office in Jerusalem, also includes Fred Hof, a longtime Mitchell aide, focusing on Syria and Lebanon; Jonathan Prince, a former White House speech-writer, handling strategic communications; and State Department regional specialists Alon Sachar, Payton Knopf, and Gamal Helal.
Looks and sounds like the SAME OLD CROWD to ME!!!
But already there are grumblings from both the right and the left. Conservatives fear they will put too much emphasis on pressing Israel to stop settlements, while some liberals fear that Obama will shy away from dramatic changes.
Steve Clemons, director of the American Strategy Program at the Washington-based New America Foundation, says that the Obama administration - and Rudman herself - seem too wedded to supporting the moderate Fatah party, even as its popularity fades, while shunning Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza, a key part of any future Palestinian state.
And THERE is YOUR CHANGE, folks!
Rudman "thinks that a crush Hamas, reward Fatah approach moves us forward," Clemons said. "With all due respect to Rudman - and she deserves great respect - she is pushing a 'too much, too late' strategy that ultimately leaves the Israel-Palestinian situation paralyzed."
Translation: MORE of the SAME, despite Obama's flowery fart-mist in Cairo!
