Posted on 03/24/2015 10:22:49 AM PDT by SJackson
Jeb adviser James Baker to keynote J Street conference
Leading talk show host and best-selling author Mark Levin assailed Jeb Bush last night over the revelation that one of his top foreign policy advisers, James Baker, will keynote an anti-Israel conference this weekend.
The annual conference of the activist group J Street features an array of anti-Israel speakers, including proponents of the Boycott, Sanctions, and Divest (BDS) movement, which seeks Israel’s destruction, and advocates for the terrorist group Hamas.
Jeb Bush’s selection of Baker as a foreign policy adviser has sparked concern among conservatives and in the Jewish and pro-Israel communities. Baker is infamous for his hostility to Israel, having said during his tenure as secretary of state in the George H.W. Bush administration, “F—k the Jews, they don’t vote for us anyway.” Baker is also a supporter of President Obama’s Iran negotiations.
“Jim Baker, much like Barack Obama, has always had a hate on for Israel,” Levin said. “This antipathy toward Israel is well documented. Baker wanted the U.S. to punish Israel for destroying Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor [in a 1981 airstrike]. He hated Netanyahu as early as 1990, barring him from entering the State Department’s building. And last but not least, Baker co-wrote the Iraq Study Group’s 2006 paper that recommended among other things that the United States tilt its foreign policy away from Israel and toward Syria and Iran—advice that Obama seems to have taken to heart.”
“This is the guy, the leading advisor to Jeb Bush on foreign policy, who Jeb Bush asked to be his leading adviser, and now he’s the keynote speaker to this left-wing hate group J Street,” Levin said.
Update: Bush spokesman Tim Miller sent the following statement: “Governor Bush consults with a broad group of advisors, reflecting different views. The Governor’s own record on Israel is one of strong and unwavering support. When it comes to J Street, in particular, he firmly opposes lobbying groups whose actions undermine Israel’s efforts to defend itself.”
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Can't disagree with what Mark said.
Not at all.
Vis-à-vis his relationship with the base, Jeb seems unaware of the First Rule of Holes.
What kind of tricks are the Bushies up to? Why do the Bushies kep on picking folks from Daddy Bush’s administration?
What size DEPENDS is James Baker wearing? He is proof of the noxious Circle Jerk Washington DC is.
Because the CIA and Mideast oil connections are thicker than water.
Mr. niteowl77
Don’t forget the old Skull and Bones as well.
I didn’t know Jemes F The Jews Baker was still alive.
Alive and kicking. Got a new job.
This article is a White House plant.
Arab money talks loudly in both parties, and so long as it does, Arab rhetoric will never need to cool down.
Yeah, the White House forced Jeb and W and H Bush to associate with Baker. /s
Jeb looks like he hates Americans and people of Jewish faith.
Jeb Bush and James Baker. Same initials. Two pods in a pea.
Jeb’s great grandfather was a good friend of Hitler.
” having said during his tenure as secretary of state in the George H.W. Bush administration, “F—k the Jews, they don’t vote for us anyway.” “
Baker has denied saying this. Can anyone enlighten?
“Jeb’s great grandfather was a good friend of Hitler.”
I would ask for a source ...
Well, no Jeb Bush ... for sure ... just on that one basis!
James Baker slams Netanyahu’s ‘diplomatic missteps’ [Israel]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3271395/posts
Former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker harshly criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the J Street conference in Washington on Monday, echoing White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough’s comments earlier in the day.
Baker acknowledged his disappointment with “the lack of progress regarding a lasting peace,” saying that the chances for a two-state solution diminished since Netanyahu’s reelection last week.
Baker further slammed Netanyahu’s “diplomatic missteps and political gamesmanship,” saying that the prime minister’s “actions have not matched his rhetoric,” according to Politico.
Earlier in the day, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough offered a similar rebuke of Netanyahu – specifically the prime minister’s claims that no Palestinian state would be established on his watch.
“We cannot simply pretend that those comments were never made,” McDonough told the conference.
Baker continued by claiming that hardliners on both sides are the biggest impediment to peace.
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I don’t care if Baker was Chief of Staff for Reagan and a former Secretary of the Treasury ... in Baker’s past history in regards to Israel ... Baker is an ANTI-SEMITE. Obama and Baker would get along just fine in regards to their attitudes towards Israel ... AND ... in terms of their attitudes towards the “right” in terms of Israel! AND THEN ... Baker talking to J Street, well ... what else is necessary to know?!
We’ve had far far too much Jew- bashing and attacks and threats against Jews these last 6 years. There’s no way in Hell we will contribute to or vote for Mr Bush or anyone else that indicates any sympathy for more anti- Semitism or anti- Christian or anti- American bigotry
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