Commentary by Dr. Patrick Slattery — Like a fair number of high-ranking Jewish officials in the U.S. government, Martin Indyk is foreign born and was not required to give up his chief loyalty to the Jewish tribe when naturalizing to U.S. citizenship. (The same could be said for former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Madeline Albright, former Fed Chairman Arthur Burns, and incoming Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer.) Indyk’s recent comments critical of Israel’s settlement expansion in what is left of Palestine are being spun as a “U.S. official scolding Israel” and will be ceased upon by some as evidence that the American dog wags the Israeli tail. However, nothing could be further from the truth.
Indyk openly states that Israels future as a Jewish state is important to him. As a Jewish tribalist, Indyk is concerned that Israel is biting off Palestinian territory faster than it can chew it, and that it could result in a situation in which Israel annexes lands with millions of Palestinians that it has no intension of assimilating or offering even a fig leaf of minority rights to.
So this is not a matter of a U.S. official opposing Israel’s project of ethnically cleansing the Palestinians from the lands they have inhabited for countless generations. It is a matter of one Jewish supremacist telling another not to eat too fast or it will get indigestion. Indyk wants the same thing as Netenyahu, but feels that a bit of patience will produce better results.
Indeed, there has long been a divide between Jewish supremacists with a reckless abandon and those who feel that the tribe’s wealth and power are better served by a more subtle and gradual approach, one that will be less likely to awaken the slumbering goyim that they are exploiting. Indyk, pictured in profile below with former Israeli Prime Minister Olmert, is in the latter camp. –ps
US envoy: Israel to lose ‘Jewish future’ over settlement
(from PressTV)
US special envoy for the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, Martin Indyk, has blamed Israel for the collapse of the talks, saying Israel could lose its “Jewish future” if it refuses to freeze its settlement activity.
“If you care about Israel’s future, as I know so many of you do and as I do, you should understand that rampant settlement activity – especially in the midst of negotiations – doesn’t just undermine Palestinian trust in the purpose of the negotiations; it can undermine Israel’s Jewish future,” Indyk stated Thursday at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy’s annual forum.
The US-brokered negotiations fell apart last month over Israel’s settlement activity and its refusal to free Palestinian prisoners.
Indyk stressed that Israel’s refusal to freeze plans for new settlement constructions during the latest round of talks had a “dramatically damaging” effect, adding that it was only “intended” to have that effect.
“I can tell you firsthand that that had a very damaging effect,” Indyk said. “And by the way, it was intended to have that damaging effect.”
Indyk’s remarks echoed leaked comments by Secretary of State John Kerry who warned last month that Israel could become “an apartheid state” if the so-called peace talks with the Palestinians failed.
Meanwhile, Mahmoud Abbas, acting Palestinian Authority chief, said Thursday he would resume the talks only if Israel released political prisoners and halted settlement expansions.
At a meeting with US National Security Adviser Susan Rice in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, Abbas reiterated his commitment to efforts to establish a Palestinian state on all lands occupied in 1967 with East al-Quds (Jerusalem) as its capital.
Over the nine months of talks, Israel approved around 14,000 new settler units in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds.
