Chuck Schumer has basically taken credit but as I reported for the Daily Beast, the Freeman hit was an Israel Lobby job from start to finish, originating on the blog of accused spy and former AIPAC director Steve Rosen,who now works for neocon Daniel Pipes. I will be on Al Jazeera English at 10:15 PM tonight to discuss the resignation. It is not receiving much coverage from the mainstream press — they don’t want to talk about the Lobby? — but it is extraordinarily significant. I consider the withdrawal it the first major setback of the Obama administration’s foreign policy.
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This is a major setback for Obama, you are spot on.
Max, can you get a quote or statement from Obama himself about this? It’s a disgrace the way the Israel Lobby extremists, are allowed to run our foreign policy.
Do you know who the replacement may be?
Obama may yet pull a genius move, in that he may bring in someone more gutsy and able to stand up to the Lobby.
Can you find out who the replacement will be and better still get an interview from the top.
This is an outrage.