Marathon Pundit: Obama campaign has another anti-Israel adviser: UPDATED

Friday, April 25, 2008

Obama campaign has another anti-Israel adviser: UPDATED

Here's the pattern: Someone Obama associates with, a Jerehmiah Wright, a Bill Ayers, a Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Rashid Khalidi, each of whom has controversial views. Then Obama, usually through a spokesman, will say the senator does not share the views of that person.

But these people, some recently, some not so, continue to pop up in the vicinity of the leader of the Cult of Change.

Ed Lasky writes in today's American Thinker:

Commentary Magazine Gabriel Schoenfeld has noted that another Obama adviser, Joseph Cirincione, seems to have anti--Israel views. His senior aide on nuclear non-proliferation had denounced reports that North Korea had been helping Syria build a nuclear reactor and said such reports were nonsense and were, in part, promoted so as to derail talks with Syria.

Cirincione had written after Israel's strike against the suspected Syrian nuclear plant that stories about it being a North-Korean designed and built plutonium reactor was a lie - a fiction being spread just as reports had been spread before the Iraq War that misled the press regarding Iraq's program. Schoenfeld writes:

Who was behind this nefarious manipulation? It appears, wrote Circincione, "to be the work of a small group of officials leaking cherry-picked, unvetted 'intelligence' to key reporters in order to promote a preexisting political agenda.” What exactly was that political agenda? "[I]t appears aimed at derailing the U.S.-North Korean agreement that administration hardliners think is appeasement." There was also a dose of Zionist mischief thrown in: "Some Israelis want to thwart any dialogue between the U.S. and Syria."

Based on evidence shown to Congress today, there is now incontrovertible proof that the building bombed by Israel was a plutonium producing reactor that was geared towards the production of material for nuclear weapons - exactly what Cirincionne had previously dismissed as lies, in part, cooked up by Israelis trying to influence America's foreign policy.

This tendency to blame and castigate Israel was not the first time for Joseph Cirincione. He seems to have a penchant for targeting Israel for opprobrium