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🔹US Secretary of State 🇺🇸🔹
🔹James Baker and Israel 🇮🇱 🔯🔹
“James Addison Baker III (born April 28, 1930)is an American 🇺🇸 attorney, diplomat and statesman. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 10th White House chief of staff and 67th United States secretary of the treasury under President Ronald Reagan and the 61st U.S. secretary of state before returning as the 16th White House chief of staff under President George H. W. Bush.”
🔹US Secretary of State 🇺🇸🔹
🔹James Baker and Israel 🇮🇱 🔯🔹
“James Addison Baker III (born April 28, 1930)is an American 🇺🇸 attorney, diplomat and statesman. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 10th White House chief of staff and 67th United States secretary of the treasury under President Ronald Reagan and the 61st U.S. secretary of state before returning as the 16th White House chief of staff under President George H. W. Bush.”
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“Secretary of State James A. Baker is surely one of the most reviled public figures both in Israel 🇮🇱 and among American Jews.🔯 In 1991 he became the first American official to negotiate directly and officially with Palestinians 🇵🇸 and the first senior U.S. official to leverage American aid to Israel in an attempt to halt Israeli settlements. He played a leading role in forcing Israel to attend the Madrid Peace Conference (October 1991), which ultimately failed to yield results, and he sought to launch a second Mideast peace initiative, the “Madrid 2 Conference,” while excluding Israel from participating.
He demanded that Israel negotiate with a Palestinian delegation consisting of Palestinians deported from East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and he publicly supported the Palestinian “right of return,” which would effectively end the Jewish state. Throughout his tenure, he did whatever possible to create distance between the Bush administration and Israel when it came to the Palestinians and the Israeli “occupation” of the territories.”
“Secretary of State James A. Baker is surely one of the most reviled public figures both in Israel 🇮🇱 and among American Jews.🔯 In 1991 he became the first American official to negotiate directly and officially with Palestinians 🇵🇸 and the first senior U.S. official to leverage American aid to Israel in an attempt to halt Israeli settlements. He played a leading role in forcing Israel to attend the Madrid Peace Conference (October 1991), which ultimately failed to yield results, and he sought to launch a second Mideast peace initiative, the “Madrid 2 Conference,” while excluding Israel from participating.
He demanded that Israel negotiate with a Palestinian delegation consisting of Palestinians deported from East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and he publicly supported the Palestinian “right of return,” which would effectively end the Jewish state. Throughout his tenure, he did whatever possible to create distance between the Bush administration and Israel when it came to the Palestinians and the Israeli “occupation” of the territories.”
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‘Moreover, Baker made little secret of his contempt for Israel. 🇮🇱 According to the late former editor of the Jerusalem Post, David Bar-Illan, Baker once stated, “Don’t worry, J*ws remember the Holocaust, but they forget insults as soon as they smell cash” ( New York Post, March 6, 1992). While testifying before the House in June 1990, a frustrated Baker, complaining about the “hawkishness” of Israel’s new government, sent a public message to Prime Minister Shamir: “Here’s the White House phone number; when you’re serious about peace, give us a call.” He referred to pro-Israel supporters in Congress as “the little Knesset.”
But undoubtedly the greatest manifestation of his antipathy was his infamous declaration: “ Fuck the J*ws. They don’t vote for us anyway.” This story was reported in the New York Post by Marianne Goldstein and several of her colleagues under the headline “Baker’s 4-Letter Slam at U.S. Jews.”
‘Moreover, Baker made little secret of his contempt for Israel. 🇮🇱 According to the late former editor of the Jerusalem Post, David Bar-Illan, Baker once stated, “Don’t worry, J*ws remember the Holocaust, but they forget insults as soon as they smell cash” ( New York Post, March 6, 1992). While testifying before the House in June 1990, a frustrated Baker, complaining about the “hawkishness” of Israel’s new government, sent a public message to Prime Minister Shamir: “Here’s the White House phone number; when you’re serious about peace, give us a call.” He referred to pro-Israel supporters in Congress as “the little Knesset.”
But undoubtedly the greatest manifestation of his antipathy was his infamous declaration: “ Fuck the J*ws. They don’t vote for us anyway.” This story was reported in the New York Post by Marianne Goldstein and several of her colleagues under the headline “Baker’s 4-Letter Slam at U.S. Jews.”
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‘While testifying before the House in June 1990, a frustrated Baker, complaining about the “hawkishness” of Israel’s new government, sent a public message to Prime Minister Shamir: “Here’s the White House phone number; when you’re serious about peace, give us a call.” He referred to pro-Israel supporters in Congress as “the little Knesset.”
James Baker, then US secretary of state, told AIPAC in 1989, "For Israel, now is the time to lay aside, once and for all, the unrealistic vision of a Greater Israel'🇮🇱 (AFP)
‘While testifying before the House in June 1990, a frustrated Baker, complaining about the “hawkishness” of Israel’s new government, sent a public message to Prime Minister Shamir: “Here’s the White House phone number; when you’re serious about peace, give us a call.” He referred to pro-Israel supporters in Congress as “the little Knesset.”
James Baker, then US secretary of state, told AIPAC in 1989, "For Israel, now is the time to lay aside, once and for all, the unrealistic vision of a Greater Israel'🇮🇱 (AFP)
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Baker was brutal with Benjamin Netanyahu in a way that the Clinton and Obama administrations never dared to be. Netanyahu, who was Israel’s deputy foreign minister at the time, had infuriated the secretary of state by claiming the US was being gullible in its dealings with Palestinians. “It is astonishing that a superpower like the United States which was supposed to be the symbol of political fairness and international honesty, is building its policy on a foundation of distortion and lies,” Netanyahu told the media.
An angry Baker instructed his officials that Netanyahu would be barred from entering the State Department. When Dennis Ross, a Baker aide, pleaded that this was too harsh a punishment, Baker “would just smile and say nope”. He eventually relented and allowed Netanyahu to come in to see junior officials, but refused to meet him personally throughout his time in office.
Baker was brutal with Benjamin Netanyahu in a way that the Clinton and Obama administrations never dared to be. Netanyahu, who was Israel’s deputy foreign minister at the time, had infuriated the secretary of state by claiming the US was being gullible in its dealings with Palestinians. “It is astonishing that a superpower like the United States which was supposed to be the symbol of political fairness and international honesty, is building its policy on a foundation of distortion and lies,” Netanyahu told the media.
An angry Baker instructed his officials that Netanyahu would be barred from entering the State Department. When Dennis Ross, a Baker aide, pleaded that this was too harsh a punishment, Baker “would just smile and say nope”. He eventually relented and allowed Netanyahu to come in to see junior officials, but refused to meet him personally throughout his time in office.
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Sources/Further Reading
jewishpress.com/sections/featu…
haaretz.com/us-news/2020-0…
haaretz.com/us-news/2020-0…
middleeasteye.net/opinion/us-isr…
James Baker blasts Netanyahu - POLITICO
jewishpress.com/sections/featu…
haaretz.com/us-news/2020-0…
haaretz.com/us-news/2020-0…
middleeasteye.net/opinion/us-isr…
James Baker blasts Netanyahu - POLITICO
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