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Not too surprisingly, US president Barack Obama has appointed some very bad people to senoir jobs in the government. Here's a few articles, starting with this one from the JTA:

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- A former ambassador to Saudi Arabia with a history as a critic of Israel will reportedly be named to a top intelligence post in the Obama administration.

ForeignPolicy.com reported Thursday that Chas W Freeman Jr., who served as U.S. ambassador to the Saudi kingdom from 1989-1992 and is currently the president of the Middle East Policy Council, will be the chairman of the National Intelligence Council, which plays the leading role in producing national intelligence estimates. The publication reported Freeman has told associates that in the role, he would occasionally accompany director of national intelligence Adm. Dennis Blair to give the president his daily intelligence briefing.

In 2005 remarks to the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, Freeman said that "as long as the United States continues unconditionally to provide the subsidies and political protection that make the Israeli occupation and the high-handed and self-defeating policies it engenders possible, there is little, if any, reason to hope that anything resembling the former peace process can be resurrected. Israeli occupation and settlement of Arab lands is inherently violent."

That he was the ambassador to the House of Saud who'd rather blame Israel for violence and not criticize the Islamic religion for promoting violence is a clear sign he's bad news.

The Obama administration may also be planning to take part in a sequel to the anti-Israel Durban conference. Here's another report on this by Anne Bayefsky at NRO's The Corner (also via One Jerusalem).

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, United States, White House