Meet Samantha Power….Obama’s Special Assistant

By Ed Randazzo

Obama’s stunning endorsement of a peace process embracing Israel’s pre-1967
borders – a situation that Israeli leaders declare would leave the Jewish State
“defenseless” has prompted a peek at one advisor of teleprompter-man long antagonistic of Israel.

Samantha Power, once declared that the United States might one day invade Israel to disarm it and support a Palestinian state along the very controversial lines Obama now embraces.

Power, who many recent reports credit with pushing Obama’s increasingly ineffective military strategy toward Libya, is no stranger to controversy. As the Obama campaign’s chief foreign policy adviser in 2008, she was fired after calling rival candidate Hillary Clinton a “monster” during the Democratic primary campaign. She is also closely linked to liberal billionaire George Soros and his various nefarious causes.

She is now Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and runs the Office of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights as Senior Director of Multilateral Affairs on the Staff of the National Security Council. Good appointment, huh?

But it was Power’s description of a future Israeli crisis in a 2002 interview that has alarmed Israel supporters over the years. In that interview at Berkeley, Power was asked this question:

“Let me give you a thought experiment here, and it is the following: without addressing the Palestine-Israel problem, let’s say you were an advisor to the President of the United States, how would you respond to current events there?”

Power then gave what many Israeli experts describe as an astonishing reply:
“What we don’t need is a willingness to put something on the line in helping the situation. Putting something on the line might mean alienating a domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import; it may more crucially (sic) mean sacrificing—or investing, I think, more than sacrificing—billions of dollars, not in servicing Israel’s military, but actually investing in the new state of Palestine”.

Could that be Samantha’s handwriting on the teleprompter?