Samantha Power ✔ @AmbassadorPower
Daniel Pearl's story is reminder that individual accountability & reconciliation are required to break cycles of violence. @DanielPearlFNDN
Needless to say, this provoked a Twitter firestorm, calling her, among othe things a disgrace and demanding she resign...
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@Bridget_PJM @AmbassadorPower Anyone who is as stupid as SP makes herself out to be here should resign or be fired.
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The Honarary Board includes rabid anti-Israel newscaster Christine Amanpour, Sari Nusseibeh, the president of Al-Kuds University in East Jerusalem, whose views can best be discerned by a 2002 interview with al Jazeera, where used these words to talk about Umm Nidal, a hte-filled harridan who is the mother of three sons who carried out homicide bombing attacks on Israeli civilians with their mother's blessing: "When I hear the words of Umm Nidal, I recall the hadith stating that 'Paradise lies under the feet of mothers.' All respect is due to this mother, it is due to every Palestinian mother and every female Palestinian who is a Jihad fighter on this land."
These days, he's called a 'moderate', beloved by the sort of people who run organizations like the Daniel Pearl Foundation.
There's more, but I think you get the drift. Mr. Pearl and his friends believe that dialogue solves everything...'if Danny could have just talked to them a little longer.....If only Israel would bend over more...'
They simply are unable to see things in their actual context...with the possible exception of people like Nusseibah, who are happy to be courted by a bunch of clueless dhimmis.
In fact I recently had occasion myself to dissect one of Judea Pearl's op-eds in a piece of mine over at the Times of Israel. It's pretty obvious, in fact, that he and Samantha Power share pretty much the same mindset. Why else was she asked to give the lecture, for goodness sake? So my point here is that Judea Pearl was almost certainly not offended by Ambassador Power's tweet.He too believes in the almighty Cycle Of Violence rather than understanding the difference between self defense and murderous aggression, or of actually making a choice between good and evil.Because they don't recognize evil for what it is. To someone like Samantha Power, it's simply a different perspective.
So there's no way to appeal to her moral sensibilities. It's like trying to speak English to someone who only understands Arabic.
Not only that, but Ambassador Power almost certainly reflects the appeasement mindset of the Obama Administration, and moreover, she's a cabinet officer serving at President Obama's pleasure who does what she's told. Do you really suppose for an instant he's going to fire her for voicing the Obama Administration's main foreign policy theme?
So there's little or no point in abusing her. Her reaction is as natural for her as it is for a fish to swim, and like Judea Pearl, she has little or no concept as an academic that in the real word there actually are people who take attempts at 'dialog' as appeasement and a sign of weakness. The Samantha Powers of the world don't understand that the real world isn't a college campus until the knife is actually at their throats. Or that real peace come from victory and the triumph over evil.
President Obama should ask for @AmbassadorPower's resignation. Daniel Pearl had nothing to "reconcile" with his anti-Semitic murderers.
@AmbassadorPower @DanielPearlFNDN Maybe you should be Accountable and Reconcile yourself to the fact that your words are VILE. RESIGN!
@AmbassadorPower You are not even qualified to chaperone a prom much less represent this country. #resign
The ambassador later issued a correction....
Correction: @DanielPearlFNDN’s work is a reminder that individual accountability + reconciliation are required to break cycles of violence.
@AmbassadorPower So Daniel Pearl and those who BEHEADED him are morally equivalent? You, madam, need to resign.
@AmbassadorPower You need to apologize to Daniel Pearl's widow and child then resign. What a heartless moron you are! @DanielPearlFNDN
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While Samantha Power is definitely a member of the anti-Israel caucus within President Obama's administration and I would not call myself a fan of her or her ideology, I think that the abuse and the calls for her resignation are futile, to say the least.
Ambassador Power was tweeting based on this:
Honored to give the Daniel Pearl Lecture at @UCLA and meet his parents, who responded to the hate that killed their son by urging dialogue.
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So the ambassador was speaking at UCLA, a university not exactly unknown for being jihadi and Islamist friendly. And she was speaking at an event for the Daniel Pearl Foundation, which was set up by Judea Pearl after his son Daniel was beheaded live on video.
The foundation is quite interesting in itself, since brief glance at its board members shows quite a lot of people who one could say are not exactly friendly towards Israel and like Ambassador Power, shall we say, misunderstand a few things. And I'm being kind here.
For instance, the Foundation's Journalism Fellowship speciallizes in bring Muslim journalists here to America to infiltrate our press with their ideologies, or as th eFoundation's website puts it, 'to work in an environment where freedom of the press and speaking truth to power are in evidence every day.' They also apparently spend a week at the ultra-Left anti-Israel Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, where they 'get a different perspective of the Jewish community then they might have received in their home countries'. That you can bet on.
These days, he's called a 'moderate', beloved by the sort of people who run organizations like the Daniel Pearl Foundation.
There's more, but I think you get the drift. Mr. Pearl and his friends believe that dialogue solves everything...'if Danny could have just talked to them a little longer.....If only Israel would bend over more...'
They simply are unable to see things in their actual context...with the possible exception of people like Nusseibah, who are happy to be courted by a bunch of clueless dhimmis.
In fact I recently had occasion myself to dissect one of Judea Pearl's op-eds in a piece of mine over at the Times of Israel. It's pretty obvious, in fact, that he and Samantha Power share pretty much the same mindset. Why else was she asked to give the lecture, for goodness sake? So my point here is that Judea Pearl was almost certainly not offended by Ambassador Power's tweet.He too believes in the almighty Cycle Of Violence rather than understanding the difference between self defense and murderous aggression, or of actually making a choice between good and evil.Because they don't recognize evil for what it is. To someone like Samantha Power, it's simply a different perspective.
So there's no way to appeal to her moral sensibilities. It's like trying to speak English to someone who only understands Arabic.
Not only that, but Ambassador Power almost certainly reflects the appeasement mindset of the Obama Administration, and moreover, she's a cabinet officer serving at President Obama's pleasure who does what she's told. Do you really suppose for an instant he's going to fire her for voicing the Obama Administration's main foreign policy theme?
So there's little or no point in abusing her. Her reaction is as natural for her as it is for a fish to swim, and like Judea Pearl, she has little or no concept as an academic that in the real word there actually are people who take attempts at 'dialog' as appeasement and a sign of weakness. The Samantha Powers of the world don't understand that the real world isn't a college campus until the knife is actually at their throats. Or that real peace come from victory and the triumph over evil.
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