\tConcr\u00e8tement mais aussi symboliquement, il s’agit d’une affaire s\u00e9rieuse pour les relations entre les USA et Isra\u00ebl. On parle ici de la nomination de Charles (Chas) Freeman comme adjoint au DNI (Director, National Intelligence), l’amiral Dennis Blair; en tant que tel, Freeman prend le poste tr\u00e8s sensible de pr\u00e9sident du National Intelligence Council, qui fournit au DNI la synth\u00e8se des analyses et prospectives de tous les services de renseignement US.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tOr, il se trouve que, par rapport \u00e0 la norme du poulailler am\u00e9ricaniste, Freeman est un homme brillant, libre d’esprit, sans crainte de parler haut; comme il est sp\u00e9cialiste des affaires moyennes orientales, c’est dans ce domaine qu’il exerce sa libert\u00e9 de jugement principalement. C’en est bien assez pour qu’il soit ha\u00ef, le mot n’est pas trop fort, du lobby<\/em> pro-isra\u00e9lien de Washington (d\u00e9sign\u00e9 le Lobby<\/em> avec une majuscule et sans pr\u00e9cision, parce qu’il est une r\u00e9f\u00e9rence), et de l’establishment<\/em> isra\u00e9lo-washingtonien en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral. Ainsi commence une affaire int\u00e9ressante.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t Arnaud de Borchgrave, sur NewsMax.com<\/em> le 4 mars<\/a>: \u00abA rarity in Washington, the secret was kept well until the announcement from National Intelligence Director Dennis C. Blair: His deputy as chairman of the National Intelligence Council is Charles Chas W. Freeman Jr., a Chinese-speaking iconoclast with a brilliant analytical mind that is anathema to the Israel lobby and the neocons.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbLucky for former Ambassador Freeman that Judaism, in contrast to Christianity, does not believe in mortal sins. But his sin is beyond redemption in Washington. Freeman is convinced that U.S. and Israeli strategic interests are not necessarily one and the same. This triggered a cascade of name-calling, ranging from from Saudi puppet to Chas of Arabia linked to Saudi cash to China-coddling, Israel-basher.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t Bernd Debusmann, de Reuters, le 5 mars<\/a>: \u00abThe brutal oppression of the Palestinians by the Israeli occupation shows no sign of ending Israel no longer even pretends to seek peace with the Palestinians, it strives to pacify them American identification with Israel has become total. These are excerpts from a 2007 speech by Charles (Chas) Freeman, a former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, whose appointment as chairman of the National Intelligence Council was announced on February 26 and is turning into a test case for the strength of Washington’s right-wing pro-Israel lobby.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tComme on l’a vu \u00e0 plus<\/a> d’une reprise<\/a>, il y a des choses int\u00e9ressantes en cours dans les relations entre les USA et Isra\u00ebl. La nomination de Freeman confirme effectivement cette tendance, cette fois d’une fa\u00e7on extr\u00eamement concr\u00e8te et op\u00e9rationnelle. La fureur des pro-isra\u00e9liens \u00e0 Washington est un signe convaincant \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tAinsi, un des critiques de la nomination de Freeman, Gabriel Schoenfeld, resident scholar<\/em> au Witherspoon Institute de Princeton, r\u00e9dateur en chef de Commentary<\/em> jusqu’en 2008, auteur de The Return of Antisemitism<\/em> et neocon<\/em> notoire, a une moue de d\u00e9go\u00fbt et un hoquet de naus\u00e9e bien compr\u00e9hensible. Il observe gravement que Freeman a travaill\u00e9 avec le Middle East Policy Council (MEPC), qui re\u00e7oit de l’argent de forces d’influence (la famille royale saoudienne), ce qui est vraiment un cas extraordinaire et insupportable de m\u00e9moire de partisan d’Isra\u00ebl \u00e0 Washington; que le MEPC a, horreur et damnation, \u00e9dit\u00e9 le tr\u00e8s infamant travail de John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of Harvard sur The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy<\/em> ; et ainsi de suite se poursuit la litanie des indignations pro-isra\u00e9liennes, pay\u00e9es rubis sur l’ongle.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tBernd Debusmann note encore, pour bien fixer nos id\u00e9es sur la libert\u00e9 de penser qui accompagne ce d\u00e9bat: \u00ab[Stephen] Walt, who blogs at Foreign Policy magazine, weighed into the Freeman debate as it gathered steam even before the actual appointment. Apart from trying to get it revoked by Dennis Blair or get Freeman to withdraw, Walt said, the anti-Freeman campaign had a third aim. Attacking Freeman is intended to deter other people in the foreign policy community from speaking out on these matters. Freeman might be too smart, too senior and too well-qualified to stop, but there are plenty of younger people eager to rise in the foreign policy establishment and they need to be reminded that their careers could be jeopardized if they said what they thought.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbBut the Obama administration appears to have no problem with people who say what they think about U.S.-Israel ties. Take Samantha Power, the former Harvard professor whose outspoken views echo those of Walt and Mearsheimer. Obama gave her an important job on the National Security Council.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tL’action possible du Congr\u00e8s, o\u00f9 le Lobby<\/em> est archi-puissant, est n\u00e9cessairement limit\u00e9e, nous dit Borchgrave: \u00abMercifully for Freeman, his job is not subject to Senate confirmation. Had it been, he would have been axed with a nod from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. But Blair made clear where he stood. His statement said Freeman will be responsible for overseeing a variety of intelligence reports.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tMais laissons cette humeur de Lobby<\/em> et de vertu extraordinaire entourant les activit\u00e9s pro-isra\u00e9liennes \u00e0 Washington. La profondeur de l’ignominie tranquille et impudente du domaine repr\u00e9sente le cas constant d’une surprise continu\u00e9e pour qui observe Washington. L’on observe ainsi que l’administration Obama semble prendre ses distances de la chose, avec un certain art consomm\u00e9. La pr\u00e9sence de Rahm Emmanuel comme secr\u00e9taire g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de la Maison-Blanche ne semble pas interdire la manuvre, contrairement aux pr\u00e9visions faites \u00e0 ce propos.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tCette \u00e9volution est \u00e9videmment plus qu’int\u00e9ressante, elle est potentiellement tr\u00e8s importante. Bernd Debusmann s’interroge: \u00abDoes that mean the days of unquestioning American support for Israel are coming to en end? Probably not. But the furious reaction to Freeman’s appointment from some of the most fervent neo-conservative champions of Israel points to considerable concern over the possible loss of clout<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tOn pourrait avancer l’observation que cette fureur, \u00e9videmment excessive et choquante dans nombre de ses manifestations, pourraient engendrer des effets de plus en plus n\u00e9gatifs \u00e0 mesure qu’elle se manifeste. L’impudence de l’action d’un tel lobby<\/em>, ses interf\u00e9rences avec la politique de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale, voire avec la souverainet\u00e9 nationale elle-m\u00eame, pourraient avoir comme effet de durcir la ligne Obama dans cette affaire des relations entre les USA et Isra\u00ebl. Le dossier compte d\u00e9sormais un nombre suffisant de pi\u00e8ce pour pousser \u00e0 la conclusion qu’il repr\u00e9sente un changement notable de politique, et un changement d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9 \u00e9videmment; la cause probable est solide, puisqu’elle renvoie au besoin urgent d’apaiser les relations internationales et les situations de tension, pour pouvoir mieux se consacrer \u00e0 la lutte contre la crise int\u00e9rieure. Dans ce cas d’une politique construite, nullement l’effet d’un accident de parcours ou d’un test sur une possibilit\u00e9 \u00e0 explorer, les interf\u00e9rences grossi\u00e8res et injustifi\u00e9es pour modifier la nouvelle orientation ont plut\u00f4t pour effet de renforcer cette politique.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 6 mars 2009 \u00e0 14H36<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Le cas Freeman et les relations Isra\u00ebl-USA Concr\u00e8tement mais aussi symboliquement, il s’agit d’une affaire s\u00e9rieuse pour les relations entre les USA et Isra\u00ebl. 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