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January 20,2005
In Our 59th Year
Texas Jewish Post
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Dr. Ellen S.
Cannon
Scholar-in-Residence in honor of
the 2005 UJC/Federation Annual
Campaign. This year's scholar, Dr.
Ellen S. Cannon, back by popular
demand, is a leader and an advocate
on behalf of Israel and American
Jewry. She is currently vice president
of the Amer-
ican Jewish
Congress, Mid-
west Region.
Dr. Cannon has
been a pro-
fessor of
political science
for over 20
years and is
currently a fac-
ulty member of the Wexner
Heritage Foundation and a lecturer
for the Steinhardt Internship Pro-
gram. She is a recipient of the Esther
Award for Jewish Women's Leader-
ship from Shalva (an organization
that combats domestic violence).
Dr. Cannon is a traditional Jew
who combines a commitment to
Jewi sh continuity and learning with
a progressive political agenda. As a
national political analyst, she is on
the cutting edge in analyzing polit-
ical issues and explaining how they
impact the Jewish community and
Israel. She appears regularly on PBS
and national radio. As a renowned
national lecturer, she delivers over
250 speeches a year.
Enthusiasts of Dr. Cannon use
words such as "fabulous," "ener-
gizing" and "powerful" to describe
her speeches. One observer from
Orlando said, "You can hear a pin
drop when she's speaking."
Everyone who has heard her agrees
that she is a "must-see" speaker.
The Scholar-in-Residence pro-
gram will be held at Congregation
Beth Shalom in Arlington on
Feb. 4 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 5 at
10 a.m. Friday evening's topic is
"The Jewish Domestic Political
Agenda: What can we expect in
American Jewish Politics for
2005?" followed by an Oneg
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Palestinian assurances that they
would either be unwilling or unable
to fulfill. The two most notable pro-
ponents recently of a get-tough
approach with Israel have been Brent
Scowcroft and Zbignew Brzezinski.
As former National Security Advisers
to Bush Senior and Jimmy Carter
respectively, they have bipartisan
appeal. This duo has been appearing
together to publicly put the onus on
Israel not only for being insufficiently
forthcoming, but for dragging us
into the war in Iraq.
Scowcroft recently publicly pro-
claimed "Ariel Sharon has him
[President Bush] wrapped around his
finger." And Brzezinski, appearing
with his new buddy on CNN's "Late
Edition," endorsed this view and
charged that going to war in Iraq was
pushed by "a bunch of fanatics"
whom he described as "people who
either for religious or strategic rea-
sons have a very one-sided view of
Iraq and of the Middle East."
When pressed by the show's host,
Wolf Blitzer, if Brzezinski was obvi-
ously talking about Jews here,
Brzezinski, realizing he was getting
mired too deep in overt anti-Semi-
tism, demurred. But this
unmistakable reference here to those
neocon Jews dragging us into war in
Iraq in order to help Israel is being
increasingly echoed by the likes of
Pat Buchanan and other Jew-haters
who are finding it easier to crawl out
of the woodwork.
Only a week later, the same pair
appeared together at the "New
American Foundation" where
Brzezinski described the war in Iraq
as a moral, political and military
failure. Parenthetically, one notes
that as Carter's National Security
Adviser, "Zbig" should know a great
deal about all manners of failure.
Given this anti-war, anti-Israel
mindset, it is not surprising that they
are openly advocating a U.S. peace
plan to be imposed on Israel. As
Scowcroft bluntly put it, "We have
got to say this is it.. .we are the ones
that have to impose it."
So far, however, there is no indica-
tion that the second Bush
administration is in any hurry to
pursue this path. The president has
said he will be looking to see what
changes there will be in Palestinian
behavior. But having to deal in the
next six months with elections in
Iraq and its aftermath along with
Iran's pursuit of nukes (and its own
"elections" in June) could forestall
any great attention with regard to
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What
happens between now and the end
of the summer may well determine
the shape of the Middle East for
years to come. For a president who
has expressed the desire to tackle
domestic problems in his second
term, it looks like developments
overseas will dominate his agenda.
And we have not even cited other
problem areas in the Middle East -
such as Saudi Arabia or Syria - and
the various terrorist organizations.
Unfortunately, much of the
reporting and analysis we will be
receiving in the days ahead will be
filtered through our media, which,
with some notable exceptions (e.g.
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But as long as a Tom Friedman
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not be much good news in the
months ahead as a number of grim
scenarios unfold. But self-doubt
(and self-flagellation) are poor sub-
stitutes for demonstrating pride in
what two nations, the United States
and Israel, will be trying to achieve
during this gloomy period.
Morris Amitay is a former executive
director of AIPAC and founder of
the pro-Israel Washington PAC
(www.washingtonpac.com).
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