White House introduces the formation of the Iraq Study Group (ISG)

4 years late?

Daniel Pipes, Peacemaker?

News: Daniel Pipes says the only path to Middle East peace will come through a total Israeli military victory. So why has President Bush nominated him to the board of the government's leading peace think-tank?

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The nomination has angered American Muslim groups and liberal Jewish leaders, who see Pipes as a poor choice for a peace institute. "Daniel Pipes is not a peacemaker," says Susannah Heschel, a professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth and co-chair of the liberal Jewish group Tikkun. "It would be like appointing me to be the head of nuclear physics at Los Alamos."

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, which calls Pipes "the nation's leading Islamaphobe," is promising an all out campaign to defeat his nomination, and at least one prominent senator has already expressed reservations. Setting the stage for a possible showdown later this year, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass, says he has "serious concerns" about Pipes, according to Jim Manley, Kennedy's spokesman at the Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee, which must approve the nomination. "It's just a question of whether the Republicans will want to engage in a public battle," Manley added.



http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2003/05/we_420_01.html

nuff said.