Israel’s Willing Executioners:
AIPAC Invades Washington
Decline results when a nation is betrayed by craven leaders,
who crawl and humiliate themselves before a minority of thuggish
mediocrities pledged to a foreign state without scruples or moral
integrity.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/03/17/israels-willing-executioners-aipac-invades-washington193961/
by James Petras and Robin Eastman Abaya
Introduction: A Week of National Humiliation:
From March 4th to March 9th, 2012, 13,000 militant Israel Firsters, took over “political Washington”[1]
and imposed a foreign regime’s (Israel) political agenda to the rousing
applause and appreciation of their captive vassal US legislators and
executives who crowded the halls and platforms groveling for the
imperious nods of their visiting Israeli overlords[2].
AIPAC A LAUNCH PAD FOR ISRAELI LEADERS
The annual meeting of the American (sic) Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
is the most outrageous public display of Zionist-Jewish power as it
shapes US foreign policy. The sole purpose of AIPAC is to ensure
Israel’s unchallenged military and political power over a huge region
from North Africa to the Persian Gulf. Over three quarters of the US
Congress members paraded themselves before the AIPAC, as well as
President Obama and Vice President Biden and any high ranking Cabinet
members in any way related to US foreign policy (Secretary of State
Clinton, Secretary of Defense Panetta included). They all loudly
parroted the political agenda and military priorities that the AIPAC has
imposed on the United States
[3].
AIPAC: A launch pad for Israeli Leaders
The AIPAC gathering is clearly not a meeting of “just another lobby”[4]: It is the launch pad used by Israel’s top political and military leaders to drag the US into another major war in the Middle East – this time against Iran[5].
Shimon Peres, Israel’s President opened the conference, setting the
militarist tone and political framework for US President Obama who
followed, slavishly echoing the language and substance of the Israeli
leader[6].
The following day the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, spoke, and forcefully laid out the line for a US war against Iran
[7]with thousands of prominent and respectable Jewish Americans,
Israel Firsters,
leaping to their feet dozens of times in fanatic support for a US war –
a war, in which few, if any, of them, their children, relatives or
friends will suffer loss of life or limb
[8].
This was the same Bibi Netanyahu who once opined that the 9-11 attack
on the US benefited Israel because it linked the US closer to Israeli
interests.
Not since the War of 1812, which saw the British occupation and
burning of Washington, has the US capital been so utterly humiliated by a
foreign power. Unlike the British crown, which then negotiated a peace
settlement, allowing the US to regain its sovereignty and capital, the
Israeli leaders and their rabid “fifth column” demand a military
agreement, in which Israel
dictates the terms under which the US goes to war with Iran.
Israeli leaders have not secured the submission of the US because of
Israel’s military, economic or political superiority: They have a puny
economy, a fraction of the US nuclear weapons and have few allies and
even less public approval in the international community. But they do
have at least a half million fanatical, unconditional Zionist militants
in the United States, including thousands of loyal multi-millionaires
and billionaires who fund the campaign of both Democrat and Republican
parties
[9]. AIPAC is the
vanguard
of Israel’s shock troops in the US. Highly disciplined and organized,
AIPAC lobbyists invade the offices of every Congressperson armed with a
legislative script carefully prepared by and for the State of Israel
[10].
They have secured the full commitment of most members of Congress for
Israel’s agenda waving both dollar signs and stars (of David). As past
history has amply demonstrated, Congressional staff or legislators who
dare hesitate or ask for time to reflect, rapidly find themselves on the
receiving end of AIPAC’s political bullying and threats which usually
secure acquiescence.
Refusal to capitulate to AIPAC means the end of a political career in Washington.
The Israeli (and
therefore AIPAC’s)
agenda is to pursue an unprovoked war, either initiated by the US or as
part of a US-backed Israeli sneak attack, against the sovereign Islamic
Republic of Iran
[11].
Iran is targeted today because the other opponents of Israel’s
colonization of Palestine have been destroyed in previous Zionist-backed
US wars, namely Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya and the ongoing proxy war
against the Assad regime in Syria
[12].
Today Israeli leaders insist that Iran should be violently denied
what over 120 other nations practice freely: the legal enrichment of
uranium for medical, commercial and scientific purposes. Past Israeli
propaganda, echoed by the
52 Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations, falsely claimed Iran possessed nuclear weapons or … was in the process of manufacturing them and therefore posed an ‘
existential’ threat to Israeli. Even the mere ‘
capacity’
to enrich uranium for medical purposes (many times below the level
needed for a weapon) is presented as a major threat to the Jewish State.
Meanwhile, the 27 US intelligence agencies (in their yearly ‘findings’)
and even the US-influenced International Atomic Energy Agency have
found no such evidence of an ongoing weapons program – thus the need for
bizarre terms like ‘
existential threat’.
Israel’s high command has now come up with a new flimsy pretext for war. Iran’s
potential (through its advanced scientific and technical manpower and research centers) for acquiring a ‘
nuclear weapon capability’ may constitute a sufficient cause for war
[13].
In other words, Israel has ordered its 13,000 AIPAC militants, to
demand every US Congress person vote for a war resolution on the basis
of Iran’s
current uranium enrichment program
geared to medical uses and on its sophisticated scientific and
intellectual potential! Meanwhile, the Mossad has launched a
not-so-secret program of terrorist assassinations of Iranian
scientists – in their homes, offices and universities; with nary a protest from the ‘Zionized’ US press.
Israel’s Willing Executioners
Netanyahu’s newest criterion for war (Iranian capability) has the blind support of the major Jewish organizations in the US[14]. American Zionists are the willing executioners promoting an aggressive, unprovoked, military attack against the homeland (and homes) of 75 million Iranians.
Let us be clear, there are naked genocidal impulses permeating some of
the pronouncements of leading US Jewish religious leaders. The executive
vice president of the Orthodox Rabbinical Council of America, Rabbi
Herring, suggested that Israel should consider “
the use of tactical
nuclear weapons in areas that aren’t so populated or in the open desert
…to show the Iranians that their lives are on the line, that Israel
won’t go quietly”.
[15]
The rabbi did not specify whether population centers of a quarter of a
million inhabitants or less qualify under his definition of “
not so populated” and therefore are suitable targets for this educational display of thermo-nuclear destruction, “
just to show the Iranians”…. Let us keep in mind that among the Zionist fundamentalists, “
not a few organizational leaders … wanted to use tactical nuclear weapons right now”
[16].
When Netanyahu gave the command to the AIPAC delegates to invade the US Congress and secure a war commitment on the basis of Iran’s ‘capacity’
(for uranium enrichment), there was no debate and no dissention among
the ‘shock troops’ – only blind unanimous approval among Jewish American
citizens for their foreign master. These respectable Jewish-Americans
marched lock-step in platoons right up to the Congress members on their
lists, canned arguments in one hand and Israeli-ghost-written
legislation in the other. They boast of having rounded up a substantial
majority of elected US representatives – for war!
If Israel’s power in the US depends on AIPAC’s tight control over the
US Congress, the lobby, for its part, depends on the power of the wider
Zionist power configuration permeating strategic political and
administrative offices, political party structures and the electoral
process itself. This, in turn, depends on Zionist media influence linked
back to economic and financial power. The democratic and representative
process has been totally crushed under this narrow-focused juggernaut
for war on behalf of Israel.
AIPAC’s Congressional
and Executive Collaborators
While much has been made of the influence AIPAC exercises over the US Congress and Executive via ‘lobbying’, better termed intimidation and pressure tactics, a great part of its success is based on the larger Zionist matrix of power operating within the government, civil society and the economy.
When AIPAC lobbyists approach Congress members with Israeli-dictated
foreign policy priorities in hand, they coordinate and are given a major
platform by the forty-plus elected Zionist legislators who,
just happen,
to occupy strategic positions, such as the chairpersons of
Congressional committees dealing with foreign policy, especially policy
related to the Middle East. In other words, AIPAC’s conquest of Congress
is ‘
by invitation’. The relation is ‘
reciprocal’. AIPAC and the
52 Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations and various fundraisers mobilize money and activists to help elect the
reliable Zionists to office. Once in place, they openly collaborate in writing pro-Israel legislation and ensuring that ‘
majorities’ vote the ‘
right way’[17].
Mark Dubowitz, executive director of “
Foundation for Defense of Democracies” helped write the latest (Iran) sanctions bill … (
Financial Times March 6, 2012, pg. 9). The “
Foundation” is better known as an unconditional and unquestioning promoter of Israel’s agenda. Dubowitz is one of many un
-elected ‘
legislators’
who write and promote laws at Israel’s behest. The legislation to
impose sanctions on Iran, authored by Dubowitz, is designed to brutalize
and starve 75 million Iranian citizens into submission to further
Israel’s goal of unquestioned supremacy in the Middle East.
AIPAC’s operations are not confined to Congress or to the electoral
process. From the Reagan Administration to the Obama Administration,
AIPAC has supplied committed Zionists to key positions in the Treasury,
State Department, National Security Council and the President’s inner
circle of advisors on the Middle East
[18].
AIPAC pressure ensures the appointment of Zionists to the executive
branch and has led to the creation of special administrative posts
designed specifically to pursue Israel’s agenda. A good example of
AIPAC’s success is the post of
Undersecretary of Treasury for Terrorism and Intelligence.
The position was first held by Stuart Levey, a Zionist zealot, whose
whole purpose was to design and implement US (and later EU) sanctions
against Iran. His replacement, David Cohen, a clone also from AIPAC, is
the author of legislation pushing for punitive sanctions against Syria
[19].
Dennis Ross, widely known as ‘
Israel’s lawyer’ and a former
AIPAC leader, was appointed senior adviser to Presidents Clinton, Bush
and Obama, was the architect of US support for Israel’s starvation
blockade and criminal bombing of Gaza (1999), the murderous invasion of
Lebanon (2006). He has provided ‘cover’ for Netanyahu’s massive building
of
Jews only settlements on occupied Palestinian lands and his cynical ‘peace negotiations’ ploy
[20].
Jeffrey Feltman, the current AIPAC front man in the State Department,
is the key official in charge of Middle East affairs, especially
Lebanon, Syria and Iran
[21].
Obama’s own inner circle of advisers is dominated by unconditional
Israel supporters, including David Axelrod as chief confidant and the
former Presidential Chief of Staff, dual US-Israeli citizen and current
Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel
[22]. What is striking is the
constant cycle
from leadership and activity in Zionist (Israeli-front) organizations,
entry into powerful government post, return to one or another pro-Israel
think tank, ‘civic organizations’, electoral office or lucrative
private practice – all promoting the interests of Tel Aviv.
AIPAC and the 52 Grassroots Organizations
The
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (
CoP; often referred to as the
Presidents' Conference) is a
non-profit organization
that describes itself as "a central address for key American, Israeli
and other world leaders to consult on issues of critical concern to the
Jewish community."
Comprising 51 national Jewish organizations, the conference meets
relatively infrequently to make major statements or meet with important
leaders. The Conference was founded to develop a consensus voice among
various Jewish organizations when dealing with the executive branch, and
to promote the State of
Israel in the
United States;
those remain its primary task. The conference does not draft
comprehensive policies, nor does it do conventional lobbying; these are
done, respectively, by the
Jewish Council for Public Affairs and by the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
Contents
History
The conference was created in 1956 in response to requests from
President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his administration. The
American Jewish community of the period was experiencing a large growth in its similar policy groups (such as the
American Jewish Committee and
American Jewish Congress) and the increasing influence of the
Jewish denominations on politics (particularly from
Orthodox and
Conservative
Jews). The Eisenhower administration wanted an easier method to gauge
the opinion of the community, without having to wade into the internal
politics of the community, and polling leaders of each organization. The
conference established a unified voice for the community, one that
government officials could consult on important matters.
For its first 30 years the conference was led by one man, Yehuda Hellman. After his death in 1986,
Malcolm Hoenlein
became Chairman; Hoenlein remains the conference's Executive Vice
Chairman. Hoenlein took a much stronger role in shaping U.S. policy,
especially within the
executive branch.
[1]
The Presidents' Conference and AIPAC work together closely, with all
members of the conference sitting on AIPAC's executive committee, which
is distinct from its board of directors. The two organizations follow a
clear division of labor, however; the conference focuses on the
executive branch of the U.S. government, while AIPAC concentrates its
lobbying on Congress.
[1]
The conference's chairperson is Richard Stone.
[2]
Activities
The conference's website states that it engages in "consensus policy,
collective action, and maximizing the resources of the American Jewish
community," in particular, "when events in the U.S., Israel and
elsewhere affect the American Jewish community."
The stated goals of the Conference include:
- Strengthening and fostering the special U.S.-Israel relationship.
- Ensuring that Israel's interests are heard and understood by policy makers, opinion molders and the American public.
- Addressing critical foreign policy issues that impact the American Jewish community.
- Representing the interests of organized American Jewry.
- Protecting and enhancing the security and dignity of Jews around the world.[3]
International Leadership Award
In December 2008, the conference presented
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and his government as a whole, with its inaugural "International Leadership Award" for his support for Israel.
Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice-chairman of the conference, stated that the award was given to express the group's appreciation for
Canada's "courageous stands" to boycott the
Durban II anti-racism conference.
He also praised Canada's "support for Israel and [its] efforts at the
U.N. against incitement and ... the delegitimization [of Israel], where
they have taken a role in the forefront."
[4]
Support for Jonathan Pollard
In December 2008, the conference asked President
George W. Bush to pardon
Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S. navy analyst who was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for spying for Israel.
Malcolm Hoenlein
stated that Pollard should be pardoned on humanitarian grounds, adding
that "It's time that he be released. He has expressed remorse."
[5]
Meeting with Pope Benedict XVI
On February 12 2009, the conference's leaders met with Pope Benedict XVI in order to re-assert the importance of
Jewish-Catholic relations in the wake of the controversy over negationist comments made by
Society of St. Pius X bishop
Richard Williamson.
[6]
List of member organizations
As of 2008, member organizations included the following:
- Ameinu
- American Friends of Likud, a group supporting the right-wing Likud party that has been a leading force in Israeli politics since 1977.[7]
- American Gathering/Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
- America-Israel Friendship League
- American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
- American Jewish Committee
- American Jewish Congress
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
- American Sephardi Federation
- American Zionist Movement, a coalition of Zionist groups and individuals, and the American affiliate of the World Zionist Organization.[7]
- Americans for Peace Now
- AMIT
- Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
- Association of Reform Zionists of America/World Union North America, the Zionist arm of the Reform movement and an affiliate of the Union for Reform Judaism.[7]
- B'nai B'rith International
- Bnai Zion
- Central Conference of American Rabbis
- Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
- Development Corporation for Israel/State of Israel Bonds: Since 1951, Israel Bonds sales have helped Israel’s Finance Ministry support projects in key sectors. Bond sales have exceeded $25 billion.[7]
- Emunah of America: Chapters and divisions around the United States support Israel’s largest Religious Zionist educational and social welfare organizations.[7]
- Friends of Israel Defense Forces:
Supports social, educational, and recreational programs and facilities
for Israeli soldiers and supports bereaved relatives of fallen soldiers.[7]
- Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America
- Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
- Jewish Community Centers Association
- Jewish Council for Public Affairs
- Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
- Jewish Labor Committee
- Jewish National Fund
- Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
- Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America (JWV)
- Jewish Women International
- MERCAZ USA, Zionist Organization of the Conservative Movement
- NA'AMAT USA: This group has pursued its goal of supporting the women and children of Israel for the past 80 years.[7]
- NCSJ Advocates on behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States & Eurasia
- National Council of Jewish Women
- National Council of Young Israel
- World ORT - ORT America branch
- Rabbinical Assembly (RA)
- Rabbinical Council of America (RCA)
- Religious Zionists of America (RZA or Mizrahi)
- Union for Reform Judaism (URJ)
- Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (Orthodox Union or OU)
- United Jewish Communities (UJC)
- United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ)
- Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO)
- Women's League for Conservative Judaism (WLCJ)
- Women of Reform Judaism (WRJ)
- Workmen's Circle (Arbeter Ring)
- World Zionist Executive, US
- Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)
AIPAC’s power in Washington depends
on the activism of hundreds of thousands of American Zionists
affiliated with organizations under the 52 Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations (MAJO).
While there is considerable overlap of membership, MAJO leaders openly serve as a
transmission belt
for Israel: transmitting the political line from Tel Aviv to their
membership, including activist doctors, dentists and stock brokers in
New York, Miami, Kansas City, Los Angeles and San Francisco and all
points north, south, east and west. When AIPAC has ‘
trouble’
securing an elected representative’s sign-on to legislation for
sanctions against whichever country is currently targeted by Israel, the
reluctant legislator becomes a prime target for local Zionist notables
and ‘
fund raisers’, who pay them a ‘
visit’ to
persuade, if possible, threaten retaliation, if necessary. If a
legislator still refuses to hew to Israel’s line, or considers
service to a foreign power
to be harmful to United States, he/she will soon find that AIPAC has
raised millions of dollars to fund a campaign of slander and electoral
defeat
[23].
Along with these upper middle class ‘
grass roots’ activists there are the numerous highly politicized Zionist
mega-millionaires and
billionaires, like Adelson, Saban and scores of others, who make no bones about being fanatical
Israel Firsters and donate millions to Congresspeople willing to subordinate US interests to Israel’s quest for Middle East supremacy
[24].
Besides this
legal corruption of the political process, there is the issue of
illegal
espionage and thuggery on AIPAC’s part, most recently evidenced by the
ongoing law-suit by one of two former top AIPAC officials, Steven Rosen
caught spying for Israel (passing classified documents on US military
policy towards Iran). Rosen, who was acquitted in a highly manipulated
‘trial’, maintains that AIPAC routinely encouraged its officials to
secure confidential US government documents for Israel
[25].
And then there are the prominent
free-lance Zionists, who
engage in vicious, highly publicized, political thuggery, physical
assaults and blackmail against critics of Israel
[26].
The most prominent defamers, like Abraham Foxman of the Anti (sic)
Defamation League, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, Daniel Pipes
and David Horowitz, manipulate legions of
respectable and wealthy
thugs to pressure schools, universities and other employers to censor
and fire critics of Israel. These Zionist organizations far exceed the
reach and effective blacklisting of an earlier generation of witch
hunters, like Senator Joseph McCarthy, who were rank amateurs in
comparison. The recent antics of
Israel-Firster Andrew Adler, editor of the
Atlanta Jewish Times, whose call for the Israeli Mossad to assassinate President Obama
[27] led merely to his resignation as editor after several weeks of nervous outrage (but no federal investigation or charges).
What is striking here is that while most respectable Zionists
dissociate themselves from AIPAC
spies and
verbal assassins, the power of the
Israel Firsters ensures that such goons and thugs are rarely charged for their crimes and have never gone to jail
[28].
The wider impact of Zionist influence and thuggery is evident in the
timorous self-censorship of the majority of Americans who privately
express fear and loathing at the confrontational, strident and abusive
Zionist-Americans pushing a foreign agenda.
[29]
Israel, Zionism and the Mass Media
The mass media is a key political
resource, which the pro-Israel power configuration exploits to the full.
Not a single major print, television, film or radio outlet is willing
to provide a balanced account of the Israel-Palestine conflict[30].
Israel’s dispossession of thousands of Arab families from their homes
and the daily terrorist Zionist settler and military assaults against
Palestinians protesting land seizures go unreported
[31].
The hundreds of nuclear weapons in Israel’s arsenal are never mentioned
while the Jewish State’s hysterical claims that non-nuclear Iran
represents an
existential threat are repeated and magnified, ad nauseam. The leaders of the 52 know their Goebbels:
A lie repeated often enough becomes an accepted truth.
Zionism and Leveraging Power
What is crucial in understanding the Zionist Power Configuration’s stranglehold over our government is how it
leverages power.
For example, a tiny minority falsely claims to speak for all American
Jews, who represent about 3% of the US population. However, based on
this claim, they mobilize and raise funds to elect the committed
Zionists who hold about 10% of the seats in the US Congress and Senate.
These representatives, in turn, enjoy the support of a tiny cadre of
super rich Zionists, whose promotion allows them to gain control over
key committees dealing with Middle East policy and security.
Domestic security has been deeply influenced by the Zionist-Israeli
agenda: Former US Attorney General, Michael Mukasey and Homeland
Security Tzar, Michael Chertoff have been among the most prominent
officials orienting US domestic security to focus on critics of Israel
and the entrapment of Muslim citizens in bizarre webs of phony terrorist
plots, while real domestic security has suffered and civil rights have
been shredded. The over-representation of Zionists on the US Supreme
Court (3 out of 9) and the careful selection of recent justices, like
Justice Sotomayor, underscore the profound nature of the process as it
extends to the judiciary.
[32]
The Zionist Power Configuration controls the Mid-East policies of
both Democratic and Republican Party and their Presidential nominees
through their Congressional and political party power bases. The US
President, in turn, is leveraged, in order to secure key policy
appointments for Zionists in the State Department, Treasury and
Pentagon. Their leverage in the foreign policy establishment allows
Zionist officials to put pressure on allies and clients in the United
Nation and European Union to support policies, such as Israel’s boycott
and punishment of the elected Hamas government in Gaza and the wars in
Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.
Leverage is how Israel, an infinitely small and
insignificant state with less than 1% of world GNP, exports and market
shares and occupying .001% of the world’s territory, can play such a
disproportionate role in the reconfiguration of power in the Middle
East. Through its American-Zionist influentials, Israel has manipulated
the US into a quagmire of wars in the Middle East, costing the world’s
consumers of oil untold billions of dollars and pushing the world
economy into recession.
Israel’s “Petroleum Tax”: War Threats and the Price of Gas
During the first 3 months of 2012, the price of oil rose 15%
(over 30% since the summer 2011) largely due to Israel’s war mongering
and threats to launch an offensive war against Iran. Israeli Prime
Minister Netanyahu, President Peres and Foreign Minister Lieberman have
all repeatedly demanded the US bomb Iran, or failing that, they warn,
Israel would launch its own offensive war against the Iranian people and
drag the US into another war.
Almost all oil experts and political analysts agree that the spike in
oil prices is a result of Israel’s war mongering, as major
international oil speculators bet that an Israeli assault on Iran will
provoke a major disruption in production and transportation of petroleum
in the Middle East and provoke a global shortfall
[33].
The 52 Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations
have added to the war hysteria by echoing and embellishing on Israel’s
claims of an Iranian nuclear threat (or Iran’s “growing capacity” to
threaten Israel in the future)[34].
During the first three months of this year alone, the increased price of gasoline – or more accurately Israel’s
war tax
on the American consumers and drivers costs an additional 60 cents a
gallon, or $9 dollars more to fill a 15 gallon tank. This represents the
tribute the
Zionist power configuration has imposed on the American consumers in
their push for a new war on Israel’s behalf. No US politician would dare
discuss this issue, let alone speak up and tell the Zionist chattering
classes and their “beloved leaders” to stop pimping for war or else risk
the cutting off of Israel’s $3 billion dollar annual handout from the
US taxpayers.
Leading economists have stated that the price hike in petroleum
(caused by a bellicose Israel) is stunting growth and pushing the US and
EU back into recession … costing millions more job losses
[35]. If we add the consumer losses caused by high gas prices to the losses in world economic output, the mere
war chants of Netanyahu, Lieberman, Peres and the AIPAC will cost the global economy hundreds of billions over the course of the year.
Any mention of Israel’s gas tax on the American family’s budget will elicit outraged accusations of
anti-Semitism from respectable Zionists and ugly threats from their thug accomplices. When Obama performed his infamous annual
belly crawl
to pleasure the AIPAC delegates and their Israeli guests, in the midst
of cheers over his re-affirmation of America’s unconditional loyalty to
the state of Israel, he also quietly asked Israel to lower the war cries
at least until after the November elections because of its effects on
the price of gasoline on the American voter
[36].
The high price of oil is damaging Obama’s chances for re-election.
The American electorate may not understand the real cost of Obama’s
submission to Israel and may not be aware of Israel’s
gas tax, but they are holding their putative President responsible for their
pain at the pump!
There is only one thing that Obama cherishes more than Zionist support
and that is the votes of an economically squeezed American electorate,
who are turning against him in droves as the price of gasoline soars.
Conclusion
The
week of March 4 to 11, 2012 will go down in history as a week of
national humiliation; a time when legions of fanatical American Zionists
took over Washington; when the entire Cabinet, led by President Obama,
groveled before the officials of a foreign state – in the heart of
Washington DC. When the President and Prime Minister of Israel
directed their foreign legionaires to march on the US Congress and shove
their flimsy pretexts for war with Iran into the faces of cringing
legislators, the simplistic and idiotic message was:
Bomb Iran because it may soon have … a nuclear ‘capacity’. If asked what constitutes
capacity, they
quote their beloved leaders in Tel Aviv, including the semi-literate
(former nightclub bouncer) Foreign Minister Avi Lieberman, the morally
corrupt Bibi Netanyahu and the quietly diabolic Shimon Peres that
Iranians can ‘
enrich uranium’ – a capacity long held by 125 other countries.
It is with supreme arrogance that the followers of AIPAC and
the 52 Presidents penetrate the US government in order to serve a
foreign government. None bother to hide their past, present or future
affiliations with the state of Israel. They are backed by
prestigious Zionist academics, whose tendentious justifications for war
have already sent tens of thousands of US soldiers to an early grave or
to the wards of military and veteran hospitals and clinics across the
country:
They have sold us the argument that by serving the interests of the State of Israel we serve the United States.
From this, it only follows that to break the law and act as an
unregistered agent for a foreign power, to transfer highly classified
government documents to Mossad agents at the Israeli embassy and to
threaten Americans who criticize or oppose Israel is a patriotic act
[37].
Naval analyst Jonathan Pollard, the convicted US master-spy for Israel,
is widely celebrated in Israel as an honorary Colonel in the IDF and a
hero; the leaders of the major Zionist organizations are again
pressuring Obama to release this traitor.
The documented performance of the leading Zionists in public office in the United States over the past two decades has been
an unmitigated disaster. The self-proclaimed
best and brightest
have led the country into the worst economic and military catastrophes
in a century. It was Alan Greenspan, as head of the Federal Reserve, who
de-regulated the financial sector and optimized conditions for the
mega-swindles and speculative frenzy bringing down the entire financial
system. It was his replacement, Ben Bernacke, who pushed for trillions
of US tax-payer dollars in bail-out funds to save his cronies on Wall
Street and set them back on course, in the last 2 years, to repeat their
speculative orgy – and allow such tribal compatriots as Stephen
Schwartzman to reap $213 million in earnings in 2011
[38].
It was Fred Kagan, Paul Wolfowitz, Doug Feith, Libby, Abrams
and Ross, as well as their less prominent lieutenants, who pushed the US
into wars on Israel’s behalf in Afghanistan and Iraq, all the while
confidently predicting ‘low cost, quick victories’ (even slam-dunks). Never
has such a cohort of Ivy League mediocrities collectively produced so
many disastrous policies in such a brief historical time while never
being held in any way, shape or form responsible or accountable for
their performance. It is obvious that these policy disasters did not result from faulty intellect or lack of an elite education. Their
apparent
ignorance of historical, political, economic and military realities was
a result of their blinding Zionist loyalties to the Israeli state whose
real interests they embraced. This lack of accountability guarantees
that this process will continue until the US, as a republic, is
destroyed for the masses of its misled citizens.
In order to justify a war against Israel’s regional adversaries, these blind mediocrities have
distorted the realities of Arab nationalism. It was with
supreme tribal arrogance and racism that they assured themselves that
Arabs
could never sustain prolonged resistance to their imperial juggernaut.
They believed precisely what their tribal religion/ideology told them:
They were a
chosen
people (genetic studies aside). They were the most financially
successful investors or speculators. They attended and taught at the
most prestigious universities. When, on occasion, a leading Zionist
philanthropist, like Bernard Madoff, fell afoul—and actually went to
jail– it was because, like his fellow tribalists, Milken, Boesky and
Pollard — he didn’t buy his one way ticket to Israel soon enough.
When a country, like the United States, is in decline, it is not
because of external competition: Declining competitiveness is only a
symptom. It is because of
internal rot.
Decline results when a nation is betrayed by craven leaders, who crawl
and humiliate themselves before a minority of thuggish mediocrities
pledged to a foreign state without scruples or moral integrity.
James Petras latest book is The Arab Revolt and the Imperialist Counterattacks
(Atlanta: Clarity Press 2011) 2nd edition.
[1] For full coverage of the daily activities and the uncritical reportage of the major media see the
Daily Alert , the official mouthpiece of
52 Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations, especially March 4 – 6, 2012.
[2] See the AIPAC video reports and the list of speakers.
http://www.aipac.org , 3/2/2012 and subsequent reports.
[3] White House press release of Obama’s declaration that US subordinate relation to Israel is “sacrosanct”, March 4,/20/12.
[4] The reference is to Noam Chomsky whose laughable effort to downplay the influence of the
Zionist power configuration
is widely rejected and is once again refuted by the most superficial
observation of the proceedings, pledges and prostrations of all top US
policy makers at the AIPAC meeting.
[5] Netanyahu’s public pronouncements and AIPAC speech were duly recorded, amplified and supported by the
New York Times,
Wall Street Journal, and especially the
Washington Post (2/6/2012). He explicitly called on the US to militarily attack Iran on behalf of Israel, on the basis of Teheran’s ‘
capacity’ to make a nuclear weapon. According to Netanyahu “
we can’t afford to wait much longer …”
Prime Minister’s Office 3/5/12.
[6] New York Times, 3/5/12.
[7] Prime Ministers Office as quoted in the
Daily Alert, 3/6/12.
[8] AIPAC video daily reports, 3/6/12.
[9]
For example, just one of the numerous Zionist billionaires, the casino
tzar, Sheldon Adelson has already contributed “tens of millions of
dollars” to influence the current Presidential elections.
Haaretz, 2/29/12. Haim Saban,
another Israel-Firster billionaire, bought the principle Spanish language TV outlet in the US,
UNIVISION, and then proceeded to promote sensationalist Israeli propaganda about an Iranian-Islamist “takeover” of Latin America.
[10] AIPAC press releases, 3/7/12 – 3/10/12.
[11] A survey of the
Daily Alert
, from March 4 to March 9, reveals there is not one single article that
discusses the alternative of a diplomatic settlement with Iran, while
over a dozen articles feature calls for war.
[12] For documentation and details on the decisive role of Zionist policy makers in launching the US war against Iraq see my
The Power of Israel in the United States (Atlanta: Clarity Press 2006).
[13] New York Times, 3/1/12
[14] The
52 Presidents of the Major Jewish Organizations repeatedly endorsed Netanyahu’s pretext for war. See
Daily Alert, 3/6/2012
[15] Quoted in
http://Mondoweiss.net, 3/2/12.
[16] Ibid.
[17]
Key Zionist Congressional operatives include Representatives Berman,
Cantor, Harman, Lieberman, Ros- Lehtinen, and Levin as well as their
Christian side-kicks, like McConnell and Pelosi among others who
appeared at the AIPAC war fest.
AIPAC promotional flyer 3/2/12.
[18] See
The Power of Israel in the United States (op cit.)
[19] See “On Bended Knees: Zionist Power in American Politics” in James Petras,
War Crimes in Gaza and the Zionist Fifth Column (Clarity, Atlanta 2010.
[20] The Power of Israel in the United States, op cit.
[21] Though Ross has formally resigned, he is still a key Obama adviser on the Middle East. See
Haaretz 1/27/12,
[22]
One of the key Zionist operatives is Jeffrey Feltman, Assistant
Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. He played a crucial role in
support of Israel ‘s bombing of Lebanon in 2006, during his term as
Ambassador, calling Hezbollah a “terrorist organization”. He dictated
policy to the US client ruler Fouad Siniora. Feltman twice served in
Israel. He was stationed in Gaza where he collaborated with the
occupying Israeli Defense Forces. He worked with uber-Zionist US
Ambassador Martin Indyk backing Israel’s position in the phony “Peace
Process” from 2000 to 2001. Other Zionists in key positions include Jack
Lew, current Chief of Staff to President Obama; David Plouffe senior
adviser, Dan Shapiro, Ambassador to Israel; Steven Simon, Head of Middle
East/North Africa Desk at the National Security Council; and Eric Lynn,
Middle East policy advisor.
Jewish Virtual Library a Division of the American-Israeli Enterprise 2012.
[23]
Prominent Zionists, who served in strategic positions in the foreign
policy realm of the Obama regime, included Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff
to the President, David Axelrod, Senior Advisor; James Steinberg Deputy
Secretary of State; and Richard Holbrooke Special Envoy to
Pakistan/Afghanistan (deceased).
[24]
Several studies estimate that Jews make up about 25% of the Forbes 400
richest Americans; over half are contributors to Israel or Zionist
organizations or causes. J.J. Goldberg in his book on Jewish power
estimates that 45% of Democratic fundraising comes from pro-Israel Jews.
(
Jewish Power: Inside the Jewish Establishment, Reading: Addison-Wesley 1996)
[25] Steve Rosen, a top policy director of AIPAC, along with his colleague, Keith Weissman
admitted
to handing over confidential documents to the Israeli embassy. Rosen
later filed suit against AIPAC for firing him and Weissman and refusing
to pay their legal fees; he claimed that the Lobby frequently condoned
its employees’ receipt and illegal transfer of classified US government
information citing numerous AIPAC documents to back-up his case.
The Jewish Daily Forward, 12/15/2010.
[26] The owner and publisher of the
Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, urged Netanyahu to order the Israeli secret spy service, the
Mossad, to assassinate President Obama,
Haaretz
1/21/12. Rabbi Michael Lerner, a moderate Zionist critic of Israel, has
been subject to four attacks on his home in the past two years, while
accused of being a ‘
self-hating Jew’ by Zionist fanatics.
Mainstream Zionist organizations dissociate themselves from physical
violence, while slanderously labeling opponents and critics of Israel as
“
anti-semites”, which has created precisely the political
climate that encourages the less balanced among their audience to
violent activity. Leading Zionist ideologues have been extremely active
in inducing colleges and universities to fire critics of Israel, as was
the case in the failure of DePaul University to renew the contract of a
widely published scholar like, Norman Finklestein. Professors Walt and
Mearsheimer, authors of an erudite study of
The Israel Lobby,
were subject to vitriolic attacks by American Zionist leaders,
including A. Foxman of the Anti (sic) Defamation League as well as a
superficial critique by left-Zionist Noam Chomsky. The racist rantings
of uber-Zionists like David Horowitz and Pamela Geller helped to
detonate the Islamophobic and Zionophilic mass murderer, Anders Breivik,
in Norway.
[27] See the
Atlantic Jewish Times editorial 1/20/12.
[28] The editor of the
Atlantic Jewish Times
who called for Obama’s assassination was not charged with any federal
security offense. The confessed Zionist spy, Colonel Ben-Ami Kadish, who
stole secret US nuclear weapon plans for Israel, did not spend a single
day in jail although he paid a $50,000 fine for handing over scores of
documents to Israel. (See Grant Smith
Foreign Agents,
Institute for Research Middle East Policy (IRMEP) Washington 2008. On AIPAC spying see
IRMEP 2/6/12.
[29]
Not to be ignored, the rarified atmosphere in high level scientific
research journals has been politicized – most outrageous is the
censorship of a genetic-immunologic study (by a leading international
team of scientists) showing the close genetic relationship, if not
identity between Levantine Jews and Palestinians. University libraries
around the world were advised to ‘tear-out’ (eyes closed) the offending
study from the pages of the journal,
Human Immunology, lest such data might undermine the racist ‘raison d’etre’ for an exclusively Jewish State. (
see Journal axes gene research on Jews and Palestinians, Robin McKie,
Guardian-Sunday Observer (London), November 25, 2001 and
Hum. Immunol. 62 (9): 889–900.)
[30] A review of new reports and editorials of the
New York Times,
Washington Post and
Wall Street Journal, published by the
Daily Alert
during the AIPAC conference, reveals a close alignment with the
extremist militarist position of the Israeli regime and AIPAC leaders
See Steve Lendman ‘
New Times Promoting War on Iran’ 3/3/12.
[31]
During the month of February 2012, the Israeli Army and armed
paramilitary Jewish settlers carried out 145 attacks on Palestinians,
killing and wounding dozens, demolishing homes, seizing thousands of
acres of land and uprooting scores of families:
The Wall and Settlements Information Center, Palestinian Authority 3/1/12. Neither the
New York Times or the
Wall Street Journal or the
Washington Post reported on these Israeli crimes against Palestinian civilians.
[32]
Among Chertoff’s current clients are the manufacturers of the intrusive
and nationally detested ‘body scanners’ used at US airports. He was
also instrumental in the release and repatriation of a dozen Israeli
Mossad agents arrested in New York and New Jersey within 24 hours of the
9/11 terrorist attack. Three of the nine justices,Ginsberg, Breyer and
Kagan, are Zionists unwilling to challenge the Executive usurpation of
war powers and promotion of torture and rendition. The others are all
affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church. Not a single
Protestant-affiliated Justice (numerically the majority religion in the
US) has been appointed to the Supreme Court since the 1990 appointment
of respected constitutional scholar, David Souter (by George Bush the
First), because of their ‘unreliability’ (code-word for upholding the
Bill of Rights and Constitution). The recent appointment of Justice
Elena Kagan, whose lackluster academic career did not deter uber-Zionist
Laurence Summers from appointing her Dean of the Harvard Law School,
uderscores the mediocre criteria used in the high judiciary. The most
recent appointment of Sonya Sotomayor to replace the brilliant (and
Zionistically
‘unreliable’) J.P. Stevens, was promoted heaviliy for the Supreme Court
on the basis of her strong ties to Israel, starting with her first (of
many) ‘leadership’ tours to Israel (see
The Jewish Chronicle – Life story Israel trips tie Sotomayor to Jews, Ron Kampeas – May 26, 2009).
33] Financial Times3/6/12, p. 9.
[34]
Howard Kohr AIPAC executive director, during his vitriolic war
mongering speech at the conference exceeded even Netanyahu’s explicit
call for an immediate military attack on Iran. See
AIPAC daily report, 3/16/12.
[35]
Most experts agree that the oil price increase has stymied ‘economic
recovery’ and if it continues to rise will plunge the world back into
deep recession.
[36]
Obama’s speech to the AIPAC meeting pointedly called on the Israeli
leaders to tone down on their military rhetoric, clearly linking rising
oil prices to Israeli war mongering.
[37] See Grant Smith, ‘AIPAC
Directors Use of Classified Missile Data, Harmed National Security – US State Department’,
Business Wire 2/6/12.
[38] Financial Times 3/1/12, p. 17.
EDITING : Debbie Menon
