On the Israel Lobby
January 31, 2007
Scott Ritter on the Israel Lobby:
Ralph Nader on the Israel Lobby:
Jimmy Carter on the Israel Lobby:
Zbigniew Brzezinski on the Israel Lobby:
Michael Massing on the Israel Lobby:
Israel Lobby on the Israel Lobby:
Brent Scowcroft on the Israel Lobby:
“Sharon just has him wrapped around his little finger,” Scowcroft told the Financial Times. “I think the president is mesmerized.”…He [Sharon] has been nothing but trouble.”…Scowcroft said he warned Rice that [the Gaza withdrawal] is a ruse to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state.
“When I first heard Sharon was getting out of Gaza I was having dinner with Condi and she said: ‘At least that’s good news,’ ” Scowcroft recounted. “And I said: ‘That’s terrible news. . . . Sharon will say: ‘I want to get out of Gaza, finish the wall [the Israeli security barrier] and say I’m done.‘ ” (Washington Post)
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We can trace the Israeli Lobby’s power in the US back even as far as the 1917.The Balfour Declaration in support of establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine indicates a prescient recognition by the British government of the already important influence the Lobby had with the US government.Perfidious Albion of course was less interested in stateless Jews ( similar promises were made to the Arab side chafing at the Ottoman bit ) than the need to win friends in the US who might persuade Americans of the need to lend support to the British in WW1.It seems to have done the trick.
The wafer-thin line between what are perceived as Israeli and which US security interests dates back at least to 1948 and the foundation of the Israeli state.It was at this time that the myth of “tiny” Israel triumphing against superior Arab forces began being propagated in the Western media.The myth continued through the 50s and 60s.In fact the myth is belied by contemporary estimates of the “indisputably superior strength of Israel” as against the combined Arab states in the CIA monthly review of the world situation for …..1949!Israel’s military power was approaching that state of superiority she was to enjoy over the Arabs during the Suez aggression.
With the small interregnum of the Eisenhower administration,when aid was briefly cut off in 1953, Israel and its US Lobby has determined the broad outlines of US policy in the region when Ben Gurion’s strategy vis-a-vis the Arabs was based firmly the assumption of total military superiority.
In succeeding years neither the Jewish people or their representatives have learned the art of negotiation which presupposes a certain equality between partners.
Nor has a US so thoroughly indoctrinated by the myth of “tiny”,besieged Israel been inclined to tutor them in such arts.
That Israel would be the first regional nuclear power was ensured during Eisenhower’s presidency when the US government was involved directly with nuclear research at the Weizman Institute.Knowledge of this history lends any pretentions to the role of mediator by the US as entirely spurious.By the late 60s the US had become Israel’s silent partner in developing the Jewish bomb.
The limited returns the US enjoys from its support for Israel are patently visible currently given the inexorable ongoing slide to defeat in the Iraq war which was so asssiduously fired by the Israeli Lobby
and neo-con hawks.Why many Americans ask do we need to attack Iran?Why compound the monstrous folly of two failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by starting a third one?
Such follies have been characteristic of the myopia that afflcts the US in its dealings with Israel.Stephen Green’s probing review of previously classified material:Taking Sides:America’s Secret Relations With A Militant Israel(1984)provides numerous examples.None is more illustrative of who of the two wears the trousers than LBJ’s stepped arms deliveries to Israel during the Vietnam war in the forlorn hope that she would assist the US project in Vietnam by recognising their Thieu-led client regime.Israeli PM Eshkol was in no doubt re-the difference between Israeli and US national security
interests and told the US that his country was a small one which was a gateway to Asia so that his country’s relations with Asian and African developing nations needed not be jeopardized by lending any support to the US proxy in S.Vietnam.
Green adds ascerbically that when Israel did finally agree to assist the “free-world effort” in Vietnam it was merely to accept eight Vietnamese trainees in dry-land farming.This only on the condition there was to be no publicity.Green’s research established that the State Department agreed to this.It was not the first moment of bathos nor will it likely be the last in the history of this unequal alliance.
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hawks.Why many Americans ask do we need to attack Iran which might in its potential nuclearization be a threat to Israel but cannot be one to the US?Why compound the monstrous folly of two failing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by starting a third one.
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It just shows how the usa and israel are very openly showing their terrorism, it makes me sad to see such kind of videos like the last one….