- Here's the unspeakable truth: I lost my job to make
Israel
safe.
-
- Or more specifically: an obscene amount of tax dollars
are flushed down the Pentagon rat hole every year while billions are
slashed
from state and social programs, including education. I worked for a
state-funded
education program. I was pink-slipped because there's no money for the
program this year.
-
- In short, George Bush fired me.
-
- The Bushcon invasion of Iraq costs $177 million per day,
$7.4 million per hour, and $122,820 per minute. So far, the invasion has
cost an astounding $134.5 billion. "When you integrate Iraqi spending,
which is necessary, with the effort to control spending, it puts more
pressure
on you to make harder choices," said Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
in June. "If you can name one part of government immune from this,
I'd like to know."
-
- Hard choices - like throwing Americans out of
work.
-
- But according to Republicans such as Patrick Toomey
(R-Pa),
even more Americans need face the "hard choice" of poverty.
Education
and social services are non-starters when compared to blowing things up
and butchering thousands of mostly innocent people. "I'd say let's
have a smaller deficit," said Toomey in June. "But most of all,
don't spend it on something else. The non-defense, non-security part of
the budget is out of control."
-
- For instance, literacy programs for poor kids.
-
- In other words, billions will be squandered on
"security"
to protect Israel from its enemies before a dime is spent here in America
on education, nutrition programs, repairing our crumbling infrastructure,
and other things insignificant to Republicans and their multinational
corporate
masters.
-
- As we now know, or should know if we pay attention, Iraq
was invaded at the behest of Israel and a small clan of extreme right-wing
Likudites. Philip Zelikow, executive director of Bush's 9/11 whitewash
commission, admitted as much during a speech delivered at the University
of Virginia on September 10, 2002. "Why would Iraq attack America
or use nuclear weapons against us? I'll tell you what I think the real
threat (is) and actually has been since 1990óit's the threat against
Israel," said Zelikow.
-
- Never mind Saddam had no nukes, or even a few mustard
gas shells.
-
- Paul W. Schroeder, a veteran diplomatic historian, wrote
for the American Conservative magazine on October, 21, 2002, "the
unacknowledged real reason and motive behind the policy [is] security for
Israel. . . . It would represent something to my knowledge unique in
history.
It is common for great powers to try to fight wars by proxy, getting
smaller
powers to fight for their interests. This would be the first instance I
know where a great power (in fact, a superpower) would do the fighting
as the proxy of a small client state."
-
- "The suggestion that the war with Iraq is being
planned at Israel's behest, or at the instigation of policymakers whose
main motivation is trying to create a secure environment for Israel, is
strong," write Kathleen and Bill Christison, former CIA political
analysts. "Many Israeli analysts believe this."
-
- But not the forever gullible American people. For them,
Osama is Saddam and Bush's "war on terror" is about payback for
September 11, 2001, even if those on the blunt end of the murderous payback
truncheon are innocent civilians.
-
- Israel Firsters have essentially taken over the United
States government, from the White House and the Pentagon to Congress.
Fighting
(largely manufactured) terrorism sells the Israel First policy well, if
only because it is wrapped in an American flag.
-
- "These people, who can fairly be called Israeli
loyalists, are now at all levels of government, from desk officers at the
Defense Department to the deputy secretary level at both State and Defense,
as well as on the National Security Council staff and in the vice
president's
office," note the Christisons.
-
- In Congress, the American Israel Political Action
Committee
(AIPAC) rules supreme, and if you don't vote for the pro-Likud agenda
there's
a good chance you will not be re-elected. Ask Cynthia McKinney.
"Jewish
donors have already begun to back McKinney challenger Denise Majette, a
former state court judge from Atlanta who proudly touts a strong pro-Israel
position," wrote Eli Kintisch of the Forward prior to the last
mid-term
elections. Majette eventually unseated McKinney.
-
- "The American Israel Political Action Committee
is a lobbying group that used to support whatever government was in power
in Israel, and used to give money even-handedly inside the US," writes
Juan Cole, a University of Michigan professor, on his blog. "My
perception
is that during the past decade AIPAC has increasingly tilted to the Likud
in Israel, and to the political Right in the United States."
-
- AIPAC is so powerful it operates a long-running spy
operation
that passes classified information on to the Likudites in Israel. As an
example of Bushcon influence over not only foreign but domestic policy,
an FBI investigation of the AIPAC spy operation was seriously compromised
by a preemptory media leak and the investigation is now all but dead in
the water.
-
- How is it possible a major spy scandal has fallen so
effortlessly by the wayside?
-
- Anti-Semitism, the perpetual and unfailing canard.
"In
an indication of their growing estrangement with the Bush administration,
neoconservatives are slamming the White House for failing to stop what
they describe as an anti-Semitic campaign to marginalize them being
conducted
by the CIA and the State Department," writes Marc Perleman of
Forward.
-
- Of course, Perleman has it wrong: the neocons, or Israel
Firsters, are not estranged from the Bush administration - they *are* the
Bush administration and their calculated attack is aimed at the CIA and
the State Department, who have not demonstrated the required degree of
enthusiasm for the Israel First cause at the expense of American lives
and treasure. As the Israel Firsters know, anti-Semitism is so emotionally
charged that there is virtually no defense against it. Once painted as
an anti-Semite, the only two possible options are atonement or
banishment.
-
- If you believe the November election will change things,
think again. Even if Kerry is elected, the Israel Firsters will rule
supreme
in Washington. Kerry has gone out of his way to align himself with Sharon
and the Likudites. If need be he will perform summersaults to accommodate
AIPAC and the Likudites and their long-standing dream of a Greater Israel
at the expense of not only Arabs and Iranians but the beleaguered American
taxpayer.
-
- Sharon and the Israel Firsters are not really keen on
the "liberal" Kerry, so we can probably expect four more years
(or four more decades) of the Christian Zionist Bush and the Straussian
neocons. No way are they going to allow a mere election to sidetrack plans
launched during the Bush I administration by Wolfowitz, Feith, and their
fellow neocon travelers - alumni going back to Reagan and the Iran-Contra
days - and subsequently taken up by the Project for a New American Century,
the American Enterprise Institute, and the Jewish Institute for National
Security Affairs, a camarilla - or more appropriately, a crime syndicate
- that has labored long and hard to make the Likudite vision of Greater
Israel America's primary foreign policy objective.
-
- Of course, if Kerry does "win" in November,
we can expect the neocons to quickly refashion themselves into "war
hawk" Democrats. Remember: Richard Perle, neocon par excellence, the
Prince of Darkness (as his colleagues fondly call him), started his
political
career as a "Scoop" Jackson Democrat.
-
- But even if the Bush neocons don't stage a comeback in
the event Kerry is selected to be CEO of America, there is no shortage
of Israel First zealots in the Democratic Party, as evidenced by the
Clinton
administration (one such zealot was Martin S. Indyk, Clinton's ambassador
to Israel, who is the founding executive director for the Washington
Institute
for Near East Policy where the Straussian neocon Wolfowitz sits on the
board of directors). Kerry's senior foreign policy adviser is none other
than James P. Rubin, Clinton's Assistant Secretary of State for Public
Affairs, an AIPAC-installed Zionist who believes UN-documented facts of
Palestinian suffering under the brutal and interminable Israeli occupation
are "exaggerated" and amount to self-inflicted misery, as he
told Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi of Arab News in August, adequately demonstrating
the difference between "liberal" Arab haters and
"conservative"
Arab haters is at best negligible.
-
- Our collective lot is cast, Kerry or Bush.
-
- Crushing debt and the rapid devaluation of the dollar
in the coming year will result in more pink slips, more Americans relegated
to the ranks of the ignored poor, more compounded and intensified misery
under the leadership of Republicans, who will maintain a stranglehold on
Congress no matter who is selected CEO of America. For the Israel First
clan commanding the highest reaches of our government, unemployment and
tumbling standards of living are far less of a concern than the
"threat"
posed to the sacrosanct state of Israel by Iran, Syria, and Saudi
Arabia.
-
- For Americans unfortunately age 18-35, unemployment will
not be a problem in the coming year because thousands, possibly millions
of them will be working for Uncle Sam as conscripted bullet-stoppers, or
if not bullet-stoppers as slaves assigned to other "national
security"
tasks - under proposed legislation known as the "Skills Draft"
- for the Ministry of Homeland Security and the misnamed Department of
Defense (this behemoth should revert to its old name, the Department of
War).
-
- I will be 52 years old soon after the next CEO of America
is selected, so my services will not be required - although my tax dollars
will be, that is if I ever find gainful employment again (a bleak prospect
for "older workers," that is to say workers who demand a living
wage).
-
- In the meantime, I sit here, in an apartment I can
scarcely
afford, running a computer that chews up vastly overpriced electricity
(our electric corporation was owned by Enron before Enron became one of
the largest criminal organizations in history). I will continue to write
about the high-paid quislings in Congress, the plutocrats, the corporatists
- who, as Mussolini knew, defined fascism - and the Israel Firsters,
conspiring
with the aforementioned quislings in Congress, who are selling our
government
and the American people down the river to a foreign power, about as close
to a textbook definition of treason as there is.
-
- I do not expect the American people to turn this country
around.
-
- Far too many are reduced to mindless and conditioned
flag-waving and have bought into the nocuous illusion that voting for
corporate
candidate A or B is the only acceptable way solve our (usually government
or corporate created) problems - and robotically allowing themselves to
believe the "issues" are about swift boats and who will do a
better job fighting perpetual wars waged against manufactured enemies,
in other words Israel's opponents, not ours.
-
- I have no faith in the American people because the Fox
News induced lobotomy is too severe and obviously irreversible.
-
- It's a long way back from where we are now.
-
- Most of us not only don't know the way back, we don't
realize there is a way back or, worse, that there is even anything
particularly
wrong - beyond the in-your-face nastiness of bin Laden and al-Qaeda so
rudely penetrating our consumerist fantasy cocoon - and thus requiring
the people to do what Thomas Jefferson implored: have a revolution every
few years and throw out the quislings, defrauders, and traitors.
-
- It's not going to happen.
-
- History teaches that the Roman Empire fell with a loud
noise - and our fall, our catastrophic decline, will be far noisier, if
only because we have perfected the art of noisemaking. It took western
civilization nearly 10 centuries to recover from the fall of the Roman
Empire. It took over 900 years to reach the Renaissance. Hopefully, it
will not take us that long to recover from what the Straussian neocons,
the Israel Firsters, and their corporate collaborators - who are not
particularly
ideological, are more akin to scurrilous and amoral carpetbaggers going
along for the profitable ride - will ultimately do to us, only because
we will let them, only because we duteously believe 2 + 2 = 5, as repeated
ad nauseam by the Ministry of Truth (viz., the alphabet corporate news
organizations).
-
- Such a fall, however, does have an upside. It will mean
the telescreens will be blank - that is to say there will no longer be
Fox News gibbering 24/7.
-
- - Kurt Nimmo is a photographer and multimedia developer
in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Visit his excellent no holds barred blog at
www.kurtnimmo.com/blogger.html.
-
- Copyright © 1998-2004 Online Journal. All rights
reserved.
-
- http://www.onlinejournal.com/
- Commentary/100204Nimmo/100204nimmo.html
|
