- "The Government of Israel has insulted the Vice
President of the United States, and spat in the face of the President
they wiped the spit off their faces and smiled politely as the saying
goes: when you spit in the face of a weakling, he pretends that it is raining"
- -- Uri Avnery Israeli Jewish journalist 13/3/2010.
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- "We (Israel) possess several hundred atomic
warheads and rockets most European capitals are targets of our air force
the Palestinians should all be deported. Two years ago, only 7 or 8 per
cent of Israelis were of the opinion that this would be the best solution,
two months ago, (January 2010), it was 33 percent and now according to
a Gallup poll, the figure is 44 percent". -- Martin Van
Crevel Israeli, professor of military history at Hebrew University at Jerusalem
and top adviser to the Israeli Armed Forces, March 2, 2010.
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- Introduction
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- When Israel announced a major new Jews-only building
project of 1600 homes in occupied East Jerusalem, it was not only "spitting
in the face" of visiting Vice President Biden, it was demonstrating
its power to humiliate America and Americans. Netanyahu
was sending a message to world: Israel backed by its billionaire-financed Presidents
of the 51 Major American Jewish Organizations, leads the US by the nose.
The Jewish State can make an agreement with the White House one day and
revoke it the next (with characteristic arrogance), US public opinion be
damned. No sooner did the Obama Administration react to this most public
show of impudence with Biden privately telling the Israeli Prime Minister
that, "What you're doing here undermines the security of our troops
who are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. That endangers us and
it endangers regional peace.", than Netanyahu openly called on the
"American Jewish community" (the major Zionist organizations)
to come to the defense of Israel and its claim on all of Jerusalem. And
respond they did: turning the insulted victim (America) into the bully
and blaming the US, not the Israeli government, for the "crisis"
and for the breakdown of Israel's agreement not to expand colonial settlements
on occupied Palestinian land. As we shall describe, the entire Zionist
power configuration in the United States (with a few notable exceptions)
defended Israel's effrontery and condemned any attempt by the US government
to peacefully resolve a conflict, which threatened US lives, economic interests
and prestige. This just confirmed world public opinion, which sees an American
electorate willing to be humiliated by this economically insignificant
state.
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- The Bigger Issue: Beyond the Biden Netanyahu Caper
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- Whatever the insults and crimes of the moment, the conflict
between Israel and the US is not about Netanyahu's hyper-arrogance or a
new series of Jerusalem land grabs, or even the frothy spittle on Vice
President Biden's face. It is, in essence, about the relation between
states or, better still, the relation between peoples where one group
(Israeli Jews and their powerful one percent fifth column agents in
the US) exacts tribute and imposes wars in its own interests on another
group (the US tax payers, soldiers, workers and businessmen). It arrogates
power, not merely yesterday or today, but for the last 50 years.
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- In a broader historic context, the public humiliation
of Vice President Biden in Tel Aviv pales in comparison to the Israeli's
cold blooded sneak attack, which killed and wounded over 200 American servicemen
on the USS Liberty in June 1967. An arrogant and homicidal
Israel humiliated the US through this attack, confident that then-President
Lyndon Johnson would not retaliate but would even silence the survivors
from ever telling their story to the American people. When Netanyahu calls
on the "Jewish Communities" in the US he is not referring to
the majority of American Jews. He, in fact, is addressing the Zionist
power configuration whose strategically-placed members designed and
promoted the Iraq war policy, which has caused the deaths and mutilation
of thousands of US soldiers as well as over one million Iraqi civilians.
In essence, the US soldier victims of the invasion of Iraq lost
their lives, limbs and sanity for the interests of the Zionist "homeland".
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- It is not merely that American Zionists defend the illegal
construction of another Jews-only neighborhood in the middle of Palestinian
East Jerusalem; the announcement was calculated to humiliate the visiting
US Vice President. It's not just a matter of US Zionist support for Netanyahu's
sabotage of a US peace initiative; nor is it about the unconditional ZPC
support for Israeli crimes as they were being denounced by the United Nations
and the peoples of the world. The fundamental issue is that the ZPC in
the United States is turning our country and its people into defenders
of Israel's sordid crimes, casting the American people as accomplices
to ethnic cleansing and degrading our moral sensibilities before the whole
world.
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- Today and Yesterday: Castrating America
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- Netanyahu's symbolic spitting in Biden's face was a calculated
act of grave significance. It marked out Israel's 'will to power'
its willingness to publicly humiliate US leaders and flaunt its power
over the US before the world. Israel exposed US impotence in
the Middle East and beyond. This incident has world-historic consequences
for anyone who is not blind. The US is a declining power, which cannot create
a secure environment for its soldiers, corporations and citizens anywhere
in the Middle East or beyond. No European, Asian, Latin American or Muslim
country can look at the US and its citizens without thinking, "Here
is a country at the feet of Israeli leaders and at the throat
of Israel's designated 'enemies'. It is an understatement to
say that the US, as a nation and as a people, has "lost prestige".
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- Israel has a long and ignoble history of sabotaging peace
talks in favor of grabbing land. From its very foundation, Tel Aviv undermined
peace offers through unprovoked military attacks. Israel, along with Britain
and France, launched a full-scale surprise invasion of Egypt to grab the
Suez Canal, after it had promised to consider Egyptian President Nasser's
proposal to negotiate. In more recent times, as soon as Arafat agreed to
formally recognize Israel as a state and sign a peace agreement, Jewish
tanks and jets attacked the West Bank killing hundreds and surrounding
Arafat's headquarters for months. At the same time it increased the number
of the Jews-only settlements in the West Bank ten fold to accommodate over
500,000 fanatical paramilitary Jewish settlers. When the elected Hamas
administration implemented a unilateral cease fire, Israel launched a major
military assault, ultimately devastating Gaza and killing 1400 mostly unarmed
Palestinians.
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- Israel's actions, past and present, including land grabs,
Jews-only apartheid roads and settlements and military invasions of Palestinian
refugee camps and towns have destroyed the possibility of a negotiated
peace agreement, which would compromise the Zionists' vision of an ethnically-cleansed
"Greater Israel".
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- Given this spiteful history, it not surprising that Israel's
current apologists claim that the current land grab to build more Jews-only
apartment blocks in Jerusalem is "nothing new", that it
is "part of our history", that Jews "need the
living space" and that "three thousand years of Biblical
history tells us that all this land is ours" (quotes from theDaily
Alert, March 15 -17, 2010, official mouthpiece of the Conference of Presidents
of the Major American Jewish Organizations).
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- The humiliation of Biden was not the first time that
Israel acted publicly to embarrass the Obama Administration. In his first
meeting with President Obama, Prime Minister Netanyahu openly rejected
any freeze in new settlements. Indeed, Israel escalated its settlement
building right after Obama addressed the Muslim-Arab world in his 'Cairo
Speech'.
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- What is behind Netanyahu's perverse behavior and his
US supporters' overweening arrogance? How can the US media, hundreds of
Congressional Representatives and all the leading Jewish American organizations, support an
extremist racist regime, which attacked and humiliated our country with
impunity? How can the American Zionists side with a foreign country over
issues detrimental to basic US security interests and not be viewed as
traitors by other Americans?
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- In the first place, Netanyahu has the support of 80%
of the Israeli-Jewish population as he pursues the policy of evicting the
Palestinians and expanding exclusively Jewish settlements on occupied lands
despite US President Obama's 'peace overtures'. Humiliating the visiting
US Vice President on a 'peace mission' from Obama only increased Netanyahu's
popularity with Israelis.
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- Secondly, this impudent projection of Israeli power over
the reputed American 'superpower' appeals to the self-image of the far-right
religious settlers whose leaders form the backbone of the current governing
coalition (especially the Shas party).
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- Thirdly, insulting a gentile President and Vice President
would find approval among the supporters of Netanyahu's gangster Foreign
Minister, Avi Lieberman and with the tough Eastern European Hasidic youth
who routinely spit on elderly Christian monks and priests in their ancient
Armenian and Greek quarters of Jerusalem.
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- It might seem strange for Israelis, who face increasing
isolation throughout the Middle East and are condemned throughout Europe
for their brutal colonial crimes, to glorify their thuggish leader as he
heaps contempt on their most important military ally and economic supporter,
its elected leaders and its citizens. Accumulated Israeli political resentment
against world condemnation for their war crimes found an emotional outlet
by identifying with Netanyahu's antics: His relentless brutality against
the 'Untermenschen' of Palestine and his willingness to openly defy
the US Administration, even as Israel extracts $3 billion dollars a year
from the Americans, re-enforces their sense of superiority. It is clear
that Netanyahu's totalitarian policies have a mass popular base among Israelis
and his swaggering arrogance faithfully reflects the national psyche of
Israel.
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- Netanyahu and his ministers calculated that no matter
how hard they squeeze the hapless US taxpayers, themselves caught in the
a profound economic crisis, and no matter how often the Israelis threaten
to provoke a wider regional war and cause more American soldier casualties,
they can always count on the unconditional support of theZionist Power
Configuration in the US to promote Israel's interest. The entire US
mass media applauded the Great Humiliator and even attacked the few American
public figures as they (at least temporarily) defended American dignity
against Israeli insults. The major Zionist leaders all rushed to support
Israel's humiliation of the US and to denigrate its critics. An endless
parade of US politicians, editorial writers, columnists, opinion-makers,
"think" tankers, and TV commentators demonstrated their
special loyalty to Israel against an American president who was timidly
seeking a negotiated peace in the Middle East.
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- The recent 'conflict' between Israel and America over
peace in the Middle East brought on by a crude Israeli provocation
exposed far more profound issues: At the center of power in America,
there is an influential group of power-brokers willing to exploit and humiliate
the American people in the service of a foreign power. In the past, patriots
would have called them 'traitors'.
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- Netanyahu's Hubris 'Rebuked'
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- In response to the official Washington show of
anger, Netanyahu issued a half-hearted "explanation": The problem
was not the policy of building new settlements in
violation of their agreement with Washington; the problem was the timing of
the announcement. It was a regrettable "error" by a minor functionary
in the Israeli Interior Ministry who made his announcement right after US
Vice President Biden had finished groveling at Netanyahu's feet and was
busy pressuring the Palestinian Authority collaborators to rejoin the 'peace' charade
sponsored by Washington. According to the Israeli media and their US mouthpieces
it was a public relations breakdown, not a matter of strategic political
and military significance affecting the US in the Middle East. In other
words: With Biden out of Israel and collaborator Abbas back at the 'table',
any announcement violating the "freeze on settlements"
would be merely an Israeli "internal policy" and a "continuation
of past practices".
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- Netanyahu Comes to Washington: Backhanders for Obama,
Cheers from AIPAC
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- Netanyahu, fresh from spitting on Vice President Biden
in Tel Aviv, administered a series of humiliating 'back-handed' slaps in
the smiling face of President Obama, right under the glaring lights of
the mass media in the US capital.
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- Bibi Netanyahu delivered a rabble rousing speech to over
7,000 cheering Zionists at the annual AIPAC conference in Washington, DC.
He asserted Israel's will to constructJews-only housing throughout
occupied Arab East Jerusalem and the West Bank, repeating Israel's illegal
claim that Jerusalem was the undivided capital of the Jewish people. He
then demanded and secured a two-hour meeting with Obama, despite his arrogant
insult against the US Administration. Adding further humiliation to the
already weak US President, the Israel government announced another
Jews-only housing project in Arab East Jerusalem to be built on confiscated
Palestinian property. This announcement, just hours before the planned
Bibi-Barack meeting, carried an additional threat that the White House
charade of 'peace negotiations' would be put off the table if the
Americans protested this new round of illegal construction. Netanyahu,
demonstrating his utter contempt for the White House and the America people,
went straight to the Zion-colonized US Congress and secured the House Majority
leader Pelosi's 'unconditional support' for Israeli expansion.
And, as if to celebrate its victory and establish its own definition of
'peace', the Israeli military assassinated four un-armed Palestinians,
two impoverished job-seekers and two young teenage protesters.
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- Loyalty to the Israeli masters was evident when thousands
of Zionists fanatics jumped to their feet and cheered Bibi Netanyahu's
crude repudiation of the American efforts to protect its soldiers' lives
by promoting a peace initiative. Hillary Clinton's call for a 'peace settlement
based on two states for two people' was met with dead silence. The
entire Zionist-dominated media and all the leading Jewish organizations
backed an unprecedented series of humiliations directed against the elected
US Administration and the American people. Netanyahu's demagogic display
of Israeli power over the US Congress and the American mass media and his
crude willingness to degrade US political leaders in the nation's capital
mocks the very notion of the American people having any voice in their
nation's policies and subordinates America's military high command over
issues of war and peace in the Middle East.
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- For Pelosi and the Zionized Congress, the thousands of
campaign shekels from the AIPAC crowd to fund their re-elections are far
more crucial to their careers than the lives and limbs of thousands of
US soldiers lost to an agenda of Israel and its domestic Fifth Column.
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- Israel's Arrogance Prejudices US Interests
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- Israel's leaders not only raised their domestic prestige
by undermining the US Administration's peace initiatives, they also managed
to extract billions of dollars from the US taxpayers. The humiliation of
the Obama regime derailed efforts by the Pentagon and the State Department
to regain influence and credibility among the conservative Arab regimes,
non-Arab Muslim nations and among hundred of millions of Muslims around
the world. This humbling of the US Administration by a sneering Netanyahu
further jeopardizes the work and security of American businessmen and officials
operating in the Middle East and undermines relations with their Muslim
and Arab counterparts.
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- There will be major setbacks for the US in its efforts
to gain support for its wars in the Middle East and South Asia and its
propaganda campaign to discourage young Muslims from joining the anti-US
resistance in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. The symbolic image of Vice
President wiping away Israeli spittle during an official visit will encourage
thousands of young Muslims to resist US occupation, which they view as
promoting Israel's agenda. If an economically insignificant Israel state
can defy the superpower, why can't they? The logic is simple: The greater
the Israeli land-grab, the more submissive the Obama regime, the more extended
and profound the hostility of the Muslim people against the Americans,
the more emboldened the armed resistance movements and the greater the
number of dead and maimed American soldiers stuck in wars promoted by the
Zionists.
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- While the losses of American soldiers in the Middle East
have never figured in Tel Aviv's policy moves, nor influenced the activities
of its Fifth Colum in the USA, these losses do affect millions of American
families and over 200 million American taxpayers. Even an occasional American
General finds the courage to point out that Israel's colonial dispossession
of the Palestinian people has prolonged the war, tied up hundreds of thousands
of US troops and undermined the capacity of the US armed forces to successfully
operate on multiple fronts to promote US imperial interests.
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- When the head of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), General
Petraeus' team of senior officers, identified "Israeli intransigence"
as "jeopardizing US standing and the lives of American solders in
the region (Middle East)" in a briefing before the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff on January 16, 2010, Petraeus met an onslaught of
severe questioning from the ZPC. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral
Mullens received the same rebuke from the powerful Israel-Firsters. This
was not the first time US military and security considerations were subsumed
to Israel's agenda. Only two years earlier in 2007, the ZPC denounced
and successfully buried the annual National Intelligence Estimate (NIE)
prepared by 16 US military and civilian intelligence agencies, which had
concluded that Iran was not developing nuclear weapons and did not pose
a major threat to the US, in favor of Israeli disinformation arguing the
opposite. And the same ZPC has been taking the Obama regime to task for
daring to criticize Netanyahu.
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- Over 300 members of the US Congress signed
an extraordinary letter supporting Israel against their own Administration,
pledging their commitment to "the unbreakable bond that exists
between [U.S.] and the State of Israel". Hundreds of congress men
and officials joined the over 7,000 participants at the March 2010 AIPAC
conference to cheer Netanyahu and witness the US Secretary of State Hilary
Clinton hail the leader of the Israeli settler state who had pledged
"to continue building in all of Jerusalem just as it does in Tel Aviv".
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- General David Petraeus, whose senior officers had expressed
his concern about Israel's policies undermining US military interests to
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mullins, was no match for
the AIPAC. The CENTCOM commander contacted his Israeli counterpart General Gabi
Ashkenazi to repudiate his own criticism of Israeli policies and,
in effect, pledge his unconditional support to the Jewish state even when
it jeopardizes US troops.
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- In January, General Petraeus correctly identified how
Israeli intransigence had damaged US interests and operations in the Middle
East, infuriated Arabs and ultimately increased attacks on American troops.
But in March, the politically ambitious General hastened to retract his
briefing before the Joint Chiefs of Staff. There are few more cravenly
disloyal spectacles in US military history than this bemedaled American
general prostrating himself for the Zionist lobby.
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- And yet, for a brief moment, a few desperate anti-Zionists
leftists, looked to General Petraeus and Admiral Mullen as potential allies against
Israeli-Zionist control of US policy in the Middle East. They ignored the
fact that these are the commanders in charge of the US invasion and occupation
of Iraq and Afghanistan and were preparing to confront Iran. Petraeus'
difference with Israel was over specific policies as they undermined
the smooth operations of the US war machine in the Middle East and his
'recantation' before the Israelis has certainly thrown cold water of this
romantic fantasy of a 'nationalist' US General.
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- The tradition of 'civilian supremacy' in the US ensures
that the military will never confront the issue of Zionist control over
the Congress and White House. Petraeus' briefing will be soon forgotten
and the General's subsequent repudiation is an eloquent example of the
grotesquely opportunistic nature of the American high military command.
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- When civilian leaders point out how Israel's oppression
of 5 million Palestinians jeopardizes American lives and interests in the
Middle East, the Zionist power configuration deflects attention from Israel
and blames the US (and its 'permissive' society) for having instigated
the growing Islamist movement, Arab hostility and attacks. When American
military leaders, strategists and intelligence officers assert that Israel's
policy toward the Palestinians is a leading cause of regional conflict
based on their decades of field expertise, the arm-chair Generals among
the Zionists re-interpret this straightforward identification of Israeli
policy with attacks on American interests and troops as "another point
of view". In the meantime the ZPC rounds up the usual Congressional
or White House Israel Firsters to "disown" their own
military.
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- Israel's narrowly conceived colonial policy, the eviction
of massive numbers of Palestinians and the land grabs to construct Jews-only
colonial settlements, undermines US authority in the Middle East among
its allies. Israel's brazen willingness and ability to openly bash President
Obama, thoroughly discredits the contention among liberal Zionist apologists
like Noam Chomsky that Imperial Washington is "in command"
of Western policy in the Middle East and is acting on behalf of much broader
Euro-American interests.
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- In a wider context, Israel's arrogance damages attempts
by US private investors to broker oil deals for multi-national corporations.
Arab oil countries, which see themselves as threatened by a regional militarist
power like Israel, with its colonial expansion and hegemonic ambitions,
are unlikely to cooperate with the American, especially when the superpower
is impotent to curb Israel's worst excesses.
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- Israeli Colonial Ambitions and US Strategic Interests
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- For Israel and its Fifth Column backers none of the US
strategic concerns are as important as the Jewish state's colonial conquests
and its regional projections of power. Nor are the interests of the American
people given much consideration when they come in conflict with Israeli
expansionist colonial goals. The ZPC never considers or even discusses
the fact that Americans have suffered major losses as a result of Israel's
relentless pursuit of military-driven power in the Middle East.
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- Israel's primary goal of grabbing land and dispossessing
Palestinians goes against the post-colonial ethos of the American people,
who experience increased hostility overseas. The only beneficiaries of
Israel colonial expansion are the small but powerful 51 American Jewish
Zionist organizations which identify with and are loyal to the Israeli
state.
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- Israel's unilateral military aggression and threats against
neighboring countries, including Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Iran and its
cross-border covert assassinations, most recently in Dubai, are of great
importance to Israeli militarists as Israel projects power in the Middle
East. The self-esteem of Israel's militarized citizens is directly linked
to their policy of aggression and assassinations without regard to national
sovereignty. On the other hand, Israeli power projections have undermined
the US efforts todiplomatically expand its own sphere of influence
and negotiate multi-billion dollar military sales, trade and investment
agreements in the Middle East. The fact that Israeli policies have jeopardized
millions of jobs for American workers is an issue of no importance to the
Jewish state and its affluent Israel First backers in the US.
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- Israel's invasion of Lebanon forced the pro-US Harari
faction to form a coalition with the anti-imperialist Hezbollah political-military
movement. Israel's attempt to impose its will on Lebanon through its bombing
campaign, torpedoed US diplomatic and political efforts to consolidate
its influence with President Harari.
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- Netanyahu's successful bullying of Obama and Biden simply
reinforced the ties between the pro-Western Lebanese and the anti-colonial
Muslim left, in the face of Washington's incapacity to constrain the Israeli
'wildmen' or resist the 'internal rot' eroding an independent American
initiative: Better to join forces with Hezbollah, which after all fought
Israel to a standstill in 2006.
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- Israel's loyal accomplices in the US government have
caused enormous damage to the US economy and threaten even greater loss
of American lives, as the Israel seeks to direct US policy toward Iran.
Under the forceful and aggressive direction of Israel Firsters and the
powerful Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence,
Stuart Levey, every major US oil and gas company, bank, petroleum exploration
and drilling firms and countless other business concerns have given up
hundreds of billion dollars in lucrative economic trade an investment deals
in the interest of Israel, which has extracted over $60 billion dollars
of US taxpayer money and handouts and aid during the last decade.
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- Iran, which backed the US imperial attacks on Afghanistan
and Iraq, provided the US military with far more strategic assistance than
all the Israeli advisers, 'experts' and contracted 'interrogators' in Baghdad
and Iraqi 'Kurdistan' put together. Despite the US recognition of Iranian
assistance in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran is demonized as 'the enemy' by
Israeli agents within the US because Tehran opposes Israel's ethnic cleansing
of the Palestinians. Israel's Fifth Column churns out hundreds of articles
a month demanding brutal economic sanctions against Iran and a pre-emptive
military blitz aimed at destroying the Iranian economy and a nation of
over 70 million. Every US military commander in the Middle East has acknowledged
that an attack on Iran will expand the war, cut vital shipping of oil in
the Persian Gulf plunging the world economy into recession, and threaten
the lives of scores of thousands of American soldiers. They also
are aware that the prospect of thousands of American casualties would not
deter the 51 Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations, the
AIPAC-controlled US Congress members, or the likes of Undersecretary of
Treasury Stuart Levey from promoting or provoking a war with Iran. The
leading Israel-First advocates for war with Iran are unconcerned with the
inevitable thousands of US military casualties and the millions of American
jobs lost, as they promote the expansion and supremacy of "Greater
Israel" in all its arrogance and glory throughout the Middle East.
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- Zionist Power Configuration: How Dare You Resist Humiliation!
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- Is it any wonder that, when visiting American leaders
are openly insulted by the racist regime of Prime Minister 'Bibi' Netanyahu,
American Zionists automatically side with Israel and condemn those who
protest in defense of American dignity?
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- The Daily Alert, principle bulletin of the Conference
of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, provides a useful
compilation of the articles, editorials and government documents, defending
Israel against the US Administration's efforts to seek diplomatic solutions.
From March 15 19, 2010 the Israeli-ZPC juggernaut released a remarkable
propaganda offensive, vividly underscoring the immense power of the Zionist
power configuration in the US. As soon as the White House publicly rebuked
Prime Minister Netanyahu for insulting Vice President Biden during his
official visit to Israel, the Zionist power configuration, claiming to
speak for all the "Jewish communities", came out in defense of
Israel and attacked the Obama Administration. A barrage of articles, editorials
and press conferences materialized overnight, with the usual parade of
zombie-like Congressional mouthpieces parroting the Zionist line and applying
direct pressure on the White House. This multi-prong Zionist offensive,
under Netanyahu's direction, was successful in persuading the White House
to return to its characteristic belly-crawl: Clinton, Biden and the rest
of their gang retreated, reasserting the US "unconditional defense
of Israel", declaring the 'non-existence' of the crisis
and asserting the 'rock solid' American relation with Israel.
The chain of command is revealing: The Israeli state orders the Zionist
power configuration into action; the mass media disseminates the line;
Congress marches lock-step for the Zionists and the White House retreats.
Delighted with their success, Zionist propagandists roll out their own
polls claiming the US public support for Israel -- a public saturated with
Israeli manufactured and American Zionist trumpeted propaganda. Clearly
what such "polls" measure is the effectiveness of a monolithic
mass media campaign.
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- The propaganda tactics utilized in this blitzkrieg media
campaign involved placing blame on the insulted victim and attacking "the
Administration for sparking a full blown crisis" (Wall Street Journal,
March 14, 2010). It went on to denounce the US Administration officials
for "condemning" and "pushing" Israel (Washington Post,
March 15 19, 2010). Other publications accused President Obama of
'playing into the hand' of Arab extremists and "fanning
the flames" ,(Fox News and Christian Science Monitor,
March 18, 2010). It was the US President, who had been "hindering
the peace talks" by "encouraging Palestinian intransigence". Haaretz, the
Israeli's liberal newspaper, which has published articles critical of the
Israeli Occupation, released a series of articles, opinion pieces and editorials
by 'experts' and 'military strategists' accusing the US Administration
of "orchestrating the crises" (March 14, 2010) and
called for the Israeli government not to 'grovel' by apologizing
to the US Vice President (March 15). CBS claimed that "Obama
was pushing the US-Israeli alliance to the brink" (March 15).
And on March 17, the Boston Globe accused Obama of "aggravating
Israel's mistake". AIPAC methodically contacted its usual Congressional
flunkeys to denounce the White House for rebuking the Israeli
government.
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- By March 19, the Washington Post had published
over a dozen diatribes calling for US acceptance of Israel's settlement
expansion. Zionist think tanks and front groups with deceptive names, like
the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, blamed the displaced
Palestinians for sabotaging "the peace process" by
protesting the accelerated Israeli land confiscation and settlements (Scripps
Howard and Fox News, March 18, 2010). Predictably, the New
York Times provided a slightly liberal gloss by calling for reconciliation
and an end to the crises, while never mentioning the public Israeli humiliation
of Vice President Biden or considering how Israel's latest grab of Palestinian
neighborhoods in East Jerusalem might endanger US lives and interests.
The Times ignored General Petraeus testimony before Congress
and his briefing, critical of Israeli policy, before the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, while giving prominence to Netanyahu's "peace
talks" (March 18, 2010).
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- A few fissures have appeared in the pro-Israel monolith:
David Axelrod, Obama's chief adviser, condemned Netanyahu's provocation
as an "insult"; New York Times top columnist, Thomas Friedman,
described the Israeli leaders as "drunken drivers"; and a leading
US rabbi called for a building freeze in Jerusalem. These few liberal Zionist
critics were overwhelmed by scores parroting ZPC 'talking points': Bronner
and Sanger of the New York Times, Walter Mead of American (SIC) Interest and
Goldberg of the New Yorker, among others.
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- The craven capitulation, led by Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton, was inevitable. On March 16 Secretary Clinton declared that, "we
have an absolute commitment to Israel's security. We have a close
unshakeable bond between the United States and Israel and between the American
and Israeli people". To prove her fealty to Israeli and Zionist interests,
Clinton became featured speaker at the APAC Conference, March 21
26, 2010, sharing the platform with a triumphant Bibi Netanyahu.
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- Conclusion
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- Israel had to openly humiliate the US as a show of its
power. Given Israel's strategic domination of the US political system and
the ZPC control over mass media and their enormous wealth, a Zionist-controlled
administration, like Obama's, would have to capitulate. Israeli and US
Zionist pressure forced the American leaders to subordinate their international
image and national self-respect and accept the unlimited expansion of Jews-only
settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, no matter how this might
undermine US standing in the region and jeopardize US troops. By 'whipping'
the Obama Administration into line, Israel has set the stage for the launching
of its top priority: Forcing a direct US military confrontation with Iran
in Israel's strategic interests. It is clear that the entire ZPC will stand
with Israel as it promotes its militarist agenda against Iran, regardless
of the consequences to the United States.
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- It has been proven beyond a doubt by the recent events,
that the ZPC has the ultimate say with the Obama Administration, against
the advice of top US military officials and against the basic interests
of the American people. In plain English, we are a people colonized and
directed by a small, extremist and militarist 'ally' which operates through
domestic proxies, who, under any other circumstance, would be openly denounced
as traitors.
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- Can the ZPC be defeated? They are the "most powerful
lobby in Washington", to whom Presidents, Administration officials,
Generals and Congress people must submit or risk having their careers ruined
and being ousted from public office. Meanwhile,outside of the United States,
the international community openly despises Israel as a brutal, racist
colonial state, a war criminal and chronic violator of human rights and
international law. The Middle East Quartet, made up of the United States,
the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, has condemned Israel's
plan to build another 1,600 homes exclusively for Jewish extremist settlers
in Arab East Jerusalem. The Quartet demanded "the speedy creation
of a Palestinian state and the end to provocative actions". But the
'Quartet' is powerless to stop Israeli plans. The Presidents of the Major
American Jewish Organizations tell their followers that global "anti-Semitism"
motivates the 'Quartet'. The huge AIPAC "Hail Israel" Conference
in Washington D.C. in late March celebrated the triumph of unfettered Israeli
expansionism.
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- Nevertheless, some Israelis are beginning to express
unease. After their initial euphoria over Netanyahu's slap-down of Biden
and face-up to Clinton, there is growing fear of Israeli being 'weaned' away
from the American treasury and losing their unfettered access to the US
latest military technology. A poll published on March 19 in Yedroth
Ahronoth, one of Israel's biggest dailies, revealed that 46% of their
readers responded that the government should freeze settlement building
in East Jerusalem, much to the chagrin of the US Israel Firsters, who might
in other circumstances, have labeled these Jews anti-Semites.
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- Fissures in the Zionist monolith are beginning to appear.
These would deepen if and when the American public realizes that Israel's'
dispossession of Palestinians is raising havoc with American lives and
with American interests in a vital part of the world populated by 1.5 billion
Muslim. As more issues arise, the critical choice between following the
lead of the ZPC in pledging unconditional allegiance to Israel and enduring
its provocations and humiliations, or standing up for the dignity,
basic interests and integrity of America, will have to be made. More fissures
will appear and the AIPAC and other members of the ZPC will be seen for
what they are: Swaggering bullies acting on behalf of a foreign power.
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