By: Mohamed Khodr
Rahm Israel Emanuel: Will Handle U.S. Domestic Policy for Israel
Dennis Ross: Will Handle U.S. Foreign Policy for Israel
“Right and wrong
are the same in Palestine as anywhere else. What is peculiar about the
Palestine conflict is that the world has listened to the party that
committed the offence and has turned a deaf ear to the victims.”
– Prof. Arnold Toynbee, British Historian
“The nation which
indulges towards another—a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is
sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. ..a
passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of
evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of
an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest
exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the
former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter
without adequate inducement or justification …Real patriots who may
resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and
odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of
the people, to surrender their interests.”
–President George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796
“Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.”
–Thomas Jefferson: Declaration on Taking Up Arms, 1775. Papers 1:201
“I understand a
number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority, who
are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of
interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent
interests of the community.”
–James Madison, Federalist No: 10: Warning of “Factions/Special Interests” acting against the National Interest
Despite such warnings from our founding fathers against the
corruptive influence of a minority “faction/special interest group”,
our government has nevertheless surrendered, pandered, implemented,
paid and died for the vital interests of a small foreign nation,
Israel. America has in effect “outsourced” its foreign policy and
national interests to this foreign nation to the detriment of its own
interests—political, economic, military, credibility, moral leadership,
and friendly alliances around the world.
In effect, our Israeli shackled government would rather expend our
treasury, our military youth, sacrifice our economic interests around
the world, than dare challenge, change, or have the moral and just
courage to even allow a political debate on this destructive “special
relationship”. a nation condemned and despised around the world as a
rogue brutal military occupier of an entire people living under its
American paid for boots, uniforms, rifles, tanks, bullets, missiles,
rockets, cluster bombs fighter jets, access to our latest technology
and spy satellites, bulldozers, fences, barbed wires, walls, and
concentration camps. The Nazism of Germany and the Apartheid of South
Africa live in Israel’s policies with our government’s full knowledge,
support, political protection, and funding. Many courageous people,
including compassionate humanitarian Jews in and out of Israel have
made this comparison. Israeli men and women like Uri Avnery,
Professor Israel Shahak (deceased), Prof. Illan Pappe, Prof. Avi
Shlaim, Israel Shamir, Journalists Amira Hass, Gideon Levy, and many
others who work for peace and justice in the Holy Land.
“On the morrow of
a persecution in Europe in which they had been the victims of the worst
atrocities ever known… the Jews’ immediate reaction to their own
experience was to become persecutors in their turn… In 1948, the Jews
knew, from personal experience, what they were doing; and it was their
supreme tragedy that the lessons learnt by them from their encounter
with the Nazi German Gentiles should have been not to eschew but to
initiate some of the evil deeds that the *** had committed against
the Jews”
–Famed British Historian Arnold Toynbee, “A Study of History”
“What do we have
to do with apartheid? Does a separation fence constitute separation? Do
separate roads for Jewish settlers and Palestinians really separate?
Are Palestinian enclaves between Jewish settlements Bantustans?
Roadblocks and inspections at every turn; licenses and permits for
every little matter; the arbitrary seizure of land; special privileges
in water use; cheap, hard labor; forming and uniting families by
bureaucratic”
–Yossi Sarid, Haaretz April 4, 2005, “Yes, it is Apartheid” (former Knesset Member)
“What is not so
understandable, not justified, is what it (Israel) did to another
people to guarantee its existence…Have our Jewish sisters and brothers
forgotten their humiliation? Have they forgotten the collective
punishment, the home demolitions, in their own history so soon? Have
they turned their backs on their profound and noble religious
traditions? Have they forgotten that God cares deeply about the
downtrodden?….Somehow, the Israeli government is placed on a pedestal
[in the US], and to criticize it is to be immediately dubbed
anti-Semitic, as if the Palestinians were not Semitic.. People are
scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the
Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful”.
–Former South African Archbishop Desmund Tutu, “Apartheid in the Holy Land”, Guardian April 29, 2002
“Israeli Fascism is alive and
kicking. It is growing in the flowerbed that produced the various
religious-nationalist underground groups of the past: the group that
tried to bomb the Muslim shrines on the Temple Mount, the underground
that tried to assassinate the Palestinian mayors, the “Kach” gang, the
perpetrator of the Hebron massacre Baruch Goldstein, the murderer of
peace activist Emil Gruenzweig, the murderer of Yitzhak Rabin and all
the underground groups that were uncovered at an early stage before
their deeds could bring them to public notice”.
–Uri Avnery,
Counterpunch, “Prof. Ze’ev Sternhell’s Warning on the Growth of Israeli
Fascism—It Can Happen Here (Israel)”, September 29, 2008
In launching his
presidential campaign, Obama, like all his predecessors, knew that as a
democratic candidate the path to the White House must first gain the
support and approval of Jewish Americans. Thus in January 2008 he
showed his allegiance to the Star of David by writing a letter to U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad (a staunchly Pro
Israel Neocon and pusher of the Iraq, Afghan Wars) asking him to vote
against a U.N. Resolution condemning Israel’s catastrophic siege of
Gaza, with 1.3 million Palestinians, an illegal collective punishment
that’s depriving the population from food, water, medicines, fuel,
education, and health care, in direct violation of the U.N. Charter and
the Fourth Geneva Convention despite Israel’s signatory to both. Obama
wrote:
“All of us are concerned about the
impact of closed border crossings on Palestinian families. However, we
have to understand why Israel is forced to do this. The Security
Council should clearly and unequivocally condemn the rocket attacks… If
it cannot bring itself to make these common sense points, I urge you to
ensure that it does not speak at all”
Pander on Mr.
President Elect to the right wing Jewish lobby that controls the very
body you serve in, the Senate, as well as the White House. AIPAC
usually writes Congressional legislation and resolutions, did they
write this for you?
The political,
economic, academic, and media power of the Israel Lobby is unsurpassed
in the history of America. Jewish monies, amounting to fifty to sixty
percent of contributions to the Democratic Party, in conjunction with
AIPAC, a most powerful Israeli lobby, ensure that no debate or
criticism of Israel ever surfaces. Any who dare challenge Israel’s
illegal and brutal occupation and theft of Palestinian land pays a
heavy price in smears, loss of credibility, employment, even receive
death threats.
President Jimmy
Carter, who gifted Israel with a peace agreement with Egypt, endured
the vilest attacks by many Jews around the world, especially in Israel
and its second homeland, America, for his book, “Palestine—Peace or
Apartheid”, to the extent that the he was not invited to attend the
Democratic Convention held in Denver.
In a Los Angeles Times interview Carter said this:
“A debate in America
is an absolutely hopeless dream. “There is not a single candidate in
America, for governor, for House of Representatives, for Senate or for
president that would dare say anything that was not acceptable to
Israel.”
Dual loyalty of
Jewish Americans has always been a persistent question in political
discourse (see Counterpunch article below).
Your choice, Mr.
Obama, of Senator Joe Biden was another pandering signal of your
allegiance to Israel as he’s proudly proclaimed, “I’m a Zionist” in an
interview with ShalomTV. During his V.P. debate he proudly asserted
that no one in the Senate is a better friend of Israel than him.
Speaking to the National Jewish Democratic Council on September 23,
2008, Biden sold his soul, Obama’s, and our national interest for
Jewish votes and contributions. He said:
“I’ve spent 35 years
in my career dealing with issues related to Israel. My support for
Israel begins in my stomach, goes to my heart and ends up in my head.
And I promise you, I guarantee you, I guarantee you. I would not have
joined Barack Obama’s ticket as vice president were I in any doubt,
even the slightest doubt, that he shares the same commitment to Israel
that I share. I guarantee it. It’s that simple. That is a fact.”
–Senator Joe Biden; Vice Presidential Candidate
“The Israelis control the policy in
the Congress and the senate … somewhere around 80 percent of the senate
of the United States is completely in support of Israel — of anything
Israel wants….”
– Senator William Fulbright, Chairman Senate Foreign Relations Committee, October 7, 1973 on CBS’ “Face the Nation”.
“I am aware how
almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy
[in the Middle East] not approved by the Jews. [Former Secretary of
State George] Marshall and [former Defense Secretary James Forestall]
learned that….. Terrific control the Jews have over the news media and
the barrage the Jews have built up on congressmen…. I am very much
concerned over the fact that the Jewish influence here is completely
dominating the scene and making it almost impossible to get congress to
do anything they don’t approve of. The Israeli embassy is practically
dictating to the congress through influential Jewish people in the
country”
–Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in February 1957 quoted in Fallen Pillars , page 99, by Donald Neff
“I’ve never seen
a president –I don’t care who he is– stand up to them [the Israelis].
It just boggles your mind. They always get what they want. The Israelis
know what’s going on all the time. I got to the point where I wasn’t
writing anything down. If the American people understood what grip
those people have on our government, they would rise up in arms. Our
citizens don’t have any idea what goes on.” –
–Admiral Thomas
Moorer of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington Report 12/1999, p.124
quoting from Andrew Hurley’s book, “One Nation Under Israel”
– AFTER 9/11: “Why do they hate us? Pentagon’s Answer
“Muslims do not
hate our freedom, but rather they hate our policies. The overwhelming
majority voice their objections to what they see as one-sided support
in favor of Israel and against Palestinian rights”
– US Defense Department’s Defense Science Board: (Christian Science Monitor: 11/29/2004). .
A Historic Election:
“In his speech, Obama intends to remove
any doubts that the Democratic Party’s donors and constituents, many of
whom are Jewish, may have about his support for Israel”. (Haaretz, see
link below)
To say that your
election is a historical sentinel event is an under statement. You
rose in this nation to the highest office in the land upon the ashes of
the millions of African slaves ripped from their land, transported like
cattle, bought and sold as property, killed, abused, raped, and hung
from gallows; yet in your victory speech you ignored the advocacy and
struggle of African American organizations, primarily the NAACP, and
civil rights leaders who paved your path to glory and who in tears
thanked God that they lived to see the election of an African American,
men like the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Representatives John Lewis and
Charles Rangel, Ambassador Andrew Young, Ida B. Wells, Medgar Evers,
Rosa Parks, W. E. B. Du Bois, Roy Wilkins, Julian Bond, and so many
others who gave so much so that you can fulfill the dream and the
promise of Dr. King’s America Odd how in all your speeches you never
mentioned Dr. King by name.
But you did mention and thank the two people (both Jewish) most responsible for your successful campaign:
“To my campaign
manager David Plouffe, my chief strategist David Axelrod…you made this
happen, and I am forever grateful for what you’ve sacrificed to get it
done.”
–President Elect Barack Obama’s Victory Speech November 4, 2008
Obama’s First Appointment: Rahm Emmanuel as Chief of Staff: “Son of a terrorist”.
Will ensure a domestic policy supportive of Israel.
The appointment of
Rahm Emmanuel as your Chief of Staff will have immediate negative
repercussions in Congress and around the world. Emanuel is a known
hawk and Zionist. His appointment will ensure that U.S. domestic
policy will benefit Israel. damn U.S. interests. He will be the
gateway to all information that reaches you, thus America and the world
will understand that only Pro Israel agendas need apply to the White
House.
In an interview with
the Israeli Hebrew paper, Ma’ariv 11/6/08, Rahm Emanuel’s father, Dr.
Benjamin Emanuel, said this of his son’s influence on you.
“Obviously he will
influence the president to be pro-Israel, Why wouldn’t he be? What is
he, an Arab? He’s not going to clean the floors of the White House.”
Rahm’s father insults
all Arabs in this statement but this hardly raises a hair in the media
nor was it denounced by his son, nor more importantly by Mr. Obama.
Obama condemned and distanced himself from friends who came under
deliberate smears and media attacks for “insulting” Jews, but Arabs are
unworthy of his support, being the American untouchables. What if
this was an Arab insulting Jews, do you think you’ll ever be President?
You probably are
aware that Dr. Benjamin Emanuel was a member of the Jewish terrorist
group, Irgun (led by Menachem Begin) that was responsible for wide
ranging terrorist attacks against both the British and Palestinians.
Irgun famously massacred an entire village, Deir Yassin. Menachem
Begin even boasted of this terrorist massacre of the village in his
book “The Revolt”.
Rahm Emanuel served
as a volunteer in the Israeli Army during the first Gulf War,
protecting his beloved Israel, rather than serve in the U.S. military.
In the Israeli paper, Haaretz (11/7/08 “U.S. Jews laud Obama pick of Rahm Emanuel for Chief of Staff”)
William Daroff, the
director of the Washington office of the United Jewish Communities
(UJC), an umbrella organization representing 155 Jewish Federations and
400 independent Jewish communities across North America was quoted as
saying: “Rep. Emanuel is also a good friend of Israel, coming from
good Irgun Stock”.
In the same article
another Jewish American leader, Ira N. Forman, Executive Director of
the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) said:
“Obama made an
outstanding selection (Rahm Emanuel) His voting record and leadership
in support of the U.S.-Israel relationship are outstanding.”
“Rahm Emanuel has
a long history of militarist ideology behind him. His father was a
member of the ultra-right-wing terrorist organization Etzel that killed
British civilians as part of their anti-British struggle in Palestine
in the 1940s. Emanuel, himself a citizen of Israel as well as the
United States, has been one of several Congressional leaders enforcing
the “Israel Lobby” consensus on the Democrats, in the process shutting
out the peace voices that believe Israel’s security would be better
served by the U.S. putting pressure on Israel to end the Occupation,
move the Wall to inside the pre-67 boundaries, and remove the settlers
from the West Bank or tell them to live there as Palestinian citizens.”
–Rabbi Michael
Lerner, (barackobama.com) November 7, 2008, “Rahm Emanuel is no Reason
for Hope or Celebration”, November 7, 2008***
DENNIS ROSS: Will Ensure a Foreign Policy supportive of Israel as he’s done under Clinton and Bush.
Your campaign
announced that Dennis Ross will be your top adviser on Israel and Iran.
Ross is now at the pro-Israel Washington Institute for Near East
Policy (founded in 1985 by AIPAC’s Martin Indyk). He is also the First
Chairman of the newly established Jerusalem based think tank, The
Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, founded by the Jewish
Agency. He was a staunch supporter of the Iraq war. His appointment
will be a recurrent nightmare and devastating blow to peace in the
Middle East, especially to the Palestinians, doomed to occupation and
refugee status as long as our Presidents and Congress have Israel as an
albatross around their cowardly necks.
In addition to Ross,
Obama’s Middle East policy advisors reads like a Who’s Who of Jewish
Americans, all staunch supporters of Israel at any cost to this nation.
Obama’s other key Middle East Advisers include:
- Anthony Lake: Served at Director of the National Security Council under Clinton
- Mara Rudman: Former National Security Council Assistant to President Clinton. Works on MidEast issues.
- Dan Shapiro and Eric Lynn: Advisors and Liaisons to the Jewish community. Lynn was an intern at AIPAC.
- Daniel Kurtzer: An orthodox Jew appointed by Bush as Ambassador to Israel.
- Martin Indyk: Former
research director at AIPAC, founding executive director of the
Washington Institute for Near East Policy, AIPAC’s influential think
tank. Served under Clinton at the National Security Council on
Arab-Israeli issues, Iraq, Iran and South Asia. Served two terms as
U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
- Former Representative Mel Levine:
Served on House Foreign Affairs Committee, Former Board Member of AIPAC
Board, and John Kerry’s former Top Mideast Advisor. His Quote: “By
every rating and criterion, [Senator] Kerry’s votes have shown 100
percent solid support for Israel. That’s well understood in his home
state of Massachusetts, but not yet throughout the rest of the country.”
- Lee Rosenberg: AIPAC
treasurer and strong Obama supporter: In an interview with Ynet.com
(2/3/08) he was quoted as saying: “Rosenberg says that the Security of
Israel “is the global and policy issue that I care most about” and
rejects claims that questioned Obama’s commitment to the Jewish Stat. .
“He’s always been a strong supporter of the security of Israel,” he
says.”
From Obama’s early political campaigns
in Chicago, Jewish monies and support have been at the heart of his
campaigns for which he expresses eternal gratitude for the “support of
so many friends in the Jewish
community,
dating back to my first days
in public life in Chicago”.
Mr. Obama, you’ve
received the most sought after seal of approval in your run for the
Presidency, an approval only given to the lucky few who’ve shown their
true patriotic allegiance, no, not to America, but to Israel. You’ve
received the approval of AIPAC, a self identifying lobby group that has
thumbed its nose on U.S. law requiring it to register as such. How
clever that the acronym, AIPAC, stands for the American Israeli PUBLIC
AFFAIRS Committee, and not the American Israeli Political Action
Committee.
“AIPAC has stressed
that it is
satisfied with Obama’s
positions on the Middle East; a spokeswoman
recently told the New Republic: “Like all the leading presidential
candidates, the senator has a strong record on issues of importance to
the pro-Israel community.”
During your
presidential campaign you’ve adopted every Pro Israel/AIPAC policy
toward the Palestinians, Iran, and the Middle East. Among them.
1.
Among the first to support Israel’s devastating invasion of Lebanon in
2006 claiming that Israel was simply defending itself against terrorism.
2. Lead sponsor in the Senate of Legislation promoting Divestment from Iran.
3. Among sponsors of the Iran Sanctions Enabling Act of 2007.
4. No negotiations with Hamas and Hezbollah.
5. No condemnation of Israel’s brutal two year siege of Gaza with 1.3 million people.
6. No Palestinian “right of return”.
7. Strong supporter of more aid to Israel.
8. Jerusalem as an undivided eternal capital of Israel (slightly backtracked on this).
9.
While condemning Iran’s nuclear program (Iran signatory to Non
Proliferation Treaty) supports Israel despite Israel’s 200 -300 nuclear
weapons and a non signatory to the NPT).
Missing from your
pandering speeches to AIPAC and Jewish organizations was any mention of
the Arab Peace Plan, land for peace formula, occupation, illegal
settlements, settler violence, Israeli human rights abuses, violations
of the Fourth Geneva Convention, total siege of Gaza, thousands of
Palestinian prisoners, including children, and just as
importantly—Israel’s direct violation of Section 4 of the U.S. Arms
Export Control Act that stipulates that American weapons can legally
only be used for internal security or self defense. Israel’s decades’
long bombing and killing of civilians by American weapons clearly
violates this law, but no government has had the courage to challenge
Israel. History and experience say that like all your predecessors
(with exception of Eisenhower) you won’t dare either.
In fact, Mr. Obama, I
can guarantee that five days after your inauguration, January 27, 2009,
you will join most of Congress and your administration officials in
celebration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day established
by the United Nations in 2005 at the behest of the Bush
Administration. Perhaps you’ll be at the U.S. taxpayer built and
funded Washington D.C. Holocaust Museum. No other historical
holocaust is so recognized and funded by us, the taxpayers.
Your immediate
abandonment of “CHANGE” soon after you were elected is already
disturbing and bodes ill for your presidency. You’re potential
appointees are mostly recycled Clinton officials who are primarily Pro
Business, and Pro Israel Jews who offer you protection from the
fabricated “Jewish Problem” raised against you by right wing Jewish
organizations and individuals.
According to the New
York Times, “The New Team” (November 12, 2008) the Jewish Americans
listed below, among others, are being considered for senior
administration positions. Each can have an important policy impact on
MidEast policies, including the educational programs in American
schools regarding the possible obligatory teaching of the Holocaust and
the marginalization of programs on Arabic, Muslim culture, Islam.
- Richard J. Danzig: For a senior Pentagon position
- Joel Klein: For
Secretary of Education. Klein was Superintendent of the New York City
School System who succumbed to a ruthless Jewish lobbying group and Pro
Israel media pressure to fire Debbie Almontasar, a Muslim educator and
principle of a school slated to teach Arabic and MidEast culture. The
school was attacked as a “Madrassah” for Jihad, Holy War and militant
Islam. Klein replaced her with a Jewish principle. Danielle
Salzburg. What else will Klein as Secretary of Education succumb to
under the powerful Jewish lobby and media?
- James Steinberg: For Director of the National Security Council
Due to your obvious
intimidation by the Israel Lobby regarding the “Anti Israel” position
of two Non-Jewish but prominent foreign policy experts, Dr. Zbigniew
Brzezinski and Mr. Robert Malley, both serving at your request on your
foreign policy advisory team, you shamelessly dismissed Dr.
Brzezinski’s role as your advisor, an honorable man who’s served this
nation with high distinction while accepting Mr. Robert Malley’s
resignation, a highly respected diplomat.
If this is how you
respond to pressure from the Israeli Lobby during a campaign, how much
of our national interest will you sacrifice to their demands?
You’re being warned not to mess with Israel and its powerful Lobby given their domination of Congress, Israel’s second Knesset.
“Even if, in an
impossible-to-imagine worst-case scenario, Obama wanted to
fundamentally change the US-Israeli relationship, it is unlikely he
would be able to do so” Why? In the article Eran Lerman, Director of
the Israel and Middle East Office of the American addressed the issue
by saying: “To do that, he is going to need to go to Capitol Hill and
build coalitions. And coalition-building in Washington is good for
Israel because Israel has many friends on the Hill”.
–Jerusalem Post, November 7, 2008, Analysis: So, nu, can we?
“Will Obama be
able to take the One-Jerusalem/Israel-first crowd for granted as he
wheels around Jerusalem and Tehran? No. As my commenters point out,
these elements are deep in American Jewish life; and we’re not talking
about just voters, but the Jewish establishment, or to be precise the
Zionist constituents of the American power structure, from the media to
the think tanks to the big-money zip codes of 10022 and 90210….he
apartheid conditions in the West Bank are destroying the Jewish state,
and that the Israel lobby is standing in the way of
progress…..Neo-conservatism really means “transfer.” Ethnic cleansing.
–Phillip Weiss (Phillip Weiss website), October 17, 2008
“He (Obama) will
have to tell Israel a few home truths: that America can no longer
remain uncritical in the face of Israeli army brutality and the
colonisation for Jews and Jews only on Arab land. Obama will have to
stand up at last to the Israeli lobby (it is, in fact, an Israeli Likud
party lobby) and withdraw Bush’s 2004 acceptance of Israel’s claim to a
significant portion of the West Bank. US officials will have to talk to
Iranian officials – and Hamas officials, for that matter. Obama will
have to end US strikes into Pakistan – and Syria”.
-Robert Fisk,
U.K. Independent, Obama Has to Pay for Eight Years of Bush’s
Delusions. He will have to get out of Iraq, and he will have to tell
Israel a few home truths, November 8, 2008
“The negative
(Jewish) campaign glossed over Obama’s deep ties in the Chicago Jewish
Community and how he has picked a preeminently pro-Israel foreign
policy team.”
–Jewish Telegraphic Agency, November 5, 2008
Mr. Obama, after your
victory you called the leaders of nine nations among them Israel,
naturally. Yet despite our economic, energy, and credit crisis you
did not see fit to call one Arab leader in the Middle East, the very
region we and Europe called upon begging for increased oil production,
their money and investments to shore up our banks and financial
system. Despite American, British, and Israeli bombs killing
innocent Muslims, these cowardly pandering dictators called you. While
their banks are failing their priority is saving American banks.
America and the world
have laid their anguished and frustrated hope in your hands for peace
and prosperity after the hell Bush/Cheney/Neocons and Israel created
around the world. Yet you start with a hand sullied and biased toward
special interests, both domestic and foreign, the very groups you
promised to end their influence.
Will you have the
courage to be America’s president, a president of all Americans, Jews
and Gentiles, a president for America’s interests, not Israel’s, a
president who will heed the warnings of Washington, Jefferson, and
Madison not to have a “passionate attachment” to any foreign nation, to
avoid “foreign entanglements” that sabotage our interests, to end the
influence of “factions”, i.e. special interests that dominate our
national policies?
I for one will go
against the tide of Obamaphoria and predict that as far as foreign
policy is concerned, especially in the Middle East, you will fail, for
America is always ten steps behind the brilliant and inflammatory
military and political machinations of Israel and its lobby.
As Ariel Sharon said: “The Arabs may have the Oil, but we have the matches”.
To pay for your
domestic programs you will depend entirely on borrowed money. Given
the severe financial crisis, astronomical deficits, and debt of our
government thanks to the influence of special interest groups, both
domestic and foreign, you’ll have a very small window with which to
maneuver to pay for a semblance of your domestic programs.
But rest assured,
given the apathy and disinterest of our population, you can succumb to
these special interest groups without a beep from our citizen
spectators who put more thought into sales and football games than the
future of their children.
Let’s meet four years
from now and you can prove me wrong. In the meantime hundreds of
thousands of innocent Muslims will continue to die at the hands of an
Imperial Western-Israeli alliance—the true Axis of Evil. Welcome to
another Israel Apartheid Wall—The Washington D.C. Beltway.
Recall the words of the man most responsible for your election as an African American:
“The ultimate
measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and
convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and
controversy”.
–Dr. Martin Luther King, Strength to Love, 1963
Sources for Article:
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp
(George Washington’s Farewell Address 1796: Warning of a “Passionate Attachment” to a Foreign Nation)
http://www.dailynewscaster.com/2008/08/24/joe-biden-i-am-a-zionist/ (
Joe Biden Video: “I am a Zionist”, September 23, 2008
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6640.shtml
“Obama Pivots Away From Dovish Past
Larry Cohler-Esses, The Jewish Week, 8 March 2007
http://www.forward.com/articles/14018/
“Obama Campaign Appoints Adviser To Coordinate Jewish Outreach”
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/10/0082187
(“Obama’s Jews”: Harpers; October 2008)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/826665.html
“In his speech, Obama
intends to remove any doubts that the Democratic Party’s donors and
constituents, many of whom are Jewish, may have about his support for
Israel”.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3513083,00.html
(Lee Rosenberg’s interview on Barack Obama’s commitment to Israel)
http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/obama_on_zionism_and_hamas.php
“Obama on Zionism and Hamas”, May 12, 2008 (Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg)
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1211288137944&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
“Obama the Zionist”, May 21, 2008
http://origin.barackobama.com/issues/foreign_policy/#onisrael (Obama/Biden on Israel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emmanuel (Rahm Emanuel Brief Biography)
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/04/israel-sittin-1.html (interview with President Carter)
http://www.counterpunch.org/christison09062004.html
“Dual Loyalties: The Bush Neocons and Israel”
By KATHLEEN and BILL CHRISTISON
Former CIA political analysts
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html
The Israel Lobby by Professors Mearsheimer and Walt: “For
the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967,
the centrepiece of US Middle Eastern policy has been its relationship
with Israel. The combination of unwavering support for Israel and the
related effort to spread ‘democracy’ throughout the region has inflamed
Arab and Islamic opinion and jeopardized not only US security but that
of much of the rest of the world. This situation has no equal in
American political history. Why has the US been willing to set aside
its own security and that of many of its allies in order to advance the
interests of another state? One might assume that the bond between the
two countries was based on shared strategic interests or compelling
moral imperatives, but neither explanation can account for the
remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the US
provides.
Instead, the thrust of US policy in the
region derives almost entirely from domestic politics, and especially
the activities of the ‘Israel Lobby’. Other special-interest groups
have managed to skew foreign policy, but no lobby has managed to divert
it as far from what the national interest would suggest, while
simultaneously convincing Americans that US interests and those of the
other country – in this case, Israel – are essentially identical.”
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/01/24/obama-gaza-siege-forced-on-israel/
“Obama’s Letter to U.S. Ambassador to U.N. “Gaza Siege “Forced on Israel”
http://jews4obama2008.wordpress.com/barack-obamas-breakfast-on-feb-24-2008-with-ohio-jews/
(SEE: Barack Obama’s Breakfast Speech on February 24 with Ohio Jews)
“He then said that he will carry
with him to the White House “an unshakable commitment to the security
of Israel and the friendship between the United States and Israel. The
US-Israel relationship is rooted in shared interests, shared values,
shared history and in deep friendship among our people … I will work
tirelessly as president to uphold and enhance the friendship
between
the two countries.”: Barack Obama
http://jta.org/news/article/2008/10/28/110913/mccainobamaadvisers
“A look at Obama and McCain advisers”, By Ron Kampeas, October 28, 2008
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=what_does_it_mean_to_be_the_proisrael_candidate
Article: “”What Does It Mean To Be the Pro-Israel Candidate?”
“The major
candidates in both parties seek the “pro-Israel” label. Now is the time
to debate what it means to support Israel, so that a year from now,
elected leaders will be able to refer to publicly recognized ideas to
justify acting more sensibly”.
–Gershom Gorenberg | January 18, 2008
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/us/series/the_new_team/index.html
“Obama: The New Team”
http://jews4barack.com/mythfacts/?cat=20
Joe Biden’s Speech to Jewish Americans. Obama like me totally supports Israel
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/nyregion/28school.html
“Critics Cost Muslim
Educator Her Dream School: Role of Joel Klein, Superintendent of NYC
Schools: now considered for Secretary of Education)
*** [Rabbi Michael Lerner is editor of Tikkun Magazine http://www.tikkun.org, chair of the Network of Spiritual Progressives http://www.spiritualprogressives.org,
author of 11 books (most recently the 2006 national best-seller The
Left Hand of God) and as a member of Rabbis for Obama recently debated
Bill Kristol about how Jews should vote in the election.]
http://www.aipac.org/about_AIPAC/default.asp (From AIPAC’s own website: A Lobbying Group)
“As America’s leading pro-Israel lobby,
AIPAC works with both Democratic and Republican political leaders
to enact public policy that strengthens the vital U.S.-Israel
relationship”.
http://www.newstatesman.com/200105140019
(Source for Ariel Sharon quote: “Arabs may have the oil….)
–John Pilger: “The
big threat in the Middle East is Israel, not Iraq: it could play the
nuclear card to blackmail the Americans”, May 14, 2001
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