"How can Israel, a small nation of about five million, along with about six
to nine million Jewish supporters in the United States, have such a high
level of total control over American government? Obviously, the answer is
money."
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AIPAC's Power Base
AMERICA'S REAL TERRORISTS!
Posted September 5, 2004
thepeoplesvoice.org
By: Ted Lang
Our entire government is controlled by Israel! Through a small, rich and
powerful Jewish supported pro-Israeli tax-exempt lobby, the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee, or simply AIPAC, virtually all American domestic
and foreign policy is now being controlled by a foreign government
entanglement. This is done by targeting American politicians: those who are
pro-Israel receive campaign funding and favorable publicity through a myriad
of Jewish organizations, magnified by the liberal and Democratic
Party-leaning American press; those politicians not favoring policies
benefiting Israel are targeted by Jews all over America who send money to
help finance that politician's opponent.
Former Georgia Congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney, who was critical of the
dominance Israel enjoyed controlling our government, was defeated in this
way by Jewish contributions coming in from all over the United States.
Those contributions had to be requested en masse, funneled to a finance
manager, and then distributed to all the right places to both the opposing
candidate and key media outlets to generate the necessary opposing campaign
propaganda.
At the Republican Party's highly expensive convention bash being
orchestrated smack in the middle of New York City this week, FOXNews.com
reports: "About 1,500 supporters of Israel attended the posh event hosted by
United Jewish Communities, the Republican Jewish Coalition and the
American-Israel Political Action Committee. The event, held at Pier 60 in
Manhattan, was attended by dozens of congressional members, governors and
administration officials, and featured Bloomberg, Senate Majority Leader
Bill Frist and Bush-Cheney campaign manager Ken Mehlman."
Posting on his website Informed Commentary, and carried on Antiwar.com's as
well, Professor Juan Cole, who teaches history at the University of
Michigan, writes in his August 28, 2004 piece entitled, "AIPAC's Overt and
Covert Ops.": "The American Israel Public Affairs 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. 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. In the 1980s, AIPAC set up
the Washington Institute for Near East Policy as a pro-Israeli alternative
to the Brookings Institution, which it perceived to be insufficiently
supportive of Israel. WINEP has largely followed AIPAC into pro-Likud
positions, even though its director, Dennis Ross, is more moderate. He is a
figurehead, however, serving to disguise the far right character of most of
the position papers produced by long-term WINEP staff and by extremist
visitors and 'associates' (Daniel Pipes and Martin Kramer are among the
latter)."
Professor Cole continues: "WINEP, being a wing of AIPAC, is enormously
influential in Washington. State Department and military personnel are
actually detailed there to 'learn' about 'the Middle East'! They would get
a far more balanced 'education' about the region in any Israeli university,
since most Israeli academics are professionals, whereas WINEP is a 'think
tank' that hires by ideology."
There are many ways AIPAC magnifies its influence over American government,
and targeting politicians during elections is only one of them. In this
presidential election, reflect on how both Senator John Kerry and President
George Bush are one in their support for Israel. Note also how former
frontrunner Dr. Howard Dean became toast after he merely suggested a more
balanced approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which was created and
continues to be exacerbated by Israel's imperialism and ethnocide.
Cole explains, "Note that over 80% of American Jews vote Democrat, that the
majority of American Jews opposed the Iraq war (more were against it than in
the general population), and that American Jews have been enormously
important in securing civil liberties for all Americans. Moreover, Israel
has been a faithful ally of the US and deserves our support in ensuring its
security. The Likudniks like to pretend that they represent American Jewry,
but they do not. And they like to suggest that objecting to their policies
is tantamount to anti-Semitism, which is sort of like suggesting that if you
don't like Chile's former dictator Pinochet, you are bigotted against
Latinos."
This explanation is consistent with all that I have read on the subject.
Jewish Zionists and their more numerically powerful and vocal Christian
Zionists, will support any and all Israeli policies, and then smear
opponents as being "anti-Semitic." Perhaps a better term to describe these
war-mongering Jewish and Christian Zionists is to identify them as being
"Likudniks," indicative of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's
war-mongering and genocidal Likud Party. And it would be entirely safe to
say that a majority of Jews living in Israel also oppose Sharon's atrocities
against the Palestinians, which is the ongoing basis for anti-Israeli
terrorism there responsible for the horrible deaths and maiming of so many
of Israel's citizens.
AIPAC and the neoconservative Likudniks in the Pentagon and in the Bush
administration today represent the greatest threat to world peace. They are
plotting to ignite hostilities that could ratchet up to World War III. This
would fit in nicely with martial law control over the American populace as
General Tommy Franks envisioned, and could lead to US rule by a one
government international New World Order seemingly so desired by both Bush
and Kerry. And separate from a world engulfed in nuclear war, we have the
constant threat of terrorism by Muslim militants looking to hurt the people
of "The Great Satan" as protector of the most dangerous regime in the world:
Sharon and his Likud Party.
The "outbreak" of anti-Semitism all over the world is unmitigated pap and
nonsensical propaganda. Muslims are not out to destroy US because of our
wealth, or our freedom, or even because of our ties to, and origins as, a
Judeo-Christian nation; they foment terrorism against US because of our
military might as the world's greatest super power enabling Israeli
ethnocidal imperialism. It is Israel that is the trigger; we are the big
gun.
Commenting further on the dominance of Israel's Likud Party over American
politics, Cole continues: "It should be admitted that the American Likud
could not make US policy on its own. Its members had to make convincing
arguments to Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush himself. But they were able to make
those arguments, by distorting intelligence, channeling Ahmad Chalabi junk,
and presenting Big Ideas to men above them that signally lacked such ideas.
(Like the idea that the road to peace in Jerusalem ran through Baghdad.
Ha!)"
Cole's observations confirm the source of Muslim terrorism: "The Likud
policies of reversing Oslo and stealing people's land and making their lives
hell has produced enormous amounts of terrorism against Israel, and the
Likudniks have cleverly turned that to their political advantage.
Aggression and annexation is necessary, they argue, because there is
terrorism. Some of them now openly speak of ethnically cleansing the
Palestinians, using the same argument. But when the Oslo peace process
looked like it would go somewhere, terrorism tapered off (it did not end,
but then peace had not been achieved).
The drawback for the US in all this is that US government backing for
Sharon's odious policies makes it hated in the Muslim world. (Note that
Muslims who oppose Israeli aggression are often tagged as 'terrorists' by
the US government, but rightwing Jews who go to Palestine to colonize it,
walking around with Uzi machine guns and sometimes shooting down civilians,
are not 'terrorists.') This lack of balance is one big reason that Bin
Laden and al-Zawahiri hit the US on September 11. [Emphasis added.] In
fact, Bin Laden wanted to move up the operation to punish the US for
supporting Sharon's crackdown on the Second Intifada."
The FBI investigation now rapidly disappearing from the American media's
radar screen seems as some kind of fluke. Considering the extensive control
Israel maintains over virtually all branches of American government through
AIPAC and their Pentagon and White House neocon plants, why would an
espionage agenda even be necessary?
Again Cole: "So, passing a few confidential documents over is a minor
affair. Pro-Likud intellectuals established networks linking Defense and
the national security advisers of Vice President Dick Cheney, gaining
enormous influence over policy by cherry-picking and distorting intelligence
so as to make a case for war on Saddam Hussein. And their ulterior motive
was to remove the most powerful Arab military from the scene, not because it
was an active threat to Israel (it wasn't) but because it was a possible
deterrent to Likud plans for aggressive expansion (at the least, they want
half of the West Bank, permanently)."
Here's why AIPAC is an extremely dangerous and subversive group as offered
by Cole: "All this can happen because there is a vacuum in US political
discourse. A handful of special interests in the United States virtually
dictate congressional policy on some issues. With regard to the
Arab-Israeli conflict, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and a
few allies have succeeded in imposing complete censorship on both houses of
Congress. No senator or congress member dares make a speech on the floor of
his or her institution critical of Israeli policy, even though the Israeli
government often violates international law and UN Security Council
resolutions (it would violate more such resolutions, except that the
resolutions never got passed because only one NSC member, the US, routinely
vetoes them on behalf of Tel Aviv.) As the Labor Party in Israel has been
eclipsed by the Likud coalition, which includes many proto-fascist groups,
this subservience has yoked Washington to foreign politicians who privately
favor ethnic cleansing and/or agressive warfare for the purpose of annexing
the territory of neighbors. On the rare occasion when a brave member of
congress dares stand up to this unrelenting AIPAC tyranny, that person is
targeted for unelection in the next congressional campaign, with big money
directed by AIPAC and/or its analogues into the coffers of the senator or
congressman's opponent. Over and over again, AIPAC has shaped the US
congress in this way, so successfully that no one even dares speak out any
more."
Cole points out that this is precisely the type of tyrannical takeover of
America our Founding Fathers feared. This is precisely what President
George Washington warned US about advising strongly to avoid entangling
alliances. Our sinful alliance with tiny Israel, run by mass murderers and
war-mongers, has infested virtually all levels of our own government. And
they are a long way from being through with US, but we may be only a few
short years away from becoming a brutal dictatorship forged from the
terrorism created by tiny Israel's Likud Party.
AIPAC picks, elects and stacks both houses of our Congress. AIPAC has
eliminated the Democratic Party's former frontrunner. AIPAC accomplishes
this by targeting politicians, and magnifying their small numbers by
enlisting the support of a much greater number of Americans: the Christian
Zionists. Cole explains this magnification of power employing non-Jews:
"AIPAC is not all that rich or powerful, but politics in the US is often
evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans. Because many races are
very close, any little extra support can help change the outcome. AIPAC can
provide that little bit. Moreover, most Americans couldn't care less about
the Middle East or its intractable problems, whereas the staffers at AIPAC
are fanatics. [Emphasis added.]
If some congressman from southern Indiana knows he can pick up even a few
thousand dollars and some good will from AIPAC, he may as well, since his
constituents don't care anyway. That there is no countervailing force to
AIPAC allows it to be effective. (That is one reason that pro-Likud American
activists often express concern about the rise of the Muslim-American
community and the possibility that it may develop an effective lobby.)
Moreover, AIPAC leverages its power by an alliance with the Christian Right,
which has adopted a bizarre ideology of "Christian Zionism." It holds that
the sooner the Palestinians are ethnically cleansed, the sooner Christ will
come back. Without millions of these Christian Zionist allies, AIPAC would
be much less influential and effective." [Emphasis added.]
The etremely dangerous power that AIPAC, a lobby of about 60,000,
"representing" five to six million Jews in Israel, wields over the
government and military of the United States, a nation of almost 300
million, can easily lead to a totally nuclear World War III. Terrorism is a
tactic employed by the weak and oppressed. It is a tool that can be used to
symbolically retaliate against a repressive government that is enslaving a
people. But it can also be used to turn the people of a repressive nation
against its own government. When the people of such a repressive nation
realize that it is their own government that is responsible for generating
such terrorism from external sources, the perpetrators hope that internal
political pressure will lead to the abolition of that nation's oppressive
policies. This is the motivation of the PLO in conducting terroristic
suicide bus and public place bombings against Israel.
The stubborn pigheadedness of the Bush administration and its Zionist PNAC
cabal that engineered the war against Iraq in accordance with the "Clean
Break" policy, is what must now be propped up and supported by a series of
increasingly draconian Patriot Acts. Terrorism against the United States
will grow, and will grow more seriously. During American expansionism
characterized as "the wild West," the Colt "Peacemaker" revolver was termed
"The Equalizer." In the "wild" Mid East, terrorism is just the tip of the
iceberg when it comes to oppressed Muslims and Palestinians. The new
"equalizer" is nuclear weaponry. The threat to America is that nuclear
devices will be employed shortly in terrorist acts against the United
States.
This is precisely why we are becoming a police state. Bush had it right
when he said that we couldn't win a war against terrorism. But we can take
a positive approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We can unauthorize
AIPAC to lobby and take away its tax-exempt status. We can recognize that
both of our major political parties are totally under the thumb of a serious
foreign entanglement, and one that not only dictates down to US, but is also
impervious to the death, harm and destruction that the weak and oppressed
will use against US as the actions of our government blur the distinction
between a just and honest people and our increasingly savage and corrupt
government.
This is the major issue in this election. Either our government is with US,
or with Israel. Which way is it Mr. Bush? Which way is it Mr. Kerry? Is
there a third party that will step forward and save our nation? Obviously,
saving US from World War III and nuclear attack aren't of any importance to
either major political party. We are, instead, focusing on another unjust
war we lost thirty years ago. But just like the Germans after World War I,
we cannot accept either that the war is over, or the fact that we lost it.
The blessed opportunity of a "peaceful revolution" by a truly honest and
open election is rapidly slipping away, and may well be replaced by a
nuclear terrorist attack launching World War III. It will be the first
major rebellion against "The Evil Empire," a rebellion against the Emperor
of the Dark Side. Star Wars is US, and the great clock of history is about
to strike the hour.
<<Theodore E. Lang>>
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© THEODORE E. LANG 9/2/04 All rights reserved.
Ted Lang is a political analyst and a freelance writer and maintains a website
at www.tedlang.com
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