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Major Jewish American Organizations Defend Israel’s
Humiliation of America
16 April 2010By Petras Lahaine
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
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04.07.2010
“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.
“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.
Introduction
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 Organizations0, 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.
The Bigger Issue: Beyond the Biden –
Netanyahu Caper
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.
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”.
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.
Today and Yesterday: Castrating
America
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”.
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.
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”.
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 the Daily Alert, March 15 -17,
2010, official mouthpiece of the Conference of
Presidents of the Major American Jewish
Organizations).
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’.
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?
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.
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).
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.
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.
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 the Zionist 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.
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’.
Netanyahu’s Hubris ‘Rebuked’
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”.
Netanyahu Comes to Washington:
Backhanders for Obama, Cheers from AIPAC
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.
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 construct Jews-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.
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.
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.
Israel’s Arrogance Prejudices US
Interests
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Israeli Colonial Ambitions and US
Strategic Interests
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.
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.
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 to
diplomatically 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Zionist Power Configuration: How
Dare You Resist Humiliation!
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?
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Conclusion
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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