Netanyahu To Obama Regarding November's
Election: When We Say "Jump" You Answer, "How High"!
19 July 2012
By Franklin Lamb
Presidential candidate Barack Obama is being targeted
by the US Israel lobby from A to Z, (Ackerman, Gary &
Aipac to Zuckerman, Mort & the Zionist Organization of
America) as no American President seeking re-election
has been in the country's 236 year history.
Israel's duel loyalty agents, as well as more fair
minded American Jewish voters have historically
intimidated and influenced US presidents seeking
reelection, especially those in a tight race, with
various financial and political threats and rewards.
That's part of the American political game and
obviously plenty of other lobbies do it also.
And it pays off. From Truman's recognition of Israel's
declaration of statehood during his tough reelection
fight in 1948 when Chaim Weizmann and other Jewish
leaders swarmed the Oval Office to Carter's Camp David
sell-out of American humanitarian values during his
Democratic party splitting 1980 re-election challenge
from Ted Kennedy. For more than 60 years the Zionist
lobby has used cash, real & fake polls, and tactics
ranging from threats of exposing sex-capers and
corruption to withholding or delivering Jewish votes
in key states like Florida, New york, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania to achieve maximum obeisance to Israel's
goals. One might agree that all these tactics are part
big leagues American politics.
According to long time Israeli diplomat, Abba Eban,
President Truman would not have supported a Jewish
state were it not for "a crucial $25,000 gift made by
Jews to Truman's vice presidential aspirations in 1944
and that in 1948 American Jews helped Truman again,
this time to finance his campaign at a "desperate
time". According to Eban,"No historian would question
the judgment that without the support of, and
political pressure from, American Jewry, Israel's
emergence could not have been conceived." Eban
concluded that the Zionist's lobby's "extraordinary
solidarity and tactics" enlarged Israel's power beyond
the limited dimensions of its space and size."
Concerned that Truman was too pro-Arab, Zionists
enlisted Eddy Jacobson, a friend of Truman's to sway
the President to see Ezer Weizmann once again, despite
Truman's earlier ban on Zionists due to their
"harassments." Truman at first refused. He wrote on
February 27, 1948, to Jacobson, just as the Nakba was
ethnically cleansing nearly 800,00 Palestinians from
their homes and lands, that he would not learn
anything new from Weizmann, and added: "The Jews are
so emotional, and the Arabs are so difficult to talk
with that it is almost impossible to get anything
done." Nonetheless, after considerable persuasion
which Jabonson claimed involved large amounts of
campaign donations, Truman wrote Jacobson, "You win,
you baldheaded SOB. I will see him."
Concerning Camp David, Jimmy Carter explained a couple
of years ago during a question and answer period
following a lecture at the American University of
Beirut that "the Jewish lobby was relentless with
pressure tactics of various sorts and Begin lied to me
about Israel's willingness to make peace with the
Palestinians. I regret to have to admit to you that we
caved to their political pressure."
One could perhaps feel for Obama and his campaign
staff given what they are reportedly experiencing
today, especially since America's most powerful lobby
has become even stronger since the 1980's. Their
tactics are many and aimed at sapping Obama's will to
do what American national interests require. One is
Bill Clinton's reported deal, being talked about on
Capitol Hill, with Israeli officials to assure that if
Obama is defeated Hillary will make his/her move and
lock up the 2016 Democratic primaries and the general
election with plenty of attendant joy for Tel Aviv.
The power to make credible demands on Obama involve
much more that Jewish votes since they make up a bit
less than 2% of the American electorate. Yet, even the
smallest group can make an electoral dent if they move
in unison and that may happen regarding Obama among
those Jewish voters and Christian Zionists who put
Israel first. Obama's fate, though, is more closely
tied to the Jewish vote in states Florida and
Pennsylvania where they made up 4% of the 2008
electorate in both of these states.
Statistics being used by the Zionist lobby to pressure
the increasingly jittery Obama campaign include recent
polls. The Republican Jewish Coalition claims that 30%
of Jewish voters who support Romney, represents the
"highest level of Jewish support for a Republican
presidential candidate in 24 years." RJC Executive
Director Matt Brooks recently stated that if the
Jewish vote poll numbers hold in November, they will
spell "a disaster" for Obama.
In the 2008 election, Jews supported Obama by a 57
percentage point margin 2008 1.1 points (57 x 0.02) of
his popular vote margin. A recent Gallup poll has
Jewish voters still in Obama's camp, but only by
barely 35 percentage points. That is the lowest
percentage for a Democratic presidential candidate
among the Jewish electorate since 1988. A recent
Gallup polls reveals a 10-point drop in Jewish voter
support (22% in New York) or five points worse than
Obama's shrinkage among all registered voters compared
with 2008.
The Israel lobby knows, and they know that Obama's
campaign staff knows, that any diminution in his
support from Jewish voters will have a major impact in
a very tight election. They both realize that Obama
needs to retain his 2008 Jewish vote levels and
campaign cash – or risk defeat. . In a close election,
one point either way could make the difference as it
did in Florida's 2000 election.
So what price is being demanded of the Obama campaign
for Zionist lobby support between now and November
6th?
They include, but are not limited to the following:
-Obama must freeze Israeli-Palestinian "peace talks"
and block European Union pressures on Israel over the
settlement and human rights issues;
-Israel wants Obama to pressure the government of
Turkey to cancel the 5/28/12 indictment of four senior
Israeli military commanders, who have been charged in
a Turkish court in connection with the killing of nine
Turkish citizens in 2010 on broad the Mari Marmara,
one of the ships of the Freedom Flotilla. Warrants
have been issued for the arrest of former Israeli
military chief of staff, Lieutenant General Gabi
Ashkenazi, the former head of military intelligence,
Major General Amos Yadlin, head of the navy, Vice
Admiral Eliezer Marom, and head of the air force,
Brigadier General Avishai Lev. Israel wants them
withdrawn. According to an aid of Senator John Kerrey,
the Bureau of International Organization Affairs (IO)
of the US State Department has advised the US Senate
Foreign Relations committee that the Israeli attack on
the Mari Marmara constituted an international crime
which involved lethal and excessive force and resulted
in the killing of nine civilians and the wounding of
at least 50 others. The State Department further
advised Congress that while Israel carried out an
inquiry into the attack, that inquiry failed to meet
the requirements of international law. Israel has not
prosecuted anyone who killed those on board the Mari
Marmara;
-A green light to attack Iran in case the Zionist
leadership decides to do it;
-An unequivocal White House commitment that the 2012
Democratic Convention Party Platform will back the
5/17/12 passed resolution (H. Res. 568 adopted by vote
of 401-11) affirming that it is U.S. policy to prevent
Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability and
opposing any reliance on a policy seeking to contain a
nuclear-capable Iran;
-That the White House force US Senator John Kerrey,
Chairman of the Foreign Relation Committee to expedite
a vote on a similar resolution in the Senate (S. J.
Res. 41) which remains on hold in Kerrey's committee.
- That the White House publicly endorse the 5/23/12
Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Human Rights Act
(S. 2101), which would dramatically escalate the level
of sanctions against Iran and sharply tighten the
enforcement of existing sanctions law.
-A public pledge by Obama that the US will attack Iran
and Hezbollah if either retaliates against Israel for
its bombing of the Islamic republic.
-More money for fourteen new Research & Development
projects for the Israeli military;
- Free convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard,
-More visible White House support for various
congressional resolutions supported by Israel, ranging
from those targeting Iran, Muslims, Arabs and
Palestinians.
-Regime change is Syria,
-Instruct Egypt that the price for continued US
military and economic aid is to embrace the Camp
‘David accords and all its provisions requiring Egypt
to "cooperate with Israel"
-Arrange for Israeli Embassy space in Cairo given that
to date no one is willing to rent it any, and damp
down Muslim Brotherhood calls for the recovery of
Palestine;
- Support for the United States-Israel Enhanced
Security Cooperation Act of 2012 (H.R. 4133 and S.
2165), which recommends several ways to strengthen
U.S.-Israel strategic cooperation in such fields as
missile defense, homeland security, energy,
intelligence and cyber-security. The House bill, which
passed on May 8 by a vote of 411-2, led by Majority
Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Democratic Whip Steny
Hoyer (D-MD).
-That the 2012 Democratic Platform and candidate Obama
emphasize over the next five months the need for
America to guarantee Israel's Qualitative Military
Edge over any and all combinations of adversaries on
the battlefield.
Obama election year groveling to Israel was perhaps
symbolized by the June, 13 2012 White House spectacle
of bestowal on Israel's President Shimon Peres of the
Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian
award in the United States. The PMF recognizes those
individuals who have made "an especially meritorious
contribution to the security or national interests of
the United States, world peace, cultural or other
significant public or private endeavors." Peres,
father of Israel's colonial settlements, has committed
myriad international crimes against the Lebanese
people and Palestinian refugees, including the April
18, 1996 Qana Massacre that killed 106 Lebanese and
Palestinians and wounded approximately 120 including
four Fijian UNIFIL soldiers who were among the 800
civilians who had taken refuge in the compound. Peres
sanctioned countless other attacks on civilians
killing more than 14,000 civil and wounding more than
25,000 as part of various Israel aggression during his
time as Prime Minister, meaning that he belongs on
trial at the International Criminal Court at the Hague
not at a White House dinner even in an election year.
Despite knowing this, Obama caved to AIPAC and
Congressional campaign pressure and sullied the PMF,
his office and claimed American valves.
In an email from one Congressional staffer, she
explained that the lobby wanted Peres to receive this
honor which disgusted many on Capitol Hill and
internationally, hoping to deflect some of the
increasing condemnations the Apartheid regime has been
receiving including the recent British government's
Foreign Office in its report, Children in Military
Custody has accused Israel of illegal mistreatment of
Palestinian children after a report by a delegation of
senior British lawyers revealed unconscionable
practices, such as hooding, solitary confinement and
the use of leg irons. found that "undisputed facts"
pointed to at least six violations of the UN
convention on the rights of the child, to which Israel
is a signatory.
The report claims that youngsters are dragged from
their beds in the middle of the night, have their
wrists bound behind their backs, and are blindfolded
and made to kneel or lie face down in military
vehicles. The children are held in conditions that
amount to torture, such as solitary confinement and no
access to their parents.
In a damning conclusion, the report points out
repeated breaches of the United Nations Convention on
the Rights of the Child, which prohibits cruel,
inhuman and degrading treatment.
In addition, Israel is a party to the Geneva
Conventions, and bound by its obligations, yet
Articles 76 and 65 of the 4th Geneva Convention were
also found to have been breached, according to the
report.
Article 76 prohibits detainees from being transported
to the country of the authority which has detained
them. In this case, Palestinian children were found to
have been transported from the West Bank into Israel.
Article 65 states that any penal laws applied to
prisoners in an occupied land must be translated into
their own language. The lawyers said the Israeli
authorities failed to translate Military Order 1676
from Hebrew into Arabic.
To the extent Obama convinces the Israel lobby between
now and Tuesday November 6th may determine whether he
is a one term President or returns for a second term
with its uncertainties regarding traditional US
Presidential support for Israel given that during his
second term, as he has stated publicly thanks to a
live media mike, he will have much more flexibility.
It is too early to know what boast Obama's campaign
might receive from the US Supreme Court's 6/29/12
decision upholding his truly historic achievement of
reforming the American health system which will
provide quality health care for more than 30 million
uninsured Americans. Widespread public approval of
Obamacare may significantly weaken Zionist lobby plans
to control the White House as it has the Congress and
how high President Obama needs to jump.
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