AIPAC: Israel's Santa Claus Or Just Another Wing-nut Fringe Group?
18 February 2013
By Jane Stillwater
Have you ever found yourself in the following awkward
situation? There you are, hanging out at a peace rally
or something, chit-chatting with some perfectly sane
left-wing progressive who hates war and loves
democracy -- and you both are happily nodding your
heads in agreement regarding how mega-corporations,
greedy neo-cons, avaricious war mongers and all of
their sleazy congressional lobbyists are currently
stealing your very own government right out from under
your very own feet?
But then you make that one big mistake! You happen to
mention that perhaps Israeli neo-cons might be killing
too many Palestinian children on the West Bank. And
then all hell breaks loose. And suddenly your sane and
rational left-wing progressive friend is suddenly all
in your face and screaming at you that you are being
anti-semitic, while he himself has now become a
freaking hero for gleefully cheering on greedy
neo-cons, avaricious warmongers and sleazy lobbyists
-- solely because they are Israelis instead of
Americans.
And suddenly YOU have become the bad guy for
criticizing Israeli neo-cons who are using the exact
same techniques that American neo-cons use, and that
both of you are now protesting when they're used in
the good old USA -- such as corporate election-buying,
NRA-style fear-mongering, Fox-News-style propaganda
lies, "preemptive" war, genocide, theocratic
manipulation, indefinite detention, outrageous land
grabs, racism, fudging public records, shady banksters
http://www.roitov.com/ articles/yareah.htm, corrupt
government officials, false-flag spying http://www.roitov.com/articles/x.htm,
corporate welfare for the 1%, nepotism, housing scams,
insider trading and all kinds of other things that
progressives normally hate.
And the next thing you know, your friend isn't even
SPEAKING to you any more. Or, worse still, he isn't
even reading your blog!
And if you should also happen to mention AIPAC and all
the right-wing dirty tricks that it does here in
America too, and all the wing-nut conservatives that
it sends to Congress, your normally-sane progressive
friend suddenly gets this hurt look on his face like
he was a four-year-old and you had just told him that
THERE WAS NO SANTA CLAUS!
But seriously, guys. Just tell me one single thing --
just one little thing -- that the America-Israel
Political Action Committee has ever done that was even
remotely progressive. Er, I'm waiting. What have you
got?
On the other hand, I'm sure that you could tell me a
whole bunch of things that AIPAC has accomplished that
would make any right-wing fanatic proud and happy and
supportive. Fox News seems to love AIPAC. So does the
NRA. Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, even Rush
Limbaugh get all googly-eyed over AIPAC. GWB loves
AIPAC. And so does Dick Cheney. Can't get much more
wing-nut than that!
And who, exactly, do you think orchestrated that
recent crazy filibuster against Chuck Hagel? The most
sturdy crop of wing-nuts in the Senate this year were
obviously behind that one. And who do you think was
responsible for planting this year's crop of wing-nuts
and neo-cons in Washington? Why, it was Farmer AIPAC
of course -- using a Citizens United tractor. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
article33981.htm
To quote the Huffington Post, "According to at least
one former Israeli diplomat, Alon Pinkas, [the recent
Senate filibuster against Hagel has] risked
introducing dangerous politicization into the
U.S.-Israel alliance -- exactly what the senators
claimed they were trying to avoid. 'When Israel is
mentioned 166 times and China 5, you know something is
distorted and wrong and cannot seriously reflect
serious foreign policy priorities.'" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/../
chuck-hagel-israel_n_2600367.html
The politicization of America's foreign policy by 40
senators whose campaigns were funded by AIPAC? Has a
neo-con wing-nut fringe group taken over our Senate or
what!
Would Emma Goldman, Rosa Luxemburg, Albert Einstein,
Howard Zinn or even Noam Chomsky condone AIPAC's
obviously shady right-wing and neo-con tactics and
goals? Or would even Hillel the Elder or the Baal Shem
Tov, Master of the Good Name approve? What do you
think?
Face it guys, AIPAC isn't Santa Claus for Israel or
even for America. AIPAC is Santa Claus for neo-cons,
right-wingers and fringe-group right-wing fanatics.
PS: Here's what Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh of Bethlehem
University has to say about the AIPAC-funded Israeli
neo-con wing-nuts who have taken over Palestine (and
Israel too, shame on them): "Rhetoric about democracy
and liberty in Syria and Iran is stripped naked when
people see Western-supported colonialism, racism and
subjugation in Palestine. Here is where billions in
Western taxpayer money is used to destroy life while
enriching land thieves and war criminals."
http://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/
2013/02/here-facing-immorality.html
PPS: Have you seen the new music video "Gangnam Gaza
Style"? It's hilarious! A handful of brave Gaza guys
soon discover that, in their home town now under
neo-con occupation, gas is mostly unavailable, ATMs
don't work, kids can only safely play soccer if they
simultaneously watch out for IDF aerial bombardments,
that they face chronic unemployment and have to sneak
food in through tunnels from Egypt and that they live
in the world's largest prison -- and they do all this
Gangnam Style! http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=bW7PN9fn9PQ&feature=share
And here's a video from my FaceBook friend Saeed
Amireh (from Ni'lin) that we could easily call "Gangnam
East-Jerusalem-Style" -- if only someone would set it
to music, and if only it weren't so tragically sad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=qxCX9j230x8
And most of these heartless killings and bombardments
and war crimes in Palestine are paid for with monies
that have been approved by our Congress -- under the
financial influence of neo-con right-wing fringe
groups such as AIPAC.
And then it is we progressives who get yelled at for
not supporting cold-blooded murder. Sigh.
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