The strange love affair of the U.S. and AIPAC
Submitted by Liberty_Belle on Sun, 04/18/2010 - 11:42The strange love affair of the U.S. and AIPAC
By Dan Lieberman
Imagine you are a representative of the highest government agencies. You encounter a group that places a foreign power above your own government’s interests and redirects and undermines your policies. Would you go to their convention, popularize them, obsequiously placate them and demonstrate you mean no harm to their sinister behavior?
Sounds incomprehensible?
United States State Department officials and congressional leaders have been doing the incomprehensible for years. U.S. State Department officials, senators and House representatives have regularly attended the American Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC) conventions. Although the executive branch signaled a hardening of relations with Israel, its officials spoke to and listened to AIPAC during the week that inaugurated the spring of 2010.
Why and for what reason do government officials cater to AIPAC? Don’t they know AIPAC’s inglorious history and its one-sided purpose? Actually, government officials have many reasons to distance themselves from AIPAC and no reasons to associate themselves with an organization whose thrust depends upon spurious reasoning and outrageous statements.
The Dwight Eisenhower and Jack Kennedy administrations and the 1964 Fulbright Investigation Committee tried to declare groups representing Israel’s interests to be foreign agents. Deceptive maneuvers, ambiguous and modified election laws dragged charges through the courts and temporarily resolved the issue in favor of AIPAC. Nevertheless, government officials should realize there is meaning and significance to the charges and any support for an accused agency undermines reputable administrations.
Then we have the perception of an organization using its resources to engineer defeats of popular congressional leaders based upon an issue that usually doesn’t concern the American electorate: foreign policy. Four of the Senate’s more popular leaders, Charles Percy from Illinois, James Abourek from South Dakota, Adlai Stevenson III from Illinois and J. William Fulbright from Arkansas were defeated when PAC funds poured in to assist their opponents, simply because AIPAC categorized the incumbent senators’ supports for Israel as insufficient. Add Representatives Paul McCloskey (1982), Paul Findley (1983), Earl Hilliard (2002), and Cynthia McKinney (2006) to those who ran afoul of AIPAC, and by coincidence, suffered defeat.
Is AIPAC a strong factor in determining elections? This is more likely true when the candidate is already in a weak position. Nevertheless, why do the national political parties approve their candidates’ attachments to the Israel friendly PACs? Isn’t the electorate more concerned with domestic issues than with foreign nations, and doesn’t it abhor PACs? Nevertheless, the political parties reinforce an organization which skews voter intentions and masks the principal issues. Something is wrong with the voters’ inability to recognize and react to candidates who benefit from accepting funds from a PAC whose only mission is to assist a foreign nation. And why does the State Department bother with AIPAC? Its officials are not elected and AIPAC is a hindrance to its mission. Strange!
more..read in FULL
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5769.shtml
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Related Article:
Official List: Did Your Congressman Sign a Letter Telling Obama to Back Netanyahu? by MJ Rosenberg
AIPAC has done it again -- although getting the 76 Senators and 333 Representatives took a lot longer than it usually takes.
There is nothing exceptional in the letters. They are the usual blah blah about how Israel is really great, a democracy like you read about, and deserves every kind of support from the United States.
read in full ( link for list is in article)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg/official-list-did...
You might be interested in the original text of the
Balfour Treaty which established the Jewish state. Notice who it is addressed to!
Foreign Office,
November 2nd, 1917.
Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet:
"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country".
I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.
Yours sincerely
Arthur James Balfour
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration_of_1917
Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
Is America Being Blackmailed? Be Careful What You Say on the Pho
ne.
FOX NEWS SPIKES FOUR PART STORY
ON PHONE TAPPING SCANDAL
Following is an excerpt from the article
Now, I want you all to stop and think for a minute of the full ramifications of this. Israeli interests have the ability to listen in on ANY phone in America connected to any of the systems used by Amdocs or Comverse Infosys. They have had this ability for several years. They can listen in and track the phone calls made by anyone's phone, whether police officer, elected official, media talking head, editor, policy setter, news mogul, even the President of the United States. The Ken Starr report on Whitewater describes how Bill Clinton warned Monica Lewinsky that a foreign government was tapping their phone calls.
Few indeed are the people in America who do not have something to hide. That insider trade, the brief but torrid affair, the stolen votes, the deliberate smear, the role one played in an assassination, the acceptance of money from drug runners to look the other way. Be honest. Is there a skeleton in your closet you hope will stay there? Something nobody knows about? Well, if that skeleton involved a phone call, someone may know about it. Amdocs and Comverse Infosys. And their Israeli owners.
Just think about it for a moment. Everyone's private phone traffic, right up to the President, potentially visible to Israeli interests. And you cannot find the phone taps or bugs because they are built right into the phone system!
Suddenly, a lot of events which have puzzled observers start to make sense.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/blackmail.html
Are you aware of the Symington Agreement 1976?
*Yes, blackmail and/or there has already been a secret coup of our government?*
BTW many people do not know of this..
**The Symington Agreement -1976
The reason Israel will not publicly disclose it's Nuclear weapons is that to do so would break the Symington Agreement~1976 and Israel would lose the billions in aid and military assistance from the US.
It banned U.S. economic, and military assistance, and export credits to countries that deliver or receive, acquire or transfer nuclear enrichment technology when they do not comply with IAEA regulations and inspections. This provision, as amended, is now contained in Section 101 of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symington_Amendment
"I think we are living in a world of lies: lies that don't even know they are lies, because they are the children and grandchildren of lies." ~ Chris Floyd
thanks for posting
Now it makes sense why they not doing something logical, because everyone knows they have them. Follow the money trail, as always, to get the answer.
R3VOLution
What a croak. We have no
What a croak. We have no proof that Iran has nuclear weapons, but we do know our supposed ally does. Yet we do nothing to enforce The Symington Amendment.
But when they have the capability of listening in on all phone calls, even the President and all those in Congress it doesn't surprise me that it's not being enforced.
One other point Iran has never attacked us something that can't be said by our so called ally.
Remember the USS Liberty
HEAD OF
HEAD OF AIPAC BOASTED ABOUT
HIS CONTROL OF POLITICIANS IN 1992
In 1992, Harry Katz phoned the President of AIPAC, David Steiner, to offer contributions. Steiner proceeded to make several claims, including negotiating with then-candidate Bill Clinton over who would be Secretary of State, and had already "cut a deal" with Baker for more aid to Israel.
Unknown to Steiner, Katz taped the phone call and gave the recording to the media, worried that AIPAC's influence had grown to dangerous levels.
Following the release of transcripts of the phone conversation, David Steiner was forced to resign the Presidency of AIPAC.
The following is a transcript of the Oct. 22, 1992 conversation with President David Steiner of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) recorded without his knowledge by New York businessman Haim (Harry) Katz. Its existence was first revealed to the Washington Times and its release triggered Steiner's resignation.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/AIPACClinton.html
Way Too Close to the Money Trust
Way too close to money.
End the Fed. This too will pass.
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Strange Indeed
They have sympathetic brethren in every key position in this country, from federal right down to local (if you live in an area with a jewish community).
I remember catching part of a
I remember catching part of a report on CNN, years ago, where Christiane Amanpour was talking about AIPAC's stranglehold on American politics. It was before I found out about Ron Paul and it was the first time I'd realized what AIPAC was doing. I was surprised to see something like that air on CNN. I couldn't find a youtube link for it, unfortunately.
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/amanpour.christiane...
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AIPAC has big money and the willingness to spend it
to defeat anyone who disagrees with their positions. To take them on directly results in charges of Anti-Semitism.
Politicians concerned only with their own self-interest find it expedient to yield to them.
AIPAC knows confronting them directly for their positions on Israel could backfire. It's better to oppose them on other issues such as being pro-abortion.
As long as every election is subject to outside interference from moneyed interests, small wealthy minorities can and will prevail.
Should a resident of New York City be able to affect an election in Kentucky?
Massive money spent in small states by outsiders makes a mockery of representative government. Isn't this de facto election tampering? Until this sort of thing ceases the rich and powerful will continue to get their way.
Here's one of many videos on AIPAC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbUIJVPqERE
As always........
Bring up Israel or Zionism and all you hear is............crickets. Either people think you're crazy for bringing it up at all or they have no idea what you're talking about.
When people actually give me the time to explain the complex relationship with Israel, Jews and the Evangelicals - suddenly it all makes sense to them. But that rarely happens because most people are just plain brainwashed and refuse to listen. It's a joke how little most Americans know about the influence that AIPAC and other Israel First organizations have on our country.
"an additional, terrible truth: almost no one wants to hear it"
For this is where we are in the United States in the Year 2010 : the truth is not merely unpleasant, an uninvited guest who makes conversation difficult and awkward.
Truth is the enemy; truth is to be destroyed.
To attempt to speak the truth on any subject of importance requires a deep reserve of determination, for to speak the truth requires that one first sweep away an infinite number of rationalizations, false alternatives, and numerous other failures of logic and the most rudimentary forms of thought -- as well as the endless lies.
**On that single occasion in a thousand or a million when a person overcomes these barriers and speaks the truth, he or she discovers an additional, terrible truth: almost no one wants to hear it. This is how we live today: lies are the staple of our diet. Without them, we would die, certainly in psychological terms." ~Arthur Silber
"I think we are living in a world of lies: lies that don't even know they are lies, because they are the children and grandchildren of lies." ~ Chris Floyd
This topic is much more openly discussed
on many of the Liberal forums than it is here on DP! I have been noticing that for quite a while!
"I think we are living in a world of lies: lies that don't even know they are lies, because they are the children and grandchildren of lies." ~ Chris Floyd
Liberals HATE morals & religion...
...based on Noah Webster's sentiments - and the true meaning of Separation of Church and State - we should JOIN THEM - and tear down our blind allegiance to Israel along with all the evangelical, denominational, and HYPOCRITICAL ecclesiastical establishments that HIDE under a cloak of religiosity because they're only helping to perpetuate this nation's plunge towards DESPOTISM by supporting the status quo & the dumbing down - which is in effect, TYRANNY!!!
The deliberate Marxist tanking of this economy through political cronyism and moral compromise, in pursuit of the love of money carrot-and-stick approach(Federal Reserve bubble)cost me and my family a successful budding career that I loved! Ron Paul 2012