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Israel's invasion of Lebanon is a prelude to a US attack on Iran Our men were viciously attacked 42 years ago and the perpetrators got away with it. 02-05-10 - A tale of two articles on the respected Jewish news website, The Forward. In this article, the author suggests that pro-Israel money only merely 'steers', not drives, US foreign policy. Oh. Ok. Now read this article. Hmm. We have Abe Foxman (of the ADL - another agent of Israel) gloating about getting the Obama administration to stop putting pressure on Israel. Note the about face by Clinton as well when faced with this influence by the Israeli lobby. So to respond to the first article. No, the Israeli lobby does not 'steer' US foreign policy. It is planted square in the driver's seat. And the rest of us Americans (the majority having no real vested interest in Israel) are being taken along unwittingly and unwillingly and to our detriment - on a ride that has cost us in more ways than one. But shhhhh.. this lobby is just a myth... it doesn't really exist, and if it does, it just 'steers'... 02-02-10 - New news links on Palestine and Neocon Watch pages. 01-24-10 - In accordance with Israeli behavior since its inception and even before, Israel demonstrates yet again that it is more interested in keeping piece - as in another piece of Palestine -than it is in any real peace agreement. And to further the points made in the Scheuer video linked in the next entry, here is yet another example of why 'they hate us' - it has nothing to do with 'our freedoms'. Former CIA official Ray McGovern also points out the real reason for enmity against the US in this recent article. Lastly, an article out today in the Israeli Haaretz paper headlines "Bin Laden: Attacks on U.S. to go on as long as it supports Israel". Anyone that tells us Americans that we are attacked for our freedoms is either grossly misinformed, or a liar. 01-23-10 - If you haven't yet seen it, you can catch former CIA Michael Scheuer on this recent CSpan program on terror threats to America. He gives you the truth that you aren't getting from the politicians or the media. I know it's long but do yourself a favor - watch the whole thing. In the future, to get the whole truth about our foreign policy in the Middle East, and just how detrimental it can be to the American national interest (thanks to the fruits of the Israeli lobby, and others), here are some excellent starting points: *Former CIA counterterrorism official Philip Giraldi's articles on the blog at The American Conservative found at this link. These guys likely learned (perhaps even the hard way) of the truth about Israel both on the job and off. Their views are spot on. Please do yourself a favor, get the facts that you aren't getting from the mainstream media and American politicians (who long ago sold us out to the Israeli lobby). And then, spread the word. The survival of America depends on it, lest we keep getting bled dry sending billions of dollars overseas and participating in wars based on bogus and cherrypicked intelligence (and those that cooked that intel, the neocons, are part of this Israeli lobby). Scheuer said it best in the aforementioned CSpan video - support for Israel is not a strategic interest to the United States. To the contrary, our support of Israel is actually a detriment to the American national interest. And this support is largely due to the efforts of the Israeli lobby. This writer does not believe in appeasement of terrorists - that's not what this is all about. We shouldn't be supporting Israel and its policies of apartheid, terrorism and colonialism irrespective of any terrorism against us. These policies do not comport with the ideals upon which this nation was founded - those being liberty and justice for all. Philip Giraldi, Michael Scheuer and a host of others, myself included, have the interests of the American people at heart - not some other foreign nation or entity. Our interests MUST come first. It's too bad that our politicians in Washington do not take this view - not when it comes to Israel. No taxation without representation - remember that slogan? Well it pertains now. We are shoveling billions of dollars to the Middle East - in many different ways, some peripheral - in support for Israel and its policies. That money frankly could be better spent at home. It garners us hatred and vitriol in that region and beyond. It is wholly unncessary. Israel needs to learn to get along with its neighbors - stop stealing the land, and occupying the people by denying them freedom - if it wants to survive and flourish. Anyway, it is really not our problem. Our problem is America, and we need to take care of business here at home, and stay out of foreign entanglements that have cost us dearly - in more ways than one. Heed George Washington's words towards the end of this page, and be warned of the perils of the passionate attachment to a foreign nation, and all of the evils it brings. I'm just trying to look out for America - the ONLY country I've got. 11-27-09 - Threats of war - More US officials doing Israel's bidding - this time, trying to pursuade China to back action on Iran. Israel threatens to attack Iran if China doesn't support forthcoming UN action on Iran. 11-25-09 - Sarah Palin expresses support for Israeli settlements. 07-03-09 - America needs another Independence Day - independence from Israel. 07-02-09 - Amnesty International: Israel committed war crimes in Gaza - Israel also committed war crimes against US military - which have gone unpunished for over 40 years. See also: Israel used human shields 06-08-09 - 42 years ago today our men were attacked by Israel. 34 were killed, 174 were wounded. Israel and its lobby here in the States have used every means necessary to quash this story and ensure justice is denied to these men and their survivors. Which mainstream American news agencies reported this anniversary? Any at all? Sadly, almost none. 06-02-09 - Israel wants PIECE not PEACE - as in, another PIECE of Palestine. The only peace Israel wants is the peace with which it can continue to steal Palestinian land (using the 'terrorism' excuse) - and clear Palestinians off of it. American taxpayers pay the price - in more ways than one. 05-31-09 - Spy for Israel receives 'justice' from America - a sick joke. Even if they finally do get prosecuted, these traitors receive a slap on the wrist in the American justice system. 05-22-09 - Israel campaigns America to attack Iran - Americans, be warned 05-10-09 - America needs another Independence Day independence from ISRAEL - a blog post I wrote last year - still pertains. 05-02-09 - Feds drop the case against the former AIPAC officials - the Israeli Lobby wins again (and America loses). See also - Lawyers credit Obama team for dismissing AIPAC case 04-19-09 - Some of the ironies of the Demjanjuk case were raised by Patrick Buchanan in an article entitled 'The True Haters' - an interesting read. Too bad our government doesn't pursue those who have committed war crimes against OUR OWN with the same vigor that it is pursuing the alleged war crimes of this man. One gets a clearer picture of just who pulls the strings in this country when our government is trying to deport sickly, wheelchair-bound 90-year old men for alleged crimes committed 60 years ago in another country against citizens of another country, and they do not go after those who have committed war crimes on June 8, 1967 against AMERICANS. 04-09-09 - New York State is poised to layoff thousands of state workers because that government grossly overspent taxpayer's hard-earned money, and would rather hand out pink slips to hard working people than trim the fat from the budget. One such item of pork the State of New York wasted money on: bonds from the State of Israel, to the tune of 15 million dollars in 2008 alone. "On September 18, 2008, the city and state of New York each announced their intention to purchase $15 million in Israel bonds." Source: Wikipedia. As Americans struggle to keep their homes, jobs and to put food on the table, taxpayers are being forced (where was the referendum on it? AIPAC-beholden-Congress decided for you.) to shovel billions in taxpayer money to the state of Israel. Some of this money goes to fund illegal settlements (violation of Article 49, Fourth Geneva Conventions) which are built for Jews only - an exercise in supremacism that wouldn't stand the light of day in the good ole USA. See also, Special tax write-offs, US Aid to Israel, More on US Aid to Israel. 04-6-09 - A must read - Stop Arming Israel, by former CIA Philip Giraldi. I conjure you to read it my fellow citizens. 03-22-09 - The Israeli Lobby claims another victim - Charles Freeman, Jr.. But shhhh...this lobby is non-existent, a big conspiracy theory....nothing to see here, move along. Seriously folks, America would be a much richer place - in more ways than one - if we ceased aiding and abetting the criminal state of Israel - and if we sidelined/jettisoned its minions here in the United States whose support of that nation borders on, if not constitutes (in many cases), treason. Sixty years on, Israel needs to be weaned off the American taxpayer teat (Americans can scarcely afford to put food on the table let alone fund this kingdom built largely on stolen Arab land and which is based on religious supremacy), and to learn to get along with its neighbors which would entail the cessation of the illegal theft and occupation of Arab land. Israel's biggest enemy: Israel. The arrogance far exceeds the intelligence. Shame. 11-06-08 - Let's hope Obama gives Colin Powell a place in his new administration. 11-05-08 - Americans wholeheartedly and categorically rejected the policies of the Bush administration in an election of historical purportions - the vote heard around the world. Let's hope Obama keeps the neocons and their disastrous policies at bay. And fellow Republicans, Obama IS the better choice rather than McCain whose administration would have likely mirrored that of Bush. 11-02-08 - James Bamford has a new book out that has Israel's amen corner all in a tizzy. Hmmm. Very interesting. 11-01-08 - Vote Palin/McCain if you want more of the same Bush administration (neocon) policy. Israel and Iran09/07/08 - There are those that defend Israel's stance that Iran must not have nukes, and should therefore be attacked by the US since they are allegedly building a nuclear weapons program. For one reason, these folks claim, it's because Iran has threatened to 'wipe Israel off the map' and thus may use these alleged nuclear weapons on Israel. First off, there is no evidence that Iran at present possesses nuclear weapons (paragraph 3). And when presented with the fact that Israel itself has nukes and unlike Iran, has refused to sign on to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, the Israel-defenders then claim that Israel does not threaten to wipe anyone off the map. Let us assume for a moment that Iran in fact has threatened to wipe Israel off the map, which is a matter of contention. That is correct, Israel does not ~threaten~ to wipe anyone off the map - Israel JUST DOES IT. If one looks at a map from a hundred plus years ago (1870 to be exact), there was no Israel. In its place was a nation-state or region (or whatever you want to call it - the Israel-defenders will bog you down with the semantics of this) called Palestine. Where is it now? Why is it gone? In its place, there is now a nation called Israel. How did it come to be? What happened to all the people that were living there at the time? Between 1947-1948, Jewish forces seized the land and expelled 700K+ Palestinian Arabs from the areas. The Arab villages were then bulldozed, and renamed. The Arab refugees, despite UN resolution 194 (section 11), were never allowed to return to their homes/villages, nor were they compensated thereof. Palestine was wiped off the map in 1948 when Israel declared nationhood in its place, leaving a few remaining territories that Egypt and Jordan managed to get a grip on back then (Israel in 1967 then grabbed these territories in the Six Day War and has been building more Israeli settlements therein ever since). The newest maps of Israel prove without a shadow of a doubt that not only are the surrounding Arab nations not even remotely 'pushing the Jews into the sea', -or realistically threatening to (another myth) - but that Israel itself has pushed the remaining Palestinians further and further into ever-shrinking enclaves. <-br> Exhibit B is the damage Israel inflicted during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war whereby Israel destroyed Lebanon's civilian infrastructure, nearly taking down the country, as a response to the abduction of two IDF soldiers by Hezbollah. The carnage was so grave it prompted this response from Pat Buchanan at the very end of this you tube video on MSNBC's Chris Matthews show, and it also prompted neocon Michael Savage to severely chastise Israel - and that's saying something. For, Savage's true nature is slowly being revealed as a stoolie for the neocons (Israel's amen corner). Israel, fired off thousands of cluster bombs into Lebanese civilian areas three days prior to a ceasefire which they knew was coming. They have since refused to provide the UN with maps pinpointing the areas (paragraph 7) into which they fired. People are still dying from the million cluster bomblets that were rained down upon agricultural areas and neighborhoods. Why did Israel refuse to provide the maps? Because it would likely prove without a doubt that they deliberately fired into civilian areas. That doesn't begin to describe the damage to roads, bridges, schools and civilian life that Israel inflicted upon Lebanon during that conflict. So, when the Israel-firsters come at you with some of these myths, and there are many, and I have some pretty good responses to most of them, let the facts be known. Israel wiped Palestine off the map, and, for all intents and purposes, damn near wiped Lebanon off the map in 2006. This is a nation in violation of more UN resolutions than Iraq under Saddam Hussein ever was (blatant hypocrisy), and one that continues to violate several UN resolutions almost daily by continuing to build civilian housing in occupied Palestinian territory, and overflying Lebanon in violation of the ceasefire. Now don't get me wrong, I have no love for Iran. Frankly, I don't give a damn. My concern is for the ONLY COUNTRY I'VE GOT - America, and the fact that Israel and its minions here in the US want to drag my nation into war with Iran. Such a move is not in the best interests of America, a fact that Gates, Mullen and others at the Pentagon already know. Frankly, I don't give a damn about Israel either or any threats she faces. My country isn't doing so hot right now, and any policy that benefits another nation to the detriment of this one is not something I'll ever support. I pledge allegiance to America and no other. And I won't apologize for it. My country - and the interests of the majority therein - must come first. Several years ago, when I started this website, I only had a few prominent folks on my side (Pat Buchanan as one example) - who thought what I thought (on foreign policy) and who wrote it down for all to see. Now, there are so many others speaking out. In particular, several former CIA (see a few paragraphs down). I encourage any and all officials - both in office and out - to come forward and speak out against Israel and its overwhelming influence in the United States by way of its powerful lobby. It may literally save this country. And a big thanks to those that HAVE spoken out. I consider you all right on par with the founding fathers of this nation. It takes a lot of courage to do so. The lobby will try to tear you right down for doing so - its latest victim Philip Giraldi, one of my favorites. Please don't let it deter you. Soldier on. 09/04/08 - Behold the Treason on Capitol Hill 08/16/08 - This week two former CIA officials - Philip Giraldi and Michael Scheuer - described the efforts of Israel's lobby to get America to attack Iran. 07-09-08 Buchanan weighs in on today's Iranian missile test and Israel's desire for us to attack that nation on Joe Scarborough's MSNBC show : 6-19-08 We lost one of the good guys - Capt. Ward Boston. RIP. Israel, the spy who 'loves' us The influence of the Israeli lobby on the US Congress and particularly on the current administration (via the neocons in the office of vice president) has had adverse effects on the American national interest. Our foreign policy is being crafted and pushed forward by a foreign interest. The Israeli lobby deems such claims as the furtherance of 'anti-Semitic canards'. But in the pages of the most respected Jewish news outfits, this influence is admitted and openly discussed. The power of the Israeli lobby is manifest in the lack of action with regard to the case of the USS Liberty. And more recently, the case of Rachel Corrie. No action was taken by the US government with regard to either case. Israel's version of events was accepted as fact. Eyewitnesses, some US (military), were dismissed outright. For years, most Americans, including American politicians, have been cowed into silence and have refrained from criticizing this lobby. However, recently, things are starting to change. Jimmy Carter's book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, and a report by two well-respected professors, have gained the attention of the lobby who are now seeking to double their efforts to counter these condemnations. I will attempt to make the case that not only does this lobby exist, but that the fruits of its labor has endangered the security of America. Much of this case was made in the paper by Walt and Mearsheimer. They have a book out this September that evidently offers more details on this topic. There is also a book entitled They Dare to Speak Out which was written in the early eighties by former Republican Congressman Paul Findley. George Washington warned of the perils of foreign entanglements in his Farewell Address. He had remarkable foresight. For, we are in that very situation right now. The invasion of Iraq was put forth and the case thereof was propounded by another part of the Israeli lobby: the neoconservatives. These neocons are evidently not done yet. The first incident to research is the case of the USS Liberty. You can buy this DVD from the History Channel. There is also this clip from the BBC's "Dead in the Water" (lower right of the page). This article by the Chicago Tribune of 10-02-07 finally puts to rest the lie that this attack was an accident. In fact, it was Israel's intention to sink that ship, killing all aboard. That our government does nothing in the face of the continual pleas for justice by these sailors is a testament to the power of the Israeli lobby. If I were in government (and elsewhere) and I saw folks that were forsaking the national security of THIS country for that of another, I would leak it to the press, I would come forward, I would not shut up about it. Ask yourself: what would Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, etc, do if in that position? Those that have already come forward have earned the same respect and honor afforded to the latter, as far as I'm concerned. 10/2007 - The Israeli lobby is scattering in all directions lately. It's palpable. We are making a difference. But it takes more than just a few people; there is strength in numbers. If you care about this country, you'll speak up sooner, rather than later. The good guys are winning, but we can't rest or stop now. It is up to us ordinary citizens to act since our government fails or refuses to do so. 'Why me?' Well why not you? Imagine if our 'rebels' took that attitude in 1776 (and if you need to get jazzed, buy that video), we may still be kowtowing to the British crown.... Soldier on. Neocon Watch page | Palestine page Latest news on Palestine | Latest news on Neocon front Old Palestine News blog | Old Neocon Watch Blog Motivation behind this website: On any given day, any one of the above might outweigh the others. On this day, this is the motivating force - a very powerful piece of imagery. Either you get it or you don't; an entire group of people punished, dehumanized, humiliated, and reduced to paupers - thanks in (large) part to our support of Israel - they couldn't do it without us. For 5+ years now, this is my cause: liberty and justice, and perhaps some hope of the return of dignity to a once self-sufficient and proud people who have been made to pay for the sins of another. |
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A survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor and decorated WWII veteran:
"I've never seen a president - I don't care who he is - stand up to them [the Israelis].
It just boggles your mind. They always get what they want....If the American
people understood what grip those people have on our government, they would rise up in arms.
Our citizens don't have any idea what goes on."
- the late Admiral Thomas Moorer of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
(quote from They Dare to Speak Out by former Congressman(R) Paul Findley, p.174 Third Edition)
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