Flotilla fallout
By Kevin MacDonald on 02.06.2010
Jake Tapper, a reporter for ABC News writes that “there won’t be any daylight between the US and Israel.” The rationale? A senior administration official says “The president has always said that it will be much easier for Israel to make peace if it feels secure.”
Of course, that’s nonsense. Israeli security has nothing to do with it. The reality is that Israeli aggression is possible only because Israel understands that the US is its poodle and that the US will work on its behalf in the UN and elsewhere, no matter what Israel does. The Israel Lobby is ultimately to blame, meaning ultimately the influence of Jewish money on the political process.
AIPAC’s spin on this is an amazing piece of propaganda. AIPAC’s article is headlined, “Radical Hamas Supporters Beat, Stab Israeli Soldiers“–a breathtaking lack of context. The ADL said pretty much the same thing, calling the flotilla “a deliberate provocation against Israel.”
From Israel’s point of view, “the government appeared anxious to make an example of this six-ship flotilla — the largest effort to date to break the blockade of Gaza — to show the world that it would not tolerate efforts to break the blockage, international condemnation notwithstanding.” The main Israeli talking point, apparent in the AIPAC press release and the ADL statement, is that they had offered to unload the cargo at the Israeli port of Ashdod where it would be shipped overland to Gaza.
But that doesn’t square with the common understanding that Israel has erected a barrier of red tape for getting supplies into Gaza. A 2009 Christian Science Monitor report pointed to delays and arbitrary exclusions and stated that around 25% of the pre-blockade supplies were getting into Gaza. Another CSM article from June 2009 pointed to growth stunting in Palestinian children.
Despite Israel’s claims, there is a humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Israel’s actions will likely make it far more difficult to develop a consensus against Iran, and that’s all to the good. It will also greatly increase the cost of the Israeli-American alliance, as the US attempts to shore up support for Israel in the teeth of moral outrage around the world. That may well result in some push back here, as happened recently with the statement by General David Petraeus that Israeli policies oppose vital US interests in the Middle East. (He later denied it, doubtless under pressure.) Even Meir Dagan, the head of the Mossad, acknowledges that Israel is becoming more and more of a burden to the US.
Israel’s supporters in the US never tire of playing the role of innocent victim. They will continue to do so, as indicated by the statements of AIPAC and the ADL. But such rhetoric is so far out of touch with reality that at some point politically aware Americans must realize that US support for Israel is based on nothing more than Jewish power with no moral justification at all. That doesn’t mean that the lobby will lose its power, but at least we will all know that it’s about power, and can’t be intellectually justified… Full article
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Israel really does think most people are that stupid.
The assault by Israel’s agents on people’s child-like minds still continues, but not for long.
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What makes me sick is the US lame reaction to this. WTF? I always thought that the US was a free country but now it’s perfectly clear that we are not a country at all but a satellite of Israel. I didn’t vote for this or serve in Viet Nam for this, and I don’t live for this.
It is really time we all wake up to the fact that it is our DUTY to get off our asses and defend the constitution from ALL enemies foreign and domestic. This includes “our” representatives who don’t seem to have anything to do with us.
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“The president has always said that it will be much easier for Israel to make peace if it feels secure.” Pathetic if he believes it. What would it take for Israel to feel secure? If Israel became Greater Israel and took over the ME, if Israel became the worlds greatest power – which it already is because it controls the US – would Israel feel secure? It is a pathetic joke that another president dedicates another American administration to the wild goose chase of security for Israel under the excuse of a mythical peace process. Not even nuclear weapons have made Israel feel secure. Nothing will.
And before we deliver this peace , which looks like WWIII might be needed for, we ought to ask what kind of peace would finally please Israel, and if its achievement won’t turn out to be the mother of all unintended consequences. Look at its behavior toward the Palestinians and ask what their attitude will be toward us when we are broken.
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I totally agree with you – good post
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I remember after 911, in the mainstream media and press there was a lot of finger pointing at the general American Muslim population, saying that they weren’t vocal enough in condemming 911 and Islamic extremism and terrorism in general, and somehow saying because of that they are also culpable. I think the same case can be made for many Jewish Americans who let Zionists in Aipac and J Street in the media speak for them, and allow them to drag us all down this suicidal path by trying to justify Israel’s actions and force our government to go along with it. I don’t give a rat’s ass about Israel, or for any other country for that matter. If they want to continue being psychopaths, living outside the norms of civilization and human decency, that is their problem, let them commit national suicide. Why should we Americans suffer for their actions, and tarnish our world standing for those savages? Why should we continue to support them when our own citizens are killed by those lunatics, and they shown nothing but contempt for us? They spy on us, they kill our citizens as in the case of the Liberty and Rachel Corrie, and others, they take billions in aid from us, while Americans go hungry. They steal our nuclear secrets and try to sell them on the black market, and the list goes on and on. Where is the Jewish American Community when we need them to reign in their extremists? They cry about antisemitism, but when will they learn, that all this antisemitism (if any) is caused by their willingness to let the extreme few among them speak for all of them. Don’t get me wrong, there are notable, brave and conscientious exceptions, but in most cases the silence is deafening….We need Americans irrespective of their religious, ethnic or linguistic background to be Americans first, no more dual loyalists, we need to put America first. This especially goes for all the traitors in Congress and in the Whitehouse.
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