“… Israel is a strong ally and an important friend to the United States. Good friends can disagree and a candid expression of concerns does not diminish our friendship…”
Candidates pledge support for Israel in AJC Global Forum videos
By Alison Weir | If Americans Knew | June 4, 2019
Over half of the 2020 presidential candidates recorded videos of themselves for this year’s American Jewish Committee Global Forum.
The videos are posted on the AJC website and below.
All the candidates except two spoke in support of Israel, many claiming it is an important American ally. All ignored Israel’s pattern of spying on the US and stealing American technology, attacking a US Navy ship, the cost of Israel to Americans, and the role of Israel partisans in pushing the US into disastrous wars.
The only candidates who did not mention Israel were Tulsi Gabbard (D – HI) and Corey Booker (D-NJ), whose videos focused on opposition to antisemitism. (In the past, Booker has been extremely outspoken in his support for Israel.)
Bernie Sanders (D-VT) went into the greatest detail on the issue, emphasizing his support for Israel while also discussing Palestinian suffering.
Sanders spoke of his Jewish ethnicity and pointed out that as a young man he had lived in Israel for a number of months. He emphasized that he “believes absolutely and unequivocally in Israel’s right to exist in peace and security” and said, “to oppose the reactionary policies of Prime Minister Netanyahu does not make anyone anti-Israel.”
At the same time, Sanders spoke of the “Palestinian people crushed underneath a military occupation now over a half century old, creating a daily reality of pain humiliation and resentment.” [Note: Israel’s expulsion of Palestinians began 72 years ago.] He said: “I do not know how peace can be achieved in that region when in the Gaza Strip poverty is rampant – 53 percent of the people are unemployed….”
Kamala Harris pledges support for Israel
California Senator Kamala Harris and many others emphasized their strong support for Israel. In Harris’s video she mentioned both her past record of working for Israel and her plans to continue this in the future:
“As a member of both the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Senate Homeland Security Committee I am deeply involved in ensuring the American-Israeli relationship remains strong.”
Harris promised: “I will do everything in my power to ensure broad and bipartisan support for Israel’s security and right to self-defense, that is why I strongly support America’s security assistance to Israel and I am committed to strengthening the American Israeli security and defense relationship.”
The U.S. currently gives Israel over $10 million per day. A bill before the Senate, favored by Harris, proposes to give Israel a 10-year package in which it will receive a minimum of $38 billion ($7,000 per minute) – approximately $20,000 per each Israeli family of four.
This is expected to pass easily despite the fact that most Americans feel the US already gives Israel too much money.
AJC advocates for Israel, opposes BDS
Founded over 100 years ago, the AJC says it has “more than 30 offices worldwide, plus partnerships with 34 international Jewish community organizations.” The organization, headquartered in New York City, has net assets of approximately $160 million.
According to its website: “Around the world—from the hallways of the UN in New York, to the corridors of the European Union in Brussels, and to the countries of Asia—AJC advocates for Israel at the highest levels. ”
One of the AJC’s priorities is to oppose the international movement to boycott Israel over its human rights abuses against Palestinians. The AJC website says: “We spearhead anti-BDS legislation at all levels of government and rally elected officials to reject the boycott movement.”
AJC states: “We convinced the governors of all 50 states to declare their opposition to BDS. We were also a driving force behind anti-BDS legislation in California and Illinois.
“As the BDS movement has surged on campus, we have brought dozens of university presidents to Israel and trained hundreds of students as advocates for Israel… we have marshalled our allies in the Christian world to oppose such efforts.”
According to AJC, more than 2,500 people from 70+ countries attend the Global Forum. This reportedly includes hundreds of students brought from more than 40 countries. The event is at the Washington Hilton in Washington D.C. from June 2-4. The schedule is here.
It appears that the only prominent candidates that did not provide videos were Beto O’Rourke and Sen. Amy Klobuchar. Jewish Insider reports: “Inquiries to the campaigns of Beto O’Rourke and Sen. Amy Klobuchar about why they didn’t participate went unanswered.”
In the videos below, a number of candidates say they support a “two-state solution,” but do not mention, or are unaware, that this refers to a division in which Israel would get at least 80 percent of the territory, and Palestinians would be left with 20 percent, at most.
The candidates’ messages to AJC
Below are the videos. Underneath each video is an excerpt containing some of the candidate’s statements about Israel from the video.
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The third paragraph of this expose reveals a most significant reason to reject these candidates and the reason why: they are corrupted by a sloven allegiance to a foreign country, an allegiance which has taken hold of American politicians, an allegiance, not to what is in America’s interest, but for the interest and benefit of Israel.
And those suffering because of it, be damned. These politicians must be willing to bring suffering back to America because of this allegiance to this foreign country.
And because of it, the suffering of America, which will come, will be their legacy. Oh, how false their proclamations, how traitorous their deeds.
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Michael, we crossed in the “mail”…great comment!
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Ah Tulsi. Et tu? I had already decided, but this piece of pandering — where you look, present yourself, and sound so much of presidential potential — not to send any more of my retirement stipend to support your candidacy (because at least three very recent pleas by me to set yourself apart from the Zionist wolfpack have been met with silence). A pox on all Dems (PEPs and others like “I am a Zionist!” ol’ man Biden) and Reps alike. Who’s the third-party candidate on whom I can waste my vote?…or shall I just say the hell with the electoral process in 2020?
(I haven’t as yet watched any of the other videoclips and probably would be even more depressed and revulsed were I to do so. Thanks to Alison Weir — the best of the best, to whom I do send financial support multiple times a year — for making them accessible via Aletho News and, I hope, viral other sites. Here, via this posting, is evidence of her as-always thorough, sterling toil on behalf of truth, justice and peace for the Palestinians.)
Anent Alison’s reference to the USS Liberty: the 52d anniversary of its and its crew’s massacre on the high seas is just days away, June 8th [1967], an indisputable Day of (Zionist) Infamy. I have it on good authority and I know viscerally that it was that defining moment (two hours of Zionist terror rained on the Liberty) that assured the Zionists that they could/can do literally anything of their satanic choosing vis a vis their American puppet/cheerleader/fellow war criminal. They have us, and the Palestinians, by the genitals, ungently.
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Alison Weir — the best of the best, to whom I do send financial support multiple times a year
So do I, Robert. She is indispensable, a beacon in the darkness.
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Solidarity! Thank you!
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[Tulsi serves on the House Armed Services Committee where she is a strong advocate for veterans, our service members, and making smart strategic decisions …]
and for pouring salt onto a would:
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“pouring salt onto a wound”
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