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Fat_Sow
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posted 14 September 2007 11:21 PM      Profile for Fat_Sow        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Congressman Paul Findley served 22 years in Congress, and now speaks about the religious nuts who have a stranglehold on US foreign policy.

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The cover-up showed that Israel could draw blood from its American patrons to feed its own scofflaw ambitions for territorial conquest. Israel could violate property and human rights-even deliberately break the bones of teenagers, bulldoze homes and orchards, pen up Palestinians behind high walls of their own property, thumb its nose at rules of the International Court of Justice, Geneva institutions, and its solemn obligations under the United Nations Charter with scarcely a murmur of complaint from its chief beneficiary. For Israel, the rule of the lawless replaced the rule of law.

The cover-up cleared the decks for massive U.S. aid to Israel. It set virtually a sky’s-the-limit precedent for tapping the U.S. Treasury, the Defense Department’s munitions stockpiles, and all of America’s top-secret technology.

The aid began to soar in all forms-financial, military and diplomatic. All of it was unconditional and remains so today.

No rules or strings are attached. U.S. officials are even denied the usual authority to monitor how aid money is spent. Israel demonstrates its command of the U.S.-Israeli relationship in various ways. One is especially ugly: Israel occasionally tortures detained U.S. citizens, even teenagers, with impunity.

This calamitous criminal tide is the byproduct of President Johnson’s fateful cover-up. And the original, root cause of this horror is the disappearance of free speech and integrity in the making of U.S. Middle East policy. For years, there has been no real debate, no unfettered exchange of opinion, no thorough discussion of this vital of policy anywhere in our government.

There is no dip in U.S. aid even when Israeli prime ministers publicly defy U.S. presidents, as they occasionally do. Our officials routinely look the other way when Israel steals secrets. The imprisonment of Jonathan Pollard was the exception that proves the rule. These crimes get little attention in our thoroughly intimidated major media, but the rest of the world sees our Congress as a bunch of trained poodles that jump through a hoop held by Israel. Once revered worldwide, America is now reviled.

Two powerful religion-driven lobbies are prominent in Israel’s entry into bold criminality. One consists of a relatively small group of Jewish zealots, whose most prominent and effective voice is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee [AIPAC], founded a half-century ago. Its membership is relatively small, consisting mainly of secular Jews often called Zionists and others who are ultra-Orthodox. The other lobby, whose influence emerged in the last twenty years, consists of millions of fundamentalist Christians who accept a controversial interpretation of the Bible’s Book of Revelations. This lobby is loosely-organized but effective, with televangelists like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell providing most of the leadership.

Both groups contend that present-day Israel is a central part of God’s plan and must be kept strong and united until the arrival on earth of each group’s messiah. The two have political power so great that Congress dutifully appropriates billions to Israel.


http://buchanan.org/blog/?p=850


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