Israel was/is the United States’s best friend in the Middle East and, of all its allies, the one that has caused it the most trouble. It has acted with ruthless independence whenever it feels necessary. They shamelessly exploit the vulnerabilities of the open American political system to their own purposes, especially concerning gaining access to the American defense establishment and policy-making agencies making Israel the most flagrant offender.
The Israel Embassy in Washington, DC. does not confine their activities to trade negotiation and cultural exchange. On Capital Hill, the embassy consistently rated as the most powerful and influential, which maintains a rating system for measuring American publications’ loyalty to Israel and has filled huge libel suits against some.
“No one else is even a close second, partly because of their propaganda and lobbying skills along with it’s persistence, money, and mortal standing. No mater if it is the most minor, minute, irrelevant amendment, the Holocaust is invoked at every point.”
President Harry Truman recognized the first government of Israel in 1948, and no other president since has taken sides against Israel. It has now been sixty years since the establishment of Israel and I think it is time that Israel grow up. The United States should stop all aide except for food subsidies. If Jewish citizens of the United States transfer funds to Israel, they should be stripped of their citizenship and exiled to Israel.
Israel fails to recognize the Palestine and its people, and does not give full rights to the Arabs that live inside its borders. It makes excuses to bomb and invade Lebanon, and destroy its infrastructure to wreck havoc with Lebanon flourishing tourism business.
During the 1960’s and 1970’s Israel spied and bought classified information from the United States and Great Brittan to build a nuclear processing facility. They have failed to report any nuclear incidents, and have even dumped toxic waste in open areas. Yet President Bush beats his war drums against Iran because they have built a nuclear facility and may soon have nuclear weapon capability. If it is alright for Israel to have nuclear weapons, why not Iran?
Most of this reasoning is found in the book Heavy Losses by James Coates and Michael Kilian, published in 1985.
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I am flattered to find my book mentioned on your blog. It was a long time ago and, as you note, nothing has changed.
Glad to see that someone really reads these things. Glad to hear from you. With great minds like you and Noam Chomsky, why can't we find a decent president!
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