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The Israel Lobby's Grip on U.S. Politics
Jun 4th, 2024 at 6:58am
 
'The U.S. national interest should be the primary object of American foreign policy. For the past several decades, however, and especially since the Six Day War in 1967, the centerpiece of U.S. Middle East policy has been its relationship with Israel.

'This situation has no equal in American political history. Why has the United States been willing to set aside its own security in order to advance the interests of another state? One might assume that the bond between the two countries is based on shared strategic interests or compelling moral imperatives. As we show below, however, neither of those explanations can account for the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel.

'Instead, the overall thrust of U.S. policy in the region is due almost entirely to U.S. domestic politics, and especially to the activities of the 'Israel Lobby.' Other special interest groups have managed to skew U.S. foreign policy in directions they favored, but no lobby has managed to divert U.S. foreign policy as far from what the American national interest would otherwise suggest, while simultaneously convincing Americans that U.S. and Israeli interests are essentially identical.'

    -   J. J. Mearsheimer and S. M. Walt, The Israel Lobby and U. S. Foreign Policy, Faculty Research Working Papers Series, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, (March, 2006)


https://rumble.com/v4yr6cn-prof.-john-mearsheimer-on-the-israel-lobbys-grip-on-u...
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We are benefiting from ... the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq.

Benjamin Netanyahu, quoted in Ma’ariv, 16 April 2008
 
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Reply #1 - Jun 16th, 2024 at 9:56pm
 
Rep. Thomas Massie Tells Tucker Carlson Every GOP Member of Congress Has an 'AIPAC Babysitter'


"Everybody but me has an AIPAC person -- like your AIPAC babysitter, who is always talking to you for AIPAC," Massie said. "They're probably a constituent from your district but they're firmly embedded in AIPAC."

"Every member has something like this?" Tucker Carlson asked.

"Every Repub--, I don't know how it works on the Democrat side, but that's how it works on the Republican side, and when you come to DC you go have lunch with them and they've got your cell number and you have conversations with them."

"That's crazy," Carlson responded.

"So, I've had four members of Congress say, 'I'll talk to my AIPAC person' -- that's literally what we call them, 'my AIPAC guy,'" Massie said, laughing. "'I'll talk to my AIPAC guy and see if I can get them to, you know, dial those ads back.'"

"Why have I never heard this before?" Carlson said.

"It doesn't benefit anybody," Massie said, "why would they want to tell their constituents that they've basically got a buddy system with somebody who is representing a foreign country, it doesn't benefit the congressmen for people to know that so they're not going to tell you that."

Massie told Carlson no other country does this: "Not only do they not have a Putin guy, they don't have a Britain guy, they don't have an Australian guy, they don't have a Germany dude, it's the only country that does this!"

Carlson for some reason feigned ignorance about all this ...

Watch the full interview below (or on YouTube):

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64483


AIPAC, if you didn't know, is one of the most prominent lobby groups in Washington.
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We are benefiting from ... the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq.

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Reply #2 - Jun 17th, 2024 at 12:02am
 
Does the USA need a war with Israel to gain its independence?
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Reply #3 - Jun 30th, 2024 at 11:04pm
 
Israel Targets US Congress


"Kneel down and worship Bibi Netanyahu, or else!"


Normally, Congress isn’t in the habit of inviting serial killers to deliver solemn declamations. Ed Gein, Ted Bundy, Jeff Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, and Charles Manson were never issued bipartisan invitations to address America’s legislators, any more than Jack the Ripper was rolled out the red carpet to proffer perorations to Parliament.

But Netanyahu is a special case. His scheduled July 24 speech marks the fourth occasion that America’s top congressional leaders have honored the world’s leading child murderer and genocide perpetrator with a speaking opportunity. If he evades Interpol and arrives safely in DC, Netanyahu will overtake former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill as the foreign leader who has delivered the most speeches to Congress. (Churchill was “only” invited three times.)

Bizarrely,  Netanyahu’s speeches to Congress are always stinging rebukes of sitting US presidents. In July 1996, newly-elected anti-peace-process candidate Netanyahu threw ice water on then-president Clinton’s efforts to fulfill the promise of the Camp David accords, which required Israel to withdraw from East Jerusalem. Netanyahu basically gave Clinton the finger:

“There have been efforts to re-divide this city (Jerusalem) by those who claim that peace can come through division—that it can be secured through multiple sovereignties, multiple laws, and multiple police forces.This is a groundless and dangerous assumption which impels me to declare today: There will never be such a re-division of Jerusalem!”

After returning home, Netanyahu repeatedly attacked the Al-Aqsa mosque, slaughtered dozens of Palestinians, and ultimately used Israeli asset Monica Lewinsky to hamstring Clinton and torpedo his peace plan.

Twice during Obama’s presidency, in 2011 and 2015, Netanyahu again used speeches to Congress to slap down a US president’s peace plans. On May 24, 2011, the Israeli PM reiterated that Israel would never, ever return to its pre-1967 borders—as the entire world including the US insists it must—and warned Obama against negotiating with Iran. Then on March 3, 2015, Bibi returned to the US Congress to viciously attack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. On that occasion, Congress’s sycophancy appalled the entire world. The BBC reported that Netanyahu “got 28 standing ovations in 47 minutes—there was hardly time for the audience to sit down between them.”

Why is a corrupt, genocide-perpetrating foreign leader so popular at the US Congress? The answer, of course, is that Congress is owned by Israel.

How did a foreign nation take over the US Congress? The short answer: They have used every trick in the book, including:

*Bribery: Israel’s partisans give between one third and one half of congressional “campaign donations”—and that’s just the on-the-books money.

*Blackmail: For decades, Israeli asset Meyer Lansky blackmailed J. Edgar Hoover and the rest of America’s leadership, and Jeffrey Epstein and dozens or hundreds of others have continued those activities.

*Assassination: Israel leads the world in political assassinations, and is suspected of involvement in the deaths of such Americans as President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, among others.

*Media Dominance: See Philip Weiss’s essay “Do Jews Dominate in American Media? And So What If We Do?”

As technology evolves, the Israelis keep learning new tricks. The world found out about one of them recently when Politico reported that “at least 128 members of Congress were targeted by an Israeli-linked operation to spread pro-Israel military content amid the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.” The operation, backed by the Israeli government, included the creation of 600 fake social media profiles spamming targeted lawmakers with “more than 2000 coordinated comments per week backing Israel’s military actions, slamming Palestinian rights groups, and dismissing claims of human rights abuses.”

When Russia was accused of doing similar things in 2016, without much evidence, the media blew it up into the Russiagate scandal that hobbled Trump’s presidency. But there are no indications that Russia ever gained significant influence over the US government.

Israel, by contrast, has now been caught dead-to-rights targeting Congress through social media fraud. And the evidence that Israel exerts significant control over the US government is undeniable. Just look at how Congress keeps kissing the feet of indicted war criminal Netanyahu.

Why isn’t this a vastly bigger scandal than Russiagate? Why do Americans worry about fake or feeble foreign influence operations, when a real, overwhelmingly powerful one is staring them in the face?


https://kevinbarrett.substack.com/p/israel-targets-us-congress
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We are benefiting from ... the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq.

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Reply #4 - Jul 5th, 2024 at 8:00am
 
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Reply #5 - Sep 7th, 2024 at 7:18pm
 
Israel Rules Washington


Political Parties compete in what they will do for the Jewish State

Philip Giraldi  -  September 4, 2024


If there is anyone out there who seriously doubts that it is Israel that is in the driver’s seat when it comes to its relationship with the United States, last week’s filing of criminal charges directed against Hamas’s leadership should be a wake-up call. The seven-count criminal complaint was filed in a federal court in New York City on September 2nd. It includes charges such as conspiracy to bomb a public space, conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization resulting in deaths, use of weapons of mass destruction, conspiring to and also murdering US nationals and conspiracy to finance terrorism. The document also claims that Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah have been providing financial support, weapons, to include rockets, as well as military supplies to Hamas for use in their attacks on Israel. The document’s legitimacy, though one hesitates to use the word, is based on the assumption that the US has a mandate to go after terrorists and their supporters, even to kill them, anywhere in the world when and if it considers it appropriate to do so.

To spread the good news of the new development, the malignant dwarf United States Attorney General Merrick Garland even emerged from his closet where he has been hiding since he traveled to Ukraine to threaten Russia in September 2023. He produced a video statement that revealed his thinking re the latest attempt to regulate the behavior of the rest of the world using American courts. Garland said, without presenting any evidence, that Hamas had been guilty of “financing and directing a decades-long campaign to murder American citizens and endanger the security of the United States… [while also seeking] to destroy the state of Israel and murder civilians in support of that aim.” Garland also described the October 7th attack on Israel by Hamas, in which 43 American-Israelis allegedly died, in graphic terms that have since been exposed as nearly all Israeli propaganda lies. He claimed, the group had “murdered entire families” as “the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. They murdered the elderly and they murdered young children. They weaponized sexual violence against women, including rape and genital mutilation. The charges unsealed today are just one part of our effort to target every aspect of Hamas’ operations. These actions will not be our last.” In reality, of course, many if not most of those who died were killed by friendly fire when Israel staged its counter-attack, using helicopter gunships and tanks to kill anyone on the ground indiscriminately. Nevertheless, the mainstream media continues to repeat the false narrative surrounding October 7th, that Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis. And the tales of torture and rape apply mostly to the activity of Israeli soldiers vis-à-vis Palestinian prisoners. Many released hostages have actually confirmed that they were treated well by Hamas...


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https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/israel-rules-washington/
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Reply #6 - Sep 7th, 2024 at 10:43pm
 
The Israel lobby corrupts US politics.

US politicians are bribed to support genocide and other unlawful acts of a foreign power.

The scale of corruption is monstrous.
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