[Peace-discuss] More about The Lobby

[C. G. Estabrook]

If it weren't such an indication of pathological denial and refusal to note the
simple facts, it would be funny -- the insistence of American liberals that the
US crimes in SW Asia are the fault of the Bad Jews and their Lobby who have
somehow manipulated and misled the Good Obama.

What will it take for them to recognize that the murderous policies that the US
follows from the Mediterranean to the Indus are American (not Israeli) policies,
pursued in the interest of American elites?  Obama had been feverishly
auditioning to work for them for years: see "The Audacity of Hope" (an honestly
self-referential title).  He's the jumped-up button-man of the American
ascendancy, a Mob lawyer whose client is the greatest Mob of all -- the American
ruling class.

Israel sold its soul to the American Devil years ago -- ca. 1967 -- for the mess
of pottage (about $4B/yr) that the US provides. The result has been the
corruption of Israeli government and society -- perhaps predictable, because of
the roots of that society in what has been accurately termed a
"settler-colonialist" ruling class.

--CGE


Brussel Morton K. wrote:
> From Ray McGovern:
> 
> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/11-13
> 
> /…Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, led Lobby boasting just minutes after the
> Freeman debacle was announced. Schumer was clear: "His [Freeman's] statements
> against Israel were way over the top. ... I repeatedly urged the White House
> to reject him, and I am glad they did the right thing."/
> 
> /And, as Glen Greenwald has noted, "Lynch mob leader Jonathan Chait [of The
> New Republic and author of //an influential op-ed/ 
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022702485_pf.html>/for
>  the Washington Post] who spent the last week denying that Israel was the 
> driving force behind the attacks on Freeman," now concedes the obvious./
> 
> /Greenwald quotes Chait: "Of course I recognize that the Israel Lobby is 
> powerful, and was a key element in the pushback against Freeman."/
> 
> /Neoconservative Daniel Pipes offered an anatomy of the crime, blog-bragging
> about how it was conducted:/
> 
> /"What you may not know is that Steven J. Rosen of the Middle East forum was
> the person who first brought attention [on Feb. 19] to the problematic nature
> of Freeman's appointment. ... Within hours, the word was out and three weeks
> later Freeman has conceded defeat. Only someone with Steve's stature and
> credibility could have made this happen."/
> 
> /The same Steve Rosen who is currently on trial for violations of the 
> Espionage Act involving the transmission of classified information intended
> for Israel? One and the same! This has to be the purest brand of gall that
> ever came down the Pipes./
> 
> /This "morning after," I find myself wondering when White House chief of 
> staff Rahm Emanuel - another staunch supporter of the Lobby who reportedly
> was Schumer's go-to guy on the get-Freeman campaign - saw fit to let Admiral
> Blair in on the little secret that no way could he have Freeman. And why
> Blair tucked tail./
> 
> /In //a March 8 letter/ <http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/031009a.html>/ to
> Admiral Blair, we Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
> endorsed his appointment of Freeman and decried the campaign to derail it./
> 
> /We seven signatories (with cumulative experience of 130 years) noted that
> the Freeman case was the first time we witnessed such a well-coordinated
> campaign to reverse the appointment of an official to an intelligence job not
> requiring Senate confirmation./
> 
> /In other words the influence of the Israel Lobby is seeping ever deeper into
> the ranks of the intelligence community.…/
> 
> Ending with:
> 
> /On Oct. 5, 2007, I published //an article/ 
> <http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/100507a.html>/ about Israel's deliberate
> attempt on June 8, 1967, to sink the USS Liberty in international waters off
> the Sinai, killing 34 of the Liberty crew and wounding over 170 in the
> process./
> 
> /The lead was:/
> 
> /"So Who's Afraid of the Israel Lobby? Virtually everyone: Republican, 
> Democrat - Conservative, Liberal. The fear factor is non-partisan, you might
> say, and palpable. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee brags that it
> is the most influential foreign policy lobbying organization on Capitol Hill,
> and has demonstrated that time and again, and not only on Capitol Hill."/
> 
> /The point? In June 1967, the Israelis learned that they could get away, 
> literally, with murder and still not endanger their influence in Washington./
> 
> 
> /Events of the past weeks demonstrate that they and their Lobby are equally
> good at character assassination. It is embarrassingly shameful to watch
> President Obama acquiesce in all this./
> 
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