Prospective Presidents’ Painful Pandering At Annual AIPAC Assembly
LIKE A MUSLIM undertaking the Hajj, the once in a lifetime trip to Mecca, or a Catholic chancing to see the pope speak from his Vatican window, presidential candidates seemingly long to trudge to the annual AIPAC conference to pay fealty to Israel and its Lobby.
This year we were fortunate enough to witness John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton taking turns losing their dignity before the AIPAC crowd.
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Obama declared Jerusalem indivisible, presumably for the Israelis only, in contrast to the United Nations holding that Jerusalem was, and is, an international city, belonging to neither side.
....the world has come to realize that all such blind, unquestioning support for Israel’s most criminal objectives is a real threat to world peace. It has actual impact on the lives of people in the Middle East.
Thus, the enabling of Israeli aggression by presidential candidates, one of whom will actually become the president of the United States, can, and has, resulted in the deaths and suffering of tens of thousands of Arabs, in Lebanon, in Palestine, and in Iraq. Such rhetoric allows Israel, with U.S. help, to attempt to starve into submission Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, people who had the temerity to take seriously Bush’s promises of democracy in the Arab world. Despite Israel’s blockade of medicines, food, electricity and other necessities to Gazans, the American government and Mainstream Media have voiced not one word of protest. The U.S. only gives Israel more money and more weapons to continue the attempted starvation.
Presidential candidates have been kowtowing to the Israeli Lobby for decades.
Obama’s statement of unquestioning and unqualified support for Israel’s objectives will likely embolden Israel to once again try to invade Lebanon to destroy Hezbollah’s fighters, the only force strong enough to resist Israeli aggression in that country.
And while the U.S. has no more troops left with which to invade Iran, as Sen. Joe Lieberman and the Israeli government want us to do, both Israel and the Bush administration have plans to bomb Iran’s phantom nuclear program. (Whatever happened to the CIA’s National Intelligence Estimate announcing that Iran has no longer pursued a weapons program?)
One would have hoped that Barack Obama would have taken note of the destruction left in the wake of what George Bush thought would be a benign invasion of Iraq, and not try to repeat this kind of mischief with repercussions so serious that the Middle East is on the verge of destabilization.
One would have thought that Obama would have considered the impact of the divisions created by Bush and by Israel in various Arab countries, all with the objective of giving Israel hegemony over the area. Thus, with Lebanon, Iraq and the Palestinians being urged to fight internally with one another, those countries will be easier targets for eventual Israeli control.
Read all here: http://www.wrmea.com/archives/August_2008/0808021.html
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How sad that each and every new prospective President has to bow to AIPAC. Kiss up, or forget becoming president!
The Palestinians.... I had to mention their plight, they are the underdogs, barely considered humans.
LIKE A MUSLIM undertaking the Hajj, the once in a lifetime trip to Mecca, or a Catholic chancing to see the pope speak from his Vatican window, presidential candidates seemingly long to trudge to the annual AIPAC conference to pay fealty to Israel and its Lobby.
This year we were fortunate enough to witness John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton taking turns losing their dignity before the AIPAC crowd.
.......
Obama declared Jerusalem indivisible, presumably for the Israelis only, in contrast to the United Nations holding that Jerusalem was, and is, an international city, belonging to neither side.
....the world has come to realize that all such blind, unquestioning support for Israel’s most criminal objectives is a real threat to world peace. It has actual impact on the lives of people in the Middle East.
Thus, the enabling of Israeli aggression by presidential candidates, one of whom will actually become the president of the United States, can, and has, resulted in the deaths and suffering of tens of thousands of Arabs, in Lebanon, in Palestine, and in Iraq. Such rhetoric allows Israel, with U.S. help, to attempt to starve into submission Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, people who had the temerity to take seriously Bush’s promises of democracy in the Arab world. Despite Israel’s blockade of medicines, food, electricity and other necessities to Gazans, the American government and Mainstream Media have voiced not one word of protest. The U.S. only gives Israel more money and more weapons to continue the attempted starvation.
Presidential candidates have been kowtowing to the Israeli Lobby for decades.
Obama’s statement of unquestioning and unqualified support for Israel’s objectives will likely embolden Israel to once again try to invade Lebanon to destroy Hezbollah’s fighters, the only force strong enough to resist Israeli aggression in that country.
And while the U.S. has no more troops left with which to invade Iran, as Sen. Joe Lieberman and the Israeli government want us to do, both Israel and the Bush administration have plans to bomb Iran’s phantom nuclear program. (Whatever happened to the CIA’s National Intelligence Estimate announcing that Iran has no longer pursued a weapons program?)
One would have hoped that Barack Obama would have taken note of the destruction left in the wake of what George Bush thought would be a benign invasion of Iraq, and not try to repeat this kind of mischief with repercussions so serious that the Middle East is on the verge of destabilization.
One would have thought that Obama would have considered the impact of the divisions created by Bush and by Israel in various Arab countries, all with the objective of giving Israel hegemony over the area. Thus, with Lebanon, Iraq and the Palestinians being urged to fight internally with one another, those countries will be easier targets for eventual Israeli control.
Read all here: http://www.wrmea.com/archives/August_2008/0808021.html
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How sad that each and every new prospective President has to bow to AIPAC. Kiss up, or forget becoming president!
The Palestinians.... I had to mention their plight, they are the underdogs, barely considered humans.
