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Date: Mon Mar 30 2009 - 11:03:37 EST
Can Obama escape the dominating influence of AIPAC and
the American Jewish/Zionist Israeli lobby?
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Tuesday, 17 February 2009
No one in Mainstream US media is addressing the real problem which is, the
fact that nothing contrary to Zionist, Israeli and American Jewish lobbies,
AIPAC and other PACs interests, which are all-dominating in the American
political scene, will go very far. Anyone who supports such a move will have no
tomorrow in American politics or business.
They will be Finkelsteined to death by the Zionist assassins.
Recently, a group of very high-minded and virtuous but, retired diplomats
and academics who do not owe their future success to AIPAC or any Israeli
lobbies, asked the question: "Can Obama Untangle the Iranian Challenge?" But the
question they should be asking is: "Can Obama escape the dominating influence
of AIPAC and the American Jewish/Zionist Israeli lobby?"
The answer is "probably not and live."
It isn't enough, I think, just to point out that in the US, Jews have
acquired the lion's share of many key political appointments in the US
Administration. It is a known fact and I iterate it was 56% in the Clinton years, and
almost the same in the Bush years and we are beginning to see the same shape in
the formation of Obama administration. Even that Congress has been largely
compromised by AIPAC and the brigade of Jewish PACs in the US -- is all true,
and apparent of course.
In my recent essay I mentioned my fading faith, hope, trust and expectations
in Barack O'Bama.
That was before I read Christopher Bollyn’s article illustrating the Israeli
Zionists in the Obama Administration and the US Government, "The Israeli Who
Runs the Obama White House by C. Bollyn"
(_www.bollyn.info/home/articles/polphil/rahm-emanuel-and-barack-obama/) _
(http://www.bollyn.info/home/articles/polphil/rahm-emanuel-and-barack-obama/) ) the way they "fixed" the entire US
Presidential elections, and created a dramatic charade, including the comedy
team of McCain and Palin. With Obama refurnishing the White House with Clinton
leftovers and resurrections, it is beginning to look like business as usual
and nothing has changed since the regime of Lyndon Johnson, the Clinton, the
Bushes, et al.
The New Emperor's new robes are being cut and tailored of the same material
and by the same City Island tailors as his predecessors!
So much for dreams, ideals, hope and promises of change.
The question is why a large majority of the American people go along with
this entire exercise?
And when did it all start?
The answer to the second question came from an Israeli diplomat who lectured
to a class at Georgetown in the late 1980s, I am told by Professor Alan
Sabrosky, who taught at the University, a course on Comparative Foreign Policy,
among others, and had 3 - 4 diplomats from different countries in to the class
each semester that at dinner with the Israeli diplomat and two students, he
remarked during the conversation that the real turning point in Israel's
approach to the US had come in the wake of the 1956 War, when President
Eisenhower had ordered Israel, Britain and France to
"cease & desist" and return home. He said the Israeli Embassy tried to get
to Congress to reverse that decision, and found that in fact they had access
to only two "minor Congressional offices" (his phrase, I remember it clearly
says Prof. Alan Sabrosky). So, they set about crafting a network of PACs and
other things to reverse that state of affairs. One of the students asked: "How
many Congressional offices they could access successfully now?" (that was in
1980 please note)-- with a satisfied smile, he remarked "Almost all of
them." The students faces registered astonishment, so he quickly added words to
the effect that "But of course, we don't control them, they still act in the
best interests of the American people," but the students didn't believe him,
and there you have it...."
Admittedly, the more I read, the More I realize why it took the American
people so long to react to Bush Administration idiocy. Too many obstacles,
making it a monumental task.
I suppose when so many people in comparable positions have a consensus on
something (like "thou shalt not allow criticism of Israel"), you don't need a
conspiracy. There are so many Jewish PACs, besides AIPAC. There exists a
coordinating agency called "The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish
Organizations," Their website, is worth exploring (and AIPAC is just one of literally
dozens of organizations under its umbrella):
http://www.conferenceofpresidents.org/.
With all the money, political and corporate clout they have at their
disposal they must certainly have a tremendously powerful influence over the
ambitious and greedy men and women who enter politics. But to practically dominate
everyone in the game, including those with the popular support which both
Obama and Bush have experienced, and including the statistical minority of what
I might assume to be "honest men of principle," (or am I being naive in
believing that any such still exist?) is astounding.
The answer to the first question is partly because a key part of that
program, has been the steady diet of images fed to the general American population.
For bad or worse, a large majority of the general American public get their
impressions and opinions about the world at large from fiction: movies,
television shows, and novels. For half a century, thanks to many of the people
who sit on the Boards of Directors and in the executive suites of studios and
networks, they have been fed a constant stream of messages around certain core
themes: (a) poor, brave, misunderstood little Israel as America's only true
friend in the world; (b) the dirty, dangerous, barbaric, and malevolent Arab
as the direct lineal successor to the architects of the Holocaust; and (c)
more recently, Islam through Islamic terrorists as the only direct threat to
Israel, the United States, and Western civilization and culture generally.
Those messages until recently were rarely in the form of the "in-your-face" overt
propaganda, but a form of low-level political socialization that becomes
part of the background against which opinions are formed, and thus more
pervasive and more enduring than mass parades with people carrying banners and
shouting slogans. After more than a half-century of this "diet," the dumbest had a
greater capacity for independent thought than the average American hearing
the words "Israel" and "(Palestinian) Arab."
This "steady diet of imagery" coming out of Hollywood and the Infotainment
Industry for nearly a hundred years now has been insidious and we cannot
ignore who the initial investors and founders
of the industry were, and still are, and where they came from.
A great proportion of those beautiful and handsome "movie stars" with the
exotic names who set the scene for what the "normal" American should strive to
become, were of Eastern European extraction. Google and then try to persuade
me that they are proportionally representative of the incidence of Jewry in
the American population. Check the names of Studio Owners, Producers,
Directors, Writers, any one in the Movie and Infotainment profession, and tell me
that they are proportionally representative!
Hollywood is and has been for nearly a century, one of the most intense and
tightly organized, efficient and malevolent propaganda and thought control
machines in the world. It was during the Korean War that the US Government
invented and promoted what they called "brainwashing," which they attributed to
the North Koreans, but which they have been employing in Hollywood for fifty
or sixty years already. One cannot over-emphasize the "images" aspect insofar
as the general American public is concerned, and how it enables AIPAC and
company to leverage Congress. And it is not only Hollywood and the New York TV
industry; it is also publishing houses and major newspaper chains, all of
which send images to the public. These have increasingly over more than a
half-century molded how most Americans "feel" about the Middle East, and Israel and
the Arab (now more broadly Muslim) states/peoples in particular. And
especially Israel as a state and Arabs as people, now terrorists, have become
embedded in their cultural and emotional background.
So when anti-apartheid leaders like Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond
Tutu are dis-invited from lecturing at American colleges and universities
because of their public opposition to Israel's maltreatment of the Palestinians,
and plays like "My Name is Rachel Corrie" is scrubbed from major theaters (but
does appear in smaller ones), all under pressure from Jewish organizations
and donors, virtually no one thinks to quarrel with the decisions, or even
wonder why.
Can President Obama change anything?
Yep! He could start 1) Appoint some people that represent real change such
as Dennis Kucinich, Ralph Nader, Paul Krugman, Paul Findley or Robert Reich,
Ariana Huffington, Robert Kennedy Jr., Paul Craig Roberts, some folks from The
Nation, etc.
2) Keep the discussion on the costs of 2 very expensive wars that have
accomplished next to nothing (other than enriching the war profiteers). (Seven
years and still no Osama bin Laden; can you imagine fighting WWII and say you
could never find Hitler??)
3) Use money for the crumbling infrastructure in the U.S. Discuss costs in
terms of Months of Iraq War/Occupation--- how many MIWs for the loan to the
Big Three auto companies or how many MIWs for Universal Health Care coverage
etc.
4) Get to the root cause of Arab frustration and anger festering for
decades. For starters, by simply ordering that Israel immediately lift the Gaza
blockade, so Palestinians smoldering from the Israeli siege that killed 1,285
people - nearly 70% of them civilians, destroyed at least 4,000 homes, that sent
more than 50,000 people to temporary shelters in the recent blitz, could
begin to get bread, clean water, medicines and electricity, the basic essentials
for their survival. His silence on the issue speaks louder than words.
Yes, he can, but he won't!
Even as President, he is powerless without his support system, and it
apparently is AIPAC.
He could appoint anyone he wanted, and I have no doubt it would be a simple
matter to find men and women of high ideals and standards who would willingly
go to work to correct many of the ills which affect US Government and which
we had hoped he would attack, and correct... if that were his objective.
But, it makes little difference, however, whether that is his objective or
not, because it would be absolutely impossible to carry it out against the
will of AIPAC!
If he were to promote a program which went against the aims of AIPAC, with
the entrenched powers and the deep penetration they have infiltrated
throughout the system, he and his loyal Lieutenants would never find sufficient and
dedicated people who would be willing to sacrifice their careers in government
service, nor their passes through that revolving door between government, and
Corporate/Self-service, of which AIPAC is the doorman, and the overseer and
keeper of the Chalice of Post-Government Service lucrative relocation and
$ucce$$.
For most of that hustling crowd in Washington, D.C., government service is a
short-time stepping stone to bigger and better things. That AIPAC doorman
guards the gates to the afterlife.
Walt and Mersheimer are correct! "They" run the show! They write the script,
stage the production, sell the tickets, usher the audience to their seats,
operate the lights and stage effects, write the Sunday morning reviews, and
select casts for the next production. They also take the receipts to their own
bank.
The Presidency and every simple job in US Government is controlled by the
Israel Lobby. If they do not actually select those who get the positions, they
certainly ensure that those whom they do not want to have them do not! If
you wish to apply for a position trimming hedges on the landscaping staff of
the White House, it is best to drop in and pay your respects at the local AIPAC
office and the synagogue on your way to the Employment Office.
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About the author: Debbie Menon is an independent writer based in Dubai. She
can be reached at _debbiemenon@gmail.com_ (mailto:debbiemenon@gmail.com) .
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