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Giraldi : Why I Dislike Israel
Dr. Philip Giraldi, Executive Director of Council for the National Interest (CNI), is a former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer who served 18 years in Turkey, Italy, Germany, and Spain. He was Chief of Base in Barcelona from 1989 to 1992, and designated as the Agency’s senior officer for Olympic Games support..
“… it has successfully manipulated my country, the United States, and has done terrible damage both to our political system and to the American people, a crime that I just cannot forgive, condone, or explain away.”
by Philip Giraldi
Even those pundits who seem to want to distance U.S. foreign policy from Tel Aviv’s demands and begin treating Israel like any other country sometimes feel compelled to make excuses and apologies before getting down to the nitty-gritty. The self-lacerating prologues generally describe how much the writer really has a lot of Jewish friends and how he or she thinks Israelis are great people and that Israel is a wonderful country before launching into what is usually a fairly mild critique.
Well, I don’t feel that way. I don’t like Israel very much. Whether or not I have Jewish friends does not define how I see Israel and is irrelevant to the argument. And as for the Israelis, when I was a CIA officer overseas, I certainly encountered many of them. Some were fine people and some were not so fine, just like the general run of people everywhere else in the world. But even the existence of good upstanding Israelis doesn’t alter the fact that the governments that they have elected are essentially part of a long-running criminal enterprise judging by the serial convictions of former presidents and prime ministers.
Most recently, former President Moshe Katsav was convicted of rape, while almost every recent head of government, including the current one, has been investigated for corruption.
Further, the Israeli government is a rogue regime by most international standards, engaging as it does in torture, arbitrary imprisonment, and continued occupation of territories seized by its military.
Worse still, it has successfully manipulated my country, the United States, and has done terrible damage both to our political system and to the American people, a crime that I just cannot forgive, condone, or explain away.
The most recent outrage is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s direct interference in U.S. domestic politics through his appearance in a television ad appearing in Florida that serves as an endorsement of Republican candidate Mitt Romney. The Netanyahu ad and his involvement in the election has been widely reported in the media and has even been condemned by several leading Jewish congressmen, but it has elicited no response from either Obama or Romney. Both should be condemning in the strongest terms the completely unprecedented intervention by a foreign head of government in an American election.
That they are saying nothing is a testament to the power that Israel and its friends in Congress and the media have over the U.S. political establishment. Romney might even privately approve of the ads, as he has basically promised to cede to Netanyahu the right to set the limits for U.S. policy in the Middle East.
And why is Benjamin Netanyahu in such a lather? It is because President Barack Obama will not concede to him a “red line” that would automatically trigger a U.S. attack on Iran. Consider for a moment the hubris of Netanyahu in demanding that Washington meet his conditions for going to war with Iran, a nation that for all its frequently described faults has not attacked anyone, has not threatened to attack anyone, and has not made the political decision to acquire a nuclear weapon in spite of what one reads in the U.S. press.
At the U.N., Netanyahu’s chart showing a cartoon bomb with a sputtering fuse reminiscent of something that might have been employed by an anarchist in the 1870s failed to pass any credibility test even for the inevitable cheerleaders in the U.S. media. If the U.S. is to go to war based on a Netanyahu cartoon then it deserves everything it gets when the venture turns sour, most likely Iraq Redux, only 10 times worse.
Patrick Clawson, director, WINEP.
Even more outrageous, and a lot less reported in the media, were the comments made by Patrick Clawson, director of research for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), an organization founded by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). WINEP is widely viewed as a major component of the Israel Lobby in Washington and is closely tied to the Israeli government, with which it communicates on a regular basis. Clawson heads WINEP’s Iran Security Initiative.
At a briefing on Sept. 24 he said, “I frankly think that crisis initiation is really tough, and it’s very hard for me to see how the United States … uh … president can get us to war with Iran.… The traditional way America gets to war is what would be best for U.S. interests.”
Note that Clawson states his conviction that initiating a crisis to get the U.S. involved in a war with Iran and thereby fooling the American people into thinking that it is the right thing to do is actually a “U.S. interest.”
He cites Pearl Harbor, Fort Sumter, the Lusitania, and the Gulf of Tonkin as models for how to get engaged. Which inevitably leads to Clawson’s solution: “if the Iranians aren’t going to compromise it would be best if someone else started the war … Iranian submarines periodically go down. Some day one of them may not come up…. We are in the game of using covert means against the Iranians. We could get nastier at that.”
Clawson is clearly approving of Israel’s staging an incident that would lead to war, possibly even a false-flag operation carried out by Israel that would implicate the United States directly, or he is urging the White House to do the job itself.
Clawson not surprisingly has never served in the U.S. military and has a Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research, which would at first glance seem to disqualify him from figuring out how to set up a covert operation to sink a submarine and thereby start a war. He might be seen as moderately ridiculous, but like many of his neoconservative colleagues he is well wired into the system.
He writes regularly for The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal; appears on television as an “expert”; and is a colleague at WINEP of the ubiquitous Dennis Ross, sometimes called “Israel’s lawyer,” who was until recently President Obama’s point man on the Middle East.
Clawson is a useful idiot who would be registered as an agent of the Israeli government if the Justice Department were doing its job, but instead he is feted as a man who tells it like it is in terms of American interests. The distortion of the foreign-policy decision-making in this country is something that can be attributed to Clawson and his host of fellow travelers, all of whom promote Israel’s perceived interests at the expense of the United States. And they do it with their eyes wide open.
Israel first Pamela Geller
I will deliberately avoid belaboring another Israel Firster Pamela Geller and her New York subway posters calling Palestinians savages and Israelis civilized, as I am sure the point has been made about how any lie that can serve the cause of Israel will be aggressively defended as “free speech.”
A poster excoriating Jews or blacks in similar terms as “savages” would not have seen the light of day in New York City, another indication of the power of the Israel Lobby and its friends to control the debate about the Middle East and game the system.
And then there are the reasons to dislike Israel and what it represents that go way back. In 1952’s Lavon Affair, the Israelis were prepared to blow up a U.S. Information Center in Alexandria and blame it on the Egyptians. In 1967, the Israelis attacked and nearly sank the USS Liberty, killing 34 crewmen, and then used their power over President Lyndon Johnson to block an investigation into what had occurred. In 1987, Jonathan Pollard was convicted of spying for Israel with investigators determining that he had been the most damaging spy in the history of the United States. In the 1960s, Israelis stole uranium from a lab in Pennsylvania to construct a secret nuclear arsenal. And the spying and theft of U.S. technology continues. Israel is the most active “friendly nation” when it comes to stealing U.S. secrets, and when its spies are caught, they are either sent home or, if they are Americans, receive a slap on the wrist.
And Israel gets away with killing American citizens — literally — in the cases of Rachel Corrie and Furkan Dogan of the Mavi Marmara. And let’s not forget Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians which has made the United States complicit in a crime against humanity. Tel Aviv has also played a key role in Washington’s going to war against Iraq, in promulgating a U.S.-led global war on terror against the Muslim world, and in crying wolf over Iran, all of which have served no U.S. interest.
Through it all, Congress and the media are oblivious to what is taking place. Israel is a net recipient of over $123 billion in U.S. aid and continues to get $3 billion a year even though its per capita income is higher than that of Spain or Italy. No one questions anything having to do with Israel while Congress rubber-stamps resolution after resolution virtually promising to go to war on Israel’s behalf.
I have to admit that I don’t like what my own government is doing these days, but I like Israel even less and it is past time to do something about it. No more money, no more political support, no more tolerance of spying, and no more having to listen to demands for red lines to go to war. No more favorable press when the demented Benjamin Netanyahu holds up a cartoon at the U.N. The United States government exists to serve the American people, no more, no less, and it is time that our elected representatives begin to remember that fact.
Source : Antiwar.com
Also see:
US taxpayers paid more to Israeli defense budget than Israelis
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Hard hitting and the sentiment of so many of us yet their voices are silenced in this totally factual expression of a learned and experienced person.
i am searching for the deceitful material and perhaps even biased;however,I am not able to find any.Every word is based on 100% factual information.
Both Israel and the US need to be ashamed of their actions and words,especially,the US.To claim that we are only taking care of American interests is a bold faced lie.We are taking care of the Israeli lobby who fronts for Israel and the rogue government.The USA is supposed to be a republic of,by and for the people but I question what people.
To have a congress and senate that makes public promises to protect Israel above the needs of the US is treasonous but that is exactly what they declared.I have written my elected officials and one senator is up ,for reelection.Knowing that she is acting against the best interest of the Americans,she has not had the courage to solicit funds from me this time around and rightfully so.Anybody who is bought lock stock and barrel does not have my support in any way.
This was a fine editorial,not only because it happened to agree with my line of thinking but that it was based on fact not conjecture or some lobby’s paid words.
Absolutely! lawrencedickerson,
As Alison Weir advocates in her article, click on the Link below to read :
“Throw the bums out” and Take back America!
Instead of throwing your votes away, start the process of throwing the bums out – this time for real.
Not often is a political fix so public — Alison Weir.
http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2012/09/09/214849not-often-is-a-political-fix-so-public-alison-weir/
and here:
In an exclusive interview, Merlin Miller, US presidential candidate for the American Third Position Party (A3P) said he firmly believes both major US political parties are controlled by the Zionist interests,
The Republican and Democratic contenders for the November presidential race are merely lap dogs for the Zionist lobbies in the United States.
He further noted that the whole presidential process in the United States is a sham, expressing regret that the American public is not aware of the reality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qqoYEKHlohw#
Merlin Miller looks like the only human on the ballot. I can’t bring myself to vote for a reptile, the ones preselected for us. I think he deserves our support, whether he’s only ballot of your state or not.
If life is a test, we’re all being measured, whatever comes next. I hope more people follow their conscience this time around, come what may.
DaveE
Here are the top ten reasons Israel’s Likud Party would have wanted to censor American television news on this occasion (and of course we don’t know all the occasions they have successfully done so):
Top Ten Reasons Israel tried to Censor Bob Simon’s Report on Palestinian Christians
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2012/05/top-ten-reasons-israel-tried-to-censor-bob-simons-report-on-palestinian-christians/?preview=true&preview_id=28768&preview_nonce=8ad0e2eae1
There was no Israel in 1709! The hiding of the facts from the American public goes back decades:
A token gesture from the crew that runs Hollywood.
The West Wing – Holy Land Map :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k9IlR3-_-A&feature=player_embedded
and finally some pretty powerful testimony: keep some tissues handy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx1eRkBgzcA&feature=player_embedded
This country has Hell to pay for our support of that demonic obscenity known as Israel. A stolen country, built for purely racist reasons on the soil and blood of an ethnically-cleansed indigenous population, through terrorism and dirty dealings of all kinds and used for a base for “people” who are nothing more than a demonic cult and crime syndicate. It’s beyond sick and the shame is on all of US (and UK) for letting it happen and even facilitating such a crime.
Then add in the “Christians” who are too sick (or stupid) to understand basic moral concepts and you have plenty of reasons to be ashamed of your fellow countrymen. I know I sure am. I hope Christ deals with the sickos who have allowed this to happen, otherwise it looks like the bad guys have won.
What Philip has said in this article has been said by others, day in and day out, in these columns and others with similar values . One shouldn’t be surprised at his comments as he has been there and seen it all. But I feel a strong resolve in his writing to really make every word count, even more than before.
Philip sates that friends like Israel have been bad for America. Well, I go one further and state that thanks to the comments form people like Clawson above and the “redline” comments by Netanyahu, very Jewish person in America is a fifth columnists until proven otherwise. They must be regarded as a security risk; they must be regarded as having a primary interest in Israel first and then America second, until proven otherwise. As such they are all under suspicion because if they do not come out in the open and state that 1/ they support the existence of Israel (or otherwise) but are truly Americans first and last then 2/ they are capable of engaging in activities against the US national interest. Their blind loyalty is enforced by a media that wouldn’t know the truth and hasn’t for years and therefore people find it easier to see the freedoms eroded away, day after day, all without a whimper.
Foxman and his ADL, is an organization that is there to promote Jews and protect them from deserved disparaging comment such as the Clawson example given above. Surely, suggesting that the US would start a war based on a false flag incident should be humiliating for any government. But people just shrugged it off, No one cared much in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan in very similar circumstances.
The worst Clawson was called was a “clown” by William Cook in a well written article on My Catbird seat this week.Noe he is a risk to the US.
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2012/10/the-think-tank-clown-patrick-clawson/
Back to the ADL, do we see a similar organization in America that is on the look out for comments against Muslims, Hispanics, other groups?. No. The ADL is there for the Jews and they use it as they have used the holocaust marketing campaign, for over 50 years, hiding behind it like wimps, just as they hide behind American soldiers fighting and dying for Israel objectives in battles of their making, on-going to this day. One cannot help but reflect on the USS Liberty perfidy with a President so involved with Jews that he decided against any retaliation for this disgraceful act. The worst in US history. Shameful, swept under the carpet by McCain.
This Zionist cancer has been building in the gut of America for sixty years. It has a firm hold now.
So the disease and that’s what it is, is everywhere throughout the world, but more obvious in the US based on the control they exert, (or hopefully, exerted in the past) on US foreign policy. But look beneath the surface in any country which has a strategic position in the world and you will find the insidious influence of Israel doing their dirty deeds to gain support for votes in the UN by any means at all and influencing policies that benefit the selfish interest of their masters in Tel Aviv.
So any organization, anywhere in the world that intends to stiffen their resolve against the pariah state, Israel, has the vote of the decent majority, anxious to see peace and justice return to the countries that right now are being used as bargaining chips in a corrupt American election.
Exactly! It is a sincere effort and written with a sense of urgency.
You and I can help him disseminate this hard hitting piece by posting it on facebook walls, tweeting, and sharing. As an MCS/VNN supporter you are aware of the facts, many Americans are not. The truth needs to be told, no matter how unpleasant, and it’s up to us to say it.
Phil’s piece talks about the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, killing 34 crewmen, and how Tel Aviv used its power “to block an investigation into what had occurred.” He points out the fact that Rachel Corrie was literally bulldozed to death during a peaceful demonstration against demolishing Palestinian homes and that Furkan Dogan, a 19 year old Turkish-American who was aboard an unarmed aid ship on its way to Gaza, was “shot at close range, with four bullets in his head and one in his chest.”
Phil also explains what’s going on right now—behind closed doors. One prominent Israel-first Washington operative is…“…clearly approving of Israel’s staging an incident that would lead to war, possibly even a false-flag operation carried out by Israel that would implicate the United States directly, or he is urging the White House to do the job itself.”
The truth has to be told. Go forth and spread the truth….
Hmmm, gee no one is bringing up the #1 Reason to not like Israel?
“What we need to stand up and say is not only did they attack the USS Liberty, they did 9/11. They did it. I have had long conversations over the past two weeks with contacts at the Army War College, at it’s headquarters, Marine Corps and I made it absolutely clear in both cases that it is 100 percent certain that 9/11 was a Mossad operation . . . Period.”
- Dr. Alan Sabrosky, March 14, 2010
After all, it wasn’t “Radical Muslims” arrested on 9-11 in vans packed with explosives from Israeli Dominic Suter’s Mossad front company, “Urban Moving Systems” . . . it was the “Dancing Israelis”: Sivan Kurzberg, Paul Kurzberg, Yaron Schmuel, Oded Ellner and Omer Marmari.
Thanks to the over 1700+ Licensed Architects and Engineers for 9-11 Truth, we have proof of nano-Thermite explosive residue in the dust from the WTC buildings. (See “9/11 – Explosive Evidence: Experts Speak Out”)
One need only read the writings of Zionist strategists like Oded Yinon (A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s), Benjamin Netanyahu (TERRORISM: How The West Can Win), Richard Perle (A CLEAN BREAK: A New Strategy For Securing The Realm), and the PNAC group (Rebuilding America’s Defenses) to answer the standard criminal investigation questions:
Who had the MOTIVE?
Who had the MEANS?
Who had the OPPORTUNITY?
And most importantly, “Cui bono?” . . “Who benefits?”
Israel is a Racist Apartheid Nuclear Rogue State . . .and Suspect #1 when it comes to who REALLY did 9-11 . . .
With “Friends” like Israel . . who needs “Enemies”???
peace.
Tick… Tock… Tick… Tock! The Clock is Ticking!
and US is just one false flag away!!!!
Tic toc!