war for israel
When I’m sixty-four
Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I’m sixty-four?
Indeed we will. Whether we like it or not we continue to feed the slot machine of Israel where there is no programmed payout for the vast majority of Americans or the world. House takes all.
It’s the 64th birthday of Israel. We won’t celebrate but we would like to blow out the candles on that rancid cake once and for all.
Detention of children, continued land theft and the push for more wars for Israel are a few of the indications that wisdom often does not come with age.
These kids have no more birthdays to celebrate and only a few in our convoluted western world seem to care …….
There Oughta Be A Law!
Just let some other group here try to raise money for the military of any other country! They’d be behind bars so quickly they wouldn’t know what hit them.
Hundreds of protesters march outside the $1000-a-plate gala at the Waldorf-Astoria
NEW YORK – There was scarce evidence of the global recession at a $1,000-a-plate fundraiser for the IDF in New York City on Tuesday night.
Even as protesters outside the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel decried the guest of honor – Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi – donors pledged six-figure sums, topping $20 million by the end of the night. Inside a glittering ballroom, Friends of the Israel Defense Forces staged a theatrical show that tugged on the heartstrings – and purse strings – of the nearly 1,400 in attendance.On the heels of a trip to Washington, where he met with top US officials, Ashkenazi emphasized the threat of Iran’s nuclear program and called on the international community to stop the Islamic regime.
“All options should remain on the table,” he said.
But outside, a coalition of left-leaning groups led hundreds of protesters in a single-file march around the perimeter of the hotel. Clad in black, they hoisted signs emblazoned with the words, “War crime,” “End the siege on Gaza” and “Israeli war criminals feast at the Waldorf.”
“Everyone feels that Operation Cast Lead was an outrage,” said Dorothy Zellner, of Jews Say No!, which mobilized early. “As a Jew, I can’t tolerate that the country that did this claims it is doing it for me.”
Read the rest here.
Read about the demonstrations outside here.
There is a US law against giving free money called foreign aid to any country developing or having nuclear weapons without being an in compliance signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
If anyone should be barred from receiving federal contracts or aid it is the State of Israel, who has refused to sign the NNPT and have illegally pursued a nuclear weapons program of their own. The 1976 Symington Amendment to the Foreign Appropriations Bill of 1961 forbids the United States from giving foreign aid to any nation that is developing nuclear technology outside the NNPT.
Despite this, approximately 1/3 of the total foreign aid budget of the United States is annually sent to Israel even though they comprise less than .001 of the world’s population and has one of the world’s highest per capita incomes.
Former Congressman James Traficant rightly pointed out recently that between the direct foreign aid grants to Israel, along with all of the other benefits including trade compacts, economic and military assistance, “Israel gets approximately $15 billion a year from the American taxpayers. That $15 billion is $30,000 for every man, woman and child in Israel.” (more – Keith Johnson)
While we’re at it, why is there not a law against dual citizens, specifically US-Israelis, from holding positions in the government?
If you think we’re being unfair here, ask yourself: How you would react to the Head of Homeland Security if he or she were a dual national with citizenship in Iran, Lebanon or Saudi Arabia? Ask yourself why you don’t feel the same about Israeli dual citizenship. Then you will understand how powerful the Israeli lobby has been in “adjusting” your acceptance of their special status. {more}
Now consider another disturbing fact. A large number of key government officials and policymakers in the Defense Department and in the State Department during the Bush administration were not only pro-Israeli, they were dual US-Israeli citizens. Some of these officials are no longer in government, but many remain in a position to influence our government’s policies toward Israel. Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s chief of staff, is a dual Israeli-US citizen. That creates not only distortion and bias in the way that events are seen at the White House, it creates divided loyalty in how the US responds to events in that part of the world. {more}
And why in the hell should the most powerful lobby in this country be that of a foreign country? You might think there would be a law against it.
In the early 1960s, the late Sen. William J. Fulbright (D-Ark.) fought to force the American Zionist Council to register as agents of a foreign government. The council eluded registration by reorganizing as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. AIPAC has since become what Fulbright most feared: a foreign agent dominating American foreign policy while disguised as a domestic lobby.
Israelis and pro-Israelis object when they hear that charge. How, they ask, can we so few wield such influence over so many? Answer: it’s all in the math and in the single-issue advocacy brought to bear on U.S. policy- making by dozens of “domestic” organizations that compose the Israel lobby, with AIPAC its most visible force. {more – Jeff Gates}
AIPAC even writes many if not most of our foreign policy laws that deal with the middle east.
The Israel lobby’s campaign against US and international corporations doing business with Iran is gearing up this week. The tip of the spear is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee sponsored expansion of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996. If signed into law by president Obama, the legislation would institute onerous new monitoring to ensure exports never enter Iran, along with mandatory divestment from and penalties for any corporations discovered doing business in Iran. A new type of “office of special plans” at the Treasury Department that AIPAC and its think tank lobbied to create by executive order in 2004 is also on the warpath.
Americans should be outraged that a foreign lobby like AIPAC is actually trying to write the rules — when warranted application of the law would have abolished it years ago. AIPAC and other nodes of Israel’s lobby successfully broke important US laws to seize power in America. They now expect US private enterprise and workers — the world’s best — to open their own little “offices of special plans” to carefully track company products, profits, and investments in the name of Israel.
Israel and its US lobby actually think Americans will go for all of this, that we’re a forgetful and obedient lot, who don’t care much about our laws, economy, or jobs — who are just aching to get into AIPAC’s newly fabricated economic straightjacket.
Better think again. (more at antiwar}
We have too many laws as it is but when it comes to Israeli power over the American government … we don’t have enough or the ones we do have are totally ignored.
It’s time to change that.
Another Orwellian Nightmare: Proclaiming Justice to the Nations
Michele (America ‘cursed’ by God ‘if we reject Israel‘) Bachmann, congresswoman from MN, brings her crack pipe tour for Israel to Nashville on Sunday at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention.
She will be the keynote speaker at the International Christian Prayer and Action Dinner for Israel sponsored by Proclaiming Justice to the Nations.
President and founder of PJN is Laurie Cardoza-Moore, a native Nashvillian, Israel first propagandist who delights and profits from encouraging Christians to send their children to die in the wars for the criminal racist illegal state of Israel. Some of her anti-American, anti-Christian words are as follows:
With the growing threat of worldwide anti-Semitism, it is time for Christian’s to take a stand. Never again, can we allow our Jewish brethren to stand alone. Never again, should they have to defend their right to exist in the land of their inheritance
Israel has historical, political, archaeological, and Biblical rights to its land.Israel and our Jewish brethren are fighting a war for Israel’s very survival. Now, more than ever, Christians must unite to take a stand for Zion’s sake!
Hear more in her video at the PJN’s home page.
Bachmann and Cardoza-Moore are two peas in a zionist pod. Both are anxious for a war with Iran and fulfillment of their death cult philosophies that are the antithesis of true Christianity.
Another speaker at the NRB convention is zionist shill Mike Huckabee who will fit right in with the rest of the warmongers.
Cardoza-Moore had planned a $500 per head fundraiser for Bachmann but canceled as her ‘non-profit charity’ could be in violation of IRS rules against charities raising funds for political candidates. It’s a wonder that AIPAC doesn’t lobby against those pesky rules.
Tennessee has enough problems with their own politicians. It’s a sad state of affairs that we have to import outsiders to try and create more support for a genocidal nation that spies on, steals from, attacks and kills our own American people and who is taking us to the precipice of World War III.
Faux Christians marching to Zion ….. and wanting to take the rest of us with them. Some would dare to call it treason.
Ben Stein calls Ron Paul Antisemitic on Larry King
Ron Paul appeared on Larry King Live on CNN this evening (12-28-09) along with Ben Stein and Sheila Jackson Lee to discuss the recent thwarted terrorist attack. After Paul gives his now famous view that they “attack us because we are over there” Ben Stein calls Paul antisemitic which solicits a demand for an apology by Paul. Paul characterizes it as a “vicious attack”
from Daily Paul
also see:
Christmas Jet bomb, Bernard Lewis & The Clash of Civilisations
The Daily Dead: Just a few more civilians in Afghanistan
The “heartfelt condolences” and “highly regrettable” words of the military for the killing of woman and children is not how you ‘nation build.’ It’s how you pass off war crimes and what is an insane policy to maintain the dope crops, to keep the country divided and to have a launching pad for further mayhem.
| NATO Airstrike in Afghanistan Kills Civilians |
01 Oct. 2009
NATO forces in western Afghanistan are meeting with village elders after receiving reports that an airstrike killed at least nine civilians, including women and children.
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| An Afghan soldier (2nd R) talks with a NATO solider to set a checkpoint in Nad Ali district, Helmand province (File) |
Local residents said the attack also left several Taliban militants dead.
NATO said one of its aircraft dropped a single precision-guided bomb overnight in Helmand province’s Nad Ali district after an extensive battle with insurgents.
Officials from the international military force are in the area to determine the extent of the casualties. ISAF spokesman, Colonel Wayne Shanks, extended “heartfelt condolences” to relatives of the civilian victims.{more}
Perhaps the most insane death of a child for these wars of profit and for Israel is that of what is being reported as a killing from propaganda paper…..
A young Afghan girl suffered fatal injuries after a box of public information leaflets, dropped from an RAF transport aircraft over Helmand province, landed on top of her.
The accident, which the Ministry of Defence said yesterday was “highly regrettable”, is being investigated.{more}
Jim Traficant interviewed by Sean Hannity
Also See… Peter Chamberlin’s Israeli State of Extortion.
Is allowing the continued cost of Israel to the U.S. treason?
There are good arguments that it is…..
Appeasing Israel: At What Cost?
Any objective assessment of this presidency would reveal its disproportionate pro-Israeli composition. Democrat Harry Truman, a Christian-Zionist, extended nation-state recognition to this Zionist enclave. Republican G.W. Bush, another Christian-Zionist, staffed his presidency virtually the same as Democrat Obama—with a vast cadre of pro-Israelis. With so little difference in perspective, it is little wonder there is so little difference in Israeli behavior. Or in the risks that this relationship imposes on the U.S.
This trans-partisan “insider” operation shares an allegiance neither to party nor president. Its only loyalty is to a shared covenant whose obligations to an expansive Greater Israel take precedence over U.S. interests. The scope and scale of this shared bias suggest that the only way for the U.S. to restore its security is to withhold funding for Israel, withdraw its diplomats and reshape its foreign policy around U.S. interests.
Should this latest occupant of the White House continue to act inconsistent with U.S. interests, this young Commander in Chief must be reminded why the Framers set such a low evidentiary standard for proving treason. As a former professor of constitutional law, surely he knows that a conviction for that capital offense requires only proof of “adhering” (or granting “aid and comfort”) to an enemy—whether domestic or foreign. {more – Jeff Gates}
Here’s What Israel Is Really Costing American Taxpayers
By John Tiffany – IT IS OFTEN REPORTED THAT ISRAEL receives about $9.2 billion every year in the form of economic aid from the U.S. government, but there are many billions of dollars more in hidden costs and economic losses lurking beneath the surface. A recently published economic analysis concluded that U.S. support for the state of Israel has cost U.S. taxpayers nearly $3 trillion. About 60 percent of those costs (about $1.7 trillion) arose from the U.S. defense of the ever-expanding Israeli empire.
Support for the empire comes to $1.8 trillion, including special trade advantages, preferential contracts, or aid buried in other accounts.
In addition to the financial outlay, U.S. aid to Israel costs some 275,000 American jobs each year. The trade-aid imbalance with Israel is between $6 billion and $10 billion. The largest single element in the costs has been the series of oil-supply crises that have accompanied the Israeli-Arab wars and the construction of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. These have cost the U.S. $1.5 trillion, excluding the additional costs incurred since 2001.
The cost of supporting Israel increased drastically after the 1973 Israeli-Arab war. U.S. support for Israel during that war resulted in additional costs for the American taxpayer of between $750 billion and $1 trillion. When Israel was losing the war, President Richard Nixon stepped in to supply the Jewish state with U.S. weapons. Nixon’s intervention triggered the Arab oil embargo, which cost the U.S. as much as $600 billion in lost GDP and another $450 billion in higher oil import costs.
The 1973 oil crisis cost the U.S. economy no less than $900 billion, and probably as much as $1.2 trillion. As a result of the oil embargo the U.S. government created the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to “insulate Israel and the U.S. against the wielding of a future Arab “oil weapon.”
The billion-barrel SPR has cost taxpayers more than $134 billion so far. Making things worse, Israel gets “first call” on any oil available to the U.S. if Israel’s oil supply is stopped, according to an oil supply guarantee, which former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger provided Israel in 1975. The $3 trillion figure is actually too low, as it does not include the increased costs incurred during the year-long buildup to the ongoing wars against Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, in which Israel plays a significant covert role.
The higher oil prices incurred as a result of the Anglo-American campaign against Iraq were absorbed by taxpayers. Israel also has many hidden costs to the taxpayer. “Loans” made to Israel by the U.S. government invariably wind up being paid by the American taxpayer as does the interest on the money to Israel. Thus, it is reasonable to consider all government loans to Israel the same as grants. Israel has received over $42 billion in waived loans. {source – AFP}
Israel has been often called the 51st American State, yet Israel does not pay income tax, property tax, sales tax or gasoline tax to America as U.S. CITIZENS do, in fact, just the opposite. Using one state as an example: Florida has a population three times greater than Israel, yet Israel receives millions more from Florida’s tax dollars than the people of Florida do. Israel takes $1,800 US Federal Assistance Per Capita, while the people of Florida for example receive $900 U.S. Federal Assistance Per Capita. Since 1973, Israel has cost the United States about $1.6 trillion. If divided by today’s population here in America, it would amount to more than $5,700 per person in current TAX DOLLARS. We need our TAX DOLLARS more than ever for our schools, roads, medical and social services, natural disasters (floods, tornados, wild fires hurricanes), and most of all, for our own state’s security for each of our towns and cities across United States. America needs to be protected from both NATURAL and MAN MADE disasters, let the Israelis raise their own taxes to pay for their own actions, don’t raise our taxes so we can give more to Israel.
There are nearlywhile our tax dollars are going to build homes in illegal settlements in Arab deserts, nearly 13 million children in America are starving, while we give away billions of dollars each year to Israelis who ritually throw away food at alters. Save American lives and your tax dollars, stop throwing away money to Israel.
According to the Christian science monitor, Since 1973, Israel has cost the United States about $1.6 trillion. Top Jewish senators and Jewish congressmen in the U.S. are voting to detour tax payer’s money to Israel.
Contact your Congressmen and The President, demand that the money you pay from your taxes is intended to fix our roads,bridges, schools, medicare, social security, disaster relief and Americas defense against terrorism; “instead of going to Israel, Stop giving our TAX DOLLARS to Israel”.
Israel does not help us in the so called war against terrrorists as witnessed by the Dancing JEW MOSSAD AGENTS of 911. We need patriotic leaders who will keep America’s money in America and care more about American lives than non-Americans! {source}
The ascent of a minority of ambitious power-driven political operatives acting first and foremost for a militarist colonial power in a strategic region of the world economy represents the biggest threat to world peace and to US democratic values in recent history.
Think about it: Not only do the Zionists and their embedded clones rule the White House, they also have the political apparatus (left, liberal, center and right) to silence, insult, witch hunt and isolate any critic of their agenda, their organizations and of the State of Israel.
When confronted by a critic the entire apparatus brays in unison about ‘anti-Semitism’ and follows up with severe civil sanctions.
The Obama experience illustrates how a small, close knit, well-organized and well financed minority operating through prestigious professional posts and powerful economic enterprises can penetrate major political institutions, capture upwardly mobile politicians and ‘turn’ them into willing accomplices in promoting wars on behalf of a foreign colonial militarist power. {more}
Fully 13% of the entire US House of Representatives, 56 members, traveled to Israel in the largest AIPAC-sponsored fact-finding visit by American politicians ever conducted.
The August congressional junkets were paid for by the American Israel Education Foundation, which is a non-profit foundation that is part of AIPAC. The non-profit foundation part means that the trip to convince already acquiescent congressmen that Israel needs more aid and special treatment was more-or-less subsidized by the US taxpayer. Taking congressmen to Israel to make sure they understand the issues properly is not exactly new, but the scale and seniority of the recent visits sent a clear message to President Barack Obama that he should not pressure Israel in any way or he will face bipartisan opposition, opposition that he will not be able to overcome.
Words like “disloyalty” come to mind immediately, but the AIPAC trips targeting congress are signs of a deeper problem. Many congressmen undoubtedly display knee-jerk support for Israel either because it is career enhancing or because they are afraid not to.
{more – Philip Giraldi…The Best Congress AIPAC Can Buy}
The Most Dangerous Man in the World?
Is this man the biggest threat to start another war that will cause more of our American ‘volunteer’ soldier children to die? Not to mention a multitude of civilian causalities in the lands of our “enemies.” He will need help and it looks like he is pushing for a coalition of zionist nation states to assist him.
Israel’s Netanyahu given Holocaust plans in Berlin
BERLIN (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on a visit to Germany on Thursday that one lesson Israel drew from the Holocaust was that threats to its existence could not go unchallenged and must be “nipped in the bud”.
“We cannot allow evil to prepare the mass death of innocents. The most important thing to do is to nip it in the bud,” said Netanyahu, alluding to past threats by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to wipe Israel off the map. {be sure to read the rest of this…}
If it wasn’t so serious, I could get a few laughs from yahoo’s BS talk.
OK, fun time is over. To be drawn into a war with Iran will drive more nails into America’s coffin.
xymphora’s post today sums up what what kind of county we are dealing with…
Of course, there is ‘no evidence’ for the New Blood Libel, as the only evidence for it is the testimony of Palestinians. Unfortunately, Palestinians, being sub-human – like blacks and women used to be – aren’t qualified to give evidence, and no matter how many say the same thing, the statement of one Jew – not just a human being, but a Supreme Human Being – is enough to make the whole issue a matter of anti-Semitic group defamation. This despite the fact that in the whole context of what Jews do to Palestinians on a daily basis, and with great joy and gusto, stealing organs is an almost inconsequential Evil.
Will Obama and Netanyahu partner in even more death that what they already have going on?
The Bottom Line: Iran Must Remain Enemy # 1
The US and Israel’s goal of the ‘balkanization‘ of the middle east depends on it. The military/industrial complex requires it.
The feigned indignation of supposed Iranian vote fraud is hypocrisy at its finest. The rigging of elections only happens somewhere else, never in America and certainly not in 2000, 2004 or in the designated winner/loser presidential election of 2008.
Another bottom line…no government and their media arm are to be trusted.
Bloggers take a look at the situation —
aangirfan: Plot to Destabilize Iran
xymphora: Twitter conspiracy & Overturning the Islamic Revolution
Twelfth Bough: Tread carefully
Moon of Alabama: Cognitive Dissonace
American Everyman: Some observations on the Iranian presidential election and its aftermath
Paul Craig Roberts: Are you ready for war with demonized Iran?
Christopher Jon Bjerknes: Could be we are getting close
Bill Van Auken: Iran. Election clashes mount as West escalates pressure
Isn’t this the plan?
Gordon Brown Puts Israel Lobbyist in Charge of Britain’s Middle East Policy!
By Redress Information & Analysis
Britain’s prime minister has put a notorious pro-Israel lobbyist in charge of policy in the Middle East, Iraq and Iran, reaffirming his determination to continue with his Zionist policies even as his administration approaches the end of its life.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has appointed an Israeli agent of influence and proponent of genocide in Gaza to a key position at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Britain’s foreign ministry.
On 9 June, Ivan Lewis was given a major promotion in Mr Brown’s government when he was appointed Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with responsibility for Middle East policy, Iraq, Iran, counterterrorism and Anglo-American relations. According to one source, he is now “just one step away from the cabinet”.
Speaking after his promotion, Mr Lewis said: “My responsibility for the Middle East peace process is particularly poignant. I have never hidden my pride at being Jewish or my support for the State of Israel”.
According to the Independent newspaper, Mr Lewis’s appointment has “raised eyebrows in the Foreign Office”. It said:
Lewis has a long history of interest in the region as vice-chair of the Labour Friends of Israel. Earlier this year, he became – not without controversy – one of the most outspoken political supporters of Israel’s military assault on Gaza. Critics can’t help but wonder how objective Lewis is likely to be in his new post.
Mr Lewis is also a trustee of the Holocaust Educational Trust, a body founded in 1988 by British pro-Israel lobbyists Greville Janner and Merlyn Rees with the aim of maintaining a culture of gentile guilt and Jewish victimhood in British schools.
Ivan Lewis’s support for the racist state of Israel and for the genocide in Gaza is not the only example of his questionable morality.
In 2007, when he was junior health minister, he was forced to apologise to a civil servant, Susan Mason, after she told managers she was unhappy with the nature of their relationship.
It emerged that Mr Lewis, who at the time was 40 years old, had been sexually harassing Ms Mason, aged 23, with numerous smutty text messages. After complaining to her bosses, Mr Lewis’s victim was moved to a different job before resigning from the Civil Service. Speaking of her former boss, she said: “He wasn’t the nicest man to work for.”
A year earlier, Mr Lewis had walked out on his wife of 16 years, Juliette, and their two sons, aged nine and 11, in order to have an affair with a 50-year-old councillor, Margaret Gibb.
Source: redress
from VoxRoxx
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In 2008, The Jeruselem Chronicle declared ‘the top spots’ on their second annual list of those who ‘wield the greatest influence on British Jewry’. Ivan Lewis is listed at number 35. The criteria for being listed is described as ‘those with a vision for Jewish life in this country and who did their utmost to bring it about using either money; persuasion; religion; culture; political or social leadership; or simply inspiring through word and deed’.
The article’s sole comment on Lewis describes him as ‘Bury South MP and a prominent figure in Manchester Jewish life’. {source}
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