Israel’s Dominance of Washington
It’s worse than ever but the “apartheid
state” is increasingly under pressure
By Philip Giraldi
December 17, 202:
Information Clearing House
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-- At the
end of every year, I like to comment on the
progress – and the setbacks – in our
struggle to make the United States
government understand that it exists to
improve lives for Americans rather than
working full time to pander to the Israelis
and their powerful domestic lobby. One would
have thought that it could not get worse
than the Donald Trump Administration’s
crawling on its knees to satisfy every whim
expressed or left unexpressed by Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, truly one
of the most evil men ever to walk the face
of the earth. Trump withdrew from the
nuclear treaty with Iran, a move which was
driven by Israel and its US lobby backed up
by inducements from GOP megadonor Sheldon
Adelson. As Israel is a secret nuclear
power, a program developed around technology
and uranium stolen from the United States,
the Trump move was the ultimate in
hypocrisy, enabling what most nations would
regard as a rogue state to have the nuclear
option vis-à-vis its relatively defenseless
neighbors.
Beyond that, and
without any real urging by Israel, Trump
showered gift after gift on the Jewish
state, moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem in
violation of the city’s “international”
status, recognizing Israel’s annexation of
the illegally occupied Syrian Golan Heights,
and endorsing Israel’s “right” to deal with
the Palestinians on the West Bank as it sees
fit. None of those actions were in support
of any actual American interests, nor was it
even necessary to do them to placate the
Israelis. Nor was it an American interest to
release from parole convicted Israeli spy
Jonathan Pollard, the most damaging spy in
US history, so he could emigrate to Israel
where he received a hero’s welcome. Since
Trump’s departure from office, it has been
learned that it was Trump’s Jewish and
Zionist son-in-law Jared Kushner who was
directing much of the policy on
Israel-Palestine.
Recently, Trump, for
whom the word “delusional” often seems to
apply,
stated emphatically that Israel has
“rightfully” controlled the US Congress but
does not do so any more. In an interview
with someone named Ari Hoffman, Trump
declared that “The biggest change I’ve seen
in Congress, Israel literally owned Congress
–you understand that?–ten years ago, fifteen
years ago. And it was so powerful. It was so
powerful. And today, it is almost the
opposite. You have, between AOC and Omar and
these people that hate Israel with a
passion, they’re controlling Congress.
Israel is not a force in Congress anymore!
It’s amazing. I’ve never seen such a change.
And we’re not talking about over a very long
period of time, I think you know exactly
what I’m saying. They had such power. Israel
had such power, and rightfully, over
Congress. And now it doesn’t! It’s
incredible, actually.”
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As evidence for that
assertion by Trump is lacking, particularly
as Congress continues to shower weapons and
money on Netanyahu and his successor Naftali
Bennett, one has to assume that the Donald
is as ignorant regarding the Israel Lobby’s
dominance of Congress. He must have missed
the appropriation of a billion dollars so
the Israelis could rebuild their missile
stockpiles after they launched them all at
Palestinian apartment buildings, hospitals
and schools. And then there are the billions
more for Israel coming from lopsided trade
and fraudulent charitable and rigged
co-development schemes, plus the money
hidden in major appropriations like the
Defense and Homeland Security funding.
Trump’s inability to
comprehend the truth about Israel and its
corruption of our government is one more
good reason why the Republicans should never
ever let him run for president again. But,
of course, the GOP at all levels loves
Israel just as much as do the Democrats.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s
unforgettable and unforgiveable comment
that “I have said to people when they ask me
if this Capitol crumbled to the ground, the
one thing that would remain is our
commitment to our aid…and I don’t even call
it aid…our cooperation with Israel. That’s
fundamental to who we are” could have just
as easily come out of the mouth of her
Republican counterpart Kevin McCarthy.
So what has Joe Biden
done now that Trump is gone and we Americans
have had eleven more months to suffer under
Israeli domination? Well, one might observe
that he absurdly invited Israel to
participate in the ludicrous “Democracy
Summit” which was
hosted last week by the White House even
though “apartheid” Israel is no democracy
and discriminates in virtually every
function of government by both religion and
race, having Jews only roads, schools and
housing projects. Other countries that have
elections and do not discriminate in similar
fashion among their citizens, to include
Russia, Turkey, Brazil, Poland and Hungary
were excluded. The only Arab state invited
was Iraq.
Nevertheless, beyond
that, one thing to notice is that the game
and the narrative have shifted considerably
in the past year. Joe Biden and his
all-Jewish State Department team have toyed
with reentering into the nuclear agreement
(JCPOA) with Iran by way of indirect talks
taking place in Vienna, but the game being
played out has been a fraud right from the
beginning. Biden believed it to be
politically expedient to promise to pick up
the pieces of what was once genuinely
regarded as a significant Barack Obama
Administration success which would have
inhibited any possible Iranian nuclear
proliferation. But the real agenda has been
political, i.e. not to cut a deal with Iran
but rather to blame Trump for a major
foreign policy blunder.
There has never been
any real intention to return to the
status quo ante with Iran because it
would also require Israel’s approval, which
is not forthcoming. And both the dual
loyalty of many American Jews and the
willingness of Israeli government officials
to interfere directly in US politics were on
display during a recent appearance by
Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Nachman
Shai at the Park Avenue Synagogue.
Shai suggested that a “crisis” might be
coming between the US and Israel over the
Iran deal, and Israel will need American
Jews to come to its side against President
Joe Biden if necessary. He said that “During
many crises… many issues between Israel and
the United States, American Jewry has always
been there supporting Israel.” Indeed.
A new deal with Iran
would as well require the cancellation of
the broad range of punitive sanctions put in
place against Tehran by Trump but Biden has
seen fit to buy into the Trumpean concept
that pressuring Iran might “improve” the
agreement, adding to it measures to prevent
Iranian “meddling” in the region as well as
to place a hold on Iranian ballistic missile
development. Those steps and demands were
well known by the White House to be game
breakers for Iran, which has been fully
compliant with the JCPOA and is asking for a
return to the original agreement together
with a guarantee that a new administration
in 2024 will not backtrack on it.
Both Israeli Prime
Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign
Minister Yair Lapid have made numerous trips
to the United States to attach the new US
president firmly to their derrieres. At each
visit they are met by Biden, his Cabinet,
and the usual parasitic Jewish organizations
that they depend on to open Uncle Sam’s
wallet and provide total, uncritical support
for everything the kleptocratic regime in
Jerusalem chooses to do. Defense Minister
Benny Gantz and Mossad chief David Barnea
are currently in Washington to meet with
senior Biden administration officials.
Israeli media is reporting that they are in
town to assist in the planning for the
United States to carry out a military strike
on Iranian targets when the negotiations in
Vienna predictably fail. Indeed, Bennett
has demanded that the talks be ended
because Iran is engaging in “nuclear
blackmail.” Both Biden and Secretary of
State Tony Blinken have already warned that
if Iran does not agree to a new arrangement,
there will be consequences, including
exercise of a possible military option.
The warm embrace by
Israel is characteristically heedless of any
actual American interests that it might
compromise. Israeli telephone spyware
developed by the NSO Group has recently been
discovered on the devices of iPhone users,
including at least nine US State Department
employees. It comes on top of Israeli
communications interception devices
“spyware” discovered in Washington in
2019. Israelis spy on the United States
because they know that to do so is
consequence free.
Meanwhile, the
involvement of Israel in American politics
just keeps getting deeper. Alison Weir of
If Americans Knew
has reported how in the midst of the
trauma caused by the COVID virus in 2020
Congress was still able to “toil
unwaveringly to win massive military aid
money and special treats for the Jewish
State with 68 pieces of legislation focused
on Israel.”
The corruption has
also penetrated to state and local levels.
Twenty-seven states
have adopted legislation that limits the
First Amendment right to free speech by
penalizing those who boycott Israel. A dozen
state level attorneys-general
have sought divestment from British
company Unilever because one of its brands,
Ben & Jerry’s, doesn’t want to sell ice
cream in Israeli occupied territory. At a
number of universities in the US, Britain
and Canada teachers have been fired or
otherwise punished when trying to teach
courses on the Middle East that accurately
describe the ruthless Israeli occupation of
historic Palestine.
But there also has
been a shift in focus outside of government.
On the bright side, such as there is one,
much of the world has finally realized just
how evil Israel is. It is now widely
accepted that the country’s government runs
a genuinely “apartheid” regime and many
governments and even some corporations have
begun to use the word. Labor unions
worldwide have arranged protests against
Israeli repression of the Palestinians and
even Google and Amazon employees
have petitioned against their companies’
involvement with the Jewish state’s
military. Belgium and other European states
now require imported items produced in the
Israeli settlements to be labeled as such,
not “Made in Israel.” And many liberal Jews,
who normally kept quiet about what Israel
does, have begun to agree openly with that
“apartheid” designation, particularly true
among younger Jews. The shift came about
gradually after the horrific Israeli attacks
on Gaza over the past two years, which have
killed mostly civilians and devastated the
impoverished region’s infrastructure. Since
then, Israeli settlers have been on a
rampage, stealing homes and attacking
Palestinian civilians while also destroying
their livelihoods with impunity as IDF
soldiers stand by to watch. The world has
become tired of Israel and its pretensions,
though not yet in the US Congress or White
House, nor in the Zionist controlled US
media.
Israel and its
powerful lobbies
recognize the shift in perceptions and
have launched a major international campaign
to make
criticism of the Jewish state a “hate
crime.” They have been quite successful
at exploiting the International Holocaust
Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of
anti-Semitism, which includes criticism of
Israel. Both the US Congress and the
recently completed conference on allegedly
resurgent anti-Semitism held in Sweden have
fully embraced the perpetual victimhood
promoted by Israel and have taken steps to
criminalize criticism of Jews and Israel.
Britain has responded to the claimed surge
in anti-Semitism by designating the Hamas
organization, which governs Gaza, as a
terror group. Home Secretary Priti Patel
told reporters in Washington that the move
is intended to combat anti-Semitism using
the Terrorism Act and that Hamas supporters
who go to group meetings or even display a
Hamas flag could be sentenced to 10 years in
prison.
So, as is often the
case, there has been progress, but also some
setbacks. On the progress side of the ledger
the world has become tired of Israel’s claim
of special exemption and ultimately the
Jewish state will become more isolated and
its policies untenable as pressure mounts,
just as South Africa was forced to embrace
change. But, at the same time, the Israelis
have been largely successful at convincing
governments in Europe as well as in the US
to move forward on criminalizing and
marginalizing legitimate criticism. They
have also successfully sold, via a fully
controlled mainstream media, the myth that
anti-Semitism is surging, ignoring the fact
that as any criticism of Israel is reckoned
to be an anti-Semitic act it is easy to come
up with whatever numbers one would like to
exploit. But the real “mystery question”
continues to be how the wealthiest, best
educated, most powerful and privileged
demographic in countries like the US,
Britain, France and Canada is able to
continue to portray itself as the perpetual
victim and get away with the imposture. One
has to hope that ultimately the veil will
drop and ordinary voters will be able to see
and understand the massive international
conspiratorial fraud that has prevailed for
the past seventy years. Let us hope for some
real change in 2022!
Philip M. Giraldi,
Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council
for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax
deductible educational foundation (Federal
ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more
interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the
Middle East. Website is
councilforthenationalinterest.org,
address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA
20134 and its email is
inform@cnionline.org.