The Lobby at Work

When the Israel Lobby aims to destroy someone, first they demonize him, then they try to prevent him from having a fair hearing. Thus, The Lobby tried to prevent Iranian President Ahmadinejad from speaking at Columbia University on September 24. There were rabid crowds of Zionists protesting outside, and TV newscasts featured women spitting, reminiscent of previous TV newscasts of Israeli West Bank "settlers" spitting at caged Palestinians.

Columbia's President Bollinger, no doubt hoping to counter the potential withdrawal of Zionist funding from Columbia, astonished the world by turning his introduction of an invited guest into a torrent of invective and insults. It was important for The Lobby to silence and/or discredit President Ahmadinejad because Americans are not supposed to know about the plight of the Palestinians.

Nevertheless, Ahmadinijad spoke clearly, "You know quite well that Palestine is an old wound, as old as 60 years. For 60 years these people are displaced. For 60 years these people are being killed. For 60 years on a daily basis there's conflict and terror. For 60 years innocent women and children are destroyed and killed by helicopters and airplanes that break the houses over their heads. For 60 years children in kindergartens, in schools, and in high schools are imprisoned and being tortured. For 60 years security in the Middle East has been endangered. For 60 years the slogan of the expansionists: 'From the Nile to the Euphrates' is being chanted by certain groups in that part of the world."

Of course in its reporting of the event, the Lobby-dominated media chose to ignore the Palestinian issue, which was only the root cause of 9/11, and instead, the media concentrated on the very important issue of the presence of homosexuals in Iran. Meanwhile The Lobby was busily and successfully pressuring US senators, who have been prostituted by Lobby-generated campaign funding, to pass a resolution designating Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization. Thus, The Lobby now has its pretext for yet another war.