Warmongering

Just as the Israel Lobby neocons used scare tactics to lie us into the unnecessary war with Iraq, they are undertaking a repeat performance with regard to Iran. The Israel Lobby's stranglehold on the media is most useful in selling wars. On Bill Moyers' PBS documentary "Buying the War," Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz pointed out that between August 2002 and March 2003, there were 140 front page Washington Post articles promoting the war as opposed to only a handful of articles with questions or an opposing view.

A UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report was hyped recently by the media in an attempt at fear-mongering: "IAEA Suspects Iran Seeks Nuclear Arms" The Wall Street Journal 2/19/10; "IAEA fears Iran making a warhead" The Boston Globe 2/19/10; etc. Yet if one reads the fine print, the IAEA report actually states that there are "concerns about the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile." (The New York Times 2/19/10) This is nothing new. Our own intelligence assessment concludes that in the past there had been work on a bomb but this was suspended in 2003. Speaking on the PBS McLaughlin Group 2/19/10, Pat Buchanan observed that the issuing of this report merely shows that "the IAEA is now in the pocket of the US and Israel." "ElBaradei [recently retired IAEA chief] was an honest guy." "Iran is no threat whatsoever to the USA."

The IAEA reported concerns that the Iranians were loath to disclose the whereabouts of their nuclear scientists. This is hardly surprising since the Mossad loves to murder them. In a 5/16-17/09 Wall Street Journal op-ed, Israeli journalist and author Ronen Bergman notes that under the current leadership of Meir Dagan, who was head of a secret Israeli assassinations unit in the 70's, the Mossad has focused on sabotaging the Iranian nuclear program, including crashing planes, setting labs ablaze, removing nuclear scientists, etc. On 11/24/09, the BBC reported the arrest of an Israeli in Tel Aviv for planting a bomb under a vehicle. Turns out the bomb was a fake, and the man was a Mossad agent-in-training. On January 12, 2010, an Iranian nuclear physicist was blown up by means of a motorcycle bomb. The Mossad operates ostentatiously above the law as seen with their recent Dubai murder. Talking heads in the media merely chuckle.

Similarly, the Israeli nuclear weapons program never submits to UN inspections whereas the Iranian peaceful program is heavily inspected. If there is to be a nuclear arms race in the region it will be due to the presence of Israel's nukes, since it is Israel who is the world's expansionist occupying invader, not Iran. As reported by Ronen Bergman in Newsweek 12/21/09, Dagan himself said that Iran could not have nuclear weapons before 2014.

The media in the push to war claim that diplomacy has "failed." Yet as reported by George Jahn (AP) 2/24/10, the Iranians, in an official letter, accepted the West's offer to trade its enriched uranium for nuclear fuel rods. Their stipulation is that the exchange take place simultaneously and on Iranian territory. This is not an unreasonable request considering that Iran has zero reason to trust the West which demands that Iran ship out its uranium and wait a year for fuel rods. After all, the US funds anti-Iranian terror groups, as reported by Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker 7/07/08, including the Sunni group Jundallah, said to be linked to al Qaeda. Iran's security forces recently captured a Jundallah leader whom they say has ties to the CIA and the Mossad and who was carrying a US-arranged Afghan passport. Jundallah has taken responsibility for terror attacks killing numerous Iranians, including civilians. (The New York Times 2/24/10) This is where our taxpayer dollars go: fomenting wars for Israel.

Machinations of the Israel Lobby Neocons

It seems Israel has launched a massive PR campaign attempting to beautify its ugly global image. (See The New York Times 2/18/2010) At the same time, however, Israel's well-deserved reputation as Murder, Inc. is reinforced by all the recent videos of its henchmen carrying out yet another targeted assassination in a foreign country. Israel will remain better known for its blood-thirsty policy of extrajudicial murders and other crimes than for its invention of the cherry tomato.

President Obama drew intense hatred from the war-mongering Israel lobby neocons when he took a well-publicized stand against illegal Israeli settlement expansionism. He has been in trouble ever since. At a NYU debate on US/Israeli relations, (See Newsweek 2/22/2010), Roger Cohen, former New York Times foreign editor, pointed out that Obama "has been told by some Jewish congressmen, if you want your health bill, step back on Israel."

Dominated by the powerful Israel Lobby, Congress is blatantly dysfunctional. with many members rooting for the failure of all Obama's initiatives, including the financial regulation so necessary to prevent a repeat of last year's costly catastrophe. A Gallop poll shows Congress' job approval in February 2010 to be only 18%.

The Israel Lobby neocons who lied us into war with Iraq are now determined to lie us into war with Iran, also designed to serve the interests of Israeli expansionism. All these unnecessary and unfunded wars are bankrupting our country, and now the Chinese are selling our bonds. There are worries about a run on the dollar, massive inflation, and high interest rates. Like rats leaving a sinking ship, Congressmen are retiring in droves. It is high time to expose the treasonous Israel-firsters.

Israel: The Monkey On Our Back

Unlike China, which does not have the Zionist monkey on its back pushing it into unnecessary expensive wars, we are going deeper and deeper into debt. Our politicians, like heroin addicts, are hooked on Zionist campaign funds which dictate never-ending war spending to secure Israel's expansionism. War with Iran is next on their list. As John Prine wrote in his famous song "Sam Stone", "There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes." Politicians put their addiction first and the welfare of America last.

At the recent "Tea Party Convention", the politicians' addiction to Israel was well-represented by key note speaker Sarah Palin, who wore a US/Israeli flag pin on her lapel. Palin describes herself as a pit bull with lipstick and is thus quite suited to eulogize "Israel:Our Expensive Pit Bull" (see previous blog 1/26/10). She informed Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, 1/7/10 that she would like to see President Obama declare war on Iran for the sake of Israel. In a November 2009 ABC interview with Barbara Walters, Palin declared that "Obama has no right to tell Israel they can't expand Jewish settlements." Palin has doubtless never heard of international law, under which these settlements on occupied land are illegal. Former presidential candidate John McCain's foreign policy advisor neocon Randy Scheuneman was clearly effective in his brainwashing of Palin, whose grasp of foreign policy was revealed to be non-existent. Of course, Senator McCain and Senator Joe Lieberman are the well-known Zionese twins.

Palin complained to Fox's Chris Wallace on 2/7/09 that President Obama should be doing more to support Israel. Should he increase support of Israel's war crimes and apartheid policies? Should he increase support of Israel's strangulation of the Gazans incarcerated in their Nazi death camps where they are bombed at will? Should he tell Israel that killing 1400 Gazans in its last blitzkrieg was not enough?

As reported in The New York Sun 9/28/08, when meeting Israeli president Shimon Peres, Palin revealed the fact that the only flag in her office as Governor of Alaska was the Israeli flag. I am sure that Chinese officials flaunt the Chinese flag in their offices. China is on the way up, and we are on the way down.

Kill, Kill, Kill

As Stephen J. Sniegoski points out on his book The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel, it has long been Zionist strategy to foment civil wars in Muslim countries. This policy was enunciated in February 1982 by Israeli strategist Oded Yinon writing in the World Zionist Organization magazine Kivunim. Yinon relished the Iraq-Iran War which he hoped would lead to civil war and fragmentation of Iraq, Israel's most feared enemy. It did not. However, the Zionist neocons lied us into an unnecessary invasion of Iraq in 2003 which did foment a civil war.

Iraq authority Nir Rosen testified before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee 4/2/08 that before our invasion, Iraqis had no history of serious sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shiites and "viewed themselves as Iraqis first." "Intermarriage was widespread", and most tribes were mixed Sunni/Shiite. The majority of the Baath party was Shiite, as was the army, including officers. As Rosen wrote in The Washington Post 5/16/07, when we occupied the country, we "treated the Sunnis as the bad guys and the Shiites as the good guys" and imposed sectarian identities onto Iraq's regions which had not been there before.

The Zionist neocons similarly fomented a civil war in Palestine after Hamas won over Fatah in a fair, non-violent, internationally supervised election in January 2006. As President Jimmy Carter has described in his books Palestine Peace Not Apartheid and We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work, Hamas had governed well and was free of corruption unlike Fatah. This is why they were elected. Hamas had observed a long cease-fire since August 2004 and was willing to extend this for decades. Hamas did not recognize Israel, but then neither do 57 countries, one third of the United nations, because of Israel's illegal occupations, persecutions and war crimes. Hamas has been willing to accept a peace with Israel agreed to by the Palestinian people.

As David Rose wrote in Vanity Fair, April 2008, Hamas was eager to form a unity government with Fatah, but Fatah was pressured by the US and Israel to say no: money necessary to run the government was withheld. In February 2007, Saudi Arabia negotiated a unity government: "When the news hit the streets that the Saudis had promised to pay the Palestinian Authority's salary bills, Fatah and Hamas members in Gaza celebrated together by firing their Kalashnikovs into the air." Joy was short lived as the Bush neocons were livid: "Condi was apoplectic." The US "redoubled the pressure" and provided $1.27 billion (over 5 years) to arm Fatah so as to overthrow Hamas. The resulting bloody civil war resulted in the partition of Palestine.

Likewise, in Afghanistan our invasion has resulted in civil war between pro-Western elements and traditionalists. This war has managed to destabilize Pakistan causing civil warfare there too. Meanwhile, we're also spending hundreds of millions of dollars trying to foment civil strife in Iran.

In Afghanistan, President Karzai would like to negotiate with Taliban leader Mullah Omar, but the Obama administration neocons say no, preferring to kill, kill, kill. Our drones terrorize the population, murdering civilians, including women and children. These deaths of course inspire even more anti-American hatred and revenge attacks. This is all modeled after the Israeli policy of assassinating Hamas leaders rather than negotiating peace. It is time to end our terrorist invasions and occupations and work for peace.