by Alan Hart / My Catbird Seat
It’s now clear that the Republican frontrunner in the race for the White House is Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Officially the two Republican frontrunners are Newt “the Palestinians are an invented people” Gingrich and Mitt “Obama has pushed Israel under a bus” Romney.
Both are political whores locked in a competition of their own as well as with President Obama for Zionist lobby organized campaign funds and American Jewish votes. (In a very close election race the latter could determine who becomes president).
The probability is that Romney will emerge as the winner and be the one to take on Obama. So what Romney said in the last debate with the other Republican candidates is of critical importance. He said:
“If I was president I’d get on the ‘phone to Bibi and say ‘Would it help if I said this?’”
In other words, if Romney becomes president, Netanyahu will the one determining American foreign policy for Israel-Palestine.
Because of Obama’s first-term surrender to the Zionist lobby and its stooges in Congress there’s a case for saying that Netanyahu already is, effectively, the president of America so far as policy for Israel-Palestine is concerned.
So is there no prospect of next November’s election producing a president who will be prepared to put America’s own real interests first by confronting the Zionist monster?
If the Republicans get the key to the White House the answer will be “No”, because a first-term Republican president will not want to destroy his prospects for a second term by making an enemy of the Zionist lobby and its fundamentalist (deluded, even mad)) Christian partners.
But in my view there is a possibility that a second-term Obama might use the leverage all American presidents have to get a real peace process going, even if that means, as it would, challenging the Zionist lobby’s stooges in Congress to decide whether they are Americans first or not. (Those who are not could be condemned and prosecuted as traitors).
It’s not often that I find myself in agreement with anything written by the New York Times’ op-ed columnist Thomas L. Friedman, but his latest piece under the headline Newt, Mitt, Bibi and Vladimir is a great contribution to the debate about what he calls the “grovelling” to the Zionist lobby of the Republican would-be presidents. (Friedman actually calls it the “Israel lobby”, but as I never tire of saying, that’s not an accurate description of the monster. Israel lobby implies that it speaks for all Israelis and it does not).
Here’s part of what he wrote about the would-be Republican presidents in their last debate.
“Newt Gingrich took the Republican competition to grovel for Jewish votes – by out loving Israel – to a new low by suggesting that the Palestinians are an ‘invented’ people and not a real nation entitled to a state.
“This was supposed to show that Newt loves Israel more than Mitt Romney, who only told the Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom that he would move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem because ‘I don’t seek to take actions independent of what our allies think is best, and if Israel’s leaders thought that a move of that nature would be helpful to their efforts, then that’s something I’ll be inclined to do. … I don’t think America should play the role of the leader of the peace process. Instead, we should stand by our ally.’”
Friedman’s comment on that Romney contribution was:
“That’s right. America’s role is to just applaud whatever Israel does, serve as its A.T.M. and shut up. We have no interests of our own. And this guy’s running for president?”
Then Friedman considered the implications of Gingrich’s stated position.
“As for Newt, well, let’s see. If the 2.5 million West Bank Palestinians are not a real people entitled to their own state, that must mean Israel is entitled to permanently occupy the West Bank and that must mean – as far as Newt is concerned – that Israel’s choices are: (1) to permanently deprive the West Bank Palestinians of Israeli citizenship and put Israel on the road to apartheid; (2) to evict the West Bank Palestinians through ethnic cleansing and put Israel on the road to the International Criminal Court in the Hague; or (3) to treat the Palestinians in the West Bank as citizens, just like Israeli Arabs, and lay the foundation for Israel to become a bi-national state. And this is called being ‘pro-Israel’?”
Friedman also had something to say about Netanyahu.
“I sure hope he understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.”
And about his own position and American Jews in general
Friedman wrote this:
“I’d never claim to speak for American Jews, but I’m certain there are many out there like me, who strongly believe in the right of the Jewish people to a state, who understand that Israel lives in a dangerous neighbourhood yet remains a democracy (for how much longer, I ask?) but who are deeply worried about where Israel is going today. My guess is we’re the minority when it comes to secular American Jews. We still care. Many other Jews are just drifting away.”
If many American Jews really are drifting away from support for Israel right or wrong, that could make taking on and defeating the Zionist lobby a more manageable proposition for a second-term President Obama.
Footnote
I am in the process of writing a considered piece with the headline The Zionization of American politics and how it could be terminated. It will be ready for publication at the start of the New Year.
Alan Hart is a former ITN and BBC Panorama foreign correspondent who has covered wars and conflicts wherever they were taking place in the world and specialized in the Middle East. His Latest book Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, Vol. 1: The False Messiah, is a three-volume epic in its American edition. He blogs on AlanHart.com.
Please follow up with action …
John, thanks for this and your prior message circulating Friedman’s column http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/opinion/friedman-newt-mitt-bibi-and-vladimir.html.
I’m not seeking recognition for my taking up your suggestion to “appreciate” Rothman’s “fine work”in the service of Zionist Israel;
I’d like to hope that I might motivate others to similar action by pasting just below my E-mail transmittal today to Prostitute Rothman’s faithful servant Aaron Keyak:
SUBJECT: Thomas Friedman Owes NOBODY (i.e., no sane America-first body) an Apology for “Israel Lobby” Charge
Keyak: I hold no brief for Thomas Friedman – no way does he “love the Palestinians,” as he “understand[s] that Israel lives in a dangerous neighborhood yet remains a democracy” – but, in the commentary your man Rothman decries, Friedman makes some surprising and damned good and essential points: especially “…Netanyahu…understands that the [29] standing ovation[s] he got in Congress this year (were] not for his politics. [Those ovations were] bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.”
To sane, patriotic Americans like me (4-year, 4-month Vietnam War-era Army vet 1963-67, 31-year federal civil servant 1967-99), Rothman does no more than brand himself as a Zionist, an Israel-firster and -laster, a traitor to the core national interests of the United States of America – NOT the interests of a Zionist Israel which, via its 2006 destruction of vast swaths of Lebanon, via its 2008-9 assault on Gaza’s people and land, and via its repeated acts of illegal piracy on the high seas, has entrenched itself irretrievably in criminal psychosis.
I support our core national-security, morality, and fiduciary (America is bankrupt, man! – due in no small part to the $3,000,000,000 minimum we lavish on Zionist Israel every year plus the wars we engage in on behalf of USrael hegemony plus lost economic/commercial opportunities in many spheres) interests by advocating at every possible opportunity in every possible venue for a full measure of justice for the Christians and Muslims of Palestine and for their peace, dignity, and release from the decades-long, persecutive, slow-genocidal, illegal and belligerent military occupation by Zionist Israel – an occupation regime tragically aided and abetted by my tax dollars courtesy of the stranglehold AIPAC and its ilk (“the Israel lobby”) wield over the workings of my government and the compliant mainstream media.
I’m pasting below the press release that energized me to write to you in disgust for and opposition to the despicable machinations of a congressman (sic) engaged in treasonous activity – Steve Rothman.
Robert H. Stiver, 98-434 Hoomailani Street, Pearl City, Hawaii 96782-2334
Aloha, Bob
FM: John Whitbeck
Transmitted below is a congressional press release which suggests that Tom Friedman’s latest column, which I circulated late yesterday, has stirred up the whorehouse.
If EVEN Tom Friedman, of all people, feels that the humiliation of the U.S. government and people has reached a point where it is necessary to shine a bright light on the Houses of Prostitution where the world’s oldest profession is practiced under the label “Houses of Congress”, it is understandable that the resident practitioners (and well as their pimps) might be feeling a flash of nervousness.
This could get interesting …
Will the New York Times fire Tom Friedman for FINALLY writing something sensible and constructive?
Will the “Occupy” movement — and other Americans — start demanding an end to the long-running occupation of Congress by a foreign country and its domestic agents and a new American declaration of independence?
P.S. — Anyone wishing to express their appreciation to Congressman Rothman for the fine work that he and his colleagues have been doing for America’s “dear and essential ally” will find the e-mail address of his communications director below.
NOTE: I am NOT on Congressman Rothman’s mailing list. I received this press release from one of my distinguished recipients who appears to be a mole on his list.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 14, 2011
CONTACT: Aaron Keyak
office: (202) 225-5061
cell: (202) 905-6361
email: aaron.keyak@mail.house.gov
Congressman Rothman: Friedman Owes Us an Apology for “Israel Lobby” Charge
http://rothman.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1533&Itemid=1
Washington, DC – Congressman Steve Rothman (D-NJ) released the following statement on Thomas Friedman’s column where he wrote that the “standing ovation [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby” in the New York Times this morning:
Thomas Friedman’s defamation against the vast majority of Americans who support the Jewish State of Israel, in his New York Times opinion piece today, is scurrilous, destructive and harmful to Israel and her advocates in the US. Mr. Friedman is not only wrong, but he’s aiding and abetting a dangerous narrative about the US-Israel relationship and its American supporters.
I gave Prime Minister Netanyahu a standing ovation, not because of any nefarious lobby, but because it is in America’s vital national security interests to support the Jewish State of Israel and it is right for Congress to give a warm welcome to the leader of such a dear and essential ally. Mr. Friedman owes us all an apology.
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Aaron Keyak
Communications Director
Rep. Steve Rothman (NJ-9)
2303 Rayburn HOB
o: 202/225-5061
c: 202/905-6361
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I was thrilled to bits to read both Friedman’s unexpectedly semi-rational article and Rothman’s pathetic riposte.
As John Whitbeck suggests, it may well be that Gingrich’s lunatic ranting is suddenly making it less than respectable to be an unconditional supporter of Israel’s crimes, and that can only be a good thing. Rothman’s reply is so idiotic and so devoid of rational content that it can only serve to hasten the exposure of US Zionism’s utter craziness.
Writing this from sunny Ireland, where the relatively new government is turning out, as predicted, to be the most pro-Zionist one in our history. The cold winds of propaganda and illiberalism that blow in other countries are now freezing us here – so we look eagerly for positive changes in the USA.
Best -
Raymond