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SKIRMISHES BETWEEN THE ISRAEL LOBBY
AND OTHER ELITES WHICH ZIONISTS WON
_http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?id=1605&lists=newslog_
(http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?id=1605&lists=newslog)
- 1930's: Career British diplomats issued a government backed white paper
suggesting tying Jewish immigration to Palestine to Palestinian economic
interests, not just the Yishuv capacity. Weissman and other British Zionists
mobilized their forces en masse and the effort succeeded in reversing this
policy
quickly (well discussed in Tom Segev’s excellent book on this period).
-1940-1945: When there was strong sentiment in the US to help European Jews
fleeing Nazi Germany, the Zionist lobby both in Britain and the US lobbied to
limit Jewish immigration to the west and keep the door open only for one
destination: Palestine (see Naeim Giladi’s book “Ben Gurion Scandals” and Lenni
Brenner’s “51 Documents: History of the Nazi-Zionist collaboration).
- 1948: When the State Department, the Pentagon, and all major career
diplomats in the US stood against support for the establishment of Israel,
President
Truman explained his decision to his cabinet (privately) very clearly as
relating to the lobby and voting adding that “I have no Arab constituency”
(Truman
papers and many history books). The US went on to twist the arms of other
countries to support partition and the imposing of a Jewish state on Palestine.
- June 1967: Israeli forces attacked the USS Liberty in international waters.
Naval demands of an investigation were immediately attacked by the lobby in
Congress. Senior Navy officers (and all survivors of the attack) were angry,
but could do nothing in the face of a concerted media silencing campaign.
Even in 2003 when new evidence emerged, little was reported on it (see
_http://www.ussliberty.org/_ (http://www.ussliberty.org/) )
- 1980's: Israel uses US technology and financing to develop its own arms
export industry competing with US arms exporters but also giving advanced
technologies to US competitors. Many US arms industry leaders are unhappy, and
some
even complain openly, and Israeli-made "Python II" missiles now arm Chinese
warplanes and in one instance threatened US planes. (see
_http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/p-krane.html_
(http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/p-krane.html) ).
- May 1987: The Reagan administration notified Congress of its intention to
sell 1600 Maverick anti-tank missiles to Saudi Arabia. According to the NY
Times: "Within half an hour, lobbyists from the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee, the only group registered to lobby Congress on legislation
affecting Israel, were on the telephone to lawmakers about the proposal. Over
the
next 13 days, the committee mobilized its nationwide network of supporters with
a series of memorandums and telephone calls urging them to lobby Congress.
Though it is unclear whether the committee, known as AIPAC, can take all the
credit, more than 260 members of Congress co-sponsored resolutions to block the
sale, prompting President Reagan to withdraw it."
_http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-nyt2.html_
(http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-nyt2.html)
- Early 1991: Israel asked the US for $10 billion in loan guarantees to
settle Russian Jews. George HW Bush told Shamir that Israel could have the
guarantees if it freezes settlement building and promises that no Russian Jews
would
be settled in the occupied areas. Shamir simply called the lobby leaders to
help. Mobilization was so swift and powerful that Bush received a barrage of
media questions in a Press conference in 1991.. Bush uttered his famous line “I
am only this little guy in the white house …. there are these thousands on
Capital Hill…” and then folded. Israel got its $10 billion and went on to
increase the number of colonists/settlers in the occupied Palestinian areas
from
less than 200,000 in 1991 to over 450,000 in 2000. This was the main reason for
the collapse of the peace process and increased resentment and anger in the
world.
- 1992-1998: President Clinton brought to high office people who were
previously employed by the various Israeli lobby groups. Dennis Ross, who
worked for
WIMEP and was then appointed as US Envoy to the Middle East, and then returned
to work for WINEP (see
_http://www.activistsreader.com/articles%20folder/thinktankwatch-winep2.html_
(http://www.activistsreader.com/articles%20folder/thinktankwatch-winep2.html)
).
- Martin Indyk worked for AIPAC and to my knowledge is the only lobbyist for
a foreign country ever appointed ambassador to that same foreign country.
These folks and many others made clear their interest in merging US policy and
Israeli policy. Thus it was not surprising that Clinton issued assurances
saying that if the Camp David meetings failed no one will be faulted. But even
as
negotiations continued in Taba, Ross, Clinton, and Indyk blamed Arafat. The
Clinton administration, under the influence of these lobbyists, continued to
support an aggressive policy in Iraq and tried valiantly to thwart the
International community and many leaders of US businesses (including
multinational
companies) who pushed for ending the sanctions that were killing 6000 children
every month.
- September 2001, Bush urged Israel to show restraint in its crackdown on the
Palestinians, and pressed Sharon to allow Shimon Peres to meet with Arafat
(he also said publicly that he supported the creation of a Palestinian state).
Sharon accused Bush of trying ‘to appease the Arabs at our expense’ and stated
‘we will not be Czechoslovakia’. Bush was reportedly furious at being
compared to Chamberlain, and the White House press secretary called Sharon’s
remarks
‘unacceptable’. The Lobby kicked into high gear. 89 Senators wrote a letter
to Bush. Bush backed down. The New York Times stated that the letter ‘
stemmed’ from a meeting two weeks before between ‘leaders of the American
Jewish
community and key senators’ with the involvement of AIPAC.
- April 2002. Israel's push into the West Bank embarrases Bush and he asked
its government to halt the incursion and withdraw from Palestinian cities. He
repeated this twice. Even Condaleeza Rice (then National Security Adviser)
emphasized "Withdraw now means withdraw now". The Lobby swung into action. Tom
DeLay, Dick Armey, and Trent Lott told Bush to back off. On April 11, White
House press secretary said that Bush believed Sharon to be a "man of peace".
No
more was heard about withdrawals.
- March 2005: In a snub to the White House, AIPAC managed to get a bill
severely restricting aid to the Palestinians and even denying the usual clause
for
a presidential waiver for national security
_http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/p-nir.html_
(http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/p-nir.html)
- April 2005. After initially complaining about Israel's plans to increase
settlement activities to surround Jerusalem (Maale Adumim area) in violation of
the US drafted "road map", the Bush administration backed down in the face of
the lobby; _http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/p-softenbush.html_
(http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/p-softenbush.html)
There were rare times when the lobby was not as powerful in pushing the myth
of equivalency of US and Israeli interests. In 1956 President Eisenhower
listened to career diplomats and US elites, and pressed for Israeli withdrawal
from the Gaza and Sinai despite rumblings from Congress (itself influenced by
the lobby).
But even such minor resistance vanished after 1967 when the lobby pushed the
idea that US weapons in Israeli hands are keeping the Soviets/Communism out of
the Middle East (a lie because communism could never get a foothold in Arab
society).
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