America, Israel’s Lackey
It did not take the Israel Lobby long to make mincemeat out of the Obama administration’s "no new settlements" position. Israeli prime minister Netanyahu is bragging about Israel’s latest victory over the US government as Israel continues to build illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land.
In May President Obama read the Israelis the riot act, telling the Israeli government that he was serious about ending the Israeli conflict with the Palestinians and that a lasting peace agreement required the Israeli government to abandon all construction of new settlements in the occupied West Bank.
On November 10 Obama’s White House chief of staff, Rahm Israel Emanuel, surrendered for his boss at the annual conference of the United Jewish Communities. The ongoing Israeli settlements, he said, should not be a "distraction" to a peace agreement.
Allegedly, the US is a superpower and Israel is a client state whose very existence depends entirely on US military and economic aid and diplomatic protection. Yet, in the real world it works the other way. Israel is the superpower and the US is its client state.
This true fact is proved to us at least once every week and sometimes two or three times in one week. A few days ago the US House of Representatives voted 344 to 36 in favor of disavowing the UN report by the distinguished Jewish judge Richard Goldstone that found that Israel had committed war crimes in its attack on the civilian population in the Gaza Ghetto. The Israel Lobby demanded that the House repudiate the fact-filled report, and the servile House did as its master ordered.
US Rep. Dennis Kucinich spoke to his colleagues for 2 minutes in an effort to make them see that their vote against the Goldstone report would be a great embarrassment to the US government and demean the House in the eyes of the world. But none of that matters when Israel gives its servants an order. The US House of Representatives preferred to demean itself and to embarrass the US Government rather than to cross the Israel Lobby.
Retribution quickly fell upon Kucinich for his 2 minute speech. On November 9, Kucinich was forced to withdraw as the keynote speaker for the Palm Beach County (Florida) Democratic Party’s annual fundraising dinner. The Israel Lobby gave the order — dump Kucinich or there’s no money and no one is coming to the dinner. County Commissioner Burt Aaronson called Kucinich "an absolute horror."
Kucinich is the rare Democrat who stands up for his party’s principles, the working class, and tried to get health care for those Americans the corporations have thrown out on the street. But helping Americans doesn’t count. Israel uber alles.
Meanwhile, the US dollar continues to decline relative to other traded currencies. Since spring, anyone could have made a double-digit rate of return betting on most any currency against the US dollar.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently expressed concern that despite the dollar’s continuing slide, it might still be over-valued. The Federal Reserve’s low interest rate policy encourages speculators to use the dollar for the "carry trade." Speculators, whether individuals or financial institutions borrow dollars at rock bottom interest rates and use the almost free capital to purchase higher yielding instruments in other countries. The demand for dollars to finance the "carry trade" keeps the dollar higher than it would otherwise be.
Last year it was the Japanese Yen that was used for the "carry trade" due to the practically zero Japanese interest rates. The next scare that unwinds the "carry trade" will cause another big drop in financial asset values. This means that the stock market is very volatile. It is based on speculation, not on fundamentals.
When the "carry trade" next unwinds, the demand for US dollars to pay off the loans will temporarily boost the dollar. But don’t be fooled. The large US trade and budget deficits are the dollar’s death warrant.
When the dollar finally goes, so will the government’s ability to conduct wars of aggression, underwrite Israel, finance its red ink and pay for imports. That’s when the printing press will really get going.
Read more by Paul Craig Roberts
- The Shame of Being an American – February 16th, 2011
- Kleptocrats at Work – February 6th, 2011
- Things Have to Change in Order to Remain the Same – January 31st, 2011
- Western Civilization Has Shed Its Values – December 5th, 2010
- A Government Caught Up in Mendacity and Lies – December 1st, 2010
Rushmore
November 12th, 2009 at 6:24 am
The correct term for aid to Israel: Tribute.
Andy
November 12th, 2009 at 6:45 am
Its pathetic the way America lets Israel humiliate it in front of the entire world. Israel will be the ruin of America.
Jane Doe
November 12th, 2009 at 11:30 am
When the dollar goes Israel will just jump to her next host. She's already been attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization shindig for years. We are literally suckers.
John Henry
November 12th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Maybe Israel is just a useful tool of the Anglo American Establishment to spy on, blackmail and bribe suspect members of the United States congress, a "foreign" county to do the black of work of governance and to keep the home folk politicos in line. An investigative and enforcement tool. Israel will be jettisoned when Muslim motherhood wins the conflict and The establishments strategic needs aren't as great in the middle east.
Jim
November 12th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Roberts is dead right on Israel, and dead wrong on Obamacare.
stevieb
November 12th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
If America is to survive than it will take a citizen's revolt against congress and the current system of pay politics.
It's that simple. If it stays, America dies a long and painful death. As does the rest of Western civilization.
Maybe we deserve it for letting fascism and the MIC rule. But it won't just go away on it's own…
Peacegeek
November 12th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Bravo for Dennis Kucinich! My check is in the mail.
Jammy B
November 12th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
If only America had a few more human beings like Kucinich…..
Anyway, after Israel sucks the blood out of America it will almost certainly move onto it's next victim.
I believe they already have the Indians in their pockets , thanks to few false-flag episodes…. and there's only a billion of them.
RickR30
November 12th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
So there's a bright side to the impending US economical apocalypse, it could free us from slavery to Israel. Not sure if Israel will let it happen though. They surely can't jump that easily to another host. India? Not exactly an economic superpower. China? Israel can't be anywhere near to controlling China as it controlls the US.
As it is, regardless of our sorry financial state, the world still waits for the US to act and everything the US does has repercussions elsewhere, either because it other countries adopt similar mistaken policies or they become narratively dependend on the US as the mythological evil which is the cause of every single one their ills.
As long as Americans are obsessed with work and don't participate in politics, it will be a small minority such as the one living in Palm Beach who determines America's continued enslavement to Israel.
liberranter
November 12th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul: currently the only two principled legislators in either house. I'd say that's as good an indication as any that we're thoroughly screwed.
andy
November 12th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
That's what parasites do Jammy. They suck every ounce of blood they can and move on.
andy
November 12th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
There is little doubt America could easily live in peace with the Arab world- as other countries around the world do – if it wasn't for our enslavement to Israel.
Valerianus
November 12th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
The Israelis are clearly unbalanced and think that things are going to end swimmingly for them. Just listen to the nonsensical blather coming out of their officials. True, they will keep their fangs in the neck of the US until everything crashes in, taking both countries down. Some Zionists have tried to explore the India and China options, but clearly that won't happen soon enough. It takes decades for the infiltration to work sufficiently to gain control over the host and that's time the Zionists do not have. As for Americans regaining their freedom, it all depends on how well they can break the Zionist deathgrip. If it happens, there is hope for the future.
victoriopeak
November 13th, 2009 at 2:33 am
What's really scary to ponder is what happened to the "missing" 500 billion dollars that the Federal Reserve appropriated to foreign central banks. I say "missing" because when Representative Grayson asked Benjamin Shalom Bernanke where that money ended up, he said "I don't know". Would anyone be shocked to learn that, say, 400 billion ended up in Israel's coffers? If 3 billion in "official" aid to Israel seems like a lot to some people, how about HUNDREDS of billions? I know, one might say there's no evidence of that whatsoever. But that's precisely the point. Since the Fed COULD funnel all that money to Israel without evidence or a paper trail, and get away with it, what's to stop them from doing it?
AVietnamWarVet
November 12th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Israel is our ONLY enemy in the Middle East – a Communist / Nazi country of war criminals whose control over the TRAITORS in our US Government (every Administration and the Congress) will eventually destroy America. AIPAC and its Zionist-Jewish supporters are TRAITORS to the US. Our Congress is filled with Zionist TRAITORS to the US – and – then there are the Zionist-Christian crazies who forget that Jews HATE Jesus. Unless the people – NOT likely to happen – rise up against these wolves – blind support for Israel will destroy America. Netanyahu is the new Hitler! Gaza is an open air concentration camp. We are the 'goyim' to be used by the Master Race of Jews!
Henry_Clemens
November 13th, 2009 at 12:18 am
Mr. Roberts said; “When the dollar finally goes, so will the government’s ability to conduct wars of aggression, underwrite Israel, finance its red ink and pay for imports. That’s when the printing press will really get going.” But, I believe he could have gone much further than that. When the Federal Reserve System’s printing press really gets going; that will surely lead to hyper-inflation. At that point, hyper-inflation will, coupled with the existing and massive unemployment rates, inevitably lead to food riots and horrendous civil violence all across America. And, when that happens, the local, state and federal governments will be powerless to stop it. It is even possible to foresee that these kinds of events could lead to the complete dismemberment of the United States itself. Over the last few decades, the domestic and foreign policies of the American Ruling Establishment has constituted a total betrayal of the American people. The establishment has sown the seeds of its own destruction. I believe our arrogant and elitist rulers aren’t half as smart as they think like to think they are.
David (not Jewish)
November 14th, 2009 at 2:52 am
If America has made itself a “bitch” to Isreal, it is in part because America chooses to be.
•Israel and America, (the later dominated by mostly Christians) share similar core religious beliefs and values. The same values that made America so successful and prosperous.
•Israel and America also share similar political and social beliefs
•Israel is strategic to America in the Middle East to protect American interests in that part of the world where American beliefs and philosophies are not universally popular amongst theocratic radical Islamic dictatorships.
•America just like all countries have allies. For example, America had/has many allies in Europe, Canada, Australia etc., who for many years proved strategic in protecting America from communist Russian. And today are strategic in dismantling terrorism, and providing intelligence on terrorist activities. Israel is also in the same venue strategic to America.
David (not Jewish)
November 14th, 2009 at 2:53 am
Alternately
•America finds it nearly impossible to find common ground with theocratic dictatorships, and terrorist regimes like Hamas. The only way to do so is to allow these fanatics to wipe Israel off the map, and eventually allow America to become like the regimes they oppose.
•These regimes are unsuccessful and remain often un-prosperous except for oil exports because their social and political structure choke individual freedom and choice. Which cause’s them to be underachievers, uninventive, and stalled in economic progress. As well they are trapped in a backward, if not irrational interpretation of their roles on earth.
•They don’t want peace. They want Israel destroyed right down to the last JEW. They are the modern day equivocal of a genocidal NAZI Hitler.
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DAvid ( not jewish
November 14th, 2009 at 2:54 am
America is not Israel’s “bitch”. America simply won’t tolerate Islamic genocidal/suicidal maniacs screaming “Akbar Allah” and blowing themselves and innocent civilians to bits.
•Americas best defense to thwart this madness is to make clear to radical Islam, that for every time you attack, we will send the Stealth flyers, the B52 Strato Fortress’s and bring upon them the wrath they invite and the reward of death they cherish. And may God have mercy on their despicable twisted souls.
•Otherwise, there will be “no profit” in attacking Western society and trying to subvert us to a backward “one option” radical theocratic doomed experience.
•For this reason, make no further mistake – - – Israel is perhaps America’s bitch.
The solution:
Palestine has been given too many opportunities to form their own state. But they persist for the end game of destroying Israel. Thus they get no state.
David (not jewish)
November 14th, 2009 at 2:55 am
However, perhaps if they persist in their sniping, suicide attacks and terrorism they will succeed some day. They will kill every last JEW in the middle east until the land runs red with blood. But not today. Today America and Israel stand against Islamic genocide.
And today, be assured Israel is making war plans to knock out Iran’s nuclear capability with or without American open political support.
Iran can not be allowed nuclear weapons.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a psychotic nutcase and the Imams who pull his trigger are even more evil and dangerous to humanity.
David ( not jewish
November 14th, 2009 at 2:55 am
The solution is simple. Palestine and the middle east must recognize the state of Israel’s right to exist as chartered by the United Nations decades ago, and leave them alone in peace.
Then the killing will stop. Then the new Jewish settlements will stop encroaching when Palestine has created a peaceful and recognizable sovereign state.
By the way, the last time Israel relinquished occupied land under American pressure, (Hardly what Israel wanted from their so-called “American bitch”) the Palestinians trashed everything gifted to them and it’s probably been reduced to ghettos and spider holes to further attack Israel from.
I don’t know what the specific definition is of “block heads”, but the Palestinians have earned a noteworthy position in that hierarchy.
America is not entirely blind at how little good olive branches offered to radical fanatics produces.
John Parry
February 11th, 2010 at 3:57 am
i have long told people that the real problem in the middle East ids that the USA is a puppet state of Israel, not vice-versa.
How sad that this endures almost unchanged under a leader who many Canadians believed – and lots still do – was progressive, inovative and equitable. I weep for how far the uSA has fallen.
Dwight Baker
March 25th, 2010 at 1:53 am
WHY ISRAEL
I am convinced during WWII the Land of Israel was chosen to be a lackey state of the USA. I am also convinced that the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob had nothing at all to do with those folks taking over under the umbrella of being a sane and sound place to reside showing the earths people how generous and benevolent the USA could be.
I am convinced the State of Israel occurred driven by the USA so that we would have land to put our arms for war — with eyes and ears on the ground to —- take over the giant oil fields in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Qatar and the others. And to also hold all in hostage that had used those ancient trade routes for thousands of years.
Thus, Israel what they do and how is driven top down to them from our White House, Pentagon CIA and State Department. The religious ones living there are just pawns in the game and make good attractions for tourist.
We are just fools to play along with their Warmongering Games.
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