[THS] Jewish American Organizations Defend Israel`s Humiliation of America

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Major Jewish American Organizations Defend Israel's Humiliation of America

By James Petras


"The Government of Israel has insulted the Vice President of the United States, and
spat in the face of the President ... they wiped the spit off their faces and smiled
politely ... as the saying goes: when you spit in the face of a weakling, he pretends
that it is raining" Uri Avnery Israeli Jewish journalist 13/3/2010.

"We (Israel) possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets ... most European
capitals are targets of our air force ... the Palestinians should all be deported. Two
years ago, only 7 or 8 per cent of Israelis were of the opinion that this would be the
best solution, two months ago, (January 2010), it was 33 percent and now according
to a Gallup poll, the figure is 44 percent". Martin Van Crevel Israeli, professor of
military history at Hebrew University at Jerusalem and top adviser to the Israeli Armed
Forces, March 2, 2010.

Introduction

April 07, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -When Israel announced a major new
Jews-only building project of 1600 homes in occupied East Jerusalem, it was not only
"spitting in the face" of visiting Vice President Biden, it was demonstrating its power
to humiliate America and Americans. Netanyahu was sending a message to world:
Israel backed by its billionaire-financed Presidents of the 51 Major American Jewish
Organizations, leads the US by the nose. The Jewish State can make an agreement
with the White House one day and revoke it the next (with characteristic arrogance),
US public opinion be damned. No sooner did the Obama Administration react to this
most public show of impudence with Biden privately telling the Israeli Prime Minister
that, "What you're doing here undermines the security of our troops who are fighting
in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. That endangers us and it endangers regional
peace.", than Netanyahu openly called on the "American Jewish community" (the
major Zionist organizations) to come to the defense of Israel and its claim on all of
Jerusalem. And respond they did: turning the insulted victim (America) into the bully
and blaming the US, not the Israeli government, for the "crisis" and for the
breakdown of Israel's agreement not to expand colonial settlements on occupied
Palestinian land. As we shall describe, the entire Zionist power configuration in the
United States (with a few notable exceptions) defended Israel's effrontery and
condemned any attempt by the US government to peacefully resolve a conflict, which
threatened US lives, economic interests and prestige. This just confirmed world public
opinion, which sees an American electorate willing to be humiliated by this
economically insignificant state.

The Bigger Issue: Beyond the Biden - Netanyahu Caper

Whatever the insults and crimes of the moment, the conflict between Israel and the
US is not about Netanyahu's hyper-arrogance or a new series of Jerusalem land
grabs, or even the frothy spittle on Vice President Biden's face. It is, in essence,
about the relation between states or, better still, the relation between peoples where
one group (Israeli Jews and their powerful one percent fifth column agents in the
US) exacts tribute and imposes wars in its own interests on another group (the US
tax payers, soldiers, workers and businessmen). It arrogates power, not merely
yesterday or today, but for the last 50 years.

In a broader historic context, the public humiliation of Vice President Biden in Tel Aviv
pales in comparison to the Israeli's cold blooded sneak attack, which killed and
wounded over 200 American servicemen on the USS Liberty in June 1967. An
arrogant and homicidal Israel humiliated the US through this attack, confident that
then-President Lyndon Johnson would not retaliate but would even silence the
survivors from ever telling their story to the American people. When Netanyahu calls
on the "Jewish Communities" in the US he is not referring to the majority of American
Jews. He, in fact, is addressing the Zionist power configuration whose strategically-
placed members designed and promoted the Iraq war policy, which has caused the
deaths and mutilation of thousands of US soldiers as well as over one million Iraqi
civilians. In essence, the US soldier victims of the invasion of Iraq lost their lives, limbs
and sanity for the interests of the Zionist "homeland".

It is not merely that American Zionists defend the illegal construction of another
Jews-only neighborhood in the middle of Palestinian East Jerusalem; the
announcement was calculated to humiliate the visiting US Vice President. It's not just
a matter of US Zionist support for Netanyahu's sabotage of a US peace initiative; nor
is it about the unconditional ZPC support for Israeli crimes as they were being
denounced by the United Nations and the peoples of the world. The fundamental
issue is that the ZPC in the United States is turning our country and its people into
defenders of Israel's sordid crimes, casting the American people as accomplices to
ethnic cleansing and degrading our moral sensibilities before the whole world.

Today and Yesterday: Castrating America

Netanyahu's symbolic spitting in Biden's face was a calculated act of grave
significance. It marked out Israel's 'will to power' - its willingness to publicly humiliate
US leaders and flaunt its power over the US before the world. Israel exposed US
impotence in the Middle East and beyond. This incident has world-historic
consequences for anyone who is not blind. The US is a declining power, which
cannot create a secure environment for its soldiers, corporations and citizens
anywhere in the Middle East or beyond. No European, Asian, Latin American or
Muslim country can look at the US and its citizens without thinking, "Here is a country
at the feet of Israeli leaders and at the throat of Israel's designated 'enemies'. It is an
understatement to say that the US, as a nation and as a people, has "lost prestige".

Israel has a long and ignoble history of sabotaging peace talks in favor of grabbing
land. From its very foundation, Tel Aviv undermined peace offers through
unprovoked military attacks. Israel, along with Britain and France, launched a full-
scale surprise invasion of Egypt to grab the Suez Canal, after it had promised to
consider Egyptian President Nasser's proposal to negotiate. In more recent times, as
soon as Arafat agreed to formally recognize Israel as a state and sign a peace
agreement, Jewish tanks and jets attacked the West Bank killing hundreds and
surrounding Arafat's headquarters for months. At the same time it increased the
number of the Jews-only settlements in the West Bank ten fold to accommodate over
500,000 fanatical paramilitary Jewish settlers. When the elected Hamas administration
implemented a unilateral cease fire, Israel launched a major military assault,
ultimately devastating Gaza and killing 1400 mostly unarmed Palestinians.

Israel's actions, past and present, including land grabs, Jews-only apartheid roads
and settlements and military invasions of Palestinian refugee camps and towns have
destroyed the possibility of a negotiated peace agreement, which would compromise
the Zionists' vision of an ethnically-cleansed "Greater Israel".

Given this spiteful history, it not surprising that Israel's current apologists claim that
the current land grab to build more Jews-only apartment blocks in Jerusalem is
"nothing new", that it is "part of our history", that Jews "need the living space" and
that "three thousand years of Biblical history tells us that all this land is ours" (quotes
from the Daily Alert, March 15 -17, 2010, official mouthpiece of the Conference of
Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations).

The humiliation of Biden was not the first time that Israel acted publicly to embarrass
the Obama Administration. In his first meeting with President Obama, Prime Minister
Netanyahu openly rejected any freeze in new settlements. Indeed, Israel escalated its
settlement building right after Obama addressed the Muslim-Arab world in his 'Cairo
Speech'.

What is behind Netanyahu's perverse behavior and his US supporters' overweening
arrogance? How can the US media, hundreds of Congressional Representatives and
all the leading Jewish American organizations, support an extremist racist regime,
which attacked and humiliated our country with impunity? How can the American
Zionists side with a foreign country over issues detrimental to basic US security
interests and not be viewed as traitors by other Americans?

In the first place, Netanyahu has the support of 80% of the Israeli-Jewish population
as he pursues the policy of evicting the Palestinians and expanding exclusively Jewish
settlements on occupied lands despite US President Obama's 'peace overtures'.
Humiliating the visiting US Vice President on a 'peace mission' from Obama only
increased Netanyahu's popularity with Israelis.

Secondly, this impudent projection of Israeli power over the reputed American
'superpower' appeals to the self-image of the far-right religious settlers whose leaders
form the backbone of the current governing coalition (especially the Shas party).

Thirdly, insulting a gentile President and Vice President would find approval among
the supporters of Netanyahu's gangster Foreign Minister, Avi Lieberman and with the
tough Eastern European Hasidic youth who routinely spit on elderly Christian monks
and priests in their ancient Armenian and Greek quarters of Jerusalem.

It might seem strange for Israelis, who face increasing isolation throughout the
Middle East and are condemned throughout Europe for their brutal colonial crimes,
to glorify their thuggish leader as he heaps contempt on their most important military
ally and economic supporter, its elected leaders and its citizens. Accumulated Israeli
political resentment against world condemnation for their war crimes found an
emotional outlet by identifying with Netanyahu's antics: His relentless brutality against
the 'Untermenschen' of Palestine and his willingness to openly defy the US
Administration, even as Israel extracts $3 billion dollars a year from the Americans,
re-enforces their sense of superiority. It is clear that Netanyahu's totalitarian policies
have a mass popular base among Israelis and his swaggering arrogance faithfully
reflects the national psyche of Israel.

Netanyahu and his ministers calculated that no matter how hard they squeeze the
hapless US taxpayers, themselves caught in the a profound economic crisis, and no
matter how often the Israelis threaten to provoke a wider regional war and cause
more American soldier casualties, they can always count on the unconditional support
of the Zionist Power Configuration in the US to promote Israel's interest. The entire
US mass media applauded the Great Humiliator and even attacked the few American
public figures as they (at least temporarily) defended American dignity against Israeli
insults. The major Zionist leaders all rushed to support Israel's humiliation of the US
and to denigrate its critics. An endless parade of US politicians, editorial writers,
columnists, opinion-makers, "think" tankers, and TV commentators demonstrated
their special loyalty to Israel against an American president who was timidly seeking a
negotiated peace in the Middle East.

The recent 'conflict' between Israel and America over peace in the Middle East -
brought on by a crude Israeli provocation - exposed far more profound issues: At the
center of power in America, there is an influential group of power-brokers willing to
exploit and humiliate the American people in the service of a foreign power. In the
past, patriots would have called them 'traitors'.

Netanyahu's Hubris 'Rebuked'

In response to the official Washington show of anger, Netanyahu issued a half-
hearted "explanation": The problem was not the policy of building new settlements in
violation of their agreement with Washington; the problem was the timing of the
announcement. It was a regrettable "error" by a minor functionary in the Israeli
Interior Ministry who made his announcement right after US Vice President Biden had
finished groveling at Netanyahu's feet and was busy pressuring the Palestinian
Authority collaborators to rejoin the 'peace' charade sponsored by Washington.
According to the Israeli media and their US mouthpieces it was a public relations
breakdown, not a matter of strategic political and military significance affecting the
US in the Middle East. In other words: With Biden out of Israel and collaborator
Abbas back at the 'table', any announcement violating the "freeze on settlements"
would be merely an Israeli "internal policy" and a "continuation of past practices".

Netanyahu Comes to Washington: Backhanders for Obama, Cheers from AIPAC

Netanyahu, fresh from spitting on Vice President Biden in Tel Aviv, administered a
series of humiliating 'back-handed' slaps in the smiling face of President Obama, right
under the glaring lights of the mass media in the US capital.

Bibi Netanyahu delivered a rabble rousing speech to over 7,000 cheering Zionists at
the annual AIPAC conference in Washington, DC. He asserted Israel's will to construct
Jews-only housing throughout occupied Arab East Jerusalem and the West Bank,
repeating Israel's illegal claim that Jerusalem was the undivided capital of the Jewish
people. He then demanded and secured a two-hour meeting with Obama, despite
his arrogant insult against the US Administration. Adding further humiliation to the
already weak US President, the Israel government announced another Jews-only
housing project in Arab East Jerusalem to be built on confiscated Palestinian
property. This announcement, just hours before the planned Bibi-Barack meeting,
carried an additional threat that the White House charade of 'peace negotiations'
would be put off the table if the Americans protested this new round of illegal
construction. Netanyahu, demonstrating his utter contempt for the White House and
the America people, went straight to the Zion-colonized US Congress and secured the
House Majority leader Pelosi's 'unconditional support...' for Israeli expansion. And, as
if to celebrate its victory and establish its own definition of 'peace', the Israeli military
assassinated four un-armed Palestinians, two impoverished job-seekers and two
young teenage protesters.

Loyalty to the Israeli masters was evident when thousands of Zionists fanatics jumped
to their feet and cheered Bibi Netanyahu's crude repudiation of the American efforts
to protect its soldiers' lives by promoting a peace initiative. Hillary Clinton's call for a
'peace settlement based on two states for two people' was met with dead silence.
The entire Zionist-dominated media and all the leading Jewish organizations backed
an unprecedented series of humiliations directed against the elected US
Administration and the American people. Netanyahu's demagogic display of Israeli
power over the US Congress and the American mass media and his crude willingness
to degrade US political leaders in the nation's capital mocks the very notion of the
American people having any voice in their nation's policies and subordinates
America's military high command over issues of war and peace in the Middle East.

For Pelosi and the Zionized Congress, the thousands of campaign shekels from the
AIPAC crowd to fund their re-elections are far more crucial to their careers than the
lives and limbs of thousands of US soldiers lost to an agenda of Israel and its
domestic Fifth Column.

Israel's Arrogance Prejudices US Interests

Israel's leaders not only raised their domestic prestige by undermining the US
Administration's peace initiatives, they also managed to extract billions of dollars from
the US taxpayers. The humiliation of the Obama regime derailed efforts by the
Pentagon and the State Department to regain influence and credibility among the
conservative Arab regimes, non-Arab Muslim nations and among hundred of millions
of Muslims around the world. This humbling of the US Administration by a sneering
Netanyahu further jeopardizes the work and security of American businessmen and
officials operating in the Middle East and undermines relations with their Muslim and
Arab counterparts.

There will be major setbacks for the US in its efforts to gain support for its wars in the
Middle East and South Asia and its propaganda campaign to discourage young
Muslims from joining the anti-US resistance in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. The
symbolic image of Vice President wiping away Israeli spittle during an official visit will
encourage thousands of young Muslims to resist US occupation, which they view as
promoting Israel's agenda. If an economically insignificant Israel state can defy the
superpower, why can't they? The logic is simple: The greater the Israeli land-grab,
the more submissive the Obama regime, the more extended and profound the
hostility of the Muslim people against the Americans, the more emboldened the
armed resistance movements and the greater the number of dead and maimed
American soldiers stuck in wars promoted by the Zionists.

While the losses of American soldiers in the Middle East have never figured in Tel
Aviv's policy moves, nor influenced the activities of its Fifth Colum in the USA, these
losses do affect millions of American families and over 200 million American taxpayers.
Even an occasional American General finds the courage to point out that Israel's
colonial dispossession of the Palestinian people has prolonged the war, tied up
hundreds of thousands of US troops and undermined the capacity of the US armed
forces to successfully operate on multiple fronts to promote US imperial interests.

When the head of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), General Petraeus' team of
senior officers, identified "Israeli intransigence" as "jeopardizing US standing and the
lives of American solders in the region (Middle East)" in a briefing before the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on January 16, 2010, Petraeus met an onslaught
of severe questioning from the ZPC. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Mullens
received the same rebuke from the powerful Israel-Firsters. This was not the first
time US military and security considerations were subsumed to Israel's agenda. Only
two years earlier in 2007, the ZPC denounced and successfully buried the annual
National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) prepared by 16 US military and civilian
intelligence agencies, which had concluded that Iran was not developing nuclear
weapons and did not pose a major threat to the US, in favor of Israeli disinformation
arguing the opposite. And the same ZPC has been taking the Obama regime to task
for daring to criticize Netanyahu.

Over 300 members of the US Congress signed an extraordinary letter supporting
Israel against their own Administration, pledging their commitment to "the
unbreakable bond that exists between [U.S.] and the State of Israel". Hundreds of
congress men and officials joined the over 7,000 participants at the March 2010
AIPAC conference to cheer Netanyahu and witness the US Secretary of State Hilary
Clinton hail the leader of the Israeli settler state - who had pledged "to continue
building in all of Jerusalem just as it does in Tel Aviv".

General David Petraeus, whose senior officers had expressed his concern about
Israel's policies undermining US military interests to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, Admiral Mullins, was no match for the AIPAC. The CENTCOM commander
contacted his Israeli counterpart General Gabi Ashkenazi to repudiate his own
criticism of Israeli policies and, in effect, pledge his unconditional support to the
Jewish state even when it jeopardizes US troops.

In January, General Petraeus correctly identified how Israeli intransigence had
damaged US interests and operations in the Middle East, infuriated Arabs and
ultimately increased attacks on American troops. But in March, the politically
ambitious General hastened to retract his briefing before the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
There are few more cravenly disloyal spectacles in US military history than this
bemedaled American general prostrating himself for the Zionist lobby.

And yet, for a brief moment, a few desperate anti-Zionists leftists, looked to General
Petraeus and Admiral Mullen as potential allies against Israeli-Zionist control of US
policy in the Middle East. They ignored the fact that these are the commanders in
charge of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and were
preparing to confront Iran. Petraeus' difference with Israel was over specific policies
as they undermined the smooth operations of the US war machine in the Middle East
and his 'recantation' before the Israelis has certainly thrown cold water of this
romantic fantasy of a 'nationalist' US General.

The tradition of 'civilian supremacy' in the US ensures that the military will never
confront the issue of Zionist control over the Congress and White House. Petraeus'
briefing will be soon forgotten and the General's subsequent repudiation is an
eloquent example of the grotesquely opportunistic nature of the American high
military command.

When civilian leaders point out how Israel's oppression of 5 million Palestinians
jeopardizes American lives and interests in the Middle East, the Zionist power
configuration deflects attention from Israel and blames the US (and its 'permissive'
society) for having instigated the growing Islamist movement, Arab hostility and
attacks. When American military leaders, strategists and intelligence officers assert
that Israel's policy toward the Palestinians is a leading cause of regional conflict based
on their decades of field expertise, the arm-chair Generals among the Zionists re-
interpret this straightforward identification of Israeli policy with attacks on American
interests and troops as "another point of view". In the meantime the ZPC rounds up
the usual Congressional or White House Israel Firsters to "disown" their own military.

Israel's narrowly conceived colonial policy, the eviction of massive numbers of
Palestinians and the land grabs to construct Jews-only colonial settlements,
undermines US authority in the Middle East among its allies. Israel's brazen
willingness and ability to openly bash President Obama, thoroughly discredits the
contention among liberal Zionist apologists like Noam Chomsky that Imperial
Washington is "in command" of Western policy in the Middle East and is acting on
behalf of much broader Euro-American interests.

In a wider context, Israel's arrogance damages attempts by US private investors to
broker oil deals for multi-national corporations. Arab oil countries, which see
themselves as threatened by a regional militarist power like Israel, with its colonial
expansion and hegemonic ambitions, are unlikely to cooperate with the American,
especially when the superpower is impotent to curb Israel's worst excesses.

Israeli Colonial Ambitions and US Strategic Interests

For Israel and its Fifth Column backers none of the US strategic concerns are as
important as the Jewish state's colonial conquests and its regional projections of
power. Nor are the interests of the American people given much consideration when
they come in conflict with Israeli expansionist colonial goals. The ZPC never considers
or even discusses the fact that Americans have suffered major losses as a result of
Israel's relentless pursuit of military-driven power in the Middle East.

Israel's primary goal of grabbing land and dispossessing Palestinians goes against the
post-colonial ethos of the American people, who experience increased hostility
overseas. The only beneficiaries of Israel colonial expansion are the small but
powerful 51 American Jewish Zionist organizations which identify with and are loyal to
the Israeli state.

Israel's unilateral military aggression and threats against neighboring countries,
including Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Iran and its cross-border covert assassinations,
most recently in Dubai, are of great importance to Israeli militarists as Israel projects
power in the Middle East. The self-esteem of Israel's militarized citizens is directly
linked to their policy of aggression and assassinations without regard to national
sovereignty. On the other hand, Israeli power projections have undermined the US
efforts to diplomatically expand its own sphere of influence and negotiate multi-billion
dollar military sales, trade and investment agreements in the Middle East. The fact
that Israeli policies have jeopardized millions of jobs for American workers is an issue
of no importance to the Jewish state and its affluent Israel First backers in the US.

Israel's invasion of Lebanon forced the pro-US Harari faction to form a coalition with
the anti-imperialist Hezbollah political-military movement. Israel's attempt to impose
its will on Lebanon through its bombing campaign, torpedoed US diplomatic and
political efforts to consolidate its influence with President Harari.

Netanyahu's successful bullying of Obama and Biden simply reinforced the ties
between the pro-Western Lebanese and the anti-colonial Muslim left, in the face of
Washington's incapacity to constrain the Israeli 'wildmen' or resist the 'internal rot'
eroding an independent American initiative: Better to join forces with Hezbollah,
which after all fought Israel to a standstill in 2006.

Israel's loyal accomplices in the US government have caused enormous damage to
the US economy and threaten even greater loss of American lives, as the Israel seeks
to direct US policy toward Iran. Under the forceful and aggressive direction of Israel
Firsters and the powerful Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial
Intelligence, Stuart Levey, every major US oil and gas company, bank, petroleum
exploration and drilling firms and countless other business concerns have given up
hundreds of billion dollars in lucrative economic trade an investment deals in the
interest of Israel, which has extracted over $60 billion dollars of US taxpayer money
and handouts and aid during the last decade.

Iran, which backed the US imperial attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq, provided the US
military with far more strategic assistance than all the Israeli advisers, 'experts' and
contracted 'interrogators' in Baghdad and Iraqi 'Kurdistan' put together. Despite the
US recognition of Iranian assistance in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran is demonized as
'the enemy' by Israeli agents within the US because Tehran opposes Israel's ethnic
cleansing of the Palestinians. Israel's Fifth Column churns out hundreds of articles a
month demanding brutal economic sanctions against Iran and a pre-emptive military
blitz aimed at destroying the Iranian economy and a nation of over 70 million. Every
US military commander in the Middle East has acknowledged that an attack on Iran
will expand the war, cut vital shipping of oil in the Persian Gulf plunging the world
economy into recession, and threaten the lives of scores of thousands of American
soldiers. They also are aware that the prospect of thousands of American casualties
would not deter the 51 Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations, the
AIPAC-controlled US Congress members, or the likes of Undersecretary of Treasury
Stuart Levey from promoting or provoking a war with Iran. The leading Israel-First
advocates for war with Iran are unconcerned with the inevitable thousands of US
military casualties and the millions of American jobs lost, as they promote the
expansion and supremacy of "Greater Israel" in all its arrogance and glory
throughout the Middle East.

Zionist Power Configuration: How Dare You Resist Humiliation!

Is it any wonder that, when visiting American leaders are openly insulted by the racist
regime of Prime Minister 'Bibi' Netanyahu, American Zionists automatically side with
Israel and condemn those who protest in defense of American dignity?

The Daily Alert, principle bulletin of the Conference of Presidents of Major American
Jewish Organizations, provides a useful compilation of the articles, editorials and
government documents, defending Israel against the US Administration's efforts to
seek diplomatic solutions. From March 15 - 19, 2010 the Israeli-ZPC juggernaut
released a remarkable propaganda offensive, vividly underscoring the immense
power of the Zionist power configuration in the US. As soon as the White House
publicly rebuked Prime Minister Netanyahu for insulting Vice President Biden during
his official visit to Israel, the Zionist power configuration, claiming to speak for all the
"Jewish communities", came out in defense of Israel and attacked the Obama
Administration. A barrage of articles, editorials and press conferences materialized
overnight, with the usual parade of zombie-like Congressional mouthpieces parroting
the Zionist line and applying direct pressure on the White House. This multi-prong
Zionist offensive, under Netanyahu's direction, was successful in persuading the
White House to return to its characteristic belly-crawl: Clinton, Biden and the rest of
their gang retreated, reasserting the US "unconditional defense of Israel", declaring
the 'non-existence' of the crisis and asserting the 'rock solid' American relation with
Israel. The chain of command is revealing: The Israeli state orders the Zionist power
configuration into action; the mass media disseminates the line; Congress marches
lock-step for the Zionists and the White House retreats. Delighted with their success,
Zionist propagandists roll out their own polls claiming the US public support for Israel
-- a public saturated with Israeli manufactured and American Zionist trumpeted
propaganda. Clearly what such "polls" measure is the effectiveness of a monolithic
mass media campaign.

The propaganda tactics utilized in this blitzkrieg media campaign involved placing
blame on the insulted victim and attacking "the Administration for sparking a full
blown crisis" (Wall Street Journal, March 14, 2010). It went on to denounce the US
Administration officials for "condemning" and "pushing" Israel (Washington Post,
March 15 - 19, 2010). Other publications accused President Obama of 'playing into
the hand' of Arab extremists and "fanning the flames" ,(Fox News and Christian
Science Monitor, March 18, 2010). It was the US President, who had been "hindering
the peace talks" by "encouraging Palestinian intransigence". Haaretz, the Israeli's
liberal newspaper, which has published articles critical of the Israeli Occupation,
released a series of articles, opinion pieces and editorials by 'experts' and 'military
strategists' accusing the US Administration of "orchestrating the crises" (March 14,
2010) and called for the Israeli government not to 'grovel' by apologizing to the US
Vice President (March 15). CBS claimed that "Obama was pushing the US-Israeli
alliance to the brink" (March 15). And on March 17, the Boston Globe accused
Obama of "aggravating Israel's mistake". AIPAC methodically contacted its usual
Congressional flunkeys to denounce the White House for rebuking the Israeli
government.

By March 19, the Washington Post had published over a dozen diatribes calling for
US acceptance of Israel's settlement expansion. Zionist think tanks and front groups
with deceptive names, like the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, blamed
the displaced Palestinians for sabotaging "the peace process" by protesting the
accelerated Israeli land confiscation and settlements (Scripps - Howard and Fox
News, March 18, 2010). Predictably, the New York Times provided a slightly liberal
gloss by calling for reconciliation and an end to the crises, while never mentioning
the public Israeli humiliation of Vice President Biden or considering how Israel's latest
grab of Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem might endanger US lives and
interests. The Times ignored General Petraeus testimony before Congress and his
briefing, critical of Israeli policy, before the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
while giving prominence to Netanyahu's "peace talks" (March 18, 2010).

A few fissures have appeared in the pro-Israel monolith: David Axelrod, Obama's
chief adviser, condemned Netanyahu's provocation as an "insult"; New York Times
top columnist, Thomas Friedman, described the Israeli leaders as "drunken drivers";
and a leading US rabbi called for a building freeze in Jerusalem. These few liberal
Zionist critics were overwhelmed by scores parroting ZPC 'talking points': Bronner and
Sanger of the New York Times, Walter Mead of American (SIC) Interest and
Goldberg of the New Yorker, among others.

The craven capitulation, led by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was inevitable. On
March 16 Secretary Clinton declared that, "we have an absolute commitment to
Israel's security. We have a close unshakeable bond between the United States and
Israel and between the American and Israeli people". To prove her fealty to Israeli
and Zionist interests, Clinton became featured speaker at the APAC Conference,
March 21 - 26, 2010, sharing the platform with a triumphant Bibi Netanyahu.

Conclusion

Israel had to openly humiliate the US as a show of its power. Given Israel's strategic
domination of the US political system and the ZPC control over mass media and their
enormous wealth, a Zionist-controlled administration, like Obama's, would have to
capitulate. Israeli and US Zionist pressure forced the American leaders to subordinate
their international image and national self-respect and accept the unlimited
expansion of Jews-only settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, no matter
how this might undermine US standing in the region and jeopardize US troops. By
'whipping' the Obama Administration into line, Israel has set the stage for the
launching of its top priority: Forcing a direct US military confrontation with Iran in
Israel's strategic interests. It is clear that the entire ZPC will stand with Israel as it
promotes its militarist agenda against Iran, regardless of the consequences to the
United States.

It has been proven beyond a doubt by the recent events, that the ZPC has the
ultimate say with the Obama Administration, against the advice of top US military
officials and against the basic interests of the American people. In plain English, we
are a people colonized and directed by a small, extremist and militarist 'ally' which
operates through domestic proxies, who, under any other circumstance, would be
openly denounced as traitors.

Can the ZPC be defeated? They are the "most powerful lobby in Washington", to
whom Presidents, Administration officials, Generals and Congress people must submit
or risk having their careers ruined and being ousted from public office.
Meanwhile,outside of the United States, the international community openly despises
Israel as a brutal, racist colonial state, a war criminal and chronic violator of human
rights and international law. The Middle East Quartet, made up of the United States,
the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, has condemned Israel's plan to
build another 1,600 homes exclusively for Jewish extremist settlers in Arab East
Jerusalem. The Quartet demanded "the speedy creation of a Palestinian state and
the end to provocative actions". But the 'Quartet' is powerless to stop Israeli plans.
The Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations tell their followers that
global "anti-Semitism" motivates the 'Quartet'. The huge AIPAC "Hail Israel"
Conference in Washington D.C. in late March celebrated the triumph of unfettered
Israeli expansionism.

Nevertheless, some Israelis are beginning to express unease. After their initial
euphoria over Netanyahu's slap-down of Biden and face-up to Clinton, there is
growing fear of Israeli being 'weaned' away from the American treasury and losing
their unfettered access to the US latest military technology. A poll published on March
19 in Yedroth Ahronoth, one of Israel's biggest dailies, revealed that 46% of their
readers responded that the government should freeze settlement building in East
Jerusalem, much to the chagrin of the US Israel Firsters, who might in other
circumstances, have labeled these Jews anti-Semites.

Fissures in the Zionist monolith are beginning to appear. These would deepen if and
when the American public realizes that Israel's' dispossession of Palestinians is raising
havoc with American lives and with American interests in a vital part of the world
populated by 1.5 billion Muslim. As more issues arise, the critical choice between
following the lead of the ZPC in pledging unconditional allegiance to Israel and
enduring its provocations and humiliations, or standing up for the dignity, basic
interests and integrity of America, will have to be made. More fissures will appear and
the AIPAC and other members of the ZPC will be seen for what they are: Swaggering
bullies acting on behalf of a foreign power.