Israels Big Bluff

Lady Luna · Nov 5, 2011

I have enjoyed Justin Raimondo's writing ever since I first read it. I agree with his take on things and he is right on in this article.

We have spent billions in aid to Israel, and this transfer of wealth from our country to that one doesn't benefit the American citizens who fund it one iota. I don't see any valid reason why we keep supporting Israel. I oppose foreign aid in the first place, and have always questioned the vast amounts going to Israel from US taxpayers. I understand there is a religious element involved since Christians always seem to support us giving all this money to Israel, but religion isn't a valid reason to do it. Justin Raimondo describes my own opinion of this waste and and seems to have a good handle on the situation in the Middle East.

The Israeli government has been openly threatening Iran with attack for years, and we have learned not to take their outbreaks of war hysteria too seriously. During the last year of George W. Bushs final term in office, there was heightened speculation that Tel Aviv was pressuring Washington to launch such an attack, and indeed it appears Vice President Dick Cheney argued for precisely that, albeit to no avail. Now the war talk has been revived by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who, along with his defense minister, Ehud Barak, has not only been arguing within the Cabinet for such a strike, but has now supposedly moved into the implementation stage.

The problem with this alleged plan is that Israel doesnt have the military capacity to do the job and do it well: Irans nuclear facilities are enclosed within hardened sites, and are spread out to such a degree that Israeli war planes would have trouble reaching them. While the Israelis have recently tested a long-range missile that has the capacity to hit Iranian targets, the idea that they could take out all the intended targets in one fell swoop is simply a fantasy. Therefore, this alleged "debate" taking place within the Israeli leadership, complete with a phony "investigation" by Netanyahu into who leaked the nonexistent Israeli attack "plan," is a non-event. The whole thing, in short, is a bluff.

But who is being bluffed here? Not the Iranians, who are surely aware of Israels incapacity. The volume of the war hysteria is being turned up with one purpose in mind: the Israelis want the US to do their dirty work for them. This is a threat aimed not only or even primarily at Iran, but at us.

This has been their modus operandi throughout all the years of the "special relationship": its "special" because there is no reciprocity involved. Our unconditional support for the Israeli settler colony has always been an albatross hung round our necks, and never more so than post-9/11, when the need for US allies within the Muslim world is vital. We support them financially, militarily, and politically, while getting absolutely nothing but grief and more demands in return.

Under the Bush administration, at least in the beginning, the Israelis had a free hand in Washington, at least as far as the White House was concerned. Their agents of influence permeated the national security bureaucracy and were in place when the 9/11 attacks occurred, ready and willing to carry out a policy that benefited Israel at Americas expense. This has always been Israels ace in the hole: the existence of a strong domestic lobby in America to push its interests to the exclusion of all else. While support for Israel is nearly reflexive in the GOP, in part due to the influence of Christian evangelicals of the dispensationalist persuasion, the lobby is also firmly entrenched in the Democratic party, especially in its Clintonian wing.
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http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/11/03/israels-big-bluff/

Margot · Nov 6, 2011

Currently AIPAC is lobbying to pass a law that forbids diplomacy with Iran..

Can you imagine?

But, some Israelis... like former Mossad Chief Meir Dagan have other ideas.

http://www.politicalforum.com/curre...nity-not-logic-guides-israels-leadership.html

If you remember Dagan.. in late 2002 he told the world that Iraq had NO WMDs.

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