{"id":270364,"date":"2016-09-30T11:36:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T11:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=270364"},"modified":"2016-10-02T01:58:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T01:58:33","slug":"u-s-govt-donate-38b-enemy-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/u-s-govt-donate-38b-enemy-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Does U.S. Gov\u2019t. Donate $38B to an Enemy Nation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

On September 13th, the AP headlined\u00a0“Israel to get $38 billion in US military aid over 10 years\u201d<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0and they called that “the largest batch of military assistance the U.S. has ever pledged to another country.\u201d This money is donated, instead of anything being sold<\/i> to Israel: it comes from U.S. taxpayers, and is a commitment regardless of whether Israel continues to violate the Camp David peace accords (such as by building illegal settlements) or any other treaty or international law.<\/span><\/p>\n

On 8 June 1967, Israel intentionally attacked and sank the USS Liberty, slaughtering 34 of our sailors, and injuring another 172.\u00a0The official U.S. government inquiry by an independent study Commission headed by Admiral Thomas H. Moorer<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0found that, “after eight hours of aerial surveillance, Israel launched a two-hour air and naval attack against the\u00a0USS Liberty, the world\u2019s most sophisticated intelligence ship.\u201d \u201cUnmarked Israeli aircraft dropped napalm canisters on the Liberty\u2019s bridge, and fired 30mm\u00a0cannons and rockets into our ship.\u201d “Israeli torpedo boats later returned to machine-gun at close range three of the Liberty\u2019s life rafts\u00a0that had been lowered into the water by survivors to rescue the most seriously wounded.\u201d \u201cThere is compelling evidence that Israel\u2019s attack was a\u00a0deliberate attempt to destroy an American ship\u00a0and kill her entire crew.\u201d “Israel committed\u00a0acts of murder against American servicemen and an act of war against the United\u00a0States.\u201d “The White House deliberately prevented the U.S. Navy from coming to the defense of the Liberty.\u201d \u201cSurviving crewmembers were later threatened with ‘court-martial, imprisonment or worse\u2019 if they\u00a0exposed the truth; and were abandoned by their own government.\u201d \u201cThe White House deliberately covered up the facts of this attack from the American people.\u201d \u201cThis attack remains the only serious naval incident that has never been thoroughly investigated\u00a0by Congress; to this day, no surviving crewmember has been permitted to officially and publicly\u00a0testify about the attack.\u201d \u201cThere has been\u00a0an official cover-up without precedent in American naval history.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The USS Liberty Veterans Association delivered to the Executive Agent for the U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, on 8 June 2005,\u00a0their own 35-page study report backing this up and urging retaliation<\/span><\/a>. It quoted from Richard Helms, the Director of Central Intelligence at the time of the USS Liberty attack. He supported, as Helms put it, “the\u00a0board’s finding that there could be no doubt that the Israelis knew exactly what\u00a0they were\u00a0doing in attacking the Liberty. I have yet to understand why it was felt necessary\u00a0to attack this\u00a0ship or who ordered the attack.\u201d The Veterans Association concluded that, “the fact that the Israeli government and its surrogates in the United States\u00a0have worked so long\u00a0and hard to prevent an inquiry itself speaks volumes as to what\u00a0such an inquiry would find.\u00a0The\u00a0USS Liberty Veterans Association, Inc. respectfully insists that the Secretary of\u00a0the Army\u00a0convene an investigatory body to undertake the complete investigation that\u00a0should have been\u00a0carried out thirty-eight years ago.\u201d Their study and urging were simply ignored.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israel\u00a0violates the 1978 Camp David peace accords<\/span><\/a>, and\u00a0blatantly violates many international laws<\/span><\/a>, in a regime that is\u00a0apartheid if there is any meaning at all to that term<\/span><\/a>. Israel is a \u2018democracy\u2019 only if apartheid South Africa was: it\u2019s\u00a0not a democracy<\/span><\/a>. It doesn\u2019t even have a Constitution. (A man-made<\/i> Constitution \u2014 a prerequisite to any<\/i> democracy \u2014 would offend Israel\u2019s religious Jews, who insist upon the Torah being the foundation of the country\u2019s laws. Israel as a Jewish nation is, in that sense, like Saudi Arabia as a Muslim nation, except that the Sauds use the Quran<\/span><\/a> instead of the Torah. A religious-based nation can never be a democracy: it\u2019s intrinsically a dictatorship, obtaining its constitution from some \u2018holy\u2019 Scripture, allegedly from \u2018God\u2019 not any humans. Of course, just as America\u2019s aristocrats call Israel an \u2018ally\u2019, they also call Saudi Arabia an \u2018ally\u2019, though both of those governments are actually enemies of America<\/span><\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

The question here isn\u2019t whether we should go to war against Israel. If the U.S. didn\u2019t support Israel, that would be enough, and there would then be some accountability for the Israeli government\u2019s numerous crimes \u2014 the U.S. aristocracy wouldn\u2019t be immunizing the Israeli government, as they now do<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The question, above all, is: Why does the U.S. government donate yet another $38 billion to an enemy nation<\/i>? And, especially, why do we do this while not requiring the Israeli government even to adhere to \u2018peace accords\u2019 that our own government brokered?<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no other enemy nation that we treat in this way.\u00a0Though we (at least up until 28 September 2016<\/span><\/a>) have protected the Saudi aristocracy, they pay for American weapons, while the Israeli aristocracy get American weapons donated to them by U.S. taxpayers.<\/span><\/p>\n

To a large extent, Israel is the type of country that billionaires (mainly, but not only, Jewish ones), especially in America but also in other countries, want it to be: not only ethnocentric (or racist), but profoundly classist \u2014 an aristocracy (commonly called an \u201coligarchy\u201d), instead of any sort of functioning democracy<\/span><\/a>. On 17 March 2013 Haaretz<\/i> bannered \u201cHow Foreign Donors Reshaped Israel: A Who\u2019s Who\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and many of the same individuals in that list are also listed (though with fewer details of their political operations) on pages 52-53 of this<\/span><\/a>, and (along with some of the non-Jewish aristocrats) here<\/span><\/a>. It doesn\u2019t take many billionaires to control a nation\u2019s government.<\/span><\/p>\n

On 16 January 2015, Haaretz<\/i> headlined \u201cHow Netanyahu filled his primary campaign coffers with foreign donations\u201d<\/span><\/a> and reported that \u201cForeign donors almost entirely bankrolled the primary campaigns of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other leading right-wing politicians.\u201d \u201cEach payment came from the United States except for one from Spain and one from Germany,\u201d and \u201cabout half of Netanyahu\u2019s financing was provided by members of three wealthy U.S. families.\u201d These three were the Falics in Florida, the Books in New Jersey, and the Schottensteins in Ohio. They buy Israel\u2019s government, and we will now be providing $3.8 billion per year of our tax-money to fund it, to do what these people want it to do, which is to provide the Israeli government the money to buy weaponry from Lockheed Martin and other American weapons-makers (and so recycle some of this American tax-money into the pockets of aristocrats who own or control those U.S. armaments-firms and the U.S. government).<\/span><\/p>\n

On 23 July 2014, I wrote about \u201cAmerica\u2019s Nazi Allies in Israel and Ukraine\u201d<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

On 20 May 2015, I wrote earlier on the question \u201cIs Israel America\u2019s Friend? Or America\u2019s Enemy?\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton is one of many U.S. politicians who equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism; she says<\/a><\/span>: \u201cAnti-Semitism has no place in any civilized society, not in America, not in Europe, not anywhere. Now, all of this work defending Israel\u2019s legitimacy, expanding security and economic ties, taking our alliance to the next level depends on electing a president with a deep, personal commitment to Israel\u2019s future as a secure, Democratic Jewish state, and to America\u2019s responsibilities as a global leader. \u2026 So, my friends, let us never be neutral or silent in the face of bigotry. Together let\u2019s defend the shared values that already make America and Israel great.\u201d<\/i> That equation, of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, is fraudulent. Zionism is simply another form of bigotry. Decent Jews, like all decent people, repudiate it. On 4 December 1948, many of them, including Albert Einstein<\/span><\/a>, called by its proper name the man who became Israel\u2019s Prime Minister on 21 June 1977 \u2014 Menachem Begin: writing to The New York Times<\/i>, they called him, and the ideology that he led in Israel, \u201cthis latest manifestation of fascism,\u201d and they said: \u201cIt is all the more tragic that the top leadership of American Zionism has refused to campaign against Begin’s efforts, or even to expose to its own constituents the dangers to Israel from support to Begin.\u201d Such \u201ctop leadership of American Zionism\u201d produced, in Israel 29 years later, the apartheid (\u2018democratic\u2019) selection of Begin to become Israel\u2019s Prime Minister. A nation like that is not a \u2018friend\u2019 of America if America is to be democratic; it\u2019s instead an enemy-nation, of any democracy<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Despite what politicians such as Hillary Clinton commonly imply or even assert, acknowledging this fact is not \u2018anti-Semitic\u2019, but instead anti-fascist. Albert Einstein and the other signatories of that letter were Jews who were patriotic Americans; Hillary Clinton and her ilk still stand as condemned by them, and some of the people who were thus condemned (like Clinton herself) are not Jews. What is at issue here is nobody\u2019s religion; it is instead political (and even moral) principle: the U.S. government is donating to a nation that is, and long has been, a fascist nation, an enemy nation, whose attack against the United States in 1967 continues to be met by the U.S. with increased gifts, instead of with condemnation, and with abandonment. <\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, the question here is, very simply: Why?<\/span><\/p>\n

FINAL NOTE: Some readers of this article have commented that Israel didn\u2019t sink the boat. The intention was to sink it. But luck intervened to block that from happening. For full details, see Alan Hart’s phenomenally well-researched “Israel\u2019s Attack on USS Liberty \u2013 The Full Story\u201d \u2014 at\u00a0http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2012\/06\/07\/alan-hart-israels-attack-on-the-uss-liberty-the-full-story\/ \u2014 which documents that Moshe Dayan had planned the attack as part of the 1967 6-Day War; and, “Dayan\u2019s purpose was to prevent the spy ship giving President [Lyndon] Johnson warning of his intention to invade Syria.\u201d Johnson had given Israel an okay to invade only Egypt, but to avoid attacking also the USSR\u2019s ally Syria (which Dayan wanted to conquer but Itzhak Rabin strongly opposed Dayan about; Rabin ended up being assassinated in 1995 by an Israeli fascist, after which, fascism reigns without effective competition in Israel). The failure to sink the Liberty was despite Israel\u2019s fascists, no reflection of anyone\u2019s decency. Johnson dropped the matter because he didn\u2019t want the Democratic Party to lose the support of America\u2019s ethnocentric Jews \u2014 political reality.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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