America Planning For A Post-Israel
Middle East?
29 August 2012
By Franklin Lamb
Congresswoman Illena Ros-Lehtinen will have her hands
full as she makes the political and social rounds at
this month's Republican National Convention. Illena,
is the only female committee chair in the House of
Representatives and arguably Israel's most ardent
agent. She is a constant thorn in the Obama
administration's side, regularly castigating the
president for playing "political games with U.S.
foreign policy" and being "soft on Iran" and
undermining the legitimacy of Israel. Ros-Lehtinen is
a congressional cheer leader also for her Jewish
voters in Florida -- a key battleground in the rapidly
approaching US presidential election. Most recently,
Ros-Lehtinen helped shepherd through Congress yet
another bill tightening sanctions against Iran while
calling for US military action against the Assad
regime in Syria.
The Congresswomen's focus will likely not be on
pushing the republican's talking points regarding her
party's nominee, Mitt Romney the former "moderate
Massachusetts governor" who she is aware is unlikely
to win the White House. Nor, according to a source at
the Democratic National Committee, frantically putting
together final touches on their own Convention, to be
held the week of September 3 in Charlotte, North
Carolina, will Ileana spend much time with or
promoting Mitt' running mate, Congressman Paul Ryan.
Ryan, an Ayn Rand (author of The Fountainhead and
Atlas Shrugged as well as founder of the Objectivism
movement) follower, regularly tells audiences that
"Ayn Rand's teachings have been one of the most
profound philosophical influences of my life." Well,
except for religion and abortion and a few other
matters, as Ayn, who passed away in 1982 was an avowed
atheist and strongly pro-abortion, the opposite of
what Ryan tells audiences he is.
Rather, Ros-Lehtinen will be meeting with local,
national, and international Jewish leaders in this
must win state where she has been assigned the task of
reassuring them that the Republican Party is Israel's
best friend and that a recent US government draft
report urging a US re-think of its relationship to
Israel is the responsibility of none other than Barack
Obama, and it reveals his true disdain for Israel.
Helping her smear the White House with the findings in
the draft analysis will be William Kristol, publisher
of the neoconservative Weekly Standard and Director of
the New American Century, an "Israel first"
Washington-based lobby "promoting joint Israeli and
American political and military leadership across the
globe, while bringing democracy to the Middle East".
So what is all the fuss about?
It's a paper entitled: Preparing For A Post Israel
Middle East, an 82 page analysis that concludes that
the American national interest in fundamentally at
odds with that of Zionist Israel. The authors
concludes that Israel is currently the greatest threat
to US national interests because its nature and
actions prevent normal US relations with Arab and
Muslim countries and, to a growing degree, the wider
international community.
The study was commissioned by the US Intelligence
Community comprising 16 American intelligence agencies
with an annual budget in excess of $ 70 billion. The
IC includes the Departments of the Navy, Army, Air
Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Defense Intelligence
Agency, Departments of Energy, Homeland Security,
State, Treasury, Drug Enforcement Agency, Federal
Bureau of Investigation, National Security Agency,
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, National
Reconnaissance Agency and the Central Intelligence
Agency commissioned the study.
Among the many findings that Ros-Lehtenin and Kristol
and other unregistered agents of Israel will likely
try to exploit politically between now and November 6,
by using them to attack the Obama Administration. A
sampling of the findings includes the following:
Israel, given its current brutal occupation and
belligerence cannot be salvaged any more than
apartheid south Africa could be when as late as 1987
Israel was the only "Western" nation that upheld
diplomatic ties with South Africa and was the last
country to join the international boycott campaign
before the regime collapsed;
The Israel leadership, with its increasing support
of the 700,000 illegal settlers on the occupied West
Bank is increasing out of touch with the political,
military and economic realities of the Middle East;
The post Labor government Likud coalition is deeply
complicit with and influenced by the settlers'
political and financial power and will increasingly
face domestic civil strife which the US government
should not associate itself with or become involved
with;
The Arab Spring and Islamic Awakening has, to a
major degree, freed a large majority of the 1.2
billion Arab and Muslims to pursue what an
overwhelming majority believe is the illegitimate,
immoral and unsustainable European occupation of
Palestine of the indigenous population;
Simultaneous with, but predating, rapidly expanding
Arab and Muslim power in the region as evidenced by
the Arab spring, Islamic Awakening and the ascendancy
of Iran, as American power and influence recedes, the
US commitment to belligerent oppressive Israel is
becoming impossible to defend or execute consistent
given paramount US national interests which include
normalizing relations with the 57 Islamic countries;
Gross Israeli interference in the internal affairs
of the United States through spying and illegal US
arms transfers. This includes supporting more than 60
front organizations' and approximately 7,500 US
officials who do Israel's bidding and seek to dominate
and intimidate the media and agencies of the US
government which should no longer be condoned;
That the United States government no longer has the
financial resources, or public support to continue
funding Israel. The more than three trillion dollars
in direct and indirect aid from US taxpayers to Israel
since 1967 is not affordable and is increasingly being
objected to by US taxpayers who oppose continuing
American military involvement in the Middle East. US
public opinion no longer supports funding and
executing widely perceived illegal US wars on Israel's
behalf. This view is increasingly being shared by
Europe, Asia and the International public;
Israel's segregationist occupation infrastructure
evidenced by legalized discrimination and increasingly
separate and unequal justice systems must no longer be
directly or indirectly funded by the US taxpayers or
ignored by the US government;
Israel has failed as a claimed democratic state and
continued American financial and political cover will
not change its continuing devolution as international
pariah state;
Increasingly, rampant and violent racism exhibited
among Jewish settlers in the West Bank is being
condoned by the Israeli government to a degree that
the Israel government has become its protector and
partner;
The expanding chasm among American Jews objecting to
Zionism and Israeli practices, including the killing
and brutalizing of Palestinians under Israeli
occupation, are gross violations of American and
International law and raise questions within the US
Jewish community regarding the American responsibility
to protect (R2P) innocent civilians under occupation;
The international opposition to the increasingly
apartheid regime can no longer be synchronized with
American claimed humanitarian values or US
expectations in its bi-lateral relations with the 193
member United Nations;
The Draft ends with language about the need to avoid
entangling alliances that alienate much of the World
and condemn American citizens to endure the
consequences.
Interestingly, it notes Iran as an example of a
country and people that have much in common and whose
citizens have a real interest in bilateral
associations (here an apparent reference to Israel and
its US lobby) not determined by the wishes of other
countries and their agents. It also highlights the
need for the US to undertake "the repairing relations
with Arab and Muslim countries including the
drastically curtained use of drone aircraft.
The coming days will clarity the success of Israel's
in making an issue of the finding in the soon to be
published daft report and the degree to which the
Republican Party will gain for its findings in the
race for the White House.
Franklin Lamb is doing
research in Lebanon and is reachable c/o
fplamb@gmail.com
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