every time i hear a talking head tell me about the horrors of russian interference in 'our elections' my mind takes a trip to the contents of this article. israel has obviously 'meddled' in 'our elections' and just about every foreign policy action, but you can't say so or you're an anti-semite;
The Anglophone Israel Lobby benefits
from its ability to mold the media narrative while at the same time
using financial incentives to corrupt the political class. For those who
do not succumb to the corruption, there is always the option of direct
pressure, which in the United States and Britain consists of targeted
interference in the political system to remove critics either through
promotion of scandal or by supporting well-funded alternative candidates
in the following election. In the United States, this has led to the
removal of a number of congressmen who had dared to criticize the Jewish
state, terrifying the remainder into silence. All of this goes on with
little or no debate in the media or in congress itself.
There are signs, however, that the
general tolerance of Israeli misbehavior might be ending. The election
of at least three Democratic Congresswomen Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who might be willing to discuss Israel in
something less than worshipful ways is a miniscule shift in the
alignment of the Democratic party, where Jewish money dominates, but it
reflects the views of the party’s grass roots where a recent poll
demonstrates that surveyed Democrats favor Israel over Palestine by a
margin of only 2%, twenty-seven per cent versus twenty-five per cent
with the remainder of responders favoring neither side.
Much more significant is last week’s
announcement by Senator Rand Paul that he intends to place a “hold” on
the current package of $38 billion in military aid to Israel, which
means he can filibuster the issue in the Senate to delay its passage.
Paul, who, like his father, is a skeptic regarding foreign aid in
general, did not cite any specific issues connected to the aid package,
but critics have long noted that Israel is in fact ineligible for any
foreign aid from the United States because it has an undeclared nuclear
arsenal consisting of at least 200 weapons. For that reason, providing
aid to Israel is illegal under the Symington Amendment of 1961 as well
as due to the fact that Tel Aviv has rejected signing the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT............http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=179948
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