voltaire said something like: if you want to know who rules you find out who you are not allowed to criticize. in this piece you can discover some additional evidence of that quote;
When George H.W. Bush died on November 30th, America’s two self-proclaimed newspapers of record The Washington Post and The New York Times were
both quick off the mark in publishing what appeared to be definitive
obituaries of the former president and statesman that had clearly been
prepared in advance. The obit by The Times and that by The Post differed
little in substance but they had one curious omission, i.e. President
G.H.W. Bush’s eighteen month confrontation with Israel and its powerful
domestic lobby.
In 1991-1992 President Bush engaged in a series of sharp exchanges
with Israel and its American lobby over the issue of $10 billion in loan
guarantees to the Jewish state to pay for the resettlement of Russian
Jews, who were beginning to arrive in both Israel and the West in large
numbers. Bush correctly assumed that the loans would in fact also
subsidize the expansions of illegal settlements on the West Bank and in
Gaza, which the U.S. government opposed, so he said “no” to the loans.
After a series of increasingly acrimonious exchanges back and forth,
Bush, facing election, withdrew his objections and the loans were
approved, but he was the only U.S. president since John F. Kennedy to
confront the Israel Lobby in any serious way. Kennedy was, of course,
assassinated and Bush was defeated for reelection.
Both G.H.W. Bush and many other observers of the campaign and
election believed the loss to Bill Clinton in 1992 was at least in part
attributable to the actions of Israel and its friends. The conflict
between Bush and the Israeli government backed up by the Israel Lobby
and a number of congressmen and media outlets began in the spring of
1991. By September, President Bush refused to approve the
loan guarantees as he believed that withholding approval of the money
would give the U.S. leverage in peace negotiations with the Arabs that
were planned for the end of the year in Madrid. Bush felt that Israeli
Prime Minister was not taking the U.S. seriously because he believed
that he would get what was wanted from Congress in any event without
stopping settlement construction or having to concede anything to the
Palestinians. There was also a distinct possibility that the Israelis
would not bother to participate in Madrid without some kind of possible
financial inducement........https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/12/phil-giraldi/the-bowdlerized-bush-obituaries/
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