Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu famously was unaware that he was being filmed when he commented that
“America is a thing you can move very easily, moved in the right
direction.” His predecessor Ariel Sharon was even more to the point when
he reportedly said
“Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will
do that …don’t worry about American pressure; I tell you, we, the Jewish
people, control America and the American people know it!”
If
this were only chest thumping rhetoric one might just shrug and go about
one’s business, but actions speak louder than words, even in the world
of corrupt politicians, where nothing is ever as it seems to be. In the
past year alone, the U.S. government has moved its Embassy in Israel to
Jerusalem, has stopped criticizing the Netanyahu government’s expansion
of illegal settlements, and is reportedly currently contemplating
recognizing as legal Israel’s illegal occupation of the Syrian Golan
Heights. All the moves were and are contrary to actual American
interests.
Furthermore,
Israel, a country having a European level standard of living to include
free education and medical care, has received more than $250 billion in “aid” from Washington. It currently is receiving $3.8 billion
yearly from the U.S. Treasury as a base figure guaranteed for ten
years, with supplements for special projects and programs. Adding in
trade arrangements favorable to Israel and the money it gets from
American Jewish donors’ tax-exempt contributions, the real total per
annum approaches and may even exceed $10 billion. Much of the donor
money, including that from the Kushner Foundation, has gone to fund the illegal settlements
on the West Bank in violation of U.S. law. And then there is the $2.7
billion given yearly to Egypt and Jordan, essentially bribes to maintain
friendly relations with Israel.............http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/benefiting-israel-tops-congressional-agenda/
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