Monday, January 12

Pain

Has anyone actually taken the time to read the 9-11 Reports? Has anyone actually taken the time to ask the question "What motivated these terrorists to fly jets into buildings?" The answer is surprisingly simple. They do not attack us because we are a land of freedom and democracy. They do not attack us because we are a "Christian nation". They attack us because of our absurd foreign policy which sides with the Israeli terrorits. You can build up a bureaucracy called "Homeland Security" and try to fight the "axis of evil." The rulers of this nation will do whatever it takes to look out for their own interests and not give a damn about the safety of the people. The Washington Post summarized earlier, 1990-2006, data and concluded that "Pro-Israel interests have contributed $56.8 million in individual, group and soft money donations to federal candidates and party committees since 1990." In contrast, Arab-Americans and Muslim PACs contributed slightly less than $800,000 during the same (1990-2006) period. "The many controversial issues concerning Palestine and the path to peace for Israel are intensely debated among Israelis and throughout other nations - but not in the United States. For the last 30 years, I have witnessed and experienced the severe restraints on any free and balanced discussion of the facts. This reluctance to criticise any policies of the Israli government is because of the extraordinary lobbying efforts of the American-Israel Political Action Committee and the absence of any significant contrary voices. What is even more difficult to comprehend is why the editorial pages of the major newspapers and magazines in the United States exercise similar self-restraint, quite contrary to private assessments expressed quite forcefully by their correspondents in the Holy Land." -Jimmy Carter According to Morris Amitay, former AIPAC director "It's almost politically suicidal... for a member of Congress who wants to seek reelection to take any stand that might be interpreted as anti-policy of the conservative Israel government." Michale Massing reports that a staffer sympathetic to Israel told him "We can count on well over half the House - 250 to 300 members - to do reflexively whatever AIPAC wants." AIPAC official Steven Rosen in an illustration of AIPAC's power to journalist Jeffery Goldberg put a napkin in front of him and said, "In twenty-four hours, we could have the signatures of seventy senators on this napkin."