"You and Me Against the World" is the title of
a wonderful romantic song by Gladys Knight and the Pips that I enjoyed
immensely. It’s a song of a love so strong that it can withstand all
the world’s pressures and disapprovals. America, my country ‘tis of
thee, and Israel’s faux paux love affair have ruined the song for me.
Tragically, now when I hear this song it only conjures
up images of hate, oppression, lies, weapons, hypocrisy, double
standards, political intimidation, cowardice, the buying and selling of
values, morals, and principles; a corrupt media, a naïve people being
taken advantage of, and worst of all, the "ethnic cleansing"
of a people from their land and homes by an "ethnic race"
cleansed of all responsibility for the deliberate murder of Christian
and Muslim children in the Holy Land, the land of Palestine.
The history of the "special" relationship
between Israel and America has been extensively documented by many
historians and scholars, including Israeli and American Jewish scholars.
Unfortunately, for the west and especially for us, Americans, these
books are deliberately kept out of our bookstores and libraries for
politically kosher reasons. It’s the same old story of the powerful
American Jewish lobby ensuring that very little if any truth or
criticism of Israel is ever publicized. Hell hath no fury like
"Israel" scorned.
Given America’s downsized attention span and its lack
of desire to be enlightened beyond what’s easily spoon fed by our
media, I’ll try to simplify how this detrimental "special"
relationship between a country of 4 million Jews, Israel, and America
began and how this binary relationship defies the rest of the world’s
sense of peace and justice. You see, for centuries Christian Europe had
a problem. A problem prejudicially called "The Jewish
Problem". Christians didn’t like the exclusivity of Jews, their
lack of assimilation and withdrawal into their religious and social
world, their strange language and customs, and of course there’s that
"Christ Killers" charge. So they persecuted and killed the
Jews over time culminating in the horrors of the Holocaust. Escaping
Jews found peace, freedom, respect, and sanctuary in the--ready for this
America--"Islamic" world. There they prospered like never
before in all fields to the point that the famous Jewish physician
theologian philosopher Moses Maimonedes was the personal physician to
Saladin. Europe had only one way to deal with its people
"problems"—kill them or export them. Thus Europeans
formulated the idea of "Zionism" later adopted and developed
by Theodore Herzl as a political ideology to export the Jews to
Palestine. Although Zionism was adopted by European secular Jews, the
majority of the world’s Jewry especially Orthodox Jews rejected
Zionism on political and religious grounds.
Thus after World I and the collapse of the Ottoman
Empire, England and France divided "their" Middle East into
crude countries and borders. Palestine was taken by England to counter
French influence. Under Jewish pressure and England’s desire to curry
favor with American Jews to draw America into the war, Lord Balfour,
England’s Foreign Minister, wrote a letter of 68 words to a rich Jew,
Lord Rothschild, supporting the establishment of "a" Jewish
homeland in Palestine as long as the Non-Jews were taken care of. After
WWII, America became the dominant western power. In addition, the
Holocaust cemented into the psyche of every westerner the horrors of
Jews being murdered. The world was motivated to finally settle these
Jews in Palestine. Harry Truman, to curry favor with New York’s Jews
in his election (a pattern followed since then, lately by the newest
Islamophobe Hilary Clinton) pressured the U.N. to adopt a resolution
approving the Balfour Declaration and a plan to partition Palestine into
two states for the Jews and Palestinians. The Jews to this day are
shocked at why the Palestinians didn’t simply agree to the idea of
partition which could have settled the matter peacefully forever. Here’s
JEWISH logic for you---Palestinians should have accepted that foreign
powers thousands of miles away because of two pieces of paper and their
own domestic politics give Jews the right to take 56% of your home
(actually the best part of the house) for a small population while
Palestinians who own the house get to keep 44% of the home (the worst
part) for a larger population. Obviously, if Palestinians only accepted
that agreement we wouldn’t be fighting today. But no, they refused. So
the Jews take advantage of their stronger military and take more land,
another 22 percent of the house. So now the Palestinians only live in
22% of their original land. Of course the world is angry at this
injustice just after they gave Jews a land they never had. So the U.N.
starts protesting and passing resolution after resolution saying you can’t
do that. But, you see Jews have an ace in the Security Council. It’s
Uncle Sam-uel. American Jews make sure that no President, no
Congressman, no media, no Hollywood, no publishing company, in short no
words ever leaks to the American people about the truth of how the
Zionist Jews massacred the poor Palestinians, wiped 500 villages from
the map, destroyed every mosque and church (yes, church, there are
Palestinian Christians), and expelled 800,000 Palestinians on foot out
of their homes into refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza, and
neighboring Arab countries. Instead let’s make romantic movies about
Jews, let’s publish Exodus, let’s begin the "Greatest Story
Never Told’ Campaign to ensure Israel is right and good, Palestinians,
Arabs, and Muslims are bad. You see, we Americans like things simple and
direct. Just tell me what to believe. From then on, the power of
American Jews only grew and grew and they became bolder about their
lies. Wait, the Jews are still greedy for the rest of the house. Thus,
in 1967, they launch a preemptive war against the Palestinians (and
Arabs) and now occupy the whole house—100% of the Palestinian home.
That ended any freedom, justice, peace, dignity, livelihood, freedom of
movement, education, jobs, as well as any sense of a home or homeland
for the Palestinians. Now all of Palestine is under Israel’s military
control and occupation. The historical, geographic, and demographic
hijacking, erasure and eradication of Palestine was complete.
No other historical precedent exists for a people and a
land to be physically eradicated as a home for one race, to be totally
transformed as a home for an invading race, except for Palestine. A
total transformation accomplished with remarkable blitzkrieg under the
sponsorship and support of "my country—land of liberty of thee I
sing". The United Nations Security Council drew a "line in the
sand" adopting UN Resolutions 242, 338 demanding Israel withdraw
its occupation from the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. Of course
this is Israel not Iraq. UN Resolutions are meaningless even it was
introduced by the U.S.
Hence, dear America, you became the "sucker"
for anything Jewish and Israeli. What began for America as an
emotionally sympathetic adoption of Israel after the Holocaust has now
become an overwhelming intimidating force that doesn’t even allow our
government, our media, nor we Americans the opportunity to think or
question our policy toward Israel. Now no one dares say Israel is bad
for killing babies with our weapons and taxes. Yes, our taxes. Every
American has sent every Israeli over $22,000 since 1949 to the tune of
$150 Billion. Can you use that money for your kid’s college tuition?
In fact, we’re sending a very rich country, richer than most European
countries and richer than most U.S. states about one third of all our
foreign aid to the world. That’s like me sending Bill Gates welfare
check every month. But do you think our cowardly Congress will ever stop
this aid? Not in your life if they know what’s good for them. Anyone
who’s dared question Israel’s aid only drives rich Jewish
organizations to work to defeat them in the next election—Like
Senators Fulbright and Percy. A lesson not lost on any of our
politicians. What this means is that 5 million Jews in our country, less
than two percent of our population, actually dictate and formulate our
foreign policy and protect Israel at every turn. Forget the bunk that
this is ANTI-SEMITISM (I am a Semite). This is American PATRIOTISM and
standing up for our values of freedom, self-determination, justice and
human rights for all people; in this case the Palestinian people. While
Israel for the last ten weeks has been killing Palestinian children
daily, launching air and sea attacks on homes at night, destroying farm
land and uprooting olive trees, starving them with closures, and even
firing on ambulances (all of this is documented by every human rights
organizations and the United Nations), Israel in our media and by our
shameful politicians from Clinton, Albright, and Congress is portrayed
as being "besieged" by stones and its very survival is in
question. That’s also the usual BUNK. Israel is the fourth largest
powerful army with nuclear weapons all of which they received or stole
from us as well as sell to our enemies. Israeli LOGIC: we are the
victims because their stones hurt our feelings while we’ve killed over
300 of them and wounded 13,000 while only 25 of us are dead. Please
somebody, help them with a massive Prozac shower.
It never fails that whenever the United Nations General
Assembly that includes almost all of the world’s nations takes up the
Palestinian issue, the entire world votes to condemn Israel while the
only two countries voting against these resolutions are you
guessed---AMERICA AND ISRAEL. According to Israeli logic---the entire
world is ANTISEMITIC and hates Israel. I wonder why the entire world
hates Israel and by extension hates us?
Does that explain why the world is up in arms against
us, killing our military and diplomatic personnel, committing terrorist
acts, burn our flag, want to boycott our products, even want to go to
war against us—all because we’re DUMB enough and cowardly enough to
succumb to America’s powerful Jewish lobby? Is this our country or
what? American Jews enjoy unparalleled success in this country in all
fields. You can’t turn on a TV news program without seeing an American
Jew "expert" speaking on Islam or on any subject. Are there no
Muslims in this country, no Catholics, no Protestants, no African
Americans, no Native Americans, no Cubans etc. to speak on topics
impacting them? Our own Senate has 11 Jewish Senators without a single
Black, Hispanic, or Muslim Senator. Maybe that’s why our Congress is
considered a rubber stamp body for Israel’s Knesset (parliament) by
the world. Our newspapers should be renamed from the New York Times and
Washington Post to the Tel Aviv Times and Post.
To be fair, there are many American Jews, European Jews,
and Israeli Jews who understand the paradox of a country founded on the
Holocaust and Judaism that has become a military killing machine of
Palestinians civilians. Unfortunately, they are like you and me,
intimidated or relegated to the sidelines unable to reach our media or
politicians. Israel does NOT represent ALL Jews nor does it represent
Judaism. It’s simply an extension of European imperialism and
expansionism selling itself as a "strategic friend and ally"
to the west serving as the western "colony" in a hostile world
first against Communism and now against the greater evil of
"Islamic Fundamentalism".
Whether we like it or not, my American friends, Israel’s
song of "YOU AND ME AGAINST THE WORLD" lacks political,
economic, or military sense. Israel is a liability to us in the Middle
East and to the Islamic world. It truly is America’s Achilles Heel. It
makes no sense that our priority should be with one nation of four
million in lieu of relationships with 60 Islamic nations with 1.3
Billion people. We send Israel money while all those countries send us
their money to purchase our products. Europe, Russia, China, and Japan
are supportive of the Palestinians and doing good business with the
Islamic world while we can’t even ask Israel why it bombed and killed
our sailors on the USS Liberty in 1967. Our Congress funds the Holocaust
Museum in Washington DC while denying funds to our WWII Veteran
Memorial. That is outrageous.
Israel is detrimental to our values, economy, sense of
justice and national interest. We maybe drawn into a war we don’t want
nor need because of Israel’s military aggressions that we end up
paying for and its unmatched influence on our government and
institutions. Our sons and daughters are already dying in the Middle
East because of Israel but many more will die if we don’t act firmly
with Israel and end this conflict based on peace for Israel and justice
for the Palestinians as outlined by the UN Resolution 242 that America
introduced in 1967 and that Israel has thumbed its nose at. If we don’t,
America won’t have peace and security and our children will die and
our economy will suffer. Clinton and his Jewish foreign policy team want
to send Israel $480 Million in military emergency aid to replenish the
bullets and rockets that tore Palestinians flesh.
Don’t just sit there my friend, tell Congress what
Rabin said in the White House in
