Welcome to American Dissident Voices.
It was a bright summer day on the 8th of June, 1967. The
United States Navy intelligence ship, the U.S.S. Liberty, was
peacefully sailing on the clear waters of the eastern
Mediterranean. It just so happened that on that very day, the
government of Israel was finalizing its preparations for the
invasion of Syria which was planned for the following day. The
intelligence ship's full-time mission was the interception of all
radio communications in the area, so a decision was made by the
Israeli government that the U.S.S. Liberty presented a threat to
the secrecy of their war plans. On that fateful day Israeli warplanes
and torpedo boats attacked the Liberty with a merciless barrage
of torpedos, machine gun fire, rockets, and napalm. They attacked
her in wave after wave, again and again and again. They blasted a
40-foot hole in the side of the ship with their torpedoes. When
the Liberty failed to sink they sent in helicopter gunships and machine-gunned
the lifeboats. The clear intent of the attackers was that no
American be left alive. The attack took place in broad daylight
and lasted for over two hours. Only when the Sixth Fleet had sent rescue
aircraft did the attackers finally withdraw. All through the
assault, the ship was flying a clearly visible and brand new
American flag. Israeli reconnaissance planes had been tracking
the Liberty for five and one half hours prior to the attack. 171
American sailors were casualties, and 34 were killed.
The official story put out by the Israeli government was that
the attack was a mistake, and an apology was issued by Israel and
accepted by the US. No action was taken against Israel for
attacking an American ship and killing American soldiers. A
conspiracy of silence surrounded this tragedy, and few Americans have ever
even heard of it. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral
Thomas Moorer and Secretary of State Dean Rusk stated publicly
that Israel deliberately attacked the Liberty. Rusk stated in his memoirs
"I was never satisfied with the Israeli explanation.... I
didn't believe them then, and I don't believe them to this day. The
attack was outrageous." Nevertheless, the media downplayed
the affair, which, had it been perpetrated by any other country
than Israel, would have been a cause celebre and possible grounds
for war. The controlled media told us that the attack lasted only
five minutes and that it was followed by an immediate apology and
offer of assistance. Survivor James Ennes, Jr., who was on the Liberty
that terrible day, recently stated "The official lid on this
story remains almost as tight as the day it was first
applied."
Many survivors, soldiers, scholars, and patriots have had
their doubts about that official explanation, and in 1991 their
doubts were confirmed. Evidence released that year by the U.S.
Embassy in Beirut included an intercepted radio conversation of
an Israeli pilot who communicated with his base "It's an
American ship," and his headquarters ordered him to continue
the attack. Now there is no doubt at all.
How is it possible that so great an atrocity has been covered
up? Such a cover-up would have to involve large numbers of
individuals at the highest levels of the US government as well as
the cooperation of the major news media in this country. Such a
cover-up did occur, and an investigation of the strange relationship
between the state of Israel, the United States government, and
the US news and entertainment media will reveal a key to the understanding
of many of the problems that currently plague our nation. Understanding
this key will lift a veil from your eyes, and you'll finally be
able to see the political power structure as it really is,
instead of how the commentators and network executives want you to
believe that it is. We're going to give you that key, right now,
on American Dissident Voices.
The Greatest Parasite
The state of Israel can truly be described as a gigantic,
swollen parasite fastened on the American people. Most Americans
are not aware of how much money is poured from the US Treasury
into Israel. According to former Congressman Paul Findley,
"Each year, US aid to Israel exceeds that given to any other
country. Since 1987 direct economic and military aid has annually
totaled $3 billion or more. In addition, financial arrangements
worked out solely for Israel bring the total to about $5 billion
a year. This does not include such generous programs as the $10
billion loan guarantee granted Israel in 1992. US law provides
for the termination of all aid, economic and military, to any
nation that develops nuclear weapons or 'engages in a consistent pattern
of gross violation of internationally recognized human rights.'
For years, the US government has been aware of Israel's
development of a nuclear arsenal and its persistent human rights violations.
But no president or Congress has ever taken steps to terminate
aid, as required by law, or even reduce it...."
According to information obtained by West Virginia Senator
Robert Byrd, the total direct aid to Israel (again not counting
many special deals, loans that are never paid back, tax breaks,
etc.) by the end of 1991 added up to $53 billion. Adjusted for
inflation, that figure would be much higher. From 1979 on the amount of
money directly given to Israel totalled $40.1 billion. The amount
given to Egypt, which in a way can also be considered aid to Israel
since it is essentially a payoff to the Egyptian government in
return for their subservience to Israeli domination in the Middle
East, is the second largest amount given to any recipient. You
may be surprised to learn that the total aid given to these two
countries is more than that given to all other countries
combined!
Now none of these figures include special low-interest loans
made to Israel, many of them guaranteed by the US government. The
$10 billion in loan guarantees made by US taxpayers to Israel is
just one example of these loans. Now some of you might not know
just what a loan guarantee is. What it means is this: If the government
of Israel can't pay back its creditors on time, then the US
taxpayer - that's me and you, my friend - foots the bill.
According to Paul Findley, "Since 1985 all US aid to
Israel has been a grant, meaning that not a penny of it has to be
repaid. [And w]hen Israel pays interest and principal on loans
given before 1985, it does so with US tax dollars. This curious
process began in 1984 when Democratic Senator Alan Cranston of California sponsored
what became known as the Cranston amendment. It stipulates that
economic aid to Israel each year will be at least equal to its
annual repayments (principal and interest) of its debt to the United
States. In the wry words of then Secretary of State James A.
Baker III in testimony before the Senate in 1992, ...'we can
always pay ourselves back with the money that we appropriate for
Israel to do so.'
"The effect of this amendment is to guarantee that Israel
will always receive enough US aid to cover its debt obligations.
In actual practice, Congress always awards Israel funds far in
excess of these obligations. No other country enjoys such an
arrangement."
Not Only Money, But Blood
This great swollen parasite thrives not only on our money but
on our very life's blood itself. The Gulf War was fought
primarily to protect Israel's continued military dominance in the
Middle East. Iraq was never a threat to America. But it was a
potential threat to Israel. Saddam Hussein fell into a trap when
US Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie told him that Iraq's
longstanding claims to Kuwait were merely an inter-Arab matter,
and would not draw a negative US response if acted upon. You all
know what happened after Hussein fell for that trap. Perhaps you
recall the absolute hysteria in the controlled media when Iraq shot
a half dozen or so missiles, mostly duds, at Israel during the
war. Few bothered to calculate to come up with the fact that an
equivalent number of bombs and missiles were hitting Iraq every few
seconds. The controlled media cynically used us by making an
appeal to our patriotism and implying that anyone who didn't go
along with the slaughter wasn't "supporting our
troops." Americans died, Americans were wounded, Americans
were crippled - all for the interests of a certain foreign
nation. The leading supporter of this twisted crusade in the US
Congress - top Israel booster Steven Solarz.
And the gulf war is just one instance of many. Americans died
for Israel in Lebanon, too. You know, Lebanon provides an
interesting parallel with the Gulf War. All Iraq had to do was to
refuse to instantly comply with a UN resolution demanding that
they withdraw from Kuwait, and shortly thereafter a rain of bombs
and missiles was falling and over 100,000 Iraqis were instantly
converted into cinders as they retreated across the sand back
into Iraq. But in 1982, Israel brutally invaded and occupied
Lebanon. No "smart bombs" rained down on Israel. In
fact, Israel still occupies southern Lebanon and hardly a peep of protest
against this violation of a sovereign state's borders is heard.
Israel's history is a history of territorial expansion and some Israeli
political leaders talk openly of "Eretz Israel," which
means "Greater Israel," incorporating much of what is
now Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. What you may not know is that
while Iraq committed the New World Order "crime" of
failing to obey one UN resolution fast enough, Israel has steadfastly
refused to obey not just one UN resolution, but an incredible 69!
Israel's actions have brought outrage from a majority of the UN's
member states on 69 separate occasions. They have condemned Israel for
the destruction of Arab villages, for the murder of innocent
women and children, for making war on neighboring states, for
refusing to withdraw from invaded and occupied territory, for
killing protesting students, for killing civilians protesting
being expelled from their homes, for a transcontinental bombing raid against
Tunisia, and for dozens of other violations. And on 29 other occasions,
UN resolutions with real teeth in them, calling for Israel to
withdraw from stolen land and allow self-determination for the Palestinian people among
other things, would have been adopted but were vetoed by the one
dissenting vote of the United States. When it comes to the
exercising of any kind of real power against those who violate UN resolutions,
it seems that some countries are "more equal than
others."
Israel gets away not only with an expansionist foreign policy,
but with repeatedly and endlessly violating the most elementary
human rights of her subject peoples. Although Israel's PR men
would have us believe that Israel is an island of Western values
in the Middle East, the truth is quite the opposite. Paul Findley quotes former
President Bush, who stated in 1992, "This is a relationship
based on a shared commitment to democracy and to common
values," and then goes on to point out that "Israel
practices as state policy a number of measures that are illegal
in the United States and other Western countries. These include assassination,
kidnapping, expulsion, detention without charges or trial, land
confiscation, and collective punishment - not to mention Israel's
long-standing practice of espionage against the United States,
its principal benefactor."
How They Do It
The power of the Israel Lobby is so great in this country that
former president Jimmy Carter was prompted to say, after he left
office of course, that no politician dared to oppose its demands,
because to do so would be "political suicide." They
take our money, we fight and die in their wars, and, since both political
parties are in their pocket, the American people don't have any
choice in the matter. How do they do it?
They can do it because they are rich, they are organized, and
they have the power to suppress criticism through their control
of the American media. Most of all, though, they can do it
because we let them.
The primary Israeli lobbying organization is called the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC for short. It
is unquestionably the most powerful lobby in Washington. It
coordinates the activities of over one hundred pro-Israel
political action committees. AIPAC has an annual budget of $15
million, with 50,000 dues-paying members, and offices in nine US
cities. If a Congressman or Senator toes the Israeli line, AIPAC
can direct thousands of contributions into his reelection
campaign. If a representative becomes "rebellious,"
however, all that cash will flow just as swiftly into his opponent's
coffers.
The New York Times, which can hardly be considered an
anti-Israel institution, described AIPAC in 1987: "[AIPAC]
has gained power to influence a presidential candidates choice of
staff, to block practically any arms sale to an Arab country and
to serve as a catalyst for intimate military relations between
the Pentagon and the Israeli army. Its leading officials are
consulted by State Department and White House policy makers, by
senators and generals."
At AIPAC's 27th annual policy conference in 1986 AIPAC
executive director Thomas A. Dines revealed that AIPAC's
influence was so pervasive that Secretary of State George Schultz
had vowed to "build institutional arrangements so that eight
years from now, if there is a secretary of state who is not
positive about Israel, he will not be able to overcome the
bureaucratic relationship between Israel and the U.S. that we
have established."
One State Department official was quoted as saying: "We
used to have a two-track policy [in the Middle East, considering
the interests of both sides]. Now only Israel's interests are
considered."
And it isn't just campaign money that's involved. As readers
of Who Rules America, our in-depth research report on media bias
and control in America well know; forces friendly to Israel and
her international interests have effective control over the major
television and radio networks, and the major newspaper and magazine-publishing
groups in our nation. That is the primary reason why these news sources
nearly always take an internationalist, leftist, America-last
position. A strong, confident, nationalist America might not be friendly
to alien control over so many of our institutions, and so the media
bosses do all they can to make sure such an America never comes
into being again. Naturally, their services are available to ruin
the political career of any who would oppose Israel, or to boost
the image of Israel's friends.
A Time to Rediscover Freedom and Independence
Today the American government and our media of entertainment
and information are literally helpless prisoners of this foreign
power, the power that lies behind the nation of Israel. This sad
state of affairs exists primarily because most Americans are too
fat and too happy to bother themselves about the future of America,
too willing to take the easy road of believing the lies delivered
by the smiling newscaster as he reads his script. But some of us are
willing to do the research to find out what is really going on,
and to take seriously the responsibility which that knowledge
places on our shoulders. We say, and as long as you are willing
to support this broadcast with your voluntary contributions, we
will continue to say: Not one cent to Israel while a single child
or old age pensioner of OUR people goes to bed hungry and cold. Not
one cent to Israel while a single one of OUR able-bodied men is without
a job. Not one cent to Israel while she violates our laws, kills
our soldiers, and steals our military secrets. Low-interest
loans, loan guarantees, and loans paid back with our own money to
Israel? Hell, no! Let's give those loans to our own people, to
real traditional Americans, to our young men and women just
starting out and trying to raise children who will be a credit to
their pioneer ancestors, to our farmers who are losing their
farms to faceless banks and corporations. Where are the
low-interest loans for them? Here in rural West Virginia and
maybe in your part of the country as well, roads could be paved,
hospitals and schools and libraries could be built, credit could
be extended to our entrepreneurs - but "money is
tight." Despite the highest taxes in history, our government
is broke and we are criminally mortgaging our children's future
to pay yesterday's debts. Under such conditions, it is the height
of insanity if not treason to be sending our money to Israel.
Since Americans have been so unconcerned about their nation,
and unwilling to do the hard and dirty work of maintaining
control of their government and their media, a vacuum has been
created. A vacuum that the special interests have been only too
happy to fill. And the Israel Lobby is the mother of all special interests. The
parasitic organism has grown so large and so malignant that it
now cannot be removed except by radical surgery. Our political system
is literally paralyzed by the parasite, so we must now look to
ourselves to regain our freedom. We must awaken our fellow
Americans to their peril. This effective control of our government
by a foreign power is the greatest peril that our people have
ever faced.
There is a new book which has provided much of the source
material for my program today. It has gathered together, in
well-organized form, all the essential documentation of the power
of the Israel Lobby. And it reveals the hidden side of the state
of Israel, the side that the controlled media don't want you to
see. It is by former Congressman Paul Findley, and is entitled
Deliberate Deceptions: Facing the Facts About the US-Israeli
Relationship. Deliberate Deceptions will demolish the fallacies
that prop up the illegitimate power structure in America today.
Congressman Findley is retired from politics and has no partisan
axe to grind. It is easy to tell the truth when that truth is a
popular truth. Much harder is a task like Findley's, to tell Americans
the hard truth, the difficult truth, the truth that brings down
the fury of that power structure upon you. If you are a thinking
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