Ms. Weir\u2019s in depth research to expose Zionist actions in earlier times provides a solid basis for her conclusions about creating Israel from a land called Palestine.\u00a0 And she documents the intense lobbying done by Israel\u2019s Zionist creators in order to legalize an action that was clearly illegal.<\/p>\n We are now living with the consequences of that bit of grand theft, i.e., the continuing violence in the Middle East, affecting everything America might want to do in the Middle East.\u00a0 We only recently have witnessed Bibi Netanyahu\u2019s so far failed effort to have America invade and conquer Iran, a country that obviously is too much of a mouthful for Israel to bite off.\u00a0 Suddenly, even Barak Obama recognizes the danger in following Israel\u2019s advice on how to conduct itself in the Middle East.\u00a0 The President tiptoed to the edge of the abyss but backed away when Israel\u2019s trained seals in the U.S. Congress tried to push the nation over the edge.<\/p>\n We saw Congressional supporters of Israel shamefully initiating the dozens of applauses by the Joint Session of Congress when they entertained Prime Minister Netanyahu, who obliged the assembled mass with aggressive applause lines, designed to favor those who have a liking of violence and to show how Israel is \u201cAmerica\u2019s staunchest ally\u201d in the Middle East.<\/p>\n During the 1970s, when I was a member of the U.S. Senate, I was waiting my turn to testify on the Middle East situation before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.\u00a0 As is the custom, the Administration witness was testifying ahead of me.\u00a0 I do not recall his name, but I felt very sorry for him when New York\u2019s Senator Javits asked from the dais, \u201cPlease explain why Israel is our most important ally in the Middle\u00a0East.\u201d<\/p>\n The poor fellow did not have an answer.\u00a0 Granted, he was a lower level State Department official, but his lack of an answer was indicative of the lack of a story provided to him by his seniors in the State Department.<\/p>\n So Sen. Javits asked him again, and again, and again, trying to have a statement from some government official which Israel\u2019s Lobby could use in its propaganda campaign to maintain Israel\u2019s lofty position in the American mind.\u00a0 But the State Department official was unable to find an answer, which left Sen. Javits and his cohorts to try some other avenue.\u00a0 The Israel-is-a-vital-ally shibboleth has since been made into an overused slogan by supporters of Israel.<\/p>\n But each time I hear that phrase, \u201cstaunchest ally,\u201d I think of the American sailors on the U.S.S. Liberty, who, during the 1967 Israeli-Arab War, died when the Israeli military was order to destroy its \u201cally\u2019s\u201d intelligence ship.\u00a0 During that act of friendship,\u00a0 America\u2019s staunchest ally killed some 34 American sailors, and wounded another 170.<\/p>\n I also think of Jonathan Pollard, an American employee of our Pentagon, who sold what has been described as \u201ca truckload\u201d of the Pentagon\u2019s secrets to Israel.\u00a0 I say \u201csold,\u201d because Israel paid Pollard for the secrets, which Israel then traded to the Soviet Union for that country\u2019s relaxation of rules with respect to Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union to Israel.<\/p>\n With Ms. Weir\u2019s well researched history in mind, I am forced to think of the cadre of American journalists who lately have assigned \u201coil\u201d as the reason for George Bush\u2019s Folly\u2013the invasion of Iraq in 2003.\u00a0 They say nothing of the well known fact that George Bush had a number of Israel\u2019s supporters giving him advice on the issue of Iraq.\u00a0 I\u2019ve lost count of the billions of American dollars that were sucked up by that war, as well as the precious American lives that were lost to satisfy Israel\u2019s agents in the Bush Administration, those who convinced President Bush to do something that Israel wanted, but knowing it was better if \u201cAmerica did it.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 President Obama should be applauded for refusing to fall into the same trap with respect to Syria.<\/p>\n This provocative book documents a history that is essential in understanding today\u2019s world.\u00a0 Scholarly, yet readable, it is a must for all Americans.\u00a0 We all need to know what we have spent by coddling Israel and its aggressions, and why the cost has become more than we have bargained for.<\/p>\n James Abourezk<\/strong>\u00a0is a former U.S. Senator from South Dakota who plunged into the Middle East morass when he saw the cost to our country of Israel\u2019s efforts to connive to have our country do Israel\u2019s dirty work.<\/i><\/p>\n Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Having studied enough American Indian Tribes over the years, I have grown accustomed to creation myths that each Tribe assigns itself as its reason for being.\u00a0 And the definition of \u201cchutzpah\u201d that I\u2019ve been taught is that of a young … Continue reading ![\"alison](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2014\/03\/alison-weir-book.jpg?resize=175%2C279\")
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