August 3, 2013, by Grant F Smith
Establishment
news media outlets are awash in new Israel lobby conspiracy theories.
This is puzzling since major media organizations seem capable of
presenting informed yet contrasting views on many controversial issues.
Is widespread firearms availability a major factor in mass shootings or
is it people with hidden criminal intent?
Is
deficit reduction or fiscal stimulus key to reviving the American
economy? Should Obamacare or other approaches drive healthcare reform?
Media routinely air a range of expert voices of all political
persuasions. But American media has proven uniquely susceptible
to propagating harmful Israel lobby conspiracy theories without opposing
views. Absent informed challenges or balanced debunking,
conspiracy theories have now taken dangerous prominence—displacing
verifiable facts—in the minds of many Americans. Unless remedied, such
narratives could result in another costly and unnecessary war and
billions in misallocated taxpayer dollars at a time Americans can least
afford it.
Two
decades ago, AIPAC parlayed “Soviet Threat” theories into massive aid
packages the US is still paying off. Today the Israel lobby has been
relentless in spreading the conspiracy theory that Iran’s mullahs—driven purely by their hatred of Israel—have a secret nuclear weapons program. Currently 71% of Americans—according to one poll—believe
that Iran has already deployed nuclear weapons, despite the consensus
institutional analysis of American intelligence agencies and the IAEA.
Endless bombast of this formerly fringe belief mandates a “time is
running out” chronology for diplomatic efforts towards Iran. It has been
the foundation of Israel-lobby mandated economic sanctions that have mainly harmed Iranian’s civilian population while realigning trade patterns in
ways unfavorable to the U.S. Encouraging American false popular
knowledge of “nuclear-armed Iran” makes the likelihood of another
regional war much greater. This is especially frightening since equally
unfounded fears about Iraq’s “weapons of mass destruction” were not
nearly as rampant. In 2006 only 50% of Americans believed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction when the U.S. invaded.
The corollary conspiracy theory is “Israel in danger.”
A long-term mainstay in the call for aid, Israel lobbyists have more
recently propagated Iranian president Ahmadinejad’s stated intention to
“wipe Israel from the map” as fact. So useful is this meme that it has
long since ceased to matter that it is a well-documented mistranslation.
In the current slippery slope of events foreseen by proponents of
“Israel in danger” theory, a nuclear-tipped Iran will first incinerate
Tel Aviv before parlaying demonstrated atomic clout into dominating the
entire energy-producing Gulf, forcing the U.S. out of the region. In
this feverish scenario, only a U.S. taxpayer-funded “qualitative
military edge” along with an ironclad U.S. commitment to attack Iran
will guarantee Israel’s survival, or so this fusion paranoia recommends.
Of
course in reality it is Israel—not Iran—that casts a chafing nuclear
shadow across the entire region. Israel’s U.S. lobby has been unceasing
in its efforts to provide illicit support (both material and financial) to build up Israel’s nuclear arsenal. Prime Minister Netanyahu played his own role in
one prohibited technology smuggling ring targeting America. Cast aside
the carefully crafted “Israel in danger” conspiracy theories, and it is
obvious that Tehran (and all Arab capitals) are under a far greater
threat of nuclear annihilation than Tel Aviv.
The
Israel lobby operates on the assumption that “American politicians will
always bankroll Israel.” The assumption is fueled by the lobby’s
observation that most American voters are too ignorant, disenfranchised,
and too busy to perceive that while Israel obviously greatly benefits
from U.S. financial and diplomatic support, the U.S. pays increasingly
untenable costs. The lobby relies on establishment news outlets’ self-censorship about Israel’s nuclear arsenal while advancing an unending flood of ridiculous propaganda packages, many actually crafted by paid foreign lobbyists to
advance Israeli government interests. Israel’s lobby asks Americans to
guarantee the qualitative military edge of a country already secretly
bristling with hundreds of nuclear weapons—an impossibility—while
denying, obfuscating and quashing overdue discussions about Israel’s de
facto qualitative advantage.
The Israel lobby has also long believed one lever on America is supreme, as noted by legendary Israel lobbyist Abraham Feinberg—“My path to power was cooperation in terms of what they needed—campaign money.” The
cash cow carried by Harry S Truman’s Israel lobby- funded and
Feinberg-organized “whistle-stop” fund-raising tour trotted into LBJ’s
White House safe, also stuffed with hundreds of thousands in Feinberg-raised cash.
Dividends for continuing by propagating “Israel in danger” theories at
the highest levels of the Reagan administration were particularly
lucrative for AIPAC. 372 pages of files released by
the Ronald Reagan Presidential library in January reveal AIPAC’s
executive-level lobbying for massive unilateral trade preferences,
integration into the U.S. military-industrial complex, grant money
rather than loans, restrictions on US weapons sales to Arab states, and help in the Iran-Contra scheme (PDF).
Yet the shelf life of “Soviet threat” and other core AIPAC rationales
for massive US support was less than ten years as the USSR slowly
collapsed.
Today, even as the lobby carefully coordinates funding, grooming and promotion
of American politicians to in turn deliver outsized US taxpayer
handouts to Israel, average Americans have finally noticed and are
beginning to voice opposition. Continuing to buy politicians who will
dutifully pass unpopular policies while U.S. public support collapses looks unsustainable. According to Congressional Research Service data,
since 1949 US aid to Israel has increased at an average rate of 28% per
year, leaping 11.4% from 2010 to 2013. Israel’s lobby is moving to exempt that
aid from automatic spending cuts that are being applied to virtually
all other U.S. government programs. Yet, according to a 2012 Chicago Council on Global Affairs survey
of American public opinion and US foreign policy, the number of
Americans who want aid to Israel increased has fallen from 18% in 2002
to only 11% in 2012. Americans wanting aid to stay the same (45%) barely
outnumber the 41% who in 2012 said such aid should be decreased or
stopped altogether.
Can careful framing and feeding of conspiracy theories into mass media and congress by debasing party platforms and highly coordinated campaign funding negate a growing wave of popular opposition? AIPAC tries mightily, but often fails to frame the message.
Dan
Fischer recently ambushed American Israel Public Affairs Committee
president Michael Kassen and demanded to know why Israel boycotted a
major regional WMD-free zone conference. Kassen stammered and stalled as
AIPAC staffers rushed in to seize Fischer’s smartphone video. AIPAC,
the wellspring of Israel lobby conspiracy theories and agitation since 1963, lost the small skirmish as gleeful tweets ridiculing Kassen and AIPAC swiftly winged the video across the internet.
For
decades propagating Israel lobby conspiracy theories has relied heavily
on establishment media acquiescence, but been costly to credibility.
According to a recent Gallup poll, the number of Americans who have “not
very much/none at all” confidence in mass media skyrocketed from 50% in 2006 to 60% in 2012.
The Israel lobby’s attempts to frame and shape the establishment media
thereby forming a “consensus” for unconditional American support and war
is ever more challenging in the age of irate citizen-journalists,
blogs, ubiquitous Internet video and disgruntled taxpayers far more
eager for facts than the latest self-serving Israel lobby conspiracy
theories.
Grant F. Smith is the author of Spy Trade: How Israel’s Lobby Undermines America’s Economy, America’s Defense Line: The Justice Department’s Battle to Register the Israel Lobby as Agents of a Foreign Government and Foreign Agents: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee from the 1963 Fulbright Hearings to the 2005 Espionage Scandal.He is currently director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C.
For More Visit: Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy – IRmep
[SIDEBAR: WE HAVE THE ISRAELI NIGHTMARE FOR PALESTINIANS, BLEEDING PUS FILLED NIGHTMARE REALITIES FOR THE GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS AS TOXIC POISONED SHAME GREASE FILLED 'MERICANS, AND CALL THIS 'LIFE'.
THE NATIVE AMERICANS WERE IN THE SAME BOAT OR SHALL WE CALL WHAT IT IS - THE BOATS AREN'T LIFTED UP NO NO NO NO NO.
THE SO CALLED 'FINANCIAL' INNOVATION - AND OF COURSE THIS IS FRAUD DRESSED UP IN A PACKAGE TO SELL TO FOOLS, AND GETS TO BE THE GOD OF ISRAEL'S TEL AVIV FOR THE WORLD TO SUFFER BECAUSE THEY CAN NUKE US ALL INTO A WINTER OF NEVER NEVER LIFE AS THOUGH NATURE'S GIFT.
A TYPE OF 'WITCHCRAFT' HAS BEEN BRANDED A SPECIAL CHOSEN 'RELIGION'.
SOLD AS THOUGH GOOD FOR BABIES, THE MALE SPECIES IS MUTILATED SO THE PEDOPHILE CULT CAN COVER-UP THE AGENDA TO ALWAYS OWN THE HEADS OF HUMANS VIA PEDOPHILIA VILE EVIL.
'MERICAN SHAMED INTO TOXIC AND THE BEINGS TOXIC DUE TO POISONS - LIVERS ALL IN DISTRESS DUE TO DU. LIVERS IN SICK HUMANS SHOW UP WITH THE 'ORGANISM' BLUBBERING AS PILES OF DECAYING PUS FILLED GREASY 'BLOOD' AND 'FLUIDS' NECESSARY FOR 'REAL LIVE TRUTHS'. HUMANS EAT OFF THE STREETS AND OUT OF GARBAGE BINS BECAUSE THE LIVER NEEDS THE POISONS AS THE PHYSICAL BODY DIES CELL BY CELL. HUMANS WHEN BORN, EITHER IDENTIFY SEX OR NOT. WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT SEXUAL IDENTITY IS BORN TO BE, THEN THE FIRST REALITY IN OUR PHYSICAL UNIVERSE IS A QUESTION.
QUESTIONING OUR OWN SEX, TRULY THE SIGN OF TOXIC SHOCK AND AWE IN THE BRAIN CHEMISTRY - AS THE 'HUMAN' MIND IN EVERY CELL OF OUR 'PHYSICS'.
AIPAC AND TEL AVIV LOVE THE GHETTO HELL BECAUSE IT PAYS BIG BUCKS TO THE WORST OF OUR SPECIES THAT ARE LIVER DAMAGED WITHOUT ANY HOPE FOR THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD BRAINS IN EVERY CELL OF THE TOXIC POISONED ORGANISMS.
CHANGE THE WAY THE MEDIA OF TEL AVIV SELLS EARTH A TOXIC 'REALITY' AND THE REALITY OF EARTH GETS TO BE THE TRUE CHANGE THAT CAN BE TRUSTED.
HOPING FOR GLOBAL SPINNING OUT OF COMPLETE CONTROL ISRAELI PINK UNICORNS TO MAKE A PAEDOPHILIA AN ACCEPTABLE RELIGIOUS PRACTICE FOR ALL, ISN'T WORKING.]
THE FAMILY 'BEARD' |
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| NEW YORK TIMES CALLED THE CALIFORNIA 'PELOSI' CULTURE OF CORRUPTION WHAT IT IS |
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MEN AND WOMEN NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO OUR 'SOCIETY'
http://www.mediafire.com/play/2e14pdyrby09er3/wujo3242012peniscon.mp3 E4 – March 24, 2012 – The Grand Penis Conspiracy (warning…bound to offend, adults only…) Healing cannot begin until we know what the disease is at the root.
metzitzah b’peh, *drawing blood from baby’s penis the circumciser uses his mouth .. Naomi Reice Buchwald .. USDC Judge .. AMPLE medical
evidence *direct oral suction* places infants at a serious risk of
herpes infection .. evidence parents .. unaware MBP
circumcision .. regulation plainly addresses ..legitimate societal
concerns, Buchwald wrote, according to Reuters .. In 2003 - 2004, three
babies, including set of twins, infected .. Type 1 herpes; cases linked
to circumcision, one boy died. *See Gilad Atzmon, "Jewish Blood Sacrifice.
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