Never
In Hisitory Have So Many
Been Cowed By So Few
By David Truskoff
25 August, 2006
Countercurrents.org
Has
there ever been a time in history when so many were cowed and terrorized
by so few?
Many anti-war voters in Connecticut
gave the country and certainly the President a punch in the nose by
Voting against the eighteen year incumbent senator and committed Zionist
war hawk Senator Lieberman.
Fearing to speak it out loud
frustrated peaceniks were voting against Israeli aggression and the
total grip AIPAC (American Israel Public affairs Committee, I prefer
to call it the American Israel Political Action Committee because that
is what it is.] has on American foreign policy. I have tried to point
out to the local media that AIPAC owns Lieberman's Ears, eyes, mouth
and heart. The media feels Israel and AIPC are not germane to our elections.
Acknowledging the power of
AIPAC the right wing columnist Novak pointed out that" Washington
remains largely a bipartisan, criticism-free zone for Israel."
Important new details of
the U.S.-Israeli espionage case involving Larry Franklin, the alleged
Pentagon spy, two officials of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee,
and an intelligence official at the Embassy of Israel emerged last week.
Two AIPAC officials—who have left the organization—were
indicted along with Franklin on charges of "communicating national
defense information to persons not entitled to receive it." In
plain English, if not legal-speak, that means spying,
Robert
Dreyfuss
Juan Cole-- On the rare occasion
when a brave member of Congress dares stand up to this unrelenting AIPAC
tyranny, that person is targeted for un-election in the next congressional
campaign, with big money directed by AIPAC and/or its analogues into
the coffers of the senator's or congressman's opponent. Over and over
again, AIPAC has shaped the U.S. Congress in this way, so successfully
that no one even dares speak out any more
http://www.antiwar.com/cole/?articleid=3467
The fact is all of America
seems to be a "criticism free zone for Israel."
Those of us who voted for
the first time candidate who defeated Lieberman celebrated the victory.
Perhaps the tide is turning we thought. By the next day we awakened
to reality. A conspiracy between the Republican Party, AIPAC and Carl
Rove in the White House moved to get Lieberman, a life-long democrat
reelected as an independent.
Panicked by the thought and
smitten with the political fever, the so-called Peace candidate began
making overtures to AIPAC and the Jewish community. He even went so
far as to sit down to dinner and discuss, "How, as a US Senator,
can I help Israel." With Shimon Perez.
The entire peace community
in Connecticut was shocked and dismayed. One can not be against the
war in Iraq and support the atrocities of the Israeli military.
How can so few cower so many?
One of the reasons is that a large portion of the American population
still believes that God gave the Jews the land Of Israel. The other
reason is that the guilt of the Christian church’s anti-Semitism
of the twenties and thirties seems to be passed down generation to generation.
But the most import reason
is the enormous power of AIPAC to raise money and not only to support
certain candidate, but also to defeat others.
I do believe that in my lifetime
the many will again turn on the few and the cycle will begin again.
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