“There can be no
divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else
also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American
flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English
language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to
the American people.” ― Theodore
Roosevelt
God/Allah bless Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar for
having the courage to stand up to the Israeli lobby AIPAC and call a spade and
spade. After Omar pulled the proverbial
curtain aside to expose the deeply entrenched lobby’s control over members of
congress, she was immediately condemned by the very wealthy, bought-and-paid-for
agents of the AIPAC in the American congress.
From Mehdi Hasan at The Intercept:
Excerpt:
There Is a Taboo Against Criticizing AIPAC — and Ilhan Omar Just
Destroyed It
IN 2005, STEVEN Rosen, then a
senior official with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC,
sat down for dinner with journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, then of the New Yorker. “You see this napkin?” Rosen asked
Goldberg. “In twenty-four hours, [AIPAC] could have the signatures of seventy
senators on this napkin.”
I couldn’t help but be reminded of
this anecdote after Rep. Ilhan Omar, of Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District,
was slammed by Democrats and Republicans alike over her suggestion, in a pair
of tweets, that U.S. politicians back
the state of Israel because of financial pressure from AIPAC (“It’s all about
the Benjamins baby,” she declaimed). Was the flippant way in which she
phrased her tweets a problem? Did it offend a significant chunk of liberal U.S.
Jewish opinion? Did it perhaps unwittingly play into anti-Semitic tropes about
rich Jews controlling the world?
Yes, yes, and yes — as she herself
has since admitted and “unequivocally” apologized for. But was she wrong to note the power of the pro-Israel lobby, to point a
finger at AIPAC, to highlight — in her apology — “the problematic role of
lobbyists in our politics, whether it be AIPAC, the NRA or the fossil fuel
industry”? No, no, and no.
Rosen, after all, wasn’t the first
AIPAC official to boast about the raw
power that “America’s bipartisan pro-Israel lobby” exercises in Washington,
D.C. Go back earlier, to 1992, when then-AIPAC President David Steiner was
caught on tape bragging that he had “cut a deal” with the George H.W. Bush
White House to provide $3 billion in U.S. aid to Israel. Steiner also claimed
to be “negotiating” with the incoming Clinton administration over the
appointment of pro-Israel cabinet members. AIPAC,
he said, has “a dozen people in [the Clinton] campaign, in the headquarters …
and they’re all going to get big jobs.”
Go back further, to 1984, when Sen. Charles Percy, a moderate
Republican from Illinois, was defeated in his re-election campaign after he
“incurred AIPAC’s wrath” by declining to sign onto an AIPAC-sponsored
letter and daring to refer to Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser
Arafat as more “moderate” than other Palestinian resistance figures. AIPAC contributors
raised more than a million dollars to help defeat Percy. As Tom Dine,
then-executive director of AIPAC,
gloated in a speech shortly after the GOP senator’s defeat, “all the Jews, from
coast to coast, gathered to oust Percy. And the American politicians — those who hold public positions now, and
those who aspire — got the message.”
NEARLY FOUR DECADES later, as
members of the U.S. political and media classes pile onto Omar, are the rest of
us supposed to pretend that AIPAC officials never said or did any of this? And
are we also expected to forget that the New York Times’s Tom Friedman, a
long-standing advocate for Israel in the American media, once described the standing ovations received by Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, from members of Congress, as having been “bought and paid
for by the Israel lobby”?
Or that Goldberg, now
editor-in-chief of The Atlantic and dubbed “the most influential
journalist/blogger on matters related to Israel,” called AIPAC a “leviathan
among lobbies, as influential in its sphere as the National Rifle Association
and the American Association of Retired Persons are in theirs”? Or that J.J.
Goldberg, former editor of the Jewish weekly newspaper The Forward, said in
2002, in reference to AIPAC, “There is this image in Congress that
you don’t cross these people or they take you down”?
Are we supposed to dismiss Uri
Avnery, the late Israeli peace activist and one-time member of the Zionist
paramilitary, the Irgun, who once remarked that
if AIPAC “were to table a resolution abolishing the Ten Commandments, 80
senators and 300 congressmen would sign it at once,” as a Jew-hater?...
WHAT MAKES THIS whole row over Omar’s remarks so utterly bizarre is
that so many leading Democrats, loudly and rightly, decry the pernicious and
undeniable impact of special interests, lobbyists, and donations on a whole
host of issues — from the role of Big Pharma and Big Finance; to
influence-peddling by Saudi Arabia; to the “grip” that the NRA has on the
debate over gun control, to quote Democratic senator Richard Blumenthal. But any mention of AIPAC and lobbying in
favor of Israel? “Anti-Semitism!”…
Today, the Palestinians continue to be bombed, besieged, and
dispossessed by their Israeli occupiers — with the full military and financial
support of the United States government. There are a variety of credible
explanations for this support: Israel’s role as a “strategic asset” and “mighty
aircraft carrier“; U.S. Christian evangelicals’ obsession with Israel and the
end-times prophecy; the impact of arms sales and the U.S. military-industrial
complex; not to mention the long-standing cultural and social ties between
American Jews and Israeli Jews. But to pretend money doesn’t play a role
— or that AIPAC doesn’t have a big impact on members of Congress and their
staffers — is deeply disingenuous.
And so we should thank Omar, the freshman lawmaker, for having the guts to
raise this contentious issue and break a long-standing taboo in the process
— even if she maybe did so in a clumsy and problematic fashion. But you don’t have to take her word for it.
“When people ask me how they can help Israel,” former Israeli prime minister
and uber-hawk Ariel Sharon once told an audience in the United States, “I tell
them: Help AIPAC.”
The American government was overthrown in December of 2000
when AIPAC’s presidential candidate George W. Bush was defeated by Al
Gore. Five corrupt members of the
Supreme Court interceded and overturned the results of the 2000 presidential
election and installed George W. Bush as president. Since the coup of 2000 American foreign
policy has been directed by an extreme right wing cabal of the New World Order
doctrine which calls for anyone who criticizes their policy to be branded as
anti-Semitic. From Zero Hedge:
Excerpt:
A Short History: The Neocon "Clean Break" Grand Design &
The "Regime Change" Disasters It Has Fostered
To understand today’s crises in
Iraq, Syria, Iran, and elsewhere, one must grasp their shared Lebanese
connection. This assertion may seem odd. After all, what is the big deal about
Lebanon? That little country hasn’t had top headlines since Israel deigned to
bomb and invade it in 2006. Yet, to a
large extent, the roots of the bloody tangle now enmeshing the Middle East lie
in Lebanon: or to be more precise, in the Lebanon policy of Israel.
Rewind to the era before the War on Terror. In 1995, Yitzhak
Rabin, Israel’s “dovish” Prime Minister, was assassinated by a right-wing
zealot. This precipitated an early election in which Rabin’s Labor Party
was defeated by the ultra-hawkish Likud,
lifting hardliner Benjamin Netanyahu to his first Premiership in 1996.
That year, an elite study group
produced a policy document for the incipient administration titled, “A Clean
Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.” The membership of the Clean
Break study group is highly significant, as
it included American neoconservatives who would later hold high offices in the
Bush Administration and play driving roles in its Middle East policy…
Pursuit of comprehensive peace with
all of Israel’s neighbors was to be abandoned for selective peace with some
neighbors (namely Jordan and Turkey) and implacable
antagonism toward others (namely Iraq, Syria, and Iran)…
Before setting Israel and the US on
a warpath that would ultimately set the Middle East ablaze, the Clean Break
authors were basically saying: Not through peace accords will the great
questions of the day be decided?—?that was the great mistake of 1978 (at Camp
David) and 1993 (at Oslo)?—?but by “divide
and conquer” and regime change. By
wars both aggressive (“preemptive”) and “dirty” (covert and proxy).
“A Clean Break” slated Saddam
Hussein’s Iraq as first up for regime change. This is highly significant,
especially since several members of the Clean Break study group played decisive roles in steering and deceiving the United
States into invading Iraq and overthrowing Saddam seven years later.
Another Clean Breaker, Douglas
Feith, was a Perle protege and a key player in that neocon coup. After 9/11, as
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Feith
created two secret Pentagon offices tasked with cherry-picking, distorting, and
repackaging CIA and Pentagon intelligence to help make the case for war…
The foregone conclusions generated
by these Clean Breaker-led projects
faced angry but ineffectual resistance from the Intelligence Community, and are
now widely considered scandalously discredited. But they succeeded in
helping, perhaps decisively, to overcome both bureaucratic and public
resistance to the march to war.
But why did the Netanyahu/Bush
Clean Breakers want to regime change Iraq in the first place? While reference
is often made to “A Clean Break” as a prologue to the Iraq War, it is often
forgotten that the document proposed regime change in Iraq primarily as a
“means” of “weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria.” Overthrowing Saddam in Iraq was merely a
stepping stone to “foiling” and ultimately overthrowing Bashar al-Assad in
neighboring Syria. As Pat Buchanan put it:
“In the Perle-Feith-Wurmser strategy, Israel’s enemy remains Syria, but
the road to Damascus runs through Baghdad.”
Another target identified by “A Clean Break” was Iran. This
is highly significant, since while the neocons were still riding high in the
Bush administration’s saddle, they came
within an inch of launching a US war on Iran over yet another manufactured and
phony WMD crisis. While the Obama administration seems on the verge of
finalizing a nuclear/peace deal with the Iranian government in Tehran, the neocons
and Netanyahu himself (now Prime Minister once again) have pulled out all the
stops to scupper it and put the US and Iran back on a collision course.
The neocons are also championing ongoing American support for Saudi
Arabia’s brutal war in Yemen to restore that country’s US-backed former
dictator. Simply because the “Houthi” rebels that overthrew him and took
the capital city of Sanaa are Shiites, they are assumed to be a proxy of the
Shiite Iranians, and so this is seen by neocons and Saudi theocons alike as a
war against Iranian expansion…
All regime change roads lead to Lebanon, it would seem.
So this brings us back to our original question. What is the big deal about
Lebanon?
The answer to this question goes
back to Israel’s very beginnings. Its
Zionist founding fathers established the bulk of Israel’s territory by
dispossessing and ethnically cleansing three-quarters of a million Palestinian
Arabs in 1948. Hundreds of thousands of these were driven (sometimes
literally in trucks, sometimes force marched with gunshots fired over their
heads) into Lebanon, where they were gathered in miserable refugee camps.
In Lebanon the Palestinians who had fled suffered an apartheid state
almost as rigid as the one Israel imposed on those who stayed behind, because
the dominant Maronite Christians there were so protective of their political
and economic privileges in Lebanon’s confessional system…
In 1982 Israel launched a full
scale war in Lebanon, fighting both Syria and the PLO. Osama bin Laden later
claimed that it was seeing the wreckage of tall buildings in Beirut toppled by Israel’s “total war” tactics
that inspired him to destroy American buildings like the Twin Towers.
In this war, Israel tried to
install a group of Christian Fascists called the Phalange in power over
Lebanon. This failed when the new Phalangist ruler was assassinated. As a
reprisal, the Phalange perpetrated, with
Israeli connivance, the massacre of hundreds (perhaps thousands) of Palestinian
refugees and Lebanese Shiites…
9/11 paved the way for realizing the Clean Break, using the United
States as a gigantic proxy, thanks to the Israel Lobby’s massive influence in
Congress and the neocons’ newly won dominance in the Bush Administration…
And so what if the Clean Break was
rather messy and broke so many bodies and buildings along the way? Maybe it’s
like what Lenin said about omelets and eggs: you just can’t make a Clean Break
without breaking a few million Arabs and a few thousand Americans. And what about all those fanatics now
running rampant throughout large swaths of the world thanks to the Clean Break
wars, mass-executing Muslim “apostates” and Christian “infidels” and
carrying out terrorist attacks on westerners? Again, the Clean Breakers must
remind themselves, keep your eye on the omelet and forget the eggs.
Well, dear reader, you and I are
the eggs. And if we don’t want to see
our world broken any further by the imperial clique of murderers in Washington
for the sake of the petty regional ambitions of a tiny clique of murderers in
Tel Aviv, we must insist on American politics making a clean break from the
neocons, and US foreign policy making a clean break from Israel.
Fat chance of there being any clean break for America with
our current make up of congress, many of them are dual citizens of Israel and
place Netanyahu’s agenda ahead of that of American interests. Many states have passed laws demanding fealty
to Israel as an employment condition.
AIPAC is the Deep State and the Federal Reserve Bank is their source of
power in America. From Russia Insider:
Excerpt:
The Israeli Lobby Is the Deep State
This week the Intercept reported on the firestorm created by Rep. Ilhan Omar
when she audaciously cited the AIPAC lobby as being behind a political smear
campaign against her. The Intercept reported,“…Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.,
responded sharply to reports that Republican leader Kevin McCarthy was
targeting both Omar and fellow Muslim Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat from
Michigan.
Omar quoted rap lyrics — “It’s all
about the Benjamins baby” — to suggest McCarthy’s
move was driven by the lobby’s prolific spending. Asked specifically who
she was referring to, Omar responded, “AIPAC!” (The Intercept)
In this report they also linked to numerous undercover investigations that produced
audio and video tapes of AIPAC political operatives funneling money to Israeli
friendly politicians and government insiders as a means to sway national
opinion. The report quotes a conversation on the tapes as follows,
“David Ochs, founder of HaLev,
which helps send young people to American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s
annual conference, described for the reporter how AIPAC and its donors organize fundraisers outside the official umbrella
of the organization, so that the money doesn’t show up on disclosures as
coming specifically from AIPAC. He describes one group that organizes
fundraisers in both Washington and New York.
“This is the biggest ad hoc
political group, definitely the wealthiest, in D.C.,” Ochs says, adding that it
has no official name, but is clearly
tied to AIPAC. “It’s the AIPAC group…
Without spending money, Ochs argues, the pro-Israel lobby isn’t able to
enact its agenda. “Congressmen and senators don’t do anything unless you
pressure them. They kick the can down the road, unless you pressure them, and
the only way to do that is with money,” he explains.” (The Intercept)
Just so we are clear, an Israeli lobbyist and AIPAC organizer
stated on video that AIPAC, through shadow funding has become the biggest,
wealthiest, networking group in D.C. The
influence alluded to by AIPAC in these statements should be alarming. Politicians
are being bribed to be political attack dogs for Israel.
Trump is Green Like the Swamp Thing
So, I am curious, what AIPAC’s going rate for a congressman is,
relative to what the going rate for say…President Trump might be? It was
Trump who went further than anyone saying that Rep. Omar should resign for her
statements on AIPAC, he was quoted as saying,
“Critics -- both Democratic and Republican -- said Omar's tweets evoked
anti-Semitic tropes. House Democratic leadership called on her to
apologize, and the freshman congresswoman then released a statement where she
"unequivocally" apologized.
Omar's statement reads, "Anti-Semitism
is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me
on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes. My intention is never to offend
my constituents or Jewish Americans as a whole. We have to always be willing to
step back and think through criticism,
just as I expect people to hear me when others attack me for my identity. This
is why I unequivocally apologize."
"At the same time," Omar
continued, "I reaffirm the
problematic role of lobbyists in our politics, whether it be AIPAC, the NRA or
the fossil fuel industry. It's gone on too long and we must be willing to
address it…"
As I predicted last October in an
article l wrote, Trump pledged himself to Netanyahu to destroy Israel’s
enemies, in that article I quoted Trump as saying, "The Jews have endured terrible
persecution, and you know that, we've all read it: We've studied it. They've
gone through a lot and those seeking
their destruction…we will seek their destruction." (American Thinker)
So, Trump the Destroyer, making
good on his promise to Netanyahu jumps right into the fray calling for the
resignation of a politician over her complaints of foreign influence in
American politics. Trump, who campaigned on draining the swamp and
ending foreign wars abroad, has quite literally done an about face on his
promises and inextricably tied himself to Netanyahu and the Zionist war machine
that controls American politics.
Everyone and I mean everyone wants
to cozy up to the money in D.C., Trump included. As David Ochs, stated above
AIPAC is the richest, most influential lobby in Washington.
It is Israeli interests that
utilize their vast network of compromised political elite and the Israeli dual-citizen Neocons
controlling the Pentagon to drag us into perpetual war on their behalf. It
is this Israeli loyal contingent that is the Deep State swamp in U.S. politics
who are running the show.
Conclusion
Rep. Omar statements should be applauded. Constitutionally speaking
she is more in line with the founders than Trump, who has completely entangled
himself with these Zionist foreign operatives.
Didn’t Founder and President George Washington tell us to be wary of
foreign entanglements? He wanted us to stay clear of foreign alliances as a
national policy, “It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with
any portion of the foreign world." -Farewell Address to the
People of the United States | Monday, September 19, 1796…
So, when we hear someone like David
Ochs talk about the AIPAC funding network, in reality he is talking about the
Rothschilds who literally own stakes in the biggest financial institutions on
the planet. That is the funding network spoken about, that is why so many want AIPAC money, because it brings
them that much closer to those who own the world.
When Baron Edmond De Rothschild set
out to establish a Zionist state in Israel back in the late 1800’s that was not
some pet project of the family, it was
their entire End Game. Israel is
the most important thing to this family and they will drag the world into the
fires of hell to make sure their vision of a Greater Israel is made
manifest…
AIPAC is the monied Deep State and Trump is one of their many swamp
creatures that are playing his blinded Christian Zionist supporters better
than Obama, the Bush’s, the Clintons could do combined. He is truly the perfect
Zionist operative.
Bipartisanship.
All we get out of this Trump deal is war, cultural division, unyielding
debt, more war, a police state, and to be called antisemitic when we point
out who is really pulling the strings in the Deep State of Washington Politics…
Paul when calling out the Jewish
betrayers in his day asked this of the Galatians “So have I become your enemy
by telling you the truth?” No doubt, Trump
and his Zionist handlers will weaponize the antisemitism rhetoric and turn it
against all of us that are telling the Truth about Zionist influence in our
government, in our day. History repeats itself because the devil is always
up to his old tricks.
Look how far America has fallen since the 2000 Zionist coup
in America. Trump vowed to drain the
swamp and end these senseless wars that have left America trillions in debt to
the Rothschild’s Federal Reserve Bank.
Now that the New World Order swamp monsters are firmly ensconced in the
Trump Administration they are plotting more wars, because they must keep
Americans in poverty. But the world is
getting sick of these neocons and ditched their “Iran hatefest” in Warsaw. From Tom Luongo at Gold Goats and Guns:
Excerpt:
While Pompeo Pouts in Poland, Putin Pushes Peace in Syria
If there was ever a Valentine’s Day which highlight the stark
differences to diplomacy between the U.S. and Russia it is this one. In Warsaw, the U.S. cajoled some sixty
countries, many of them Arab, to send representatives only to be scolded
like schoolchildren by Vice President Mike Pence for undermining the drive for
war with Iran.
Mike Pompeo, for his part, showed
no signs of shame or remorse after his public rebuke by Hungarian Foreign
Minister Peter Szijjarto. Szijjarto retorted to Pompeo’s lecturing that
“the world is not going to be a better place if some countries spend their time
intervening in the internal political affairs of other countries.” He
insisted that Budapest can have transparent relations with Moscow and Beijing
and the West, and said it was an “enormous hypocrisy” that Hungary is singled
out for its ties with Moscow.
He then went to Poland with the intention of whipping up support for a
war with Iran. But not to actually call it that. Until Benjamin Netanyahu
arrived with fever dreams on his lips. As
Moon of Alabama pointed out, this was a huge slap for Pompeo, whose staff
kept trying to downplay the anti-Iran nature of the Poland fiasco to make
it more palatable for media consumption.
By claiming that the conference is
about waging war on Iran Netanyahoo (sic) is not only embarrassing the State
Department and Secretary Mike Pompeo. He also makes it extremely difficult for
other attendees to justify their presence. The Arabs will be especially furious
that they are shown in such an open alliance with Israel and its hostility
against Iran. Scheming with Israel in
the dark is fine. But being publicly associated with a war mongering Israel is
difficult to sell to their people. It would be unsurprising to see some of them
leave.
The entire Warsaw meeting was
designed to impress upon everyone how
seriously they should take U.S. and Israeli desires for regime change in Iran. And
how committed they are to keeping everyone in the fold on all matters
pertaining to the Trump administration’s hostility towards Iran, Russia, and
China. This is part of a wider set of
actions, taken broadly, designed to hit the headlines all at the same time: U.S. is openly pushing for regime change in
Venezuela and drumming up international support for it.
It is also urging EU
Parliamentarians to push through new pipeline rules as part of changes to the
EU’s Third Energy Package to try and
stop the Nordstream 2 pipeline from being completed.
New sanctions were placed on Russia a few days after Moody’s had to
accede to reality and upgrade Russian government debt to investment grade,
which will only accelerate foreign capital inflows into Russia.
Pompeo and Netanyahu were putting the world on notice that they are not
only 1) insane but 2) committed to their path to braying for war While, as
Elijah Magnier points out, the entire dog and pony show in Warsaw was for
Netanyahu’s re-election bid amidst cabinet resignations and corruption
scandals.
At the same time, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with
his Iranian and Turkish counterparts in Sochi to discuss the next phase of
bringing peace to Syria. These three
countries continue moving the ball forward pragmatically and diplomatically to
resolve the issues left by the U.S.’s insistence on staying in Syria.
Putin, with the iron fist firmly in
his velvet glove, said two things that are important in his post-meeting
remarks. The first will give the frothing red-baiting, Trump-hating buffoons in
the U.S. media and foreign policy establishments a fit of the vapors.
“President Trump is quite actively
working on fulfilling his election campaign promises, which in practice rarely
happens in the US political life. The
withdrawal of the American troops from Syria was one of those promises,” Putin
said… Putin is right to encourage
Trump to fulfill that campaign promise because that is the quickest path to
peace in Syria, a U.S. troop withdrawal.
Putin continued, “If that happens the only right decision in terms of security would
be handing over those territories under the control of the Syrian armed
forces.” And that is his way of
saying that he has control of Turkish President Erdogan and will not let the
Syrian Kurds be attacked. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will not make
reconciliation between his government and the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Council
easy. But it will be better than anything Erdogan would offer them.
But, then again, they lost their
gambit for independence the day Barzani’s Peshmerga forces were destroyed in
Erbil, Iraq last year by the Iraqi militia known as the Popular Mobilization
Unit. Erdogan’s biggest worry is the U.S. leaving the Kurds weapons after
leaving to be a constant annoyance on Turkey’s border. That’s the Bolton way
of doing things.
Putin also stressed that Erdogan’s pet terrorists in Idlib province
are to be wiped out as part of the plan to stabilize Syria. These are all
wins for Syria diplomatically, establishing Turkey as Russia’s subordinate in
the power structure to reshape the Middle East.
The fact that Erdogan was not in Warsaw with his NATO allies but
rather at a high level summit with the Russian and Iranian presidents tells you
all you need to know about where he feels his future lies. Then again, I’ve taken for granted that
Erdogan is still a NATO member in name only for a couple of years now, so I
wasn’t surprised by this…
In the end, the Neocons in D.C. and Tel Aviv are showing real desperation in
summoning everyone to Poland while having almost no support for the intended
policy, war with Iran.
You can only hold onto people for
so long through fear of retribution. Eventually, they realize you can’t attack
everyone at once all the time, though
Trump and company are certainly willing to give it the old college try.
As each instance of disobedience
occurs and punishment is ineffective — Erdogan
is still in power despite a coup attempt and a currency attack, for example —
the bolder allies will become in their own defiance.
Gawd, what a bunch of clowns, demanding foreign nations obey
the dictates of the neocon Zionist cabal that is running America’s foreign
policy. Meanwhile back at home, my new
“favorite representative” from Minnesota, unfazed by the attacks of AIPAC’s
toadies publically smacked down war criminal Elliot Abrams. From Lew Rockwell:
Excerpt:
Ilhan Omar Smacks Down Elliott Abrams In Front Of Everybody
Days after being smashed with a vicious establishment smear campaign to
paint her as an antisemite for accurately criticizing AIPAC, Minnesota
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is already
back on the horse aggressively disrupting the establishment narrative matrix
that our rulers have worked so hard to construct for us.
Elliott Abrams is a monster. The atrocities that he has
facilitated, covered up and whitewashed in Panama, El Salvador, Gaza,
Guatemala, Nicaragua and Iraq are utterly unforgivable, and the fact that
he has been appointed as special envoy to Venezuela by the Trump administration
completely invalidates the US government’s Venezuela narrative all by
itself.
Even without the blatant lies, the known oil agendas, the CIA ops, the
mounting evidence of US arms smuggling to right-wing militias, and
America’s extensive history of utterly disastrous regime change
interventionism, the fact that this administration would appoint such a
ghoulish individual to spearhead its Venezuela interventionism alone is
enough to show you that the US government has nothing but malevolent intentions
for that nation.
So it was nice to see someone in that government calling him what he is
right to his face in front of everybody.
At a House Foreign Affairs
Committee hearing on US Venezuela policy, Abrams
was presented with the only line of questioning that is appropriate for such a
beast by the very congresswoman the Democrats threw to the wolves just two days
ago. Someone had to do it, and they left it to Ilhan Omar.
“In 1991, you pleaded guilty to
two counts of withholding information from Congress regarding your involvement
in the Iran-Contra affair, for which you were later pardoned by President
George H.W. Bush,” Omar accurately stated. “I
fail to understand why members of this committee, or the American people should
find any testimony that you give today to be truthful.”
“If I could respond to that-”
Abrams began.
“That wasn’t a question,” Omar
responded, cutting him off.
“It was an attack! It was an
attack!” Abrams exclaimed, visibly upset.
“I reserve the right to my time,”
said Omar.
“It is not right that members of
this Committee can attack a witness who is not permitted to reply,” Abrams
said, talking over Omar.
“That was not a question; thank
you for your participation,” Omar continued. “On February 8th, 1982, you
testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about US foreign policy
in El Salvador. In that hearing, you
dismissed as communist propaganda a report about the massacre of El Mozote of
which more than 800 civilians, including children as young as two years old,
were brutally murdered by U.S.-trained troops. During that massacre,
some of those troops bragged about raping 12 year-old girls before they killed
them. You later said that the U.S.
policy in El Salvador was a ‘fabulous achievement.’ Yes or no, do you still
think so?”
“From the day that President
Duarte was elected in a free election, to this day, El Salvador has been a
democracy,” Abrams said angrily. “That’s a fabulous achievement.”
“Yes or no, do you think that
massacre was a fabulous achievement that happened under our watch?” Omar asked.
“That is a ridiculous question and
I will not respond to it, no,” Abrams replied. “I’m sorry Mr. Chairman, I am
not going to respond to that kind of personal attack which is not a question.”
“I will take that as a yes,” Omar
said. “Yes or no, would you support an
armed faction within Venezuela that engages in war crimes, crimes against
humanity, or genocide if you believe they were serving US interests as you
did in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua?”
“I’m not going to respond to that
question,” Abrams again answered. “I’m sorry, I don’t think this entire line of
questioning is meant to be real questions, and so I will not reply.”
“Whether under your watch a genocide will take place, and you will look
the other way because American interests were being upheld is a fair question,”
Omar said. “Because the American people want to know that any time we engage a
country that we think about what our actions could be and how we believe our
values are being furthered. That is my question: Will you make sure that human
rights are not violated and that we uphold international and human rights?”
“I suppose there is a question in
there, and the answer is that the entire thrust of American policy in Venezuela
is to support the Venezuelan people’s effort to restore democracy to their
country,” Abrams responded. “That’s our policy.”
“I don’t think anybody disputes
that,” Omar said. “The question I had for you is that does the interests of the
United States include protecting human rights and include protecting people
against genocide?”
“That is always the position of
the United States,” Abrams lied.
“Thank you,” concluded Omar. “I
yield back the rest of my time.”
There is no legitimate reason for
Elliott Abrams to ever find himself before a group of people who are ostensibly
concerned with accountability and responsibility without being asked such
questions. But that didn’t stop all the
world’s worst people from crawling out of the woodwork to his defense.
“Disgraceful ad hominem attacks by
@IlhanMN on my @CFR_org colleague Elliott Abrams,” tweetedIraq-raping neocon
Max Boot. “She doesn’t seem to realize
he is a leading advocate of human rights and democracy–not a promoter of
genocide! More evidence of the loony left I caution Democrats about.”
“I worked for Elliott Abrams as a
civil servant,” tweeted Kelly Magsamen, Vice President of National Security for
the plutocrat-backed liberal think tank Center for American Progress. “He is a fierce advocate for human rights
and democracy. Yes, he made serious professional mistakes and was held
accountable. I’m a liberal but I’m also fair. We all have a lot of work to do
together in Venezuela. We share goals.”
“I am not greatly sympathetic to
Rep. Omar (surprise surprise),” tweeted National Review senior editor and
former George W Bush speech writer Jay Nordlinger. “But really, someone ought
to have given her a clue who Elliott Abrams is. The guy has been championing freedom and human rights his entire life
(and taking unholy sh** for it from the illiberal Left and Right)...”
This is the bipartisan establishment orthodoxy that is guiding your
foreign policy, America. One which claims Elliott Abrams is a saint, which
claims criticism of US warmongering is antisemitic, and which throws a bold
Somali-American woman under the bus for speaking the truth after years of
paying lip service to the need to get more women of color elected to the
leadership of the Democratic Party.
This whole Abrams incident
happened, by the way, at the same time
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deleted a tweet in which he
accidentally acknowledged the agenda to start a war with Iran, but you
probably won’t see Omar commenting on this because she knows she’ll be smeared
as an antisemite for it.
US warmongering is the most
aggressively protected part of the establishment narrative matrix, because US warmongering is the glue that
holds the unipolar empire together. Without it, our rulers cannot rule, so
you’ll see imperial lackeys fiercely attacking anyone who draws attention to
America’s bloodbaths around the world, even if they are good servants of
the empire in other areas.
The difficulty for our rulers,
though, is that warmongering is a very difficult thing to paint a pretty
picture of, especially with our newfound ability to quickly share ideas and
information around the globe. I mean,
look at Elliott Abrams. Seriously, just watch him talk. That demonic grimace is
the prettiest face they could find to put on their Venezuela agenda. I find
that very encouraging.
The reason they work so hard to
manufacture our consent for warmongering agendas is because they need that
consent. They wouldn’t propagandize us so aggressively if they didn’t need us
all trusting them and believing their stories, so the best way to fight
establishment warmongering is to circulate disbelief in their stories. Whenever you see someone like Ilhan Omar
drawing attention to the gaping plot holes in agendas like regime change
interventionism in Venezuela, go ahead and help draw attention to it.
Things are only shitty because
a few extremely powerful people do very shitty things. The only
reason powerful people get away with doing very shitty things is because the
majority allows them to. The majority only allows them to because they’ve been
propagandized to. The weakest link in this chain is the propaganda. Attack
there.
What an absolutely brave young woman Miss Omar
is. She is a real force to be reckoned
with. So war criminal Elliot Abrams
wants to restore Democracy to Venezuela, after all he has such a glowing
history as a “humanitarian” who has “made a few mistakes.” Now he can bring his “fabulous achievement”
in El Salvador to Venezuela. Even though
Venezuelan elections are far more democratic than those in the U.S., UK and
Canada. From Moon of Alabama:
Excerpt:
Venezuela - 57% Say Maduro Is Their Legitimate President
The legitimacy of a ruler can best
be determined by asking the ruled people.
The independent Venezuelan polling firm Hinterlaces asked (in Spanish)
1,580 Venezuelans in direct interviews who they consider to be the legitimate
president of Venezuela. 57% said that the Nicolás Maduro is the
legitimated president. 32% said Juan Guaidó. 11% did not know or did not
respond.
The well-respected scientific
research service of the German Bundestag advised (in German) that foreign recognition of someone as a president does
not confer legitimacy. Legitimacy of a president requires that he has
actual enforcing capabilities within the country. As long as that is not
established a recognition must be seen as interference in the internal affairs
of the foreign country. Such an interference, which the German and other
governments committed, is inconsistent with international law.
Alfred-Maurice de-Zayas, a
professor for international law and a longtime senior lawyer at the United
Nations, confirms that opinion. He writes:
Members of the United Nations are bound by the Charter, articles one and two of which affirm the
right of all peoples to determine themselves, the sovereign equality of states,
the prohibition of the use of force and of economic or political interference
in the internal affairs of sovereign states. Yet these fundamental
principles of international order are being grossly violated in the case of
Venezuela.
Ignoring the will of the people of Venezuela and the rule of law U.S.
media continue to manufacture consent for regime change in Venezuela.
“It’s all about the Benjamins baby”, that is the rallying
call for 2019. America has come full
circle and it’s time for regime change in the American congress. The American people need to take their
country back from these neocon ghouls.
From OpEd News:
Excerpt:
Ilhan Omar speaks Truth to Empire
The American people are very much like the children of a mafia boss,
who don't want to know what their father does for a living, but then wonder
why the firebombs of injustice are being thrown through the window of their
living-room. What a primitive underbelly we have in this supposed patriotic
rational society. Americans have been living behind the mask of their
countries "good intentions" for so long, that their faces have grown
into the mask.
The domestic political fantasy life
of the last eighteen years, finds us in an unnerving time loop of our own
making in this country. History has seemed to be running in reverse, and knowledge is not seen as a public good, but
as something suspect, dubious or even ungodly, as it was for example in Italy
in 1633, when the church put Galileo on trial for his heretical view that the
earth was in orbit around the sun.
These past years have produced a
prison house of the mind, insidiously
endeavoring to promote a fleeting fraudulent terrorist phantom and the darkness
of ego. It has produced a degradation of the thinking mind, all of it in
fear of what it knows. Our society has mentally transported the rank and
file back into the darkness of tribal war and shrieking, far from the
tolerance that came with American religious freedom and the liberty of our
conscience.
Ilhan Omar's comments about Israel and AIPAC and her criticism of
Elliot Abrams stand in poignant isolation. They stand as oasis islands of truth, in an ocean full of lies and
disinformation. They stand in sharp contrast to the neoconservative,
the project for a new American Century (PNAC) influence in Washington that
pretends to unite U. S. and Israeli ideals around the grandiose project of
bringing democracy to the world by getting
rid of "dictators" who just happen to be supporters of the
Palestinian cause.
Veteran neocon Richard Perle's 1996
report for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, entitled "A Clean
Break," which had the eager support
of Elliot Abrams, called for getting rid of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, as the
first in a series of regime changes that would eliminate Israel's perceived
main enemies in the Middle East.
Ilhan herself, is a refuge from Somalia, a country subjected to
decolonization since 1960 by the British and the United States. The
multiple forces and pressures causing a country the size of Somalia to implode
and atrophy was the veritable explosion
of small arms in the region brokered by the U.S. through Israel, which produced
militias and brought about militarized lawlessness. The situation might
have been different if the UK and US had shown any concern for the plight of
ordinary Somalis and made any effort to stop the continuous flow of weapons into
the country.
The rich Israeli lobby, AIPAC, and individual donors like billionaires
Haim Saban and Sheldon Adelson have managed to buy virtually the entire
Congress, thanks in part to all-expenses paid trips to Israel and campaign
contributions, especially the tacit threat to provide generous financing to
the campaign of your opponent, if you get out of line. Israel receives between
4-5 billion dollars per year to buy US made weapons.
Most recently, the immoral activities of AIPAC and the Israeli lobby
has been exposed in their craven effort to silence college students who are
demanding the rights for Palestinians by organizing and protesting in the
BDS Movement, Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanction campaign.
Ilhan Omar is the personification of the gradual osmosis of truth that
is beginning to seep through the cracks of the propaganda system. A country
at the end of empire that misuses its military power can only destroy. It
cannot build.
The truth that Ilhan puts before us is the problem of the corruption of
human intelligence that has enabled our supposed leaders to create
plausible reasons for monstrous acts, to exhort citizens to accept those
reasons and to train soldiers to follow orders.
We all must realize that the fabrication of the war on terror has
become the war against the liberties of Americans. We must thank Ilhan Omar for standing up and making a difference and
not sitting down in order to fit in.
As Gandhi said, "even if you are a minority of one, the truth is
still the truth."
Amen, “we must thank Ilhan Omar for standing up and making a
difference, now it’s time for the American people to enact regime change in
America. It is time to purge our
government of these traitorous dual citizenship members of congress and clean
out our intelligence agencies of the graft and corruption at the top. This is America, we are Americans, and we
have one language the English language.
We have one flag, the American flag and our loyalty is only to the
American people. Thank you Ilhan Omar
you are a breath of fresh air in a putrid, fetid government body.
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