Chang, I appreciate your comments. But understand: despite my conviction that AIPAC’s influence on U.S. policy in Gaza is substantial and negative, I’ve never intended to suggest that amerikka is entirely blameless and helplessly manipulated. This country has its own agenda and continues to use nazisrael as a pawn to fulfill some of its own regional objectives. My focus is primarily on the indisputable fact that our corrupt politicians are more than willing to exploit AIPAC’s largesse to fill their campaign coffers, but that in doing so they are also willing to deliver outcomes (such as massive support for genocide and egregious criminality), without regard to morality, insanity, and brutality. By definition, you have to be overwhelmingly corrupt, as our politicians are, to engage in such an arrangement. This country was the epitome of corruption and brutality before nazisrael ever came into existence, and had already exploited much of the world. So of course it would be ludicrous to say that amerikka is some helpless entity being entirely exploited by anyone. But there is no doubt that AIPAC money is significantly facilitating the barbarity in GAZA – it doesn’t matter if you say our politicians are exploiting AIPAC or vice versa. Their corrupt and ruthless collaboration is a fact, regardless how one chooses to define it.
Leon Brown Jr., I guess in a sense my reply was not directed at you or your comment specifically - as I know that you understand the dynamics (as is apparent from your comment). It was more directed towards all the people in this substack that falsely believe that "America is secretly controlled by Israel/Jews".
In your original comment above, you said >>"As long as AIPAC keeps up with their bloody bribery, this country's policies in Gaza will be dictated by the bloodthirsty and criminal nazisraeli regime."
The point I'm trying to make is that - US Empire Managers, Foreign Policy, Power Elite, Global Capitalists, etc. have many reasons for supporting Israel - REGARDLESS of the presence of AIPAC (or other Israel/Jewish Lobbies).
As Genocide Joe said in the Senate Session in 1986 (and repeated multiple times over the years again and again): "If we look at the Middle East, I think it's about time we stopped apologizing for our support for Israel. There's no apology to be made. None. It is the best $3 billion investment we make. Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to go out and invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region."
Here is Genocide Joe @ AIPAC Conference in 2013: "Even as circumstances have changed, one thing has not. Our deep commitment to the security of the state of Israel. That has not changed. That will not change as long as I and he are President and Vice President of the United States. It's in our naked self-interest, beyond the moral imperative."
Just as the US needs an entity (like Israel) in MENA (middle-east and north africa) to represent its interests and serve as an appendage/strategic outpost of the US Empire, so also does the US need the Israel Lobbies (including AIPAC) to help it achieve its objectives in Empire Management.
Just as Genocide Joe said that "were there not an Israel, the US would have to go out and invent as Israel", similarly - "if there were not an AIPAC, the US would have to go out and invent an AIPAC".
What I'm getting at is that - AIPAC (and the larger Israel specific Lobbies) exist and are tolerated (and supported) BECAUSE they serve the needs of Empire Managers.
Even though Israel, AIPAC, etc. DO NOT SERVE the interests of the common people (plebians), they serve the interests of the Global Capitalists.
Unconvincing arguments put forth by the guest (Phil Giraldi). Also, I'm uncertain of how kosher his arguments are, as his reasoning seems pretty biased (one example from his speech: Jews controlled the Pentagon and wanted to go to war with Iraq because Saddam Hussein was helping the Palestinians). ???
Seriously? How can anyone take this person seriously with a statement like that? This is exactly the kind of twisted logic and conspiratorial thinking that I was mentioning in my commen(s) above. This is exactly the kind of deflection one would expect from an apologist of the US Empire.
Chang, I appreciate your comments. But understand: despite my conviction that AIPAC’s influence on U.S. policy in Gaza is substantial and negative, I’ve never intended to suggest that amerikka is entirely blameless and helplessly manipulated. This country has its own agenda and continues to use nazisrael as a pawn to fulfill some of its own regional objectives. My focus is primarily on the indisputable fact that our corrupt politicians are more than willing to exploit AIPAC’s largesse to fill their campaign coffers, but that in doing so they are also willing to deliver outcomes (such as massive support for genocide and egregious criminality), without regard to morality, insanity, and brutality. By definition, you have to be overwhelmingly corrupt, as our politicians are, to engage in such an arrangement. This country was the epitome of corruption and brutality before nazisrael ever came into existence, and had already exploited much of the world. So of course it would be ludicrous to say that amerikka is some helpless entity being entirely exploited by anyone. But there is no doubt that AIPAC money is significantly facilitating the barbarity in GAZA – it doesn’t matter if you say our politicians are exploiting AIPAC or vice versa. Their corrupt and ruthless collaboration is a fact, regardless how one chooses to define it.
Leon Brown Jr., I guess in a sense my reply was not directed at you or your comment specifically - as I know that you understand the dynamics (as is apparent from your comment). It was more directed towards all the people in this substack that falsely believe that "America is secretly controlled by Israel/Jews".
In your original comment above, you said >>"As long as AIPAC keeps up with their bloody bribery, this country's policies in Gaza will be dictated by the bloodthirsty and criminal nazisraeli regime."
The point I'm trying to make is that - US Empire Managers, Foreign Policy, Power Elite, Global Capitalists, etc. have many reasons for supporting Israel - REGARDLESS of the presence of AIPAC (or other Israel/Jewish Lobbies).
As Genocide Joe said in the Senate Session in 1986 (and repeated multiple times over the years again and again): "If we look at the Middle East, I think it's about time we stopped apologizing for our support for Israel. There's no apology to be made. None. It is the best $3 billion investment we make. Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to go out and invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region."
Here is Genocide Joe @ AIPAC Conference in 2013: "Even as circumstances have changed, one thing has not. Our deep commitment to the security of the state of Israel. That has not changed. That will not change as long as I and he are President and Vice President of the United States. It's in our naked self-interest, beyond the moral imperative."
Just as the US needs an entity (like Israel) in MENA (middle-east and north africa) to represent its interests and serve as an appendage/strategic outpost of the US Empire, so also does the US need the Israel Lobbies (including AIPAC) to help it achieve its objectives in Empire Management.
Just as Genocide Joe said that "were there not an Israel, the US would have to go out and invent as Israel", similarly - "if there were not an AIPAC, the US would have to go out and invent an AIPAC".
What I'm getting at is that - AIPAC (and the larger Israel specific Lobbies) exist and are tolerated (and supported) BECAUSE they serve the needs of Empire Managers.
Even though Israel, AIPAC, etc. DO NOT SERVE the interests of the common people (plebians), they serve the interests of the Global Capitalists.
So the REAL PROBLEM lies with the US Empire (and its managers) - they will invent whatever organizations they need and will support whatever regimes they need in order to achieve their goals. (https://substack.com/@changchokaski/note/c-60382345?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2kglzh)
Here what says Phil Giraldi on this :
https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/06/phil-giraldi-israels-control-over-america/
Unconvincing arguments put forth by the guest (Phil Giraldi). Also, I'm uncertain of how kosher his arguments are, as his reasoning seems pretty biased (one example from his speech: Jews controlled the Pentagon and wanted to go to war with Iraq because Saddam Hussein was helping the Palestinians). ???
Seriously? How can anyone take this person seriously with a statement like that? This is exactly the kind of twisted logic and conspiratorial thinking that I was mentioning in my commen(s) above. This is exactly the kind of deflection one would expect from an apologist of the US Empire.
Thanks for your thoughtful reply, Chang.