Originally Posted by snafu
Isreal is our allie. we also don't turn our back on our friends.
HERE IS MY ANSWER FOR YOU
here are israeli plots and conspiracies against a "friend",an "ally" america
who can trust israelis????
The Israeli lobby in Washington has successfully influenced the U.S.
Congress to give billions of non-repayable dollars each year to Israel on
the premise that Israel's loyalty and strategic importance to the United
States make it an ally worthy of such unprecedented consideration. Is it?
In his Farewell Address, George Washington warned Americans to avoid a
passionate attachment to any one nation because it promotes "the illusion
of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists."
In 1948, U.S. Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, an opponent of the
creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, warned that, even though failure
to go along with the Zionists might cost President Truman the states of New
York, Pennsylvania, and California, "it was about time that somebody should
pay some consideration to whether we might not lose the United States."
Israeli actions over the past 58 years involving U.S. interests in the
Middle East seriously challenge the "strategic asset" premise of the
Israeli lobby. Some of these actions are compiled in the list that follows:
September 1953: Israel illegally begins to divert the waters of the Jordan
River. President Eisenhower, enraged, suspends all economic aid to Israel
and prepares to remove the tax-deductible status of the United Jewish
Appeal and of other Zionist organizations in the United States.
October 1953: Israel raids the West Bank village of Kibya, killing 53
Palestinian civilians. The Eisenhower administration calls the raid
"shocking," and confirms the suspension of aid to Israel.
July 1954: Israeli agents firebomb American and British cultural centers in
Egypt, making it look like the work of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in
order to sabotage U.S.-Egyptian relations.
October 1956: Israel secretly joins with England and France in a colonial-
style attack on Egypt's Suez Canal. Calling the invasion a dangerous threat
to international order, President Eisenhower forces Israel to relinquish
most of the land it had seized.
1965: 206 pounds of weapons grade uranium disappear from the Nuclear
Materials and Equipment Corporation plant in Pennsylvania. Plant president
is Zalmon Shapiro, a former sales agent for the Israel Defense Ministry.
C.I.A. Director Richard Helms later charges that Israel stole the uranium.
June 1967: Israel bombs, napalms and torpedoes the USS Liberty, killing 34
Americans, wounding 171 others, and nearly sinking the lightly armed
intelligence ship. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral
Thomas Moorer, charges that the attack "could not possibly have been a case
of mistaken identity."
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June 1967: Against U.S. wishes Israel seizes and occupies Syria's Golan
Heights.
June 1968: Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir rejects U.S. Secretary of
State William Rogers' Peace Plan that would have required Israel to
withdraw from the occupied territories; she calls upon Jews everywhere to
denounce the plan.
March 1978: Israel invades Lebanon, illegally using U.S. cluster bombs and
other U.S. weapons given to Israel for defensive purposes only.
1979: Israel frustrates U.S.-sponsored Camp David Accords by building new
settlements on the West Bank. President Carter complains to American Jewish
leaders that, by acting in a "completely irresponsible way," Israel's Prime
Minister Begin continues "to disavow the basic principles of the accords."
1979: Israel sells U.S. airplane tires and other military supplies to Iran,
against U.S. policy, at a time when U.S. diplomats are being held hostage
in Teheran.
July 1980: Israel annexes East Jerusalem in defiance of U.S. wishes and
world opinion.
July 1981: Illegally using U.S. cluster bombs and other equipment, Israel
bombs P.L.O. sites in Beirut, with great loss of civilian life. December
1981: Israel annexes Syria's Golan Heights, in violation of the Geneva
Convention and in defiance of U.S. wishes.
June 1982: Israel invades Lebanon a second time, again using U.S. cluster
bombs and other U.S. weapons. President Reagan calls for a halt of all
shipments of cluster bomb shells to Israel.
September 1982: Abetted by Israeli forces under the control of Defense
Minister Ariel Sharon, Lebanese militiamen massacre hundreds of
Palestinians in Beirut's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. President Reagan
is "horrified" and summons the Israeli ambassador to demand Israel's
immediate withdrawal from Beirut.
September 1982: Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin rejects President
Reagan's Peace Plan for the occupied territories.
January-March 1983: Israeli army "harasses" U.S. Marines in Lebanon.
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger confirms Marine commandant's report
that "Israeli troops are deliberately threatening the lives of American
military personnel . . . replete with verbal degradation of the officers,
their uniforms and country."
March 1985: Israeli lobby in Washington pressures the U.S. Congress to turn
down a $1.6 billion arms sale to Jordan, costing the U.S. thousands of
jobs, quite apart from the financial loss to American industry. Jordan
gives the contract to Russia. A frustrated King Hussein complains: "The
U.S. is not free to move except within the limits of what AIPAC [the
Israeli lobby], the Zionists and the State of Israel determine for it."
October 1985: Israeli lobby blocks $4 billion aircraft sale to Saudi
Arabia. The sale, strongly backed by the Reagan administration, costs the
U.S. over 350,000 jobs, with steep financial losses to American industry.
Saudi Arabia awards contract to England.
November 1985: Jonathan Jay Pollard, an American recruited by Israel, is
arrested for passing highly classified intelligence to Israel. U.S.
officials call the operation but "one link in an organized and
well-financed Israeli espionage ring operating within the United States."
State Department contacts reveal that top Israeli defense officials "traded
stolen U.S. intelligence documents to Soviet military intelligence agents
in return for assurances of greater emigration of Soviet Jews."
December 1985: U.S. Customs in three states raid factories suspected of
illegally selling electroplating technology to Israel. Richard Smyth, a
NATO consultant and former U.S. exporter, is indicted on charges of
illegally exporting to Israel 800 krytron devices for triggering nuclear
explosions.
April 1986: U.S. authorities arrest 17 persons, including a retired Israeli
General, Avraham Bar-Am, for plotting to sell more than $2 billion of
advanced U.S. weaponry to Iran (much of it already in Israel). General Bar-
Am, claiming to have had Israeli Government approval, threatens to name
names at the highest levels. U.S. Attorney General of New York calls the
plot "mind-boggling in scope."
July 1986: Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy informs the Israeli
ambassador that a U.S. investigation is under way of eight Israeli
representatives in the U.S. accused of plotting the illegal export of
technology used in making cluster bombs. Indictments against the eight are
later dropped in exchange for an Israeli promise to cooperate in the case.
January 1987: Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin visits South Africa to
discuss joint nuclear weapons testing. Israel admits that, in violation of
a U.S. Senate anti-apartheid bill, it has arms sales contracts with South
Africa worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Rep. John Conyers calls for
Congressional hearings on Israel-South Africa nuclear testing.
November 1987: The Iran-Contra scandal reveals that it was Israel that had
first proposed the trade to Iran of U.S. arms for hostages. The scandal
becomes the subject of the Tower Commission Report, Senate and House
investigations, and the Walsh criminal prosecution inquiries.
April 1988: Testifying before U.S. Subcommittee on Narcotics, Terrorism and
International Operations, Jose Blandon, a former intelligence aide to
Panama's General Noriega, reveals that Israel used $20 million of U.S. aid
to ship arms via Panama to Nicaraguan Contras. The empty planes then
smuggled cocaine via Panama into the United States. Pilot tells ABC
reporter Richard Threlkeld that Israel was his primary employer. The
arms-for- drugs network is said to be led by Mike Harari, Noriega's close
aide and bodyguard, who was also a high officer in the Israeli secret
services and chief coordinator of Israel's military and commercial business
in Panama.
June 1988: Mubarak Awad, a Palestinian-American advocate of nonviolence, is
deported by Israel. The White House denounces the action, saying, "We think
it is unjustifiable to deny Mr. Awad the right to stay and live in
Jerusalem, where he was born."