The Israeli Lobby Is Destroying America Said Congressman Paul Findley

[tomaust]

November 18, 2006

 

CONGRESSMAN PAUL FINDLEY

 

Paul Findley in this article doesn’t use diplomatic phrases. He instead is being straightforward, and blunt. Simply, because the time is not suitable any longer for "Public Diplomacy". Rather, the time is requiring urgently, raising American Taxpayers' awareness of their flushed monies into stupid, frivolous, and irrational wars. What has the Bush Administration been doing since October 7th, 2001 up to this moment of time is weakening the US, and diverting countries of the World, especially, wealthy ones towards China.

 

While the Bush Administration is investing American taxpayers' monies in killing, injuring, maiming, detaining, and ruining the once excellent American paradigm of democracy, freedom, and human rights. Now almost entirely, without exception no one believes anymore in American credibility. Because this Administration has made the people, and the countries of the World make jokes of the US credibility. Paul Findley expressed, not merely, his perception, but perhaps, millions of Americans' views of the Bush Administration. Let's listen to Paul Findley, and learn even more about this Administration. A few words of introduction.

 

I am 85, conscious of the march of years. I say, "Oh, to be 70 again!" I am on no one’s payroll. I speak only for myself. I am a Christian, but my words arise from years of devotion to justice for Muslims.

 

I speak plain language, because this is no time to tiptoe around the truth. Our policy in the Middle East is wrong - morally, militarily, politically, and legally.

 

It is biased against Arabs and Muslims and in favor of the State of Israel. It is worse today than ever before. The massive aid we keep sending has long helped Israel to inflict lethal degradation on mostly-Muslim Palestinians. We are silent when Israel makes Gaza a vast, miserable and bloody concentration camp where l.4 million human beings are denied electricity, clean water, housing, food, and medical care. We look the other way when Israel arrests officials of Palestine’s freely-elected government. Our Congress approves when Israel herds the rest of the Palestinians like cattle behind high walls and fences.

 

Every U.S. president beginning with Lyndon B. Johnson could have stopped Israel’s major crimes, simply by suspending all U.S. aid until Israel behaved. Every Congress could have done the same. But none did. The only U.S. President to stand resolutely against Israel’s criminal behavior was Dwight D. Eisenhower.

 

Israel’s influence has led America into one awful mess after another. As the world knows, Washington was the essential enabler in 1982 when Israeli forces killed 18,000 Arab civilians in Lebanon, a massacre that prompted payback 21 years later in the ugly form of 9/11.

 

With congressional support, President Bush brandishes the sword of war as his primary instrument of foreign policy. He initiated wars against Muslim Afghanistan and Muslim Iraq, helped Israel plan and execute the war in Muslim Lebanon, and now threatens war against Muslim Syria and Muslim Iran -- each calamity a by-product of our long complicity with Israel.

 

For nearly 40 years our government has failed to take even the first firm step toward cutting loose from Israel’s crimes. President Bush says he wants an independent Palestine, but all his deeds are destructive. Now, after helping Israel bomb much of Lebanon into a pile of bloody rubble this summer, Washington is frantically trying to bring about a durable ceasefire between the two states.

 

In cosmic language, Bush likens his acts of war to the battle against Nazism in World War II. He is wrong. Americans were united in fighting Nazism, because Nazism was evil. Americans are not united behind Bush because his wars leave untouched the major, basic cause of terrorism and Middle East conflict - Israel’s U.S.-supported conquest and occupation of Palestine.

 

How has Israel, a small nation of six million, succeeded in manipulating the policies of this once great nation of 300 million people?

 

The answers can be summed up in one word: Fear.

 

Fear of Islam, although totally unwarranted, is widespread. A recent Cornell University survey determined that 44 percent of the American people want the civil liberties of all U.S. Muslims restricted. With nearly one- half of all Americans afraid of all Muslims, no wonder our politicians are easy prey when Israel’s lobby warns that Israel is surrounded by terrorist followers of Islam.

 

An even heavier burden to our national well-being is the deep-seated, nearly-universal fear of Israel’s lobby and its demonstrated skill at making reckless charges of anti-Semitism. The lobby has succeeded in redefining anti-Semitism to cover even the mildest criticism of Israeli behavior.

 

The result is that most Americans recoil from criticizing Israel like the kiss of death and fear hovers over officials in Washington like a host of helicopter gunships. Accordingly, our government is shamelessly complicit in Israel’s criminal conduct.

 

The televised and printed words of two brave professors, John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of Harvard University, who speak candidly about Israel’s harm to U.S. national interests, are the rare exceptions.

 

Much of the world now sees both Israel and the United States as terrorist states. Our complicity in Israeli crimes is the root cause of most of America’s troubles today. We can never be truly secure until we end our support of these crimes, nor can Israelis feel secure until Palestinians feel secure in their own independent state.

 

History shows that suicide bombings will stop as soon as unwelcome foreign troops leave; so we must leave Iraq and we must press Israel to leave occupied Palestine.

 

Even before 9/11, many Americans viewed Muslims wrongly as radicals who abuse women, oppose our system of government, condone terrorism, and worship a strange, vengeful deity. These false images are more prevalent today than ever before.

 

There is a vital way in which each of you can help correct the false images of Islam. Many misguided Americans believe Islam is a dangerous enemy. Therefore, all of us must help spread the truth, no matter what our religious faith may be.

 

On the eve of 9/11, I wrote a book titled Silent No More: Confronting America’s False Images of Islam. Its appendix A is a brief statement about Islam called, "A friendly note from your Muslim neighbor." I urge you to make copies of this short statement and distribute them in the days and weeks ahead. I also urge you to talk publicly and candidly about Israel’s role in our society.

 

Here are the four steps I ask each of you to take:

 

1. Be a committee-of-one to correct false statements about Islam. Demand corrections when you hear or see anything in the media that wrongs Islam.

 

2. Be an ambassador of goodwill for Islam. Display your religion in your attire. A ring, a necklace, a lapel pin will give everyone you meet a reason to dismiss the false images of Islam. Pass out copies of the "friendly note."

 

3. [For non-Muslims] Go to church every Sunday. After church, offer to meet with church organizations to answer questions about Islam.

 

4. Take part in mainstream politics. Attend political meetings and demand clear answers from candidates.

 

Are you asking yourself, "Is he asking me to do all this?" Indeed I am. Everyone must help, men and women. You must be a self-starter. You must not leave these tasks to others. The stakes are too high to take chances. Defend Islam. Do it for your children. Do it for your country.

 

(Paul Findley is a former U.S. congressman

[Jhony5]

Dude why do you like Israel so much? If your so in love with Israel, why don't you go marry it.

[hugo]

He must be a damn Jew! Put him in the oven!

[tomaust]

let us focus on the real issue,any comment on this??remember this is a very experienced and important U S congressman

 

he said

 

Much of the world now sees both Israel and the United States as terrorist states. Our complicity in Israeli crimes is the root cause of most of America

[Jhony5]

In all seriousness, it is a bit of the 'ol Mexican standoff. I often feel as though we have been drawn into the cultural standoff between Jews and Muslims. I'm not real brushed up on this issue. Remind me again, what is it that Israel does for us? Is it all about securing a foot hold in this region?

[hugo]

Israel is our prime source for dill pickles.

[Jhony5]

Israel is our prime source for dill pickles.

Ohhh. Well fuck that shit man. What are we waiting for then? Lets go kill us some fucking A-rabs.

[de kannibaal]

Ohhh. Well fuck that shit man. What are we waiting for then? Lets go kill us some fucking A-rabs.

 

Is this bollocks an example of your engaging rhetoric in matters of debate?

 

How does it go again, oh, that's right. Pot, Kettle, Black.

 

America has nothing to gain by supporting the terrorist state Israel. In fact America is complicit in terrorism in its illegal support of the terrorist state Israel.

 

It is the fact that Consecutive administrations have been bought off wholesale by the various Jewish lobbies, as at one point they had an important impact on voting that could affect election results.

 

This relationship with the Jews has hurt America rather than benefitted it. You have given them massive dispersements in cash, which Israel loaned back to you and profited on greatly, on your own charity.

 

Sad really. You all got played by Israel, the rest of the world had their number 5000 years ago.

[Jhony5]

You have

back to you

on your

You all

Who is this "you" that you keep speaking of? ME? I never made any political decisions concerning Israel. I never gave Israel any money. I did nothing.

[hugo]

A hamburger without dill pickle slices just ain't right.

[Jhony5]

A hamburger without dill pickle slices just ain't right.

Now wait a minute. I did buy a jar of kosher dills once. Does this mean I support the terrorist state of Israel?

[hugo]

Now wait a minute. I did buy a jar of kosher dills once. Does this mean I support the terrorist state of Israel?

 

Yep, you are a zionist.

[de kannibaal]

Who is this "you" that you keep speaking of? ME? I never made any political decisions concerning Israel. I never gave Israel any money. I did nothing.

 

If you have voted in any election in post-war America or have paid taxes to any post-war American government you have both supported Israel and given them funding.

[Jhony5]

If you have voted in any election in post-war America or have paid taxes to any post-war American government you have both supported Israel and given them funding.

I don't pay taxes and I'm a deadbeat non-voter. BUT. But I did buy a jar of kosher pickles.

[hugo]

If you have paid taxes in Holland you have partially paid for Islamic bums room and board in your country. The same type of dumbfucks who killed Van Gogh.

[de kannibaal]

If you have paid taxes in Holland you have partially paid for Islamic bums room and board in your country. The same type of dumbfucks who killed Van Gogh.

 

Yes. True.

 

We do offer shelter to those from other nations that have been oppressed and are generous in our services to them.

 

We don't support the terrorist state Israel.

[de kannibaal]

I don't pay taxes and I'm a deadbeat non-voter. BUT. But I did buy a jar of kosher pickles.

 

You don't pay taxes?

 

Well, I am afraid I shall have to narc you to the IRS and they will subpoena the owner of this site for your personal info. You have broken the law.

[hugo]

If divided aid to Israel by the total of 300 million Americans you come to a whopping average of 9 dollars a person.

 

Actually a good percentage of Americans legally pay no federal income taxes. In fact many Americans receive in the Child Income Tax Credit more money than they pay.

[de kannibaal]

If divided aid to Israel by the total of 300 million Americans you come to a whopping average of 9 dollars a person.

 

Better quote your sources on that one mate.

[hugo]

Yes. True.

 

We do offer shelter to those from other nations that have been oppressed and are generous in our services to them.

 

We don't support the terrorist state Israel.

 

And the result is the rape of your women, riots, and heavy pressure on your welfare system. Of course ya ain't having enough kids so ya gotta allow immigration. Sucks you are stuck with the immigrants ya got.

[hugo]

Better quote your sources on that one mate.

 

2005 Federal Budget. I will confess the 2.7 billion is just the direct aid to Israel. Does not include the aid to Egypt and other ME nations not to fuck with Israel. Of course some would attribute our presence in Iraq as due to Israel.

 

I oppose all foreign aid. I oppose our presence in Iraq. We should let moderate Muslims and the Europeans fight their own battles. Europeans that do not recognize the problems inherent with massive Muslim immigration have their heads buried in the sand.

[de kannibaal]

And the result is the rape of your women, riots, and heavy pressure on your welfare system. Of course ya ain't having enough kids so ya gotta allow immigration. Sucks you are stuck with the immigrants ya got.

 

This is not the UK or France. There are no riots.

 

It is philosophically a welfare state, and therfore not an issue on whether they draw from these resources or not, they are there to be drawn from and used.

 

This is not America. People get looked after and everyone is cared for.

[de kannibaal]

2005 Federal Budget. I will confess the 2.7 billion is just the direct aid to Israel. Does not include the aid to Egypt and other ME nations not to fuck with Israel. Of course some would attribute our presence in Iraq as due to Israel.

 

I oppose all foreign aid. I oppose our presence in Iraq. We should let moderate Muslims and the Europeans fight their own battles. Europeans that do not recognize the problems inherent with massive Muslim immigration have their heads buried in the sand.

 

That figure neither covers soft costs, such as the loan payments you pay them back for the money they lent you that you gave to them, to name one.

 

2.7 Billion annually. That could sure pay for essential medical care for the poor rotting away in your ghettos. Leave the yids to fend for themselves.

[ClassyMissFancy]

The poor rotting away in our ghettos have free medical care.

 

It is the middle class small business owners who do not.

[Jhony5]

You don't pay taxes?

 

Well, I am afraid I shall have to narc you to the IRS and they will subpoena the owner of this site for your personal info. You have broken the law.

If you bothered to look around this site before you flame it up, you would have noticed that I HAVE A FUCKING JOB. Yes I pay taxes. Yes I vote. Actually, I don't like pickles.

 

You're a faggot limp wristed little shit, and a NARC. Threaten me again like that you little fucker and I'll be paying you a visit. I guarantee you don't want that.