**America’s support for Israel dates to the beginning of the Zionist project in the late 19th century and grew stronger throughout the 20th. From 1949 to the present, for every dollar the US spent on an African, it spent $250.65 on an Israeli, and for every dollar it spent on someone from the Western Hemisphere outside the US, it spent $214 on an Israeli. As Israel grows stronger the support becomes more solid. According to Stephen Zunes, chair of the Peace and Justice Studies Programme at San Francisco University, “99 per cent of all US aid to Israel took place after the 1967 War.” **
US support for Israel has involved turning a blind eye not only to Israeli flouting of international law, but to Israeli anti- American activities such as: spying (Jonathan Jay Pollard 1985 and David Tenenbaum 1997), selling arms to China (1990 onwards), espionage against American companies (cited in the Wall Street Journal, 1992) and attacks on the dignity and the lives of American subjects as in the bombing of the USS Liberty in 1967, the beating by Israeli police of David Muirhead who was working on an American- financed project to restore the main street in Al-Khalil (Hebron) in 1997, the turning back of a US Congressional delegation from the Allenby Bridge in August 2002 and, in April, the Israeli army’s shooting of peace activist Brian Avery in Jenin and its killing of Rachel Corrie in Rafah.
Washington matches actions with words. On 18 May 2000, the Democratic candidate for the presidency, Al Gore, addressing the powerful pro-Israeli Washington lobby, AIPAC, was able to say: “The United States has an absolute, uncompromising commitment to Israel’s security and an absolute conviction that Israel alone must decide the steps necessary to ensure that security. That is Israel’s prerogative. We accept that. We endorse that. Whatever Israel decides cannot, will not, will never, not ever, alter our fundamental commitment to her security.”
**The support of America for Israel has been likened to the elephant in the drawing-room; everybody sees it but nobody mentions it. **
[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by Matsui: *
people should mention it. I am rabidly pro-israel. I wouldn;t vote for a candidate in the US who wasn't unwaivering in his/her support for the Israel.
[/QUOTE]
You being Indian do not need to say you are pro Israeli, just say you are Indian :)
Every tear shed after the terrorism of Israel with support from its financier the USA will some day amount to an ocean. Then no superpower will be able to protect its murderer once the ocean floods it.
BTW, I will never vote for any Congress person, Senator or President who favors Israel over the legitimate struggle of the Palestinians. At least my vote will cancel yours, Matsui. :)
The struggle between dollars and technology on one side and human spirit to survive on the other continues.
I have stated enumerous times to my family and friends..
I refuse to vote for any one Mayor/Congress/Senator/Judiciary... and that means Judges in your home town...
who voted GBJ the power of warmongering......
AND lamely this day try to explain and politicize the reasons why they agreed. AND then as a political agenda for power..dis the decision they themselves authorized.
US support for Israel has involved turning a blind eye not only to Israeli flouting of international law, but to Israeli anti- American activities such as: spying (Jonathan Jay Pollard 1985 and David Tenenbaum 1997), selling arms to China (1990 onwards), espionage against American companies (cited in the Wall Street Journal, 1992) and attacks on the dignity and the lives of American subjects as in the bombing of the USS Liberty in 1967...
In short Israel is the only country that can do anything against the "mighty" USA and get away with it, even if it kills American's.