Every government in the world deserves skepticism. And that of course includes the U.S. government. Right now, the U.S. government is funding the genocide being carried out by Likud: the vast majority of the U.S. congress and the Biden administration is willingly providing weapons, funds, and diplomatic support for it. Using a phrase that has become increasingly popular these days — there is little daylight between the U.S. government and Likud’s genocide of Palestinians. The Establishment wings of both parties currently support it sufficiently enough that the House passed a bill on April 21 that would give $26.4 billion from American taxes in funding to help Israel, a relatively wealthy sovereign state whose standard of living for many citizens is greater than that of U.S. citizens, to carry out its genocide against “Amalek” — it passed 366 to 58 (the chart earlier does not include that and only goes to 2023). The only difference between the two parties in this case is that the Republican Party is generally unambiguous about its support, while the Democratic Party, including Biden, verbally expresses some criticism but still provides financial and military support. The Democratic Party is simply aware that a lot of its voter base doesn’t support Likud and is trying to rhetorically satisfy some of its base’s concern while simultaneously acting in a way that is beneficial to Likud. It wants to keep its bombs and drop them.
Ultimately, the behavior of both parties demonstrates that they have no care about representing the interests of the “people”, only the interests of the deepest pockets and powerful factions. Polls demonstrate that only 36% of Americans favor providing military aid to Israel, yet the vast majority of congress, and the executive branch, provided and continue to provide taxpayer funded military supplies to Israel.
After all, as the AIPAC PAC boasts: “BEING PRO-ISRAEL IS GOOD POLICY AND GOOD POLITICS." Indeed, the PAC boasts:
The AIPAC PAC was founded in December 2021 to support pro-Israel candidates and members of Congress, and in just one year we delivered more money directly to candidates than any other PAC in America.
And that is just its latest PAC. The Israel Lobby is much bigger, and much more powerful, than just the AIPAC PAC. One of the reasons why being “Pro-Israel” is such good politics is because the Israel Lobby aggressively attempts to undermine and destroy politicians who express criticism of Israel, especially the ideology of Zionism. And the way they do it generally isn’t by bringing the public’s attention to a politician’s views on Israel, as one might expect, but rather by spending millions of dollars on smear campaigns about things that have nothing to do with Israel.
As such, there is very little opposition to Zionism in congress, but the little that exists is even too much for AIPAC. Howard Kohr, the CEO of AIPAC, recently had this to say:
the rise of a very vocal minority on the far left of the Democratic Party that is anti-Israel and seeks to weaken and diminish the relationship. Our view is that support for the U.S.-Israel relationship is both good policy and good politics. We wanted to defend our friends and to send a message to detractors that there’s a group of individuals that will oppose them.
Lots of Zionists aren’t Jewish, they are Christian. In fact, statistically, in the U.S. there are more Christian Zionists than Jewish Zionists, partly because there is simply a lot more Christians than Jews; around 30 million Americans are Christian Zionists, while there are only around 6 million Americans who are Jewish, not all of which are even Zionist (albeit probably still a majority that are). A significant part of the Israel Lobby are Christians who believe that the state of Israel is an essential element of an “End Times” prophecy that will ultimately usher in the second coming of Jesus. There are members of congress who apparently believe that. And they want to ensure that Israel remains a Jewish pseudo ethno-theocratic state so that Jesus comes — even if it means that all Jews there will ultimately be destroyed by Jesus, like anyone else who doesn’t eagerly become his slave [albeit there are some sectarian disagreements about the details of Armageddon].
In some sense, Christian Zionism actually predates the Herzl strand of modern Jewish Zionism. For example, two years before Theodore Herzl wrote his “Jewish State”, an Anglican Christian Chaplain, William Hechler wrote “The Restoration of the Jews to Palestine.” Hechler believed that Jews returning to Palestine would be essential for fulfilling a prophecy related to Jesus. He ended up providing Herzl access to the German and British political establishment, which eventually contributed to the 1917 Balfour Declaration: a public letter from Arthur Belfour to Walter Rothschild that promised the British government’s support for creating a home in Palestine for Jews. That public declaration though contained a lie. In it Balfour makes the promise:
that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.
But in a private letter, Balfour made it clear that the he and the British government didn’t care at all about the existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine:
For in Palestine, we do not propose even to go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country, though the American Commission has been going through the form of asking what they are…
The Four Great Powers are committed to Zionism. And Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long traditions, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land…
I do not think that Zionism will hurt the Arabs, but they will never say they want it. Whatever be the future of Palestine, it is not now an ‘independent nation’, nor is it yet on the way to become one. Whatever deference should be paid to the view of those living there, the Powers in their selection of a mandatory do not propose, as I understand the matter, to consult them. In short, so far as Palestine is concerned, the Powers have made no statement of fact which is not admittedly wrong, and no declaration of policy which, at least in the letter, they have not always intended to violate…
Zionism, “be it right or wrong”, sounds just about how Biden views things. However, I suspect most U.S. politicians are not ideologically Zionist, Christian or otherwise; I’d wager most are just the average hollow hustler that views politics as a lucrative and exciting career with ample opportunities to flex power. Zionists, Jewish and Christian, provide them with ample amounts of cash to augment their campaigns and since most of the American population doesn’t view the fate of Palestine as a high priority, the politicians can support a genocide, get paid, and have no concerns about it deeply eroding their voting base. And for the average American, wading into the murky waters of a century old conflict with terrorists, religious zealots, propaganda, and billionaires, is fraught with dangers — social, financial, and mortal.
But I think it should be a high priority; the resources and lives that the U.S. has invested into protecting Israel’s choice to be a pseudo ethno-theocratic state that is perpetually attempting to expand its territory has been deeply detrimental to the prosperity and security of the vast majority of Americans. Billions of dollars of taxes are sent every year to a small relatively wealthy foreign country which could be used domestically to help Americans. Trillions of dollars of debt and taxes have been sunk into military campaigns that had a relationship to Israel — Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria; much of the “forever wars” have been driven by “neocons” and Zionists who have steered American foreign policy in the middle east that converged with the interests of a Likudite Israel. Millions of lives have been destroyed or traumatized because of it; and I suspect millions more will be if history continues to repeat. That has affected the way many countries and people perceive the US, contributing to events like 9/11. Supporting Israel’s atrocities harms America’s national security and prosperity, and not for any worthy cause. I do believe there are theoretically virtuous wars, but the wars that Zionists have dragged the U.S. into have not been. And certainly, the latest conflict, the genocide that Zionists now conduct and defend, is not.
From the Transparent Cabal, by Stephen J. Sniegoski:
Some significant United States government figures, mostly retired or about to retire, also commented about the Israeli role in the [Iraq] war. On May 23, 2004, retired Marine General Anthony Zinni, stated on the popular “60 Minutes” television program that the neoconservatives’ role in pushing the war for Israel’s benefit
“was the worst-kept secret in Washington .. . And one article, because I mentioned the neoconservatives who describe themselves as neoconservatives, I was called anti-Semitic. I mean, you know, unbelievable that that’s the kind of personal attacks that are run when you criticize a strategy and those who propose it.... I know what strategy they promoted. And openly. And for a number of years. And what they have convinced the President and the secretary to do.
And I don’t believe there is any serious political leader, military leader, diplomat in Washington that doesn't know where it came from.”
Zinni had been in charge of all American troops in the Middle East as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Central Command, and had also served President George W. Bush as a special envoy to the Middle East.
Here is Benjamin Netanyahu, the man who boasted about manipulating America, speaking to congress and trying to convince them to invade Iraq after 9/11 even though Iraq had nothing to do with it:
Regardless of how relatively small the population of Israel is it would be foolish to discount its power and influence, even though Zionists would like people to look away or erroneously think it’s racist for having suspicions about the influence Israel or Zionists have over U.S. foreign policy. Historically small populations have routinely dominated much larger populations, from the Spartans over the Helots to the British over much of the Earth. Its banal. The concentration of enormous power in the hands of the few is the norm.
However Zionism will not be purged from the upper power structures of the U.S. until most Americans understand the pernicious effects on the government and American citizens that being an “ally of Israel” has caused. I wouldn’t call a country an “ally” of the U.S. if it steals nuclear secrets and materials, napalms its soldiers, and attempts to manipulate its policies with false flag terrorism all while having the gall to slander challenging the right to do that as “anti-Semitism.” Americans must come to accept that Israel is no more of an ally than Russia or China, and arguably even more dangerous to American interests. But before that can happen the political weaponization and manipulation of “anti-Semitism” accusations must be challenged.