April 2002
Killing Softly With Money
By Edward W. Miller

"We will harass these Palestinian 'til they move like drunk cockroaches in a
bottle." -Rafael Etan, former Israeli general and head of the rightest
Tzomet Party.

The Jerusalem Post on March 6, 2002 reported from its Washington office,
"More than 230 members of Congress wrote to US President George W. Bush
yesterday, asking him to classify Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser
Arafat's security force and two other groups linked to the PA as terrorist
organizations. This would freeze their assets, and authorize denial of visas
to members trying to enter the country, and expulsion of those already in
the country."

The San Francisco Chronicle on March 19 reported Vice President Cheney on
his Mideast tour refused to meet with Chairman Arafat... noting: "If Cheney
does meet with Arafat it would enrage the Israelis, who have pressed hard
for the West to isolate the Palestinian leader." Such political actions by
Washington which support Israel but damage the Palestinian's chance for a
State of their own, demonstrate the power of Jewish money.

Marshall Windmiller, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at SF
State, recently released a list of Jewish political activity to the web
(http://www.al-bushra.org/temp/marshall/html). Windmiller's 22-page list
goes back into the 1980s, and details not only the organizational expertise
of American Jewry in their intense political support of Israel, but
documents their willingness to subjugate even the PBS media on Israel's
behalf. As one example: On September 1, 1989, "forty-five Jewish community
leaders launched an Ad Hoc committee to protest KQED's showing a documentary
of the Palestinian's first INTAFADA. The Committee's letter to Bay Area Jews
state, "If you are a KQED contributor, let the board know that such
programming could cause you to withdraw your support." However, on July 16,
1993, the local Jewish community forced KQED, "after a bitter dispute" to
air their flagrantly-propagandized five-hour pro-Israel piece.

Thus, and quietly, America's Jewish lobby long ago entered the Mideast
conflict on the side of Israel. With Jewish money and its political
behind-the-scenes power, the UN's promise to the Palestinians to maintain a
homeland, or even survive as a people has been at risk. It is the Jewish
lobby and its billions which has made Washington's "honest broker" claim an
international joke. For almost a generation, the Mideast world has
understood that US' policy regarding their interests was being made, not in
Washington, but in Tel Aviv.

Washington's failure to rein in Israel's dogs of war has kept the Mideast
pot boiling ever since the United Nations placed its stamp of legitimacy on
a Zionist State in 1947. The Jews, lead by the religious right, pay homage
to Yahweh, the ancient Hebrew God of war and revenge, whose legacy fills
page after page in the Torah (Old Testament). Reincarnated as the God of
Zionist terrorism against the British in Palestine, Yahweh rose again as the
Jews savagely dispersed the Palestinians from their homeland in the 1948
war, and again in their murderous invasions of Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, the
West Bank and Gaza.

Reliance on violence rather than diplomacy has characterized the Zionist
State since its inception. Back in 1956, UN Secretary-General Dag
Hammarskjold cautioned Israel's Prime Minister Ben Gurion against his
continued barbarity, saying, "You are convinced that the threat of
retaliation has a deterrent effect. I am convinced that it is more of an
incitement to individual members of the Arab forces than even what has been
said by their own governments. You are convinced that acts of retaliation
will stop further incidents. I am convinced that they will lead to other
incidents... You believe that this way of creating respect for Israel will
pave the way for sound coexistence with the Arab peoples. I believe the
policy may postpone indefinitely the time for such coexistence. I think the
discussion of this question can be considered closed since you, in spite of
previous discouraging experiences, have taken the responsibility for
large-scale tests of the correctness of your belief." (The Passionate
Attachment, George Ball, Page 251)

When ex-terrorist and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was to visit the
United States, America's Jewish leaders warned the American Jewish community
not to support, "this admixture of ultranationalism, religious mysticism,
and racial superiority."

The Zionist policy of reprisal was reiterated by Moshe Dayan, Minister of
Defense and General during Israel's 1967 war of aggression. Dayan stated,
"It is in our power to set a high price on our blood, a price too high for
the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab government to think it worth
paying." In his book, George Ball notes, "Such logic, which justifies
collective punishment, was specifically disavowed at the Nuremberg Trials,
and is categorically proscribed by the Geneva Convention." A convention to
which Israel was a signatory.

Today, Sharon's ongoing mayhem is largely against civilians, as his army,
with tanks, helicopters and F-16s brings demolition and savage killing
directly into Palestinian villages, a cruel reminder that lives, other than
Jewish, have scant value in the eyes of God's Chosen People.

One escape from this seemingly bottomless pit of Israeli killing and the
suicidal retaliation by a Palestinian generation born into violence,
depravation, and hopelessness, may rest in rescuing American politics from
domination by money, especially Jewish money.

Our Jewish lobby, often a formidable and invisible wall between the American
voter and his candidate of choice is organized under the label AIPAC
(American Israeli Public Affairs Committee). This behemoth directs just how
those millions received from hundreds of Jewish PACs (Political Action
Committees) shall be spent. AIPAC funds candidates it approves while pouring
millions into campaigns which support opponents of politicians whose voting
record AIPAC dislikes. Thus, AIPAC has become a lifeline for its devotees
and potential political oblivion for any candidate failing its litmus test.

Alert to such massive bribery, Senators and Representatives at both federal
and state levels routinely call AIPAC before voting on a bill. Though AIPAC
directs millions of soft money to candidates, it refuses to register as a
lobby, thus its books which track how money is spent, are closed to the
public. To bring this monster under public scrutiny, on January 12, 1989,
former Under Secretary of State George Ball, former Ambassador to Saudi
Arabia James Akins, and former Illinois Congressman Paul Findley filed a
complaint with the Federal Election Commission, charging AIPAC with failing
to register as a political action committee. After almost nine years as
AIPAC fought this through the courts, the plaintiffs received a 8-2
favorable verdict in Washington's Circuit Court, only to have the US Supreme
Court, to which AIPAC than appealed, toss the decision back to the Federal
Election Commission. On December 21, 1990, the Federal Election Commission
announced its vote, dismissing the complaint, concluding "there is
insufficient evidence to indicate that AIPAC and the respondent PAC's are
affiliated." The plaintiffs are appealing this response.

Another possible control of bribery, the McCain-Feingold Bill, just passed
by the House awaits Senate debate. The Bill limits soft money at the federal
level, but increases contributions to the state elections, a weak first
step. McCain, influenced by the media moguls, did not address a candidate's
access to free TV and Radio time. Since money is the cash cow of politics
and media access the most expensive item on a candidates' list, free media
access would markedly reduce campaign costs, shifting much of a candidate's
energy away from money-raising toward addressing political issues. Just what
the Republican-weighed Senate will do with this Bill is unknown.

In the Washington-enhanced excitement of Bush's "War on Terrorism," our
Jewish lobby has embarked on two self-serving and dangerous campaigns:
first, to label Arafat and his political cronies as "terrorists," a
public-relations ploy to hide the ongoing blatant terrorism of Sharon and
his military barbarism in the Palestinian townships. The second, to maneuver
Washington into attacking two of Israel's perceived enemies, Iraq and Iran,
countries which pose no threat to the US but might interfere with the
Zionist dream of Eretz Israel or compete with Israel's economic future.

Our Jewish lobby has marshaled its first-line troops for this campaign of
lies and vilification. On C-Span, CNN, the Lehrer News Hour, such Zionists
as Senator Lieberman, Jeffrey Kemp, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, William
Saffire, and Bill Cristol, repeatedly vilify the leaders of Iran and Iraq.
Though our FBI finds no threat from Saddam, and Scott Ritter, ex-UN Chief
Inspector, testifies there are "No weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq, and
though the UN team inspecting signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty recently declared Iraq "nuclear-free," these lying Zionists want us
to risk American lives and spend American money to destroy Israel's
perceived enemies.

In 1796, George Washington in his farewell address warned his people that "a
passionate attachment of one nation to another produces a variety of evils."
Today, the whole world sees us as increasingly corrupted by a small but
dangerous parasite, Israel. The sooner we break this bond, the better for
both countries. Israel would be forced to stop its militant expansionism and
we as a nation might regain some of our national pride.

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