There is only one reason the US government remains blindly loyal to Israel: political advantage. The Israeli lobby is well organized and ready to respond ruthlessly to any perceived attack on the official orthodoxy. They also have strange-bedfellows arrangement with right wing Christian televangelist nut-cases, as well as right wing nitwit radio hosts. Together, the three wield tremendous political clout.

The question is whether the Israeli Lobby will overreach. It’s already led the US by the nose into a six-year commitment in Iraq, and would love to see that commitment expanded in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran. The Iraqi escapade has already cost over half a trillion dollars (while “fiscal conservatives” rail about million dollar earmarks).

In the end, the US will be forced to withdraw from the Middle East, not because of military losses, but because of financial losses. Folks, we just can’t afford imperialism. When the unemployment rate and inflation rate hit twenty percent each, the American people just might wake up.

The final solution is to simply cede the State of Texas to Israel and pay for the moving of the holy wall and any other things important to the residents and their religion allowing them to feel “down home” in Texas.

They would vacate the Middle East and let the Palestinians have their land back. Israel seems to handle border confrontations fairly well so they would make an excellent buffer zone between a seemingly out of control Mexico run by narcotrafficantes and the soft underbelly of the U.S. The climatology is similar too and no doubt would be amenable to most Israeli citizens.

The end result would be a great savings to American taxpayers and a major defusing of this ongoing Middle Eastern powder keg since the founding of the modern Israeli state.

It would also be poetic justice for all the Christian fundamentalists living in Texas and elsewhere that are itching for the last great confrontation between good and evil; ie., Armageddon, now defused as a function of this mass migration to their new homeland…/:|

Carl Nemo **==

The Religious Right tries to stop Jews from opposing their agenda of Christmas pageants in public schools, and squares etc., by lavishly praising Israel, and as with Rush Limbaugh running self-appointed errands for them. I think his errands are self-appointed since his efforts to stop what he calls evil socialism destroying America, makes things rough for the two most prominent Jewish politicians Arlen Specter and Joe Lieberman. If Rush asked what they wanted or made a deal, I’m sure they would suggest something different than making things rough for Specter and Lieberman. The coordinated Israeli conspiracy theories don’t fit here.

It upsets both of us and many more that the US is letting the Palestinians starve even helping it happen with veto power at the UN, and lack of strings in US aid to Israel. Perhaps we should point out how much bin Laden appreciates that the US is still helping him recruit.

Al Qaeda preaches antisemitism in its English language blogging, and America is really the enemy in its Arabic broadcasting, and there is plenty of traditional prejudice involving Jews and business. Moussaoui in his 9/11 trial where the jury chose between life and death, spent the trial condemning his Jewish lawyer and urging American’s to condemn Israel, and Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal correspondent was lured to Pakistan and beheaded, and forced to parrot a confession of Jewish conspiracy. Of course there is also a lot of anti-Muslim prejudice thrown around. But bin Laden would be overjoyed if there was a systematic attempt to remove both Jews and Muslims from Western countries to supposedly fight their wars in their part of the world not ours. Some may say al Qaeda is less and less organized and thus less of a problem, but if al Qaeda members get connived that their multi-generational plans for the future is hopeless, they may seek isolated individual acts of martyrdom.

Unfortunately insinuations of intense conspiracy, though many other articles more intense than the above in the above article, will make it a little less likely that Obama will risk a public row with Israel that might encourage a lot determined anti-Semites to get much limelight.

(After thought now added) I think Obama wants to do the right thing I hope that I, Phil and the others worried about needless oppression will help him find a way to do it. Somehow we got to get involved early the way those who basically differ with him do.

For more details see,
http://capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/16552
http://capitolhillblue.com/cont/blog/2419
Richard Kane

Although one might wish to have the Israeli Lobby muzzled with respect to the Middle East, clearly an amazing amount of muzzling will be required with respect to the Supreme Court on such things as abortion and euthanasia.

But it WOULD be picturesque!

During the last administration, the top 3-4 decision makers at the Pentagon under Rumsfeld were dual citizens with Israel. Israel, the nation that conducts the most espionage operations *against* the US of any so-called “friendly” nation.

I’m not picking on Jews – or even Israelis. I don’t hate anybody in particular these days, and the Jewish people least of all. But I do believe that the .01% of jobs in the US that require more than a simple criminal check should be barred to anyone who holds dual citizenship, period, absolutely regardless of nation. Divided loyalties at those levels contain too much potential for disaster.

Just common sense, it seems to me.

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The U.S. could not be accused of anti-Semitism, as we would welcome the new (now wealthy and generally highly educated) emigrants with open arms.

Roughly 26% of the US population claims to be Roman Catholic. According to your figures, they have 42% of the SCOTUS, 30% of Congressmen, 25% of Senators. So I’ll agree they are disproportionately represented on the SCOTUS, but their Congressional representation is more in line with the general population.

Then there is the whole Franklin/Weissman/Rosen espionage case where AIPAC officials received secret documents from Laurence Franklin. Franklin is currently serving a 12-year sentence, a slap on the wrist for espionage while Weissman and Rosen are in the trial process.

Gee, I wonder why we don’t see Weissman and Rosen’s trial every day on the news? Spy rings usually make such explosive news stories, one might think at least one network would bother to mention it!