THE FINEST SENATE THAT MONEY CAN BUY

The following article by Israeli Knesset member Uri Avenim, published originally in the Israeli Daily Haaretz, was allegedly re-printed in either the Washington Times or the Washington Post. The following was transcribed directly from a newspaper article which had been clipped and mailed to me several years ago, although neither the name of the paper nor the date was shown. - Jackie -  Source and continuation http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/israel/finestsenate.htm

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THE FINEST SENATE THAT MONEY CAN BUY

By Uri Avenim; member: Israeli Knesset

 Will the Americans pay the huge amounts of money Israel is demanding to help alleviate the economic holocaust it has brought upon itself? There is no doubt that the U.S. will pay. Why? Because politically they have no choice.

http://www.defraudingamerica.com/uss_liberty_index

Introduction

The enormous harm and costs affecting the people of the United States arising from attacks upon American targets  have as their initial catalyst the brutal actions of Israel, and the support, funding, and arming of Israel by the United States, that have given tacit approval of Israel's arrogance and brutality. The people that the United States call "terrorists"  admit that Israel's arrogance and brutality, and U.S. enabling of it, is the primary reason why so many people want to kill Americans. The following information is provided to show how the actions of the government of Israel—and the actions of most U.S. politicians acting as shills for Israel—are the most direct causes for the terrorist-related harm suffered by the American people and the United States as a nation.

This writer was a former airline captain who lived and worked in the Middle East many years ago, at a time when Arabs and Iranians were friends of America.

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U.S. Politicians and Most U.S. Media Protecting
Israel Government's Deliberate Murder of
U.S. Navy Personnel During Repeated Attacks

Forty years ago, on June 8, 1967, one of the most brutal attacks upon a ship of the United States Navy occurred, while U.S. politicians barred other navy ships to come to the rescue of the sailors being killed during repeated attacks by Israel ships and planes. Fear of retaliation, U.S. politicians and U.S. media kept this information from the American public. Understanding those events could help Americans understand one of the countless forms in which they are brutalized by those in control of the system.

 U.S.S. Liberty , Riddled by Israeli Fighter Planes and ships

U.S. sailors had intercepted Israeli radio communications relating to a planned attack on Syria that occurred the following day, and Israel felt the Americans would expose the sneak attack. The attack on a U.S. navy ship was to prevent revealing the intended attack upon Syria.

As Israeli fighter planes approached the Liberty, the pilots radioed and protested to their base, “It’s an American ship!” Tel Aviv disregarded the pilot’s protests and ordered the fighters to attack. The brutal and bloody assault continued for almost half an hour, during which time missiles, napalm, and torpedoes were used to kill thirty-four U.S. Navy men and injuring 171 others.

During the several hours of repeated attacks, the U.S. Navy ship sustained 821 holes from shells fired into the ship by the fleet of Israel aircraft and surface vessels. Today, while we need U.S. military personnel to serve as cannon-fodder for the arrogant and reckless actions of U.S. politicians, it is time to again try to inform as many people as possible and seek to find some outrage among them.  

The hours of continual attacks were perpetrated upon the U.S.S. Liberty by waves of Israel planes and gunboats, 13 nautical miles off the Sinai Peninsula. Other U.S. navy ships were kept from defending the ship, sacrificing many of the sailors. Oddly, the only ship that came to the defense of the U.S.S. Liberty was a Russian guided-missile destroyer. But to maintain the cold war culture, U.S. politicians ordered the U.S.S. Liberty to reject the help the Russian vessel offered. Their help rejected, the Russian vessel stayed nearby, ready to rescue any sailors in the sea.

To get realistic about the consequences, U.S. military personnel were cremated alive, dismembered alive, by the wave after wave of Israeli aircraft and surface vessels. The United States politicians even denied the victims the benefit of being recognized. 

U.S. media, out of deference to the powerful Israeli lobbies, and members of Congress, fearful of an attack upon their reelection funded by the same powerful Israeli lobbies, covered up for the murderous attacks and said nothing about the heroic actions by the U.S. military personnel.  

The United States denial of defense, the protection by U.S. politicians and media people of Israel, were shameful acts and contempt for the horrendous sufferings of U.S. navy personnel. The heroic actions of the entire crew were denied recognition and respect, and their place in history. The unpublicized reference to the attack omitted reference to the identify of the attackers, referring only top “foreign” aircraft and vessels. 

Remember, it is the same Israel's whose conduct gave birth to the Middle East problems in which the United States is now heavily engaged in what could be a survival for the U.S. itself.  Thanks to the standard naiveté of the American public and lack of inquisitiveness, virtually all the guilty joined together to spin the truth to the American people. The Israeli government, the Anti-Defamation League, White House politicians, and media people, stated the hours of attacks upon U.S. military personnel were simply, an accident! For the public to acknowledge they were being duped required courage to show outrage.

Top Navy Admiral Revealed Deliberate Israeli Attack
And Withholding of Help by U.S. Politicians

Explaining the sordid details of what happened was Admiral Thomas, former Chief of Naval Operations, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of  Staff.

An article in the San Francisco Chronicle (March 27, 2002) referred to the fear of U.S. politicians from the powerful Jewish influence in the United States:

Sharon’s hard line was an unprecedented slap at the Bush administration. U.S. officials’ response was merely to turn the other cheek, indicating they are unwilling to criticize Sharon. If Sharon can get away with so publicly defying the United States, which gives Israel $2.8 billion per year in military and economic aid, then Arab cooperation with the war on terrorism may weaken, and the Arab world’s opposition to any future U.S. attack on Iraq will harden.

Israel has used military jets to fire missiles and drop bombs into heavily occupied areas in the West Bank, killing many innocent people. They have used military weapons, furnished by the United States, to kill thousands of Palestinians. In one such example, on July 22, 2002, an Israel jet fighter fired a missile into a highly concentrated civilian area during the night, killing a Hamas leader, his wife and family, and 13 other children. Israel, and many “news” reporters in the United States (including Dennis Ross) supported the slaughter. 

Most Americans know very little about this attack and the contempt held by the people perpetrating the acts and U.S. politicians for the murdered U.S. military personnel. That attack resulted in the highest per capita casualties since World War II, 70 percent of the ship’s 294 sailors sustaining major injuries and deaths. It was the costliest hostile action since World War II. Killed, 34; wounded, 172.

Israelis didn’t limit their assassinations to Arabs. Israeli forces deliberately machine-gunned and bombed a virtually unarmed U.S. Navy communication ship, the U.S.S. Liberty, killing several dozen U.S. sailors. (June 8, 1967) The Liberty carried clear markings indicating it to be an American ship, and Israel knew that. The attack, occurring off the coast of Lebanon.

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Series of Grave Consequences for Americans

Blowback consequences from Israel's thumb-to-their-nose attitude toward the United States—and their allies among pandering U.S. leaders and politicians, go to www.defraudingamerica.com/israel_palestine_index.html.

·        Report submitted to Secretary of the Army by survivors of the attack upon the U.S.S. Liberty. (Adobe PDF format)
 

·        http://www.gtr5.com, a site put up by survivors of the Israeli slaughter of U.S. Navy personnel.
 

·        http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/ussliberty.html
 

·        http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/margolis12.html.
 

The fact that arrogant Israelis could deliberately murder that many U.S. navy personnel, the U.S. media and U.S. politicians ignore the crimes, and the U.S. public remain indifferent, is an indictment of the entire culture in the United States.

Explaining the sordid details of what happened was Admiral Thomas, former Chief of Naval Operations, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of  Staff.

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Truth Withheld from Trivia-Obsessed American Public

The American public never learned the truth. Even White House officials acted to protect Israel , publicly accepting Israel’s apology that the attack was an accident. American military personnel were equally expendable in Vietnam and other ventures by the politicians in the White House, including Iraq.

Israel asserted that they thought the Liberty was another ship, the El Quseir. But that Egyptian supply ship was in Alexandria, a fact known to Israel. The ugly truth of the deliberate killing of U.S. military personnel by Israel was shown through radio messages intercepted by the American embassy in Beirut, which were slowly being known.

In 1991, former U.S. Ambassador, Dwight Porter, revealed the radio communications intercepted by his office in Lebanon on that fateful day in 1967, revealing that Israeli commanders knew the ship was an American ship and that they knew they were killing American sailors.

Porter’s revelations were supported by Seth Mintz,¹ a major in Israel‘s IDF, ² who was present in IDF headquarters for several hours before the attack on the U.S. communication ship. Shortly after Mintz made these statements, he was threatened by Mossad, causing him to recant his earlier statements. In a dispatch in Ha’aretz on November 7, 1991, Mintz expressed “grave anxiety over the media interest in him” relating to the Liberty affair. He told Ha’aretz, “Everyone is after me now, and that is what I’m afraid of. I don’t need the Mossad³ and Shin Bet⁴ knocking on my door.” His insider knowledge of Mossad’s assassination squads and their practice of assassinations justified his anxiety.

Israel’s orders to attack the navy communication ship came from a high Israeli official, reportedly General Yitzhak Rabin, who later became Israel’s Laborite Prime Minister. President George Bush’s White House staff tried to portray Israel’s Rabin as a peacemaker, despite his long history of terrorist activities. In 1996, a person intending to fund a TV documentary on the Israeli attack upon the Liberty was killed.

The media protecting those who perpetrated and covered up for the murder of U.S. sailors ignored the June 7, 1997, memorial services held by the surviving Liberty crewmen.

1. Residing in Houlton, Maine. He was a U.S. citizen who went to Israel in 1962, joining the Israeli Army in 1965, and assigned to the IDF war room during the Six-Day War.

2. Israel Defense Forces (IDF)"

3. Mossad is the Israeli highly secret intelligence service and a worldwide network of agents, much of it funded by the United States.

4. Shin Bet acts in a similar manner as the Mossad, performing for the military.

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Practice of U.S. Politicians Protecting Israel
Continued in the Obama Presidency

In May 2009, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, in the Obama administration, dropped charges against two staffers in the pro-Israel lobbying group Aipac, who were charged with passing U.S. secrets to Israel: Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman. Possibly this was due to the need to avoid offending the powerful Israel lobby and being targeted for political defeat−as other politicians had learned.

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Israel's Thumb-to-the-Nose Attitude
Toward U.S. National Interests

This internet page, as with the many others, provide information to the uninformed or unresponsive American people showing how Israel's thumb-to-the-nose conduct continues to gravely, sometimes catastrophically, affect the lives of the American people, and constitute the catalyst for deadly hatred for Americans. First, a first highlights on the issues:

·        Conduct of Israel politicians—and the subservient U.S. politicians—have been the initial and continuing catalyst for the millions of people hating and wanting to kill Americans. (Note: this writer was an airline captain flying throughout the Middle East when people throughout that area liked Americans. This attitude changed with American politicians funding, arming, and supporting the brutalities upon the people of the land that Israel invaded.)
 

·        Israel politicians—with the complicity of U.S. politicians, some out of fear of retaliation by Israel's shills in the United States—continue to make fools of the uninformed and gullible American people. No better example of this is the continued building of hundreds of homes and businesses on the land Israel invaded in 1967, showing Israel has no intention of retreating from the seized land.
 

·        U.S. politicians—including President Barack Obama—cannot give Israel an ultimatum to vacate the seized land, as powerful Israel interests would promptly start a subversive campaign to undermine any U.S. politicians that attempted to finally halt Israel's subversion of U.S. interests. The blissfully unconcerned American people will continue to pay the sometimes deadly consequences. People of the United States have been given the shaft by their politicians for years, in this area, and the many other areas described at this site that are totally off the radar of most Americans obsessed with trivia and to whom reading of these matters and showing the most basic outrage are beyond their comprehension.

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In November 2010, Israel announced building an additional 2000 housing units in the occupied land. President Obama weakly objected, and Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, contemptuously responded, "Israel sees no connection between the peace process and planning and building policy in Jerusalem." Although an illiterate person with street smarts could recognize that Israel would not continue building thousands of permanent housing units in the seized territory if they had any intention of leaving, as would be required in any peace treaty, U.S. politicians and the American public lacked the courage to respond.

Israel politicians know that their conduct continues to inflame people throughout the Middle East to attack U.S. targets that they see as responsible for the harm being inflicted upon the Palestinians. U.S. calls them terrorists, while they are called patriots by the victims of Israeli and U.S. actions. As with so many other attacks upon the American people by people in their own government, the uninformed and naive American public remained indifferent, despite the resulting harm they suffer.

This incredible naïveté to this go-to-hell Israel attitude and cowardice of U.S. politicians and the American public  is worsened by the billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayers money, authorized by U.S. politicians, that has been sent to Israel over the years. According to Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, the  United States had given in direct U.S. aid to Israel over 115 billion dollars, plus many billions more hidden in U.S. Department of Defense, CIA, and other budgets that are easily hidden.  Only in the United States could such a situation continue!

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Israel's Trampling on U.S. Interests
With Absolute Immunity

So powerful are the Israel political groups that Israel has been able to:

• Conduct a military attack on the U.S. Navy ship, U.S.S. Liberty, killing numerous Navy sailors during hours of continuous military attacks. So powerful is Israel over U.S. actions that ships going to the rescue of the U.S.S. Liberty were called back.
   
• Jeopardize the security of the United States arising from the support, funding, arming, of Israel, under orders of U.S. politicians.
   
• Israel, through the Mossad, engaged in drug smuggling into the United States during the CIA and National Security Council's drug smuggling as part of the Contra affair. (Described in the books,  Defrauding America and Drugging America.)
   
• Israel's continuous spying in the United States and thefts of military secrets.
   
• By it's conduct, Israel's politicians have caused to be inflicted great harm upon the United States, assisted by U.S. politicians whose self-interests are treated far above the national interests of the United States.
   
• Israel politicians, and U.S. politicians, speaking on U.S. television (July 25. 2006) upheld the slaughter of Lebanese citizens and the destruction of this once beautiful city, as justified because Hezbollah had seized two Israeli soldiers. Israel has seized and imprisoned hundreds of Lebanese and other Middle East citizens, for years. Further, the killings of innocent people on this phony argument reflects the advanced arrogance of U.S. "leaders."
   
• A more graphic understanding of what President George Bush, Condoleezza "Bugs Bunny" Rice, and their shills say is justified, look at a few of the victims of their actions. These are a sampling of the consequences from the public's approval of the conduct, or the utter failure to object. President Bush even rushed additional bombs to Israel to continue the slaughter of Lebanese citizens.  An article in the New York Times (July 27, 2006) stated:
   
• Even Britain's patience with the United States is wearing thin over the Mideast crisis. The British foreign secretary, Margaret Beckett, told reports that Britain would made a formal complaint to the United States over its use of a British airport for a stopping point in transporting bombs to Israel. The British news media reported Wednesday that American aircraft carrying "bunker-busting" bombs from the United States to Israel refueled at a Scottish air base last weekend.
   
• While you are at it, look at a sampling of the victims in Iraq from the serial lying of President George Bush, his cabinet, and their many shills in political office and the media. Are you one of those who made these and hundreds of similar atrocities possible? Did your son or husband get killed in Iraq, and did you vote for President George Bush, which made possible the deaths that followed?
   
• Let's also look at the victims in Lebanon which were made possible by those who support Israel, President Bush, and those many U.S. media people who supported the murderous invasion of Lebanon.

Israel's Lobbying Determines U.S. Middle East Policies

The Israel lobbies in the United States are so powerful that no politicians can oppose these brutal and deadly acts without being targeted for defeat and without being called anti-Semitic. So powerful are these groups that Americans are fed a daily barrage of support by media people and politician pundits, willing to subvert national interests for their own greed and self-interests.

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Israel's role in Subverting America and America's Interests

Israel has committed deadly and subversive acts against the United States over the years. These included, for instance:

• Israel's deliberate murder of U.S. sailors. Israel had mounted a deliberate killed U.S. military personnel. Israel's military strike against the U.S. Navy ship, U.S. Liberty, killed many American sailors. That attack continued for hours. U.S. knew of the ongoing attack and pulled by American forces, allowing American lives to be brutally ended, thereby placating powerful Israel groups in the United States. American lives were expended to placate Israel's politicians. (more information at google search, "U.S.S. Liberty." In other words, damn the U.S. military personnel, don't antagonize the powerful Israel lobbies in the United States. To do otherwise means the downfall of any U.S. politician. President Obama will probably follow this "safe" route as have his predecessors.
   
• The repeated spying operations against the United States. Israel had been spying on the United States and stealing its secrets for years, committing espionage against America. Among the most publicized spy cases were those of Jonathan Pollard and Ben-Ami Kadish. A New York Times article (December 31, 2008) made reference to Kadish with the following comments:
   
• An espionage case that had threatened United States relations with Israel and stirred talk of the death penalty ended [when Kadish]  pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to reduced charges [reduced because of his age] of leaking classified military documents to the Israeli government in the 1980s.] Mr. Kadish's case has been linked to the case of Mr. Pollard, which has long been a matter of contention between the United States and Israel, whose leaders have argued, unsuccessfully, for Mr. Pollard's release.
   
• Murders perpetrated of citizens in foreign countries perpetrated by Israel's Mossad, of people that had provoked the displeasure of Israel. That includes killings in the United States (as detailed in the book, Defrauding America).
   
• Israel's Mossad agents involved in drug smuggling into the United States during the Reagan-Bush administrations of the 1980s. (Details in Defrauding America and Drugging America.)
   

• Israel's role in carrying out the October Surprise, the secret operation that enabled presidential candidate Ronald Reagan to send U.S. military supplies to Iran so as to delay the release of the 52 American hostages until the presidential elections, insuring that Reagan would be elected president. (Details in Defrauding America.) This undermined the presidential elections. Knowledge of this type enabled Israel to blackmail U.S. politicians.
   
• Israel's ability to expose these corrupt activities by American politicians undoubtedly plays a certain role in controlling the withholding of information on Israel's hostile acts against the United States.

The birth and explosive growth of people wanting to kill Americans has resulted from, and will continue to increase, with America's funding, arming, and support of Israel's violent occupation of land taken from Arabs. U.S. politicians fuel the fire by continuing the very policies that breeds the world's greatest increase in people wanting to kill Americans.

As long as the United States politicians and shills for Israel continue their deception, America and its people will pay the consequences. Any U.S. politician that dares to make statements against Israel is not only falsely accused of anti-Semitism but also targeted for extinction, as many learned. In this way, Israel subverts the political process in the United States. The massive power and influence of Israel in the United States insures that the American people will never know how the United States has suffered for its military and financial support for Israel and its aggression.

Many citizens of Israel and in the same position as citizens of the United States, and against the conduct of their leaders. The primary blame is against the leaders, and not the average citizen who does not seem to have any control over what their leaders are doing.
Ignorance is not bliss! And Americans have paid and will continue to pay a heavy price for their ignorance of these and other areas of corruption. As long as the American people want to remain illiterate, indifferent, or too lazy to react to being taken for saps, these outrages and many others will continue to adversely affect the lives of most Americans.

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 Covert Conduct by Israel and U.S. Politicians Responsible
For Great Harm to Americans and Middle East People

The one-sided support, funding and arming Israel with heavy military weapons, has had tragic consequences for the people of the United States.
Israel's murderous and inhumane attacks against the Arabs, funded and armed by the United States, has bred and generated the last 40 years of hatred against the United States. Also, for those who care enough to read, we mustn't forget Israel's conduct that inflicted great harm upon Americans. Consider the following examples:

• For instance, the deliberate military attack upon the U.S.S. Liberty that killed dozens of U.S. Navy personnel (while White House politicians pulled back Navy vessels going to their defense).
   
• The years of drug smuggling into the United States by Israel's Mossad. (Read Drugging America.)
   
• The spying upon the United States by Israel. (Read Defrauding America and Drugging America for details and documentation.)
   
• The practice of Israel sending its Mossad agents into other countries and killing citizens−including in the United States (as detailed in Defrauding America).

U.S. politicians, for self-serving interests, have kept these hostile attacks against the United States and its people secret, and aided and abetted the host of consequences suffered by the people of the United States.
A BBC documentary was produce on the USS Liberty, called, Dead in the Water. It was produced with the help of a retired naval intelligence officer, Dick Thompson. Every media outlet in the United States refused to show it, thereby protecting the powerful Israeli Zionist lobby and their subjects in the Congress of the United States. Even PBS refused to show it, despite the gravity of the attack upon the United States.

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Sampling of other postings relating to
Israel's Militant Zionist Leaders

·        Victims of Israel's brutal occupation.

·        Israel, Palestine, Lebanon

·        Israel's brutal invasion of Gaza

·        Israel's promotion of U.S. attack on Iran.

·        Israel and Gaza.

·        Thoughts on Israel's behavior.

·        Israel-US-coalition continued attacks.

·        www.defraudingamerica.com/israel_index.html, for much more on Israel's subversion of U.S. interests.

·        http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/ussliberty.html.

·        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident.

·        www.defraudingamerica.com/israel_palestine_index.html.

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Blissfully Ignorant of the Resulting Harm
To Them: Most Trivia-Obsessed Americans!

The American public's reaction to Israel's murderous attacks upon U.S. sailors on the U.S.S. Liberty and throughout the Meddle East, plus the many assassinations in foreign countries.

Sampling of actions that good people could do to attack the arrogant human rights violations and protect themselves and their country:

·        Read substantial informative material so that you aren't fed erroneous information.

·        Help publicize the arrogance of Israel and how that arrogance has brought down upon the United States most of the terrorist attacks that have killed thousands, and with the added arrogance and lying of U.S. politicians, caused two costly wars that are helping to bankrupt the nation and the killing, maiming, and injury to over a million people.

·        Focus heavily on how U.S. politicians and their self-serving support of Israel has, is, and will continue to inflict great harm on the United States and its people.

Considerable information about the harm inflicted upon the American people by Israel can be found in the book, Defrauding America and also Drugging America, available in print and e-book formats at amazon.com and other locations.

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Books on History of Corruption of U.S. Government Personnel
And Resulting Series of Tragedies
Written by and With
Former Government Insiders

   

   

   

     

   

   

All of the books are available at amazon.com, in print and on the Kindle, and at many other Internet sites. They bring together the various pieces of the puzzle to better understand the overall picture, and why the same conditions continue year after year. Information on the books by former government agent Rodney Stich

Sampling of early books reviews

Sampling of complimentary letters/faxes to author/activist Rodney Stich.

More information about these books by clicking here.

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