Why Does America Give Blind Support to Israel?

By Salma Akhter

Editor’s note:  This is the second place essay submitted in the TMO Foundation essay contest. Salma Akhter’s opinions are her own.

It is commonly known that America provides financial support to Israel to aid their military and building settlement, yet most Americans are unaware of the fact that Israel controls almost every aspect of American life from politics and  government, to the economy they invest in, to the media they are exposed to. 

Contrary to common belief, the U.S. first opposed the creation of Israel and financial support for it, until the Israel lobby became the largest and most powerful lobby that it is today. The Israeli Lobby was a group that wanted to represent political Zionism in the United States. The ideology of Zionism originated in the 1800s from a group of secularist Jews and its main aim was to create a Jewish state in the Holy Land at any costs – an ideology which ironically is absolutely opposed to the teachings of traditional Judaism. Theodor, a European journalist, led the World Zionist Organization. This group knew that Palestine was the indigenous homeland of others and spoke of it saying things like, “..The bride is beautiful, but she is married to another man..”, which meant that they were fully aware Palestine was owned by other another people, 98% of them non-Jewish. Their strategy was to push out the native people financially and violently as history and recent events have shown.  During this time, the Zionists tried to woo the Jews in America, majority of which were not Zionists and opposed Zionism, as Max Nordau wrote, “Zionism’s only hope is the Jews of America”. (Weir)

In time, Zionist groups began to emerge in many cities and in 1898, the first Conference of American Zionists was held. As the 1910 ended, the number of Zionists in the U.S. approached 20,000 of which consisted lawyers, professors, and businessman. Even when the Zionist movement in the US was weak, it became a movement that “Congressmen, particularly in the eastern cities, began to listen”.  Zionists Jews then pushed their agenda through politics and the media, influencing both by the use of money and sociopolitical influence. While congressmen started to become influenced by Zionist Lobbies, State Department officials did not like how a foreign entity was using the U.S. for its own gains. People consistently pointed out the issues with Zionism. They faced defeat in 1912, when the Zionist Literary Society approached the Taft Administration for support, and Secretary of State, Philander Knox, rejected them, saying “problems with Zionism involve certain matters primarily related to the interests of countries other than our own”. Yet, the same year, Zionists achieved victory. (Weir)

The renowned Jewish American lawyer Louis Brandis, who would continue on to become a Supreme Court Justice, became a Zionist. Brandis exhibited many forms of unethical behavior to achieve his aims. He appointed Frankfurter, a Professor at Harvard Law School, as his paid lobbyist and lieutenant.  By working together, they were able to keep their true political endeavors hidden from the public and use propaganda to form the minds of generations of the nation’s most exclusive law students.  Brandeis was also a leader of the Parushim, a group founded by Horace Kallen, and described by Dr.Sarah Schmidt as “a secret underground guerilla force determined to influence the course of events in a quiet, anonymous way”.  In this way, Zionists slithered into American politics and released their venom. (Weir)

America, specifically American foreign policy, has since been politically occupied by the Zionist Lobby and Israel. Americans call themselves free, but in reality, according to Hesham Tillawi, they are in no better shape than the Palestinians. At least the Palestinians can identify the enemy.  The Zionists in the West did not become the force they were until after the Balfour Declaration in which Britain gave them Palestinian land after the first World War, and after the Kennedy Era. President John F Kennedy and his family understood the dynamics of Jewish interests, and the issues of Israel’s nuclear program and the American Zionists Council. JFK opposed Israel’s nuclear program, but negotiations were unsuccessful, as the then prime minister, Ben Gurion wrote, “Mr.President, my people have the right to exist and their existence is in danger”. This statement implicitly reveals that violence is needed to terrorize the native Palestinians, as without it, Israel would be unable to occupy the land, unable to exist. Kennedy understood the danger AZC would cause to America and wanted to have it registered as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agent Registration Act, but the group did not accept. Rather, Judge Rifkand, leader of ACZ, responded by implicitly reminding JFK that Jews were responsible for his election, and if he continued with his agenda, he was entering into a war with organized Jewry. Kennedy still continued his plans, but was assassinated on November 22nd, 1963. At this time, ACZ disappeared, and AIPAC came into view with Kennedy’s assassination as a message to not stand in their way of influencing public opinion, policy, or laws.  Nowadays, while Congress may be divided in half by many issues, the topic of supporting Israel is unanimous and so resolute that it is not even discussed. AIPAC is a wealthy organization, buying out politicians, giving them power in exchange for loyalty. (Tillawi)

Per year, the United States of America gives Israel around 3 billion taxpayer dollars in aid. (Mader) This is the most generous foreign aid program ever between two countries. It is baffling that while around 15.1 percent of Americans were suffering under the poverty line in the last census, the average citizen is drowning in debt, and many people are unemployed, the US can afford to send 3 billion dollars to enrich Israel. (CIA Factbook) This aid serves two main purposes, to maintain a strategic relationship between the two countries and to boost the economy of Israel to the benefit of Zionist interests. (Zunes)

The U.S. government claims that it supports Israel for moral reasons and because Israel is struggling to build a “democracy” in the land. If that was the case, then American support would have been the highest when Israel was beginning to establish itself and less when it rose to power. In contrast, American financial support increased when Israel was known to be the strongest country among its neighboring Arab countries. The U.S. gives support to Israel so that it can serve as an agent for American interests in the region. Also, America uses Israel to test new models of weaponry on native populations and commit other inhumane forms of testing with ease and impunity. (Zunes)

In an interview between Press TV and Chris Dorsley, it was revealed that the economic downs such as the fiscal cliff are not controlled by the President or Congress, rather, they are controlled by the Zionist International Banking Cartel; a cartel which is illegal according to Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.  (Dorsley) In addition, Zionists own and operate most of the banks in America including the Federal Reserve, Goldman Sachs, and Leyman Brothers. (Kappner)

In today’s world, the media has become an essential aspect of the lives of many. It serves as the most influential source of information and is often used as a means to convey propaganda. The Zionist controlled media serves to shape American minds in their favor. Seven Jewish Americans control the greater part of US television channels, newspapers and magazines, the Hollywood movie industry, the book publishing industry, and the music industry. Most of these industries are grouped into large media groups run by seven Jewish men. (Kappner, Seven Jewish Americans Control Most US Media) When almost all of American media is controlled by seven Jewish men, it is obvious that they, through the means of propaganda, influence people to support Israel and its causes even if they are damaging to the U.S. itself. One example can be seen during the six day war in 1967, when Israel launched a 90 minute attack on the American Navy Ship, the USS Liberty, killing 34 Americans and wounding 171. If it were not for the captain of the ship being able to keep it afloat, no one would have been left to tell the story. Israel used the excuse that it thought it was an Egyptian ship, even though there was a huge American flag flying and there were clear identification numbers. The aim of Israel was to blame the attack on Egyptians and ignite a fire between the two countries.  The Zionist- dominated American media expressed no fury at the vicious crime, but rather spread and justified the act with the false excuse Israel gave. Even though the Secretary of State declared it to be a deliberate attack from Israel, the Jewish lobby prevented a formal inquiry by Congress. (Duke)

America and Israel have the relationship of the slave and the master respectively. The master owns the slave and gives him food and shelter, thus the slave must do what the master desires, even he may harm himself. America gives blind support to Israel because Zionists control American politics, economics, and media. This support harms America, it is illegal, it is unconstitutional, and it is against every aspect of freedom. 

Bibliography

Dorsley, Chris. Zionist international banking cartel controls the US economy: Chris Dorsey Press TV. 21 December 2012.
Duke, David. How Israeli Terrorism and American Treason Caused the September 11 Attacks. February 2014 . 25 August 2014.
Kappner, Nathaneal. Seven Jewish Americans Control Most US Media. 2003. 25 August 2014.
—. Zionist Jews Control the Money. n.d. 25 August 2014.
Mader, Chase. Washington’s Military Aid to Israel. 10 February 2014. 25 August 2014.
Tillawi, Hesham. The Israeli Occupation of America: How Israel Gained Control of American Foreign Policy. 13 September 2009. 25 August 2014.
Weir, Alison. Against Our Better Judgement: The Hidden History of How the United States Was Used to Create Israel. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011.
Zunes, Stephen. U.S. Aid to Israel: Interpreting the ‘Strategic Relationships’. n.d. 25 August 2014.

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