‘KOSHER’ MEDDLING IN U.S. POLITICS

February 18, 2008 at 12:01 (Israel)

Image ‘Copyleft’ by Carlos Latuff

Israel has always promised to keep from intervening in America’s internal political affairs – and then intervened. And when not intervening, it has demonstrated involvement. This customary behavior, it should be noted, is not a jot different from the Americans themselves, who do not refrain from interfering in Israel’s political affairs even when there is no election threat hovering in the background.

The above sounds like the beginning of a very bad joke….

The following sounds more like the real picture…

During the 1980 primaries, Jerusalem was not happy that Jimmy Carter’s ambassador to the United Nations, Donald McHenry, voted in favor of a Security Council resolution harshly condemning Israeli settlement activity in the territories. A few weeks later, Carter lost the New York primary to his rival, Senator Ted Kennedy (now Obama’s great supporter). Carter claimed in retrospect that the UN vote, which incited New York’s Jewish voters against him, was responsible for the stinging blow. If he was right, then it may be argued that expressing Israeli indignation at the way the U.S. voted also constituted interference that influenced an internal political process.

This too is the reality…

Israel’s Washington embassy unveiled a Facebook fan page a few days ago. It features a recommendation, among other things, for a March 4 performance by the singer Shalom Hanoch. And no, this is not a political statement. True, on the very same day there will be a decisive round of primaries between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, but there is no concern that the singer’s performance in Washington will affect voter turnout in the states holding the contests, Texas and Ohio. The embassy, if the message didn’t get through, is monitoring, not meddling.

Maybe it’s true, maybe Israel does not meddle in the internal affairs of the United States… where then is the meddling coming from? Ever hear of AIPAC, Israel’s voice and power on the American scene? For decades they have literally been buying candidates, votes and anything else necessary to insure that Israel gets it’s way in any given situation. But, that’s not meddling… it’s political blackmail.

And, needless to say, if Israel does not get it’s way, the screams of anti Semitism become deafening… a name that has literally destroyed many a public figure. This too is not meddling, it’s what the zionists call ‘kvetching‘, a Yiddish word so overused that it is found in English language dictionaries.

It is a known fact that Israel does meddle…. it is also a known fact that the American government allows them to. Both act as if Israel is already the 51st State of the Union… a situation which Israel has benefited from both financially and politically for the past 60 years. Americans in high places with duel citizenship (Israel and American) is not a hidden subject, it is a well known fact. That apparently makes the meddling they do ‘Kosher’…

Read HERE what HaAretz says about the ‘non meddling’ meddling…

It just might be an eye opener for you.