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The AIPAC ask– US must support Israel if it decides to trigger war with Iran

The AIPAC policy conference begins today in Washington, and hundreds of our legislators will be feted, and pressed to endorse legislation saying that the U.S. will support Israel if it decides to attack Iran. Alex Kane reported on the AIPAC ask earlier this week, including this morsel of the legislation:

Urges that, if the Government of Israel is compelled to take military action in self-defense, the United States Government should stand with Israel and provide diplomatic, military, and economic support to the Government of Israel in its defense of its territory, people, and existence.

And here is James A . Russell at Lobelog lamenting the Graham-Menendez push:

Astonishingly, as the Department of Defense and other Federal agencies are handing out furlough notices to employees (myself included), the Senate appears set to take up a joint resolution endorsing the idea of the United States joining an Israeli attack on Iran.

The non-binding resolution, introduced yesterday by Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ), suggests that the nation should effectively outsource the decision to go to war to another country.

Weeks after publicly castigating incoming Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel for his previous remarks suggesting that the Israeli lobby exercised too much influence in Washington, these Senators have, well, just shown how craven they are to that same lobby on the eve of the annual meeting of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). We can be sure that many of their colleagues will join Graham and Menendez in this push for another war.

Just how this country is supposed to fight another war while it’s cutting back on the civilians that keep the Navy’s ships at sea, its Air Force planes in the air and its land forces in the field, is a mystery. That is to say nothing of the myriad of other federal agencies whose workers police our borders, gather intelligence on our enemies and perform countless other functions to help keep the US safe. Perhaps the Senate has a plan to count on a NRA-sponsored citizens’ militia to make up for the shortfall?”

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Well non binding resolutions aren’t legistation——but they are a good way to show AIPAC who’s doing the donkey for them.

However, there were a blue million non binding resolutions ‘against ‘ Iran calling for war, sanctions, etc. before the US actually put sanctions on Iran— and a blue million non binding resolutions against Palestine before they ever got passed into actual law.

So these resolutions can be building blocks toward actual legistation.

Disgusting.
I’ve been watching AIPAC 2013 on JLTV. They trotted out a bunch of hi-tek Israeli inventions helping mankind medically, or helping our soldiers. Then they trotted out how Israel is helping poor Africans. Ever watch old grainy film from the Nazi Era showing the world the hi-tek and humanitarian things Germans were doing? They also had some Israeli women, who spoke perfect English (probably raised in USA), telling us all how she was teaching all Americans to be Golden Goys willing to sacrifice themselves to save Jews.

Second two hours of today’s AIPAC conference is on JLTV tonight. Then it’s on JLTV again tomorrow evening. Right now, on JLTV, they are broadcasting Israel’s crappy version of Sesame Street. Sheesh.

And APIAC (and assorted Zionist donors) give so LITTLE to Congress. It’s embarrassingnhow CHEAP it is to buy total devotion. See here for a Zionist view and here for an anti-Zionist view.

“Ask” used as a noun makes my skin crawl. It’s a new pundit fav for some reason, used to both soften a demand and turn it into a benign forgone conclusion, whatever it is, by whomever. I’ve seen it many times in the past few months when the punditry is referring to this or that recalcitrant party who must not be offended or have their officialness challenged(MIC, TBTFs, SC)….so I guess by definition it’s appropriate for AIPAC. It still makes my skin crawl. Can we not promote newsspeak here, please?

It’s less important that both houses of our Congress are bi-partisan than it is that both are buy-partisan when it comes to money, including the publicity donated to them by our media, so long as they toe the line..