As NJ Senator Robert Menendez said at the Kerry hearing today in the Senate, Syria is about Iran. And it is for AIPAC too. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee broke its silence today, urging a vote for the Syrian strike.
AIPAC was lying low. That was what everyone said. So: Who called AIPAC? And: why does Obama need AIPAC? Could it be because AIPAC can get 70 Senators’ signatures on a napkin in 24 hours?
From the modest lobby, without any reference to Israel:
AIPAC urges Congress to grant the President the authority he has requested to protect America’s national security interests and dissuade the Syrian regime’s further use of unconventional weapons. The civilized world cannot tolerate the use of these barbaric weapons, particularly against an innocent civilian population including hundreds of children.
Simply put, barbarism on a mass scale must not be given a free pass.
This is a critical moment when America must also send a forceful message of resolve to Iran and Hezbollah — both of whom have provided direct and extensive military support to Assad. The Syrian regime and its Iranian ally have repeatedly demonstrated that they will not respect civilized norms. That is why America must act, and why we must prevent further proliferation of unconventional weapons in this region.
America’s allies and adversaries are closely watching the outcome of this momentous vote. This critical decision comes at a time when Iran is racing toward obtaining nuclear capability. Failure to approve this resolution would weaken our country’s credibility to prevent the use and proliferation of unconventional weapons and thereby greatly endanger our country’s security and interests and those of our regional allies. AIPAC maintains that it is imperative to adopt the resolution to authorize the use of force, and take a firm stand that the world’s most dangerous regimes cannot obtain and use the most dangerous weapons.
Jonathan Allen at Politico got the story first. Thanks to Max Blumenthal.
Also, if the Tea Party is so “isolationist,” as the media keep insisting, then why is Marco Rubio gungho on a Syria attack? Does it have anything to do with presidential ambitions?
From the modest lobby, without any reference to Israel:
who needs to mention israel when it’s glaringly from the ever present/pressure israel lobby. makes me puke.
and here’s politico:
as if we won’t notice!!!!!!!!! it’s just like iraq!!!!!!!!!!!
This attack on Syria will be an Israeli coup of enormous proportions – strategically it’s almost ‘as good as’/’or the same as’ having successfully triggered an American attack on Iran. I think this is ENORMOUS
This is the ‘Real Mensch finally getting their Tehran’ – or 3/4’s of the way there
Israeli WINS;
1- Indefinite postponement of Palestine’s attempt for justice – who cares about Palestinians at the ICC when there’s a new decades long hot or semi-hot war with Syria/and or Iran?
2- Decades long more turmoil with the American military killing Muslims in Syria/ and or Iran. Years of more American military indoctrination with ‘the Muslim as the enemy’
3- American military killing Iranian units (and precedent thereof) currently stationed in Syria
4- American military killing Hezbollah units (and precedent thereof) currently stationed in Syria
5- Severing the support of Hezbollah from Iran by making a torn-apart Syria a barrier to contiguous land support, no resupply to Hezbollah so Israel can eventually attack with impunity
7- Israel keeping the Golan forever next to the torn apart ex-Syrian state. (Claims it will refuse to negotiate with Al Nusra Al Qaeda Syria because it is ‘not a partner for peace’)
8- Decades more maximal or likely enhanced US aid to Israel
9- Probable future American involvement against Hezbollah – in case several yrs from now Hezbollah ever strikes back against Israeli attacks, and this painted as just as an extension of the US protecting Israel from ‘Syria’. This immunizes Israel from Hezbollah because of course any Hezbollah action against Israel ‘has already been decided’ as the same as a Syrian counterattack on Israel
I really think this is a Rubicon and Netanyahu has hit the jackpot
WIN-WIN-WIN-WIN-WIN-WIN-WIN-WIN-WIN-WIN-WIN for Israel
If Israel/her Lobby pull this off – and I think they will – Israel has gotten over the hump to their promised land if not their Heaven – an American culture clash against Islam for the next 1000 yrs, with Israel sitting pretty and armed to the teeth
This is a historic victory for Israel and her Israel Lobby – this is the effective completion/implementation of the ‘Clean Break Plan’ as well
The Israel lobby is determined to increase Iran’s isolation and the economic stranglehold of the US congress over millions of Iranian families in order to maintain Israel’s hegenomic power in the region and the increasing power of Its secret nuclear weapons arsenal.
It is a strategy for war, regional conflagration and eventually nuclear disaster.
Glad to see the Lobby worred about being exposed—-tells me they are hearing and seeing rumblings about the Lobby.
Rand Paul is now speaking in the Syria hearing—-he is lecturing Kerry about the constitution—-he’s making a fool of Kerry and O’s ‘going to the congress’ but announcing before hand that it wont matter what congress says O can still act even if the congress votes against it.
So Paul ask Kerry to tell him if O *will or will not* abide by the congressional vote and for Kerry to tell him how this will make things better in the ME.
Guess what Kerry said to that?
Kerry– ‘lsrael could be attacked Senator if we dont prove US resolve in the region.’
Yep, Israel was the first word out of Kerry’s mouth to that question. Then Kerry makes a further ass of himself by turning and asking a US commander at the hearing to also speak to this and the Commander says …….”no thanks Mr. Kerry”.
That was funny cause Kerry was momentarily stunned into silence by the Commanders refusal and for a minute you could have heard a shoe drop in the chamber.
Kerry is selling this strike so hard he has churned himself into a pile of steaming excrement.
Everyone who has spoken so far is for strikng Syria except Paul. Several of them want us to also ‘punish Russia” and make it a ‘rouge nation’ for not caring about chemical weapons use.
One Senator is now telling Kerry to declassify the evidence so the American people can see it and be satisfied….Kerry says no, it will ‘reveal too much’ about US sources. But then Kerry says it has already ‘leaked out’ anyway in the press talking about the “intercepts of Syrian phone calls’—-sooooo evidently that is the ‘Israeli intercepts” of phone calls that is their evidence and we arent allowed to hear.
Finally the efforts of Israel and the zionist war lobby against Syria are out in the open. So far Israel and it’s proxies were very much involved in organizing more bloodshed in Syria, but mostly leading from behind and working by proxy. I would like readers to point out to some earlier activism of Israel, her proxies and the lobby regarding the war on Syria:
1996: A Clean Break: … Syrian territory is not immune to attacks emanating from Lebanon by Israeli proxy forces …
May 2011: …there were a lot of armed men, militants, tens of guns, and they were with weapons and just moving along the border from Lebanon to Syria …
January 12, 2012: Michael Weiss, Pro-Israel Neocon, Authors Blueprint for Western Military Intervention in Syria Approved by Syrian Ex-Pats
February 7, 2012 : Ex-Mossad boss Efraim Halevy: Iran’s Achilles’ Heel
July 24, 2012: Conservatives call on Obama to establish ‘safe zones’ in Syria
December 12, 2012: Israeli Envoy Sees Radicals Risk Preferable to Assad
January 17, 2013: Andrew Tabler/WINEP: Three bold steps to hasten the end of Assad’s regime.
April 26 2013: Israel ambushed the US
August 16, 2013: Tel Aviv Defense Minister: “Axis of Evil” Cannot Be Allowed to Win in Syria
August 19, 2013, Israeli ex-ambassador Itamar Rabinovich: “Assad, Russia, Iran & Hezbollah pose a greater danger than al Qaeda!”
All the way long Israel pushed the US to take military action for regime change in Syria to harm Iran. But Israel didn’t get it’s way to start the US leading the war on Syria. So what to do?
Patrick Clawson – Israel Lobbyist Suggests False Flag Attack To Start War With Iran
Then a CW attack near Damascus – conveniently when the UN inspectors were close. And: the central piece of evidence against the Syrian government comes from Israel and it seems to be “doctored”.
And now AIPAC is openly advocating war on Syria.
What else does the world and the US public need to understand what’s going on?