When will Israel face a TRUTH & RECONCILIATION Commission as implemented in South Africa to examine those police and military who perpetrated killings and torture during apartheid.

Obviously, it is too late now to examine the perpetrators of the King David Hotel bombing that killed 91 or those massacred at Deir Yassin prior to 1948.
The Igun Zvai Leumi and the Stern Gang terrorists are long since gone. But those responsible for the deaths of over 300 under sixteen year old children in Gaza, in 2008, as reported by the UN, are still living free and openly.

Shades of the South African police during the odious apartheid regime. Why would anyone want to visit a totalitarian state that makes such a mockery of its claims to democracy?

When is America going to re-embrace democracy and outlaw unelected, powerful, privately-financed, political lobbies that use their money to determine US foreign policy that should be the declared duty and domain of the elected government?

Why does an elected American president have to check every foreign policy decision first with the American-Israel lobby ? Who elected that lobby to vet every legitimate representative of the American people and on behalf of which foreign state does this anti-democratic machination take place?

Jerusalem, situated in Israel, is an international city by resolution of the United Nations.

This attempt to restrict access to the Holy City is a clear violation of international law and denies freedom of access to Christians, Muslims and even Jews who are considered undesirable by the right wing Likud government of Binyamin Netanyahu. It should be strenuously resisted by the free world.

Let us call a spade, a spade, and the Israel Lobby a threat to democratic government
in Washington, London and Brussels

AIPAC stands for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pretentious sounding name that implies a quasi-government department. In fact, it is an unelected, privately financed, lobbying group that promotes and sponsors pro-Israel policies to successive United States governments. These policies include huge, regular shipments of arms, loans, grants, gifts and financial concessions funded by the American tax payer but without his specific consent.

AIPAC was founded in 1951 as a lobbying division of the American Zionist Council. It has been described as ‘one of the most powerful lobbying groups in Washington, DC. Its critics have stated that it acts as an agent of the Israeli government with a “stranglehold” on the United States Congress with its power and influence.’ It is assumed that the Israel lobby in London and Brussels, as well as elsewhere around the globe, is affiliated to the US Israel lobby.

The Lobby receives support from both the Republican and Democratic parties and in that sense is non-partisan. However, it is reported that AIPAC vets every candidate for election or re-election to both the House of Representatives and the Senate and that any candidate unwilling to openly support the AIPAC agenda, is most unlikely to gain or retain his/her seat. It is not easy to prove or disprove this allegation but the substantial sums that the Israel Lobby awards to secure the election of its favoured candidates, is a matter of public record.

The threat to democracy rests primarily in the alleged power of this unelected pressure group to influence or control American foreign policy – and given that the US has a voice in virtually every country in the free world as well as in many other states – that threat appears to be substantial.

Given that the Israel lobby exists solely for the furtherance of the political and military agenda of a foreign state and has enormous influence upon Congress and, therefore, the Presidency, it would appear safe to assume that the above allegation has validity.

It is certainly true to say that any government that acts in the interests not of its electorate but in the interest of a foreign state is anti-democratic, i.e. it fails to represent the majority of the electorate.

One might contend that it would aid transparency if AIPAC to be automatically allocated maybe twenty statutory seats in the House and a proportional number in the Senate, by any incoming administration.

Then, the Israel Lobby, (i.e. Israel), would have the power to determine the quantity and type of aircraft and weaponry, if any, that could be either sold or gifted by the US government to Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq, the GCC including Saudi Arabia and, of course, to its own client state.

Furthermore, the Likud party under Binyamin Netanyahu could then proceed with its official charter to annex the West Bank and East Jerusalem into a new state to be known as Greater Israel in which all Muslims and Arabs would be permanently excluded.

Israel could also be given a seat on the UN Security Council in order to represent its 7 million citizens whilst the 1.2 billion in India, plus the entire populations in Africa and South America would still have no voice.

If you think that the above scenario is patently ridiculous – it most certainly is. However, it now appears to be not that far from reality.
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There are virtually no members of Congress that have not been vetted and approved by AIPAC as being signed-up to its agenda. As AIPAC is an unelected lobby group acting in the interests not of the US but for the state of Israel, it follows that any member of Congress who adopts the AIPAC agenda cannot be representing their constituents as they have no mandate to support the agent of a foreign state.

Therefore, the activities of AIPAC must be considered to be unAmerican and the support of signed-up Congressmen, and women, to be anti democratic . Democracy is government of the people, by the people and for the people.

Today we have a government of the people, by AIPAC and for Israel. This is a travesty of democratic government and the billions of tax dollars sent to Israel should be invested instead in improving the standard of living and he employment prospects of lower-income and unemployed US families in Michigan, Alabama, New York and throughout the Union.

Mr Netanyahu, in London this week for Mrs Thatcher’s funeral, is quoted by the BBC as having ‘reiterated his support for “a two-state solution”, including a Palestinian state.’

However, Mr Netanyahu is the leader of the right-wing Likud Party whose charter categorically rejects any Palestinian state in the West Bank for the 5 million Muslim Arabs who are the majority indigenous people of the region, having inhabited it for the last one thousand years during all of which time there was only ever a minority Jewish presence.

So for whom is Netanyahu speaking? Certainly not for his Likud government coalition and just as certainly not for himself as prime minister. Perhaps he just made a small error when talking to the BBC – perhaps what he really meant to say was:
‘Regardless of the will of the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and the international community in general, there will never be a two-state solution, or a Palestinian state, whilst I am prime minister of Israel’.

Then his agenda in building ever increasing numbers of illegal settlements on Arab land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, would be crystal clear. In which case, a catastrophic war in the region becomes inevitable.

That being the likely scenario, is it in the interests of the free world, including Britain and the rest of the EU, for the US to continue supplying huge quantities of arms, bombs and strike aircraft to the, already nuclear-armed Israeli state at the demand of the American Israel lobby – or is this basically, a dangerous appeasement and a threat to the peace of the world?

This status quo is the prelude to war.

There are those who want peace and work for it every day in the Middle East and in governments around the world, but not the majority and not the Israeli government whose strategic plan is and has always been for a ‘Greater Israel’. To achieve their goals, hard-right-wing ministers have been working for decades to ethnically cleanse the West Bank and East Jerusalem. These ideologues will stop at nothing to implement their plan and will continue to treat both the United Nations and the democratic nation states of the international community with contempt.
Israel’s leaders, settlers and religious fanatics want land, not peace.

There is no longer any hope for a negotiated settlement. There is now too much hatred as a result of the killings, the bombs, the destruction of homes, schools and hospitals and the inhuman use of cluster bombs and white phosphorus against civilians and children. The certainty now is a brutal war that will make 9/11 look like a MTA and will see nuclear weapons being deployed for the first time and tens, or hundreds, of thousands being killed. The world is sleep-walking into a disaster, the like of which there is no precedent. Peace is not the agenda. Israel’s strategic plan is to change the face of the Middle East, which is the rationale that has driven the building of the world’s only undeclared nuclear weapons arsenal that sits menacingly underground in the Negev desert and in dispersed silos around Israel.

There will inevitably be a bloodbath and the United States will not be able to disclaim responsibility for its abdication of compliance with democratic principles and the rule of law, and its acceptance of extreme violence and illegal expropriation in its haste to create an American satellite state in the center of the Muslim Middle East in order to satisfy the demands of the Zionist lobby in Washington. This status quo is the prelude to war.

It will be a tragedy of biblical proportions orchestrated by powerful agencies armed with nuclear bombs and delivered by the American-built, F16 strike aircraft and helicopter gunships of the Israeli state military command.

America’s catastrophic errors of judgment

Yesterday’s vote in the UN General Assembly clearly showed how the United States, supported by Canada and the Czech Republic, plus a few island dependencies, has placed itself squarely and mistakenly on the wrong side of history.

The rest of the entire world, virtually the whole international community, has voted to recognize the Arab indigenous people of Palestine as a national entity and has properly accorded them a permanent status within the UN.

Ignoring the extraordinarily naive threats by both the America and Canadian governments, and of course Israel, to withdraw aid and to make life for the 5 million Palestinians even more difficult, the world has given a categorical endorsement to the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank with East Jerusalem as its capital.

The current political leaders of North America ignore this decision at their peril. Europe, China, Russia, Asia, Africa and South America have spoken. History is already recording that America is yesterday’s superpower and that its concluding years were mired in catastrophic errors of political and military misjudgment.

Public domain information, Annie, for some years. Just check it out. Maybe start with official reports from the CST monitoring organization in London then go to similar in Paris, Berlin etc.