Originally posted by
[email protected] 24 2004, 02:04 PM
There are significant amounts of Jews in media who are pro-Israel, Israel is a controller of US policy to an extreme amount.
It is plain to anyone that the Right-wing Jewish population has a higher control than anyone else, at least in the Middle East in relation to the US.
This is not racist. The same thing is happening in India right now with the right-wing Hindu government, though it is less than Israel for obvious reasons.
Prominent Jewish businessmen lobby all the time (as reported by Z Magazine frequently) for wars against anti-Israel nations (Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc etc). And they get what they want because of the large Christian American Population.
Well, so much for the idea that capitalism is the cause of imperialism, huh? It's "the Jews," that's all. Certainly a much simpler explanation. Only problem is, it's scapegoating. Understandable coming from ultrarightists who think the U.S. government is not serving the real "national interests" of U.S. capitalism, but bizarre coming from people who call themselves leftists.
Israel is a useful tool of U.S. foreign policy, like numerous other client states around the world, only more so. That is the main reason for U.S. support to Israel. Pro-Israel Jewish - and Christian fundamentalist - groups are a secondary factor.
Zionism and the World Zionist Organization are not and never have been about taking over the world. They are about serving the current masters of the world by taking over Palestine, and intervening in nearby countries. Whenever you hear someone going on about "Zionism" in a context that has nothing to do with the Middle East, you can be sure that "Zionism" is a code word for "the Jews."
Theodore Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, appealed to British imperialism on the basis that a Jewish state in Palestine could serve the British Empire, serving as, he said, a "rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization against barbarism." That remains the relationship of the Israeli state to larger imperialist powers today.
As for the "Jewish-controlled media", Jewish-owned media like the New York Times are not any more pro-Israel than other big-business media. Sometimes less so - the NYT was even the target of a boycott campaign a couple years back, by rightists who thought it was insufficiently pro-Israel.
When Israel's interests conflict with the interests of U.S. imperialism, it gets slapped down hard and fast. For example, during the 1991 Gulf War, Israel wanted, badly needed, to retaliate for the Iraqi Scud attacks. The highly militarized Israeli state depends on its reputation for massive retaliation for all attacks. But the U.S. refused to give the Israeli Air Force its "friend or foe" codes and made it clear they would be shot down by the U.S. Air Force over Iraq. Adding insult to injury, Washington gave Tel Aviv a bunch of Patriot missiles that didn't work.
There was a time when some people thought the "Taiwan lobby" ran U.S. foreign policy towards China, and was repsonsible for the refusal to give diplomatic recognition to the PRC....but eventually Nixon, and the U.S. ruling class, decided it was time to reverse that policy and bring the PRC into the fold as an allly against the USSR and Vietnam. When that time came, the seeming power of the "Taiwan lobby" proved to be wholly illusion.
The tail does not wag the dog. The patron does not serve the client.
I notice my earlier post has been almost completely evaded by the Jew-scapegoaters...how 'bout it, do you have any actual facts, from some reliable source, on the percentage of Jews in the U.S. capitlaist class?