Tag: JEWISH LOBBY

NOVANEWS Why Does the United States Give So Much Money to Israel? The two countries just signed a new military-aid deal—the biggest pledge of its kind in American history. It have may seemed inevitable, but the record-setting moment is also rife with irony. By: EMMA GREEN U.S. and Israeli officials sign an unprecedented military-spending deal in Washington, D.C., on September 14.GARY CAMERON / REUTERS The United States and Israel have made it official: The two countries signed a new 10-year military-assistance deal on Wednesday, representing the single largest pledge of its kind in American history. The pact, laid out in a Memorandum of Understanding, will be worth $38 billion over the course of a decade, an increase of roughly 27 percent on the money pledged in the last agreement,...

NOVANEWS By John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt An unedited version of this article in Adobe .pdf format is available here. For the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967, the centrepiece of US Middle Eastern policy has been its relationship with Israel. The combination of unwavering support for Israel and the related effort to spread ‘democracy’ throughout the region has inflamed Arab and Islamic opinion and jeopardised not only US security but that of much of the rest of the world. This situation has no equal in American political history. Why has the US been willing to set aside its own security and that of many of its allies in order to advance the interests of another state? One might assume that the bond between the two countries was based on shared str...

NOVANEWS Has the Israel Lobby Destroyed Americans’ First Amendment Rights? By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Global Research The Israel Lobby has shown its power over Americans’ perceptions and ability to exercise free speech via its influence in media, entertainment and ability to block university tenure appointments, such as those of Norman Finkelstein and Steven Salaita. Indeed, the power of the Israel Lobby is today so widely recognized and feared that editors, producers, and tenure committees anticipate the lobby’s objections in advance and avoid writers, subjects, and professors judged unacceptable to the lobby. The latest example is The American Conservative’s firing of former CIA case officer Philip Giraldi.  Giraldi wrote an article for the Unz Review about Israel’s influence ...

NOVANEWS Will Trump apply the “America First” principle to the Israeli regime? By Jonas E. Alexis  If Trump wants to be “the president of a safe country,” then he has to protect America from a bloodthirsty country that has devoured innocent men, women and children in the Middle East. Dear Trump: “America First” or Israel First? The answer to that question will make a profound statement about you personally. It has been reported that Trump is trying to develop a series of “safe zones” in Syria in order to make things easier for the people who are currently suffering in the region.[1] Trump rightly thinks that the Syrian war has created total disaster in Europe as well. He said: “I’ll absolutely do safe zones in Syria for the people. I think that Europe has made a tremendous mistake by ...

NOVANEWS THE STRATEGIC FUNCTIONS OF U.S. AID TO ISRAEL By Stephen Zunes Dr. Zunes is an assistant professor in the Department of Politics at the University of San Francisco. Since 1992, the U.S. has offered Israel an additional $2 billion annually in loan guarantees. Congressional researchers have disclosed that between 1974 and 1989, $16.4 billion in U.S. military loans were converted to grants and that this was the understanding from the beginning. Indeed, all past U.S. loans to Israel have eventually been forgiven by Congress, which has undoubtedly helped Israel's often-touted claim that they have never defaulted on a U.S. government loan. U.S. policy since 1984 has been that economic assistance to Israel must equal or exceed Israel's annual debt repayment to the United States. Unlik...

NOVANEWS Former US lawmaker Cynthia McKinney says every candidate for Congress has to sign a pledge to vote for supporting the military superiority of 'Israel'. BY IWB  Cynthia McKinney is the bravest woman in politics. When she was in congress she introduced a bill (HR 1106) to have then President Bush impeached for the Iraq has WMD lies. She also exposed the Dyncorp sex slave trade and confronted Rumsfeld over the Pentagon’s missing billions. (video of the congressional proceedings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esvf-GOO8EM ) She is as Red pilled as they come and has balls of steel to come out swinging. Her congressional district was eventually Gerrymandered out of existence.