The Israeli-Zionist Lobby in the United States
by Roger Garaudy
Excerpt from the book “The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics”
“The Israeli Prime Minister has a lot more influence over the foreign policy of the United States in the Middle East than he has in his own country.”
Source : Paul Findley, “They Dare to Speak Out”, p. 92
How were such myths able to lead to such deep-rooted beliefs in millions of sincere people?
- By the creation of all-powerful “lobbies” capable of influencing the action of politicians and of conditioning public opinion.
The modes of action are adapted to the country. In the United States, where 6 million Jews live, the “Jewish vote” can be an important factor in determining the electoral majority where (because of the high number of abstentions and the absence of major policy differences between the two parties) victory can often be had with a margin of 3% or 4%.
“What’s more, the volatility of public opinion, which depends to a large extent on the “look” of the candidate or on his performance on television, depends on the budget of his committees and of the potential of his marketing policy.’In 1988 the American Senate elections required an advertising budget of 500 million dollars.’”
Source : Alain COTTA, “Capitalism in all its States,” Ed. FAYARD 1991. p. 158
The most powerful officially listed lobby on the Capitol is the A.I.P.A.C. (“American Israel Public Affairs Committee”)
The strength of the Israelis in the U.S. as early as 1942, is such that at the Biltmore Hotel in New York a maximalist convention decides that it is necessary to move from the “Jewish homeland in Palestine” (promised by Balfour : a slow colonization by buying land under British or American protection) to the creation of a “sovereign Jewish state“.
The duplicity which characterizes the whole history of political zionism is expressed in the “interpretations” of what was to be the outcome of Herzl’s efforts : “The Balfour Declaration” (in 1917). The formula of a “national Jewish homeland” is taken up again at the Congress of Basle. Lord Rothschild had prepared a declaration advocating “the national principle of the Jewish people”. Balfour’s final declaration does not talk any more about all Palestine, but only about the “establishment in Palestine of a national homeland for the Jewish people”. In actual fact everybody says “homeland” (as if it were a spiritual and cultural center), and, in reality, thinks “State”, as did Herzl himself. Lloyd George wrote in his book : “The Truth About the Peace Treaties“, (Ed. Gollancz 1938, vol. 2, pp. 1138 39) : “There could be no doubt about what the members of the cabinet had in mind at the time… Palestine would become an independent state.” It is significant that General Smuts, a member of the War Cabinet, declared in Johannesburg on 3 November 1915 : “Over the coming generations, you will see the emergence over there (in Palestine) once again, of a great Jewish state.”
On 26 January 1919 Lord Curzon wrote : “While Weizman is telling you one thing, and you are thinking “Jewish national homeland”, he has something completely different in mind. He is envisaging a Jewish state and a subjugated Arab population governed by Jews. He is trying to realize this behind the protective screen of the British guarantee.”
Weizman had clearly explained to the British government that the objective of zionism was to create a “Jewish state” (with 4 or 5 million Jews). Lloyd George and Balfour gave him the assurance”that by using the term “national homeland” in the Balfour Declaration, we did indeed mean a Jewish state.”
On 14 May 1948 Ben Gurion proclaims independence at Tel Aviv :
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The Jewish state in Palestine will be called Israel“.
Despite the divergence between those who, like Ben Gurion, considered it a duty for every Jew in the world to come and live in Israel, and those who thought that the action of the Jews in America was more important, in the very interest of Israel, it was the latter tendency which was to be more powerful : out of the 35,000 Americans or Canadians who immigrated into Israel, only 5,400 stayed there.
Source : Melvin I. Wofsky : “We are one! American Jewry and Israel”, New York, 1978 Pub. Ander Press - Doubleday pp. 265 - 266
The State of Israel was admitted to the United Nations thanks to brazen pressure from the lobby.
Eisenhower didn’t want to alienate the oil producing Arab countries :”A prodigious source of strategic power and one of the greatest sources of wealth in the history of the world“, he said.
Source : Bick, “Ethnic Linkage and Foreign Policy”, p. 81
Truman swept aside his scruples for electoral reasons and it was to be the same with his successors. On the subject of the power of the Zionist lobby and of the “Jewish vote”, President Truman himself had declared in 1946, to a group of diplomats : “I am sorry gentlemen, but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands of people who are expecting the success of Zionism. I don’t have thousands of Arabs among my electors.”
Source : William Eddy, F.P. Roosevelt and Ibn Saoud, N.Y. “American Friends of the Middle East”, 1954 p. 31 (or 39)
The former British Prime Minister Clement Atlee gives this testimony: “ U.S. policy in Palestine was shaped by the Jewish vote and by the subsidies of several large Jewish companies.”
Source : Clement Atlee, “A Prime Minister Remembers”, Pub. Heinemann, London 1961, p. 181.
Eisenhower had, in agreement with the Russians, stopped the Israeli aggression (supported by the British and French leaders) against the Suez Canal in 1956.
Senator J.F. Kennedy had, in this matter, shown no enthusiasm.
In 1958 the “Conference of Presidents” of the Jewish associations charges its president, Klutznik, with contacting Kennedy, a possible candidate. He declared to him plainly,”If you say what you have to say, you can count on me. If not, I will not be the only one to turn his back on you.”
Source : Melvin I. Wofsky, “We Are One”, p. 265 - 266
Klutznik summed up for him what he had to say : The attitude of Eisenhower in the Suez affair was wrong but in ‘48 Truman was on the right track. Kennedy followed this “advice” in 1960 when he was designated as candidate by the democratic convention. After his declarations in front of Jewish V.I.P.’s in New York he got 500,000 dollars for his campaign, Klutz as adviser and 80% of the Jewish vote.
Source: Ibidem, p. 271 to 280
During his first meeting with Ben Gurion in the New York Astoria Waldorf Hotel in spring 1961, John F. Kennedy said to him: “I know that I have been elected thanks to the votes of American Jews. I owe my election to them. Tell me what I have to do for the Jewish people.”
Source : Edward Tivnan, “The Lobby”, p. 56 (quoting the biographer of Ben Gurion, Michel Bar Zohar)
After Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson went even farther. An Israeli diplomat wrote : “We lost a good friend. But we have found an even better one… Johnson is the best friend the Jewish State has ever had in the White House.”
Source : I. L. Kenen, “Israel’s Defense Line”, Prometheus Book, 1981. pp. 66 - 67
Johnson did indeed give strong support during the “six day war” of 1967. From then on, 99% of American Jews would support Israeli zionism. “To be a Jew today means to be tied to Israel.”
Source : Schlomo Avineri : “The Making of Modern Zionism”, N.Y., Basis Book, 1981, p. 219
U.N. resolution 242 of November 1967 demanded the evacuation of the territories occupied during the war and De Gaulle, after this aggression, declared an embargo on arms destined for Israel. The American congress followed. But Johnson lifted it in December and, under pressure from the A.I.P.A.C., delivered the Phantom planes ordered by Israel.
Source: Bick, p. 65 and 66 or 166
As a consequence of this Israel didn’t criticize the war in Vietnam.
Source: Abba Eban, autobiography. D. 460
When Golda Meir came to the U.S. in 1979, Nixon compared her to “biblical Deborah” and smothered her in praise for Israel’s economic boom.
Source: Steven L.S. Spiegel: “The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict”, University of Chicago Press, 1985, p. 185
The “Rogers Plan”, taking up again the essence of U.N. Resolution 242, was rejected by Golda Meir.
Source: Kenen, p. 239
Nixon delivered 45 Phantoms and more than 80 Skylark bombers to Israel.
Nasser died on 8 September 1970 and Sadat proposed peace with Israel. Moshe Dayan, Minister of Defense, refused, in spite of the views of the Minister for Foreign Affairs Abba Eban.
So on 6 October 1973 Sadat launched the offensive which was to be known as the Yom Kippur War and destroyed the reputation of both Golda Meir, who had to resign on 10 April 1974, and Moshe Dayan.
Nevertheless, the Jewish lobby on the Capitol won a great success for the accelerated rearmament of Israel: 2 billion dollars, on the pretext of fighting a competing Arab lobby.
Source: Neff, “Warriors of Jerusalem” (p. 217)
Money from the Jewish banks of Wall Street was added to the governmental aid.
Source: Bick, p. 65 and Abba Eban, p. 460.
Of the 21 people who contributed more than 100,000 dollars to Senator Hubert Humphrey, 15 were Jews, at their forefront the bosses of the “Hollywood Jewish mafia” like Wasserman. Overall, they contributed more than 30% of the Democrats’ election fund.
Source: Stephen D. Isaacs, “Jews and American Politics” (N.Y. pub. Doubleday, 1974, chapter 
The A.I.P.A.C. mobilized again and got in three weeks, for 21 May 1975, the signatures of 76 senators asking President Ford to support Israel, as they did.
Source: Full text in Shechan, “Arabs, Israelis and Kissinger”, Reader’s Digest Press (p. 175)
Jimmy Carter’s path was marked out for him: at the Synagogue of Elizabeth in New Jersey, dressed in the blue velvet toga, he proclaimed:
“I honor the same God as you. We (The Baptists) study the same Bible as you.” And he concluded,”The survival of Israel does not come down to politics. It is a moral duty.”
Source: “Time”, 21 June, 1976
This was the period when Begin and the religious parties had taken power from the Labor Party in Israel:”Begin considered himself more as a Jew than as an Israeli”, wrote his biographer.
Source: Silver, “Begin: The Haunted Prophet”, p. 164
In November 1976 Nahum Goldmann, President of the World Jewish Congress, came to Washington to see the President, Vance and Brzezinski and gave the Carter administration this unexpected advice: “smash the Zionist lobby in the United States“.
Source: “Stern”, New York, 24 April 1978
Goldmann had dedicated his life to zionism and played a key role in the “lobby” since the time of Truman and he said now that his own creation, The Presidents’ Conference, was a “destructive force” and a “major obstacle” to Peace in the Middle East.
Begin was in power and Goldmann was determined to undermine his policy, even if this meant destroying his own pressure group.
Six years later Cyrus Vance, one of the interlocutors at this meeting, confirmed Goldmann’s proposals:”Goldmann suggested to us to smash the lobby but The President and The Secretary of State replied that they didn’t have the power and that, besides, this could open the way to anti semitism.”
Source: Interview with Cyrus Vance by Edward Tivnan, “The Lobby”, pub. Simon and Schuster, 1987, p. 123
Begin, sharing power with Labor, appointed Moshe Dayan as Minister for Foreign Affairs in place of Shimon Peres. The President of the Jewish Presidents’ Conference in the U.S Schindler, had this turn in favor of the extremists accepted, stressing the pragmatism of Dayan. Begin, for a while, hardly had to worry about the American zionists whom he considered to be Labour’s supporters.
But American businessmen, noticing the influence of the rabbis on Begin and especially the latter’s attachment to “free enterprise” (contrary to the state intervention of Labour), welcomed the Camp David Agreement (September 1978). Sadat, making a separate peace with Israel, did not get to touch. The West Bank (Judea and Sumeria, “biblical” lands according to Begin) and only kept Sinai which, for Begin, was not “biblical land”.
Source: Stephen D. Isaacs: “Jews and American Policy”, Doubleday. 1974 D. 122
In 1976 Carter got 68% of the Jewish vote; in 1980 he only got 45% of it having, in the meantime, sold F15 planes to Egypt and “AWACS” planes to Saudi Arabia, ensuring, however, that these would never be used against Israel as the American Army controlled all the system’s data from the ground.
In 1980 he was, however, beaten by Reagan who, on the contrary, extended 600 million dollars of military credit for the following 2 years.
Begin, reassured after Camp David of not being attacked from behind by the Egyptians and also by the fact that the AWACS sold to Saudi Arabia were entirely under American control, was able to show the Americans his capacity for a preventive war (like the Japanese at Pearl Harbor and the Israelis with the Egyptian aviation during the Six Day War) by proceeding to destroy, without a declaration of war, the Iraqi power station of Ozirak which had been built by the French. Begin always invoked the same sacred myth:
“There will never again be another Holocaust.”
Source: “The Washington Post”, 10 June 1981
Encouraged by the weakness of the American protesters who feared an escalation in the Middle East situation, Begin, one month later, on 17 July 1981, bombarded West Beirut to destroy, he said, P.L.O. bases.
Reagan then announced the project to sell 8 billion dollars worth of AWACS along with missiles to Saudi Arabia, still under conditions that in no way threatened Israel as American control was total.
To such an extent that a Senate majority accepted this good economic deal and reinforcement of American control in The Gulf. (The Saudis had to bind themselves to overfly neither Syria nor Jordan, and therefore not Israel.)
Source: Facts and Files, 20 September 1981, p. 705
Begin, still possessed by the vision of “Greater Israel” of biblical legend, continued with the establishment of Israeli colonies in The West Bank (begun by Labour) which Carter had declared “illegal” and which were in breach of U.N. Resolutions 242 and 338. But Reagan saw in Israel a way of blocking Soviet designs on the oil of The Gulf. In November 1981 Ariel Sharon, Begin’s Minister of War, met his American opposite number Casper Weinberger and drew up with him a “strategic cooperation” plan to dissuade any Soviet threat in the region.
Source: “N.Y. Times”, 1 December 1981
On 14 December Begin annexes The Golan. Reagan protests against this new violation of Resolution 242. Begin flares up: “Are we a banana republic? A vassal state of yours?”
Source: Steven Emerson, “Dutton of Arabia” in “New Republic”, 16 June 1982
The following year Begin invaded Lebanon. General Haig, at the head of the war department, gives the “go ahead” for this invasion destined to set up a Christian government in Beirut.
Source: Ze’ev Shiff and Ehud Ya’ari: “Israel’s Lebanon War”, N.Y., Simon and Shuster, 1984
Few Americans criticized this invasion just as few Israelis had criticized that of Vietnam. But the massacres of Sabra and Chatila (carried out under the eyes of, and with the complicity of, Sharon and Eytan) and the images which were given to television, forced the Jewish lobby to break the silence.
The Vice-President of the World Jewish Congress, Hertzberg, and many rabbis criticized Begin in October 1982. Begin reproached rabbi Schindler who had made his criticism on television, for being “more American than Jewish” and one of his assistants denounced him as a “traitor“.
Source: Michael Kremer, “American Jews and Israel. The Schism”, N.Y., 18 October 1982
A spokesman for A.I.P.A.C. explained the strategy of those who, like him, approved of the invasion:
“We want to reinforce our support for Israel on the right wing - with people who aren’t worried about what’s going on on the West Bank but who target the Soviet Union.”
Source: interview recorded by Tivnan, p. 181.
On this occasion the Zionist christians supported the Israeli aggression and their leader, Jerry Falwell, whom Begin called “the man who represents 60 million American Christians” in a country where there are only 6 million Jews, received the highest Zionist honor : The Jabotinski Prize for services rendered to Israel, plus 100 million dollars from the State of Israel and 140 million dollars from the Swaggert donation.
Source: “Time”, “Power, glory, politics”, 17 February 1986
Financial power and, consequently, political power, in a world where everything is bought and sold, is becoming more and more decisive.
Since 1948 the U.S. has supplied Israel with 28 billion dollars in military and economic aid.
Source: “Time” magazine of June 1994
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Comforted by the financial flux which flooded into Israel:
1 - From German and Austrian “reparations”;
2 - Because of unconditional American generosity;
3 - From payments from the Diaspora;
the Israeli leaders could consider, in foreign policy, the most ambitious aims of a “greater Israel”.
We have an accurate testimony from an article of the revue “Kivounim” (Orientations) published in Jerusalem by “The World Zionist Organization” on “the strategic plans of Israel for the 80’s”:
“As a centralized body, Egypt is already a corpse, especially if one takes account of the ever more violent confrontation between muslims and christians. Its division into distinct geographical provinces must be our political objective for the 90’s, on the western front.
Once Egypt has been thus dislocated and deprived of central power, countries like Libya, Sudan and others farther away will experience the same dissolution. The formation of a Coptic state in Upper Egypt, and of small regional entities of little size is the key to a historic development which has been slowed down by the peace agreement, but is inescapable in the long term.
In spite of appearances, the western front presents fewer problems than the one in the east. The partition of Lebanon into five provinces… Will prefigure what will happen all over the Arab world. The disintegration of Syria and Iraq into regions, based on ethnic or religious criteria, must be, in the long term, a primary goal for Israel, the first step being the destruction of the military power of these states.
The ethnic structures of Syria expose it to a dismantling which could lead to the creation of a Shiite state along the coast, a Sunni state in the Aleppo region and another one in Damascus, and a Druze entity which might hope to constitute its own state - perhaps on our Golan - in any case with Houran and the north of Jordan… Such a state would be, in the long term, a guarantee of peace and security in the region. It is an objective which is already within our reach.
Oil-rich, and victim of internal strife, Iraq is in the Israeli firing line. Its dissolution would be, for us, more important than Syria’s, because it is Iraq which, in the short term, represents the more serious threat for Israel.”
Source: “Kivounim”, Jerusalem, No. 14, February 1982, pp. 49 - 59
(The integral text, in its Hebrew original, is reproduced in my book: “Palestine, terre des messages divins”, Pub. Albatros, Paris, 1986, pp. 137 to 387, and in its French translation starting on page 315.)
For the realization of this enormous project the Israeli leaders had at their disposal limitless American aid. Of the 507 planes which they had on the eve of the invasion of Lebanon, 457 came from the U.S. thanks to gifts and loans sanctioned by Washington. The American lobby took it on itself to obtain the necessary means even if this meant going against the national interest, under pressure from the Zionist lobby.
When the objectives of the Kivounim plan were too far away and the confrontation too risky, the Israeli lobby succeeded in having the job done by the U.S. The war against Iraq is a striking example.
“Two powerful pressure groups push the U.S. to opening of hostilities.
1 - The “Jewish lobby”, because the elimination of Saddam Hussein would do away with the threat of the most powerful Arab country.. The American Jews play a key role in the North American media. The permanent state of compromise between the President and Congress leads the White House to pay serious attention to their entreaties.
2 - The “business lobby”… has got to the stage of thinking that war could relaunch the economy. Didn’t the Second World War, and the enormous orders which it generated for the U.S put an end to the crisis of 1929 out of which it hadn’t really emerged? Didn’t the Korean War provoke a new boom?
Oh happy war which would bring prosperity back to America…”
Source: Alain Peyrefitte, “Le Figaro”, 5 November 1990
“It is difficult to overestimate the political influence of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (A.I.P.A.C.)… which has a budget which quadrupled between 1982 and 1986 (1,600,000 dollars in 1982 ; 6,900,000 dollars in 1988).”
Source: “Wall Street Journal”, 24 June 1987
The Zionist leaders didn’t hide the role of their lobby. Ben Gurion stated clearly: “When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about ‘our’ government, he means the government of Israel.”
Source: “Rebirth and Destiny of Israel”, 1954, p. 489
At the 23rd congress of the World Zionist Organization he stipulates that the duty of a jew abroad includes “the collective obligation of every Zionist organization in various countries to help the Jewish State unconditionally and in all circumstances even if such a stance is in contradiction with the authorities of their respective nations.”
Source: Ben Gurion: “Tasks and Character of a Modern Zionist”, “Jerusalem Post”, 17 August 1952 and “Jewish Telegraphic Agency”, 8 August 1951
This confusion of Judaism as a religion (worthy of respect like all others) with political zionism including unconditional allegiance to the State of Israel (substituting for the God of Israel), can only feed anti-semitism.
The State Department was forced to react. In a letter addressed to the “American Council for Judaism”, made public by the latter on 7 May 1964, Secretary of State Talbot, referring to the very principles of the American Constitution, regarding which the demands of the Zionist leaders constituted a challenge, reminded us that his country”recognizes the State of Israel as a sovereign state, and the citizenship of the State of Israel. It “recognizes no other sovereignty or citizenship in this regard. It doesn’t recognize any politico-legal relationship founded on a religious identification of American citizens. It doesn’t discriminate between American citizens on religious grounds. Consequently, it should be clear that the State Department doesn’t consider the concept of a “Jewish people” to be a concept of international law.”
Source: Quoted by Georges Friedman in “Fin du peuple juif”, (Gallimard, 1956), Idees poche, p. 292
A strictly platonic declaration, besides, as this obvious legal reminder was followed up by no measure against the lobby.
The Pollard affair gives us an example.
In November 1985 an American Zionist militant, Jonathan Pollard, an analyst at navy headquarters, was arrested while taking home some secret documents. Interrogated by the F.B.I., he admits having received 50,000 dollars since the beginning of 1984 for sending these documents to Israel.
“The Pollard affair didn’t come out of nowhere. It is in keeping with the current system of American-Israeli relations, more and more unwholesome, characterized by an excessive dependence which favorizes brazen attitudes.
This situation was created in 1981, when the Reagan administration gave Israel what was interpreted as a “carte blanche” to its military adventurism, under the pretext of self-defense. The first result of this was the invasion of Lebanon.
…It was predictable that such complacency from Washington would encourage arrogance in Jerusalem. It is well known that ties of close dependence sow resentment and aggression. In Israel’s case, this resentment takes ill-considered forms ; the attack on Tunis is one. It is possible that the Pollard affair is another.”
Source: “Washington Post”, 5 December 1985
“For decades American Jews have been trying hard to convince American public opinion that their unconditional support for Israel didn’t effect their loyalty to the U.S.. It now seems that it will be difficult to trust them on this point, and those who talk about “double allegiance” will find an understanding ear.”
Source: “Haaretz”, 1 December 1985
There is no shortage of examples where the israeli-Zionist lobby succeeds in imposing on the U.S. an attitude which is unfavorable to American interests but useful for Israeli policy.
Here are some examples:
The president of the Senate Foreign Affairs Commission, Senator Fullbright, decided to summon the main Zionist leaders before a committee which threw some light on their underground activities. He summed up the results of his enquiry in a “Face the Nation” interview on C.B.S., 7 October 1973: “The Israelis control policy in Congress and in the Senate”. He added:“Our colleagues in the Senate, about 70% of them, make up their minds more under the pressure of a lobby than from their own vision of what they consider to be the principles of liberty and justice.”
In the next elections Fullbright lost his seat as senator.
Since Senator Fullbright’s enquiry, the Zionist “lobby” has continued to strengthen its grip on American policy. In his book, “They Dare to Speak Out”, (published in 1985 by Lawrence Hill and Co.) Paul Findley, who had a seat in the U.S. Congress for 22 years, described the current working and power of the Zionist “lobby”. This veritable “branch of the Israeli government” controls Congress and Senate, the Presidency of the Republic, the State Department and the Pentagon as well as the media and it exercises its influence in the universities as well as in the churches.
There is no shortage of examples showing how the Israelis’ demands take priority over the interests of the U.S.: On 3 October 1984 the House of Representatives repealed, by a majority of 98%, all limitations to exchanges between Israel and the U.S. in spite of the unfavorable report of the Ministry of Commerce and the opposition of all the unions (p. 31). Every year, whatever the restrictions on other areas of the budget, credit for Israel is increased. The degree of espionage is such that the most secret dossiers fall into the hands of the Israeli government. Adlai Stevenson (former presidential candidate in the U.S.) wrote in the winter ‘75 - ‘76 issue of “Foreign Affairs”: “Practically no decision concerning Israel can be taken, or even discussed, at executive level, without being immediately known about by the Israeli government.” (p. 126) In spite of the refusal of the Secretary of State for Defense, founded on American law, to deliver to Israel, during its offensive in Lebanon, fragmentation bombs (a weapon used against civilians), the Israelis get them from Reagan and use them on two occasions in Beirut to massacre the population. (p. 143)
In 1973 the American admiral Thomas Moorer (head of combined military H.Q.) testifies: The Israeli military attache in Washington, Mordecai Gur (future commander-in-chief of the Israeli forces), asks for planes armed with a very sophisticated missile (called “Maverick”) from the U.S.. Admiral Moorer remembers that he said to Gur:”I cannot deliver these planes to you. We only have one squadron. And we swore to congress that we needed them.” Gur said to me, “Give us the planes. As for Congress, I’ll take care of it.” That’s how“, the Admiral adds, “the only squadron equipped with Mavericks went to Israel.” (p. 161)
On 8 June 1967 the Israeli air force and navy bombard the American ship “Liberty” (equipped with very sophisticated detectors) to prevent it from detecting their invasion plans for the Golan. 34 sailors are killed and 171 wounded. The ship is overflown for 6 hours and bombarded for 70 minutes. The Israeli government excuses itself for this “error” and the matter is closed. It is only in 1980 that one of the eyewitnesses, Ennes, an officer on the bridge of the Liberty, can establish the truth, destroying the “official” version of the “error”, ratified by the “commission of enquiry” at the time, chaired by Admiral Isaac Kid. Ennes proves that the attack was deliberate and that it was a question of murder. Admiral Thomas Moorer, while Ennes’ book was smothered by the Zionist “lobby”, explains why this crime was kept quiet: “President Johnson feared the reaction of the Jewish electorate…” . The Admiral adds: “The American people would go crazy if they knew what had happened.” (p. 179)
In 1980 Adlai Stevenson, having sponsored an amendment demanding a reduction of 10% in military aid to Israel in order to force them to stop setting up colonies in the occupied territories, reminded us that 43% of American aid went to Israel (3 million inhabitants) for its arms, to the detriment of 3 billion people starving in the world.
Adlai Stevenson concluded,”The Prime Minister of Israel has a lot more influence over U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East than he has in his own country.” (p. 92)
Any thing goes for the Zionist lobby: from financial pressure to blackmail, from boycotting the media and publishers to death threats.
Paul Findley concludes: “Whoever criticizes Israeli policy can expect painful and incessant reprisals and even the loss of his means of existence by the pressure of the Israeli “lobby”. The President is afraid of it. Congress gives in to all its demands. The most prestigious universities see to it that in their programs there is nothing which opposes it. The media giants and the military chiefs give in to its pressure.” (p. 315)
Source: Hearings, Part 9, 23 May, 1963
