Assassination of JFK: Could it be Overlapping Agendas By Multiple Players?

Will America ever learn the truth of what happened that tragic day, 50 years ago? No, at least not in our lifetime, because, increasingly, reporting the truth, and/or the pursuit of truth is considered treason. History is handed down to us by the privileged classes, who are not only its authors, but the keeper of all important records. They, the privileged class, keep us immobilized as citizens by creating and maintaining a state of confusion where anything can be believed but nothing can be known for sure. That's precisely the kind of environment that was created right after the assassination of JFK.

Desipte the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collections Act of 1992,  there are more than 50,000 pages of documents regarding the assassination in the national archives yet to be released solely because the CIA doesn't want them released. So should we automatically assume the CIA killed John F. Kennedy? Not entirely. Remember that state of confusion they like to create? Well, there were plenty of different factions of government, industry, and even amongst nations, who had "good" reason, albeit, different reasons, for wanting Kennedy dead. You see, JFK was killed in order to change the direction of the nation on more than a few important policies.

The CIA, no doubt, had plenty of reason.  They were furious over Kennedy pulling the plug on the Bay of Pigs, for the firing of Allen Dulles, for threatening to destroy the agency completely, not to mention, his strong desire to end the Vietnam war. Then you have those pesky Texas oil billionaires who did not like Kennedy’s policy concerning oil depletion allowance.  Then you have organized crime who believed Kennedy had betrayed them after all the help they had given him to get elected. And what about Israel, who was furious that Kennedy refused to allow them to acquire nuclear weapons? And finally, members of the Federal Reserve who were very angry over Kennedy’s executive order 11110, which put $4.5 billion in currency into circulation to power commerce without accruing interest to the private central bank. In other words, re-established the Treasury’s power to print money. The assassination occurred 5 months after JFK signed EO 11110.

Executive Order 11,110

AMENDMENT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 10289 AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE PERFORMANCE OF CERTAIN FUNCTIONS AFFECTING THE DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, it is ordered as follows:

Section 1. Executive Order No. 10289 of September 19, 1951, as amended, is hereby further amended-

By adding at the end of paragraph 1 thereof the following subparagraph (j): (j) The authority vested in the President by paragraph (b) of section 43 of the Act of May 12,1933, as amended (31 U.S.C.821(b)), to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury not then held for redemption of any outstanding silver certificates, to prescribe the denomination of such silver certificates, and to coin standard silver dollars and subsidiary silver currency for their redemption and—

By revoking subparagraphs (b) and (c) of paragraph 2 thereof. Sec. 2. The amendments made by this Order shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil or criminal cause prior to the date of this Order but all such liabilities shall continue and may be enforced as if said amendments had not been made.

John F. Kennedy

The White House, June 4, 1963.

When you have overlapping agendas by multiple powerful institutional self-interests, they will all cooperate to make it happen, and that is exactly what happened.  Though we'll probably never know the details, the truth is that all of these powers contributed, either directly or indirectly, in a very compartmentalized operation (need-to-know basis), giving everyone involved plausible deniability concerning both the assassination plot and subsequent coverup.

In the following videos, Peter Janney, author of Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace, whose father was a high-level CIA official involved in the death of JFK's mistress (the last two yeras of his life), Mary Pinochot Meyer, reveals "hidden facts and dark official secrets" which resulted in the assassination and cover up of JFK, not to mention, the subsequent assassination of the love of his life. 

“Vulnerability isn't necessarily a sign of weakness. Very often, it's the emerging strength of a healing heart crying out for connection. - Peter Janney,

Links:

Disappearing Witnesses: Over 100 murders, suicides and mysterious deaths - the strange fate of those who saw Kennedy shot

The Death Of John Kennedy: Convenient Deaths

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Neo-Empire: The Myth of Pax Americana.

Empires are built on crushed armies, destroyed cities, incinerated crops, slaughtered herds, raped women, enslaved prisoners of war, oppressively over-taxed population, and even genocide. To the contrary of what we've been told, the American empire also rose out of these ashes. But ours is more of a neo-empire, built on neo-imperialism and/or neo-colonialism, which, allows for the husk or shell of independence--the illusion of independence--but takes the substance-- control over that nation's industry,  imports and exports and relationships with other nations.  We allow conquered countries to fly their own flag, use their own currency, speak their own language, on the condition that our military can enter at any time to do whatever we want.

The empire builders of today tell us "we’re" fighting for the security and survival of our nation. They tell us "we’re" fighting for democracy...to spread democracy. They tell us "we’re" fighting for humanitarian reasons. They tell us "we're" fighting to oppose dictators that we put in power.  If this is true, then why, the larger the military industrial complex gets, and the larger the security industrial complex gets, are we, the people finding ourselves increasingly less secure, less free, less humanitarian, not to mention, exceedingly falling under the absolute or supreme power of government?  And why, since the implementation of the Patriot Act I and II, the NDAA, super-advanced technology, unprecedented military power, more than 1,000 global military bases, not to mention trillion-dollar undeclared  "wars", not to mention, our domestic wars:  "war on terror",  "war on drugs" etc., do they continue to tell us the world is even more dangerous than ever?  The bottom line is there is only one beneficiary of empire, and it's not us as the following chart clearly demonstrates.

Cui Bono? To whose benefit is the empire arranged?

So now  the global establishment war drums beat for Syria, the new face of the "war on terror", or, it could be said, indirectly beating for Iran. The U.S. claims that if evidence surfaces showing Syria used chemical weapons...well, it's a game changer. Despite the fact that within the last decade,  the U.S./Israel has used depleted uranium and white phosphorus against Iraqi civilians.  Nevertheless, the telescopic sight or scope is being adjusted until the cross-hairs are centered on the bullseye: Syria in an on-going regional escalation. Perhaps WWIII.

"...we’re going to attack and destroy the governments in 7 countries in five years – we’re going to start with Iraq, and then we’re going to move to Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran.” -- Gen. Wesley Clark

“The Romans have constantly had the same cause, a cause for making war upon all nations, peoples and kings. The insatiable desire for empire and wealth.” -- King Mithridates, one of the Roman Republic’s most formidable and successful enemies, who engaged three of the prominent generals from the late Roman Republic in the Mithridatic Wars

“You find in the Romans an arrogance which no reasonable submission can elude. Briggons of the world, they have exhausted the land by their indiscriminate plunder. They create a desolation and call it peace. Our goods and money are consumed by taxation. Our land is stripped of its harvest to fill their granaries.” -- Chief Calgacus, chieftain of the Caledonian Confederacy (present day Scotland)  who fought the Roman army of Gnaeus Julius Agricola at the Battle of Mons Graupius in northern Scotland in AD 83 or 84.

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Boston Bombing: A Great Big Diversion?

So, what's going on while everyone is distracted by bombs, explosions, poisoned letters, "martial law", etc?

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which Aaron Swartz called "the Patriot Act of the Internet", a bill that is currently moving through Congress passed the House of Representatives on April 18th. At the last moment, an alteration to protect user's social media passwords from employers was defeated in a Congress vote.

President Obama gutted the Stock Act when he signed S. 716 which basically gutted the stock act which was created to make it harder for the legislature and the executive branch to engage in insider trading.

Israel and John Kerry are escalating the war in Syria, claiming Syria has chemical weapons.

Billionaire, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg claims that the Constitution must change to give government more power, after the Boston Marathon Bombings to allow for greater security to stave off future attacks.

Speaking of diversions:

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9/11's Orwellian Talking Points

Green Party candidate, in the 2008 presidential election, Cynthia McKinney, having served six terms in the House of Representatives,   is a very rare individual who speaks truth to power. One of the first things that she questioned directly after 9/11, were the slick brochures, magazines with photographs, etc, that appeared on the newsstands immediately after the attacks that day.

Moreover, as a congresswoman in September 2001, all of the representatives received talking points that consisted of, in the words of former Black Party Panther member and former chairman of the Chicago chapter, Fred Hampton (assassinated by cointel program), "answers that don't answer, explanations that don't explain, and conclusions that don't conclude."

In a nutshell, these "talking points" said the United States was hit because we are free. Oh, the irony! They were only "free" to say, we are free. That's it! If you dared to go beyond those talking points, if you did not subscribe to 'groupthink' the powers that be made sure you would give up your seat in Congress to someone who would obey.

Here are two of the many examples of representatives who would've tried to truly investigate 9/11, but because they acted as if they were free, never got the chance. Earl Hilliard, the first black representative elected in the state of Alabama since reconstruction, served on the House International Relations Committee, but he dared to travel to Libya to establish relations with the people and government so he was not reelected in 2002.

Curt Weldon is another representative from Pennsylvania who stumbled upon Able Danger. Because of that, the FBI raided his house and his daughter's house, resulting in him losing his bid for reelection.

Furthermore, documentation from the 1999 trial to ascertain the complicity of the U.S. government in the assassination of Martin Luther King, proves that the CIA spent one-third of its budget to buy the media, Operation Mockingbird. Fast forward to 2003, and the United States media can legally lie to the American people with impunity. That is now U.S. law!

That's not all. McKinney said all 535 politicians on Capitol Hill have to sign a pledge of allegiance to Israel. If they don’t sign it, their funds are cut, and the American Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC).







Links:


Freedom Rider: Silence on Cynthia McKinney

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Putting Names and Ages to People Killed in Ongoing Israeli Attacks on Gaza

Silence from the mainstream media but at least Glenn Greenwald is reporting the truth. He tweeted that Sharon said in the Jerusalem Post:

"We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn’t stop with Hiroshima – the Japanese weren’t surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too.

"There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing."

And from Palestine From My Eyes

"Names and ages of killed people in the ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza

Because we are NOT just numbers, keep following this post of the names and ages of murdered people who fell victim during the past days of Israeli attacks on Gaza since Wednesday. The number rises to 78 and still rising :( I hope that this battle will cost us no more souls. However, nothing will depress us, no matter how much Israel escalates its inhumanity and crimes. We’ll remain ready to pay any price for attaining of freedom and dignity. RIP!

1- Ahmad Al-Ja’bary, 52 years old.
2-Mohammed Al-hams, 28 years old.
3- Rinan Arafat, 7 years old.
4- Omar Al-Mashharawi, 11 moonths old.
5-Essam Abu-Alma’za, 20 years old.
6-Mohammed Al-qaseer, 20 years old.
7- Heba Al-Mashharawi, six-month pregnant, 19 years old.
8- Mahmoud Abu Sawawin, 65 years old.

9- Habis Hassan Mismih, 29 years old.
10- Wael Haidar Al-Ghalban, 31 years old.
11- Hehsam Mohammed Al-Ghalban, 31 years old.
12- Rani Hammad, 29 years old.
13- Khaled Abi Nasser, 27 year old.
14- Marwan Abu Al-Qumsan, 52 years old.
15- Walid Al-Abalda, 2 years old.
16- Hanin Tafesh, 10 months old.
17- Oday Jammal Nasser, 16 years old.
18- Fares Al-Basyouni, 11 years old.
19- Mohammed Sa’d Allah, 4 years old.
20- Ayman Abu Warda, 22 years old.
21- Tahrir Suliman, 20 years old.
22- Ismael Qandil, 24 years old.
23- younis Kamal Tafesh, 55 years old.
24- Mohammed Talal Suliman, 28 years old.
25- Amjad Mohammed Abu-Jalal, 32 years old.
26- Ziyad Farhan Abu-Jalal, 23 years old.
27- Ayman Mohammed Abu Jalal, 44 years old.
28- Hassan Salem Al-Heemla’, 27 years old.
29- Khaled Khalil Al-Shaer, 24 years old.
30- Ayman Rafeeq sleem, 26 years old.
31- Ahmad Abu Musamih, 32 years old.

At 8:20 am, as a result to an Israeli inhumane attack on Deel Al-Balah, central Gaza, three people were killed. The list of murdered victims goes longer>>>

32- Osama Abdejjawad
33- Ashraf Darwish
34- Ali Al-Mana’ma

At 8:45 am_ 9:00 am, warplanes attacked several places including Rafah, Khan-Younis, and Tal Al-Sultan, southern Gaza, leaving three killed>>

35`- Mukhlis Edwan
36- Mohammed Al-Loulhy, 24 years old.
37- Ahmad Al-Atrush

In a series of attacks on several places on central Gaza at noon, two more people fell victim:

38- Abderrahman Al-Masri

39- Awad Al-Nahhal
40- Ali Hassan Iseed, 25 years old, killed in an attack on his motorbike in Deer Al-Balah, central Gaza, at 8:10 pm, Novebmer 17.

IOF attack another motorbike in Deer Al-Balah at 8:20 pm, leaving two more killed:
41- Mohammed Sabry Al’weedat, 25 years old.
42- Osama Yousif Al-Qadi, 26 years old.

In an attack on central Gaza, to the west of Al-Masdar area, at 9:10 pm, two more people people killed:
43- Ahmad Ben Saeed, 42 years old.
44- Hani Bre’m, 31 years old.

At 9:40 pm, Israel attacked Qdeih family’s house in west Khan-Younis, Southern Gaza and a woman got killed.
45- Samaher Qdeih, 28 years old.
46- Tamer Al-Hamry, 26 years old, died after being seriously injured in an attack on Deer Al-Balah.

On November 18, the fifth day of the Israeli ongoing aggression on Gaza:

Israeli warplanes shelled the house of Abu-Alfoul family in northern Gaza, killing two children and injuring at 13 at least, mostly children and women.

47- Gumana Salamah Abu Sufyan, 1 year old.

48- Tamer Salamah Abu Sufyan, 3 years old.

An Israeli warplanes fired missiles at a house that belongs to the family of Abu Nuqira in Rafah killing one person:

49- Muhamed Abu Nuqira

An Israeli war plane fired a missile at a house in an agricultural land east of Bureij camp, in the Central Gaza Strip, killing one child and injuring 2 other children:

50- Eyad Abu Khusa, 18 months old.

Two people were killed, one of them a child, when an Israeli missile hit a beachfront refugee camp in Gaza City:

51- Tasneem Zuheir Al-Nahhal, 13 years old.

52- Ahmad Essam Al-Nahhal, 25 years old.

Medics also reported finding the body of woman under the rubble of a house in eastern Gaza City who had been killed in a strike earlier in the morning.

53- Nawal Abdelaal, 52 years old.

At 3:10 pm, November 18, Israel rocked a house belongs to Al-Dalou family in Sheikh-Redwan area, west Gaza, killing at least 10 people, including 4 women and 4 children.
54- Mohammed Jamal Al-Dalou, the father.
55- Ranin Mohammed Jamal Al-Dalou, 5 years old.
56- Jamal Mohammed Jamal Al-Dalou, 7 year old.
57- Yousef Mohammed Jamal Al-Dalou, 10 years old.
58- Ibrahim Mohammed Jamal Al-Dalou, 1 year old.
59- Jamal Al-Dalou, the grandfather.
60- Sulafa Al Dalou, 46 years old
61- Samah Al-Dalou, 25 years old
62- Tahani Al-Dalou, 50 years old
63- Ameina Matar Al-Mzanner, 83 years old.
64- Abdallah Mohammed Al-Mzanner, 23 years old.

Soon after Al-Dalou massacre, 2 more were killed, including a child, in an attack on a car for water supply in northern Gaza.
65- Suheil Hamada

66-Mo’men Hamada

In an airstrike that targeted Nussairat camp after that two people were murdered and 10 at least got injured

67- Atiyya Mubarak.

68- Hussam Abu Shaweish,

69- Samy Al-Ghfeir, 22 years old, killed in an attack on Shijaiyya area, west Gaza.

70- Mohammed Bakr Al-Of, 24 years old, killed in an attack on Al-Yarmouk st. in Gaza city.

At 8:00 pm, November 18, the ministry of health in Gaza has reported that Israel has risen the death toll in Gaza to 69, including 20 children, 8 women, and 9 elderly people. Moreover, Over 660 person got injured since Wednesday, including 224 children, 113 women, and 50 elderly people.
At 10:00 pm, November 18, an Israeli warplane attacked a motorbike near the ministry of finance roundabout, west Gaza, killing a father and his son:
71- Ahmad Abu Amra
72- Nabil Ahmad Abu Amra
At 10:10 pm, November 18, an Israeli warplane rocked a house belong to Nasser family near Abu-Sharekh crossroad in northern Gaza, killing a child and his father.
73- Hussein Jalal Nasser, 8 years old.

74- Jalal Nasser

On November 19, the sixth day of the Israeli ongoing aggression on Gaza:

At 12:10 am, an Israeli warplane attacked Mahmoud Al-Hashash house in Rafah killing one woman.

75- Sabha Al-Hashash, 60 years old.

At 1:00 am, an Israeli warplane rocked a car in Rafah killing two people:

76- Saif Al-Deen Sadeq

77- Ahmad Hussein Al-Agha.

78- Emad Abu Hamda, 30 years old, killed after being seriously injured in as a drone fired a rocket at Beach camp, west Gaza.

79- Mohammed Jindiyya, mentally disabled, killed in an attack on Helles roundabout in Shijaiyya, west Gaza.

At 4:10 am, Israel committed another atrocious crime shelling a house belong to Azzam family that is full of children. 3 people were killed in this attack and at least 40 injured. Medics said that more than 15 children have arrived Shifaa hospital, three of them are in a very critical condition.

80- Mohammed Iyad Abu Zour, 5 years old.

81- Nisma Abu Zour, 19 years old.

82- Ahed Al-Qattaty, 38 years old.

List will be updated at #GazaUnderAttack

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Israel Lobbyist/Economist Suggest False Flag to Start War with Iran.

In the video below, Patrick Clawson, former economist for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), former senior economist for the World Bank, and currently the Director for Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and senior editor of “Middle East Quarterly“ references “false flag” attacks that led to the Spanish American War (USS Maine), Civil War (Fort Sumter attack), WWI (Lusitania), WWII (Pearl Harbor), and Vietnam (Gulf of Tonkin), suggests that a "false flag" is needed to start a war with Iran.

"So if in fact, the Iranians aren't going to compromise, it would be better if somebody else started the war...I mean, look people, Iranian submarines periodically go down. Some day one of them might not come up. Who would know why?...We are in the game of using covert means against Iranians. We could get nastier." -- Patrick Clawson

See Clint Richardson's Reality Blog for a lot more information on Patrick Clawson and the Israel lobby

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Déjà vu: Lies About “Weapons of Mass Destruction” and "Terrorism"

Remember the exchange between French president Nicolas Sarkozy and President Barack Obama that went out on an open microphone?

Sarkozy: “I can’t stand (Netanyahu) any more. He’s a liar.”
Obama: “You're sick of him? I have to deal with him every day.”

Well, could that have something to do with Iran? Because anyone who's paying attention knows that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu   continues to ratchet up the warnings about Iran, nukes, and the end of the world; meanwhile President Obama is supposedly doing his best quiet the bellicose old fool, asking him for a commitment not to launch a unilateral attack against Iran.

Iran is the new Iraq. It's no secret that the Israelis have been using the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) terrorists - trained, financed and armed by Israel's Mossad - against Iran. Yet, the claim is that the bombing incidents in India, Thailand and Georgia were targeting Israeli diplomats, so, of course, Israel is on high alert. The clear message is: if we - US and Israel - don’t act soon, Iran will get nuclear weapons, which will, most assuredly, bring about Armageddon.

That is, despite the fact that Iran has never started a war; despite the fact that Iran’s nuclear energy program is regularly monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency; despite fact that the US possess 10,600 nuclear warheads, while  Israel possesses hundred; despite the fact that Israel, unlike Iran, refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) into Israel to monitor its nuclear program.

It wasn't all that long ago that the Bush administration created false links connecting Iraq to 9/11 and Niger uranium. The propaganda campaign designed to demonize Iran as Israel prepares for, or even better for them, convinces the US to attack is in full swing. But, then again, Iran has even more oil than Iraq - fourth largest oil reserve in the world. Hence, the déjà vu situation: the demonization of Iran as a threat to world security.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

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Congress Touring Israel for Free.

Despite the fact that accepting free trips from lobbyists is illegal for Congress members under US anti-graft and corruption laws, the American Israel Educational Foundation - affiliate of the largest Zionist lobby in the US: the American Israel Public Affairs Committee with its a tax-exempt 501(c)(4) organization with two donors - is sponsoring an all-expenses-paid, week-long junkets to Israel. The top congressional leaders of both parties are leading the trips.

Unlike the far more numerous nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations, which have to continually “means test” that they have a wide public funding base in order for contributor donations to be tax-deductible, contributions to 501(c)(4) organizations such as AIPAC (which actively lobbies Congress, the executive, and numerous government agencies) are not tax-deductible. There are no contribution limits to 501 (c)(4) nonprofit groups. Individuals, foreign nationals, partnerships, associations, and other organizations may contribute whatever amount they like to a 501(c)(4).

81 congressional representatives - 55 Republicans and 26 Democrats - from all over the country, led by Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, are traveling to Israel this month. Most are freshmen congressmen, and the group includes half of all the freshmen Republicans voted into office in 2010.

Don't you think the $3 billion in direct aid and $3 billion in indirect aid provided to Israel each year by the US Congress would be better spent reviving the declining US economy?



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Mubarak Transfers Loot to Israel? WTF?

The same man who alerted Bob Chapman of The International Forecaster to the Bernie Madoff fiasco, two weeks prior to it hitting the headlines, told Chapman that former President Hosni Mubarak  transferred his $70 million from Egypt  to Europe, where the Americans and Europeans threatened to confiscate it.  Supposedly, Mubarak  then moved his fortune to Bank Leumi in Israel.



Moreover, QE3 is coming. The price of gold will explode. And the dollar will die. Does the Fed know what it's doing? Absolutely. The Fed plans to kill the dollar. What other conclusion can you make? Bernanke should just make the announcement: "Get ready to dump your reserves, world, the dollar is on it's way out!" I'm sorry, I don't think Bernanke is stupid. I don't think any of the banksters are stupid. Far from it. They know exactly what they're doing.

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Maintaining the Myth of Poor Little Israel.

Zionism can take many different forms. One form simply believes in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language and that Jewish people should live free from prejudice and oppression. In that context, I consider myself a "Zionist". However, another form of Zionism (Israeli hawks) takes a much more intransigent, aggressive, imperialistic stance. It is this form of Zionism to which I refer.

In July, 2010, due to implications over Israel's "adherence to international law," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu extended the period during which material contained in government archives will remain classified by 20 years.

The government’s decision to classify Israel’s past as top secret prevented the "revelation" that the stereotypical image of Israel as a persecuted nation, surrounded by dangerous Arab countries as a lie. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that Israel's aggressive policies from the very beginning have contributed to the troubles it faces. In other words, Israel’s claim that it acts only in self-defense is laughable; however, dare to criticize Israel, and you will face the accusation of anti-Semite.

Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II. From 1976-2004, Israel was the largest annual recipient of U.S. foreign assistance, having since been supplanted by Iraq. Since 1985, the United States has provided nearly $3 billion in grants annually to Israel.

In his article "Who is the Superpower, America or Israel? Bernd Debusmann said:

On February 18, the United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories. The vote raises a question: Who dominates in the alliance between America and Israel?

Judging from the extent to which one partner defies the will of the other, decade after decade, the world’s only superpower is the weaker partner. When push comes to shove, American presidents tend to bow to Israeli wishes. Barack Obama is no exception, or he would not have instructed his ambassador at the United Nations to vote against a policy he himself stated clearly in the summer of 2009.

“The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements. This construction violates previous agreements and undermines efforts to achieve peace. It is time for these settlements to stop,” he said in a much-lauded speech in Cairo.

Compare this with the text of the resolution that drew 14 votes in favor and died with the U.S. veto: “Israeli settlements established in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, are illegal and constitute a major obstacle to the achievement of a just, lasting and comprehensive peace.”

So, while the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, blockade of Gaza, and the  murder of innocent civilians - unarmed fishermen, in this case - continues on, the US continues on arming Israel to the tune of $3 billion per year, perpetuating the myth - through its corporatized mass media and heavily lobbied politicians - of poor little Israel fighting for its life against the big bullies on all sides, when the truth is, the "big" bully is Israel.

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