In 1948, U.S. Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, an opponent of
the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, warned that, even though failure to
go along with the Zionists might cost President Truman the states of New York,
Pennsylvania, and California, it was about time that somebody should pay some
consideration to whether we might not lose the United States. Mr. Forrestal was
absolutely correct! Isn’t that exactly what’s happened to defacto bankrupt
america in intractable decline.
FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO SACRIFICE AMERICAN LIVES, RESOURCES, PEACE, AND
PROSPERITY FOR ISRAEL, THE MESSAGE IN VERY STRONG TERMS SHOULD BE ‘MOVE TO
ISRAEL’:
Lest We Forget This is #33 in AMEU's Public Affairs Series Americans for Middle
East Understanding March, 2006 Many of the events catalogued here have been
treated in depth in AMEU's bimonthly publication, The Link. website:
www.ameu.org . Lest We Forget The Israeli lobby in Washington has successfully
influenced the U.S. Congress to give billions of non- -repayable dollars each
year to Israel on the premise that Israel's loyalty and strategic importance to
the United States make it an ally worthy of such unprecedented consideration.
Is it ? In his Farewell Address, George Washington warned Americans to avoid a
passionate attachment to any one nation because it promotes "the illusion
of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists."
In 1948, U.S. Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, an opponent of
the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, warned that, even though failure
to go along with the Zionists might cost President Truman the states of New
York, Pennsylvania, and California, it was about time that somebody should pay
some consideration to whether we might not lose the United States. Israeli
actions over the past 53 years involving U.S. interests in the Middle East
seriously challenge the "strategic asset" premise of the Israeli lobby.
Some of these actions are compiled in the list that follows:
September 1953: Israel illegally begins to divert the waters of the
Jordan River. President Eisenhower, enraged, suspends all economic aid to
Israel and prepares to remove the taxdeductible status of the United Jewish
Appeal and of other Zionist organizations in the United States.
October 1953: Israel raids the
West Bank village of Kibya, killing 53 Palestinian civilians. The Eisenhower
administration calls the raid "shocking," and confirms the suspension
of aid to Israel. July 1954: Israeli agents firebomb American and British
cultural centers in Egypt, making it look like the work of the Egyptian Muslim
Brotherhood in order to sabotage U.S.- -Egyptian relations.
October 1956: Israel secretly
joins with England and France in a colonial-style attack on Egypt's Suez Canal.
Calling the invasion a dangerous threat to international order, President Eisenhower forces Israel to relinquish most of
the land it had seized. 1965: 206 pounds of weapons grade uranium disappear from
the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation plant in Pennsylvania. Plant
president is Zalmon Shapiro, a former sales agent for the Israel Defense
Ministry. C.I.A. Director Richard Helms later charges that Israel stole the
uranium.
June 1967: Israel bombs, napalms and torpedoes the USS Liberty, killing 34
Americans, wounding 171 others, and nearly sinking the lightly armed
intelligence ship. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Thomas
Moorer, charges that the attack "could not possibly have been a case of
mistaken identity." June 1967: Against U.S. wishes Israel seizes and
occupies Syria's Golan Heights. June 1968: Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir
rejects U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers Peace Plan that would have
required Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories; she calls upon Jews
everywhere to denounce the plan.
March 1978: Israel invades
Lebanon, illegally using U.S. cluster bombs and other U.S. weapons given to
Israel for defensive purposes only. 1979: Israel frustrates U.S.-sponsored Camp David Accords by
building new settlements on the West Bank. President Carter complains to
American Jewish leaders that, by acting in a "completely irresponsible
way," Israel's Prime Minister Begin continues "to disavow the basic
principles of the accords." 1979: Israel sells U.S. airplane tires and other military
supplies to Iran, against U.S. policy, at a time when U.S. diplomats are being
held hostage in Teheran. July
1980: Israel annexes East
Jerusalem in defiance of U.S. wishes and world opinion. July 1981:
Illegally using U.S. cluster bombs and other equipment, Israel bombs P.L.O.
sites in Beirut, with great loss of civilian life. December 1981:
Israel annexes Syria's Golan Heights, in violation of the Geneva Convention and
in defiance of U.S. wishes. June
1982: Israel invades Lebanon a
second time, again using U.S. cluster bombs and other U.S. weapons. President
Reagan calls for a halt of all shipments of cluster bomb shells to Israel. September 1982:
Abetted by Israeli forces under the control of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon,
Lebanese militiamen massacre hundreds of Palestinians in Beirut's Sabra and
Shatila refugee camps. President Reagan is horrified and summons the Israeli
ambassador to demand Israel's immediate withdrawal from Beirut. September 1982:
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin rejects President Reagan's Peace Plan for
the occupied territories. January-March 1983: Israeli army "harasses" U.S. Marines in
Lebanon. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger confirms Marine commandant's
report that "Israeli troops are deliberately threatening the lives of
American military personnel . . . replete with verbal degradation of the
officers, their uniforms and country." March 1985:
Israeli lobby in Washington pressures the U.S. Congress to turn down a $1.6
billion arms sale to Jordan, costing the U.S. thousands of jobs, quite apart
from the financial loss to American industry. Jordan gives the contract to
Russia. A frustrated King Hussein complains: "The U.S. is not free to move
except within the limits of what AIPAC [the Israeli lobby], the Zionists and
the State of Israel determine for it." October 1985:
Israeli lobby blocks $4 billion aircraft sale to Saudi Arabia. The sale,
strongly backed by the Reagan administration, costs the U.S. over 350,000 jobs,
with steep financial losses to American industry. Saudi Arabia awards contract
to England.
November 1985: Jonathan Jay
Pollard, an American recruited by Israel, is arrested for passing highly
classified intelligence to Israel. U.S. officials call the operation but
"one link in an organized and well-financed Israeli espionage ring
operating within the United States." State Department contacts reveal that
top Israeli defense officials "traded stolen U.S. intelligence documents
to Soviet military intelligence agents in return for assurances of greater
emigration of Soviet Jews." December 1985: U.S. Customs in three states
raid factories suspected of illegally selling electroplating technology to
Israel. Richard Smyth, a NATO consultant and former U.S. exporter, is indicted
on charges of illegally exporting to Israel 800 krytron devices for triggering
nuclear explosions. April 1986: U.S. authorities arrest 17 persons, including a
retired Israeli General, Avraham Bar-Am, for plotting to sell more than $2
billion of advanced U.S. weaponry to Iran (much of it already in Israel).
General Bar-Am, claiming to have had Israeli Government approval, threatens to
name names at the highest levels. U.S. Attorney General of New York calls the
plot mind-boggling in scope. July 1986: Assistant Secretary of State Richard
Murphy informs the Israeli ambassador that a U.S. investigation is under way of
eight Israeli representatives in the U.S. accused of plotting the illegal export
of technology used in making cluster bombs. Indictments against the eight are
later dropped in exchange for an Israeli promise to cooperate in the case. January 1987: Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin visits
South Africa to discuss joint nuclear weapons testing. Israel admits that, in
violation of a U.S. Senate anti-apartheid bill, it has arms sales contracts
with South Africa worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Rep. John Conyers
calls for Congressional hearings on Israel-South Africa nuclear testing. November 1987:
The Iran-Contra scandal reveals that it was Israel that had first proposed the
trade to Iran of U.S. arms for hostages. The scandal becomes the subject of the
Tower Commission Report, Senate and House investigations, and the Walsh criminal
prosecution inquiries. April 1988: Testifying before U.S. Subcommittee on Narcotics,
Terrorism and International Operations, Jose Blandon, a former intelligence
aide to Panama's General Noriega, reveals that Israel used $20 million of U.S.
aid to ship arms via Panama to Nicaraguan Contras. The empty planes then
smuggled cocaine via Panama into the United States. Pilot tells ABC reporter
Richard Threlkeld that Israel was his primary employer. The arms-for-drugs
network is said to be led by Mike Harari, Noriega's close aide and bodyguard,
who was also a high officer in the Israeli secret services and chief
coordinator of Israel's military and commercial business in Panama. June 1988:
Mubarak Awad, a Palestinian-American advocate of nonviolence, is deported by
Israel. The White House denounces the action, saying, "We think it is
unjustifiable to deny Mr. Awad the right to stay and live in Jerusalem, where
he was born." June 1988: Amnesty International accuses Israel of throwing deadly,
U.S.-made gas canisters inside hospitals, mosques, and private homes. The
Pennsylvania manufacturer, a major defense corporation, suspends future
shipments of tear gas to Israel. November
1989: According to the Israeli
paper Ma’ariv, U.S. officials claim Israel Aircraft Industries was involved in
attempts to smuggle U.S. missile navigation equipment to South Africa in
violation of U.S. law. December 1989: While the U.S. was imposing economic sanctions on Iran,
Israel purchased $36 million of Iranian oil in order to encourage Iran to help
free three Israeli hostages in Lebanon. March
1990: Israel requests more than
$1 billion in loans, gifts, and donations from American Jews and U.S.
government to pay for resettling Soviet Jews in occupied territories. President
Bush responds, My position is that the foreign policy of the U.S. says we do
not believe there should be new settlements in the West Bank or East Jerusalem.
June 1990: Officials in the Bush administration and in Congress say
that Israel has emerged as leading supplier of advanced military technology to
China, despite U.S.'s expressed opposition to Israeli-Chinese military
cooperation. September 1990: Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy asks the Bush
administration to forgive Israel's $4.5 billion military debt and dramatically
increase military aid. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens expresses concern
over expected $20 billion in U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia and asks for an
additional $1 billion in military aid to Israel. Facing rising congressional
opposition, White House backs off from plan to sell Saudi Arabia over $20
billion in military hardware. Bush administration promises to deliver
additional F-15 fighters and Patriot missiles to Israel, but defers action on
Israel's request for more than $1 billion in new military aid. Arens questions
U.S.'s commitment to maintain Israel's military advantage in the Middle East. October 1990:
Aliya cabinet chair Ariel Sharon encourages increase in settlement of Soviet
Jews in East Jerusalem, despite his government's assurances to the U.S. that it
would not do so. Bush sends personal letter to Prime Minister Shamir urging
Israel not to pursue East Jerusalem housing. Shamir rejects appeal. November 1990:
In his new autobiography, former President Reagan says Israel was the
instigator and prime mover in the Iran-Contra affair and that then-Prime
Minister Shimon Peres was behind the proposal. January 1991: White House
criticizes Israeli ambassador Zalman Shoval for complaining that U.S. had not
moved forward on $400 million in loan guarantees and that Israel had not
received one cent in aid from allies to compensate for missile damage (in Gulf
War). U.S. says comments are outrageous and outside the bounds of acceptable
behavior. February 1991: Hours after long-disputed $400 million loan guarantees to
Israel are approved, Israeli officials say the amount is grossly insufficient.
Next day, Israel formally requests $1 billion in emergency military assistance
to cover costs stemming from the Gulf War. March 1991: Israeli government
rejects President Bush's call for solution to Arab-Israeli conflict that
includes trading land for peace. In a report to Congress, U.S. State Department
says Soviet Jewish immigrants are settling in the occupied territories at a
higher rate than the Israeli government claims. During tour of West Bank
settlements, Housing Minister Sharon says construction of 13,000 housing units
in occupied territories has been approved for next two years. Plans contradict
statement by Prime Minister Shamir, who told President Bush that the Israeli
government had not approved such plans. April 1991: Prime Minister Shamir and
several members of his cabinet reject U.S. Secretary of State Baker's
suggestion that Israel curtail expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied
territories as gesture for peace. U.S. calls new Jewish settlement of Revava an
obstacle to peace and questions Israel's timing, with Secretary Baker due to
arrive in Israel in two days. Hours before Baker arrives, eight Israeli
families complete move to new settlement of Talmon Bet. U.S. ambassador to
Israel William Brown files an official protest with the Israeli government
about establishment and/or expansion of settlements in the West Bank. Housing
Minister Sharon says Israel has no intention of meeting U.S. demands to slow or
stop settlements. Secretary Baker, in a news conference before leaving Israel,
says Israel failed to give responses he needed to put together a peace
conference. May 1991: Israeli ambassador to U.S. Zalman Shoval says his country
will soon request $10 billion in loan guarantees from Washington to aid in
settling Soviet Jewish immigrants to Israel. Secretary Baker calls continued
building of Israeli settlements ?largest obstacle? to convening proposed Middle
East peace conference. May 1991: President Bush unveils proposal for arms control in
Middle East. U.S. administration confirms that Israel, which has not signed the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, has objected to provision on nuclear weapons.
June 1991: Prime Minister Shamir rejects President Bush's call for
Israeli acceptance of a greater United Nations role in proposed Arab-Israeli
peace talks. July 1991: Israeli Housing Minister Sharon inaugurates the new
Israeli settlement of Mevo Dotan in the West Bank one day after President Bush
describes Israeli settlements as counterproductive. September 1991:
President Bush asks Congress to delay considering Israeli loan guarantee
request for 120 days. Ignoring pleas of U.S. administration, Israel formally
submits its request. Prime Minister Shamir says U.S. has a moral obligation to
provide Israel with loan guarantees, and that Israel would continue to build
settlements in the occupied territories. October 1991: The Washington Post
reports that President Bush waived U.S.-mandated sanctions against Israel after
U.S. intelligence determined that Israel had exported missile components to
South Africa. November 1991: Hours after concluding bilateral talks with Syria,
Israel inaugurates Qela, a new settlement in the Golan Heights. Secretary of
State Baker calls the action provocative. February 1992: Secretary of State
Baker says U.S. will not provide loan guarantees to Israel unless it ceases its
settlement activity. President Bush threatens to veto any loan guarantees to
Israel without a freeze on Israel’s settlement activity. March 1992:
U.S. administration confirms it has begun investigating intelligence reports
that Israel supplied China with technical data from U.S. Patriot missile
system. April 1992: State Department Inspector issues report that the department
has failed to heed intelligence reports that an important U.S. ally widely
understood to be Israel was making unauthorized transfers of U.S. military
technology to China, South Africa, Chile, and Ethiopia. May 1992:
Wall Street Journal cites Israeli press reports that U.S. officials have placed
Israel on list of 20 nations carrying out espionage against U.S. companies.
June 1992: U.S. Defense Department says Israel has rejected a U.S. request to
question former General Rami Dotan, who is at center of arms procurement
scandal involving U.S. contractors. July 1992: General Electric Company pleads
guilty to fraud and corrupt business practices in connection with its sale of
military jet engines to Israel. A GE manager had conspired with Israeli Gen. Rami
Dotan to divert $27 million in U.S. military aid with fraudulent vouchers. U.S.
Justice and Defense Departments do not believe that Dotan was acting in his own
interest, implying that the government of Israel may be implicated in the
fraud, which would constitute a default on Israel's aid agreements with the
U.S. June 1993: U.S. House of Representatives passes bill authorizing $80
million per year to Israel for refugee settlement; bill passes despite $10
billion in U.S. loan guarantees to Israel and against evidence from Israeli
economists that Israel no longer needs U.S. aid. October 1993: CIA informs Senate Government Affairs
Committee that Israel has been providing China for over a decade with several
billion dollars worth of advanced military technology. Israeli Prime Minister
Rabin admits Israel has sold arms to China. November 1993: CIA Director James
Woolsey makes first public U.S. acknowledgement that Israel is generally
regarded as having some kind of nuclear capability. December 1993: Time magazine
reports convicted spy Jonathan Pollard passed a National Security Agency
listing of foreign intelligence frequencies to Israel that later was received
by Soviets, ruining several billion dollars of work and compromising lives of
U.S. informants.
December 1994: Los Angeles Times reports Israel has given China
information on U.S. military technology to help in joint Israeli-Chinese
development of a fighter jet.
January 1995: When Egypt threatens not to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty because Israel will not sign, the U.S. says it will not pressure Israel
to sign. July 1995: U.S. Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk demands Israel
abolish import barriers that discriminate against U.S. imports. November 1995: Israel grants citizenship to American spy
Jonathan Pollard. April 1996:
Using U.S.-supplied shells, Israel kills 106 unarmed civilians who had taken
refuge in a U.N. peace-keeping compound in Qana, southern Lebanon. U.N.
investigators, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch condemn the shelling
as premeditated. The U.N. Security Council calls on Israel to pay reparations.
Resolution is vetoed by the United States.
June 1996: U.S. State
Department hands Israeli defense officials classified CIA report saying Israel
has given China U.S. military avionics, including advanced radar-detection
system and electronic warfare equipment.
December 1996: Israeli cabinet reinstates large subsidies, including tax breaks
and business grants, for West Bank settlers. U.S. says the move is troubling
and clearly complicates the peace process. Israeli government rejects President
Clinton's criticism of the settlements and vows to strengthen them. February
1997: FBI announces that David Tenenbaum, a mechanical engineer working for the
U.S. army, has admitted that for the past 10 years he has inadvertently passed
on classified military information to Israeli officials. March 1997: U.S.
presses Israel to delay building new settlement of Har Homa near Bethlehem.
Prime Minister Netanyahu says
international opposition ‘will just strengthen my resolve.’ June 1997: U.S. investigators report that two Hasidic Jews
from New York, suspected of laundering huge quantities of drug money for a
Colombian drug cartel, recently purchased millions of dollars worth of land
near the settlements of Mahseya and Zanoah. September 1997: Jewish settlers in
Hebron stone Palestinian laborers working on a U.S.-financed project to
renovate the town’s main street. David Muirhead, the American overseeing the
project, says the Israeli police beat him, threw him into a van, and detained
him until the U.S. Consulate intervened. U.S. State Department calls the
incident simply unacceptable. September 1997: Secretary of State Albright says
Israel?s decision to expand Efrat settlement is not at all helpful to the peace
process. Prime Minister Netanyahu says he will continue to expand settlements.
May 1998: 13 years after denying he was not its spy, Israel officially
recognizes Pollard as its agent in hopes of negotiating his release. June 1998:
Secretary of State Albright phones Prime Minister Netanyahu to condemn his plan
to extend Jerusalem’s municipal boundaries and to move Jews into East
Jerusalem, particularly in the area adjacent to Bethlehem. Ignoring U.S.
protests, Israel?s cabinet unanimously approves plan to extend Jerusalem's
municipal authority. August 1998: Secretary Albright tells Prime Minister
Netanyahu that the freeze in the peace process due to the settlement policy is
harming U.S. interests in the Middle East and affecting the U.S.’s ability to
forge a coalition against Iraq. September
1998: Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad reports that the Israeli airliner that
crashed in Amsterdam in 1992 was not carrying gifts and perfume, as the
Israelis claimed, but three of the four chemicals used to make sarin nerve gas.
According to the plane's cargo manifest, the chemicals were sent from a U.S.
factory in Pennsylvania to the top secret Israeli Institute for Biological
Research. November 1998: Israeli
Foreign Minister Sharon urges Jewish settlers to grab West Bank land so it does
not fall under Palestinian control in any final peace settlement. May 1999:
U.S. denounces Israel's decision to annex more land to the Ma'ale Adumim
settlement. June 1999: The Israeli
company Orlil is reported to have stolen U.S. night-vision equipment purchased
for the Israeli Defense Forces and to have sold it to Far Eastern countries. April 2001: Prime Minister Sharon announces plans to build
708 new housing units in the Jewish settlements of Ma'ale Adumim and Alfe
Menashe. U.S. State Department criticizes the move as provocative. May 2001:
The Mitchell Committee (headed by former U.S. Senator George Mitchell)
concludes that Jewish settlements are a barrier to peace. Prime Minister Sharon
vows to continue expanding the settlements. May 2001: U.S. is voted off the
United Nations Commission on Human Rights for the first time since the
committee's establishment in 1947. The Financial Times of London suggests that
Washington, by vetoing U.N. resolutions alleging Israeli human rights abuses,
showed its inability to work impartially in the area of human rights. Secretary
of State Colin Powell suggests the vote was because we left a little blood on
the floor in votes involving the Palestinians. September 2001: Six days after
the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, Secretary of State Powell, when asked
why America is hated in the Arab and Muslim world, acknowledges that the deep
resentment and anger toward the United States is due to the Palestinian crisis.
November 2001: Secretary of State Colin Powell calls on Israel to halt all
settlement building which he says cripples chances for real peace and security.
Benny Elon, a right-wing minister in the Sharon government, says the settlers
aren’t worried. America has a special talent for seeing things in the short
term, he says, explaining that what Powell said he said only to get Arab
support for America’s anti-terrorism coalition against Afghanistan. March 2002:
U.N. Sec. Gen. Kofi Annan calls for immediate withdrawal of Israeli tanks from
Palestinian refugee camps, citing large numbers of Palestinians reported dead
or injured. U.S. State Dept. says the United States has contacted Israel to
urge that utmost restraint be exercised in order to avoid harm to the civilian
population. April 2002: President Bush repeatedly demands an immediate halt to
Israel's military invasion of the West Bank. Prime Minister Sharon rebuffs the
President's withdrawal demands, saying the United States and other nations
should not put any pressure upon us. April 4, 2002: President Bush demands that
Israel halt its March 29 incursion into the West Bank, withdraw immediately,
and cease all settlement building. Three days later, Secretary of State Powell
says Bush's demand was a request. June 10, 2002: Prime Minister Sharon visits
White House. When reporters ask about Israel's ongoing incursions into
Palestinian towns, President Bush says Israel has a right to defend herself.
September 30, 2003: President Bush signs the Foreign Relations Authorization
Act, which identifies Jerusalem as Israel's capital. November 25, 2002. Israel
asks the U.S. for $4-billion in military aid to defray the costs of fighting
terrorism, plus $10-billion in loan guarantees to support its struggling
economy. May 29, 2003: Israel announces construction of a new Jewish settlement
of 230 housing units in East Jerusalem. July 29, 2003: Sharon rejects President
Bush's appeal to halt construction of a separation wall that Israel is building
on occupied Palestinian land. October
22, 2003: Former Navy lawyer Ward Boston, who had helped lead the military
investigation into Israel's 1967 attack on the USS Liberty, files a signed
affidavit stating that President Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert
McNamara had ordered those heading the naval inquiry to conclude that the
attack was a case of mistaken identity, despite overwhelming evidence to the
contrary. March 21, 2005: Prime
Minister Sharon approves construction of 3,500 new housing units in the Israeli
settlement of Maale Adumin to link it to East Jerusalem. The U.S. State
Department has no comment. May 2005: Newsweek reports that in the late 1990s,
lobbyist Jack Abramoff diverted more than $140,000 from charity contributions
by Indian tribes to the Israeli settlement of Beitar Illit for sniper equipment
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Nuke-free Mideast The call by the United Nations
for a Mideast free of nuclear weapons offers yet again a new opportunity to
bring Israel into the nonproliferation treaty process while also stopping Iran
or any other regional power from acquiring a nuclear arsenal. The Israelis of
course have denounced the decision by some 200 member signatories of the
Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty (NPT), saying it is discriminatory because it
singles them out … israel plays the jew card (laws, rules, all notions of
civilized behavior apply to everyone but them for some inexplicable, elusive,
and non-existent reason) ! … You can’t make this stuff up! How totally, but
typically israeli, preposterous.