excerpt- Roughly fifty years ago, September 1973 to be exact, crude oil traded at roughly three dollars a barrel, or less than 40 cents <https://www.mantecabulletin.com/opinion/local-columns/longing-days-1-gas-1973-was-anything-good-old-days/> a gallon at the pump. Then came the October War. Israel-first Zionists in the Nixon administration, led by Henry Kissinger, committed the full weight of American resources through what was, at the time, the largest emergency military airlift <https://blog.nixonfoundation.org/2023/10/americas-airlift-in-the-1973-yom-kippur-war/> in American history. Arab oil-producing nations responded <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py0uwqMglAU> by pulling the one lever they controlled: reduction of oil production.
By January 1974, crude had climbed <https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/oil-shock-of-1973-74> to twelve dollars a barrel — a 400 percent increase in less than four months. American drivers sat in lines stretching around city blocks, waiting for rationed gasoline, paying prices they had never imagined, for a war fought thousands of miles away on behalf of a state that contributes not a single penny to the American economy. Instead of honest and frank debate, Americans were offered a carefully curated media narrative, one that avoided the most inconvenient question of all: why were they paying 400 percent more? Corporate American media, where Israel-first loyalists run editorial boards and Middle East commentary is filtered <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jKRwdsq-As> through a reflexively Zionist prism <https://thecradle.co/articles/new-report-exposes-systemic-pro-israel-bias-across-eight-major-western-media-outlets>, rarely allows non–Israel-centric perspectives into mainstream conversation. That is why a viewpoint like this is unlikely to appear in outlets such as the *San Diego Union-Tribune*, the *Los Angeles Times*, or *The New York Times*. Rather than examining the root causes of the oil embargo, the Zionist-managed media reached for a familiar deflection: exploiting public prejudice to redirect frustration and foment anti-Arab racism <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08821127.2024.2410709>. The politically targeted embargo <https://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/oil-embargo#:~:text=During%20the%201973%20Arab%2DIsraeli,which%20exacerbated%20the%20embargo's%20effects.> was stripped of its context and detached from the reality of Israeli occupation and the Nixon administration’s unconditional financial and diplomatic support for Israel. That was fifty years ago. The Israeli surcharge tax did not end when the embargo was lifted. It became embedded in the architecture of the American budget and the profit structure of U.S. oil corporations. The Israeli-added tax reemerges with every made-for-Israel war Washington chooses to fight and finance. full article - *https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/07/the-surcharge-tax-americans-pay-to-finance-israels-wars/ <https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/07/the-surcharge-tax-americans-pay-to-finance-israels-wars/>* -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41668): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41668 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/119197675/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
