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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny
January 3, 2003
Good Morning from the Zundelsite.
Remember the old slogan "Say No to Drugs?" Why not say No to Israel?
[START]
Ariel Sharon's Shakedown
by Pat Buchanan
"Tough Love for United," exclaimed the Wall Street Journal, as it
congratulated Uncle Sam for stiffing United Airlines' plea for $1.8
billion in loan guarantees. Rebuffed, the beloved old airline had to
declare its bankruptcy.
It's all for the best, the Journal assures us, "maybe this tough love
rejection will start a new government precedent, or at least we can
dream." Fine. May we now expect the Journal to call on Mr. Bush to
reject the $10 billion in loan guarantees demanded by Ariel Sharon?
Don't bet on it.
Yet, Sharon's demand is astonishing in its audacity. California and
New York face huge budget shortfalls. The U.S. Treasury is running a
deficit nearing $200 billion. Yet, Sharon, who ignored Bush when the
president publicly called on him to pull his army out of West Bank
cities, is demanding that U.S. taxpayers fork over $4 billion in new
military aid and agree to pay off $10 billion Israel intends to
borrow should Israel decide to default.
Why should we do this? What does America get out of this? What has
all the $100 billion in aid we have shoveled out to Israel bought us,
other than ingratitude and the enmity of the Arab world?
While Israel has a first-rate military, it is of no use to us. In
Desert Storm, Bush I had to bribe Yitzhak Shamir with $5 billion in
aid, $400 million in loan guarantees, and Patriot missiles to stay
out of the fighting, lest Israeli intervention dynamite our
coalition. Journalists and diplomats alike, returning from the
Mideast, attest that our almost-blind support of Israel is a major
cause of the anti-Americanism that is sweeping the Islamic world.
When the price of Israel could be paid in dollars alone, $3 billion a
year, most members of Congress chose to pony up rather than face the
retribution of an Israeli Lobby that has in its trophy case the
scalps of two chairmen of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, J.
William Fulbright and Chuck Percy.
But now the price of the Israeli connection has begun to rise. U.S.
weapons technology given to Israel has been sold to China. Only
direct U.S. intervention prevented Israel from selling Beijing AWACS
technology. The Patriot missile, the Phoenix air-to-air missile, the
Lavi fighter, based on the F-16, have all been sold to Beijing.
In the Reagan era, Israel had the loathsome Jonathan Pollard, whom it
suborned into treason, loot our innermost national security secrets,
some of which are believed to have been traded to Moscow. Israel
refuses to return the roomful of documents it stole and has pressured
presidents for Pollard's release so he can be brought to Israel where
he is a hero.
Now Mr. Sharon has handed us Israel's bill for abstaining from war
with Iraq while President Bush is at maximum political risk. Not
since 1957, when Dwight Eisenhower ordered Ben-Gurion to get his army
out of Sinai, has a U.S. president faced down an Israeli Prime
Minister.
To his credit, the president's father tried. In 1991, having driven
Iraq out of Kuwait, with his approval at 70 percent, Bush I was asked
by Shamir for $10 billion in loan guarantees to bring a million
Russian Jews to Israel. Bush assented, on one condition: Shamir must
not settle them on the West Bank and must stop expanding settlements.
Shamir rejected the condition, and the Lobby went to work. Bush
warned he would veto the guarantees. An Israeli minister called him
an anti-Semite. While Shamir was defeated in June of 1992, Bush, his
own election in trouble, eventually gave in and gave Israel the loan
guarantees. Who was the Housing Minister who announced new
settlements even as Bush I was denouncing them? Ariel Sharon.
Sharon now wants to repeat Israel's victory over Bush's father by
making the son give Israel $4 billion in hardware and $10 billion in
new loan guarantees as Sharon's price for permitting us to crush Iraq
while he holds America's coat. It is a shakedown: Ariel Sharon's big
sting
What should Bush do? Tell Sharon the loan guarantees will not even be
taken up until he begins to dismantle all the settlements he has
begun to build since George W. took office. And if Sharon attempts to
roll him in Congress, he, Bush, will go to the country and roll
Sharon.
In short, stand up for U.S. national interests and declare America's
independence. Israel may be our ally in the war on terror. We are not
Israel's ally in its war on the Palestinians. Our commitment is to
Israel's security, not its settlements, which are the cause of the
intifada.
Sharon's opponent in January's election, General Mitzna, has agreed
to negotiate with the Palestinians on the basis of Camp David and to
begin withdrawals from the West Bank and Gaza. If Israeli politicians
can stand up to Sharon, why cannot U.S. presidents? If members of the
Knesset can refuse to follow the suicidal path of Sharon & Netanyahu,
why is Congress so cowardly?
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(Source: http://amconmag.com/01_13_03/buchanan7.html )
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