Amidst all the gloom, however, there is one great success story. That is the tale of how Israel and its friends in politics and financial circles have been able to screw every possible advantage out of both major parties simultaneously and apparently effortlessly. Israel might be the true undisputed winner in the 2020 election even though it was not on the ballot and was hardly mentioned at all during the campaign.
The U.S. election will end today, more or less, and we Americans
will suffer another four years of putting up with serial nonsense out of a
White House and Congress that could care less about us no matter who is
elected. Whether the party where everything changes or the party where
everything remains the same wins the inevitable result will be further
aggrandizement of authoritarian power combined with increased distancing of
government from the people who are ruled.
Amidst all the gloom, however, there is one great success story.
That is the tale of how Israel and its friends in politics and financial
circles have been able to screw every possible advantage out of both major
parties simultaneously and apparently effortlessly. Israel might be the true
undisputed winner in the 2020 election even though it was not on the ballot and
was hardly mentioned at all during the campaign.
Jewish billionaires with close ties to Israel have been courted by
the two major parties, both to come up with contributions and to urge their
friends in the oligarch club and media to also respond favorably. The
Democrats’ largest single donor is entertainment
mogul Haim Saban while the Republicans rely on casino multi-billionaire Sheldon
Adelson. It is estimated that 60% of the political contributions for the
Democrats comes from Jewish sources and Saban is the single largest
contributor. He is also an Israeli holding dual citizenship. Adelson, who may
also hold dual citizenship and is married to an Israeli, is the major supporter
of the Republicans, having coughed up more than $100 million in recent
elections.
Both Saban and Adelson have not been shy about supporting Israel
as their first priority. Saban is on record as supporting Joe Biden “because of
his track record on supporting Israel and its alliance with the United States.”
Adelson, who was drafted into the U.S. Army in the 1950s, has said that he
would much rather have served in the Israel Defense Force. Saban and Adelson
are joined in their love fest with Israel by a number of Israel-firsters in
Congress and the Administration, all eager to shower unlimited political
support, money and weapons on the Jewish state.
In the latest manifestation of noblesse oblige, Secretary of
Defense Mark Esper stopped off in Israel last week to
present his counterparts with a significant bit of assistance, all funded by
the American taxpayer, of course. According to sources in Washington and
Jerusalem, the U.S. “will grant Israel direct access to highly classified
satellites such as the missile detection birds known as SBIRS and ensure Israel
gets critical defense platforms in a very short time by using production slots
planned for the U.S armed forces.” Israel will also be given “deeper access to
the core avionic systems” of the new F-35 fighter that it has been obtaining
from Washington.
The claimed rationale for the upgrade is the Congressionally
mandated requirement for the U.S. to maintain Israel’s “qualitative military
edge” in light of the impending sale of the F-35 to Arab states that have
recently established diplomatic relations with Israel. At the time, Israeli
sources were suggesting that the Jewish state might need $8 billion in new
military hardware upgrades to maintain its
advantage over its neighbors. It is presumed that the American taxpayer will
foot the bill, even though there is a serious financial crisis going on in the
U.S.
The satellite detection system operates from aerial platforms that
are deployed on helicopters. The astute reader will notice that no U.S.
security interest is involved in the latest giveaway to Israel. On the
contrary, Israel will be receiving material from “production slots planned for
the U.S. armed forces,” reducing America’s own ability to detect incoming missiles.
And there will also be considerable damage to American defense interests in
that Israel will inevitably steal the advanced F-35 technology that they will
be given access to, re-engineer it for their own defense industries and sell it
to clients in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. They have done so before, selling U.S. developed
missile technology to China.
Congress is also doing its bit. A bill, the so-called “U.S.-Israel
Common Defense Authorization Act,” is making its way through the House of
Representatives and will authorize the provision of U.S. manufactured bunker buster bombs to Israel. As the
bombs would only be useful in Israel’s neighborhood to bomb hardened sites in
Iran, the message being sent is obvious. The Massive Ordnance Penetrator weighs
30,000 pounds and is capable of destroying targets located deep underground.
Oddly, Israel doesn’t have a plane capable of carrying that weight so the
presumption is that the White House will also have to provide the bomber. The
bill is co-sponsored by two leading Israel firsters in Congress Democrat Josh
Gottheimer of New Jersey and Republican Brian Mast of Florida.
Israel is also seeking an upgrade of some of its
other fighter aircraft. It reportedly has approached the Pentagon seeking to
buy the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, a single-seat, twin-engine, all-weather
stealth tactical fighter aircraft that was originally developed for the United
States Air Force (USAF). Its stealth capability, top speed, maneuverability
combined with advanced air-to-air and air-to-ground weapon systems, makes it
the best air superiority fighter in the world.
Unfortunately for Israel, the F-22 is not currently available and
is only operated by the USAF. Current U.S. federal law prohibits the export of
the plane to anyone to protect its top secret advanced stealth technology as
well as a number of advances in weaponry and situational awareness. But if
deference to Israel’s wishes is anything to go by, one might safely bet that
the Jewish state will have received approval to acquire the plane by
inauguration day in January. And it is a safe bet that Israeli defense
contractors will have reverse engineered the stealth and other features soon
thereafter.
The U.S. government has been pandering to Israel in other
ways, to include labeling, and sanctioning,
prominent human rights groups that have criticized the Jewish state as
anti-Semitic. It has also strengthened existing sanctions against Iranian financial institutions ,
reportedly in an attempt to make it more difficult for a President Biden to
reinstate the suspended Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that sought
to monitor the Iranian nuclear program. The sanctions come on top of other
moves to destroy the Iranian economy, to include “…that the U.S., along with
Israel, has in recent months carried out sabotage attacks inside Iran,
destroying power plants, aluminum and chemical factories, a medical clinic and
7 ships at the port of Bushehr…”
Other recent developments favoring Israel include Congress’s
legislating Israeli government veto authority over U.S. sales of
weapons to any other Middle Eastern nation. The bill is called “Guaranteeing
Israel’s QME [Qualitative Military Edge] Act of 2020” (H.R. 8494). There has
also been the expansion by Executive Order of U.S.
funded illegal West Bank Jewish settlements’ science development projects that
will eventually compete with American companies.
In truth, the United States has become Israel’s bitch and there is
hardly a politician or journalist who has the courage to say so. Congress and
the media have been so corrupted by money emanating from the Israeli lobby that
they cannot do enough to satisfy America’s rulers in Jerusalem. And for those
who do not succumb to the money there is always intimidation, career-ending
weaponized accusations of holocaust-denial and anti-Semitism. It is all
designed to produce one result: whoever wins in American elections doesn’t
matter as long as Israel gets what it wants. And it almost always gets what it
wants.
Philip
M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National
Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number
#52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the
Middle East. Website is https://councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157,
Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is inform@cnionline.org.