Deadly Fallout From Obama's Groveling Before Israel Lobby

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This year we were fortunate enough to witness John McCain, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton taking turns losing their dignity before the AIPAC crowd. At one point in his parody on "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart spoke of John McCain taking with him Senator Joe Lieberman on a visit to Israel, advising McCain that when you visit Israel "you don't need to bring your own Jew."

Thus, presidential candidates, one of whom will really become the president of the United States, enabling Israeli aggression can, and has, resulted in the deaths and suffering of tens of thousands of Arabs, in Lebanon, in Palestine, and in Iraq. Such rhetoric allows Israel, with U.S. help, to attempt to starve into submission Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, people who had the temerity to take seriously [George W. Bush]'s promises of democracy in the Arab world. Despite Israel's blockade of medicines, food, electricity and other necessities to Gazans, the American government and the American mainstream media have voiced not one word of protest. The U.S. only gives Israel more money and more weapons to continue the attempted starvation.

Obama's statement of unquestioning and unqualified support for Israel's objectives will likely embolden Israel to once again try to invade Lebanon to destroy Hizbullah's fighters, the only force strong enough to resist Israeli aggression in that country. And while the U.S. has no more troops left with which to invade Iran, as Sen. Joe Lieberman and the Israeli government wants us to do, both Israel and the Bush administration have plans to bomb Iran's phantom nuclear program. (Whatever happened to the CIA's National Intelligence Estimate announcing that Iran has no longer pursued a weapons program?)

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Deadly Fallout From Obama's Groveling Before Israel Lobby

Like a Muslim undertaking the Hajj, the once in a lifetime trip to Mecca, or a Catholic chancing to see the Pope speak from his Vatican window, presidential candidates seemingly long to trudge to the annual AIPAC conference to pay fealty to Israel and its lobby.

This year w...

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