| Author | Message | | Guest | | Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2002 4:56 am Post subject: THE PRICE OF ISRAEL |
| DEC. 16, 2002 (COL. 2)
THE PRICE OF ISRAEL
BY CHARLEY REESE
The Christian Science Monitor published in its Dec. 9 edition a story about Thomas
Stauffer, a consulting economist, who said recently that the total cost of U.S. support for
Israel since 1973 is $1.6 trillion, or twice the cost of the Vietnam War.
This is relevant because the Israelis have just demanded from the U.S. taxpayers another $4
billion to cover the cost of their oppression of the Palestinians as well as an $8 billion
loan guarantee.
Ladies and gentleman, there isn't a state in the union that is not facing a financial
crisis, and if the U.S. government caves in yet again to the Israeli lobby on this matter, it
will be prima facie evidence of mass insanity or of the worse corruption since the
administration of Ulysses S. Grant.
Stauffer made his speech in a lecture commissioned by the U.S. Army War College for a
conference at the University of Maine. He has converted past aid into 2001 dollars and counts
this cost as follows:
Israel has been given $240 billion (remember, this is current dollars), while Egypt has
been given $117 billion and Jordan $22 billion as bribes for signing a peace treaty with
Israel.
In 1973, when the Arabs attacked Israel in an effort to recover territory taken by Israel
in the 1967 war, U.S. support for Israel triggered the oil embargo. This, according to
Stauffer, kicked off a recession that cost $420 billion of output; the boost in oil prices
cost $450 billion; the necessity to build a strategic oil reserve, another $134 billion.
He points out that the United States has already guaranteed $10 billion in commercial loans
to Israel and $600 billion in housing loans, and he expects the U.S. Treasury will end up
paying for all of these. He goes on and on listing more costs, direct and indirect. Israel,
for example, is the only recipient of foreign aid allowed to spend a sizeable percentage of
the money on Israeli products rather than American. It's the only country from which our
defense contractors are required to buy a certain amount of Israeli-made equipment. It is the
only foreign country that gets its aid in a lump sum and then invests it in U.S. bonds so that
taxpayers not only make an annual gift to Israel but also have to pay Israel interest on that
gift.
The fact is that the Israeli government and its powerful lobby have taken advantage of the
good-heartedness of the American people. The American people are generous, but never generous
enough to satisfy Israeli demands for more of our people's hard-earned tax dollars.
It is one thing to provide emotional support. It is one thing even to guarantee coming to
the defense of another country if it is attacked. It is quite another to undertake the
permanent subsidy of a foreign country, something our federal government does not even do for
its states. We have all kinds of problems in the United States that need attention. It's time
to tell the Israelis ``We can no longer afford you.''
I highly recommend that you read the complete story in the Monitor
(www.csmonitor.com/2002/1209 /p16s01-wmgn.html). It should open your eyes to a problem that
will not be fixed unless the American people make their voices heard in Washington.
If we are going to be forced to subsidize a foreign country, I would rather it be France.
We can at least get a decent meal in France and enjoy the art treasures collected there.
Furthermore, France would not involve us in its quarrels.
It's America's policy of absolute support for Israel and Israel's cruel treatment of the
Palestinians that are a big part of our problem with terrorism. We stand convicted in the eyes
of the Muslim world of practicing a double standard by condoning Israel's human-rights
violations and protecting it from international sanctions. That, too, is a terrible price the
American people can no longer afford to pay.
(Write to Charley Reese at P.O. Box 2446, Orlando, FL 32802) | |  | | Guest | | | | Guest | | Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2002 9:05 am Post subject: Mossad sought to induce him to set up fake Qaida cell |
| Mossad sought to induce him to set up fake Qaida cell in Gaza
Palestinian man says Mossad sought to induce him to set up fake Qaida cell in Gaza
Occupied Jerusalem: 11 December, 2002 (IAP News)
A Palestinian citizen from Gaza has revealed how the Israeli intelligence
Service, the Mossad, had been trying to enlist him to set up a terrorist cell in
Palestine under the name of al-Qaida, the group headed by Osama bin Laden.
Ibrahim (not his real name) said during a news conference in Gaza Monday night
that he had been contacted by a man who identified himself as Haj Yousuf from
the city of Akka, who told him that he was working for Osama Bin Laden and that
he was able to carry out bombings in Tel Aviv and Haifa and other Israeli towns.
He told me that all he wanted from me was to declare responsibility for the
bombings in the name of al-Qaida, said the masked Ibrahim.
He spoke very nicely and told me he would help me financially; then he asked me
to try to enlist a number of sincere Islamic-minded youths to set up al-Qaida
cell in Gaza.
Ibrahim said his contacts with Haj Yousuf (the Mossad agents) became more
frequent, adding that at one point the Mossad agent offered him a monthly salary
of up to 3000 US dollars.
At a later date, the Mossad agent asked Ibrahim to rent an apartment in Gaza in
order to facilitate communications between them. He also promised to provide
Ibrahim with a computer and fax machine, saying that communication between the
two would be conducted via the internet.
Ibrahim said the man would inject his telephone conversations with a lot of
Quranic verses and would exhort him to perform daily prayers, particularly the
Dawn prayer.
However, Ibrahim, said he began to be suspicious of the man when he told him
that he knew him and his family.
Every thing he told me made me suspect his true identity. He told me he knew me,
my home, my friends; he also told me to expect a visit to my home or place of
work.
Ibrahim said his contacts with Haj Yousuf lasted for five months after which he
decided to inform the Preventive Security Force in Gaza of the entire affair.
The Israeli government and media have been dumbfounded by the revelation.
A spokesman at the Israeli Prime Ministers office issued a terse statement on
Tuesday describing these allegations as nonsense.
Earlier, a gleeful-looking Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told reporters
that Israel had discovered an al Qaida cell in Gaza and that Israel was a key
partner in the worldwide war against terror.
The Israeli claims were instantly and vehemently denied by the Palestinian
Authority whose leader Yasser Arafat labeled Sharons remarks as a big, big, big
lie.
Moreover, the PA briefed the US, EU, Russia and the UN on the affair and urged
them to be mindful of Israeli designs to carry out massacres and acts of wanton
killings in the Gaza Strip under the false rubric of fighting al-Qaida. | | | | Guest | | | | Guest | | | | Guest | | | | Guest | | Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 3:15 am Post subject: Eyes wide shut |
| But seemingly keeping your eyes shut, but good, when it comes to any mention the Israeli attack on the HMS Crane, or the Egyptian attack on the American oil company plane, etc., etc.
How so selective. | | | | Guest | | Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 9:35 am Post subject: Re: Eyes wide shut |
| | Anonymous wrote: | But seemingly keeping your eyes shut, but good, when it comes to any mention the Israeli attack on the HMS Crane, or the Egyptian attack on the American oil company plane, etc., etc.
How so selective. |
The "Egyptian" attack on the U.S. oil co. plane was about as Egyptian as kreplach, and gefilte fish. It was exposed as a Jew attack by one of the Israelis, er "Egyptians". It is why no mention of it in the (Jew-dominated media). | | | | Guest | | Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 6:20 pm Post subject: |
| NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll conducted by the polling organizations of Peter Hart (D) and Robert Teeter (R). Latest: Dec. 7-9, 2002. MoE ± 3.1
"Now turning to Iraq: Do you think that the United States should or should not take military action to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq?"
Should 59%
Should Not 30%
Not Sure 11% | | | | Guest | | Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 7:47 pm Post subject: Re: Eyes wide shut |
| | Anonymous wrote: | | Anonymous wrote: | But seemingly keeping your eyes shut, but good, when it comes to any mention the Israeli attack on the HMS Crane, or the Egyptian attack on the American oil company plane, etc., etc.
How so selective. |
The "Egyptian" attack on the U.S. oil co. plane was about as Egyptian as kreplach, and gefilte fish. It was exposed as a Jew attack by one of the Israelis, er "Egyptians". It is why no mention of it in the (Jew-dominated media). |
Thank you for demonstrating what a foolish post looks like. "It was exposed"? Right ....
New York Times: "U.A.R. Said to Down U.S. Civil Aircraft", 20 Dec. 1964;
New York Times: "Downing of Plane Verified By Cairo", 21 Dec. 1964;
New York Times: "U.S. Protests to Cairo Likely on Downing of Plane", 22 Dec. 1964;
New York Times: "U.S. Disputes U.A.R. on Plane's Downing", 23 Dec. 1964;
New York Times: "U.S. Plane Protest Spurned by Cairo", 25 Dec. 1964.
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