from thefreeonline on 8 Jan. 2024 by Bill Astore at Bracing Views
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US corruption creates Israeli Impunity and validates rising nationalist hysteria, apartheid and Genocide in Gaza
Courtesy of OpenSecrets.org, I saw a chart on AIPAC contributions to U.S. senators that showed that all 100 senators have taken AIPAC money. Leading the way are senate “giants” like Mitch McConnell (nearly two million dollars) and Chuck Schumer (roughly (roughly $1.7 million)
Talk about bipartisanship! I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that the U.S. Senate is so strongly pro-Israel. It obviously has nothing to do with the power of AIPAC and all that money.
Here’s how AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) describes itself on its own web site:
“The Largest Pro-Israel PAC in America
WE STAND with those who stand with Israel. The AIPAC PAC is a bipartisan, pro-Israel political action committee. It is the largest pro-Israel PAC in America and contributed more resources directly to candidates than any other PAC. 98% of AIPAC-backed candidates won their general election races in 2022.“
That last sentence is a killer. AIPAC is reminding Members of Congress that if you want to be elected, or win reelection, you very much want AIPAC on your side.
And if you don’t kowtow to their agenda, they will do everything in their power to defeat you.
Imagine if there was an American Palestine Public Affairs Committee, an APPAC, that contributed hundreds of thousands if not millions to every U.S. senator and that boasted of a 98% success rate in getting APPAC-anointed candidates elected or reelected.
Do you think maybe the U.S. Senate would have a different position on Gaza and the West Bank?
Revolving door CORRUPTION
The US gifts BILLIONS yearly of public money to the tiny Israeli Regime – one way or another a percentage comes back to bribe every single Senator, buy US arms and promote ‘Good Works and Family Values’.
Machiavelli on Twitter: “US funds the #zionist terrorist state $3B …
The cash may come indirectly. AIPAC has raised since Oct. 7, $90 million, much of it via Israeli billionaires, banks and corporations. AIPAC’s PAC has already made more than $18 million in campaign contributions in the 2023-2024 cycle.
Of course the Congress Members are just as bad. FEC Filing Shows AIPAC Made Record Donations to Congress in 2023.
President Biden, ‘Genocide Joe’ a former vice president and senator, has received over $5.2 million in support over the last 34 years, the most of any Congressional recipient, according to OpenSecrets.
Exposed to all of us as a repugnant maze of Corruption and Lies, ‘US Democracy’ and support of ‘Human Rights’ is now totally BROKEN, revealing a terrorist regime, killing, grabbing and sanctioning worldwide for power, greed and personal profit.
No wonder, as top receiver of Israeli funds, that Biden still refuses to stop the Genocide of thousands of civilians, mainly kids and women by JUST ONE PHONE CALL – ordering an end to the gigantic bomb supply, paid for by the US public which opposes the massacre.
Speaking of Gaza, I watched Chris Hedges interview Ilan Pappé, an Israeli historian. Pappé put it simply and clearly: Israel is engaged in “incremental genocide” against the Palestinian people, a genocide in slow motion, a strategy of “displacement and replacement.”
The “displacement” of the Palestinians is done by mass bombing, mass destruction, mass death, and (hopefully for the Israelis) mass migration, and the “replacement” will come when Jewish settlers take possession of Gaza (after a lot of munitions cleanup and infrastructure redevelopment, I suppose, probably paid for by the U.S. taxpayer).
‘‘When you enable war crimes AND systemically oppose any accountability for them you are complicit in them”
There’s an Orwellian term for this. For mass death followed by forced expulsion, Israel is using the term “voluntary migration” (or “voluntary” emigration). But of course there is nothing “voluntary” about any of this.
Trump’s record in pro Israel corrupt impunity is worse than any previous president
If U.S. government officials appear clueless about what’s happening in Gaza, they’re not. They’re just bought and paid for.
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