Former RNC Communications Director Clifford May, who still claims Iran is arming al Qaeda even after Sen. McCain's retraction, likened modern day Shiites to Hitler's genocidal Nazis, joining the other alarmists (who were previously wrong on Iraq) in presentation of rapid-succession talking points and prepared videos.
Another guest lectured on how to divest, sanction and boycott US companies trading with Iran, Syria and "the terrorist organizations that they fund".
With such clear-cut marching orders on lobbying methods, media messaging strategies and economic activism through CUFI's geopolitical powerpoint "debriefings" it's hard to see how this three-year old organization sells itself as a religious educational institution with 501c(3) "non-lobby" status rather then a mobilization arm of military-industrial and energy industry interests.
Israeli Knesset Member Colette Avital agreed, calling for Israel's leadership to denounce Hagee in the belief CUFI is a pseudo-religious front operation, simply buying influence in the Jewish community because they want to see an escalation of military conflict in the Mid-East - with Israel sticking their neck out to strike first.
Avital reminded readers that Israelis predominantly favor a two-state solution. Despite significant influence, AIPAC and NORPAC therefore represent minority views held by an out-of-touch, partisan elite who might benefit from various war-based businesses or soaring energy prices.
With AIPAC's pro-war agenda so ham-handed, (Hagee presented their 2007 keynote speech), many fled their ranks to create J Street, a pro-Israel, pro-peace PAC, sponsoring at least one recent poll which suggested an overwhelming majority of American Jews also favor diplomatic solutions.
Hagee's ministry blatantly seeks to make inroads in uniting pro-war Christians and Jews to influence government, media, finance, and the voting electorate. A $365 "Lion of Judah" membership even gets members quarterly teleconference calls "with Israeli and U.S. elected officials", so you can pay for access to politicians as you are instructed how to lobby for war and manipulate the media.
Personally, I prefer my religion in the realm of the spiritual, and I think evenhandedness is a moral imperative.
Americans should all avail themselves of the full body of evidence available with respect to weaponized Iranian nukes, including the U.S. government's own November 2007 National Intelligence Estimate which surmises there is no such weapons program in place.
A covert CIA sting operation seeking to illegally trade nukes with Iran was intentionally blown by the same White House team insiders now say hoaxed the entire case for the Iraq war, alarming Americans with ginned-up claims of weapons arsenals and "imminent danger".
Though Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has famously said Israel's name will one day be removed from the map of time, he also reached out to President Bush to talk, then challenged Bush to a debate, appeared on 60 Minutes and other U.S. press, asking, among other questions, why Germany shouldn't provide the homeland for the Jews and how any follower of Jesus Christ could allow nations to be invaded?
What else has this "madman" said?
"Anyone who is a Palestinian citizen, whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, should decide together in a very free referendum. There is no need for war. There is no need for threats or an atom bomb either."
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