Deadly Shell Game

The US chief defense-industry-lobbying group selected Marion C. Blakey, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, as its new chief executive.
Blakey will head the Aerospace Industries Association AIA that has 178 associate members and 102 regular member companies. AIA, represents 52 manufacturers of military and commercial helicopters, aircraft, engines, missiles and spacecraft, and joins the Israel American Public Affairs Committee to form an unbeatable lobbying block in Washington

Senator William Fulbright was Chairman of the Senate Foreign relations Committee back in the 1960s. He said: "I hadn’t realized before the hearings that the Jewish lobby was so powerful. … I didn’t know". The Chairman: also said, "they know they have control of the Senate politically, and therefore whatever the Secretary tells them, they can laugh at him. They say, "Yes, but you don't control the Senate."

If the Senator was alive today he would be stunned by the influence that has mushroomed into a much-feared ruling clique in the congress. In a 1988 TV News Program. (Sixty Minutes highlighting AIPAC,) former Under Secretary of State George Ball said: "Practically every congressman and senator says his prayers to the AIPAC lobby. They’ve done an enormous job of corrupting the American democratic process."

Since Fulbright expressed his fears the total aid to Israel hovers around $91billion. In 2007 the new $30 billion aid package represents a 25 percent rise in U.S. military aid to Israel, from a current $2.4 billion each year to $3 billion a year over 10 years. The new deal says that the money must be used to purchase military equipment from the US defense industry.

Prior to this new push by those who control the US Congress, Israel has done well by the Bush administration $10.19 billion in U.S. weaponry, $8.58 billion through the Foreign Military Sales program, and another $1.61 billion in Direct Commercial Sales and a $4.5 billion sale of 102 Lockheed Martin F-16s to Israel.

And so the shell game becomes obvious. The money that is supposedly loaned (although no one expects to get it back) comes from the American taxpayer. It is then used to buy arms from American death merchants. If you tried to stand in the way of such a deal the combined power of AIPAC and the IAI would steamroller you into oblivion. The US Government by for and of the people no longer exists. I would go further and say George Ball was correct. The  US democratic process has been so corrupted by these lobbyists as to make it inoperable.

When someone said the congress still has to approve the  $30 Billion deal Secretary Burns said, he believed there would be little opposition in the Senate and House. Now that is a slam-dunk.

There are Zionist supporters who claim that giving Israel the money to buy US arms means jobs for Americans so it is a good deal for both, but it is our money in the first place. Realists know there is little if any trickle down and the Palestinian children that are starving on the West Bank and the poor people who have had their houses blown up by our planes don’t give a damn about the profits of Lockheed and neither do I.

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