"We've got two criminal wars, one in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, that have cost this country, in real terms more than $2 trillion. The government debt continues to grow, from 57% of GNP in 2000 to 83% when Obama got elected and the national debt is $13.8 trillion and growing by the hour. That amounts to 94% of GNP, and in two years it will exceed 100%. We can't afford Israel financially and never could afford them morally, politically or what they have done with American weapons!"
Likely Republican Majority leader Eric Cantor, one of the three key leaders of the Israel lobby in Congress, is reportedly terrified that the Tea Party will insist, as rumored, on enacting legislation that terminates foreign aid of all kinds if the U.S. unemployment level rises above 4%. Consideration would be given to restarting foreign aid when the unemployment level drops below 4% and remains at that level for 12 months. Cantor must figure out how to protect Israel's cash with having the Tea Party come after him. Recall that Cantor is floating
an AIPAC scheme to take US funding of Israel out of Foreign Aid and call it "Homeland
Security" expenditures, "in order to
save it from foreign-aid cutting zealots."
Public opinion analysts are increasingly seeing that the American public wants to distance itself from Israel. But it is unlikely that Congress will, in the short term, follow the public's lead. This conclusion is supported by the just-passed congressional amendments that authorized the increase of U.S. weaponry, ammunition and war supplies stored in Israel to a record $1.2 billion, Defense News reported this week. The value of U.S. weapons to be prepositioned in Israel will reach $1 billion in 2011, with another $200 million added in 2012. Once the weaponry arrives, the amount of U.S.-owned materiel available for Israel's emergency use will have jumped threefold since 2007. Over the past two years, logisticians and war planners from U.S. European Command and the Israel Defense Forces elevated war stocks to the then congressionally authorized threshold of $800 million of equipment. Ready for Israel's next war against Lebanon or Syria or Iran -- or all three countries
One pro-Israel group dismayed by the shift in American public opinion is the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) which sounded the alarm this week at the Canadian governments sponsored Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism (ICCA) held at Parliament in Ottawa "to inspire parliamentary action against anti-Semitism around the world." Fifty countries from six continents sent delegations to help combat what ADL's Abe Foxman, claims is a dangerous softening of US public opinion for Israel. The conference adopted an Ottawa Protocol on Combating Anti-Semitism -- building on the 2009 London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism of 2009,* which has built on more than 50 similar initiatives over the past 98 years since ADL was launched in 1913.
ADL's current focus, according to Christopher Wolf, who chairs ADL's Internet Task Force on "cyber hate," is "to take the lead and show the American public why they must stick with Israel during these days of Islamist terror against Americans and their only reliable ally, Israel."
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