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Congressional tourists avoid apartheid in Israel
(Salon.com) -- by By Ahmad Tibi --
As a Palestinian member of the Knesset, I know American lawmakers aren't being shown the reality of life here
Americans, do you know where your member of Congress is?
He or she may well be visiting Israel right now. In fact, 81 members of the House of Representatives -- nearly 20 percent of the whole body -- are expected here this month, according to new reports. If challenged, the representatives (numbering 55 Republicans and 26 Democrats) are likely to say a few words about looking for business opportunities good for their constituents or the need to provide for the security of Israel, which has cost American taxpayers billions of dollars. That's their business and yours.
As a member of the Israeli Knesset, I am concerned that they're on a propaganda tour run by an affiliate arm of AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which bills itself as "America's leading pro-Israel lobby," yet has helped stymie Palestinian freedom aspirations for decades. Yes, the members will have a token meeting or two with officials of the Palestinian Authority, but they certainly are not going to learn of the discrimination and occupation that the state of Israel imposes on the Palestinian people in its midst.
The real story, tweeted by one wit, is whether any member of Congress would have accepted a trip paid for 20 years ago by an Anglo-Boer lobby-affiliated organization seeking to put a positive shine on apartheid South Africa. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a leader in the anti-apartheid movement, certainly would not have taken a propaganda junket to legitimize whites-only neighborhoods.
Yet his son, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., has visited here, where ethnic-religious discrimination is written into law. I dare say, Jackson heard very little about the more than 35 laws that discriminate against Palestinian citizens of Israel. I doubt Israeli officials volunteered information about the new legislation passed by the Knesset that subjects anyone who calls for a boycott of companies colonizing the West Bank and East Jerusalem to financial damages.
As a member of Israel's large Palestinian national minority, I find Jackson's participation, along with five other members of the Black Caucus especially disappointing. As for delegation leaders Rep. Eric Cantor and Rep. Steny Hoyer, their shilling for Israel is business as usual. They've never expressed any alarm regarding Jewish settlers subjugating Palestinians, and I don't expect them to start now.
But I do expect Jackson and the other members of the caucus (other than Rep. Allen West, advocate of torturing Arabs) to reject colonization and racial discrimination. Their complacency in the face of modern-day colonization and their adoption of hard-line AIPAC positions stand in stark contrast to the beliefs of many Americans I have met who believe wholeheartedly that it is wrong for Israel to discriminate against Palestinians.
The visitors will be meeting with opposition parties in the Jewish state, but none of them -- not a single one -- is scheduled to meet with Palestinian members of the Knesset even though our existence is often highlighted when Israel's defenders seek to refute charges that Israel is an apartheid state. Israel does allow its Palestinian citizens to vote -- bully for them (this is the 21st century) -- but its commitment to discriminate against Palestinians is explicit and growing...MORE...LINK
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Chris Moore comments:
This is the consequence of Judeofascists having been allowed to worm their way into leadership positions in America; naturally, as tribalists, they're using their power to impose Zionism (Jewish supremacism) as the country's moral authority.
Jesse Jackson Jr. and the Black Caucus are simply paying tribute to their Zionist masters, who own the Democratic Party.
What this proves is that so many of these anti-White, anti-Christian, special interest, tribal "minority" swindlers are just part and parcel of the post-Christian, post-Western, Zionist-racket system destined to end in fascist authoritarianism and mass murder just as has Zionism, and just as did Jewish Bolshevism.
Indeed, it's already well down that road, as the neocons and neoliberals have set about bombing Islamic women and children with impunity in a quest to continue Empire for as long as possible for Israel-first purposes, and in order maintain the dollar as the ultimate fiat currency by preserving its status as world reserve currency. In short, without U.S. hegemony, these leftist and fascist parasites like the Black Caucus and its constituency who dwell at the public trough and within huge, worthless government bureaucracies would have to actually work for a living and produce something instead of existing on Empire largesse, which itself floats on oceans of blood.
So the next time these "compassionate" and "kind-hearted" liberals and neoliberals say tea partiers are "mean spirited" and "selfish" for wanting to cut government all the way back to its essentials, remind them that the fiat credit that finances all their self-serving "generosity" and "compassion" is actually blood money coming out of the hides of women and children, and that they're as evil as anyone.
In fact, they may be even more evil, as they go about posing as morally superior "progressives" and open minded, peace-loving "liberals" even as they collaborate with Judeofascist and neocons in mass murder in order to finance their gratuitous lifestyles.
If the Palestinians think these liberal fascists are really ever going to risk the economic underpinning of their racket by seriously challenging the Zionist string-pullers, I'm afraid they're going to be sorely disappointed.
No, they'll continue to hold their tongues, let the Zionists have their way in the Middle East with impunity, as the lot of them wring their racket for all its worth until America economically collapses.
The only way the Palestinians will ever attain any kind justice is if the entire liberal fascist-neocon-Zionist racket is brought down to its knees and dispatched straight into hell where it belongs.
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