The fear factor that silences
By Paul Findley
Published: April 16, 2008, 00:17


Candidates for public office, high and low, are bewitched -frightened is the more accurate word - by an unwarranted but costly fear of the US lobby that functions on behalf of the State of Israel.

Comb through the millions of words expressed by the "final three" in the presidential sweepstakes - Barak Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain - and you will not find a word, not even a syllable, of criticism of the longstanding US policy bias that heavily favours Israel, a policy that imposes a staggering burden on US society and infuriates Muslims worldwide, including eight million who are US citizens.

A search of the millions of words of analysis of talking heads and other commentators who make a living examining day-by-day the impact of presidential candidate behaviour discloses the same empty-headed silence. They don't even mention candidate silence on this topic that should be a fundamental and continuing focus of discussion.

A search of major media -print, radio and television - has virtually the same result: silence. The internet is one of the few places where one can find thoughtful and candid examinations of Israel's dominance of US society.

This silence is a phenomenon unknown elsewhere in the world. Discussion of the US bias and its terrible consequences are common in periodicals in Britain, France, Germany, all Arab countries, and most other nations, even in Israel, whose Hebrew newspapers and journals regularly discuss candidly and deeply the bad behaviour of Israel's government.

Because of this silence, the American people are denied the benefit of civilised discussion of the grievances that are believed to be the main factor leading to the dreadful assault on 9/11, the tunnel vision that prompted President George W. Bush to order war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and now the drumbeat for war against Iran.

The silence obscures US complicity in the awful, worsening Palestinian plight. The news coverage that reaches the US public tends to demonise Muslim insurgents who protest, sometimes with terrible violence, against US attempts at military occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, and similar protests by Muslim and Christian Palestinians against Israel's US-supported suppression of what is left of Palestine.

Media coverage

US citizens seldom see reminders that Israel, with US encouragement, came into being in 1948 by the sword and has expanded its domain and carried out its destruction and humiliation of Palestinian society the same way ever since. The bias in media coverage leads uninformed people to view Israelis, not Palestinians, as the victims.

A few salient facts:

- According to the Christian Science Monitor, grants to Israel have cost US taxpayers over $1.2 trillion since 1975. That sum includes, as it should, the cost of servicing the annual outlays as new debt.

- In 1982, Israel, using US-donated arms, killed over 17,000 people in the environs of Beirut, Lebanon. In addition to the death toll, according to data compiled by journalist Alison Weir surgeons amputated over 1,000 limbs in the aftermath of just one day's assault. Two years ago, Israeli forces killed over 1,000 people in another invasion of Lebanon. Most of the dead in both invasions were civilians.

- Israel now keeps 1.5 million Palestinians imprisoned in the desolate Gaza Strip, because, in a well-monitored election, they voted into power Hamas, an organisation hostile to Israel's conquests. Another two million are cordoned off like cattle behind 20-foot walls and fences in the West Bank.

- In recent years, Israelis have destroyed over 10,000 Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem and elsewhere in occupied Palestine.

The invasions of Lebanon, the mistreatment of Palestinians, and the destruction of homes are crimes under international law. None of this would have happened if any US president in the last 30 years had the courage to refuse to finance Israel's conquests. If the US government had suspended financial, military, and political support Israel could not have carried out these monstrous crimes.

None of the three candidates seriously contending for the presidency says a word about suspending aid until Israel stops its criminal acts. Not even the slightest hint. Indeed, each mentions Israel only with peons of praise and pledges of unqualified support. Why? Fear.

Is the US fated to have another president take office next January who is afraid to challenge the lobby for a small scofflaw country the size of New Jersey?



Paul Findley served as a Representative of Illinois from 1961 to 1983. He was a chief author of the 'War Powers Resolution'. Since leaving Congress, he has written three books on the Arab-Israeli conflict, including the Washington Post best-seller, 'They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby'. He resides in Jacksonville Illinois.


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The bias in media coverage leads uninformed people to view Israelis, not Palestinians, as the victims.

A few salient facts:

- According to the Christian Science Monitor, grants to Israel have cost US taxpayers over $1.2 trillion since 1975. That sum includes, as it should, the cost of servicing the annual outlays as new debt.

- In 1982, Israel, using US-donated arms, killed over 17,000 people in the environs of Beirut, Lebanon. In addition to the death toll, according to data compiled by journalist Alison Weir surgeons amputated over 1,000 limbs in the aftermath of just one day's assault. Two years ago, Israeli forces killed over 1,000 people in another invasion of Lebanon. Most of the dead in both invasions were civilians.

- Israel now keeps 1.5 million Palestinians imprisoned in the desolate Gaza Strip, because, in a well-monitored election, they voted into power Hamas, an organisation hostile to Israel's conquests. Another two million are cordoned off like cattle behind 20-foot walls and fences in the West Bank.

- In recent years, Israelis have destroyed over 10,000 Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem and elsewhere in occupied Palestine.

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"I did but teach the age to quit their cloggs By the plain rules of ancient Liberty, When lo! a barbarous noise surrounded me, Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs." John Milton
The jews need to throw a holocaust, they owe us one.
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Can I ask one question? Do you have Arabic in your background? Maybe you are a former tribe or clan mentioned in the Bible that were enemies of the Hebrew. You spend an awful lot of time HATING the Jew. It is unhealthy. It makes you look like an idiot. Not to mention the Jews are not all that is evil and wrong with the world or our country. You need to find some other enemy and my friend, the enemy is not the Jew, it is us.

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I depsise them because I have made an inquiry into who/what they are and how they are destroying my country and it's culture. Their ultimate goal is global control and mass genocide of non-jews. You better wake up, they will be killing your offspring sooner than you anticipate, maybe killing you, it's that close. They are achieving their goals faster than even they anticipated, hell is on the way unless we wake America up to the insideous malignancy within our midst.

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"I did but teach the age to quit their cloggs By the plain rules of ancient Liberty, When lo! a barbarous noise surrounded me, Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs." John Milton
The jews need to throw a holocaust, they owe us one.
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Congressman Findley was one of the few legislators with enough guts to speak the truth. Man do I respect that! It's an unpopular path for sure and dangerous even.

It's not hatred. It's righteous anger! Jewish "hate" speech/crimes legislation twists the truth into racist hatred, but anger against the people responsible is what's real.

If the enemy is us, it's only because "us" live in an altered state of continuous deception. We now live in a secret police surveillance society where the mere utterance of who the enemy is can mean prison and "reeducation" and still many of you will not open your mind to see the truth. This subject isn't so much obsession. Like it or not, it's the root cause of what's happening to our country.

The root cause of any problem has always been and always will be hate of someone else simply because of their heritage. It is why the Muslim wants us dead. They hate us simply because we are not Muslim not because of anything else we may or may not have done.

The Jew has been hated for centuries and I can tell you they did not always have the power they may have now. They were and are hated just because they are Jew.

Now frankly, if I had a history of being haunted, taunted and killed in mass numbers over centuries, I might want to have power that gives me the ability to survive as well. (Blacks in our country should take heed to what the Jew is doing then.)

So to have hatred against a people simply because they are the race they are is stupid, ignorant and shows lack of understanding of history and geo politics today. The Jew is not the evil war monger that you make them out to be.

As for the Palestinians, they chose to live where they live. They have been given opportunities to have their own nation but have refused because it did not include the destruction of Israel. The Palestinians by history do not even own the Gaza strip and have moved there over the years to spite the Jew. They have made their own bed and must now sleep in it. They can leave any time they want and return to their roots in Syria, Jordan and Egypt.

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Rod is the Coolest Most Politically Incorrect Conservative Black Man on the Planet
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The jews have earned every condemnation ever heaped upon them and much more is very well deserved.

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"I did but teach the age to quit their cloggs By the plain rules of ancient Liberty, When lo! a barbarous noise surrounded me, Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs." John Milton
The jews need to throw a holocaust, they owe us one.
http://zionistwatch.files.wordpress....ng-zionism.jpg

Reccles44. but I didn't make the Jew out to be an evil warmonger now did I? You ascribed that to me unjustifiably. Why would I "hate" anyone because of their race? I could care less what race, color, or religion anyone is so you're making an incorrect assumption of me. The "hatred against the race" card is this twisted defense that is so well utilized by the wielders of America's media. I judge people by their character and their actions.