How Low Can US Candidates go Pandering for Money …
By Jamal Kanj
December 11, 2012
The American election signifies the start of the political harvest
season for the strongest US foreign lobby. American presidential
hopefuls vying for Jewish money and vote, with varying designed Yamakas,
line up at fundraiser events from New York to Hollywood Californian,
typically before making a shameful toadying “pilgrimage” to the supposed
Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem.
The 2012 election season has started in earnest with Republicans and
the President (Democratic) nominee pandering equally to the powerful
pro-Israel Jewish lobby.
In a recent 30 minute conference call with over 900 orthodox,
conservative and reform rabbis from throughout the US, Obama assured the
rabbis that “Prime Minister Netanyahu knows he can count on the United
States … the commitment of the security of Israel is ironclad. Since
coming into office, I haven’t just talked the talk, we’ve walked the
walk.”
At a New York City election fundraiser, the US president, in
self-glorifying statement boasted: “I try not to pat myself too much on
the back, but this administration has done more in terms of the security
of the state of Israel than any previous administration.”
Meanwhile six Republican candidates, except Ron Paul, gathered in
December at a Republican Jewish Coalition meeting in Washington DC
attempting to court Republican Jewish votes and money. Outshining each
other, the candidates were inventive in vowing their obsequious devotion
for Israel.
Former Speaker-of-the-House Newt Gingrich and Congresswoman Michele
Backman pledged to relocate the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem;
Mitt Romney promised to make Israel his first international destination
if he was elected president.
In another presentation of his credentials to The Jewish Channel, a
cable TV station in New York, Newt Gingrich declared “I think that we’ve
had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs and who were
historically part of the Arab community. And they had a chance to go
many places …”
As if being an Arab, makes it any less likely for Palestinians to
deserve a state of their own. It would be similar if a politician from
the US neighbor to the south would state something like “Californians
were invented people because they were historically part of the American
community. And they had chance to go many places…”
A statement spewed out by a former history teacher, Gingrich must be
equally aware that his bankrupt argument has more validity undermining
the basic historical foundation of the whole United States (not to
mention Israel’s legitimacy) but empirically, it is less applicable to
Palestine.
Gingrich, who disgracefully resigned as the Speaker of the US House
in 1998 after admitting: “In my name and over my signature, inaccurate,
incomplete and unreliable statements were given to the [House Ethics]
committee.” The Special Counsel investigating ethics violation concluded
that Gingrich “had lied to the panel” to avoid ethics charges.
Whether, then, providing “inaccurate … and unreliable statements” to
circumvent ethical charges, or today to gain Jewish money and votes,
unscrupulous US presidential hopefuls have proved to have bottomless
ignominious nadir.
Like America’s national interest, Palestinians are sacrificed by the
average voter’s indifference and the utter moral impotency at the
highest elected political office in the face of the strongest US foreign
interest lobby. | 
