Israel is the only issue Dem AND Repuke politicos come together on

[Opusnone]

As if a master list of talking points is distributed to Congress for foreign policy regarding Israel.
Can no elected official tell the truth?

On the other hand, it's refreshing to see our bipartisan legislators finding common ground
and agreeing on something so vehemently. (sarcasm)

I'm ready to vote every one of them out of office.

[Cha]

1. And yet the oil is in

the other parts of the Middle East.

[bowens43]

2. Sadly, both parties are on the wrong side of the issue.

[laura888]

3. It's unbelievable, isn't it?

I'm definitely ready to vote every one of them out of office.

Who exactly do they represent???

[Opusnone]

4. My congress critter hasn't solicited my opinion.

Has yours?

Who do these government welfare grabbers work for, anyway?

[AnOhioan]

5. Unfortunately the DC elected officials who actually represent...

the American public can be counted on one set of hands.

[Virginia Dare]

6. There is simply no other foreign government...

that has more control of U.S. policy than Israel. Unfortunately that policy is unsustainable and mutually self-destructive.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. They also get together on the "defense" budget.

Heroically standing together to enrich the arms-makers and give the generals shiney new toys to play with.

[TomClash]

8. Ask yourself: why is that?

Why is it virtually impossible for an elected official to speak out against Israeli policy?

[Opusnone]

9. Because they are beholden to Israel

They are passionate about Israel. They love Israel. They have convinced themselves that Israel can do no wrong.
They believe this. They do not lie about it. They are very up front about it.

The politicos are not lying on this subject. They, in their hearts, truly believe they are right. And THAT is what is scary.

[Poll_Blind]

11. Indeed. Truly. n/t

PB

[JohnyCanuck]

10. And they both get campaign contributions from AIPAC

The Israel Lobby and the Left: Uneasy Questions

By Jeffrey Blankfort

SNIP

This is hardly the first time that Jews have been in the upper echelons of power, as Benjamin Ginsberg points out in The Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State; but there has never been a situation anything like the present. This was how Ginzberg began his book:

Since the 1960s, Jews have come to wield considerable influence in American economic, cultural, intellectual and political life. Jews played a central role in American finance during the 1980s, and they were among the chief beneficiaries of that decade’s corporate mergers and reorganizations. Today, though barely 2% of the nation’s population is Jewish, close to half its billionaires are Jews. The chief executive officers of the three major television networks and the four largest film studios are Jews, as are the owners of the nation’s largest newspaper chain and the most influential single newspaper, the New York Times.8

That was written in 1993. Today, ten years later, ardently pro-Israel American Jews are in positions of unprecedented influence within the United States and have assumed or been given decision-making positions over virtually every segment of our culture and body politic. This is no secret conspiracy. Regular readers of the New York Times business section, which reports the comings and goings of the media tycoons, are certainly aware of it. Does this mean that each and every one is a pro-Israel zealot? Not necessarily, but when one compares the US media with its European counterparts in their respective coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the extreme bias in favor of Israel on the part of the US media is immediately apparent.

SNIP

Gerald Ford, angered that Israel had been reluctant to leave the Sinai following the 1973 war and backed by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, not only suspended aid for six months in 1975, but in March of that year made a speech calling for a “reassessment” of the US-Israel relationship. Within weeks, AIPAC (American-Israel Public Affairs Committee), Israel’s Washington lobby, secured a letter signed by 76 senators “confirming their support for Israel, and suggesting that the White House see fit to do the same. The language was tough, the tone almost bullying.” Ford backed down.12

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-blankfort.html

[BayCityProgressive]

12. when it comes to foreign policy

there are many issues that the GOP and Dem party are in agreement on. Both parties would go to bat equally for Britain as well for example.

[Opusnone]

13. But they haven't had to, right?

If Britain invaded and starting bombing Ireland in proportionality to this conflict, would all be on the same side?