"Trump says the military industrial complex is pressuring him into a war with Iran." This was a headline on an article a friend shared, today. My comment, with a few edits here for clarity, was:
Our President also needs to know and acknowledge that Israel is exacerbating the problem of Iran, primarily for Israel's benefit, simply because Iran is a powerful nearby Muslim nation as a neighbor of Israel. It is also apparent that Israel is taking opportunistic advantage of the fact that Iran, as a Shiite nation, wants to take Saudi Arabia's place in controlling Mecca (at least controlling Haj and Mecca during Haj); and opportunistic advantage of Iran's desire to be recognized as head of the real Caliphate which is the position of the Saudi king. Iran's past attacks on Mecca have clearly demonstrated its intent. As clearly, that Saudi Arabia considers the stakes to be too high for Iran to be a nuclear nation, is understandable, particularly when considering Israel is a nuclear nation, and also nearby.
A regional Saudi/Israel "friendship" benefits SA's regional interests far more than it benefits U.S.A.'s Thus Saudi Arabia gets what it wants when Israel manipulates U.S.A. policies. Israel could do worse than having Saudi Arabia for a "protector", in some ways, especially when some of Israel's and SAs political interests are the same. Too bad U.S.A. can not be objective enough to truly understand the lay of the land - which seems to primarily be "speak softly and carry a big stick". U.S.A. is the "big stick" because it is foolish enough to dedicate funds to "policing the world", based on the prolific false flattery of being "the most powerful free nation" in the world since the end of WWII. Saudi Arabia speaks softly to the U.S.A., and Israel rattles U.S.A.s cage.
To some extent during economic recovery after WWII when it was recognized U.S.S.R was intending to be a threat, at the start of the Cold War, the flattery regarding power of the U.S.A. at the time may not have been as much of a total exaggeration. But after the U.S. declared the Cold War to be over and done because of the Berlin wall coming down and Russia feeling confident enough about the U.S.S.R satellite nations being allies to disband the U.S.S.R., then the false flattery continued greasing the wheels that encouraged the resulting vacuous attitude and "policing" behavior of U.S.A. It has become become a serious problem for we, the people, which results in U.S.A. dedicating over half of the annual budget to active conflict elsewhere in the world at the bidding of those who ask - in the guise of "policing the world". No doubt there are perks of some type offered when being asked. But the false flattery, alone, is likely still a powerful motivator, unfortunately.
Saudi Arabia is well aware the U.S. is far more apt to consider Israel's problems to be an issue it is willing to fight for, than it is apt to be concerned about Saudi Arabia's issues which U.S. relegates to Islamic religious issues - given news reports that Saudi Arabia is considered to be terrorist inclined. However, the Saudi King is concerned about and responsible for the Ummah, especially during Haj, and in the case of Iran concerned for the security of his nation, as well. And Saudi Arabia is not foolish enough to ignore the opportunity of U.S.A.s willingness to do Israel's bidding.
Understanding that should solve what is a mystery to some about the "friendship" between Israel and Saudi Arabia. And it must be noted that it is at cost to continuing death of and violence targeting Palestinians in oPT, and destruction of their livelihoods and homes. Though many would like to consider Palestine and Palestinians irrelevant to these issues, the fact is the negotiations about the partition of Palestine which the political zionists tried to put an end to when declaring Israel a nation, is very much at the center of almost all of the political issues in the Middle East since that time. Palestinians will continue to be targeted for death and destruction by the political zionist government of Israel as long as no other nations are preventing the government of Israel's long, slow, drawn-out over 70 year genocide of Palestinians who live on the land Israel wants without them on it. Nothing could be simpler to understand, yet nothing has consistently created more political turmoil during my life, up to the point of here and now.
That "mystery" is only part of Israel's motivation because its intent has been to harass all the nearby Muslim nations, which grew into attacking Islam and Muslims in general. That effort increased by taking opportunistic advantage of 9/11 to put pressure on U.S.A. when it was ready and eager to comply, because of understandably being in retributive mode. However our government should be more self-disciplined about not taking action when in retributive mode, instead of being driven by emotions in the same way that any "crime of passion" is driven, especially when being encouraged to take ill-advised action in the heat of the moment.
It was not understandable that the U.S.A. did not have the foresight to refrain from depending on faulty "intelligence" (originating from Israel) which was used as justification to start engaging in active conflict against Iraq after the announced "War on Terror". The only reason Israel has been able to push the anti-Muslim anti-Islam agenda so far for so long is because U.S.A. enables Israel's agenda, including unconditionally enabling Israel's agendas long before 9/11. And the anti-Muslim agenda feeds into the government of Israel's deadly determination to claim all of Palestine for Israel. The political zionist machine never actually wanted to be a state in the nation of Palestine, even partitioned into a Jewish only state. The intent always was to claim all of Palestine as Israel.
Am I blaming everything on Israel and its political ideology of zionism? Of course not. But is is a much larger part of all the Middle East conflicts than most are willing to realize, or as the case may be, to admit because it serves their purposes not to. With Israel is where a lot of the ignored actual blame, safely (unfortunately), resides. However I am blaming many of our most damaging (domestic and foreign) U.S.A. policies, especially middle east policies and active conflict, on the foreign manipulation of our government which is not only Israel's doing. Because that is the truth of the matters. However, understand Israel strategies and tactics and it becomes clear the origin of it's first and strongest supporter at the end of WWII, even as far back as the pogroms, actually. That a huge number of people know this, and have advised our elected and appointed officials about it, is a euphemistic "mystery".
I happen to have been paying attention for a long time, so I speak up because I know more about these Israel/Palestine issues and their history than many other issues because of it being a focus of my research from college and university days which started with a question that arose about controlled news (by government) at the start of the 1967 Six Days War. The media response was so incredulous, as if there was no knowledge any problem existed which could have precipitate the war, that it was impossible to not consider the hypothesis of news being controlled. And that has something to do with the fact that I had been informed the war was pending and soon to start by a Palestinian woman I never did meet whose family had escaped as refugees to Jordan in 1948. As a 19 year old college freshman and journalism student at the time, the incongruity of me knowing this - and the media being unaware - simply did not compute correctly.
The point is that it is a huge mistake for Congress, and we, the people, to not recognize any other foreign nation's agenda, particularly Israel's middle east agenda regarding neighboring Muslim nations, which overly influences Congress; especially the nature of that "influence" through heavily funded "Israel first" lobbies which have been actively interfering with U.S. elections and political policies, increasingly so since 1948, along with extortion and skillful hasbara/propaganda designed for public consumption very actively since 1967. Lobbies representing foreign nations are illegal. And, yes, court cases have been won that focus on lobbies and lobbyists who represent foreign nations but did not register, as required, as foreign agents or lobbyists who were acting on behalf of a foreign principal. Even so, the violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) continues to occur. Anyone interested in consulting with and advising elected and appointed government officials about the problem might want to refresh their knowledge of FARA. The Foreign Lobby Watch about FARA at the Center for Responsive Politics is a good place to start.
Americans who are informed and know the deal are tired of wondering and asking if appointed and elected American government officials are as totally ignorant and lacking in knowledge as it seems, or, if they truly are, collectively, so ill-intended and corrupt that they allow their opinions to be swayed by foreign agents lining their pockets with perks and/or threats to prevent their reelection. I do not want to think it is wide spread corruption as much as it is conveniently wearing blinders when it comes to anything that Israel demands of the U.S.A., directly and through it's lobbies. But there comes a point when ignoring issues that can not be ignored, because of the extensive damage they do, becomes a matter of being corrupt. And that was reached, decades ago.
Sometimes something obviously connected to the political zionist influence issue arises which might lead to questions that get too close to the comfort zone of elected and appointed government officials. Then, strangely enough, there are efforts to redirect the attention of we, the people, to what are sometimes unnecessary bizarre manufactured problems. We can be assured that the intent is to draw our attention away from more pressing issues which often are associated with what our nation is pressured to do. This question of incompetence or ill-intent becomes more pertinent when there is an ambitious effort to redirect and refocus our attention.
Case in point, currently, the abortion issue which never should have been an issue - ever. And of course it is an attack on Roe v. Wade, and of course it never should have been an issue which even required Roe v. Wade way back when. The actual issue, originally, was about federal funds being used for abortions. And look at what it morphed into. We should all realize by this time that abortion is always a hot button issue that is dragged out to be used to redirect the attention of we, the people, at opportunistic times, particularly women - oft the kinder, gentler demographic of we, the people, who like to put the skids on war-mongering.
We can be confident that each time abortion comes up, especially in bizarre extreme ways, it is primarily intended to redirect the attention of we, the people, away from more pressing issues; as if trying to make it illegal for women to make their own decisions - especially about their own bodies - is not pressing enough. How can the well orchestrated domestic extremism, this time around, not appear to be redirecting us from the real issue which is about U.S. being pressured to engage in armed conflict with Iran by the military industrial complex. More precisely the U.S.A's military industrial complex is being used as a weapon by the unregistered foreign agents of numerous nations. Are the Joint Chiefs really too naive to not know, or do they truly relish the needless death and destruction that is taking our nation to hell in a hand basket.
I can buy that, actually. In fact that is the good and bad of President Trump's fickle opinions and what he supports and does not support. He seems to listen to input, which is good, then bases opinions on who gets the most access time and puts the most pressure on him.But there is more than that brief comment which also needs to be said.
That results in a whole lot more bad than good - too much turning around of past legislation and too much conflict of interest in people he appoints, then boots out of those positions, apparently so he can reappoint others to government positions. It looks like the appointments are intended to reward his cronies rather than to benefit we, the people.
And if Trump wants to be honest he needs to state that the political zionist machine is also pressuring him to attack another of Israel's neighbors, indirectly, through our military industrial complex, and the illegal Israel lobbies representing the wishes of a foreign nation, and more directly when possible - his son-in-law comes to mind.
Our President also needs to know and acknowledge that Israel is exacerbating the problem of Iran, primarily for Israel's benefit, simply because Iran is a powerful nearby Muslim nation as a neighbor of Israel. It is also apparent that Israel is taking opportunistic advantage of the fact that Iran, as a Shiite nation, wants to take Saudi Arabia's place in controlling Mecca (at least controlling Haj and Mecca during Haj); and opportunistic advantage of Iran's desire to be recognized as head of the real Caliphate which is the position of the Saudi king. Iran's past attacks on Mecca have clearly demonstrated its intent. As clearly, that Saudi Arabia considers the stakes to be too high for Iran to be a nuclear nation, is understandable, particularly when considering Israel is a nuclear nation, and also nearby.
A regional Saudi/Israel "friendship" benefits SA's regional interests far more than it benefits U.S.A.'s Thus Saudi Arabia gets what it wants when Israel manipulates U.S.A. policies. Israel could do worse than having Saudi Arabia for a "protector", in some ways, especially when some of Israel's and SAs political interests are the same. Too bad U.S.A. can not be objective enough to truly understand the lay of the land - which seems to primarily be "speak softly and carry a big stick". U.S.A. is the "big stick" because it is foolish enough to dedicate funds to "policing the world", based on the prolific false flattery of being "the most powerful free nation" in the world since the end of WWII. Saudi Arabia speaks softly to the U.S.A., and Israel rattles U.S.A.s cage.
To some extent during economic recovery after WWII when it was recognized U.S.S.R was intending to be a threat, at the start of the Cold War, the flattery regarding power of the U.S.A. at the time may not have been as much of a total exaggeration. But after the U.S. declared the Cold War to be over and done because of the Berlin wall coming down and Russia feeling confident enough about the U.S.S.R satellite nations being allies to disband the U.S.S.R., then the false flattery continued greasing the wheels that encouraged the resulting vacuous attitude and "policing" behavior of U.S.A. It has become become a serious problem for we, the people, which results in U.S.A. dedicating over half of the annual budget to active conflict elsewhere in the world at the bidding of those who ask - in the guise of "policing the world". No doubt there are perks of some type offered when being asked. But the false flattery, alone, is likely still a powerful motivator, unfortunately.
Saudi Arabia is well aware the U.S. is far more apt to consider Israel's problems to be an issue it is willing to fight for, than it is apt to be concerned about Saudi Arabia's issues which U.S. relegates to Islamic religious issues - given news reports that Saudi Arabia is considered to be terrorist inclined. However, the Saudi King is concerned about and responsible for the Ummah, especially during Haj, and in the case of Iran concerned for the security of his nation, as well. And Saudi Arabia is not foolish enough to ignore the opportunity of U.S.A.s willingness to do Israel's bidding.
Understanding that should solve what is a mystery to some about the "friendship" between Israel and Saudi Arabia. And it must be noted that it is at cost to continuing death of and violence targeting Palestinians in oPT, and destruction of their livelihoods and homes. Though many would like to consider Palestine and Palestinians irrelevant to these issues, the fact is the negotiations about the partition of Palestine which the political zionists tried to put an end to when declaring Israel a nation, is very much at the center of almost all of the political issues in the Middle East since that time. Palestinians will continue to be targeted for death and destruction by the political zionist government of Israel as long as no other nations are preventing the government of Israel's long, slow, drawn-out over 70 year genocide of Palestinians who live on the land Israel wants without them on it. Nothing could be simpler to understand, yet nothing has consistently created more political turmoil during my life, up to the point of here and now.
That "mystery" is only part of Israel's motivation because its intent has been to harass all the nearby Muslim nations, which grew into attacking Islam and Muslims in general. That effort increased by taking opportunistic advantage of 9/11 to put pressure on U.S.A. when it was ready and eager to comply, because of understandably being in retributive mode. However our government should be more self-disciplined about not taking action when in retributive mode, instead of being driven by emotions in the same way that any "crime of passion" is driven, especially when being encouraged to take ill-advised action in the heat of the moment.
It was not understandable that the U.S.A. did not have the foresight to refrain from depending on faulty "intelligence" (originating from Israel) which was used as justification to start engaging in active conflict against Iraq after the announced "War on Terror". The only reason Israel has been able to push the anti-Muslim anti-Islam agenda so far for so long is because U.S.A. enables Israel's agenda, including unconditionally enabling Israel's agendas long before 9/11. And the anti-Muslim agenda feeds into the government of Israel's deadly determination to claim all of Palestine for Israel. The political zionist machine never actually wanted to be a state in the nation of Palestine, even partitioned into a Jewish only state. The intent always was to claim all of Palestine as Israel.
Am I blaming everything on Israel and its political ideology of zionism? Of course not. But is is a much larger part of all the Middle East conflicts than most are willing to realize, or as the case may be, to admit because it serves their purposes not to. With Israel is where a lot of the ignored actual blame, safely (unfortunately), resides. However I am blaming many of our most damaging (domestic and foreign) U.S.A. policies, especially middle east policies and active conflict, on the foreign manipulation of our government which is not only Israel's doing. Because that is the truth of the matters. However, understand Israel strategies and tactics and it becomes clear the origin of it's first and strongest supporter at the end of WWII, even as far back as the pogroms, actually. That a huge number of people know this, and have advised our elected and appointed officials about it, is a euphemistic "mystery".
I happen to have been paying attention for a long time, so I speak up because I know more about these Israel/Palestine issues and their history than many other issues because of it being a focus of my research from college and university days which started with a question that arose about controlled news (by government) at the start of the 1967 Six Days War. The media response was so incredulous, as if there was no knowledge any problem existed which could have precipitate the war, that it was impossible to not consider the hypothesis of news being controlled. And that has something to do with the fact that I had been informed the war was pending and soon to start by a Palestinian woman I never did meet whose family had escaped as refugees to Jordan in 1948. As a 19 year old college freshman and journalism student at the time, the incongruity of me knowing this - and the media being unaware - simply did not compute correctly.
The point is that it is a huge mistake for Congress, and we, the people, to not recognize any other foreign nation's agenda, particularly Israel's middle east agenda regarding neighboring Muslim nations, which overly influences Congress; especially the nature of that "influence" through heavily funded "Israel first" lobbies which have been actively interfering with U.S. elections and political policies, increasingly so since 1948, along with extortion and skillful hasbara/propaganda designed for public consumption very actively since 1967. Lobbies representing foreign nations are illegal. And, yes, court cases have been won that focus on lobbies and lobbyists who represent foreign nations but did not register, as required, as foreign agents or lobbyists who were acting on behalf of a foreign principal. Even so, the violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) continues to occur. Anyone interested in consulting with and advising elected and appointed government officials about the problem might want to refresh their knowledge of FARA. The Foreign Lobby Watch about FARA at the Center for Responsive Politics is a good place to start.
Americans who are informed and know the deal are tired of wondering and asking if appointed and elected American government officials are as totally ignorant and lacking in knowledge as it seems, or, if they truly are, collectively, so ill-intended and corrupt that they allow their opinions to be swayed by foreign agents lining their pockets with perks and/or threats to prevent their reelection. I do not want to think it is wide spread corruption as much as it is conveniently wearing blinders when it comes to anything that Israel demands of the U.S.A., directly and through it's lobbies. But there comes a point when ignoring issues that can not be ignored, because of the extensive damage they do, becomes a matter of being corrupt. And that was reached, decades ago.
Sometimes something obviously connected to the political zionist influence issue arises which might lead to questions that get too close to the comfort zone of elected and appointed government officials. Then, strangely enough, there are efforts to redirect the attention of we, the people, to what are sometimes unnecessary bizarre manufactured problems. We can be assured that the intent is to draw our attention away from more pressing issues which often are associated with what our nation is pressured to do. This question of incompetence or ill-intent becomes more pertinent when there is an ambitious effort to redirect and refocus our attention.
Case in point, currently, the abortion issue which never should have been an issue - ever. And of course it is an attack on Roe v. Wade, and of course it never should have been an issue which even required Roe v. Wade way back when. The actual issue, originally, was about federal funds being used for abortions. And look at what it morphed into. We should all realize by this time that abortion is always a hot button issue that is dragged out to be used to redirect the attention of we, the people, at opportunistic times, particularly women - oft the kinder, gentler demographic of we, the people, who like to put the skids on war-mongering.
We can be confident that each time abortion comes up, especially in bizarre extreme ways, it is primarily intended to redirect the attention of we, the people, away from more pressing issues; as if trying to make it illegal for women to make their own decisions - especially about their own bodies - is not pressing enough. How can the well orchestrated domestic extremism, this time around, not appear to be redirecting us from the real issue which is about U.S. being pressured to engage in armed conflict with Iran by the military industrial complex. More precisely the U.S.A's military industrial complex is being used as a weapon by the unregistered foreign agents of numerous nations. Are the Joint Chiefs really too naive to not know, or do they truly relish the needless death and destruction that is taking our nation to hell in a hand basket.
