{"id":507,"date":"2010-06-02T16:46:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T23:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realzionistnews.com\/?p=507"},"modified":"2010-06-03T06:02:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T13:02:16","slug":"flotilla-crimes-and-the-strategic-ally-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/?p=507","title":{"rendered":"Flotilla Crimes And The Strategic Ally Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/to\/pictures\/flot.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"5\" font face=\"verdana\" color=\"990033\">FLOTILLA CRIMES<br \/>\nAND THE STRATEGIC ALLY MYTH<\/font><\/strong><br \/>\n<font face=\"verdana\" size=\"2\">By Brother Nathanael Kapner, Copyright 2010<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/co.clickandpledge.com\/sp\/d1\/default.aspx?wid=26246\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/to\/pictures\/rznBAR.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\">Articles May Be Reproduced Only With Authorship of Br Nathanael Kapner<br \/>\n&#038; Link To <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realzionistnews.com\"><strong><font color=\"#990066\"><em>Real Zionist News<\/em><\/font> <font face=\"Ariel Narrow\" size=\"1\">(SM)<\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><font face=\"verdana\" size=\"3\" color=\"990033\">Support Brother Nathanael!<\/font>  <a href=\"https:\/\/co.clickandpledge.com\/sp\/d1\/default.aspx?wid=26246\"><font size=\"2\" color=\"FF00FF\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/font><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/connect.clickandpledge.com\/w\/Form\/b783a9c0-c8f5-459b-8e7a-e4ad02c23f79\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brovids.com\/images\/CP_EN_GR_A_001.gif\" width=\"97\" height=\"84\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Online donation system by ClickandPledge\" title =\"Online donation system by ClickandPledge\"  style =\"border:1px solid #efefef\"> <\/a><br \/>\n<strong><font size=\"3\" face=\"verdana\" color=\"0033FF\">Or Send Your Contribution To:<\/strong><\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"FF0000\">Brother Nathanael Kapner; PO Box 547; Priest River ID 83856<\/font><br \/>\nE-mail: <em> bronathanael@yahoo.com <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/giraldi\/2010\/05\/26\/the-strategic-ally-myth\/\"><font color=\"FF6600\"><strong> Unique Source:<\/a><\/strong><\/font> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/giraldi\/2010\/05\/26\/the-strategic-ally-myth\/\"><font color=\"0099FF\">The Strategic Ally Myth<\/font><\/a><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/giraldi\/2010\/05\/26\/the-strategic-ally-myth\/\"><strong><font color=\"FF6600\">Here<\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rense.com\/\"><font face=\"verdana\" color=\"0000CC\"><strong>For The Best<\/font> <a href=\"http:\/\/rense.com\/\"><font color=\"006600\">Alternative News<\/a><\/font><\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rense.com\/\"><font color=\"FF0000\"><strong>CLICK:<\/strong><\/font><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rense.com\/\"><strong><font color=\"009900\">Rense.com<\/a><\/font><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/rense.com\/\"><strong><font face=\"verdana\" color=\"0000CC\">Here<\/font><\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><font color=\"#ffff00\">______________<\/font><\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/to\/pictures\/flotgaz1.jpg\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<strong><font size=\"3\" face=\"verdana\" color=\"660033\">ISRAELI PROPAGANDA<\/font> <\/strong><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\"> wishes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfa.gov.il\/MFA\/Government\/Communiques\/2010\/Israel_Navy_warns_flotilla_31-May-2010.htm\">convince<\/a> the world that the <em>Marmara<\/em> Freedom Flotilla bound for Gaza on a humanitarian mission was actually a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfa.gov.il\/MFA\/Government\/Speeches+by+Israeli+leaders\/2010\/Gaza_flotilla_Press_conference_DepFM_Ayalon_31-May-2010.htm\">&#8220;terrorist&#8221;<\/a> operation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our soldiers were mobbed, they were beaten, there was even a report of gunfire&#8230;the soldiers had to defend themselves,&#8221; Netanyahu <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/news\/diplomacy-defense\/netanyahu-i-regret-gaza-flotilla-deaths-but-israeli-troops-had-right-to-self-defense-1.293187\">told<\/a> reporters on the morning of the Israeli attack, May 31, 2010. <\/p>\n<p>But why was there no mention by Netanyahu that Israel was the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2010\/05\/31\/israel-attacks-gaza-aid-ships-killing-at-least-19\/\">aggressor<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2010\/05\/31\/israel-attacks-gaza-aid-ships-killing-at-least-19\/\">assaulted<\/a> the ship in international waters, being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.israeli-occupation.org\/2010-05-31\/aic-israel-commits-massacre-piracy-in-international-waters-against-freedom-flotilla\/\">legal grounds<\/a> for charging Israel with war crimes?<\/p>\n<p>And why is the Jewish-owned mass media <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2010\/05\/28-5\">suppressing<\/a> all political dissent over the Israeli criminal attacks on unarmed civilians and inundating us instead with continual news <em>ad infinitum<\/em> on the BP oil spill &#8220;crisis?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A civilian aid worker from Greece, named Michael Grigoropoulos, who was on the ship <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/may\/31\/gaza-freedom-flotilla-activists-passengers-israel\">along with<\/a> citizens from fifty countries, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and a former US ambassador, gives a more <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=en&#038;sl=el&#038;tl=en&#038;u=http:\/\/www.tanea.gr\/default.asp%3Fpid%3D2%26ct%3D1%26artId%3D4577548\">reliable account<\/a> than the lying Netanyahu: <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/to\/pictures\/tellgreece1.jpg\" height=\"126\" style=\"width: 213px; height: 126px\" \/><font color=\"3333FF\">&#8220;The Israelis rose suddenly and seized the ship. They kept us as hostages under degrading conditions with weapons turned on us. <\/p>\n<p>The Israelis kept us as prisoners and used videos ordering us to undress. They even used electric shocks and rubber bullets on us. Our requests to have lawyers represent us were denied. It was endless physical abuse and psychological warfare.&#8221;<\/font><br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/to\/pictures\/flaggburnn3.jpg\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"3\" face=\"verdana\" color=\"660033\">DISPLAYING TO THE WESTERN PRESS<\/font><\/strong> <font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\">an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfa.gov.il\/MFA\/Government\/Communiques\/2010\/Israel_Navy_warns_flotilla_31-May-2010.htm\">array<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfa.gov.il\/MFA\/Government\/Communiques\/2010\/Israel_Navy_warns_flotilla_31-May-2010.htm\">photos<\/a> showing Israeli soldiers being &#8220;attacked&#8221; with clubs, knives, and metallic &#8220;weapons&#8221; in BROAD DAYLIGHT, somehow does not square with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/blog\/2010\/may\/31\/israel-troops-gaza-ships\">widespread reporting<\/a> that the Israeli attack took place at 4 AM under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freegaza.org\/\">cover<\/a> of deep darkness. And besides, everyone knows the Israelis are lying.<\/p>\n<p>With 19 civilians <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2010\/05\/201053133047995359.html\">killed<\/a> (no Israeli casualties of course), with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/jun\/02\/gaza-flotilla-raid-gunfire-ship-blood\">bloodied<\/a> passengers <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20100531\/D9G22SFG0.html\">sprawled<\/a> on the deck and others diving into the sea to save themselves from the Israeli onslaught &#8212; and while hundreds of aid workers were <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20100531\/D9G22SFG0.html\">towed<\/a> from the international waters to Israeli detention camps &#8212; it is time to ask ourselves, &#8220;Is Israel truly a strategic ally of the US?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warwithoutend.co.uk\/middle-east-and-asia\/2002\/12\/19\/zionist-jew-and-friend-of-sharon-mort-zuckerman-war-rants.php\">Mortimer Zuckerman<\/a>, billionaire Jewish owner of US News &#038; World Report and self-appointed political analyst on the <em>Israel-Firster<\/em> brigade, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/opinion\/mzuckerman\/articles\/2010\/05\/21\/mort-zuckerman-israel-is-a-key-ally-and-deserves-us-support.html\">says<\/a> &#8220;Yes.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mepc.org\/about\/freeman.asp\">Chas W. Freeman<\/a>, former Assistant Secretary of Defense, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/philip-giraldi\">Philip Giraldi<\/a>, a recognized authority on international security, both <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/giraldi\/2010\/05\/26\/the-strategic-ally-myth\/\">say<\/a> &#8220;No.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/to\/pictures\/nolongersilent3.jpg\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><strong><font size=\"4\" color=\"0000CC\">EXPLODING THE &#8216;STRATEGIC ALLY&#8217; MYTH<\/font><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"3\" face=\"verdana\" color=\"660099\">CHALLENGING ZIONIST CLAIMS<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\"> that American thirst for hegemony in the Mid East, and not the Israel lobby, is the prime motivator of US policy toward Israel, Chas Freeman <a href=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2010\/04\/freeman-israel-is-useless-to-us-power-projection.html\">presents<\/a> convincing arguments against the Zionist position.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2010\/04\/freeman-israel-is-useless-to-us-power-projection.html\">Describing<\/a> the outworn <a href=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2010\/04\/freeman-israel-is-useless-to-us-power-projection.html\"><em>strategic ally polemic<\/em><\/a> as being &#8220;far from novel on any score,&#8221; Freeman then <a href=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2010\/04\/freeman-israel-is-useless-to-us-power-projection.html\">outlines<\/a> a number of reasons why Israel is <em>not<\/em> a strategic ally of America:<\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\" color=\"CC0000\">-1-<\/font><\/strong> Israeli bases are not available for US use.<\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\" color=\"CC0000\">-2-<\/font><\/strong> The US has no bases or troop presence in Israel and stores only minimal military supplies in the country used at will by the IDF.<\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\" color=\"CC0000\">-3-<\/font><\/strong> None of Israel&#8217;s neighbors will facilitate overflight for military aircraft transiting over Israeli territory let alone taking off from there. Israel is useless for purposes of strategic logistics or power projection.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/to\/pictures\/gasline.jpg\" height=\"126\" style=\"width: 213px; height: 126px\" \/><strong><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\" color=\"CC0000\">-4-<\/font><\/strong> Israel is worse than irrelevant to the defense of Middle Eastern energy supplies. The US relationship with Israel has jeopardized these supplies (as in 1973), rather than contributing to securing them.<\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\" color=\"CC0000\">-5-<\/font><\/strong> US relations with Israel do not bolster US prestige in Middle Eastern oil-producing countries or assist the US to &#8220;dominate&#8221; them, they complicate and weaken US influence. Instead, they have at times resulted in the suspension of US relations with such countries. <\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\" color=\"CC0000\">-6-<\/font><\/strong> Israel does not have the diplomatic prestige or capacity to marshal support for US interests or policies globally or in its own region and does not do so. On the contrary, Israel requires constant American defense against political condemnation and sanctions by the international community.<\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\" color=\"CC0000\">-7-<\/font><\/strong> Israel does not fund aid programs in third countries to complement and support US foreign or military policy as other allies and strategic partners do.<\/p>\n<p>In his closing argument, Freeman asserts that Washington has made Israel its largest recipient of foreign aid, encourages private transfers to Israel through tax breaks, transfers huge quantities of weapons to it gratis, and allocates military R&#038;D to Israeli rather than US institutions. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rense.com\/general83\/match.htm\"><font color=\"0099FF\">View Entire Story<\/a><\/font> <a href=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2010\/04\/freeman-israel-is-useless-to-us-power-projection.html\">Here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/to\/pictures\/mealy.jpg\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The question is, as Steven Walt, author of <em>The Israel Lobby<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/walt.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2010\/05\/31\/israels_latest_brutal_blunder\">puts it<\/a>: &#8220;Will Obama show some backbone on this issue and go beyond his usual mealy-mouthed statements when Israel acts foolishly and dangerously?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Well, don&#8217;t hold your breath everybody. For Obama is owned lock, stock, Uzi, and shekel, by the Israel Lobby. And that&#8217;s what US diplomacy and US media coverage is all about &#8212; directed AND suppressed by Zionist interests AND funded by lots of Jewish money&#8230;<br \/>\n<center><strong><font color=\"#ffff00\">___________________________________<\/font><\/strong><\/center><br \/>\n<font size=\"3\" color=\"#330033\" face=\"verdana\"><strong>For More See:<\/strong> <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/?p=199\">Why Israel Shouldn&#8217;t Exist<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/?p=199\"><strong><font color=\"#ff6600\">Click Here<\/font><\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" color=\"#330033\" face=\"verdana\"><strong>And:<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/?p=277\">The Israelization Of US Foreign Policy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/?p=277\"><strong><font color=\"#ff6600\">Click Here<\/font><\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" color=\"#330033\" face=\"verdana\"><strong>And:<\/strong><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/?p=120\">Kill Civilians? The Talmud Tells Me So<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/?p=120\"><strong><font color=\"#ff6600\">Click Here<\/font><\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" color=\"#330033\" face=\"verdana\"><strong>And:<\/strong><\/font> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/?p=488\">Netanyahu Warns Biden With \u2018Broken Glass\u2019<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/?p=488\"><strong><font color=\"#ff6600\">Click Here<\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"verdana\"><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" color=\"#330033\" face=\"verdana\"><strong>And:<\/strong><\/font> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/?p=363\">Gaza &#038; The Psychology Of Zionist Jews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/?p=363\"><strong><font color=\"#ff6600\">Click Here<\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" color=\"#330033\" face=\"verdana\"><strong>And:<\/strong><\/font> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/?p=384\">How The Jewish Lobby Nailed Freeman<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/?p=384\"><strong><font color=\"#ff6600\">Click Here<\/font><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realjewnews.com\/to\/pictures\/bnrzn3.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">CLICK: <\/font><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brothernathanael.com\/\">Brother Nathanael! 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