Israeli Army Generals think Obama is best for Israel
But, it seems a few of those interviewed didn’t really endorse Obama. Here is an article about the video: IDF Generals and Mossad Do NOT Endorse Obama from J Post A video released by the Jewish Council for Education & Research, (JCER) which appeared to show several retired senior IDF and Mossad officials endorsing Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama has proven to be misleading, with a number of officials who appeared in the video saying on Monday that their words were taken out of context. The film’s producers stressed in response that the Obama campaign was not involved in any stage of the production. “It’s not only misleading, it was an interview about what the next president was going to have to deal with,” former deputy chief of General Staff Maj.-Gen. (res.) Uzi Dayan told The Jerusalem Post. “And to know that they used this interview and took five seconds, and put me in a list of people praising Barack Obama… “It wasn’t about the campaign, it was about the political and security issues of the Middle East that the next president should be involved in,” he continued. “Nothing was said about Obama or [Republican Presidential candidate John] McCain.” “I don’t want other people to interfere in my elections, and I must not interfere with the elections in the United States,” he said, adding that to do so would be neither “ethical nor smart.” In the video, the senior Israeli officials appear to support Obama’s stated policy that dialogue with Iran would be the best way of confronting the current nuclear crisis. Dayan said that his position is just the opposite. “I don’t think that we - either the United States or Israel - should be engaged with Iran, because the Iranians will take advantage of that,” the former deputy chief of staff said. “Our objective is to prevent Iran from achieving nuclear capability.” “We need more powerful, effective sanctions to delegitimize [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad,” he continued. “A military option should be prepared, but utilized only as a last resort.” Fine, ok, but then this is what is documented from Lebanon War “Hero” Giora Inbar: Obama… axis of evil… personal endorsement. Could you ask for anything more? Well, maybe the words from Obamarahma himself: |
| Paid Bigot`s Including Walid Shoebat Teaching Religious War At U.S. Air Force Academy  WRITTEN BY LAWRENCE SWAIMThe U.S. Air Force Academy just can’t seem to get it right. Six major cheating scandals in four decades. Endemic sexual harassment against female cadets. Christian evangelical officers proselytizing non-Christian cadets. But in February 2008, on the occasion of their fiftieth annual assembly, the Academy brass outdid themselves. They presented three discredited Islamophobes who spewed religious bigotry and advocated religious war, in the process trampling on the First Amendment and exposing the Air Force to international ridicule.  Walid Shoebat Kamal Saleem Zachariah Anani Walid Shoebat, Kamal Saleem and Zachariah Anani all claim to be “reformed terrorists.” The three men’s narratives “border on the fantastic,” as a Feb. 7 New York Times story delicately put it, including their claims that they killed hundreds of people while still children. Even members of Shoebat’s own family apparently believe that his stories of terrorism are fabricated. Most experts have concluded that they are frauds. “It’s like inviting O.J.Simpson impersonators to a conference on domestic violence,” Mikey Weinstein, head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, told InFocus. “They’re snake-oil salesmen, but unfortunately they’re not really funny, because they have the capacity to severely damage national security.” (The three men collected $13,000 for the Colorado Springs caper, according to The New York Times.) However ludicrous their claims may be, the trio provided Academy brass with yet another opportunity to push the bigoted worldview of the Religious Right, this time under the guise of educating about terrorism. According to Shoebat, Saleem and Anani, the reason why they quit the terrorism racket was because — wait for it — they converted from Islam to Christianity! While supposedly an investigation of terrorism, the appearance of the men was yet another pretext for rightwing elements at the Air Force Academy to promote their noxious brand of Christian fundamentalism at a publicly-funded institution. But the “X-Terrorists,” as they melodramatically fashion themselves, also promoted the idea that a Christian crusade against Islam is the will of God. “Islam is the devil,” Shoebat has said, along with many other defamations of Islam. If Air Force brass claims not to know of his bigotry — or that most experts believe the three men are frauds — they are criminally incompetent. If they did know but invited them anyway, they’re guilty of retailing hate speech and extremist ideology as reputable academic presentations. Think about it. The cadet wing at the Academy represents the young Air Force officers of the future. Someday they’ll be in charge of nuclear weapons capable of killing millions. Do we really want our young officers being told that religious war is inevitable? Isn’t it a major crisis when hate-mongers have the political clout in the military to flaunt their murderous 14th century beliefs during a major event at the Air Force Academy, with no chance for Muslims or supporters of religious liberty to defend core American values? I want young officers at our historic military institutions to hear all sides of every issue, so perhaps inviting clowns like Shoebat, Saleem and Anani could be interesting, if only to study the dynamics of fanaticism — if they weren’t proselytizing evangelical Christianity, and if their Islamophobic vitriol were balanced off by responsible Muslim speakers. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) offered to find Muslims in Colorado who could offer a balancing perspective and speak about ways that Christians and Muslims can support religious pluralism and work together to build better communities. The Academy’s response to this offer was a resounding silence. Our young military officers desperately need more cultural literacy regarding the Muslim and Arabic-speaking worlds, if they are to properly represent America’s interests. Instead, the Air Force Academy gives them bootleg evangelicalism and religious bigotry. Both are unmistakable attacks on the U.S. Constitution that officers take an oath to defend. The deteriorating situation at the Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs is a disgrace to all Americans and cries out for a Congressional investigation. Addendum: Due to a national outcry against this mind-boggling attempt at political and religious indoctrination, the Air Force Academy has been compelled to allow three spokespersons with an opposing view to address cadets on April 9. They are Joseph Wilson, former US ambassador and opponent of the Iraq War; Reza Aslan, a young scholar of Islam; and Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, himself an Academy graduate and a tireless opponent of forced religious indoctrination in the armed services. By LAWRENCE SWAIM, In Focus. Military Religious Freedom Lawrence Swaim is the Executive Director of the Interfaith Freedom Foundation. He taught for eight years at Pacific Union College, and his academic specialties are American Studies and American literature. His column addresses current affairs from an American Christian and Interfaith perspective. SOURCE: ISRAEL NEWS |
| Lasse Wilhelmson - Will the World Change Now?
Many run the risk of being disappointed, however. The election is in many respects a theatre, directed by the owner-constellations in the circles close to America’s privately-owned (!) central bank, the Federal Reserve (Fed). They are as well main figures in the economic crisis. These people own or control the better part of the mass media and have—going back far—made pivotal contributions to both parties in U.S. election campaigns. The world is to a large extent ruled through institutions such as the privately-owned (!) Council for Foreign Relations (CFR), the Trilateral Commission (TC), and the Bilderberg Group. These are the same people that hold key positions within all these institutions, the Fed included. With the exception of Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Fed, they are conspicuous by their absence in the coverage of current events of world importance. And the same goes for the obvious questions about who financed the election campaigns, and where did all the money lost in the economic crisis go? Every journalist who has done his homework fairly well is of course familiar with this and has already asked himself these questions. Unfortunately, most of them chose to act like prostitutes and help uphold the illusionary reality that makes up this theatre, instead of unmasking it and go on digging for answers, which would preserve the honour of their profession. So what can we expect when, for example, it comes to future U.S. foreign policy? The Israeli influence in this matter is by now widely known as significant. They have accomplished this thanks to the most influential lobby in the United States, namely the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), through innumerable think-tanks and, not least, through the executive power the Zionist neo-cons, a group of civilian militants in and around the White House. This has resulted in a hazardous policy on international level which is not of benefit to traditional U.S. interests and which the American people has taken a stand against by electing Barack Obama as their president. The EU leadership, currently headed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner—both Zionists of Jewish stock—now has a new American president to co-operate with. Sarkozy has earlier declared that he, just like Bush, would view an Israeli attack on Iran as defensible. Upon winning the nomination as Democratic candidate, the president elect made the mandatory oath of loyalty towards Israel at an AIPAC meeting. According to Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet, Kouchner welcomed Barack Obama’s victory by saying, “France, Europe and the international community need his energy, his rejection of injustice and his determination to go forward to build a safer, fairer and more stable world.” However, to the best of my knowledge, Obama has said nothing other than that he wants to reprioritise by moving troops from Iraq to Afghanistan, and he has never objected to Israel’s genocidal policies towards the Palestinians. In order to co-ordinate and govern these and other tasks, Obama has now appointed Rahm Emanuel as his White House Chief of Staff. He is the son of one of leaders of the Irgun, the Jewish terrorist organisation responsible for the worst deeds committed during the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948. Emanuel was active as a volunteer during the Gulf War of 1991 – not in the U.S. Army, but in the Israeli Army, stationed at base in the Galilee. He has also been mentioned in connection with the Monica Lewinsky Affair, which was a typical trap set by the Mossad for Clinton. Emanuel has for long been a hawk among the warmongers in the White House, and in 2006 he was involved in evaluating and picking the Democratic candidates for the Congressional election of 2008. Obama’s Chief of Staff is certainly not just anybody; he has for long been a strategically-placed Jewish Zionist in the Democratic Party, who—just like his colleagues—normally puts Israeli interests over American interests. Kouchner, Sarkozy and the EU can now sleep tight with Obama as newly-elected president and Emanuel as his White House Chief of Staff. There is a lot that indicates U.S. foreign policy also from now on will be governed by Israeli interests. And Sweden, like other Western countries, can easily continue its submission policy and participation in criminal, neo-colonial wars. Obama will by far surpass Bush in eloquence and social competence, and his family background will make it more difficult to criticise him. As usual I do of course hope I am wrong. In such an event it would be due to the American people’s clear will in this election, how it will work to make its expectations materialise, but perhaps foremost on how it will handle its disappointments. Lasse Wilhelmson |
Palestine Think Tank Daily Digest November 8
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