AIPAC, the Religious Right and American Foreign Policy

By Rodrigue Tremblay
August 21st, 2006

“Most citizens are unaware of the startling fact that for years our U.S. Middle East policy has not been crafted by seasoned experts who are committed to America’s basic national interests.” — Paul Findley, U.S. Republican Congressman, (1961-83)

“Thank God we have AIPAC, the greatest supporter and friend we have in the whole world,” — Ehud Olmert, Israel’s Prime Minister

“Either I make policy on the Middle East or AIPAC makes policy on the Middle East.” — Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter Administration National Security Adviser

Nobody can understand what’s going on politically in the United States without being aware that a political coalition of major pro-Likud groups, pro-Israel neoconservative intellectuals and Christian Zionists is exerting a tremendously powerful influence on the American government and its policies. Over time, this large pro-Israel Lobby, spearheaded by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), has extended its comprehensive grasp over large segments of the U.S. government, including the Vice President’s office, the Pentagon and the State Department, besides controlling the legislative apparatus of Congress. It is being assisted in this task by powerful allies in the two main political parties, in major corporate media and by some richly financed so-called “think-tanks”, such as the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, or the Washington Institute for Near East Policy . (….Full Article)

Have You Read The Talmud Lately?

By Rev. Ted Pike
August 22th, 2006
Interview

In my last e-alert, I was the bearer of bad news: Deep within Judaism’s most sacred rabbinic writings, the Talmud and Zohar (Kabbalah), there exists the obligation to overthrow existing Gentile and Christian society and establish a “new Jewish order.” Such Judaic teaching powerfully diminishes the value of Gentile lives, particularly today in Israel’s occupied territories and Lebanon.

I was consequently vilified by a number of readers. One asked, “Where do you get this trash?” He said that if he needed to know the dark side of Judaism, he’d rather do it from Mein Kampf!

The truth is that, with the possible exception of some secular Jewish congregations, every synagogue in the world contains the Talmud and Zohar. It’s from these works that my assertions came. They are the two most important sources of inspired literature for observant Jews, greatly surpassing the Bible. The Talmud however, is the most universally read and applied.

Herman Wouk, Orthodox Jew and famed author of The Cain Mutiny, affirms, “The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart’s blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs, ceremonies we observe—whether we are Orthodox, Conservative, Reform or merely spasmodic sentimentalists—we follow the Talmud. It is our common law.” ¹

One would think that religious literature so centrally important to one of the world’s great religions would be easily located in local libraries. It is certainly easy to find the Bible or Koran.

Not so the Talmud.

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Jews Kidnap Another Palestinian MP: Have Now Kidnapped over 50

By NatAllNews.com
August 21st, 2006

Israel whines continually over its combatant soldiers who have been kidnapped by Palestinian militants – yet Israel itself has kidnapped over 50 Palestinian members of parliament and cabinet ministers – all without their puppet regimes in Washington and London saying a word.

In the latest incident, Israeli troops kidnapped the secretary general of the Palestinian parliament figure, Mahmoud al-Ramahi. His family said he was kidnapped after troops surrounded his house near the West Bank town of Ramallah. This comes a day after the Jews kidnapped Palestinian deputy prime minister Nasser al-Shaer.

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya has appealed to the international community for help to secure the release of his deputy, who was also seized from Ramallah. (….Full Article)