In the video below, Max Blumenthal, a Jewish reporter who is concerned over the dangerous influence that the ‘Christian’ Zionist movement is wielding, takes us on a disturbing tour of last month’s annual Washington-Israel Summit. Max speaks with Zionist extremists Joe Lieberman, Tom DeLay, John Hagee, Ambassador Dore Gold along with a host of other war mongering, Doomsday worshiping ‘Christian’ Zionists — Staff

The Unauthorized Christians United for Israel Tour

“On July 16, I attended Christians United for Israel’s annual Washington-Israel Summit. Founded by San Antonio-based megachurch pastor John Hagee, CUFI has added the grassroots muscle of the Christian right to the already potent Israel lobby. Hagee and his minions have forged close ties with the Bush White House and members of Congress from Sen. Joseph Lieberman to Sen. John McCain. In its call for a unilateral military attack on Iran and the expansion of Israeli territory, CUFI has found unwavering encouragement from traditional pro-Israel groups like AIPAC and elements of the Israeli government … I have covered the Christian right intensely for over four years. During this time, I attended dozens of Christian right conferences, regularly monitored movement publications and radio shows, and interviewed scores of its key leaders. I have never witnessed any spectacle as politically extreme, outrageous, or bizarre as the one Christians United for Israel produced last week in Washington. See for yourself” — Max Blumenthal

Warhawks Dominate Both Major Parties

By Michael Collins Piper — AFP

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) recently (although indirectly) put his finger on what may be the foremost problem of the American political process:

Obama exposed the fact that in the foreign policy realm, all of the leading presidential candidates of both major parties have actually come together as members of what some call “the War Party.”

During a recent debate, responding to critics among his rivals, Obama snapped, “I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign-policy disaster in our generation are now criticizing me.”

Obama was referring to the point that the other “top tier” Democratic candidates—Senators Chris Dodd (Conn.), Joseph Biden (Del.) and Hillary Clinton (N.Y.) and former Sen. John Edwards (N.C.)—all voted to support Republican George W. Bush’s senseless decision to wage war on Iraq. (As an Illinois state legislator, Obama opposed the war.)

By publicly reminding grass-roots Democrats— some of the staunchest critics of the war—that their own party leaders lined up with Bush in waging the war, Obama effectively pointed toward an unspoken reality: that the primary motivation for Democrats to support Bush’s war was that destroying Iraq was at the top of the “want list” of the Israeli lobby and its American supporters who funnel tens of millions of dollars in campaign money to both major parties. Pro- Israel donors swell Democratic coffers to the tune of perhaps as much as 80% of all contributions. The level of pro-Zionist contributions to GOP campaign funds is not quite that high—but almost.

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Ron Paul Translates his Online Support to the Straw Polls

By James Buchanan — EURO
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In two stunning victories, Ron Poll has received 81 percent of the vote in the Alabama Straw Poll and 73 percent of the vote in the New Hampshire Straw Poll. These straw polls are intended to determine how strong a Republican candidate is among ordinary Republican voters. Both the Alabama and New Hampshire straw polls allowed ordinary registered Republicans to vote.

These tremendous victories come on the heels of a strong showing in the Iowa Straw Poll, where Ron Paul went from near total obscurity to over nine percent of the vote, placing him in the top five. Paul followed up his strong showing in Iowa with an even stronger showing in Illinois, scoring 19 percent of the vote, finishing just one percent behind second place Fred Thompson.

Early in the primary, Ron Paul was getting 60 to 80+ percent in a variety of online Internet polls. A few media pundits mentioned this bizarre split between the online world and reality, which appears to have been finally bridged this week!! In a way, this all makes sense. People voting in online polls are most likely much better informed than ordinary Americans. Similarly, the Republicans voting in these straw polls are better motivated and better informed also. Once Ron Paul proved that he can place in the top tier in Iowa and Illinois, the floodgates were opened for people to vote for him. They were no longer “throwing their vote away” by voting for the candidate, whom they knew was the best man in the race.

Someone should tell the people at the Gallup and Rassmussen polling agencies to make sure they poll people who actually KNOW SOMETHING about the candidates. The mainstream media is still blacking out news of Ron Paul for the most part. It will be interesting to see how much longer they can ignore the biggest political news story of the election. The Wall Street Journal referred to Ron Paul’s finish in the top five in the Iowa Straw Poll as “impressive” taking into account that he only spent 17 days there compared to 66 or more days for the candidates who placed ahead of him.

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