Gingrich’s Head Up The Apartheid State of Israel

Former Speaker of the House and Republican candidate for President Newt Gingrich has his head so far up the Apartheid State of Israel’s behind that he is violating all his rhetoric about American values by declaring that,  “I am prepared to say my bias is towards clemency” for the infamous Israeli spy Jonathon Pollard.   

By advocating clemency to Pollard, Gingrich would reject the advice of countless leaders in the defense and intelligence fields.  Only the right wing of the pro-Israeli apartheid supporters desire for Pollard to be released and deported to the Apartheid State of Israel.

Rejecting Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s call for Israeli and Palestinian leaders to “get to the damn table,” Gingrichs stated, “How about saying to Hamas, give up violence and come to the table? How about saying to the PLO, recognize Israel and come to the table?”  Did not the PLO recognize Israel in 1988? How far up is his head?

Gingrich further stated that "in a Gingrich administration, on the opening day, there will be an executive order about two hours after the inaugural address. We will send the Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, as of that day."  In all of the past administrations since Richard Nixon, no president has advocated the move of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.   Gingrich, it seems, will do anything and everything to appease the right wing Jewish Americans.

        

        There is a reason why succeeding administrations have refused to move the US Embassy from Tel Vive to Jerusalem—because it is not in the best interest of the US, yet Gingrich would rather grabble on his hands and knees to the pro-Israeli apartheid lobby than to promote a consistent US policy advocated by succeeding US presidents, both Democratic and Republican. 

Gingrich also totes the Apartheid State of Israel’s policy on Iran. As reported in the Haaretz.com, Gingrich promised to fund "every dissident group" in Iran and to sabotage its oil supply.  Such a policy will ultimately lead to a great increase in the price of a gallon of gas and would engage the world into another world war—something the hawkish Gingrich may relish. But of course, the Apartheid State of Israel will also welcome such a policy.

In the most outrageous statement made this week, Gingrich had the audacity to state that there are no Palestinian people, that they are Arabs.  Gingrich echoed former Apartheid State of Israel Prime Minister Golda Meier statement that there are no Palestinians. There have been countless agreements signed with the Palestinians and Palestinian leaders have visited the White House for the past two decades, yet Gingrich wants to take the Middle East back to the 1970’s.  

        Gingrich, of course, is exploiting the Jewish-American money and votes, in that order.  The Jewish community make up about 3% of the electorate, the highest percentage voter turnout of any ethnic group. But it is the Jewish money that Gingrich is mostly courting. The Washington Post summarized the Center for Responsive Politics' 1990–2006 data and concluded that "Pro-Israel interests have contributed $56.8 million in individual, group and soft money donations to federal candidates and party committees since 1990.”[1]

 

        Gingrich has proven that he will say anything and do everything to court the American-Jewish vote and money—even if it is not in the best interest of the United States. As such, this should disqualify him from becoming President.  

         

(  © Copyright, Fadi Zanayed.  Publication or distribution of this material is allowed provided its content is not altered and the source and its author are cited.)

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[1] ^ Glenn Frankel. A Beautiful Friendship. The Washington Post. July 16, 2006.

The Israeli Mirage Seen By American Voters

In a recent poll American voter’s showed support for pro-Israeli candidates—my analysis is that the Israeli lobby has painted a mirage.  The perception that Apartheid Israel is a democracy surrounded by hostile American hating Muslims has been craftily molded by the powerful lobby for decades. Unfortunately, in American politics, perception is reality.

If Americans knew the “reality” about Apartheid Israel that perception would change.  Apartheid Israel receives $3 billion of US aid annually—not to mention the many other millions in military aid.   While local budgets are being slashed here in the US, aid to the Apartheid Regime increases annually.  While resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is, as President Barrack Obama has stated, a national security concern, Apartheid Israel rebukes the leader of the free world by building more illegal West Bank settlements, effectively killing peace.  Israeli Prime Minister, the chief Apartheid, Benjamin Netanyahu wants no preconditions to negotiations, wants to continue to build settlements despite the fact that negotiations would lead to the dismantling of those settlements and wants the Apartheid State of Israel to be recognized as a Jewish State.

Many American voters do not really know the reality of what Apartheid Israel is doing to the Palestinians. Political observers, including former President Jimmy Carter, have called Israel an apartheid government.  Apartheid Israel has built a wall that cuts off families from each other; cuts off farmers from their fields; and isolates towns into an open air prison.   Apartheid Israel has carved Palestinian land in the West Bank by designating areas into A B and C zones. It has instituted military checkpoints that make a 10 minute route from Ramallah to Beir Zeit a 3 hour ride.   Through its checkpoints, Israel restricts students from attending universities; restricts goods from being brought to markets and restricts worshipers from worshiping in the Holy City of Jerusalem.

Apartheid Israel does not approve building permits and when a home is built in Palestine it demolishes it.  It uses the demolition of homes as a collective punishment against families or whole towns.


To destroy commerce, the brutal Israeli military protects Apartheid Israeli settlers who uproot groves of olive trees which have been the only source of income for their owner’s families for centuries.

Apartheid Israel segregates Palestinians from apartheid settlers by building Jews only by-pass roads.

Israel tortures Palestinian prisoners, makes them sign false confessions written in Hebrew—a language that the Palestinians cannot read.  Do the voters know that Israeli soldiers abuse Palestinian soldiers much like US soldiers who mocked Iraqi citizens in Abu Ghraib prison?

Do voters really know that within the current Apartheid regime in Israel there is a coalition partner whose spiritual leader advocates the annihilation of Palestinians?  The spiritual leader of the Chas Party Ovadia Yousef has made statements that Israel should annihilate the Palestinians.  With all the anger in Apartheid Israel about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad”s rhetoric denying the holocaust, it is ironic that a Jewish spiritual leader would utter a word that even implies the annihilation of another people.  Yet the Chas Party is a major coalition partner in the Chief Apartheid Netanyahu government.  Do American voters know this reality?

The mirage that the Israel lobby has painted would fade into the sunset and American voters would favor justice if only they know reality.

(  © Copyright, Fadi Zanayed.  Publication or distribution of this material is allowed provided its content is not altered and the source and its author are cited.)