BEWARE: ISRAEL LOBBY PREPARES FOR U.S. ELECTION

One Arm of the Lobby’s: “Grand Strategy for America and the Middle East”

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Whether it’s Obama/Biden or McCain/Palin in the White House in January, the Israeli Lobby is in high-gear and getting ready.

Both parties and both campaigns have been infiltrated and pretty much already captured by different arms and different personalities of “The Lobby.”

This was clearly demonstrated when the day after he locked up the nomination Obama quickly pushed a joint U.S./Israeli flag pin into his lapel and went before American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) to proclaim his loyalty so brazenly that even some of his advisers winced.

And just last week, right after being annointed by John McCain, and even as she was hunkered down preparing her acceptance speech, Sarah Palin said OK to the “request” from just one special interest group to come and see her. No less than the entire Board of Director of AIPAC marched up to her hotel suite even as all in the national media was kept away.

The Washington operatives in the multi-organization Israeli Lobby are super-busy preparing for big policy jobs in the White House and throughout the corridors of power — whomever wins the November election. They are also in hyper-drive formulating and pushing policy positions with which they will dominate the print media and the radio/TV air waves as well as the Washington politicians.

Whichever politicians prevail on November 5th, one group of these Israeli lobby organizations and operatives will be in power in government. The other group of them will be in power in the think-tanks and the media as well as as outside “advisers” and “contractors.”

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, AIPAC, is the most public out-front group in the powerful Washington Israel Lobby. It remains so even with its two former top officials still awaiting trial as Israeli spies — another important subject the corporate media largely avoids even as Bush/Cheney “pardon” rumors are the talk of the town in insider circles.

BUT AIPAC is actually just one of many major organizations that make up the Israeli/Jewish lobby.

Another is of more recent vintange and known as the “Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings.”

Just as AIPAC and it’s Near East Institute think-tank are intertwined with the Israeli elite — including the politicians, the army, and the intelligence services — the same is the case with the Saban Center which is named for a close friend of Ariel Sharon and a man thought to still be a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, Haim Saban. His multi-millions (actually he has billions) in effect got Brookings to turn over its Middle East policy to him and his Israeli friends and to appoint none other than Martin Indyk to run it.

Right after the two political conventions concluded this arm of the Israeli Lobby held a media event to try to steer the future of U.S. policy in the Middle East — especially should Obama and Biden be in the White House as Brookings is traditionally aligned with the Democratic Party much as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and others are aligned with the Republicans.

They called their event “A GRAND STRATEGY FOR AMERICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST” and you can watch it in full above.

What you will see are three Jews and one westernized Arab, albeit someone most Arabs and nearly all Palestinians consider a collaborator. The hook for the discussion is the new book underwritten by the Saban Center, but published for them by Random House titled, A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East.

In the video, in order of appearance, are four long-time friends all with close ties to both the Israeli and U.S. governments as well as the many other organizations and personalities that make up the extended Israel Lobby in Washington:

Martin Indyk, Zionist Jew originally from Australia and Israel, is the Director of the Saban Center
Kenneth Pollack, Zionist Jew formerly with the CIA and son-in-law of Ted Koppel, is Senior Fellow of the Saban Center
David Brooks, Zionist Jew and former employee of Bill Kristol and The Weekly Standard, now is a popular press and TV commentator.
Marwan Muasher was Jordan’s first Ambassador to Israel and has long involvments with the Israeli government and Israeli/U.S. intelligence.

September 15, 2008 | Filed Under GFA