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What's going on in our country? Have we replaced the Soviet Union as the ultimate hypocrisy in world affairs? What ever happened to being the beacon for freedom for all humanity?
George Bush and the Israeli lobby through AIPAC has forced all politicians to act against the American national interests and our position as a moral society and a beacon for freedom.
The Boston Globe Headline exposed what anyone with half a brain already knew:" TheBostonGlobe"
'Israel lobby' critique roils academe
Some assail paper by a Harvard dean
By Charles A. Radin, Globe Staff | March 29, 2006
A paper co-written by the academic dean of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government is setting off a firestorm in academic and political circles because of its assertions that US foreign policy is dominated by an ''Israel lobby" that ignores US national interest and makes the United States a target of Muslim terrorists.
And why would the American Israeli supporters along with the Christian Right support an Apartheid State in Israel or condone the confiscation of Arab Lands where we as a people always condemned these policies before?
Simple corruption of our entire political system and I hope all patriotic Americans wake up and save our nation.
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June 1967: Against U.S. wishes Israel seizes and occupies Syria's Golan
Heights.
June 1968: Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir rejects U.S. Secretary of
State William Rogers' Peace Plan that would have required Israel to
withdraw from the occupied territories; she calls upon Jews everywhere to
denounce the plan.
March 1978: Israel invades Lebanon, illegally using U.S. cluster bombs and
other U.S. weapons given to Israel for defensive purposes only.
1979: Israel frustrates U.S.-sponsored Camp David Accords by building new
settlements on the West Bank. President Carter complains to American Jewish
leaders that, by acting in a "completely irresponsible way," Israel's Prime
Minister Begin continues "to disavow the basic principles of the accords."
1979: Israel sells U.S. airplane tires and other military supplies to Iran,
against U.S. policy, at a time when U.S. diplomats are being held hostage
in Teheran.
July 1980: Israel annexes East Jerusalem in defiance of U.S. wishes and
world opinion.
July 1981: Illegally using U.S. cluster bombs and other equipment, Israel
bombs P.L.O. sites in Beirut, with great loss of civilian life. December
1981: Israel annexes Syria's Golan Heights, in violation of the Geneva
Convention and in defiance of U.S. wishes.
June 1982: Israel invades Lebanon a second time, again using U.S. cluster
bombs and other U.S. weapons. President Reagan calls for a halt of all
shipments of cluster bomb shells to Israel.
September 1982: Abetted by Israeli forces under the control of Defense
Minister Ariel Sharon, Lebanese militiamen massacre hundreds of
Palestinians in Beirut's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. President Reagan
is "horrified" and summons the Israeli ambassador to demand Israel's
immediate withdrawal from Beirut.
September 1982: Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin rejects President
Reagan's Peace Plan for the occupied territories.
January-March 1983: Israeli army "harasses" U.S. Marines in Lebanon.
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger confirms Marine commandant's report
that "Israeli troops are deliberately threatening the lives of American
military personnel . . . replete with verbal degradation of the officers,
their uniforms and country."
March 1985: Israeli lobby in Washington pressures the U.S. Congress to turn
down a $1.6 billion arms sale to Jordan, costing the U.S. thousands of
jobs, quite apart from the financial loss to American industry. Jordan
gives the contract to Russia. A frustrated King Hussein complains: "The
U.S. is not free to move except within the limits of what AIPAC [the
Israeli lobby], the Zionists and the State of Israel determine for it."
October 1985: Israeli lobby blocks $4 billion aircraft sale to Saudi
Arabia. The sale, strongly backed by the Reagan administration, costs the
U.S. over 350,000 jobs, with steep financial losses to American industry.
Saudi Arabia awards contract to England.
November 1985: Jonathan Jay Pollard, an American recruited by Israel, is
arrested for passing highly classified intelligence to Israel. U.S.
officials call the operation but "one link in an organized and
well-financed Israeli espionage ring operating within the United States."
State Department contacts reveal that top Israeli defense officials "traded
stolen U.S. intelligence documents to Soviet military intelligence agents
in return for assurances of greater emigration of Soviet Jews."
December 1985: U.S. Customs in three states raid factories suspected of
illegally selling electroplating technology to Israel. Richard Smyth, a
NATO consultant and former U.S. exporter, is indicted on charges of
illegally exporting to Israel 800 krytron devices for triggering nuclear
explosions.
April 1986: U.S. authorities arrest 17 persons, including a retired Israeli
General, Avraham Bar-Am, for plotting to sell more than $2 billion of
advanced U.S. weaponry to Iran (much of it already in Israel). General Bar-
Am, claiming to have had Israeli Government approval, threatens to name
names at the highest levels. U.S. Attorney General of New York calls the
plot "mind-boggling in scope."
July 1986: Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy informs the Israeli
ambassador that a U.S. investigation is under way of eight Israeli
representatives in the U.S. accused of plotting the illegal export of
technology used in making cluster bombs. Indictments against the eight are
later dropped in exchange for an Israeli promise to cooperate in the case.
January 1987: Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin visits South Africa to
discuss joint nuclear weapons testing. Israel admits that, in violation of
a U.S. Senate anti-apartheid bill, it has arms sales contracts with South
Africa worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Rep. John Conyers calls for
Congressional hearings on Israel-South Africa nuclear testing.
November 1987: The Iran-Contra scandal reveals that it was Israel that had
first proposed the trade to Iran of U.S. arms for hostages. The scandal
becomes the subject of the Tower Commission Report, Senate and House
investigations, and the Walsh criminal prosecution inquiries.
April 1988: Testifying before U.S. Subcommittee on Narcotics, Terrorism and
International Operations, Jose Blandon, a former intelligence aide to
Panama's General Noriega, reveals that Israel used $20 million of U.S. aid
to ship arms via Panama to Nicaraguan Contras. The empty planes then
smuggled cocaine via Panama into the United States. Pilot tells ABC
reporter Richard Threlkeld that Israel was his primary employer. The
arms-for- drugs network is said to be led by Mike Harari, Noriega's close
aide and bodyguard, who was also a high officer in the Israeli secret
services and chief coordinator of Israel's military and commercial business
in Panama.
June 1988: Mubarak Awad, a Palestinian-American advocate of nonviolence, is
deported by Israel. The White House denounces the action, saying, "We think
it is unjustifiable to deny Mr. Awad the right to stay and live in
Jerusalem, where he was born."
June 1988: Amnesty International accuses Israel of throwing deadly, U.S.-
made gas canisters inside hospitals, mosques, and private homes. The
Pennsylvania manufacturer, a major defense corporation, suspends future
shipments of tear gas to Israel.
November 1989: According to the Israeli paper Ma'ariv, U.S. officials claim
Israel Aircraft Industries was involved in attempts to smuggle U.S. missile
navigation equipment to South Africa in violation of U.S. law.
December 1989: While the U.S. was imposing economic sanctions on Iran,
Israel purchased $36 million of Iranian oil in order to encourage Iran to
help free three Israeli hostages in Lebanon.
March 1990: Israel requests more than $1 billion in loans, gifts, and
donations from American Jews and U.S. government to pay for resettling
Soviet Jews in occupied territories. President Bush responds, "My position
is that the foreign policy of the U.S. says we do not believe there should
be new settlements in the West Bank or East Jerusalem."
June 1990: Officials in the Bush administration and in Congress say that
Israel has emerged as leading supplier of advanced military technology to
China, despite U.S.'s expressed opposition to Israeli-Chinese military
cooperation.
September 1990: Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy asks the Bush
administration to forgive Israel's $4.5 billion military debt and
dramatically increase military aid. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens
expresses concern over expected $20 billion in U.S. arms sales to Saudi
Arabia and asks for an additional $1 billion in military aid to Israel.
Facing rising congressional opposition, White House backs off from plan to
sell Saudi Arabia over $20 billion in military hardware. Bush
administration promises to deliver additional F-15 fighters and Patriot
missiles to Israel, but defers action on Israel's request for more than $1
billion in new military aid. Arens questions U.S.'s commitment to maintain
Israel's military advantage in the Middle East.
October 1990: "Aliya cabinet" chair Ariel Sharon encourages increase in
settlement of Soviet Jews in East Jerusalem, despite his government's
assurances to the U.S. that it would not do so. Bush sends personal letter
to Prime Minister Shamir urging Israel not to pursue East Jerusalem
housing. Shamir rejects appeal.
November 1990: In his new autobiography, former President Reagan says
Israel was the instigator and prime mover in the Iran-Contra affair and that
then-Prime Minister Shimon Peres "was behind the proposal."
January 1991: White House criticizes Israeli ambassador Zalman Shoval for
complaining that U.S. had not moved forward on $400 million in loan
guarantees and that Israel "had not received one cent in aid" from allies
to compensate for missile damage (in Gulf War)." U.S. says comments are
"outrageous and outside the bounds of acceptable behavior."
February 1991: Hours after long-disputed $400 million loan guarantees to
Israel are approved, Israeli officials say the amount is grossly
insufficient. Next day, Israel formally requests $1 billion in emergency
military assistance to cover costs stemming from the Gulf War.
March 1991: Israeli government rejects President Bush's call for solution
to Arab-Israeli conflict that includes trading land for peace. In a report
to Congress, U.S. State Department says Soviet Jewish immigrants are
settling in the occupied territories at a higher rate than the Israeli
government claims. During tour of West Bank settlements, Housing Minister
Sharon says construction of 13,000 housing units in occupied territories
has been approved for next two years. Plans contradict statement by Prime
Minister Shamir, who told President Bush that the Israeli government had
not approved such plans.
April 1991: Prime Minister Shamir and several members of his cabinet reject
U.S. Secretary of State Baker's suggestion that Israel curtail expansion of
Jewish settlements in the occupied territories as gesture for peace. U.S.
calls new Jewish settlement of Revava "an obstacle" to peace and questions
Israel's timing, with Secretary Baker due to arrive in Israel in two days.
Hours before Baker arrives, eight Israeli families complete move to new
settlement of Talmon Bet. U.S. ambassador to Israel William Brown files an
official protest with the Israeli government about establishment and/or
expansion of settlements in the West Bank. Housing Minister Sharon says
Israel has no intention of meeting U.S. demands to slow or stop
settlements. Secretary Baker, in a news conference before leaving Israel,
says Israel failed to give responses he needed to put together a peace
conference.
May 1991: Israeli ambassador to U.S. Zalman Shoval says his country will
soon request $10 billion in loan guarantees from Washington to aid in
settling Soviet Jewish immigrants to Israel. Secretary Baker calls
continued building of Israeli settlements "largest obstacle" to convening
proposed Middle East peace conference.
May 1991: President Bush unveils proposal for arms control in Middle East.
U.S. administration confirms that Israel, which has not signed the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty, has objected to provision on nuclear weapons.
June 1991: Prime Minister Shamir rejects President Bush's call for Israeli
acceptance of a greater United Nations' role in proposed Arab-Israeli peace
talks.
July 1991: Israeli Housing Minister Sharon inaugurates the new Israeli
settlement of Mevo Dotan in the West Bank one day after President Bush
describes Israeli settlements as "counterproductive."
September 1991: President Bush asks Congress to delay considering Israeli
loan guarantee request for 120 days. Ignoring pleas of U.S. administration,
Israel formally submits its request. Prime Minister Shamir says U.S. has a
"moral obligation" to provide Israel with loan guarantees, and that Israel
would continue to build settlements in the occupied territories.
October 1991: The Washington Post reports that President Bush waived
U.S.-mandated sanctions against Israel after U.S. intelligence determined
that Israel had exported missile components to South Africa.
November 1991: Hours after concluding bilateral talks with Syria, Israel
inaugurates Qela', a new settlement in the Golan Heights. Secretary of
State Baker calls the action "provocative."
February 1992: Secretary of State Baker says U.S. will not provide loan
guarantees to Israel unless it ceases its settlement activity. President
Bush threatens to veto any loan guarantees to Israel without a freeze on
Israel's settlement activity.
March 1992: U.S. administration confirms it has begun investigating
intelligence reports that Israel supplied China with technical data from
U.S. Patriot missile system.
April 1992: State Department Inspector issues report that the department
has failed to heed intelligence reports that an important U.S. ally -
widely understood to be Israel - was making unauthorized transfers of U.S.
military technology to China, South Africa, Chile, and Ethiopia.
May 1992: Wall Street Journal cites Israeli press reports that U.S.
officials have placed Israel on list of 20 nations carrying out espionage
against U.S. companies.
June 1992: U.S. Defense Department says Israel has rejected a U.S. request
to question former General Rami Dotan, who is at center of arms procurement
scandal involving U.S. contractors.
July 1992: General Electric Company pleads guilty to fraud and corrupt
business practices in connection with its sale of military jet engines to
Israel. A GE manager had conspired with Israeli Gen. Rami Dotan to divert
$27 million in U.S. military aid with fraudulent vouchers. U.S. Justice and
Defense Departments do not believe that Dotan was acting in his own
interest, implying that the government of Israel may be implicated in the
fraud, which would constitute a default on Israel's aid agreements with the
U.S.
June 1993: U.S. House of Representatives passes bill authorizing $80
million per year to Israel for refugee settlement; bill passes despite $10
billion in U.S. loan guarantees to Israel and against evidence from Israeli
economists that Israel no longer needs U.S. aid.
October 1993: CIA informs Senate Government Affairs Committee that Israel
has been providing China for over a decade with "several billion dollars"
worth of advanced military technology. Israeli Prime Minister Rabin admits
Israel has sold arms to China.
November 1993: CIA Director James Woolsey makes first public U.S.
acknowledgement that "Israel is generally regarded as having some kind of
nuclear capability."
December 1993: Time magazine reports convicted spy Jonathan Pollard passed
a National Security Agency listing of foreign intelligence frequencies to
Israel that later was received by Soviets, ruining several billion dollars
of work and compromising lives of U.S. informants.
December 1994: Los Angeles Times reports Israel has given China information
on U.S. military technology to help in joint Israeli-Chinese development of
a fighter jet.
January 1995: When Egypt threatens not to sign the Nuclear Non-
Proliferation Treaty because Israel will not sign, the U.S. says it will
not pressure Israel to sign.
July 1995: U.S. Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk demands Israel abolish
import barriers that discriminate against U.S. imports.
November 1995: Israel grants citizenship to American spy Jonathan Pollard.
April 1996: Using U.S.-supplied shells, Israel kills 106 unarmed civilians
who had taken refuge in a U.N. peace-keeping compound in Qana, southern
Lebanon. U.N. investigators, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch
condemn the shelling as premeditated. The U.N. Security Council calls on
Israel to pay reparations. Resolution is vetoed by the United States.
June 1996: U.S. State Department hands Israeli defense officials classified
CIA report alleging Israel has given China U.S. military avionics,
including advanced radar-detection system and electronic warfare equipment.
December 1996: Israeli cabinet reinstates large subsidies, including tax
breaks and business grants, for West Bank settlers. U.S. says the move is
"troubling" and "clearly complicates the peace process." Israeli government
rejects President Clinton's criticism of the settlements and vows to
strengthen them.
February 1997: FBI announces that David Tenenbaum, a mechanical engineer
working for the U.S. army, has admitted that for the past 10 years he has
"inadvertently" passed on classified military information to Israeli officials.
March 1997: U.S. presses Israel to delay building new settlement of Har
Homa near Bethlehem. Prime Minister Netanyahu says international opposition
"will just strengthen my resolve."
June 1997: U.S. investigators report that two Hasidic Jews from New York,
suspected of laundering huge quantities of drug money for a Colombian drug
cartel, recently purchased millions of dollars worth of land near the
settlements of Mahseya and Zanoah.
September 1997: Jewish settlers in Hebron stone Palestinian laborers
working on a U.S.-financed project to renovate the town's main street.
David Muirhead, the American overseeing the project, says the Israeli
police beat him, threw him into a van, and detained him until the U.S.
Consulate intervened. U.S. State Department calls the incident "simply
unacceptable."
September 1997: Secretary of State Albright says Israel's decision to
expand Efrat settlement "is not at all helpful" to the peace process. Prime
Minister Netanyahu says he will continue to expand settlements.
May 1998: 13 years after denying he was not its spy, Israel officially
recognizes Pollard as its agent in hopes of negotiating his release.
June 1998: Secretary of State Albright phones Prime Minister Netanyahu to
condemn his plan to extend Jerusalem's municipal boundaries and to move
Jews into East Jerusalem, particularly in the area adjacent to Bethlehem.
Ignoring U.S. protests, Israel's cabinet unanimously approves plan to
extend Jerusalem's municipal authority.
August 1998: Secretary Albright tells Prime Minister Netanyahu that the
freeze in the peace process due to the settlement policy is harming U.S.
interests in the Middle East and affecting the U.S.'s ability to forge a
coalition against Iraq.
September 1998: Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad reports that the Israeli
airliner that crashed in Amsterdam in 1992 was not carrying "gifts and
perfume," as the Israelis claimed, but three of the four chemicals used to
make sarin nerve gas. According to the plane's cargo manifest, the
chemicals were sent from a U.S. factory in Pennsylvania to the top secret
Israeli Institute for Biological Research.
November 1998: Israeli Foreign Minister Sharon urges Jewish settlers to
"grab" West Bank land so it does not fall under Palestinian control in any
final peace settlement.
May 1999: U.S. denounces Israel's decision to annex more land to the Ma'ale
Adumim settlement.
June 1999: The Israeli company Orlil is reported to have stolen U.S.
nightvision equipment purchased for the Israeli Defense Forces and to have
sold it to "Far Eastern" countries.
April 2001: Prime Minister Sharon announces plans to build 708 new housing
units in the Jewish settlements of Ma'ale Adumim and Alfe Menashe. U.S.
State Department criticizes the move as "provocative."
May 2001: The Mitchell Committee (headed by former U.S. Senator George
Mitchell) concludes that Jewish settlements are a barrier to peace. Prime
Minister Sharon vows to continue expanding the settlements.
May 2001: U.S. is voted off the United Nations Commission on Human Rights
for the first time since the committee's establishment in 1947. The
Financial Times of London suggests that Washington, by vetoing U.N.
resolutions alleging Israeli human rights abuses, showed its inability to
work impartially in the area of human rights. Secretary of State Colin
Powell suggests the vote was because "we left a little blood on the floor"
in votes involving the Palestinians.
September 2001: Six days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America,
Secretary of State Powell, when asked why America is hated in the Arab and
Muslim world, acknowledges that the deep resentment and anger toward the
United States is due to the Palestinian crisis.
November 2001: Secretary of State Colin Powell calls on Israel to halt all
settlement building which he says "cripples chances for real peace and
security." Benny Elon, a right-wing minister in the Sharon government, says
the settlers aren't worried. "America has a special talent for seeing
things in the short term," he says, explaining that what Powell said he
said only to get Arab support for America's anti-terrorism coalition
against Afghanistan.
March 2002: U.N. Sec. Gen. Kofi Annan calls for immediate withdrawal of
Israeli tanks from Palestinian refugee camps, citing large numbers of
Palestinians reported dead or injured. U.S. State Dept. says the United
States has contacted Israel to "urge that utmost restraint be exercised in
order to avoid harm to the civilian population." Back to top sharkman
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Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2002 9:03 pm Post subject: us congressman endorses israel's ethnic cleansing on us tv for those of you who missed it, us congressman dick armey endorsed israel's ethnic cleansing of the palestinians to chris matthews who is the host of msnbc's "hardball" national television program in the usa as the transcript of such follows (one can check the aipac link at WHAT REALLY HAPPENED | The History The US Government HOPES You Never Learn! to see how much armey gets from the jewish aipac lobby, or is he one of those christian evangelical types who would rather see israel slaughtering innocent palestinian civilians in the name of religion with a similar mentality to the crusaders of centuries ago):
George Bush and the Israeli lobby through AIPAC has forced all politicians to act against the American national interests and our position as a moral society and a beacon for freedom.
The Boston Globe Headline exposed what anyone with half a brain already knew:" TheBostonGlobe"
'Israel lobby' critique roils academe
Some assail paper by a Harvard dean
By Charles A. Radin, Globe Staff | March 29, 2006
A paper co-written by the academic dean of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government is setting off a firestorm in academic and political circles because of its assertions that US foreign policy is dominated by an ''Israel lobby" that ignores US national interest and makes the United States a target of Muslim terrorists.
And why would the American Israeli supporters along with the Christian Right support an Apartheid State in Israel or condone the confiscation of Arab Lands where we as a people always condemned these policies before?
Simple corruption of our entire political system and I hope all patriotic Americans wake up and save our nation.
.
June 1967: Against U.S. wishes Israel seizes and occupies Syria's Golan
Heights.
June 1968: Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir rejects U.S. Secretary of
State William Rogers' Peace Plan that would have required Israel to
withdraw from the occupied territories; she calls upon Jews everywhere to
denounce the plan.
March 1978: Israel invades Lebanon, illegally using U.S. cluster bombs and
other U.S. weapons given to Israel for defensive purposes only.
1979: Israel frustrates U.S.-sponsored Camp David Accords by building new
settlements on the West Bank. President Carter complains to American Jewish
leaders that, by acting in a "completely irresponsible way," Israel's Prime
Minister Begin continues "to disavow the basic principles of the accords."
1979: Israel sells U.S. airplane tires and other military supplies to Iran,
against U.S. policy, at a time when U.S. diplomats are being held hostage
in Teheran.
July 1980: Israel annexes East Jerusalem in defiance of U.S. wishes and
world opinion.
July 1981: Illegally using U.S. cluster bombs and other equipment, Israel
bombs P.L.O. sites in Beirut, with great loss of civilian life. December
1981: Israel annexes Syria's Golan Heights, in violation of the Geneva
Convention and in defiance of U.S. wishes.
June 1982: Israel invades Lebanon a second time, again using U.S. cluster
bombs and other U.S. weapons. President Reagan calls for a halt of all
shipments of cluster bomb shells to Israel.
September 1982: Abetted by Israeli forces under the control of Defense
Minister Ariel Sharon, Lebanese militiamen massacre hundreds of
Palestinians in Beirut's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. President Reagan
is "horrified" and summons the Israeli ambassador to demand Israel's
immediate withdrawal from Beirut.
September 1982: Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin rejects President
Reagan's Peace Plan for the occupied territories.
January-March 1983: Israeli army "harasses" U.S. Marines in Lebanon.
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger confirms Marine commandant's report
that "Israeli troops are deliberately threatening the lives of American
military personnel . . . replete with verbal degradation of the officers,
their uniforms and country."
March 1985: Israeli lobby in Washington pressures the U.S. Congress to turn
down a $1.6 billion arms sale to Jordan, costing the U.S. thousands of
jobs, quite apart from the financial loss to American industry. Jordan
gives the contract to Russia. A frustrated King Hussein complains: "The
U.S. is not free to move except within the limits of what AIPAC [the
Israeli lobby], the Zionists and the State of Israel determine for it."
October 1985: Israeli lobby blocks $4 billion aircraft sale to Saudi
Arabia. The sale, strongly backed by the Reagan administration, costs the
U.S. over 350,000 jobs, with steep financial losses to American industry.
Saudi Arabia awards contract to England.
November 1985: Jonathan Jay Pollard, an American recruited by Israel, is
arrested for passing highly classified intelligence to Israel. U.S.
officials call the operation but "one link in an organized and
well-financed Israeli espionage ring operating within the United States."
State Department contacts reveal that top Israeli defense officials "traded
stolen U.S. intelligence documents to Soviet military intelligence agents
in return for assurances of greater emigration of Soviet Jews."
December 1985: U.S. Customs in three states raid factories suspected of
illegally selling electroplating technology to Israel. Richard Smyth, a
NATO consultant and former U.S. exporter, is indicted on charges of
illegally exporting to Israel 800 krytron devices for triggering nuclear
explosions.
April 1986: U.S. authorities arrest 17 persons, including a retired Israeli
General, Avraham Bar-Am, for plotting to sell more than $2 billion of
advanced U.S. weaponry to Iran (much of it already in Israel). General Bar-
Am, claiming to have had Israeli Government approval, threatens to name
names at the highest levels. U.S. Attorney General of New York calls the
plot "mind-boggling in scope."
July 1986: Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy informs the Israeli
ambassador that a U.S. investigation is under way of eight Israeli
representatives in the U.S. accused of plotting the illegal export of
technology used in making cluster bombs. Indictments against the eight are
later dropped in exchange for an Israeli promise to cooperate in the case.
January 1987: Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin visits South Africa to
discuss joint nuclear weapons testing. Israel admits that, in violation of
a U.S. Senate anti-apartheid bill, it has arms sales contracts with South
Africa worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Rep. John Conyers calls for
Congressional hearings on Israel-South Africa nuclear testing.
November 1987: The Iran-Contra scandal reveals that it was Israel that had
first proposed the trade to Iran of U.S. arms for hostages. The scandal
becomes the subject of the Tower Commission Report, Senate and House
investigations, and the Walsh criminal prosecution inquiries.
April 1988: Testifying before U.S. Subcommittee on Narcotics, Terrorism and
International Operations, Jose Blandon, a former intelligence aide to
Panama's General Noriega, reveals that Israel used $20 million of U.S. aid
to ship arms via Panama to Nicaraguan Contras. The empty planes then
smuggled cocaine via Panama into the United States. Pilot tells ABC
reporter Richard Threlkeld that Israel was his primary employer. The
arms-for- drugs network is said to be led by Mike Harari, Noriega's close
aide and bodyguard, who was also a high officer in the Israeli secret
services and chief coordinator of Israel's military and commercial business
in Panama.
June 1988: Mubarak Awad, a Palestinian-American advocate of nonviolence, is
deported by Israel. The White House denounces the action, saying, "We think
it is unjustifiable to deny Mr. Awad the right to stay and live in
Jerusalem, where he was born."
June 1988: Amnesty International accuses Israel of throwing deadly, U.S.-
made gas canisters inside hospitals, mosques, and private homes. The
Pennsylvania manufacturer, a major defense corporation, suspends future
shipments of tear gas to Israel.
November 1989: According to the Israeli paper Ma'ariv, U.S. officials claim
Israel Aircraft Industries was involved in attempts to smuggle U.S. missile
navigation equipment to South Africa in violation of U.S. law.
December 1989: While the U.S. was imposing economic sanctions on Iran,
Israel purchased $36 million of Iranian oil in order to encourage Iran to
help free three Israeli hostages in Lebanon.
March 1990: Israel requests more than $1 billion in loans, gifts, and
donations from American Jews and U.S. government to pay for resettling
Soviet Jews in occupied territories. President Bush responds, "My position
is that the foreign policy of the U.S. says we do not believe there should
be new settlements in the West Bank or East Jerusalem."
June 1990: Officials in the Bush administration and in Congress say that
Israel has emerged as leading supplier of advanced military technology to
China, despite U.S.'s expressed opposition to Israeli-Chinese military
cooperation.
September 1990: Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy asks the Bush
administration to forgive Israel's $4.5 billion military debt and
dramatically increase military aid. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens
expresses concern over expected $20 billion in U.S. arms sales to Saudi
Arabia and asks for an additional $1 billion in military aid to Israel.
Facing rising congressional opposition, White House backs off from plan to
sell Saudi Arabia over $20 billion in military hardware. Bush
administration promises to deliver additional F-15 fighters and Patriot
missiles to Israel, but defers action on Israel's request for more than $1
billion in new military aid. Arens questions U.S.'s commitment to maintain
Israel's military advantage in the Middle East.
October 1990: "Aliya cabinet" chair Ariel Sharon encourages increase in
settlement of Soviet Jews in East Jerusalem, despite his government's
assurances to the U.S. that it would not do so. Bush sends personal letter
to Prime Minister Shamir urging Israel not to pursue East Jerusalem
housing. Shamir rejects appeal.
November 1990: In his new autobiography, former President Reagan says
Israel was the instigator and prime mover in the Iran-Contra affair and that
then-Prime Minister Shimon Peres "was behind the proposal."
January 1991: White House criticizes Israeli ambassador Zalman Shoval for
complaining that U.S. had not moved forward on $400 million in loan
guarantees and that Israel "had not received one cent in aid" from allies
to compensate for missile damage (in Gulf War)." U.S. says comments are
"outrageous and outside the bounds of acceptable behavior."
February 1991: Hours after long-disputed $400 million loan guarantees to
Israel are approved, Israeli officials say the amount is grossly
insufficient. Next day, Israel formally requests $1 billion in emergency
military assistance to cover costs stemming from the Gulf War.
March 1991: Israeli government rejects President Bush's call for solution
to Arab-Israeli conflict that includes trading land for peace. In a report
to Congress, U.S. State Department says Soviet Jewish immigrants are
settling in the occupied territories at a higher rate than the Israeli
government claims. During tour of West Bank settlements, Housing Minister
Sharon says construction of 13,000 housing units in occupied territories
has been approved for next two years. Plans contradict statement by Prime
Minister Shamir, who told President Bush that the Israeli government had
not approved such plans.
April 1991: Prime Minister Shamir and several members of his cabinet reject
U.S. Secretary of State Baker's suggestion that Israel curtail expansion of
Jewish settlements in the occupied territories as gesture for peace. U.S.
calls new Jewish settlement of Revava "an obstacle" to peace and questions
Israel's timing, with Secretary Baker due to arrive in Israel in two days.
Hours before Baker arrives, eight Israeli families complete move to new
settlement of Talmon Bet. U.S. ambassador to Israel William Brown files an
official protest with the Israeli government about establishment and/or
expansion of settlements in the West Bank. Housing Minister Sharon says
Israel has no intention of meeting U.S. demands to slow or stop
settlements. Secretary Baker, in a news conference before leaving Israel,
says Israel failed to give responses he needed to put together a peace
conference.
May 1991: Israeli ambassador to U.S. Zalman Shoval says his country will
soon request $10 billion in loan guarantees from Washington to aid in
settling Soviet Jewish immigrants to Israel. Secretary Baker calls
continued building of Israeli settlements "largest obstacle" to convening
proposed Middle East peace conference.
May 1991: President Bush unveils proposal for arms control in Middle East.
U.S. administration confirms that Israel, which has not signed the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty, has objected to provision on nuclear weapons.
June 1991: Prime Minister Shamir rejects President Bush's call for Israeli
acceptance of a greater United Nations' role in proposed Arab-Israeli peace
talks.
July 1991: Israeli Housing Minister Sharon inaugurates the new Israeli
settlement of Mevo Dotan in the West Bank one day after President Bush
describes Israeli settlements as "counterproductive."
September 1991: President Bush asks Congress to delay considering Israeli
loan guarantee request for 120 days. Ignoring pleas of U.S. administration,
Israel formally submits its request. Prime Minister Shamir says U.S. has a
"moral obligation" to provide Israel with loan guarantees, and that Israel
would continue to build settlements in the occupied territories.
October 1991: The Washington Post reports that President Bush waived
U.S.-mandated sanctions against Israel after U.S. intelligence determined
that Israel had exported missile components to South Africa.
November 1991: Hours after concluding bilateral talks with Syria, Israel
inaugurates Qela', a new settlement in the Golan Heights. Secretary of
State Baker calls the action "provocative."
February 1992: Secretary of State Baker says U.S. will not provide loan
guarantees to Israel unless it ceases its settlement activity. President
Bush threatens to veto any loan guarantees to Israel without a freeze on
Israel's settlement activity.
March 1992: U.S. administration confirms it has begun investigating
intelligence reports that Israel supplied China with technical data from
U.S. Patriot missile system.
April 1992: State Department Inspector issues report that the department
has failed to heed intelligence reports that an important U.S. ally -
widely understood to be Israel - was making unauthorized transfers of U.S.
military technology to China, South Africa, Chile, and Ethiopia.
May 1992: Wall Street Journal cites Israeli press reports that U.S.
officials have placed Israel on list of 20 nations carrying out espionage
against U.S. companies.
June 1992: U.S. Defense Department says Israel has rejected a U.S. request
to question former General Rami Dotan, who is at center of arms procurement
scandal involving U.S. contractors.
July 1992: General Electric Company pleads guilty to fraud and corrupt
business practices in connection with its sale of military jet engines to
Israel. A GE manager had conspired with Israeli Gen. Rami Dotan to divert
$27 million in U.S. military aid with fraudulent vouchers. U.S. Justice and
Defense Departments do not believe that Dotan was acting in his own
interest, implying that the government of Israel may be implicated in the
fraud, which would constitute a default on Israel's aid agreements with the
U.S.
June 1993: U.S. House of Representatives passes bill authorizing $80
million per year to Israel for refugee settlement; bill passes despite $10
billion in U.S. loan guarantees to Israel and against evidence from Israeli
economists that Israel no longer needs U.S. aid.
October 1993: CIA informs Senate Government Affairs Committee that Israel
has been providing China for over a decade with "several billion dollars"
worth of advanced military technology. Israeli Prime Minister Rabin admits
Israel has sold arms to China.
November 1993: CIA Director James Woolsey makes first public U.S.
acknowledgement that "Israel is generally regarded as having some kind of
nuclear capability."
December 1993: Time magazine reports convicted spy Jonathan Pollard passed
a National Security Agency listing of foreign intelligence frequencies to
Israel that later was received by Soviets, ruining several billion dollars
of work and compromising lives of U.S. informants.
December 1994: Los Angeles Times reports Israel has given China information
on U.S. military technology to help in joint Israeli-Chinese development of
a fighter jet.
January 1995: When Egypt threatens not to sign the Nuclear Non-
Proliferation Treaty because Israel will not sign, the U.S. says it will
not pressure Israel to sign.
July 1995: U.S. Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk demands Israel abolish
import barriers that discriminate against U.S. imports.
November 1995: Israel grants citizenship to American spy Jonathan Pollard.
April 1996: Using U.S.-supplied shells, Israel kills 106 unarmed civilians
who had taken refuge in a U.N. peace-keeping compound in Qana, southern
Lebanon. U.N. investigators, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch
condemn the shelling as premeditated. The U.N. Security Council calls on
Israel to pay reparations. Resolution is vetoed by the United States.
June 1996: U.S. State Department hands Israeli defense officials classified
CIA report alleging Israel has given China U.S. military avionics,
including advanced radar-detection system and electronic warfare equipment.
December 1996: Israeli cabinet reinstates large subsidies, including tax
breaks and business grants, for West Bank settlers. U.S. says the move is
"troubling" and "clearly complicates the peace process." Israeli government
rejects President Clinton's criticism of the settlements and vows to
strengthen them.
February 1997: FBI announces that David Tenenbaum, a mechanical engineer
working for the U.S. army, has admitted that for the past 10 years he has
"inadvertently" passed on classified military information to Israeli officials.
March 1997: U.S. presses Israel to delay building new settlement of Har
Homa near Bethlehem. Prime Minister Netanyahu says international opposition
"will just strengthen my resolve."
June 1997: U.S. investigators report that two Hasidic Jews from New York,
suspected of laundering huge quantities of drug money for a Colombian drug
cartel, recently purchased millions of dollars worth of land near the
settlements of Mahseya and Zanoah.
September 1997: Jewish settlers in Hebron stone Palestinian laborers
working on a U.S.-financed project to renovate the town's main street.
David Muirhead, the American overseeing the project, says the Israeli
police beat him, threw him into a van, and detained him until the U.S.
Consulate intervened. U.S. State Department calls the incident "simply
unacceptable."
September 1997: Secretary of State Albright says Israel's decision to
expand Efrat settlement "is not at all helpful" to the peace process. Prime
Minister Netanyahu says he will continue to expand settlements.
May 1998: 13 years after denying he was not its spy, Israel officially
recognizes Pollard as its agent in hopes of negotiating his release.
June 1998: Secretary of State Albright phones Prime Minister Netanyahu to
condemn his plan to extend Jerusalem's municipal boundaries and to move
Jews into East Jerusalem, particularly in the area adjacent to Bethlehem.
Ignoring U.S. protests, Israel's cabinet unanimously approves plan to
extend Jerusalem's municipal authority.
August 1998: Secretary Albright tells Prime Minister Netanyahu that the
freeze in the peace process due to the settlement policy is harming U.S.
interests in the Middle East and affecting the U.S.'s ability to forge a
coalition against Iraq.
September 1998: Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad reports that the Israeli
airliner that crashed in Amsterdam in 1992 was not carrying "gifts and
perfume," as the Israelis claimed, but three of the four chemicals used to
make sarin nerve gas. According to the plane's cargo manifest, the
chemicals were sent from a U.S. factory in Pennsylvania to the top secret
Israeli Institute for Biological Research.
November 1998: Israeli Foreign Minister Sharon urges Jewish settlers to
"grab" West Bank land so it does not fall under Palestinian control in any
final peace settlement.
May 1999: U.S. denounces Israel's decision to annex more land to the Ma'ale
Adumim settlement.
June 1999: The Israeli company Orlil is reported to have stolen U.S.
nightvision equipment purchased for the Israeli Defense Forces and to have
sold it to "Far Eastern" countries.
April 2001: Prime Minister Sharon announces plans to build 708 new housing
units in the Jewish settlements of Ma'ale Adumim and Alfe Menashe. U.S.
State Department criticizes the move as "provocative."
May 2001: The Mitchell Committee (headed by former U.S. Senator George
Mitchell) concludes that Jewish settlements are a barrier to peace. Prime
Minister Sharon vows to continue expanding the settlements.
May 2001: U.S. is voted off the United Nations Commission on Human Rights
for the first time since the committee's establishment in 1947. The
Financial Times of London suggests that Washington, by vetoing U.N.
resolutions alleging Israeli human rights abuses, showed its inability to
work impartially in the area of human rights. Secretary of State Colin
Powell suggests the vote was because "we left a little blood on the floor"
in votes involving the Palestinians.
September 2001: Six days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America,
Secretary of State Powell, when asked why America is hated in the Arab and
Muslim world, acknowledges that the deep resentment and anger toward the
United States is due to the Palestinian crisis.
November 2001: Secretary of State Colin Powell calls on Israel to halt all
settlement building which he says "cripples chances for real peace and
security." Benny Elon, a right-wing minister in the Sharon government, says
the settlers aren't worried. "America has a special talent for seeing
things in the short term," he says, explaining that what Powell said he
said only to get Arab support for America's anti-terrorism coalition
against Afghanistan.
March 2002: U.N. Sec. Gen. Kofi Annan calls for immediate withdrawal of
Israeli tanks from Palestinian refugee camps, citing large numbers of
Palestinians reported dead or injured. U.S. State Dept. says the United
States has contacted Israel to "urge that utmost restraint be exercised in
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Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2002 9:03 pm Post subject: us congressman endorses israel's ethnic cleansing on us tv for those of you who missed it, us congressman dick armey endorsed israel's ethnic cleansing of the palestinians to chris matthews who is the host of msnbc's "hardball" national television program in the usa as the transcript of such follows (one can check the aipac link at WHAT REALLY HAPPENED | The History The US Government HOPES You Never Learn! to see how much armey gets from the jewish aipac lobby, or is he one of those christian evangelical types who would rather see israel slaughtering innocent palestinian civilians in the name of religion with a similar mentality to the crusaders of centuries ago):
