How
AIPAC organized Netanyahu’s
speech to U.S. Congress
Washington - Tuesday,
May 24, U.S. Congress took the role of undignified cheerleaders for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu during his appearance before a joint session of
Congress. With 41 applause interruptions and 29 standing ovations, Congress sent a message that the Legislative
branch is increasingly under the control of Israel. By unanimously applauding the lies of
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, head of an apartheid regime, the Congress of the United States coveyed to the world the image of a totalitarian and monolithic
body. But this unanimity is merely a facade, contrived under AIPAC
pressure.
AIPAC edited Netanyahu's
speech for most favorable local consumption. Not even the applause breaks
were spontaneous; they were marked in the speech which was distributed in
advance, in order to highlight them. Key Congress Members were designated as floor leaders and were seated in strategic locations in the Chamber. Once
Netanyahu began his speech the floor leaders would leap up at the indicated cue phrases and begin to applaud enthusiastically. Quite naturally, others would follow either not wanting to appear impolite or to stand out and be noticed as not showing proper support for Israel and its Prime Minister.
AIPAC staffers let it be known that videos of the Members listening to
Netanyahu would be kept on file and insinuated that how the Member’s performed during his speech to Congress would be taken into consideration when planning this summer’s Jewish fundraising
events.
Congress
Members need to keep their job. Everyone knows that Members of Congress are regularly pressured and targeted by
AIPAC.
Netanyahu’s following assertions
weree ludicrously false, but unanimously applauded:
- “Of 300 million Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa, only Israel’s Arab citizens enjoy real democratic
rights.”
- “Throughout the millennial history of the Jewish capital, the only time that
Jews, Christians and Muslims could worship freely, could have unfettered access to their holy
sites, has been during Israel’s sovereignty over Jerusalem.”
- “In Judea and Samaria, the Jewish people are not foreign occupiers.”
- “In recent years, the Palestinians twice refused generous offers by Israeli prime ministers to establish a Palestinian state on virtually all the territory won by Israel in the Six-Day War.”
- “We have helped the Palestinian economic growth by removing hundreds of barriers and roadblocks to the free flow of goods and people, and the results have been nothing short of
remarkable.”
- “The Palestinian refugee problem will be resolved outside the borders of Israel.”
- “They (Palestinians) continue to educate their children to hate.”
- “A nuclear armed Iran would ignite a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.”
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It
should also be noted that nearly 2/3′s of
the Members of the U.S. Congress were present at the last annual AIPAC Conference
(May 21 to 24, 2011)
in order to ingratiate themselves with their hosts and to protect their
sinecures.
