Web Letters: AIPAC's Hold

Following the 1967 war and in particular the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, US foreign policy did a 180-degree turn in favor of the "Greater Israel" enterprise. Not only would Israel go unpunished for the deaths of thirty-four Americans but the US would now be providing massive American arms and monetary aid. Colonizing the newly conquered Arab lands would now have US backing. It's not easy to ferret out the behind-the-scenes machinations in the American political camgaign/contribution process that enabled this shift, but big New York and Texas money would be a fair assumption. In the sixties the Israel lobbies with AIPAC primarily did not have the stranglehold on the US Congress that they have today, but their influence as well in the '60s could not be ignored. Ross is a part of this Israel-first lobby. When not in the US government he is in the employ of some Israel-friendly big-money-sponsered think tank.

His negotiations with Iran would be designed to fail, because that would have been the Israeli agenda. In his mind, what is right for Israel is right for America. That is where he totally wrong.

The US got suckered into invading Iraq with much drumbeating by neocons who happen to be pushing the hardline Likud policies.

bruce barsoum

New York, NY