Wow! Isn't Israel special?!

Wouldn't it be nice if just one of them said "No, thanks, I have work to do here at home for my "AMERICAN" constituents....you know...the people who elected me? Besides, it's not my business to be influencing any foreign nations through my "legislation"".

It still amazes me that one-half of Democratic campaign funds comes from Jewish sources. One-fourth of Republican campaign funds comes from Jewish sources! Why don't people know this??!? Why don't we have a fair Middle East policy again??

http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen08142004.html

Jim McGreevey was a rising star in Democratic politics. As Mayor of Woodbridge, a New York City commuter suburb, McGreevey decided to opt for statewide political office. At the same time he appeared on the Israeli intelligence radar screens. In 2000, with his eye on the New Jersey statehouse, Mayor [color="Red"]McGreevey joined a large delegation of New Jersey Jewish supporters in a political "mega pilgrimage" to Israel, where he met Golan Cipel, said to be a tour guide/information officer for the mayor of the Tel Aviv suburb of Rishon Le-Zion, the first Zionist settlement in Palestine. However, Cipel had previously been the press secretary for the Israeli consulate general in New York City. In 1999, Cipel, who is now being described as a one-time low-level Israeli government employee in New York and a "poet," gave a speech on behalf of the Israeli government at a meeting at the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Madison Avenue offices on some very high profile issues, including the implications of the recent death of King Hussein of Jordan, the upcoming Israeli elections, and the peace process with the Palestinian Authority.

[color="Red"]Cipel was also a former Israeli naval officer, leaving the service with the rank of lieutenant. How a person goes from an influential position with one of the most important Israeli diplomatic missions abroad to a mere Jerusalem area tour guide seems, on the surface, extraordinary. But in the world of intelligence, such career changes are driven by political necessity, not by choice. McGreevey's admitted lifelong homosexuality also made him a likely target for an intelligence approach--and Cipel, who, as a 1998 graduate of the New York Institute of Technology and the New York Israeli consulate's press spokesman, was more than familiar with north Jersey's political and social terrain. And Cipel was no stranger to right-wing Republican politics. In 1995, Cipel and future Washington Times reporter Joshua Mitnick edited an Israeli consulate news wire called "Israel Line." The Washington Times, owned by Rev. Sun Myung Moon, is a money-losing outlet for neo-conservative political opinion.

After McGreevey returned to New Jersey from Israel, Cipel also moved to Iselin, New Jersey and was hired by a billionaire Florham Park land developer and Democratic fundraiser named Charles Kushner, an individual who became the source for $250,000 for McGreevey's campaign for the governor's mansion. Kushner sponsored Cipel for a temporary work visa. A[color="Red"]fter McGreevey was sworn in as governor, he named Kushner to the board of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the original owners of the World Trade Center. Kushner was recently indicted on federal charges of corruption involving a land deal and illegal campaign contributions.

Soon after McGreevey announced his candidacy for the governorship, Cipel became one of his campaign advisers. During 2001, in his role as McGreevey's Jewish liaison adviser, [color="Red"]Cipel received another temporary work visa that was sponsored by the New Jersey State Democratic Committee.

After McGreevey's election, [color="Red"]Cipel was named homeland security director for New Jersey, a $110,000 per year job.

The tours these congress cretins go on is a little like something kids experience on The Pirates of the Caribbean at Disney World. Oh look honey, there's some happy jewish settlers working busily in their kibbutz. And over here, the Dome of the Rock. Here was a coffee shop blown to bits by a terrorist, let us bow our heads in a moment of silence for the lost innocents. There's some IDF soldiers at work protecting Israel's right to exist! And around the corner, the Wailing Wall, where jews of every kind come to commune with a wall. Here's a bombed out bus-another 23 killed by Hamas terrorists. Shall we stop and have some matzo soup and bagels with lox? Let's get some crafts from the jewish craftsmen.

What they won't see is the open air prison that is the Gaza Strip. The militarized and heavily patrolled West Bank. The numerous checkpoints clogged with Palestinians trying to get home or go to some slave job in Haifa. Road blocks, tanks, bunkers all over the place. Armed soldiers harassing Pal kids. The numerous Israeli dungeons stuffed to overflowing with young Palestinians locked up on some pretense. Bulldozed hilltop olive groves for jewish "settlements". The enormous wall of separation snaking its way through the countryside to keep the ugly little peasants away from the jews all high and mighty on American dollars and other foreign aid from the shoah business.

The congress cretins won't see any of the ugly underbelly of Israel and its horrifying and inhumane treatment of the native Palestinians, oh no. Just the shiny plastic facade. Like a rotten oasis shimmering in the desert; don't look too closely.

Let us give thanks for Israel. So many lost lives, so much wasted money and ruined prestige.

Israel, We Bless Thee

What they ought to do, is send them to Iraq, and let them answer to the kids with no arms or legs.