According to Salon, “on Tuesday, [AIPAC -- the main component of the Israel Lobby] deployed its army of lobbyists to push for new sanctions against Iran, which are contained in a new bill called the Iran Counter-Proliferation Act, introduced by Democrat Tom Lantos and Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the ranking members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs”.
The name of this duo appears to be behind every hard line policy that the congress has adopted towards the Middle East recently. Its about time we introduced them to the world.
Tom Lantos Tom Lantos’ warmongering record goes back to the ‘91 Gulf War when he played a key role in selling it through a staged hearing of the Human Rights Caucus (HRC) – a front for Hill and Knowlton, the PR firm the Kuwaiti government had hired – where a girl named Nayirah gave false testimony about Iraqi soldiers removing Kuwaiti babies from incubators and throwing them on the floor. This story was subsequently picked up by Amnesty Lantos was also an enthusiastic supporter of Operation Defensive Shield, Sharon’s war of terror on the Palestinians. According to one analyst, “Lantos isn’t just a Democrat who voted for the Iraq war, he was one of its co-authors…Lantos has never met a war he didn’t like. His unblinking defense of Israeli policy gives him tunnel vision with the rest of the Middle East.” Already in 2006 he was gunning for war; he wrote an article “Now or Never to Prevent a Nuclear-Armed Iran.” Lantos was also a prominent supporter of the School of Americas, where Latin America’s military dictators and would-be torturers were trained. Lantos played a key role in building Democratic support for the Patriot Act. According to the Jeruslame Post, he represents Israel in countries with which it has no diplomatic relations.
Presently, he is one of Hillary Clinton’s prominent supporters. While he derives some of his prestige from being a holocaust survivors, according to Jeffrey Blankfort, “His ‘history’ as a holocaust survivor has evolved over the years and it is only in recent years that he has claimed to have been a leader of the anti-Nazi resistance in Hungary which conflicts with his earlier story that he was give a Swedish passport and a safe place to live by Raoul Wallenberg”.
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[1] Regarding the figure of Jewish refugees adduced in the bill, Jeffrey Blankfort writes:This number keeps creeping up and is based on the usual Zionist distortions of history. There was never any mass exodus and Jews, in fact, have remained in every one of those countries except Libya which saw its last Jews leave after the 1967 war. In fact, the Zionists entreated the Jews from these countries to emigrate so as to provide a source of cheap labor. Planes were sent by Israel to both Iraq and Yemen to pick up new immigrants. Moreover, to encourage Iraqi Jews to leave, a Jewish Agency agent exploded a bomb in a Baghdad synagogue. In 1970, I visited a Jewish community of silversmiths in Beni-Yeni in the mountains of Algeria when Zionists in this country were saying that all the Jews had been kicked out of that country years earlier and they were doing very well. So much for the truth.
What is of further interest about this subject was that, with one notable exception, it was never raised by Zionists over the years since getting Jews to leave Arab countries and emigrate to Israel was their goal. It was only raised when Palestinians began demanding the right of Palestinians actually forced to leave Israel in 1948 to return to their homeland. The notable exception before that was the late unlamented racist rabbi Meir Kahane who described the situation as “an exchange of populations.” As for the right of return of Arab Jews to their respective homeland, I support that, as well. http://fanonite.org/2007/03/17/meet-the-fckers/
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As Israeli policy makers clearly embrace totalitarian policies, engaging and justifying international assassination of adversaries and the collective punishment of over 1.4 million civilians in Gaza, their political, academic and journalistic apologists rely on unadulterated vituperation and paranoid screeds against Israel’s critics in the US. The now deceased super-Zionist Congress-person Tom Lantos (Democrat California), accused ex-President Carter of being filled with ‘venom’ for comparing the oppression of the Palestinians to South African Apartheid. Zionist zealot, Eugene Kontorovich, Professor of Law [sic] at Northwestern University, claims that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to Israel’s violent seizure and settlement of Palestinian lands (Daily Alert February 15, 2008). Alex Safian ‘refutes’ Professors Walt and Mearsheimer’s classic study of the Israel Lobby in the United States as ‘a fraud’. Israeli Ambassador to Canada, Alan Baker, refers to Israel’s privileging of Jews over Palestinians in the Occupied Territories as ‘the poisonous myth of Israel’s Apartheid’ (National Post-Canada cited in the Daily Alert February 15, 2008).
http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/02/the-israeli-agenda-and-the-scorecard-of-the-zionist-power-configuration-for-2008/
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Lantos' 'warmongering record' goes back much further than 1991.
Posted by: ce399 | 23 November 2009 at 13:38