Ask It Basket. People always query me about how Israel literally gets away with murder, slaughtering Palestinians and assassinating others by the tens of thousands. With impunity. My usual response is that Zionists spend a lot of money and use their connections to bend the United States of America to their will. But I never have any specifics.
Well, here they are now!
Oh, Those Congressmen! According to the British newspaper, The Guardian, the average pro-Israel congressmen derives an average of $125,000 per election campaign. About 82% of the AMERICAN Congress supports Israel and its Zionist savagery. “…Those who took more money most often called for US military support and backed Israel’s response, even as Gaza’s civilian death toll mounted…”
Here are some of the Bribees:
· Chuck Schumer, U.S. Senator; Majority Leader (D-NY)--$546,000 (Total: $1.7 million)
· Shontel Brown (D-Ohio): $4.5 million
· Haley Stevens (D-Mich.): $5.4 million
· Glenn Ivey (D-Md.): $7.2 million
· Susan Collins, U.S. Senator (D-Maine): $826,000
And that’s only some of them. For a detailed list see: Pro-Israel Recipients • OpenSecrets
More Examination from The Guardian:
“The analysis of Congress members’ responses in this period found:
· 93% called for US military or financial support for Israel.
· 81% supported Israel’s response.
· 17% criticized Israel or called for a ceasefire…”
Joint Session of Congress
(There are 100 Senators and 435 Members of the House of Representatives comprising the American Congress.)
Continuing, The Guardian noted:
“…The analysis also highlights how most of Congress is in line with conservative pro-Israel positions – but not with those of the US public. While the Guardian found just 17% of Congress was critical of Israel or called for a ceasefire in the first six weeks of the war, US polls show up to 68% of Americans support a ceasefire…”
According to Al Jazeera, “...Only 32 percent of Americans approved of President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas situation…” The site also commented that the House of Representatives, the lower House, passed a resolution in December 2023 that “anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism” (no matter that Arabs are a Semitic people). It also condemned the phrase “From the River to the Sea”!
The Money Just Flows, Like Old Man River. The House of Representatives, from which all spending bills must originate, has passed a measure giving the Apartheid Entity $14.3 billion on top of the annual $3.8 billion given since Barack Obama was president.
Truthout remarked:
“[A]s Israel continues its relentless bombing of Palestinians, raising the death toll in Gaza to over 27,000 people, state and local treasuries across the United States are investing hundreds of millions in the state of Israel by purchasing Israeli bonds. Israel Bonds, also known as the Development Corporation for Israel, raised a record-setting $2 billion in bond sales in 2023, with $1 billion raised since October 7th, as Israel bombed hospitals, destroyed essential infrastructure for water, medicine, fuel, and electricity, and used starvation of civilians as a weapon of war...”
USAFacts remarked that the United States has given Israel, since its founding, $317.9 billion, making it the largest recipient of American aid since 1945.
How Much Largesse Did Invaded and Occupied Palestine Get? Not much. The Washington Post reported in May 2019 “…The World Bank shows that the per-capita [foreign aid from the U.S.] number for the Palestinians fluctuates from a low of $79 per capita in 1993 to a high of $764 in 2009. It averages out to $398 over nearly a quarter-century…”
Is there a poor country missing—one that begins with P???
Imagine Palestine, after the return of the 7 million exiles, getting one-quarter the funds transferred to its Zionist oppressor?
COMMENT. Is there any doubt why people believe that Zionism = Racism”? And that Congressmen have sold their allegiance to a foreign “country”?
J. Michael Springmann is an attorney, author, political commentator, and former diplomat, with postings to Germany, India, and Saudi Arabia. He previously authored, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider’s View, recounting how the U.S. created and used Islamic Terrorism. Additionally, he penned Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos? Merkel’s Migrant Bomb, an analysis of the alien wave sweeping the Continent. He currently practices law in the Washington D.C. Area. Internationally-recognized as a knowledgeable pundit, he is a frequent commentator on Arab, Iranian, and Russian news programs.
Blacklisted by the US news media, he is also on the Ukraine’s “Enemies List”, having questioned, inter alia, that country’s refusal to honor the Minsk Accords and for stating that its government is Nazified.