U.S. To Threaten Iraq With Aid Cuts Unless It Recognizes Israel
http://www.forward.com/articles/13571/
Thu. Jun 12, 2008
Washington - To the many challenges facing the fledgling Iraqi government, Congress may soon add this: Recognize the State of Israel and establish diplomatic ties with Jerusalem, or else risk losing some of the billions in aid that Baghdad receives from the United States.
A nonbinding resolution demanding Iraqi recognition of Israel was introduced June 5 in the House of Representatives and has already gained the support of more than 60 congressmen, including several leaders of the Foreign Relations Committee.
The resolution puts Congress far out in front of the Israeli government and the White House, both of which to date have refrained from raising the issue. An Israeli source said that while Jerusalem expects every United Nations member state to recognize Israel’s right to exist and would like to have full diplomatic ties with all Arab states, the issue of Iraq “was not on the agenda” at present.
Congressional involvement in establishing Iraqi-Israeli ties came about in large part through serendipity. Rep. Alcee Hastings, a Florida Democrat and a strong supporter of Israel, joined House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on a visit last month to mark the country’s 60th anniversary. The congressional group left Israel for a day trip to Iraq, at the end of which it returned to Tel Aviv from Baghdad.
“As we got on the C-130 taking us back, we were advised we’d need to land in Amman, Jordan, touch down and then take off again to Israel,” Hastings told the Forward after returning to Washington.
The reason for the brief landing was diplomatic: Iraq, like most other Arab countries, does not allow direct flights to Israel.
“This offended me deeply,” Hastings said, adding that he had encountered a similar problem in the past, when traveling to Libya from Israel.
Upon returning to the United States, the Florida congressman drafted a resolution calling on Iraq to change its stance toward Israel, starting with official recognition of the Jewish state.
“Although the United States has provided Iraq with almost $50 billion in security and economic assistance to date, none of which has been repaid, the government of Iraq refuses to recognize the existence of Israel, the most reliable ally of the United States in the Middle East region,” the introduced resolution states. The resolution also calls on the White House to “use its influence to persuade Iraq and other countries with which the United States has diplomatic relations to recognize the right of Israel to exist and to establish diplomatic relations with Israel.”
Those racist lying zoos need their forked tongues cut out.
U.S.'s strongarming of post-Saddam Iraq to recognize Israel is not unexpected. What Israel wants, Israel gets through siccing Uncle Sam as the frothing, intimidatingly aggressive pitbull.
It's about geopolitical strategy to control Iraq's body politic, essentially telling it to sacrifice independence and sovereignty in order to receive generous foreign aid (after U.S. wrought havoc in destruction of Iraqi rights to life, morale, instrastructure and economy after the illegal invasion), in order to contain ferociously anti-Zionist Iran.
Iraq politicians should tell U.S. to "go fuck yourself" and flat-out refuse to recognize Israel, even under the pressure.
The fact it is U.S. government that insist Iraq must recognize Israel -- one of the primary motives to invade Iraq for Israel's 'security' -- is treasonously obscene. Fuck Dr. Rice and Department of State.
If Rep. Hastings represented the people of America, which is his JOB TO DO by way of the people, He would not have lost a second of his life worrying about an inconsequential thing as having to touch down in an Arab country on the way to Israel. Besides, what could Bush/Cheney do to Iraq that already hasn't been done? We the people need politicians that put Americans first, and the problems encountered at home, rather than the Israelis.
Oh, boo-hoo - the bitch is offended that she couldn't fly non-stop to her beloved hell-hole, the criminal headquarters for the international network of zionists, so she tries to ram another pro-israel bill down American throats.
Unbelievable gall.
The only 'bill' she deserves is one from American tax-payers to pay for her one way tkt to israhell for treason.
Unfuckingbelievable.
Five years, over a million Iraqi lives lost, tens of millions of lives destroyed, and an ancient civilization obliterated, and this fucker has the audacity to note that the phoney fucking dollars the US "issues" from the pits of hell have "not been repaid."
I tell ya - I don't know what's worse, watching these fuckers destroy the world or listening to them whine about our ingratitude for it.
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"Money" has no value - people do.
just realized the bitch is a bastard...lol.
Pardon the vernacular, all.
I'm a bit testy these days. Short fuse.
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..no need to apologize, there really are no appropriately strong words to describe this utter hypocrisy and savage treatment of human beings.
or a he doesn't matter; both genders vie with each other to equally bend over for Israel.
In fact it would be better if Congresspersons and Senators were all women, as that way they would have an extra orifice to offer to double Israel's pleasure.
RP would, of course, be the honourable exception.
What Nouri al Malaki should say is that, yes, we will recognise Israel provided we get war reparations from Israel for the next several thousand years, being the age of our civilization, with its history and artifacts Israel has destroyed using bovine Americans to do it who still know not what they have done.
The US moans about chickenfeed $50 billion not repaid but have no problem in destroying their own country to the extent of in excess of $2 trillion to bring Iraq to the position of where they need to borrow this chicken feed !!
All this is just a distilled form of chutzpah - the very best they have - calculated to enrage to apoplexy the goyim who see that these same mass murdering fucks orchestrate through third parties the utter destruction of whomever they will, and then turn around and sulk, again thru third parties - the quintessential stroke here, at the insensitivity of the utterly destroyed nation in being tardy in according diplomatic recognition to the hidden hand behind the destruction !