L.B.J. and Israel
Interesting piece on L.B.J. found at the pro-Zionist JewishPress.Com, viewed in context with the J.F.K. assassination, the Israeli nuclear program, and the attack on the USS Liberty, which Johnson presided over.
Excerpt:
The Kennedy-Johnson Democratic presidential ticket of 1960 was purely a marriage of convenience. Merely disliked by President Kennedy, Johnson was despised by the president's brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy. Convinced of their cultural superiority, the Ivy League types in the Kennedy inner circle laughed at everything from Johnson's Texas accent to the schools he'd attended to his wheeler-dealer persona - and thought it just terribly gauche and lowbrow that his wife, born Claudia Alta Taylor, was known to one and all as Lady Bird. Behind the condescension, however, was a very real sense of insecurity. The Kennedy brothers feared Johnson for his political acumen and his intimate relationship with Washington's movers and shakers, particularly FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, who knew all the secrets and scandals that lurked beneath the capital's pristine façade, including the very dark side of John Kennedy that would remain hidden from the public for years after Kennedy's death. In its Middle East policy the Kennedy administration made little effort to change the evenhanded approach pursued by its predecessors. As part of an all-out effort to win the affections of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Kennedy pushed hard for large increases in aid to Egypt and, in early 1962, following an Israeli retaliatory strike in Syria, instructed his UN ambassador to vote to condemn Israel in the Security Council. Kennedy also constantly prodded Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion on the issue of Arab refugees - Secretary of State Dean Rusk wanted Israel to agree to take back at least 10 percent of the total number of Arabs who had left Israel since 1948 - and even more so on Israel's nuclear ambitions. The true scope of Israel's nuclear program was far greater than Ben-Gurion was prepared to let on, and the Israeli government had its hands full as it tried to allay the Kennedy administration's growing unease. When, after much wrangling and delay, the White House finally agreed to sell anti-aircraft missiles to Israel - the first arms deal between the two countries - one of the conditions the U.S. insisted on was that it be allowed to conduct a close inspection of Israel's nuclear facility at Dimona. The Israeli government finally acquiesced, but inspection of the actual plant was avoided by an elaborate - and costly - sleight of hand. As Israeli journalists Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman describe it, "False walls were erected, doorways and elevators hidden, and dummy installations were built to show the Americans, who found no evidence of the weapons program secreted underground." Once the trauma of Kennedy's assassination in November 1963 began to wear off and Johnson settled in as president, the relationship between the U.S. and Israel quickly soared to new heights. In The Bomb in the Basement, his history of Israel's procurement of nuclear weapons, Israeli author Michael Karpin writes that "as soon as [Johnson] entered the White House the pressure on Israel on the Dimona issue ceased." And while Kennedy's final budget, for fiscal year 1964, allocated $40 million in aid to Israel, Johnson's first budget, for fiscal year 1965, set aside $71 million - an extraordinary increase of 75 percent. The amount nearly doubled in 1966, to $130 million. Beyond the numbers, the precise nature and terms of the aid signaled a dramatic break with past American policy. Development loans and surplus food had constituted the extent of U.S. aid under Eisenhower and Kennedy, and the anti-aircraft missiles sold to Israel by the Kennedy administration required a cash payment. Johnson changed all that: Not only did he become the first American president to sell offensive weapons to Israel (the missiles from Kennedy were defensive), but from now on the Israelis would be permitted to buy American arms with American aid money, which meant no funds would have to leave Israel's hard-pressed government coffers. As a result of the new arrangement, the percentage of American aid to Israel earmarked for military expenditures rose dramatically, more than tripling between 1965 and 1967. By the middle of 1966, the Israelis were purchasing military hardware the type of which would have been unthinkable under prior administrations, including four-dozen Skyhawk bomber attack planes and more than 200 M-48 tanks (despite the objection of Pentagon officials, who told Johnson they'd prefer Israel buy its tanks from the British or the Germans). Meanwhile, responding to a large increase of Russian military aid to the radical regimes in Egypt, Syria and Iraq, the Johnson administration armed what at the time were regarded as the more conservative, anti-Soviet Arab states in the region: Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Lebanon, Morocco and Libya. Ironically, supplying arms to some Arab nations made it that much easier for Johnson to deal with those in the foreign policy and defense bureaucracies who objected to selling sophisticated weaponry to Israel. He would point out to them that he was simply maintaining the Arab-Israeli balance of power.
Full article here.
See also Lyndon Johnson Was First To Align U.S. Policy With Israel's Policies.
JFK instructed our UN ambassador to vote Aye in condemning Israel for one of its murderous moves in the ME?
That didn't set well with Zionists.
I still can't get the feeling out of my mind that Johnson was in cahoots with Israel in the murder of JFK.
Israel would murder JFK for Johnson, making LBJ prez and in return, Israel would see it's yearly welfare checks from the US increase and more offensive weapons in their arsenal.
And no more pesky questions about Dimona and the Israeli nuke program.
That's why when Israel attacked the Liberty, Johnson called off the fighter jets that would have helped protect the Liberty's crew.
He couldn't afford to "embarass" Israel, since Israel had him by the balls.
That's pretty much the way I see things too. There's plenty of evidence that suggests Johnson was involved in the JFK assassination, and the two main beneficiaries of his death were Johnson and the Zionist state.
As for the Liberty murders, it seems pretty obvious that Johnson was more than just a president taken by surprise. Phil Tourney writes:
Some people get touchy when you point out Johnson's role in the Liberty incident, like you're covering for the Zionists like the Bush-Cheney-did-911ers do, but facts are facts. The blame still lies squarely in the lap of the Zionist state, regardless of Johnson's role.
and the greedy bastard took the bait.
He could've said no, I am an American first and foremost, but he chose to show his true allegiance.
JFK was also saying that Israel was NOT going to acquire nules on his watch.
And he was right.