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Re "Loans" To Israel: They're Never Paid Back |
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by Joe
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14 Dec 2002
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Letter re "loans" to Israel. In a "nut shell" they're never paid back. |
Letter: U.S. loans to Israel
The Washington Times
30 November 2002
The article "Israel seeks military aid increase" (Nation,
Wednesday), which tells of an Israeli request for loans and grants
totaling $14 billion, mentions that Israel never has defaulted on a
loan. Friends of Israel never tire of saying that Israel has never
defaulted on repayment of a U.S. government loan, but it would be
equally accurate to say Israel has never been required to repay a
U.S. government loan. The truth is complex, and designed to be so by
those who seek to conceal it from the U.S. taxpayer. Most U.S. loans
to Israel are forgiven, and many were made with the explicit
understanding that they would be forgiven before Israel was required
to repay them. By disguising as loans what in fact were grants,
cooperating members of Congress effectively exempted Israel from the
U.S. oversight that would have accompanied the loans. Initially,
Israel was expected to pay the interest and eventually begin
repaying the principal on loans. But the so-called Cranston
Amendment, which has been attached by Congress to every foreign-aid
appropriation since 1983, provides that economic aid to Israel will
never dip below the amount Israel is required to pay on its
outstanding loans. In short, whether U.S. aid is extended as grants
or loans to Israel, it never returns to the U.S. Treasury. The total
since 1949 exceeds $84 billion. Saying that Israel never has
defaulted on a loan is a partial truth, but part of it is quietly
suppressed. |
See also:
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=222990&group=webcast
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The Racist Irony Of Zionism |
by Joseph Anderson
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14 Dec 2002
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Zionists who accuse others--the opponents of the racist ideology of
Zionism--of being anti-Semitic are truly being ironic.
Does anyone see the raw *IRONY* of *ZIONIST* Jews accusing others of being
anti-Semitic!!!?
Zionism--a *racist* ideology that that pursues an *exclusively* (or *exclusionary*),
politically defined state of legalized Jewish-supremacy. (Israeli 'Jim Crow' or Israeli
apartheid.)
Zionism--an ideology that claims that European Zionist Jews have a *superior* right to the
land in Palestine. This, in order to impose an unwanted racist state on the heads of the
indigenous people. It therefore removes, originally through systematic Zionist terrorism,
military force or carefully contrived laws, anyone who is not Jewish. Zionism oppresses
indigenous people who did European Zionists no wrong and who, unlike European
Christians, practiced multicultural religious acceptance! (Certain Arab countries expelled
some Jews only after Zionists started terrorizing and displacing Palestinian Arabs without
Western objection. Zionist terrorists, themselves, often 'expelled' Jews from Arab countries
by planting bombs, blamed on Arabs, in Jewish neighborhoods.)
There was no call for such a Jewish-supremacist state from the few indigenous Jews living in
Palestine. In fact, the European Zionist Jews *hated*, as inferior, the few indigenous
'swarthy' Middle Eastern Jews in Palestine. By far, most Middle Eastern Jews peacefully
lived in Iraq in the early 1900's: some quarter-million.
Zionism--a state where the non-Jewish indigenous people (Muslims, Christians, and others)
were/are brutally reduced to worse than second-class citizens, forced into apartheid-style
'bantustans,' massacred, killed, or expelled. And using a 5,000-yr-old militant *Jewish
religious fundamentalist* argument that "God" promised Palestine to the Jews, or an ancient
Jewish presence 'justification' argument, that is literally worse than medieval!
Zionism--an ideology even rejected by numerous Jewish Holocaust survivors and Jewish
Nazi resistance fighters or their surviving families, let alone many other Jews (who are often
intimidated or silenced by the economic and physical threats of Zionist Jews).
Zionism--an ideology that even sends death threats to dissenting Jews (hey, is *that*
anti-Semitic?) like those to Berkeley Rabbi Michael Lerner--himself 'a liberal Zionist'. (A
'liberal Zionist' is like a 'liberal' pro-apartheid white Afrikaner who merely wants to reduce
the worst, most barbaric or unseemly, aspects of oppression).
Zionism--whose many parallels with the practices of Nazism are intellectually and morally
inescapable: "It would be my greatest sadness to see Jews do to [Palestinian] Arabs much of
what Nazis did to Jews"--Albert Einstein.
How could a people--Jews--who have had their land and homes taken away from them,
who have been dispossessed and displaced so often in history, *ever* go take away the land
and homes of, or dispossess and mass displace, another people? The irony and tragedy is
Shakespearean.
To say that those who oppose the *RACIST* ideology of Zionism--and our country's
*huge* funding of it--are anti-Semitic(!) is indeed *IRONIC*--and an old, standard, smear
tactic: it's wearing thin.
As Gandhi said about the Zionist treatment of Arabs in Palestine: "What is going on in
Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct." |
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More Examples Of Crypto-Fascism On IMC |
by ML
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15 Dec 2002
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http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=223088&group=webcast
These low-brows keep trying to foist one over on IMC by pretending to oppose what they keep reposting. |
