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AIPAC Lobbying Strategy Goes Global
Entire Countries, NOT Just Members of US Congress, Now Feel the Jack Boot of Israeli Pressure
Wayne Madsen Report
Content with its near total control of the U.S. Congress and U.S. Middle East policy, as witnessed by the rapturous welcome Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu recently received from a joint session of Congress, the Israel Lobby is extending its tentacles globally in order to ensure that a Palestinian strategy to obtain recognition from the UN General Assembly in September fails to get off the ground.
Jewish groups in the United States and Jewish politicians around the world are joining the Netanyahu government in offering “carrots and sticks” to countries around the world in a campaign designed to lure votes in the General Assembly away from Palestine in a vote on UN recognition of independence for the disputed territories. WMR previously reported that the Obama administration was also pressuring members of the UN General Assembly not to vote for Palestine independence.
On May 25, WMR reported: “. . . the United States will use every pressure point to ensure that the UN General Assembly does not make an end run around a U.S. veto in the UN Security Council of a resolution to grant Palestine UN recognition within 1967 borders. A Cold War-era provision known as “Uniting for Peace,” or Resolution 377, can be used to circumvent a U.S. veto in the Security Council to bring the cause of Palestine recognition to the General Assembly, where the vote of the United States is the same as tiny Nauru in the Pacific. If two-thirds of the General Assembly vote for Palestine, the U.S. veto in the Security Council is trumped. The General Assembly can also recommend the imposing of sanctions on Israel for violating the sovereignty of an independent Palestine, a scenario that the Obama administration, Israel, and AIPAC will do everything in their power to prevent.”
James Steinberg (Left) and Susan Rice
UN and Middle East sources have told WMR that Israeli government representatives are now fanning out across the world, in some cases with bags of cash, in an effort to bribe small nations into voting against a Palestine recognition resolution in the General Assembly. On May 25, WMR reported:
“WMR has learned that Netanyahu and his aides, working with State Department officials like Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, Susan Rice, [US Mission to UN Economic Counselor Courtney] Nemroff, and others, have been coming up with “hit lists” of small and poor nations to be bullied into voting against or abstaining on the Palestine Uniting for Peace resolution. Israeli officials have recently visited small south Pacific nations like Tonga to convince them to vote no on Uniting for Peace for Palestine.”
The United States is expected to use its veto in the Security Council to block Palestine’s membership application. However, if 129 members of the 193-member General Assembly, two-thirds of the Assembly that is expected to add South Sudan as its 193rd member, vote for Palestine’s recognition, the cause for membership will be greatly enhanced and the United States will stand alone as the one country that blocked UN membership for Palestine.
Bringing UN members into the Israeli orbit. Israel going for broke to prevent UN recognition of Palestine.
– WMR has now learned that Israeli officials turned up in Tonga with cash bribes for Tongan officials in order to buy the small island nation’s vote.In April, the Israeli Knesset speaker, Reuven Rivlin, visited Tonga in Israel’s first effort to sway the country’s vote. Last year, Tonga sent a high-level delegation to the first Arab League-Pacific Islands summit in Abu Dhabi.
Tonga is not the only small nation to be subjected to intense lobbying by Israel and leaders of World Jewry to oppose Palestine at the UN. Israel and its wealthy Jewish supporters around the world have promised some countries, all tourist destinations, that they can count on increased tourism and tourism infrastructure investment from Jewish interests if they vote against Palestine. Even Muslim tourist destinations have not been immune to this pressure. Ahmed Naseem, the Foreign Minister of Maldives, a predominantly Muslim island nation in the Indian Ocean, recently concluded a visit to Israel where he met with President Shimon Peres and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. Naseem was reminded that a no vote or abstention on Palestine at the UN could mean more Israeli tourists for Maldives, who do not require a visa to visit the country. Israel and Maldives restored diplomatic relations in 2009.
– In February, East Timor’s President, Jose Ramos-Horta, visited Jerusalem and was offered Israeli security and agricultural assistance in return for a no vote or abstention on Palestine.
– Pressure has also been applied to Comoros, a primarily Muslim island nation in the Indian Ocean that does not recognize Israel but maintains trade relations with Tel Aviv, and Mauritius, another country that could benefit from increased Israeli and Jewish tourism.
– In addition to Israeli government officials, representatives of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and American Jewish Committee have applied lobbying pressure on the governments of other destinations for American Jewish tourists, including Bahamas, Barbados, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia, Bhutan, St. Kitts-Nevis, Dominica, Seychelles, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, and Samoa. Israeli and U.S. pressure have also been brought to bear on five Pacific island nations that have voted for Israel in the past — Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Marshall Islands, and Nauru.
– In countries like Costa Rica and Panama, Israel is relying on Jewish leaders like Costa Rican Vice President Luis Lieberman and Panama Tourism Minister Solomon Shamah, recently implicated in leaked US State Department cables in drug smuggling, to ensure that the two nations remain in Israel’s camp. With Colombia already in Israel’s court, there will be an attempt to peel away Latin American nations that previously recognized Palestine, including Chile, Guyana, and Suriname, to either vote no on Palestine or abstain.
– Israel is also concentrating its efforts on three Southeast Asian nations that have not recognized Palestine as independent. Israeli promises of military and intelligence assistance are being used to ensure a no vote or abstention by Myanmar and military aid agreements are being dangled in front of Singapore and Thailand. Israeli [backed by U.S. and Canadian] aid packages are also being used to lobby Sri Lanka, Kenya, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia, Angola, Central African Republic, Nepal, Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Burundi, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mongolia, Philippines, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Madagascar, Malawi, DR Congo, Republic of Congo, Sao Tome and Principe, Niger, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania, Djibouti, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, and the expected 193rd UN member, South Sudan.
– There is even talk of adding a 194th UN member should the vote narrowly go in Palestine’s favor. The secessionist Republic of Somaliland, which has reportedly maintained low-level relations with Israel, may be sponsored for membership as a vote against or abstaining on Palestine. Israel’s allies in Africa, Ethiopia and Kenya, are currently prepared to propose Somaliland for membership if its vote is needed.
– Israeli diplomats and influential Jewish surrogates for the Jewish states are also applying a full court press on small European nations, including Iceland, Luxembourg, Malta, Cyprus, Slovenia, Montenegro, Estonia, Armenia, Macedonia, and even smaller Monaco, Andorra, Liechtenstein, and San Marino.
Ban Ki-moon (right) with Joseph Deiss
Israeli and U.S. strategy is that if enough nations can be cajoled or enticed to vote against the Palestine recognition resolution in the UN General Assembly, it will not be brought up again. Privately, WMR has been told by UN sources that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and General Assembly President Joseph Deiss of Switzerland, have promised the U.S., Israel, and other Israeli allies to use any and all procedural rules to scuttle Palestine’s bid for UN membership.
Deiss recently tipped his hand by stating publicly that there was no way Palestine could be admitted to UN membership if the U.S. wielded its veto in the Security Council.
Source: Wayne Madsen Report
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Thanks Wayne, always appreciate your ‘inside viewpoint’ on matters of state. Israel is in big trouble. The government of Israel will stop at nothing to eliminate the Palestinians and steal what is left of Palestine. Bribery and Murder is the ‘modus operandi’ for the Israeli leaders. The demolition of the WTC towers on 911 and other false flag attacks, proves that they will stop at nothing to achieve their ends. The American Congress is now run by AIPAC and Netanyahu. The groveling of our congress during his address was embarrassing. Doug
Mu guess is Israel won’t rely just and financial incentives. Perhaps government leaders around the world will be treated to Israeli Swallows and Ravens. The hotel fun will be video taped for blackmail purposes.
The lashing out of a dog that knows it is dying.
Come on rich Gulf state arabs…UAE, Quatar, Bahrain, etc PROVE you’re not the lickspittle of the Judeo-Masonic Anglo-American Zionist cabal…show us the Euros…spread it around. Mr. Niceguy, may this rabid dog die soon! Before they launch another 9-11 type false-flag,
That’s exactly right Bill. And the Arab/Muslim lobby does spend its money on this cause and always has. Abu Mazen and his colleagues apply tremendous resources lobbying states all over the world to support them.
If only the Arabs/Muslims exerted half the effort to make peace.
But, of course, expansionsist, theocratic, apartheid Israel doesn’t want peace….they want to slowly strangle the Palestinians to death…and they are.
Don’t mean to over comment, but…. Paul you are obviously a fool. Israel in it’s entirety is stolen Palestinian land. Look at the figures from the turn of the century, only a sprinkling of jews in an Arab land. A two state solution along 67 lines is a gift the Arabs are trying to give to Israel because the fact of the matter is that Israel stole every inch of land it claims to own. God didn’t give Jews the land, the diaspora is a lie, the holocaust a fantasy, and world Jewry will answer for their crimes: 9/11, 7/7, USs liberty, nakba, sabra and shatila, Mavi marmara, the holodomer, not to mention: white slavery rings, organ theft, international banking, mass media, communism, nazism, fomentng of racial hatred among non-jews, and the litany of evil that trails from you people like water off a fish. I will see an end to it all in my life, and I will smile.
You should take a leaf out of your own book and learn the actual meanings of words and not their antonyms. Troll.
I think Israel will simply be out-bred. Soon arabs will be the majority because rich western Jews don’t want to move to a country where they may have to work for a living instead of feeding off of goyim. Vampires can’t live off of vampires, and for this reason alone Israel is, among other things, an extremely temporary blight on mankind’s somewhat shaky record. Also, everyone should check out mr. Barrett’s interview with Chris bollyn last Friday, two hours of actual info, not jones style rants. W w w . T r u t h j i h a d . B l o g s p o t . C o m. Hope everyones having a good day, peace.
Shows just how corrupt all politicians are. Greed will be the death of them all.
The place that by rights & in definace of UN admission conditions shouldnt even be in the UN proving what a farce not only it is but the UN is as well by dangling carrots so the legit state cannot get admitted. Truly a synagogue to satan in all regards.
As Israel/AIPAC lobby groups go around the world lobbying countries not to recognise a Palestinian state, they are also telling the world that they do not support a two state solution or the peace process. This is probably what the world really needs to know, especially countries in the Middle East.
Also, wouldn’t it be great if Israel/AIPAC spent all of that money on bribes and then those countries voted for a Palestinian state at the UN regardless :-0
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Yes it would Louise…take the money fm the bastards then vote for the poor Palestinians…Lie right to the Pharisees’ faces-just like they do to us in regards to 9-11, WMD, the holohoax…
Loise, unfortunately, that’s what happened to Qaddafi. Israel installed him and bribed him for 40 years, but the minute he got out of line, they decided to teach him a lesson. Much like the example Israel made of the Kennedys, only slower. And not that I trust Obama further than I can throw the Lincoln Monument, but Obama knows full well that his options are to feed the monster or be assassinated.
The lads from Israel did a solid for their man in Ottawa Canada yesterday they did a WikiLeak release about the Canadian Liberal party leaking information to the U.S. Embassy.
Background:
Their man in Ottawa is the newly re elected Conservative/Republican/Reform/Corporate Whore Prime Minister Stephen Harper who has gone as far to say a attack on Israel is a attack on Canada. After everyone jumped all over Harper I don’t think he will shoot his Zionist mouth off again. Our prime Minister disappears on Jewish holidays even though he states he’s not Jewish???
The WikiLeaks leak was to show the Liberals in a bad light (they don’t need any help on that front) and it is the Liberals who leak information to the Yanks not the Neo-Cons, Harper has vowed to destroy the Liberal party and the leaks are just another nail in the Liberal coffin.
Here’s a cache link from Google News (CFR) concerning WikiLeaks Liberal Party Canada http://news.google.ca/news/more?pz=1&cf=all&ned=ca&ncl=dnjQ1MB-w2jhuDMkIc3k7q_fjBjGM
Seems as though more & more Americans are waking up and voicing their opposition to being manipulated by the Israelis. All things considered, I wonder just how many Veterans today realize that they have fought not to defend this homeland, but to defend the profits of the military/industrial complex and also to perpetrate the myth of the only democracy in the whole of the M.E.? Oh, and who runs Wall Street?
Very likely true since it is their Modus Operandi, however it is on a scale that can be exposed and controlled.
Well informed people and those familiar with the consequences must surely realize this is not just another “small sacrifice for little Israel” They may get Tonga and small dependent nations BUT, a serious look at what is happening in the Arab world should convince serious people the game is up, the blood will flow and our brainwashed, treacherous disloyal Congress may initiate a resistance to fight another war for Israel that will wash the entire Congressional Cabal clear out-of Congress. So, let us answer what will happen to those bought nations if they go that way. They are entitled to the facts and the truth of the
consequences before casting a negative vote.In a Free democratic country we can prepare to resists not just whimper.
AIPAC does NOT lobby the U.S. Congress. It buys its members with large election campaign contributions. That open bribery should be illegal, as should the system in the U.S. of allowing private donors for election campaigns. That results in our being a sickening and sickened plutocracy that does the will of the wealthy. They all connive, especially Israel. – George Beres
Of course George, of course. Think you should determine what AIPAC actually is and does before stating ridiculous and frivolous claims.
Your indignation and revulsion would be better placed with the Arab lobby which spends millions and millions of dollars lobbying congress, influencing universities on all things Arab – including oil policy – and is financed by Arab states.
One wonders why these fat Ass Saudi rulers with all that money could not buy a piece of the Congress? unless they too are buying it for Israel.
2) “Whenever an American or a Filipino fell at Bataan or
Corregidor or at any other of the now historic spots where
MacArthur’s men put up their remarkable fight, their survivors
could have said with truth: ‘The real reason that boy went to
his death, was because Hitler’s anti-semitic movement succeeded
in Germany.’” (The American Hebrew, July 24, 1942).
3). “Lenin had taken part in Jewish student meetings in
Switzerland thirty-five years before.” (Dr. Chaim Weizmann, in
The London Jewish Chronicle, December 16, 1932)
“Lenin was born on April 10, 1870 in the vicinity of
Odessa, South of Russia, as a son of Ilko Sroul Goldmann, a
German Jew, and Sofie Goldmann, a German Jewess. Lenin was
circumcised as Hiam Goldmann.” (Common Sense, April 1, 1963)
8). “Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German
is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or the
aged! Kill every German wipe them out!” (Llya Ehrenburg,
Glaser, p. 111).
9). “Germany is the enemy of Judaism and must be pursued
with deadly hatred. The goal of Judaism of today is: a
merciless campaign against all German peoples and the complete
destruction of the nation. We demand a complete blockade of
trade, the importation of raw materials stopped, and
retaliation towards every German, woman and child.” (Jewish
professor A. Kulischer, October, 1937)
10). “The millions of Jews who live in America, England and
France, North and South Africa, and, not to forget those in
Palestine, are determined to bring the war of annihilation
against Germany to its final end.” (The Jewish newspaper,
Central Blad Voor Israeliten in Nederland, September 13, 1939)
11). “Our fight against Germany must be carried to the
limit of what is possible. Israel has been attacked. Let us,
therefore, defend Israel! Against the awakened Germany, we put
an awakened Israel. And the world will defend us.” (Jewish
author Pierre Creange in his book Epitres aux Juifs, 1938)
12) “Judea declares War on Germany.” (Daily Express, March
24, 1934)
13). “Germany must be turned into a waste land, as happened
there during the 30year War.” (Das MorgenthauTagebuch, The
Morgenthau Dairy, p. 11).
14). “The fight against Germany has now been waged for
months by every Jewish community, on every conference, in all
labor unions and by every single Jew in the world. There are
reasons for the assumption that our share in this fight is of
general importance. We shall start a spiritual and material war
of the whole world against Germany. Germany is striving to
become once again a great nation, and to recover her lost
territories as well as her colonies. But our Jewish interests
call for the complete destruction of Germany…” (Valadimir
Jabotinsky, in Mascha Rjetsch, January, 1934)
“…Jabotinsky insisted that all energies be expended
to force the Congress to join the boycott movement. Nothing
less than a ‘merciless fight’ would be acceptable, cried
Jabotinsky. ‘The present Congress is duty bound to put the
Jewish problem in Germany before the entire world…(We [Jews]
must) destroy, destroy, destroy them, not only with the boycott,
but politically, supporting all existing forces against them to
isolate Germany from the civilized world…our enemy [Germany]
must be destroyed.” (Speech by Vladimir Jabotinsky, a Polish
Jews, on June 16, 1933)
20). “No gassing took place in any camp on Germany soil.”
(NaziHunter Simon Wisenthal, in his Books and Bookmen, p. 5)
“We became aware of the propaganda in your country
about alleged cruelties against the Jews in Germany. We
therefore consider it our duty, not only in our own interest as
German patriots, but also for the sake of truth, to comment on
these incidents. Mistreatment and excesses have indeed
occurred, and we are far from glossing these over. But this is
hardly avoidable in any kind of revolution. We attach great
significance to the fact that the authorities where it was at
all possible to interfere, have done so against outrages that
have come to our knowledge. In all cases, these deeds were
committed by irresponsible elements who kept in hiding. We know
that the government and all leading authorities most strongly
disapprove of the violations that occurred.
But we also feel that now is the time to move away from the
irresponsible agitation on the part of socalled Jewish
intellectuals living abroad. These men, most of whom never
considered themselves German nationals, but pretended to be
champions for those of their own faith, abandoned them at a
critical time and fled the country. They lost, therefore, the
right to speak out on GermanJewish affairs. The accusations
which they are hurling from their safe hidingplaces, are
injurious to German and German Jews; their reports are vastly
exaggerated. We ask the U.S. Embassy to forward this letter to
the U.S. without delay, and we are accepting full
responsibility for its content. Since we know that a largescale
propaganda campaign is to be launched next Monday, we would
appreciate if the American public be informed of this letter by
that date [Of course we know that the Jewish owned American News
Media did not so inform the American Public just another of
the traitorous actions which they have repeated time after time
over the years]…The atrocity propaganda is lying. The
Originators are politically and economically motivated. The
same Jewish writers who allow themselves to be misused for this
purpose, used to scoff at us veterans in earlier years.”
(Feuerzeichen, Ingid Weckert, Tubingen 1981, p. 5254, with
reference to Nation Europa 10/1962 p. 7f)
“I fear the Jewish banks with their craftiness and
tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of
America. And use it to systematically corrupt modern
civilization. The Jews will not hesitate to plunge the whole of
Christendom into wars and chaos that the earth should become
their inheritance.” (Bismarck)
34). “We shall drive the Christians into war by exploiting
their national vanity and stupidity. They will then massacre
each other, thus giving room for our own people.” (Rabbi
Reichorn, in Le Contemporain, July 1st, 1880)
35). “World War II was a Zionist plot to make way for the
foundation of the Jewish State in Palestine.” (Joseph Burg, an
antiZionist Jew).
36). “Hitler will have no war, but he will be forced into
it, not this year but later…” (The Jewish Emil Ludwig, Les
Annales, June, 1934)
37). “Even if we Jews are not bodily with you in the
trenches, we are nevertheless morally with you. This is OUR
WAR, and you are fighting it for us.” (Les Nouvelles
Litteraires, February 10, 1940).