Versus the Power of the US "Jewish Lobby"

Anti-semitic attacks by Bush's friends and the US government? - But what about the "powerful US Jewish lobby" backing "total US support for Israel"?

As people read my writings, and learn about the anti-semitic attacks on me by Bush's friends and some Jew-hating US judges, I often get comments or questions along these lines -

"It's hard to believe the anti-semite angle given all the protection the US and Bush are known for giving Israel, and the power of the Jewish lobby in the United States - So how is it possible that you can be the victim of anti-semitic attacks, and be forced to leave the US and take refuge in Europe, when it seems like the Jewish lobby would have jumped in eagerly to protect you?"

Very sadly, it shows the power of propaganda, that this kind of question ends up being asked.

The reality - which Jews themselves know well - is that Jews are often afraid to help Jewish victims of government attacks, because Jews everywhere, even wealthy Jews in the US, tend to be very afraid of the world around them. Today in the US, as in much of history, Jews will cower behind the curtains of one house, when the authorities come to attack and destroy the Jews next door.

Moreover, some Jews will even rob and betray other Jews, as well as abandon them and refuse to help them. Every nation, society or tribe has its quislings, who are ready to betray their fellows. Jews are no different.

People speak of the power of the "Jewish lobby" to denote the political figures maintaining the connections between the US military-industrial complex and the Israeli government. There are indeed Jews who are prominent alongside Bush and other US politicians, there are Jews who work for the US government system, and other Jews who collaborate with it - just as many people of all backgrounds collaborate with the US regime.

But there are also Jews who really take the rebellious Jewish heritage seriously, Jews who dare to speak out, and such Jews can find themselves much hated by the US rulers, exactly because they can be effective voices against the fascism and denial of human rights in the US. Jews can be very powerful if they point out Nazi-like behaviour among the US ruling class. Such people of Jewish heritage, are the kind of Jews that the US would like to see silenced, marginalised, or banned, and if they don't keep quiet, even killed and exterminated.

There are already political Jews being murdered in US jail cells, people of Jewish heritage attacked by the US government (like myself) who can't get help from Jewish lawyers or organisations. And that is all hidden beneath the surface of stories about the "all-powerful Jewish lobby" and "military support for Israel".

Consider the theory of the "powerful Jewish lobby" as showing its strength in the US military backing of the government of Israel. This theory needs to be analysed - and actually, as will be shown below, this theory is rather a kind of reverse mirror of a more complex and more frightening truth.

But even if you take the "powerful Jewish lobby" theory at face value, you can see how the "powerful Jewish organisations" might want to still keep silent about the attack and killing of individual Jewish people, ESPECIALLY when it is the US government attacking a Jew.

Jews might well be afraid to damage that precious "military support for Israel". They may think it necessary to stay quiet about innocent Jews getting attacked or murdered by the US government, as a "necessary sacrifice" for the larger scheme of things.

And the whole prominent program of "US military support for Israel" is the perfect cover story - it actually makes the US an ideal place to attack and kill Jews, because "no one will believe it".

In today's world, as with any other victim, so long as the attack on a Jew is not trumpeted in the mass corporate media, on CNN or the BBC or by the "major" Jewish organisations, an attack on a Jew may well remain nearly anonymous. A Jew today can be murdered in near-silence, like so many other victims in today's tragic world.

I myself have heard from victims, such as family of a political Jew quietly killed in US jail cells. There is no "big media" telling their story, and so their stories remain, like much of the truth today, hidden from most of the world.

The "Jewish lobby" - different from the "Christian lobby", the "Saudi lobby" etc.?

Let's go back and look again at the basic question asked above -

"It's hard to believe the anti-semite angle given all the protection the US and Bush are known for giving Israel, and the power of the Jewish lobby in the United States - So how is it possible that you can be the victim of anti-semitic attacks, and be forced to leave the US and take refuge in Europe, when it seems like the Jewish lobby would have jumped in eagerly to protect you?"

As one reflects on this question, one realises it's actually a bit silly. The assumption behind this inquiry - an assumption that is itself the creation of anti-semitic propaganda - is the mistake of thinking of "the Jews" as some kind of monolithic bloc all together  - the Jews in Israel along with the Jews "running America", etc. Actually, Jews in Israel and in the US are not just very diverse, but extremely divided.

Jews are extremely contentious, and hardly united at all. Many Jews scorn the whole lot of Israeli politicians. Many Jews would like immediate, unrestricted peace negotiations, and quick comprehensive peace agreements, between Israel and the Palestinians and all neighbouring states.

Both around the world and inside Israel itself, there are a significant number of religious Jews who think the state of Israel should not even exist, unless the Messiah himself were to establish it. Despite the drumbeats of an upcoming Iran-Israel military conflict, there are tens of thousands of Jews content to live in Iran, and there are other Jews who travel to Tehran to express their compliments to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

It is important to digest all of this - the real diversity of the Jewish and Israeli peoples, versus the corporate media focus on the US-Israeli government powers.

The knee-jerk thinking, about the monolithic Jewish bloc, is really the end-product of all those anti-semitic stories of "rich Jews always working together and trying to take over the world". But in reality, Israel today has an enormous chunk of its population in poverty, a shameful gap between rich and poor - and there are many poor Jews in the US as well as around the planet.

Here's another way to look at the question we are analysing, about the "power of the Jewish lobby". Imagine the case of a US citizen of white Christian Protestant heritage, who is also a victim of US legal and political corruption, who has been attacked by the US government. Would anyone think of saying to this person:

"I really doubt your story of US legal corruption . . . After all, aren't those judges and lawyers and politicians you criticise, other American white Christians, just like your own heritage? Isn't the US government totally controlled by white Christians - like Bush and most US senators and judges? So how could they be attacking YOU?"

One of the "most powerful lobbies" in Washington is indeed the lobby of well-funded Christians - does that stop the US government from attacking people who take Christian principles seriously?

Has the "powerful Christian lobby" stopped the US government from allowing the attacks upon, and practical extermination of, Christian communities in Iraq? - The "Christian lobby" says very little about these events, and doesn't do much to help these Christian victims - and yet Washington is full of famous Christian preachers with lots of money, who are often at the White House or in Congress speaking directly with US leaders.

Another "powerful lobby" is that of Saudi Arabia, the country that is the very guardian of the central holy places of Islam, a lobby "extremely influential" in Washington, and very close to the Bushes - does that stop the US government from attacking and jailing Muslims without trial and taking all of their rights away, from making war on much of the Islamic world, and from bashing Muslims on a regular basis in US rhetoric?

One of the most powerful people in Washington under Bush, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, is from a Mexican family; he has been a friend and adviser to Bush for many years - Does that stop the US government from attacking and bashing Mexicans?

One of the most powerful people in the entire world is President Bush's Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, a black woman - Does that stop the US regime from destroying black communities and jailing more black people than any other nation in the world?

President Bush's friend Patricia Cornwell is a multi-millionaire lesbian who brings her lesbian girlfriends to party at President Bush's Kennebunkport estate, while giving Bush and various senators millions of dollars in gifts and campaign money. US Vice President Cheney's daughter is lesbian, and President Bush has often had a gay prostitute at the White House (Jeff Gannon - James Guckert), with Bush himself commonly thought to be a bi-sexual - Does that all stop the US government, or even the Bush crowd, from attacking and bashing gay people as part of their political programme?

So despite the "Jewish lobby" associated with the US defence industry and politicians, why is it somehow "surprising" that US officials would also attack Jews, as they also attack all of the above categories of people, too - while every one of them also has "powerful representatives" close to President Bush and the other US rulers?