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Keith Johnson
\nRevolt of the Plebs<\/a>
\nMarch<\/a> 12, 2010<\/p>\n

Without regard for the severe economic devastation and loss of life that a war<\/a> with Iran<\/a> would create, Israel<\/a>\u2019s agents in the United States<\/a> continue to<\/a><\/a> aggressively stoke the fires of anti-Iranian rhetoric and mobilize their minions on the floor of the House.\u00a0 The Brzezinski-Soros machine failed in their attempt to effect regime change in Iran<\/a> by way of a \u201ccolor revolution\u201d in the summer of 2009.\u00a0 This has only emboldened the Israeli lobby to pursue more drastic measures. There is only one card left for them to play before provoking conflicts that will most certainly catapult the United States<\/a> into direct military<\/a> action against the Islamic state.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, the American Israeli Political Action Committee gave their marching orders to their congressional War<\/a> Hawks.\u00a0 The message was short, concise and clear.\u00a0 Here is the text of the letter AIPAC sent to members of Congress<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Dear Congressman XXXX,<\/em><\/p>\n

We are writing to every member of Congress<\/a> to express outrage at the U.S. government<\/a>\u2019s continuing relationship with dozens of companies doing\u00a0business with Iran<\/a>. These ongoing financial dealings undermine longstanding American efforts to prevent Iran<\/a> from acquiring a nuclear weapons<\/a> capability.<\/em><\/p>\n

As the New York Times reported on Sunday, the federal government<\/a> during the past decade has awarded $107 billion in contracts and grants to more than 70\u00a0companies that are doing business in Iran<\/a>. More than two-thirds of these contracts have gone to companies involved in Iran<\/a>\u2019s energy industry despite American law to discourage such involvement.<\/em><\/p>\n

The time<\/a> has long since passed this policy to change. Unfortunately, as the Times\u00a0points out, three successive American administrations have failed to enforce the Iran<\/a> Sanctions Act of 1996, which mandates U.S. sanctions on firms investing more than $20 million in Iran<\/a>\u2019s energy sector. While Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama<\/a> may have discouraged\u00a0some investment in Iran<\/a> through their rhetoric, the United States<\/a> has sent the American and international business community a contradictory message by failing to enforce the law.<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite publicly acknowledged investments by several companies of hundreds of millions of dollars in Iran<\/a>\u2019s energy sector, the U.S. Government<\/a>\u00a0has inexplicably failed to make even one determination of an investment of $20 million during the course of the past decade. Yet, throughout this entire time<\/a>, Iran<\/a> has pursued a nuclear weapons<\/a> capability, flouting its international obligations under the Nuclear\u00a0Non-Proliferation Treaty and presenting the international community with a growing, and now urgent, threat.<\/em><\/p>\n

As Iran<\/a> continues to reject U.S.-European engagement efforts and to defy U.N. Security Council resolutions requiring that it halt its illicit\u00a0uranium enrichment efforts, the United States<\/a> must take action now.<\/em><\/p>\n

We call on Congress<\/a> to:<\/em><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Investigate why successive administrations have failed to implement the law by failing to determine what companies have invested in the Iranian energy sector;<\/em><\/p>\n

2. Enact\u2014without delay\u2014the Iran<\/a> sanctions legislation currently before Congress<\/a>, which, inter alia, contains provisions barring federal contracts\u00a0to companies which are investing in Iran<\/a>\u2019s energy sector or providing sensitive technology, and their parents or subsidiaries who are engaged in such activity;<\/em><\/p>\n

3. Demand that the U.S. Government<\/a> enforce existing sanctions law and impose crippling new sanctions on Iran<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

In addition to these actions, we hope you will join with us<\/a> in urging the administration to impose tough new multilateral sanctions with like-minded\u00a0states without delay while continuing to pursue the widest possible sanctions through the U.N. Security Council.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/em><\/p>\n

David Victor
\nPresident<\/em><\/p>\n

Howard Kohr
\nExecutive Director<\/em><\/p>\n

These are pretty strong words coming from an organization which has stood in defiance of U.S. law that requires them to register as agents of a foreign power.\u00a0 It proves once again that the \u201cA\u201d in AIPAC really should be removed from their acronym.\u00a0 There is nothing \u201cAmerican\u201d about them.\u00a0 This is the Israeli lobby, plain and simple.\u00a0 They represent Israel<\/a> first and last.\u00a0 The United States<\/a> is nothing more than a host to their endless parasitism.\u00a0\u00a0 This letter should be an insult to anyone familiar with the State of Israel<\/a> and it\u2019s long history<\/a> of refusing to comply with International laws and treaties.\u00a0 It reeks of hypocrisy.\u00a0 It\u2019s an exercise in contempt.\u00a0 There is no country<\/a> on the face of this earth with less justification to level these charges or make such demands.<\/p>\n

First of all, Iran<\/a> has no nuclear weapons<\/a> capability.\u00a0 As recently as February 11, 2010, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs responded to a claim by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad<\/a><\/a> that Iran<\/a> had produced the first stock of 20 percent enriched uranium.\u00a0 Gibbs said, \u201cThe Iranian nuclear program has undergone a series of problems throughout the year.\u00a0 We do not believe they have the capability to enrich to the degree to which they now say they are enriching.\u201d<\/em> The enriched uranium that Ahmadinejad was referring to was not for building a nuclear weapon<\/a> but rather for medical isotopes used to treat cancer<\/a> patients.\u00a0 And even if they did have the capability of enriching to 20 percent, it still falls far short of the nearly 98% that is required for building a weapon of mass destruction.\u00a0 As a signer of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran<\/a> has a legal right to enrich uranium in the manner that they are claiming.\u00a0 On the other hand, Israel<\/a> has refused to sign the NNPT and has no right to make demands of anyone pertaining to nuclear technology.<\/p>\n

While the author of this letter points out that \u201cthe federal government<\/a> has awarded $107 billion in contracts and grants to more than 70 companies that are doing business in Iran<\/a>,\u201d<\/em> it fails to recognize that 14 of those companies have already pulled out and that 11 plan no future investment.\u00a0 Of the 49 remaining, only 3 are suspected of being in violation of the \u201cIran<\/a> Sanctions Act\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 Those three companies are Daelim (South Korea), Dutch Royal Shell (Netherlands) and Total (France<\/a>).\u00a0 Of the $174 million that Daelim received in contract money from the U.S.,\u00a0 $111 million was used to build family housing towers for the U.S. Army.\u00a0 Dutch Royal Shell received $11.2 billion in contracts and that investment was instrumental in supplying a significant amount of gasoline to the U.S. military<\/a>.\u00a0 Not one American company currently doing business and planning future investment in Iran<\/a> is suspected of being in violation of the \u201cIran<\/a> Sanctions Act\u201d.<\/p>\n

The author demands that Congress<\/a> enact current legislation that bars companies from investing in Iran<\/a>\u2019s energy sector.\u00a0 But this is in direct conflict with Article IV of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.\u00a0 Iran<\/a> is a signer of that treaty, and that obligates the United States<\/a> to help them build power plants and other facilities for non-military<\/a> purposes.<\/p>\n

If anyone should be barred from receiving federal contracts or aid it is the State of Israel<\/a>, who has refused to sign the NNPT and have illegally pursued a nuclear weapons<\/a> program of their own.\u00a0 The 1976 Symington Amendment to the Foreign Appropriations Bill of 1961 forbids the United States<\/a> from giving foreign aid to any nation that is developing nuclear technology outside the NNPT.\u00a0 Despite this, approximately 1\/3 of the total foreign aid budget of the United States<\/a> is annually sent to Israel<\/a> even though they comprise less than .001 of the world\u2019s population and has one of the world\u2019s highest per capita incomes.\u00a0 Former Congressman James Traficant rightly pointed out recently that between the direct foreign aid grants to Israel<\/a>, along with all of the other benefits including trade compacts, economic and military<\/a> assistance, \u201cIsrael<\/a> gets approximately $15 billion a year from the American taxpayers. That $15 billion is $30,000 for every man, woman and child in Israel<\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In his list of demands, the author urges Congress<\/a> to \u201cpursue the widest possible sanctions through the U.N. Security Council.\u201d <\/em>This is the height of hypocrisy.\u00a0 Neither the State of Israel<\/a> nor its agents have any standing with the United Nations in this regard.\u00a0 Since its inception, the State of Israel<\/a> has been in violation of more UN<\/a> resolutions than any other nation on earth.<\/p>\n

Who else but a raving lunatic would even dare to write such a letter in light of the insurmountable evidence that contradicts each and every line of their text?\u00a0 There is no other explanation; \u00a0a lunatic wrote this letter.\u00a0 And if Congress<\/a> acts in lock step to their demands, then it should be abundantly clear to all of us<\/a> that the lunatics, have indeed<\/em>, taken over the asylum.<\/p>\n

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