Congress Critters Summoned to Israel, Receive Marching Orders

Tweet "No doubt Calcutta News has it right. “U.S. senators to arrive in Israel for indoctrination,” headlines the Indian website. “We formed the committee four years ago, when I was Chairman of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. It is the only joint committee between the American Congress and another country,” declared Yuval Steinitz, a former “Peace Now” activist turned Jabotinsky fanatic. “We think that it is important that the members of the delegation feel the connection and understand Israel better. They are mostly non-Jewish and we want them to feel some obligation to the country.”

"Of course, these days, Congress critters are not obliged to the American people, mind you, but multinational corporations and Israel, so Mr. Steinitz was not harking out of the blue or off the wall.

“'The ability of the Senate and the Congress to promote issues is just as important as that of the American administration. They will be briefed by Mossad Officials about Iran, Hezbollah and global Jihad,” in other words, they will be harangued about the necessity for the United States to fight Israel’s enemies, as Iran and Hezbollah present about as much of a threat to the United States as the Basarwa of the Kalahari Desert. As for the “global Jihad,” this is little more than a modern version of the Blason populaire, that is to say stereotypical folklore. It is appropriate senator Jon Kyl and crew will be “briefed by Mossad Officials” on the ins-and-outs of “global Jihad,” as Israeli intelligence is responsible in large part for creating such, as in the case of nurturing Hamas and the would-be shoemaker Abu Nidal. “Scratch around inside Abu Nidal’s organization and you will find Mossad,” a senior Jordanian intelligence officer once remarked.

From Another Day in the Empire