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Oct 27Liked by Mike Mihajlovic

Moon of Alabama has a pretty good little analysis here:

What Has Israel Achieved In The Last Year? - by Arch Bungle https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/10/what-has-israel-achieved-in-the-last-year-by-arch-bungle.html#more

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“ when you

43:02 get into energy security you know as strong as the Israeli Lobby is they’re not as strong as you know Exon Mobile

43:11 standard when we’re talking you know hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars of economic potential uh with a

43:18 global scale um the Israel Lobby doesn’t control them the Israeli Lobby doesn’t

43:23 control the pharmaceutical industry the Israeli Lobby doesn’t control a whole bunch of things in the United States they have a very limited um you know

43:31 span of control and influence on things that pertains particularly to Israel uh

43:37 the isi lobby does not control the Pentagon I’ll just make that absolutely clear the Israeli Lobby doesn’t control

43:42 the Pentagon they may have the ability to influence the Pentagon”?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNsjtpqlTQE

“I saw the reality of the um pro-israeli Lobby

45:47 and the influence that they have everywhere they’re everywhere they they

45:52 control everything but at the same time within the United States within the

45:58 establishment um there are elements that are just vehemently anti-israel um where where the lobby

46:05 hasn’t broken into and these are you know deeply entrenched things and that’s when you get into energy security you

46:11 know as strong as the Israeli Lobby is they’re not as strong as you know Exon Mobile

46:18 standard when we’re talking you hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars of economic potential uh with a global

46:25 scale um the Israeli Lobby doesn’t control them the Israeli Lobby doesn’t control the pharmaceutical industry the

46:32 Israeli Lobby doesn’t control a whole bunch of things in United States they have a very limited um you know span of

46:38 control and influence on things that pertains particularly to Israel uh the

46:43 Israeli Lobby does not control the Pentagon I’ll just make that absolutely clear the Israeli Lobby doesn’t control

46:49 the Pentagon they may have the ability to influence the Pentagon they’ve sucked parasites Here There and Everywhere they

46:56 know control the Pentagon um and they don’t control the military-industrial

47:02 complex as much I can tell you that we when you take a look at the amount of money we send to Israel it Pals in

47:08 comparison with the other contracts that we put around the world I mean what was

47:13 $3.8 billion dollar a year as our military sales to uh to Israel we conclude contracts bigger than

47:20 that with other people you know on a monthly basis so the idea that the military-industrial complex is be hold

47:27 to Israel is absurd um the the Israelis have a lot of

47:32 influence but there’s a lot of independent uh the big thing is on policy that impacts Israel where a

47:40 specific policy impacts Israel the lobby has a tremendous amount of influence but

47:45 um you know I will tell you right now that we did not invade Iraq because of

47:53 Israel I mean Israel played a role in it they a supporting role but I remind people that um up until

48:00 1998 uh the Israelis were actually working with the United Nations to

48:06

achieve the disarmament of Iraq uh in opposition to the American policy of regime change see the Israelis had a

48:12 regime change policy in place that was brought to fruition right after the Gulf War ended um when Yuri sagay um the

48:22 commander of uh Military Intelligence made a decision that they need to kill San Hussein . . . the United States we went to

50:57 war in Iraq not for Israel we went war in Iraq for oil and Regional dominance

51:03 now people say well that’s part of the project for New American Century and all this stuff yes that’s peripheral but

51:08 America Goes to War for America”?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hSppOU68tc

Look, look, over here, at the ‘wicked’ Russians/Chinese, immigrants or the ‘ZOG’.

Don’t look over there at the plutocrats and the M.I.C., there’s nothing to see?

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The AIPAC lobby has done a lot for Israeli security by purchasing the allegiance of western leaders and governments, but the past 13 months have shredded any support from voters in and outside America. Netanyahu and his American backers have endangered Israel’s security and put its future at risk.

One other thing that the past year has shown is the complete inability of western voters to have any sway on their governments’ policies regarding Israel.

It remains to be seen if the damage to Europe’s economies by America’s war-first policies has jeopardized AIPAC’s ability to gain continued European support for Israel. Germany and France have angry citizens directed at the hegemon, and that may put Israel’s lobby on the outs.

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What's goin on with Aleks?

Three month without him now. Is he ill?

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Aleks is fine, just extremely busy with his job and family.

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Hopefully just very busy.

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