Israeli officials are riled up tonight after an offhand comment by US envoy George Mitchell in an interview with PBS mentioned that the US could hypothetically revoke loan guarantees to Israel if the nation refused to re-start negotiations with the Palestinian Authority.
Members of the ruling Likud Party vowed that Israel would not “give in to threats” while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that “everyone knows” the Palestinian Authority is to blame for the stalled peace process. One minister added that it was an empty threat.
Even US Senators John McCain (R – AZ) and Joe Lieberman (I – CT) condemned Mitchell’s comment, saying that Congress would never allow the president to withhold any support for Israel under any circumstances.
Mitchell, for his part, quickly backpedaled, insisting that he didn’t mean to suggest that revoking the loan guarantees was at all appropriate and that it was simply a response to an interviewer’s question. A response which has stirred up a hornet’s nest in Israel, where anything short of cheerful endorsement from the US is viewed as a matter of grave security for officials.
"Congress would never allow the president to withhold any support for Israel under any circumstances."
Re-read this until it begins to sink in.
Americans need elected representatives who put American interests FIRST!
Yes! Thank You George Mitchell! We here at home shoud tar/feather the illegal foreign Israel AIPAC Lobby as well, then deport them and take back our own government .
Saying that Congress would never allow the president to withhold any support for Israel under any circumstances. "under any circumstances"…?? Even if they got caught RED HANDED spying on us using OUR money to pay the SPY..???? Or say trying to sink one of our ships and killing 34 Americans..?? Hey, Israel can do no wrong, uuhh well….none that will end AMERICA's No.1 Welfare Queen's long ride on the U.S. taxpayers funded Gravy Train…. Think about it… More aid than any other country in the world….. and it's the thanks in no small part to our auctions of Senate Seats and dual citizens, Israeli firsters… and their Lackeys… I know, I know… It's not politically correct to mention such stuff, but some one oughtta… You don't think that some of the vitrol that has fed the WARS we are bankrupting the country and ourselves in are to a certain extent caused by our good buddy [and did I mention…No. 1 Welfare Queen] stealing land and the holy places of Islam using all the WEAPONS WE gave to them… Don't you think that nuclear proliferation might go a tad slower if the nuclear armed thief wasn't stalking the Middle East..?? The ONE we SUPPORT……."under any circumstances"……
Israel should not get any more financial or military equipment support until they accept the Goldstone Report and make amends for the 1400 deaths (some of women and children) in the 2008 war against the Palestinian people.
Why aim so low? If we could force them to do that, we could also force them to withdraw to 1967 borders and allow the Palestinians to have an actual sovereign state in the West Bank and Gaza. Actually, we could but we won't, not as long as Rahm Emanuel has anything to say about it, or any of the 535 bought and paid for people who will not allow it "under any circumstances".
Withdrawing financial support would be the first step towards middle east peace. easy to see who those particular Senators support. it is definetely not the American People they are worried about.
Maybe George Mitchell should be replaced by someone who isn't a Holocaust denying anti-Semite. I would think – whatever he is doing in the Middle-East – could be done by Joe Lieberman. I'm sure he could handle it along with official duties of representing his constituents in Tel Aviv and ginning up new wars with Iran and Yemen.
Here is a classic example from Members of the best Congress money can buy of the "tail wagging the dog." Can anyone show that the US receives any benefit whatsoever from our being held hostage to the dictates of Israel? I don't recall voting for any member of the Likud party. But look at the costs associated with this warped relationship. We give them billions in aid. We support them politically with an uncritical eye. We went to war in Iraq at their behest. They steal our commercial and military secrets. They are fighting vigorously for the US to war with Iran. But the other side of the ledger is blank…enumerating that they give us nothing but troubles in the world. SKM said the reason for 9/11 is America's total support for the Apartheid Israeli regime and their brutal treatment of the Palestinians.
Its time for McCain and Likudist Lieberman to take a hike, perhaps they can run as a candidate in the Knesset.
Sorry but the "reason for 9/11" is the UK/US/Israel excuse to wage pre-emptive war anywhere we wish. The is no war ON terror but was OF terror.
9 years ago,i told a lot of people: If it wasn’t for the us in the middle east,trying ti be the boss of almost all the governments in the region,people can only live that way for so long.They will + did take action 9/11/01 to show the us,you will not be my boss forever.There was a reason for the attack,The us Gov’t.I still don’t know how Israel can still be the angel of the middle east.There are enough anti-Israel countries to bring them their own 9/11,soon. johnny c fastford2828@yahoo.com
Congress is Israeli Occupied Territory.
hey non are you for real what planet are you on such utter garbage are you 10 years old or what . now mossad caused 911 haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
The whole Congress as well as this and past administrations should be taken tp Court on high treason charges. What kind of country is the US? Where is its self-respect? The rest of the world watch all of this shocked.
The United States government is running a budget deficit of a trillion plus dollars a year, yet aid to Israel is untouchable! The United States government should no longer carry the water for the Israeli government. No more aid. No more special relationship. No more support for the starvation blockade of the people of Gaza. And no more excusing the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children by the IDF.
When you get up to 10 billion in free money every year you can buy or intimidate a lot of politicians. Isn't it nice that the Israeli's use our own money to subvert our freedom and way of life?
the admission commisar from USSR needs to get permit from Tel Aviv in order to print my comments.
This is what revolutions are made of. Taxation without representation was a biggy in the French Revolution.
The citizens (tax-slaves) are not on board with Aparthied IsraHELL!
STOP the AID NOW! Lieberman should be arrested for high treason. He is a foriegn agent as are the rest of the Likud licking Congress.