9-11 Report stated that the attack on the WTC and the Pentagon was to protest the presence of U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia and our support for Israel. Bin Laden pressed Mohammad to stage the attacks as early as mid-2000 after Ariel Sharon offended many Muslims by visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. He tried to accelerate the operation again when he learned Sharon would be visiting the White House in June or July 2001. We have removed our U.S. forces from Saudi Arabia and it would be prudent to stop supporting Israel if that support encourages another terrorist attack on our country! To jeopardize our security by supporting Israel is un-American!

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New Top U.S. Intel Chief: Terrorists Hate U.S. Because of Israel

by David Lev — IsraelNN.com

22 Feb 2009

A flurry of reports over the weekend said that the former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, considered a sharp critic of Israel, is to be named to a top intelligence post in the administration of President Barack Obama.

Chas W. Freeman Jr., who was U.S. ambassador to Riyadh from 1989-1992, is set to be named chairman of the National Intelligence Council, which has a strong influence on the content of the intelligence briefings presented to the President. The Council chairman is also often called on to give direct briefings to the President.

Typical of Freeman’s viewpoints is a statement he made in a speech before the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs in 2007, in which he more or less blames international terrorist acts on Israel. “American identification with Israeli policy has also become total. Those in the region and beyond it who detest Israeli behavior, which is to say almost everyone, now naturally extend their loathing to Americans. This has had the effect of universalizing anti-Americanism, legitimizing radical Islamism, and gaining Iran a foothold among Sunni as well as Shiite Arabs. For its part, Israel no longer even pretends to seek peace with the Palestinians; it strives instead to pacify them. Palestinian retaliation against this policy is as likely to be directed against Israel’s American backers as against Israel itself. Under the circumstances, such retaliation – whatever form it takes – will have the support or at least the sympathy of most people in the region and many outside it.”

Full piece here:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130066

Will he end up being treated by the Obama adm like Collin Powell was by Bush -Cheney?

I will believe our Israel policy is changed when we cut off their billions in US aid.

I hesitate to be too confident about that however. Washington is itself Israeli controlled territory. It’s an encouraging first step though.

America has its interests. Israel has its interests. The two are not identical. The national interests of America and Americans have taken a back seat to Israel’s interests (whims) since the creation of that state.

Any objective observer will readily concede for example that petro-rich Iran, with its influence in the Muslim world and its population of seventy million people (or seventy million consumers, as the hard core capitalists would call them) is a far more logical ally and trade partner of the United States than is Israel, barely one tenth the size of Iran and with virtually zero natural resources. Yet the United States maintains an hostile relationship with, and indeed a partial economic boycott of Iran because the Israelis do not like that country. The Americans themselves are hardly frightened of a developing country half way round the world.

Some Americans are still pouting a bit over the Revolution in ‘79 and the hostage-taking, but most got past that long ago. The Israelis though, not missing chance to wedge the Americans against one of Israel’s perceived enemies stepped right in and proclaimed Iran to be another monster or “existential threat” to themselves. The AIPACmerican congress members always seem somehow obliged (blackmailed? Just what happens back at the hotel in Tel Aviv on those “fact-finding” trips to Israel anyway? A guy can get lonely all by himself in a foreign country dontcha know. Do the Israelis have it on film?) into picking up that anti-Iran ball and running with it, as usual.

Every time someone says Israel is our only friend in the Middle East I can’t help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East. — Father John Sheehan

but it’s definitly unfair to “blame” bush for that opration.

just imagine what will U.S. be facing now,if bush didn’t go ahead for iraq?

obama should be grateful that he dosen’t need to make that hard decision,because bush did it for him.