| The U.S.-Israel Strategic Dialogue is being | | | | Let us turn aside, for a moment, shall we, to |
| propelled by Iran's nuclear program and | | | | observe the unvarnished historicity of U.S. |
| absurdities coming from the mouth of its | | | | Presidential aspirations towards Israel . . . |
| president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Now the U.S. | | | | for in this incredible glimpse into the |
| and Israel have little choice . . . | | | | ever-maturing "strategic relationship" |
| | | | between the U.S. and Israel, it has always |
| "Strategic Dialogue" talks between the U.S. | | | | been her Presidents who have led the way-it |
| and Israel-were commenced in earnest at the | | | | is the privilege of the American Executive to |
| end of November, 2005 (U.S. State Dept. | | | | orchestrate U.S. foreign policy, and more so, |
| Bulletin). These "talks" are propelled to | | | | since two World Wars and the Cold War have |
| their inevitable conclusion (i.e., the | | | | given birth to the Imperial Presidency; make |
| U.S.-ISRAEL DEFENSE PACT/TREATY) by Iran's | | | | no mistake to the contrary! |
| preposterous charges this past week: No | | | | |
| Jewish Holocaust under Hitler; Israel is a | | | | It is this profound political significance |
| "Zionist-European Tumor" which, ipso facto, | | | | between American Presidents and Israel that |
| should be excised from the Middle East and | | | | astounds the world's diplomats and |
| transplanted into Germany-Austria; and, "no, | | | | negotiators-especially, European and Moslem |
| we're not making a Weapon of Mass | | | | observers. Understanding the evolution of |
| Destruction, even though 'Israel must be | | | | the American Imperium and its unusual, yet |
| wiped off the map!" (My conjectures.) | | | | clearly observable relationship, between its |
| | | | Chief Executive and Israel's security, is |
| Historic revisionism is alive and | | | | most remarkable-to obfuscate this |
| well-therefore, do not conclude that this | | | | unparalleled association (as some religious |
| series on the "Strategic and Eschatological | | | | and secular observers are loathe to |
| Imperatives" embedded in the U.S.-Israel | | | | do)-damages the academic and so-called |
| Defense Pact (upcoming) is as naïve as you | | | | spiritual credentials of those who deny this |
| may have surmised (i.e., pure speculation and | | | | obvious arrangement! |
| benignly obscure Christian fundamentalism | | | | |
| gone amok). Israel's audacious | | | | President Harry S. Truman |
| materiality-in spite of the Adolf | | | | |
| Hitler-Grand Mufti, Haj Mohammed Amin | | | | President Truman, whose Baptist roots |
| Al-Husseini original Axis of Evil-mocks the | | | | predisposed him to Israel's rebirth as a |
| secular outrage toward Zionism and declares | | | | nation state for the Jews, commenced a long |
| heretical the blather, and hyper symbolism of | | | | and ever-deepening relationship between the |
| Biblical liberalism! (Palestinefacts.org) | | | | State of Israel and the USA. |
| | | | |
| There are forces like those written hereunder | | | | Truman's predecessor, President Franklin D. |
| which make the heralding of Daniel the | | | | Roosevelt, appeared to be sympathetic to the |
| Prophet's final week of Gentile World Power | | | | Jewish cause (i.e., the State of Israel in |
| all the more irreversible and prophetically | | | | Palestine); however, his assurances to the |
| intrusive, in spite of the mockers-both | | | | Arabs that the United States would not |
| secular and religious-who claim these | | | | intervene without consulting both parties |
| prognostications are fantasy, or just plain | | | | caused public uncertainty about his position. |
| fear-mongering among theological misfits who | | | | |
| still claim the Bible has something to say | | | | President Harry S. Truman, on the other hand |
| about where this world's heading! | | | | after taking office, made it clear that his |
| | | | sympathies were with the Jews; hence, he |
| "They've been wrong before-let them prattle | | | | accepted the Balfour Declaration (made by the |
| about their future Antichrist all they want . | | | | British as a quid pro quo for Jewish support |
| . . it's relatively harmless . . . besides, | | | | for the Allied cause in World War I), |
| who's listening; who cares . . .in any event, | | | | explaining that it was in keeping with former |
| the Millerites, Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses | | | | President Woodrow Wilson's principle of "self |
| and wacko-Christian fundamentalists like Hal | | | | determination." |
| Lindsey et al, have always dabbled in the | | | | |
| ethereal world of prophetical make believe | | | | In point of fact, Daniel Pipes, in his review |
| and we're still here, aren't we?" | | | | of Michael T. Benson's book Harry S. Truman |
| | | | and the Founding of Israel states: |
| Friend . . . you'd better get a grip . . . | | | | |
| things are changing, faster than you had any | | | | "Benson proves that Truman's policies |
| idea . . . and their "prophetical alignment" | | | | resulted not from nose-counting (the "Jewish |
| does not bode well for a world utterly | | | | vote" in America) but from deeply-held |
| unprepared for what's driving the personality | | | | beliefs. His pro-Israel outlook 'was based |
| behind: "HE SHALL CONFIRM A COVENANT (i.e., | | | | primarily on humanitarian, moral, and |
| "Treaty") WITH THE MANY..." (Daniel 9:27). | | | | sentimental grounds, many of which were an |
| | | | outgrowth of the president's religious |
| As Winston Churchill once said: | | | | upbringing and his familiarity with the |
| | | | Bible.' Extensive research into Truman's |
| "We reject with scorn all these learned and | | | | biography and earlier career shows his |
| laboured myths that Moses was but a legendary | | | | impressive consistency. Benson, of the |
| figure. We believe that the most scientific | | | | University of Utah, establishes Truman as a |
| view, the most up to date and rationalistic | | | | studious child and deeply religious young man |
| conception, will find its fullest | | | | who, when he unexpectedly found himself in |
| satisfaction in taking the Bible literally. | | | | the Oval Office, lived faithfully by his |
| We may be sure that all these things happened | | | | precepts. In the case at hand, he expressed |
| as they are set out in Holy Writ. In the | | | | sympathy for Zionism as early as 1939 and |
| words of a forgotten work of Mr. Gladstone, | | | | reiterated his views many times |
| we rest with assurance upon 'the impregnable | | | | subsequently." (Palestinefacts.org) |
| rock of Holy Scripture...' Let the men of | | | | |
| science and of learning expand their | | | | Truman initiated several studies of the |
| knowledge and probe with their researches | | | | Palestine situation that supported his belief |
| every detail of the records which have been | | | | that, as a result of the Holocaust, Jews were |
| preserved to us from these dim ages. All they | | | | oppressed and also in need of a homeland. |
| do is to fortify the grand simplicity and | | | | Notwithstanding Truman's support for the |
| essential accuracy of the recorded truths | | | | Jewish state, and throughout both the |
| which have lighted so far the pilgrimage of | | | | Roosevelt and Truman administrations, the |
| man." | | | | Departments of War and State, recognizing the |
| | | | possibility of a Soviet-Arab connection and |
| THE PRINCE OF PERSIA | | | | the potential Arab restriction on oil |
| | | | supplies to the United States, advised |
| When I published my article "Behold, the | | | | against U.S. intervention on behalf of the |
| Prince of Persia" (buzzle.com, June 2005), | | | | Jews. |
| there were fears that a "Nuclear Iran" would | | | | |
| galvanize Radical Islam and stiffen the | | | | Britain and the United States, in a joint |
| insurgency in Iraq, compel a "democratic | | | | effort to examine the dilemma, established |
| takeover" of secular Middle East nations like | | | | the "Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry." In |
| Egypt and Turkey, and drive Israel (and for | | | | April 1946, the committee submitted |
| that matter the U.S.) to the brink of a | | | | recommendations that Palestine not be |
| unilateral-preemptive strike at Iranian | | | | dominated by either Arabs or Jews. It |
| nuclear facilities. Likewise, because of the | | | | concluded that attempts to establish |
| Iranian-Syrian Defense Pact (early 2005), | | | | nationhood or independence would result in |
| Syria and the Palestinian Authority, would | | | | civil strife; that a trusteeship agreement |
| find themselves pouring into the "cup of | | | | aimed at bringing Jews and Arabs together |
| trembling to all the nations 'round about" | | | | should be established by the United Nations; |
| Israel. | | | | that full Jewish immigration be allowed into |
| | | | Palestine; and that two autonomous states be |
| Well, we stand on our "prophetic laurels" and | | | | established with a strong central government |
| declare the rise of the "Prince of Persia" is | | | | to control Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and the |
| all the more enraged through the election and | | | | Negev, the southernmost section of Palestine. |
| regime of one, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | | | | |
| (President of Iran since August 3, 2005) . . | | | | British, Arab, and Jewish reactions to the |
| . consider this, as the world continues to | | | | recommendations were not favorable. |
| spin upon this precarious axis of inscrutible | | | | |
| uncertainty . . . | | | | In spite of his own Departments of War and |
| | | | State, and of the Brits subterfuge regarding |
| Gholamreza Aghazadeh, head of the Atomic | | | | the Jewish State, he immediately recognized |
| Energy Organization of Iran, Dec. 10, 2005, | | | | the Jewish State upon their declaration of |
| told the newly-awarded Nobel Prize winner, | | | | independence-eleven minutes after Israel's |
| Mohamed El-Baradei, that his comments to | | | | declaration of statehood (American Heritage). |
| persuade Iran to stop its uranium enrichment | | | | |
| program (because its heading toward a nuclear | | | | This "Presidential Recognition" was, |
| explosion in either Jerusalem or Tel Aviv) | | | | according to Margaret Truman (daughter of |
| the following not-so-ambiguous-mafia-sounding | | | | President Truman), "the most difficult |
| remarks: "He (El-Baradei) knows Iran has not | | | | decision (he) ever faced as president" |
| diverted in its nuclear program . . . it | | | | (Christian Science Monitor). The immediate |
| would be better for him not to have many | | | | involvement of the President of the United |
| interviews." (Comcast Netnews) | | | | States-overruling his powerful Secretary of |
| | | | State George Marshall-set a precedence |
| The Iranians, with diplomatic hubris, | | | | wherein the Presidency and Israel became |
| simultaneously suggested, through Foreign | | | | synonymous in diplomatic parlance. In other |
| Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi that the | | | | words: The President of the United |
| U.S. participates in Iran's nuclear program | | | | States-not the nation, per se (i.e., |
| to wit: "America can take part in | | | | Legislative or Judicial branches of |
| international bidding for the construction of | | | | government), nor its State Department-became |
| Iran's nuclear power plant if they observe | | | | the deciding factor and the fulcrum of the |
| the basic standards and quality." | | | | relationship between Israel and the USA. |
| | | | |
| All this during the same week (December 3-10, | | | | "Administrative tension" between the U.S. |
| 2005) in which these not so subtle remarks | | | | State Department and the President, |
| were made by the ever-more-resembling the | | | | especially in regards to Israel vis-Ã -vis |
| coordinator of the American Iranian Hostage | | | | U.S. national interest throughout the Middle |
| Crisis, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: | | | | East, and in particular the acquisition of |
| | | | cheap energy in maintenance of America's |
| "Some European Countries insist on saying | | | | ever-expanding economy, is of no small |
| that Hitler killed millions of innocent Jews | | | | notoriety; yet, provides ample wiggle room |
| in furnaces and they insist on it to the | | | | when the President wishes to register |
| extent that if anyone proves something | | | | consternation if the Executive perceives |
| contrary to that they condemn that person and | | | | Israel "has gone too far." |
| throw them in jail . . . although we (i.e., | | | | |
| the Iranians) don't accept this claim (i.e., | | | | President Dwight Eisenhower |
| the Holocaust-six million Jews perishing in | | | | |
| Hitler's death camps), if we suppose it (the | | | | With the decline of Britain as the |
| Holocaust) is true, our question for the | | | | self-appointed protector of the Middle East, |
| Europeans is: Is the killing of innocent | | | | and the rise of the Cold War, America's |
| Jewish people by Hitler the reason for their | | | | immediate, though periferal role with Israel, |
| support to the occupiers of Jerusalem?" (Paul | | | | was about to change-and change significantly. |
| Hughes, Reuters, Dec. 8, 2005) | | | | |
| | | | Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser seized the Suez |
| Of course, all this was compounded by | | | | Canal in October of 1956-whereupon Britain, |
| President-American-Hostage-Leader Ahmadinejad | | | | France and Israel (as co-conspirators) |
| suggesting that Israeli Jews be transplanted | | | | launched a surprise attack; but, Ike |
| to provinces in both Germany and Austria to | | | | considered the bizarre adventure as a |
| salve the conscience of their Nazi past. How | | | | "mid-Victorian form of gunboat diplomacy." |
| fitting that all these remarks were made at | | | | |
| the summit of the Organization of Islamic | | | | "I've just never seen great powers make such |
| Conference held in the Muslim holy city of | | | | a complete mess and botch of things" - |
| Mecca in Saudi Arabia! | | | | October 30, 1956 (President Eisenhower). |
| | | | |
| Naturally, the U.S.-Israeli reaction was | | | | It was the President of the United States who |
| vehement, especially after the October, 2005 | | | | torpedoed the tripartite effort against an |
| "Israel must be wiped off the map" remarks of | | | | Arab nation and won him, at the time, the |
| Mr. Ahmadinejad (The Tribulation Network): | | | | praise of the UN and as the defender of |
| | | | third-world nations against Israel and the |
| "I hope that these outrageous remarks will be | | | | West. |
| a wake-up call to people who have any | | | | |
| illusions about the nature of the regime in | | | | The upshot of Suez, in so far as the |
| Iran" (Israeli foreign ministry spokesman | | | | U.S.-Israel "Strategic Relationship" is |
| Mark Regev)." . . . an outrageous gaffe, | | | | concerned-made the U.S. the dominant player |
| which I want to repudiate in the sharpest | | | | in the Middle East, and, ipso facto, |
| manner" (President George Bush). | | | | intimately involved with Israel. |
| | | | Furthermore, it brought the Cold War smack |
| Finally, the bottom line remarks of White | | | | dab into the midst of the Middle East. |
| House spokesman Scott McClellan: | | | | |
| | | | "The affair (Suez) convinced Eisenhower that |
| "It just further underscores our concerns | | | | a move into the area by the Soviet Union |
| about the regime in Iran. And it's all the | | | | would be disastrous to Europe and Nation, |
| more reason why it's so important that the | | | | because of oil needs. He announced the |
| regime not have the ability to develop | | | | Eisenhower Doctrine: The U.S. would send |
| nuclear weapons." | | | | weapons and cash to any Mideast nation |
| | | | threatened by communism" (Christian Science |
| Just how outrageous were Mr. Ahmadinejad's | | | | Monitor 10/26/2001). |
| remarks? | | | | |
| | | | There's no doubt that the USA was supporting |
| "So, Germany and Austria, come and give one, | | | | Israel from the get-go (not just Arab states |
| two or any number of your privinces to the | | | | opposed to communism) . . . but then came . . |
| Zionist regime so they can create a country | | | | . |
| there . . . and the problem will be solved at | | | | |
| its root . . . you oppressed them, so give a | | | | Presidents John F. Kennedy/Lyndon Johnson and |
| part of Europe to the Zionist regime . . . | | | | Richard Nixon |
| why do they insist on imposing themselves | | | | |
| (the Europeans) on other powers and creating | | | | Strategic cooperation accelerated with John |
| a tumour (Israel) so there is always tension | | | | Kennedy's 1962 sale of HAWK antiaircraft |
| and conflict?" | | | | missiles to Israel-again, over the objection |
| | | | of the "Arabist" State Department. |
| Now, Scott McClellan's "all the more reason | | | | |
| why it's so important that the regime not | | | | After Israel's smashing military victory in |
| have the ability to develop nuclear weapons" | | | | 1967 and capture of the Siani, Golan Heights |
| and the innocuous subtrafuge of the U.S. | | | | and West Bank-as well as the old city of |
| State Department's remarks regarding the | | | | Jerusalem-Presidents Johnson and Nixon became |
| U.S.-Israel Strategic Dialogue to wit, "The | | | | convinced that the Arabs were not capable of |
| United States and Israel look forward to | | | | attacking Israel for many years. |
| continuing this dialogue in the Spring of | | | | |
| 2006 in Israel"-demands further "strategic | | | | A policy of quantitative military equlibrium |
| dialogue." | | | | was in place in the early '60s wherein Lyndon |
| | | | Johnson would provide Israel with tanks and |
| Trust me-unless you're in the market for a | | | | aircraft, but would balance these sales by |
| hot bridge deal-these U.S.-Israeli Strategic | | | | transference of the same to Arab countries. |
| Dialogue discussions have not only commenced, | | | | This policy would inhibit any one state from |
| they have only intensified as a result of the | | | | gaining the military advantage over the |
| bombastic absurdities of Iran, along with the | | | | other. This all changed in 1968 when Johnson |
| rhetoric and actions of Hezbollah, Hamas, | | | | committed Phantom jets to Israel. In so |
| Islamic Jihad, and the acceleration of the | | | | doing, he established the USA as the |
| insurgency in Iraq against Bush's War on | | | | overwhelming arms supplier of Israel and |
| Terror. | | | | moved the geopolitical equation from |
| | | | quantitative to Israel's qualitative favor. |
| The worst fighting in five years between | | | | |
| Hezbollah and the IDF took place at the end | | | | Indeed, Johnson's Baptist upbringing affirmed |
| of November, 2005. This was preceded by a | | | | his pro-Israel posture: |
| coordinated meeting between Iran's foreign | | | | |
| minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, and leaders of | | | | "Most if not all of you (speaking to an |
| Hamas (Khaled Meshaal), a deputy leader of | | | | American Jewish audience) have very deep ties |
| Islamic Jihad, and Ahmed Jibril, the leader | | | | with the land and with the people of Israel, |
| of the Popular Front for the Liberation of | | | | as I do, for my Christian faith sprang from |
| Palestine. Jibril's "organic remarks" tie | | | | yours . . . the Bible stories are woven into |
| Iran into the recent assaults in Northern | | | | my childhood memories as the gallant struggle |
| Israel and the suicide bombing of a shopping | | | | of modern Jews to be free of persecution is |
| mall in Israel's Netanya where five Israeli | | | | also woven into our souls" (Jewish Virtual |
| citizens were killed . . . | | | | Library). |
| | | | |
| "We will confirmed that what is going on in | | | | At this point Israel did not significantly |
| occupied Palestine is organically connected | | | | contribute to "Western defenses" in the |
| to what is going on in Iraq, Syria, Iran and | | | | region because its potential to contribute to |
| Lebanon" (Jibril) (ICH 12/12/05) | | | | a policy of containment was negligible. |
| | | | However, that perception changed when the USA |
| All this in light of Hamas' most recent | | | | called upon Israel to buttress King Hussein's |
| victories at the polls . . . | | | | government and oust the Syrians from their |
| | | | incursion into Jordan in 1970. |
| "NABLUS, West Bank - Hamas supporters on | | | | |
| Friday celebrated a landslide election | | | | Nixon, continued the policies initiated by |
| victory in major West Bank towns, the | | | | Johnson, however, it is well known that his |
| strongest sign yet of the Islamic militant | | | | affection towards Israel was at best |
| group's growing political appeal ahead of | | | | superficial and, for that matter, his |
| Jan. 25 parliamentary elections. Israel | | | | predisposition toward being downright |
| responded with concern, saying a Palestinian | | | | anti-Semitic in his private conversations |
| government dominated by Hamas-which calls for | | | | (William F. Buckley, Nixon and Anti-Semitism |
| Israel's destruction and has killed hundreds | | | | on the Right, Feb. 10, 1997, National Review) |
| of Israelis in attacks- would not be a | | | | ultimately led, as some surmise, to Israel's |
| partner for peace. Thousands of Hamas | | | | horrific losses during the 1973 Yom Kippur |
| supporters joined victory marches after | | | | War in which Egypt and Syria sought to regain |
| Friday prayers. In Jenin, where Hamas won a | | | | land lost in the '67 War. |
| majority of local council seats, marchers | | | | |
| chanted, 'To Jerusalem we march, martyrs by | | | | Notwithstanding, Nixon came to Israel's |
| the millions!' and held up copies of the | | | | rescue and played nuclear brinkmanship with |
| Quran." (AP, Ali Daraghmeh, Associated Press | | | | the Soviets, putting them on notice by |
| Writer, Dec. 17, 2005). | | | | declaring a worldwide nuclear alert to |
| | | | prevent their intervention on the side of the |
| UNIT 262, THE F-15I STRATEGIC 69 SQUADRON vs. | | | | Arab belligerents. From here the world would |
| TOR-M1 | | | | witness, for the first time, a new USA |
| | | | involvement into the Middle East cauldron: |
| As Lebanon, Syrian, Iran and the Palestinian | | | | The Peace Initiatives . . . |
| Authority ratchet up the "War on Israel" - | | | | |
| Israel has plans of their own . . . | | | | President Jimmy Carter |
| | | | |
| Uzi Mahnaimi of Tel Aviv and Sarah Baxter of | | | | Under Carter (1974-1979) a time of de facto |
| the Times Newspapers Ltd. (London) quote a | | | | strategic cooperation prevailed wherein |
| senior White House source saying that the | | | | Israel was allowed to sell military equipment |
| nuclear threat from Iran was moving to the | | | | to the U.S. and, for the first time, joint |
| "top of the international agenda and the | | | | military exercises were held by the two. |
| issue now was 'What next?'" | | | | |
| | | | It is here that the "Man of Peace" enters |
| PM Ariel Sharon quipped: "Israel-and not | | | | into the fray. |
| only Israel-cannot accept a nuclear Iran." | | | | |
| Sure sounds like the U.S.-Israel Strategic | | | | "Consider the Camp David accords-still the |
| Alliance on parade here! | | | | most important Middle East pact to which the |
| | | | U.S. has served as midwife. President Jimmy |
| The IDF has placed its military readiness on | | | | Carter had taken office promising a new look |
| "G" alert-the highest stage. Israel is now | | | | for U.S. foreign policy. The hard |
| on the highest military alert to prepare for | | | | realpolitik of the Nixon-Ford era, when |
| an attack against Iran! | | | | everything was seen through the lens of the |
| | | | cold war, would be modified. In its place |
| Israel firmly asserts that by the end of | | | | would be an attempt to deal with regional |
| March, 2006, things in Iran, and ipso facto | | | | problems on their own terms. In the Middle |
| Israel, will have reached the "POINT OF NO | | | | East, that meant a comprehensive approach to |
| RETURN!" UNIAEA head, Mohamed El-Baradei, | | | | Israeli-Arab differences, including some sort |
| will present his next report on Iran's | | | | of solution for the problem of displaced |
| nuclear intentions in early March, 2006. | | | | Palestinians." (CSMonitor) |
| | | | |
| A massive Israeli intelligence probe of | | | | The point to be made in all of Carter's |
| Iran's nuclear capabilities, launched from a | | | | deliberations is the injection of the |
| site in northern Iraq (no doubt in | | | | "Comprehensive Peace Factor" into the |
| cooperation with the USA) has already | | | | equation-it was and is the USA that is at the |
| identified uranium enrichment sites | | | | helm of such peace initiatives; specifically, |
| previously unknown to the IAEA-there could be | | | | it is the President of the United States |
| up to 50 sites in Iran coordinating the | | | | America that is the prime factor, the pivotal |
| uranium enrichment program to produce a | | | | figure in any and all such negotiations. |
| nuclear bomb capable of hitting Tel Aviv | | | | |
| Jerusalem. | | | | In solidarity with his Baptist roots, Jimmy |
| | | | Carter's support for Israel was unwavering: |
| Israel's top Special Forces Brigade, Unit | | | | |
| 262, and their F-15I strategic 69 Squadron, | | | | "(I) believed very deeply that the Jews who |
| will ready themselves for a non-stop | | | | had survived the Holocaust deserved their own |
| roundtrip to deliver both air and ground | | | | nation, and that they had a right to live in |
| devastation to Iran's threats to wipe Israel | | | | peace among their neighbors. I considered |
| off the map. | | | | this homeland for the Jews to be compatible |
| | | | with the teaching of the Bible, hence |
| This will be all the more difficult if Iran | | | | ordained by God. These moral and religious |
| secures delivery of a $1B anti-ballistic | | | | beliefs made my commitment to the security of |
| missile system (the Tor-M1) from the | | | | Israel unshakable." (Carter's memoirs) |
| Russians. The system is designed to destroy | | | | |
| guided missiles and laser-guided bombs from | | | | Notwithstanding Carter's pro-Israel |
| aircraft-likewise, the system can be easily | | | | sentiments, he, like virtually all of the |
| and quickly installed! (ICH 12/12/2005) | | | | U.S. Presidents, have expressed-beneath the |
| | | | veneer of solidarity with Israel-reservations |
| Note also: Original Source: The Times of | | | | to one degree or another, especially in |
| London, Dec. 11, 2005) | | | | response to the "Jewish lobby" (i.e., AIPAC) |
| | | | in meddling with the perceived national |
| "HE WILL CONFIRM THE TREATY" | | | | interests of the USA. |
| | | | |