ERIC CANTOR AND THE PROVOKING OF AMERICAN ANTISEMITISM: By Dr. Lawrence Davidson
17. Nov, 2010
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Eric Cantor’s Pledge of Allegiance to Israel over America
Rep. Cantor promised Netanyahu party will act as a “check” on the Obama administration.
Israeli governments have behaved in such a brutal and illegal fashion toward the Palestinians that no self-respecting ethical human being can help but be indignant and angry. And, because of Zionist insistence that Israeli nationalism and Judaism are one in the same, half the world now thinks it’s the Jews who are collectively responsible for the sins of the Israelis
Dr. Lawrence Davidson
Zionists of all stripes incessantly complain about antisemitism. They tell us that it is on the rise and that is why Israel is so important. They warn that when antisemitism inevitably reaches lethal levels Israel will be the only safe haven left for world’s Jews, including those oh so comfortable ones in the United States. The flip side of this alarmism is that the same Zionists are forever striving to turn the warning into a self-fulfilling prophecy. For instance, Israeli governments have behaved in such a brutal and illegal fashion toward the Palestinians that no self-respecting ethical human being can help but be indignant and angry. And, because of Zionist insistence that Israeli nationalism and Judaism are one in the same, half the world now thinks it’s the Jews who are collectively responsible for the sins of the Israelis.
The Israelis are not alone in acting in a manner that can only ruin the reputation of the Jews. For a long time American politicians have quietly allowed themselves to be dictated to by Israeli allied organizations such as AIPAC. This corrupting process is usually hidden behind a facade of propaganda incorrectly describing Israel as a strategic asset, the only democracy in the Middle East, and a country sharing American values. As a consequence the public has hardly noticed as the interests of the United States are shaped to conform to those of Israel–with very negative results for the American position not only in the Middle East, but within the entire Muslim world. But now the corruption has reached a new level, one so open and brazen that the likelihood of the American public taking notice has, correspondingly, become more probable. And, when notice is taken, the possibility of a rise in American antisemitism also presents itself.
For this dangerous turn of events we can all thank a Republican political leader by the name of Eric Cantor. Cantor is a Congressional Representative from the Richmond Virginia who is presently competing for the position of GOP House Majority Leader. He styles himself as one of the party’s “young guns.” So what is it that Congressman Cantor has done that may well contribute to the a heightened level of American antisemitism? On Wednesday, November 10th Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was in Washington DC for a meeting with Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. But Cantor got to Netanyahu first and, according to the Congressman’s boastful press release, he “stressed that the new Republican majority will serve as a check on the [Obama] Administration ….He [Cantor] made clear that the Republican majority understands the special relationship between Israel and the United States, and that the security of each nation is reliant upon the other.”
How do we translate this? Essentially what Cantor did was tell the leader of a foreign country that he will protect that country from the official policies of the President of the United States–the person charged by the Constitution to carry out the nation’s foreign policy. Actually, the Congress, both Republicans and Democrats, have been supplying just this sort of protection for a very long time. But they have always done so surreptitiously. What is different with Cantor is that he has done this quite publically, letting us all know about it in a notice on his official stationary.
What Eric Cantor did on November 10th was illegal. He broke the law. The Law he boasted about violating is known as the Logan Act. This act makes it a felony for an American citizen “without authority of the United States” to interact “with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof” with the intent to influence that government’s behavior on any disputes with the United States. There are obviously disputes between the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government. And here comes Eric Cantor to tell the Israeli Prime Minister that he and the Republican Party will use the power of the House of Representatives to protect Israel from U.S. government policy. If that is not a communication made in such a way as to influence the behavior of a foreign power, nothing is! In addition, Cantor cannot claim ignorance of the law, for there can be no doubt that he is aware of the Logan Act. We know this to be true because he tried to use it against Nancy Pelosi in 2007 after she met briefly with President Assad of Syria. Pelosi, of course, met with the Syrian government with the full knowledge and approval of the State Department. Cantor, on the other, had no official sanction whatsoever.
So what did Cantor think he was doing on November 10th? The probable answer is that he was not thinking at all. Men like Cantor are so imbued with the notion of a “special relationship” that they have lost sight of the fact that Israel is a foreign country. After all, Israel has had a powerful special interest lobby operating in this country, distributing money to politicians on both sides of the aisle, for so long that it seems quite natural. Does Mr. Cantor realize that he can now be hoisted on his own petard–the Logan Act?
And herein lies the risk for American Jews. What seems so natural inside the Beltway, is losing its normalcy in the country at large. There is so much objectively unnatural about the U.S.- Israel relationship that if the general public actually starts paying attention things might turn nasty. There are the billions of dollars that go to a economically advanced country even when the US economy is hurting; there are all those UN vetoes that protect the same country in its incessant violation of international law; there is the fact that this money and protection is going to a land characterized by racist practices that would be illegal if carried out in the United States; there is the Israeli lobby’s involvement in the launching of the second Iraq war, and on it goes. What if the American people get angry about all of this? Who are they going to blame? The politicians? Probably. The Israelis and their Zionist lobby? For sure. And, because the Zionists are so insistent that Israel and Judaism are one in the same, the public may generalize out their discontent to American Jews in general.
It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Israel and its Zionist supporters, as well as the U.S. politicians who have so long cooperated with them, have placed American Jewry in potential jeopardy. Realization of that potential probably requires on-going economic bad times and foreign disaster. But how far are we from that? If things get bad enough, all it would take is a spark to reinvigorate an ancient prejudice that has long laid dormant in the U.S. I can think of no one more qualified, in terms of sheer unthinking brazenness, to ignite that spark than Congressman Eric Cantor from Virginia. Maybe that is what it means to be a Republican “top gun.”
Lawrence Davidson
Department of History
West Chester University
West Chester, Pa 19383
USA
DR. LAWRENCE DAVIDSON is professor of Middle East history at West Chester University in West Chester, PA, and the author of America’s Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood (University of Florida Press, 2001), Islamic Fundamentalism (Greenwood Press, 2003), and Foreign Policy, Inc.: Privatizing American National Interest (University of Kentuck Press, 2009).
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what you don’t understand is the Almighty SHEKEL is Eric Cantor’s boss…grubbing of that takes precedent over all other things, inclusive of abiding by the Oath of Office he swore in on. Violations of the LOGAN Act don’t matter in the United States any longer, there is no Rule of Law. The president can murder any citizen, anywhere on the globe, without judicial review of any sort, presumably under CIA orders.
and who runs guys like Cantor and the CIA, you might ask yourself??? I’ll tell you who runs them. A London based zionist banking cartel by the name of ROTHSCHILDS runs them. For profit it runs them. For the never ending fleecing of others for the ALMIGHTY SHEKEL, and for world domination under military might.
So please, don’t be too hard on puppets like Eric Cantor, or for that matter, his boss puppet, Barry Soetoro. They both are doing exactly what the Knesset and the ROTHSCHILDS banking cartel want them to do. Kill, murder, rape, pillage, build settlements, and keep the world a charnel house, because as long as they do that, the shekels just keep rolling into London and the ROTHSCHILDS fortune…which is about 575 Trillion or so, or half of the known wealth on this globe.
Eric is just a shekel grubber, as are all Israeli’s who serve their ROTHSCHILDS masters. No more, and no less.
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But will anything be done in the White House about it? Probably not. No matter how egregious the offense, if it concerns Israel it will be ignored, swept under the carpet or somehow excused, however lamely.
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Is their any difference between a Jew and the nation of Israel? Jews should determine a more favorable explanation of their special identity (their being God’s chosen), for us non-Jews (the nations). What defense can anyone make in defense of Jewry? I am honestly interested to know the answer. What is a Jew?
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Follow the money.
The Azkenasi, a old tribe, is still thriving and expanding. They stole the jewish faith, and made it to its one. A reason people dont know that, is becaouse its not well known. They are the ones that is flowing the Palestinians land. A tribe that comes from sentral europa. Look at the Israeli prime min. Netanyahu, his from Poland,hehe a jew?.
The evidenses are obvius, look howe they treat the Beta Israelis, the racist behavior, iven iagainst the indiginous Israelis. To me the Israeli people, is the original people of Palestina, those jews has been ther sins it originated, thousend of years ago.
. Take a look aroud you, are there Jewish peoples bean hunted in your hood. Probaly not, butt the ongoing calm, may not last forever, and the only one that can do somthing, are the jews themself.
Wake up Israel.
Its not the Palestinians that is the problem, its Israels perseption of them self. For enybody that sypathises whit Israel and its people, its painfull to watch.
“I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true. I believe that, by the grace of God, men will awake presently and be men again, and colour and laughter and splendid living will return to a grey civilisation. But that will only come true because a few men will believe in it, and fight for it, and fight in its name against everything that sneers and snarls at that ideal.”
— Leslie Charteris (The Last Hero)
free Palestina
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There’s no doubt that zionist Jews have made exceptional effort to call Israel the Jewish State, and there’s no doubt that way too few Jews have done little to dispell that notion, so as such the Jews , in general must swallow the sins of Israel – and they are numerous. To avoid this, they must rise up and reject israel and the very notion of a racially exclusive Nation. I don’t see that happening. There are many mor elayers to this, including the fact that we no longer have a Nation, it is merely a brainless pitbull programed to kill Israel enemies. Z.O.G. comes to mind – Zionist Occupied Money. People are waking up, which is why Joe “Tel Aviv Lieberman” is working overtime to control the internet. Just wait till people realize fully that 9/11 was an inside/outside job, with Mossad central to it’s causation. Go to Rediscover9/11.com. Peter
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Cantor is now House Majority Leader which should magnify his potential for hubris and calumny.
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This excellent article echoes a major theme of the three=volume American edition of my book ZIONISM: THE REAL ENEMY OF THE JEWS (www.claritypress.com) I would put it this way… With the Zionist lobby’s stooges in Congress as friends, American Jewry does not need enemies.
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Enter “Hate Crimes” legislation…
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One more of our “representatives” to add to the list of traitors that put the welfare of another country ahead of our own.
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Indeed, the United States provokes antisemitism:
November 15, 2010 – ’U.S. President Barack Obama has praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for urging his cabinet to accept a U.S. proposal to extend a freeze on West Bank settlement building for 90 days. Under the plan, Washington would block UN resolutions critical of Israel, and supply Israel with fighter jets worth $3 billion. The US government also promised Israel that after the 90-day moratorium, they would not seek an extension, and settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem (all of which is illegal under international law) could continue unabated.’
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