No Scott Ritter! Joe Biden Is NOT Forced by the Israel Lobby or by Pro-Israel Public Support to Keep Supporting Israeli Genocide. He's Forced by the US Billionaire Class.
The Israel Lobby Gets Its Power from the American Ruling Class; tails don't wag dogs.
Scott Ritter may know his stuff when it comes to military questions and I’m glad he’s ringing the alarm about the danger of nuclear war, but he hasn’t got a clue about what’s going on with political power in the United States. Ritter says, starting at around time point 2:10 in his video interview below, that President Biden is forced by the Pro-Israel lobby and by U.S. public support for Israel to keep supporting Israel’s genocide and even to support Israel if/when it attacks Hezbollah in Lebanon. This is flat out false. Here’s why.
The same billionaires to whom Joe Biden is beholden are the very people who give the Israel lobby its power and use it to make sure that the U.S. government supports Israel. In other words, there is no conflict, no real disagreement, between Biden and the Israel lobby: both of them are funded by and beholden to the American ruling billionaire plutocracy. The American ruling billionaire plutocracy is not at all controlled by the Israel lobby; exactly the opposite is the case; the billionaires control and use the Israel lobby to achieve their aims. Let me explain this now.
As I show in my post titled “The Israel Lobby’s Power Comes from the American Ruling Class,” if the billionaires who control President Biden wanted to destroy the power of the Israel lobby they could easily do it in about one month; they could make it so that for a politician to get the endorsement of the Israel lobby would be like getting the kiss of death.
All even just one billionaire would have to do to destroy the Israel lobby is inform the American public of the SORDID TRUTH about Israel’s Zionist leaders, specifically the fact that the Israeli government is of, by and for Israeli billionaires
who are the enemy of the Israeli Jewish working class, and
who violently attack Palestinians for the purpose of making Palestinians a bogeyman enemy they pretend to be protecting Israeli Jews from, and
who thereby control, severely economically oppress and get rich off of the Israeli Jewish working class [I prove the above points 1, 2 and 3 with mainstream sources in my article here], and
who fund Hamas and work to keep it in power in order to make the Palestinian bogeyman enemy maximally frightening [I prove this with mainstream sources in my article here[, and
who betrayed ordinary European Jews during the Holocaust (even opposed efforts to rescue Jews from the Nazis!) in order to be able to have a Jewish working class to oppress and get rich off of in Palestine later [I prove this with mainstream source in my article here], and
who use the bogus idea of a “Jewish state” to make people who want to be on the side the ordinary Jews support those who oppress ordinary Jews [I prove this with mainstream sources in my article here].
All a billionaire would have to do to destroy the Israel lobby and turn the public—including passionately pro-Israel Jews!—against the Israeli government is to form an independent media network1 (as Oprah Winfrey, worth "only" $2.5 billion created OWN) and use it to tell the public the sordid truth—the CLASS truth—about Israel's Zionist ruling class. They could also commission somebody like Steven Spielberg to direct a blockbuster film all about this sordid truth, or a similar TV series that would profoundly change the public’s understanding of Zionism the way ROOTS profoundly changed the public’s understanding of race. Very quickly the Israel lobby would be dead in the water, no matter how much money it got from any Israeli government. It would then be apparent that the Israeli tail does not in fact wag the American dog.
The reason no U.S. billionaire does this is because they don’t want to do it. They want the U.S. to keep supporting Israel. How come? Read some of the reasons here:
To the above reasons could be added the billionaires’ happiness at seeing American have-nots pitted against each other by being divided into “Pro-Palestine” versus “Pro-Israel” camps2 in addition to all the other ways our rulers pit us against each other (that I discuss here.)
If, for whatever reason, U.S. billionaires should in the future decide that it is in their interest to stop supporting Israel (and they might), then we’ll start to see them informing the public of at least some of the sordid truth about Zionism, and PRESTO!, the Israel lobby will be a thing of the past and the American president, whoever it happens to be, will have no problem whatsoever in ending U.S. support for the Israeli government.
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Yes, Zionists control much of the U.S. mass media. So what? A billionaire could create an independent anti-Zionist mass media. That’s the difference between billionaires and people like you and me, right?
The people in the two opposing camps believe one or other of the following, BOTH of which wrongly accept the Big Lie that Israeli violence against Palestinians is for the purpose of making Israeli Jews safe:
A. “Because Israeli violence against Palestinians is for the purpose of making Israeli Jews safe, therefore we should all support Israel.
B. “Despite the fact that Israeli violence against Palestinians is for the purpose of making Israeli Jews safe, nonetheless we should all support the Palestinians and not Israel because genocide for any purpose is wrong.”
If people knew the sordid truth—the CLASS truth—about Zionism, then hardly anybody (except rich people) would support Israel because they would know Israeli violence was not for the purpose of making Israeli Jews safe but rather for the purpose of making Israeli billionaires even richer.
The ruling class censors the CLASS truth in order to make sure its divide-and-rule strategy works.
This makes more sense to me than anything else I’ve read. I also have read a post by an Israeli everyday citizen saying the same thing. They emphasized that Israel is ruled by its ultra rich just as the U.S. is.