Monday, October 15, 2007

Israel’s Bikini Economy (4 of 4)

Over the years Israel has received more than ten times the money it needs to develop a legitimate 150 billion dollar GDP which would have given her a First World economy. Yet Israel today has only a Third World economy which is made to look like a 150 billion when in reality it is nowhere near that.

What there is in Israel is a banana republic without the bananas and little else to eat. To feed a growing population, a great deal of food is imported into Israel and paid for by the American taxpayers. All the energy that the country uses is imported and paid for by the American taxpayers. Most of the other amenities are imported into Israel and paid for by the American taxpayers. No other country in the World is as poor as Israel in food, fuel and the other necessities of life.

What is called Israeli high-tech industries are offices, some of which are attached to a warehouse. These are branch plants to parent companies located in the US and owned by members of the Zionist Lobby in America. The parent companies make high-tech products inside of which are inserted parts and components which are bought in Europe and Asia.

However, instead of buying the parts and components directly from their sources, the parent company places the order with the branch plant in Israel which then orders them from the European and Asian sources. Sometimes the parts and components go to Israel to be redirected to America and sometimes they don’t even go to Israel but are shipped from their sources in Europe or Asia to America.

In either case, the branch plant in Israel bills the parent company in America a price so high that the parent shows little or no profit when it sells the finished products. As a result, it pays the American treasury little or no tax. On the other hand, the branch plant pays the European or Asian sources a fraction of what it receives from the parent company and thus registers a high profit. This value is added to the Israeli GDP and swells it beyond justification. A large tax is paid to the Israeli government and what is left is the net profit that goes to the shareholders, most of whom reside in America.

Being the Zionist Lobbyists in America and flush with easy money in their wallets, these shareholders use a fraction of the money to buy up the American Congress lock, stock and barrel. This is the same Congress which over time has quietly, methodically and deliberately set up that system of corruption, thievery, treason and now, it appears, institutionalized criminality to keep the incumbents in power and shut out aspiring new voices. And this is the same Congress which maintains the system through thick and thin with quiet consent from both sides of the isle.

The money that stays in Israel as tax is put through the multiplier mechanism and adds still more to the GDP. In addition, Israel receives an enormous amount of weapons for free from the United States, the value of which goes into the GDP. Some of these weapons are approved or mandated by the US Congress and divulged to the public while others are given "under the table" so to speak. These weapons don’t really need to be modified but they are modified anyway in Israel. A value added is attached to the modification and this too goes into the GDP.

Nothing better expresses what happens with these so-called modifications than the joke which came out of Israel not long ago. Undoubtedly the joke is a metaphor but it must have been based on some anecdotal evidence which points to a malaise that is making a few people in Israel uncomfortable with the current situation.

The joke goes this way: the warplanes that come from the United States do not have a rear view mirror. The Israelis add a mirror to them and the modification is considered to be as good as making two warplanes out of one. Since the plane was worth 50 million dollars before modification, it is now worth 100 million dollars. A value added equal to 50 million dollars for every plane received goes into the GDP and who can argue against that, especially when the issue of national security is invoked.

One thing that is neither an anecdote nor a metaphor is that every time there is a disturbance in the occupied territories, every time the Israelis build new settlements there, every time they add a section to the apartheid wall, they increase the economic activity in the country and this translates into a growth of the GDP. Thus, while the country becomes impoverished with every disturbance as the resources of the nation are used where they do not benefit the population, the GDP shows a growth and the country is falsely made to look like a First Wold country. This is called a war economy, and that’s what makes it a national security matter to be protected by secrecy and talked about in jokes, metaphors and code words.

Yes, code words. No two words have ever been abused as much as the words: Israel’s security. Everything ranging from the simple request for a donation to the most horrendous criminal acts have been justified by these two words. The people of Palestine who suffer the most because of them have proven that they will survive their effect. What is in doubt is the ability of the American political system to avoid being viewed with contempt at the thought that the two words have become a code word to mean: let the criminal congressional corruption continue. Try to curtail the blind and slavish support for Israel that the US Congress manifests and the words Israel’s security are invoked at which point the Congress genuflects and responds yes master.

As I have shown in this series, Israel’s economy is made up mainly of American cash donations, the donated American weapons, the modifications thereof, the transfer to Israel of taxes that should have gone to the American treasury, the borrowed money that is guaranteed by America which America will end up paying for, and the value added which is generated by the multiplier effect on all these moneys. Mask America out of the picture for a moment and you clearly see that Israel’s economy is an empty shell sitting on the doorsteps of a sadomasochistic massage parlor.

The parlor is run by the dominatrix Madam Israel who has one client only, the old, tired and slumbering Uncle Sam. The parlor is in effect the Zionist institution which stands on the shoulder of the sadistic ideologies that dominated the first part of the Twentieth Century and reared their heads in Europe under names like Nazism, Fascism and Communism.

But these ideologies have all been defeated and what remains is their spirit, now adopted, codified and institutionalized in Israel. The spirit lingers on because that’s what institutions do after the reason for their coming into being has vanished. And it is hard to estimate how long it will take the Zionist ideology to die a natural death or be defeated by the voices of reason. Time will tell.

What is mystifying, however, is why Uncle Sam who played a big role in defeating the evil ideologies of the past keeps on being the political, economic and military masochist to the sadistic Madam Israel. Perhaps the Administration and the Congress of the United States ought to make a sincere effort and tell the World why this is happening. Why America, why?

This is the end of the series but not the debate.