Israel is a parasitic albatross that is firmly latched on to America's neck. It not only prevents the host from reaching its full potential where America once sat as the acknowledged lone superpower; it does worse in that it pulls the host into the pits, and manages to do so with more force than a tail can wag a dog. Although America's losses extend in all areas of a nation's endeavors as a result of this absurd situation, the areas that illustrate America's losses more starkly than any are the military and economic ones. And the place where these two come together is the Middle East; more specifically it is the relationship that America maintains with Israel in the economic and military fields and the consequences of this relationship with regards to the neighboring countries. I shall expand on these points in a moment but first, I need to mention a lesson I learned when I was a toddler before I even realized I was learning something.
I heard a story when I was a child which may or may not have been entirely true but must have had some truth to it. I heard that the Americans were having such a big harvest of wheat that year; they were throwing it in the sea because they could not sell it locally or abroad, and they did not have the space to store it. For some reason the story never left my memory and I kept looking at it freshly every so often as I grew up. I also kept analyzing it anew every time I thought of it until I was well into my adult years. In time, I came to realize there were three things I should take from this story. First, if you are going to produce something, you better have a market for it. Second, if you don't have a market big enough to move the entire production, you should have a place where you can store the surplus. Third, if you expect to be producing more of the thing year after year than you can sell or store, you should reduce the production of the thing and take it easy or start producing something else beside it, something that is more in demand.
What this story says in essence is that America had an excess capacity in the means to produce wheat, and faced with a harvest it could not sell, it got rid of the excess by throwing it away. Today, America finds itself saddled with an excess capacity in many fields of production to which it has responded in a different fashion. The way America responded this time is that the companies laid off some of their workers and they cut back on the production of what they produce, whatever these are. In effect then, instead of producing and throwing away the excess production, the companies did the equivalent of taking it easy and they gave their workers a vacation they did not ask for.
Luckily, the problem is only a temporary one in that it happened because the consumers were forced by circumstances to cut back on their purchases, and the reasonable expectation is that these customers will return to their normal buying habits sooner or later. But the pain that the situation is causing is undeniable. It is bad enough when a handful of wheat farmers are forced to take it easy where the government can step in and help out until a permanent solution is found; it is another matter when scores of companies throughout the economy lay off millions of people who have nowhere to go but sit and wait for the economy to pick up again. In a case as difficult as this, no country can afford to take it easy because the government will not have the wherewithal to help everyone, let alone do it on a sustained basis if it will come to that. And if there are no alternatives and the government is forced to maintain a helping hand for too long, it will most certainly damage the finances of the nation, something that should be avoided. And so the question is this: What can America do under these circumstances if a solution is not forthcoming soon enough?
At first, a casual observer would be puzzled upon learning that such a thing happened to America given this country's resilience and its brilliant legacy in the economic field. The automatic assumption would have been that the country will find under its belt several alternatives from which to choose a workable combination as it has always done and has always solved its problems. But such has not been the case this time and there is a reason why. When you look deep into it, you find that the economic and military relation which America maintains with Israel has created an abnormal situation leaving the country in the toilet to put it mildly. To understand how this happened, we need to grasp the nature of the Israeli economy and know what sort of requirements it has had for which the American working people were made to pay the price.
From 1948 to 1956 the Israeli economy proceeded more or less along a normal path as all starting economies do. Then came the Anglo-French campaign over the Suez Canal in 1956 where Israel was invited to come along, observe the operation and learn the ways of the dying colonial empires. This has had a profound effect on the leaders of Israel that ruled at the time, and the leaders that came after them in the decades that followed. Instead of proceeding on a path that would have led Israel to seek a political accommodation with its neighbors and possibly fashion an economic integration as well, the leaders of Israel drew up an economic and military plan that was an abrupt shift away from the normal path. No longer was the objective of those leaders to build the homeland that was yearned for by ordinary Jews, a homeland where they could go and live in peace with their new neighbors. Instead, the leaders of Israel worked hand in hand with the heads of the Zionist movement worldwide to revive the old Zionist dream of expanding their control far and wide without setting a limit beforehand as to how far or how wide they will go before they say they are satisfied.
This meant that several steps had to be taken among which to build and to maintain an economy of high consumption so as to entice and to attract new Jewish immigrants to Israel. It also meant the mobilization of the local workforce to serve in the army and to work in the military industrial complex. But this also meant that someone outside of Israel had to bankroll the civilian part of the economy; something the world Jewry was able to arrange for. It brought to Israel donations and reparation payments from the rich countries, an arrangement that kept Israel afloat as long as the population was in the range of three to four million people, and the price of energy - which Israel has none - was dirt cheap. But the population of Israel grew larger, and the war of 1973 happened resulting in the price of energy rising unexpectedly, both requiring the inflow into Israel of larger amounts of money. This was the first sign of trouble for which the US Congress was called upon to help; and it did early in the decade of the Eighties.
In addition to these developments something else was happening for which the Israeli planners had to find a more permanent solution. Here is the problem they faced. Up to now the Israeli military industrial complex was manufacturing small arms and munitions for which there was all sorts of demand because of the little wars that were raging in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Israel sold to both sides in almost every conflict that erupted spontaneously or with the encouragement of its agents. But this commerce was becoming small potato considering Israel's expanding needs. What the planners needed now were big governments having big bucks and prepared to spend them on big items. Since you cannot produce big items without building a military industrial complex that rests on heavy industries such as steel mills, copper smelters, aluminum plants, nickel and zinc refineries as well as factories that house small, medium and massive machines, all of which are beyond the reach of a small and primitive economy such as Israel's, the technical planners were prepared to abandon the dream. Worse, they discovered that they also needed facilities staffed with scientists, engineers, technicians, journeymen and assemblers with years of experience in R&D, in testing and in modifications - all the things that these people must do before the weapon systems are made to operate perfectly. And of course, the Israelis would also need a huge workforce to mass produce those units, something Israel will never have. In short, what the Israelis needed was to transport into Israel the entire American Rust Belt and a good part of the Empire State and California before they could produce the weapons they dreamed to produce. And it was this last thought that brought into the planning stage both the political class in Israel and the brains at the helm of world Jewry. And together, they came up with the bright idea of engineering a miracle.
They said to themselves and to each other that if they cannot transfer the American industrial heartland to Israel, they should bring to Israel the hearts and minds of the decision makers in America who will be trained to bite each other in the back as they compete to betray their own country and slavishly serve the interests of Israel. This done, the American decision makers will allow the transfer to Israel not just of money and weapons but also of military technology that the Israelis could then sell to America's rivals such as Russia and China; and that would be worth a lot of money. In fact this is what happened, and it happened in broad daylight because the point was repeatedly made that there was no daylight between America and Israel. The American officials looked the other way while the treachery was in progress knowing that they will not be prosecuted for treason or anything like that having the Jews on their side to give them a good press and to defend them against accusations concerning what they did and what they failed to do. The Israeli-Zionist plan worked like a charm and this is where things stand now. No daylight between the two and treason in broad daylight.
So much for the military relationship between America and Israel. On the economic front, the Israelis and their Jewish backers worldwide were mostly interested in keeping America from trading with the Arabs, an interest that has since evolved into keeping America from trading with any country in the Muslim World. And this is because having an economy that is not worth a dog's fart, the Israelis were not going to pit their economy against that of the Arabs or the Muslims whose potential to do America some good was like looking at a cargo ship full of wheat being traded for an oil tanker, and comparing this picture with the rear end of a dog that is suffering from diarrhea - and you can guess which side represents Israel in this metaphor. Thus, the need to mobilize the Israeli-Zionist propaganda machine and to continually sabotage any trade relationship that may develop between the United States and the Arab or Muslim Worlds. Parallel to this, the Jewish propaganda machine was put in charge of describing the Israeli economy as if it contained all the businesses in the world where a Jew happens to hold a share or two. And the machine has managed to make it look like these businesses were up and producing in Israel - a fraud by any name.
Aside from the fraud, what is wrong with this set up is that it violates the tenets of sound economics. To have a successful economy, you take stock of the areas where you have a competitive advantage and develop them to the hilt because this is where you know you can produce good commodities and good products at a reasonable price. This done, you look for a potential trade partner that has a competitive advantage in the areas where you have little or none. Knowing that he has good commodities or products he sells at a reasonable price, you trade your surpluses for his surpluses; and you both gain from the transaction. Thus, when the Israelis and the world Zionist movement sabotage potential transactions between the Arabs and the Americans, each side loses a little but because the Arabs sell a non-perishable commodity while the Americans sell commodities that are perishable and industrial products that become obsolete with time, America's losses stack up higher than those of the Arabs. Therefore, in doing what they do, the Jews stab America in the heart to slap the Arabs in the face which is okay with the Jews because it is all done for the glory of Israel.
You can imagine what it would be like if the American excess capacity that now sits idle was made to produce billions of dollars worth of goods and services to be sold to the Arabs and the Muslims for cash or be exchanged for oil. Given that almost they alone enjoy booming economies during these hard times, and having lots of cash on hand while everyone else is stagnating and teetering at the edge of a depression, America could be trading with them and putting millions of Americans back to work earning an honest living and raising their families in dignity. But no! America is prevented from looking after its own because it does not suit Israel and does not agree with the requirements of the Zionist dream of which the leaders of America have been trained and were conditioned to blindly serve with unquestioned obedience and a religious fervor that is absolute. A huge crime is being committed here and no one is held accountable.
But the wake up call has been sounded and someone must wake up soon in America, see the parasitic Albatross that is Israel latching on to America's neck, feel revolted by the ugliness of the sight and start to get rid of the parasite or the country will be strangled by it and sucked dry at the jugular.