Hamas War

Monday, September 4, 2023

About That Golda Movie and American Friendship sic

 

photo taken in Yad Veshem
בכל דור ודור
In every generation

I understand that many viewers think it's like a documentary. 

We had made aliyah three years before the war and were living in Bayit Vegan at the time. 

It didn't take me long to be very suspicious of the Americans, especially Kissinger. Time has only strengthened these feelings. 

Does the movie show Golda asking Kissinger why the Americans told Israel that there was nothing to worry about, when there had been unusual activity on the Egyptian front? She should have asked Kissinger, and she shouldn't have been so naïve as to trust him. 

Nixon sent him, knowing that Kissinger could easily con the Israelis. This is what I've suspected ever since the war was going on. 

Around thirty years ago, an old friend called from the states and told me that a friend of hers had been in the American Army in 1973. That August he was stationed in Germany and they were suddenly confined to base. Later on they were given desert equipment, still confined to base. Only after Israel miraculously and unexpectedly defeated the Arabs, their status changed. That really made me think that something stank.

Bruce Brill's book, Deceit of an Ally, only confirmed my suspicions. I highly recommend that you read Brill's book, his memoirs of the the Yom Kippur War while working for American National Security Agency (NSA.) 

Every time I hear an Israeli Government official or some commentator blithely state that America is Israel's closest ally, friend, etcetera, all I can think is with friends like that we don't need enemies.

I remember the 1967 Six Days War well and have studied Israel's earlier history. It's very clear that our greatest victories were without any human or diplomatic help. It was very obvious and clear to me in 1967 that The USA was happy to stay on the sidelines, dumb--meaning mute--not saying a word against the countries trying to destroy Israel. And in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War, the USA was trying to create a military stalemate and get Israel to beg to become a protectorate. Kissinger was then slated to be the first "caretaker," military governor or whatever they or he had been planning to call the position. 

And about recent decades, please don't tell me that America gives Israel "aid." It gives Israel BUY IN AMERICA shopping coupons. which strengthen (subsidizes) American military industries and cripples/restricts Israel's. There are all sorts of "strings" connected to these gifts. The IDF Israel Defense Forces has become a sort of drug addict, addicted and dependent on these American products instead of producing and marketing our own. Even worse, our brilliant technology is used by the Americans which they use to control us.

Please think about it. Maybe I sound crazy, but as it's said:

Even paranoids can have enemies!

4 comments:

L. King said...

It's helpful to remember that the US (or any country) has multiple factions who disagree with each other. Dismissing a country because one faction opposes you is to hand an unnecessary victory to that side.

Batya said...

There are those in power and in contrast the opposition. I haven't heard many American officials admitting what I've written. Actually, besides a rare Right wing commentator, I've heard nobody admitting that the American government has been duping Israel for half a century and more. Unfortunately, I've heard virtually no Israeli politicians say what's true. There are just a few of us who see it clearly and we have no power.

HDG, Yerushalayim, E"Y Shlemah said...

Absolutely right, Batya.

A lot of people I'm in contact with "over there" call the US political setup a "uniparty" rather than a two-party system these days. They look back and realize that it's been that way all along.

We could say that Esav still hates Yaacov. He hides it very cleverly and reveals it only when we're cornered and he thinks we'll lose.

Batya said...

HDG, for sure. And Jews, whether American or Israeli, mostly see friendship when there's hatred.