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the long kiss goodnight (again) .....

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If Israel's stranglehold over U.S. foreign policy is to be broken, Americans will need to be informed about the harm that Washington's unconditional support for the Jewish state is doing to American interests, say leading analysts of US-Israeli relations.

According to John J. Mearsheimer, co-author of The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, "The only plausible way to weaken the lobby's influence on U.S. foreign policy is for prominent policymakers and opinion-makers to speak openly about the damage the special relationship is doing to the American national interest." 

"Plenty of people in the United States, especially inside the Beltway, know that Israel is an albatross around America's neck," says Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. "But they are afraid to stand up and say that for fear that the lobby will attack them and damage their careers." 

"Hopefully, some of them will develop a backbone," he adds. 

Philip Giraldi, executive director of the Council for the National Interest, believes that Tel Aviv's stranglehold over Washington can be broken "only by directly challenging the power of the Israel lobby and the false narrative about how it is of value to the United States."  

Giraldi, a contributing editor to The American Conservative, says that "it must be done from the bottom up as Israel cannot be challenged in the mainstream media, Congress, and in the White House." 

"The American people must learn that Israel is and always has been a strategic liability that has done immense damage to the United States and its worldwide interests," concludes the former CIA officer. 

If there is to be an end to Israel's decades-long "sway over Congress and intimidating presidents," says Jeffrey Blankfort, a prominent Jewish American critic of Israel and its American lobby, "it will require appeals and actions beginning on a local level that inform the American people not so much about what Israel has done to the Palestinians but what its unregistered agents in the U.S., euphemistically described as 'lobbyists,' have done to destroy what little is left of American democracy and the attendant costs in flesh and blood, as well as its tax dollars." 

The Truth Will Set U.S. Free: Breaking Israel 's Stranglehold Over American Foreign Policy

Two Coalitions? Why not?

The photo finish election is now over and we are going to experience the diametrically opposed points of view of the major parties, or should we say the “Coalitions”? 

The Murdoch/ABC/Liberal/National/Miners coalition, since they all have a secret vote like the Jewish congress in the US and have now named the Labor/Independents/Greens as a "Rainbow Coalition" - I would advise Labor to take that to its heart because it could make things a lot easier as far as accusations go.

The Liberal's massive mistakes during Howard's "New Order" decade have been conveniently shelved by the MSM, the negative campaign that the Murdoch sponsored Liberals cruised through so easily - without raising a voice - all done by the Elite through their media.  I cannot even remember one ad paid for by the Coalition.

Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott should be applauded by their constituents for what they have done.  Without too much assistance from the intransient Bob Katter, these people have made a good deal with the Government to pay more attention to the regions with infra–structure and NBN. 

Does any genuine country person believe that Abbott and his Corporation masters would really give them any where near what their reps have negotiated?  Fair dinkum.

As time goes by, I predict (and hope) that the majority of Australians, especially those in regional areas, will come to understand that the Rudd Gillard government is still active but, with the constraints of those Independents, their cross-bench colleagues and the Greens.

I also believe that the Climate Change Committee will be productive and the P.M.s welcome to Malcolm Turnbull, if accepted, will add to that expertise.

Now, we know that the only thing that is sure about Abbott is that you can’t trust him in any way, so he will depend more and more on the shadow ministry which - person by person – doesn’t raise any cheers or confidence.

Julia Gillard handled the result with intelligence – Abbott like a spoiled child – the Independents and Greens with the convictions of the people they represent.

Abbott the “wrecker” will work hard between now and the Senate change-over in July but, I suspect that he hasn’t much “anti-Labor ONLY” to deal with.  NE OUBLIE.