Andrew Stewert: The Israel Lobby, the Syrian War and the Meaning of Empire

1. This is probably one of the most informative articles I have ever read. The way the world is today is a mystery, but this solves some of the puzzle and ties the opposing parts together. Why the world wars, why Israel, and who are the Neocons and the neoliberals. That Israel and the Neocons don't control Washington, but that the Anglo-Saxon US oil-banking conglomerate does, which also controls Israel. 
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3. http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/12/the-israel-lobby-the-syrian-war-and-the-meaning-of-empire/

   To my mind, this claim about PNAC is the most mistaken diagnosis of power relations in regards to the Pentagon I have come across in a long time. What we are dealing with is a chicken-and-egg scenario, a question of whether PNAC controlled the Pentagon or whether the Pentagon created PNAC.

    The idea that Zionism controls America is based in a romantic narrative of governance that is racist. The unstated thesis of the entire argument is “Once upon a time America was a benign, good place and then Zionism hijacked our foreign policy, taking us down a path we would otherwise not have walked.”

    But that is pure white supremacist fantasy, a Disney vision of history

4. There seems to be a series of debates going on in activist circles these days that are inter-connected, the continued plight of Alison Weir and her abysmal treatment by various NGOs and the issue of who to stand in solidarity with in regards to Syria. Both are informed essentially by one foundational theoretical point, the argument over the role of the neocons in Washington and the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), with a significant group of people seeing everything going on in the region rooted in the PNAC policy suggestions that led us down the road to the war on Iraq and continued the brutalization of the Palestinians under George W. Bush.

   I think that, when we get right down to it, the ideas about PNAC are symptomatic of a kind of racism that needs to be squashed and by this I do not mean racism against white people, usually bandied about in the canard of anti-Semitism. No, what I refer to is a fundamental and irreconcilable delusion about America that only Dr. Gerald Horne and a few other scholars like Constance and Ned Sublette have dared challenge.

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