AhlulBayt News Agency - The US presidential candidates race to show loyalty to the Israel as the competition heats up between them, some months before the US Presidential election which is set for November 8, 2016. At the same time, the candidates have intensified their campaigning, in which all of them put on show the amount of their passion and fidelity to Tel Aviv, in a way that crosses all the borders of objectivity. Some of them have reached a juncture to express openly their hostility to both the Arab and Muslim worlds. This manner has appeared obviously in the words of the most likely candidates for the US presidential race: The Democrat Hilary Clinton and the Republican Donald Trump. But, how do the US presidential candidates seek the Israeli satisfaction? How the Israeli lobby does influence the US’ race for presidency?
The US candidates express the loyalty to Tel Aviv
The likely Republican candidate for the presidential election Donald Trump has stated commitment to continuing a powerful US alliance with the Israel once he is chosen as the president of the US in November 2016 elections, asserting, at the same time, that he would resist any UN’s efforts to impose its demands on Tel Aviv.
Addressing the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Trump has stated that he would have the back of Tel Aviv, Washington’s trusted ally, in any process of peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians. In a move to cast doubt on the so-called future peace process, Trump has maintained that any attempt by the UN to impose a Middle East deal on the conflicting sides would result in a catastrophe. Furthermore, the Republican front-runner has accused the Palestinians of terror actions, and of being an impediment to what he called the peace process.
Trump did not stop at that point as he said that the terror group ISIS- Islamic State in Iraq and Syria- would live for good. “Nobody on this stage is more pro-Israeli than I am,” said the presidential racer Trump, expressing his pro-Tel Aviv standings at the debate. Additionally, Donald Trump said that he was proud of having a Jewish daughter.
On the other side, the Democrat front-runner Hilary Clinton has tried to buy more backing of the US’ Jewish communities as she has sent a letter to the Jewish American billionaire Haim Saban, saying that “in next war I would let Israel kill 200,000, not just 2,000 Gazans”, should she becomes the president of the US. Clinton, in her address to the AIPAC, has said that the American-Israeli alliance had become more necessary than any other time in the past, insisting that Washington and Tel Aviv should boost security and diplomatic cooperation to face the common enemies of the US and the Israel.
The Democrat candidate also touched on the recent Al-Quds’ intifada, maintaining that in a time that the Israel is facing stabbings, shootings and running over the Israelis in the streets, and the Israeli families are living in continued fear, the Palestinian leaders must stop inciting violence and praising anti-Israeli operations and awarding the families of the "martyrs."
The significance of the Israeli lobby’s influence in US presidential election
The Israeli lobby is significant because it owns the power to influence who wins the presidential election thanks to the sway it holds in the global economic hubs. Moreover, the Jewry's votes have a lion share in the US election, and they are used to make the American stances lean towards those of the Israeli regime.
This is what made the Israeli pressure group to invite Trump and Clinton, as they stand as the most likely candidates of the Republicans and Democrats, to address its annual summit set for next week, to give them the legitimacy and put them on test to determine the best and most suitable candidate for the Israeli policies. Why the Israeli lobby should have the power to determine who would be the US president?
The Israeli pressure groups' strength derives from a couple of its strong points, which are:
1.The Jewry are one of the richest minorities of the world. Their influence lies particularly in the light industries and end-user products, as, additionally, they dominate the general economy. They invest their money so that they could be effective in terms of politics and media. They are considered as the greatest funders of the US presidential campaigns as they pay for 60 percent of the campaigns’ expenses, something drives the candidates to satisfy them to win their backing. This is also adoptable on the Senate and the House, with a lower cost, however. For example, in a party arranged by the famous Jewish singer Barbara Streisand in the mid-August 1996, $3.5 million dollars were collected to fund Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign. The party was attended by 700 people and every one of them donated between $500 and $12,000.
2. The Jews of the US have the great ability to establish and develop pressure lobbies. They are generally gathered in small interconnected, but active and cooperative, organizations and institutions. They are all work in line with the major Israeli lobby, especially when it comes to supporting the Israeli regime, through policies which are in accord with the American mindset. Established in 1954, the AIPAC is seen as one of the most noted Jewish communities in the US, which includes 4500 of the most famous Jewish figures in the American community. It has 50,000 donors, each of them donates between $25 and $5000 on a regularly annual basis.
3. The Israeli lobby also has a strong and influential media influence in many of the US media companies, whether those that it owns or those in which it has the biggest influence. Three most important networks fall under this category are the ABC, NBC and CBC. That is beside its owning of the most significant American cinema companies like Fox, Paramount and Universal.
Thus, the election campaigns expose the amount of need of the US candidates to the Israel. Even more, they make it crystal clear that it is the language of interests that rules the world. Competition to win the Israeli funding is not new in US elections as it has been the status covering all of the US elections. The talk today is about the way this would affect the reality of the West Asia especially that the electoral slogans and meetings are becoming more detrimental, abominable, and containing incitement against West Asia. So, what prospects does the US foreign policy is fore-making?
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source : Al Waqt News
Tuesday
29 March 2016
7:22:43 AM
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The US presidential candidates race to show loyalty to the Israel as the competition heats up between them, some months before the US Presidential election which is set for November 8, 2016.