The annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
conference got under way yesterday and wasted no time in kicking off
the proceedings with Republican presidential candidate John ‘Bomb
Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran’ McCain launching into a hate tirade
against Iran by accusing his likely presidential election opponent,
Barack Obama, of having ‘policies toward Iraq and Iran [that] would
create chaos and endanger the United States and Israel’. It’ll be
interesting to see how Obama responds to McCain’s accusations when
he gets to address AIPAC. Hillary Clinton too is down to address the
conference and, if by the time she appears she has decided that
she’s still in the running, it’ll be interesting to see what she has
to say as well. If, on the other hand, Hillary has decided to
withdraw from the Democrat race, it will be just as interesting to
see how closely whatever remarks she makes to the conference fall in
line with Obama’s. Either way, it’s going to be interesting.
On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is scheduled to
address the conference. He will, no doubt, be telling them and the
world how evil the Iranians are for developing nuclear power and how
underhanded they are being because they may be pursuing nuclear
weapons. And the audience, of course, will be totally oblivious to
the superb irony of an underhandedly nuclear armed Israel telling
the world that Iran is secretly developing nuclear weapons.
Well, why not? The world fell for it last time when they accused
that other thorn in the side of Israeli aspirations for a Greater
Israel, Iraq, of secretly developing nuclear weapons long after
they’d actually given the idea away. Surely, they believe, the world
will fall for it again. And, while they’re at it, they will more
than likely accuse Syria of the same thing in the hope that two
birds might be killed with the same stone if they could just get
America to do the job for them.
And while the US is dealing with Iran, it would leave Israel free to
deal with Hamas in the Gaza and Hezbollah in south Lebanon.
There’s a lot riding on this years AIPAC conference what with it
being the last one to be held during the Bush administration and,
therefore, the last opportunity the American Israel Lobby has to
effectively call for America to attack Iran. They know that a US
under an Obama administration will not be likely to attack Iran. For
this reason, the ‘Hate Iran Week’ will be the most intens