YES ! ...JOHN KERRY IS WORKING TO SCUTTLE ISRAEL-INDIA ARMS DEAL...AND SO AM I:
LTGJC February 14, 2014
The Report: John Kerry is Working to Scuttle Israel-India Arms Deal was shown to me by a Jewish friend who has been a very vocal supporter of Secretary Kerry. He wanted me to assure him that the story was not true.
I explained to him that it was likely that the story was true. I told him that every Secretary of State, every Secretary of Defense, every member of my staff and I would do exactly the same. That US has its interests which I fight for day and night.. And Israel has its own (sometimes conflicting) interests which it should provide for day and night.
I told him that the best thing American liberal Jews could do for Israel, for the US, and for peace in the Middle East is to SHUT UP AND stop going public with their pronouncements and opinions ,especially those that run counter to the official policy of whatever government at the time is in charge in Israel. These actions only encourage the rejectionists in the Islamic world and the anti-Israel elements within the US government.
Further ,from Rosner:those Jews on a quest to weaken AIPAC should know better. They aren't just weakening the support for Israel, they are also weakening the communal power of the American Jewish community.
This community has had great achievements when it acted with a unified voice – just read the story about the battle to free Russian Jews from their forced imprisonment within their country. But a community that is fractured, that doesn't speak with one voice, that is constantly attacking its own immune system, will be a weakened community. If AIPAC is the most visible manifestation of unapologetic, self-confident Jewish political power in America, weakening it would come with a price tag – and not just for those who want to see a robust Jewish support for Israel. It would come with a price tag for the American Jewish community.
ATTACKERS OF AIPAC ARE MEMBERS OF ONE OF TWO GROUPS: THOSE WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS SIMPLE FACT – AND THOSE WHO DON'T MUCH CARE FOR HAVING A JEWISH COMMUNITY. SO YES, IT IS GOOD NEWS (REPORTED BY JONATHAN TOBIN) THAT SOME MEMBERS OF THE "COMMUNITY"ARE LOOKING TO FIGHT BACK.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is pressuring the Indian government to pull out of a pending deal to purchase Spike missiles from Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Ltd., one of the Jewish state’s top arms manufacturers, Israeli daily Ma’ariv reported on Thursday.
Until recently, it appeared that the major arms contract between Israel and India was all but finalized, according to the report. The Spike missiles were tested extensively by the Indian army, which had reportedly agreed to spend millions of dollars on the rockets.
At the last moment however, John Kerry along with other senior U.S. government officials began to exert political pressure on the Indians to renege on their agreement with Israel.
According to Ma’ariv, the Americans’ motivation for meddling is financial. The U.S. government is reportedly trying to lure India into acquiring American-made Javelin missiles instead of the Israeli Spike. Washington is allegedly making an offer that it hopes New Delhi won’t be able to refuse: active participation in the development of the next U.S. anti-tank missile.
Evidently, serious cuts to the U.S. defense budget have resulted in a scramble by the U.S. government to line up contracts for the mammoth American defense industry in an effort to prevent this major provider of American jobs from drying up, according to Ma’ariv.
To date, it is unclear whether the Indians will back out of their deal with Israel.
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