No Progress Without Tradition: Clayton Swisher - Undercover Investigation of the Israel Lobby

Clayton Swisher - Undercover Investigation of the Israel Lobby
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Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Published on Mar 29, 2017
Full speech given by Clayton Swisher (director of investigative journalism for Al Jazeera) discussing the making of “The Lobby”, a four-part undercover investigative series exposing the Israeli Embassy’s covert influence campaign in the UK at the "Israel Lobby and American Policy" conference on March 24th, 2017 at the National Press Club.
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Charles Kesner

1 week ago

Israel the real threat to US sovereignty.

nash984954

3 months ago

AIPAC is not registered as a Foreign lobby in the USA, and lawmakers refuse to make them.In effect making Israel and America's agenda the same. Cynthia McKinney had her district removed out from under her because she refused to pledge a signature to Israel. They smeared her, and ruined her political career basically. Every US lawmaker is under the gun if they refuse to go with AIPACs agenda. Sen Ben Cardin sponsored S720 a draconian law that would punish you for supporting BDS or anything against Israel. Jail time and huge fines. ZIONISTS are the most deceitful, dishonest and reprehensible slime dogs on earth. They are all a bunch of fascistic psychopaths who have destroyed Palestine for its indigenous peoples.

"If you had any heart in you, you'd be crying for the Palestinians." was a moment when Norman Finkelstein who is normally guarded in his speech not wanting to say or misrepresent the issues he speaks on. But when they tried to use the suffering of his parents in the Holocaust and others to justify the cruelty of the military occupation, the brutalisation of the Palestinians, demolition of their homes and leaving them homeless, he then says he refuses to allow the croc tears of it to be intimidated when they do these things and he then said from deep in his heart and in a rare unguarded moment spoke of how he felt about this terribly painful situation Palestinians are in that the Zionists have done to them.

"If you had any heart in you, you'd be crying for the Palestinians."-Norman Finkelstein

Redbaron9495

1 month ago

Need to kick them all out of positions of influence.....including Media. They are all Israel "Firsters"

TBone

1 week ago

This is the very reason America is not a democracy. It's all a farse to push the Greater Israel agenda.

solarmanhawaii

5 days ago

Good work by those who know right from wrong !

ZadfrackGlutz Zesozose

4 months ago

Great Work Clayton!

Marcia R. Ramsumair

2 weeks ago

That woman refused to answer a legitimate question and pulled the same anti semitic stunt to avoid legitimate concerns and questions that people may have, without even thinking about anti semitism but about seeking a just and reasonable solution to a political problem.

Marcia R. Ramsumair

2 weeks ago

Respect to Jean for standing her ground and not letting the trickster pull that lying fake stunt on her, when she was asking a political question and not a racist question.

Marcia R. Ramsumair

2 weeks ago

In most other cases, due process does not work and the judicial system is complacent in this unusual and very weird scenario.

Efraim Newman

1 week ago

The truth is inevitably smeared as anti-Semitic. Time to let allowing that smear have any power.

the Unrepentant

3 months ago

The forebears of Abraham arrived from an area north and east of the Caspian Sea. DNA reveals a genetic link between the Armenians, Kurds and the Children of Israel. Three routes from that area intersected what became known during the time of Marco Polo as the Silk Road. Traders made their way to Egypt where they sold goods and slaves.

Canaan was a province or colony of Egypt. The king’s highway. A land bridge that connects Europe and Asia to Africa. Egypt had strong fortifications all along this route. Some “Habaro” (i.e., Hebrews) remained in the land. They are also referred to as “Hyksos,” an Asiatic tribe that seized the throne and ruled Egypt for 103 years. The Biblical part about Abraham begins around 2000 BC during the 12th dynasty. It is literature and like a novel makes use of place names, but that does not mean it is history. A-Mosis, an Egyptian that conquered the Hyksos and recovered the throne is invented in the tale as Moses that led his people out. Jericho was uninhabited when Joshua arrived, having been leveled by an earthquake more than a century earlier. Cities that he claimed to have vanquished remained undefeated and unharmed more than a century past his time. Canaan remained Egyptian after which it became a territory of Assyria/Babylonia.

Monotheism began in Babylonia. Mosaic Law reflects its Babylonian origin and influences where the belief in one Supreme Being was already prevalent at the time of Abraham. Shamash the sun god absorbed the attributes of all 51 deities and was ultimately developed as the god of law and holiness. Sin, the moon god (that was not absorbed), was ruler of night with opposite characteristics. One god was supreme, but sin offerings were, nevertheless, made to the other lesser deity, according to the Bible.

Human beings were sacrificed to the god of justice and righteousness during the fire ceremony each spring at the Altar of the Sun (Salem, Soloma, present day Jerusalem) where priests had cultivated the services of a “spiritual entity,” which was derived from human sacrifice (that unlike those derived from animal sacrifice) understood and was able to facilitate the intrigues of man. This altar where Abraham received his blessing was already ancient during his time. The indigenous inhabitants were Arab,¹ which helps us understand their fanatical devotion to the concept of a higher spiritual being ensuring their interests. Arab worshippers at this stage do not mean Islamic. Islam is a religion established during the seventh century.

Under the Egyptian religious system the conduct of the deceased during his lifetime was evaluated. Was he kind, just and generous? Or was he cruel, corrupt and covetous? The selection process for entry to paradise discriminated between inherently good and inherently evil.

Mosaic Law is based on Babylonian and Egyptian practices. Hammurabi’s code was absorbed. Dietary laws, circumcision (a mark of Egyptian citizenship) and covenants (evidenced by an ark) are Egyptian. Prayers conclude with an invocation to Amen (Aha Mené) a first dynasty ruler of Egypt. (That is why Amen is pronounced aawhhh-menn and not eh-men). (The Egyptian god Amen was fused with the specialized sun god Ra during the reign of Amenhetep IV and placed at the head as the intercessor to the Creator, recognizing that the sun symbolized, but was not itself the Creator). Questions during examination of the deceased in the Egyptian text to determine his conduct during his lifetime were turned into commandments (without bothering to change the sequence) in the Bible.

The latter represented a fundamental change in philosophy. Like being provided with both the test paper and the answers beforehand. Outward appearance was all that mattered while attributes of the heart were ignored. An evil man could attain salvation by merely complying with the law.² (Note: The Promise is not of a heavenly afterlife; it is of an earthly paradise during one’s lifetime attained through genocide and obedience to the ruler of man’s earthly existence, which is NOT the Creator).

Jacob was renamed Israel, a composite title derived from three Egyptian deities, Isis, Ra, and El acknowledging Egypt as their suzerain. El being the god of its Canaanite territory. Is+Ra+El = Israel.

Historically, Canaan belonged to Egypt.

Is the purpose in life to determine the character of an individual, separating good from evil? What or who has a vested interest in defeating this test established by the Creator, changing the basis of selection for salvation from an innate desire to be righteous to that of egocentric power? Finally, what or who requires BLOOD sacrifices in order to retain and maintain its existence and augment its strength? Certainly, not the Creator. When Abraham was put to the test he revealed his willingness to slit the throat of even his own son in order to demonstrate obedience to his master in exchange for The Promise.

Which brings us to the question: What was the nature of the “spiritual entity” at (Jeru)Salem? Jesus provided the answer.³

Footnotes:

¹ “Thus sayeth the Lord God unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.” — Ezekiel, ch. 16, v. 3.

² This is like the early TV quiz shows in which each contestant was assigned a producer who gave him both the questions and the answers beforehand. An average contestant or even a retarded contestant might win the prize for being highly intelligent by merely repeating what he was told to say.

³ Jesus was fully cognizant of the true nature of the spiritual entity at the altar at Salem (Soloma, Jerusalem) whose services may be obtained with payment in blood, viz:

“And the devil, taking him up into the high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give unto thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me: and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.” — Luke, ch. 4, v. 5-8.

Solomon: Sol = sun. Om = priest of the sun. On = city of the sun. Sol+om+on = Solomon. Third temple to continue sacrifice of human beings to god of justice and righteousness at the altar of the sun.

§ The Egyptian Empire comprised Abyssinia, Sudan, Nubia, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, part of Arabia, Kurdistan and Armenia. While the story of the Exodus is entertaining the Children of Israel did not actually leave Egyptian territory and gradually migrated northward from the Delta region over the course of ten centuries after the Hyksos that had seized the throne and ruled Egypt for 103 years were dislodged. Palestine remained Egyptian throughout the period of the Judges. The kingdom of Judah was founded by David about 1000 BC, a principality extending a days’ march from Jerusalem. But was it actually independent or did it merely cease paying tribute when Egypt’s hold over Canaan was weakened by the Phoenicians and was in turn taken over by the Babylonians?

§§ That there ever was a Babylonian captivity, per se, in 598 BC is placed in doubt. When this religious sect failed to remit tribute (II Kings, ch. 17-25) their temple was destroyed and the leaders and elders were hauled off to Babylon where they joined their brethren, most of whom had earlier settled in that area (present day Iraq). Its purpose in the Bible story is to seem-to-be-seen to authenticate a belief that the Children of Israel had established sovereignty and were later exiled from the Egyptian province of Canaan (that was now a colony of Babylonia). It also provides a means of justifying the inclusion of a heavy Babylonian influence in the writings of the Bible.

§§§ The library at Alexandria was deliberately destroyed in an effort to conceal details of the history of that region. While some information has been retrieved from the interpretation of hieroglyphs and clay tablets there is likely much more that the public were prevented from discovering. Who has a vested interest in keeping this knowledge secret? The slavery rendition depicted in Hollywood entertainment that we have been conditioned to believe is based on history does not correspond to Egyptian, Assyrian and Babylonian records.

Marcia R. Ramsumair

2 weeks ago

Jeans question was very justified and required an honest answer without dancing around the question and playing deceptive games.

newblack 762

1 month ago

Isn't what they described in the film technically espionage?

Theseustoo Astyages

5 days ago

Two-state solution? That horse has already bolted... the Land-Grab Poli.. - I mean, the 'Settlement' policy saw to that.

henry dicarlo

1 day ago

That we gave 38 billion to Israel is a sin against the American people.

Barbara Alexander

1 day ago (edited)

Anybody who works for or is associated in anyway with Al Jazerra is liar and Leftist (the two nearly always go together). 'Nuff said.

MrSocialchange

1 day ago

What Netanyahu really thinks about America! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrtuBas3Ipw

Zyworski

1 day ago

I want one man equals one vote

Steve Hollahan

2 days ago

Free Ahed!

John Roderts

3 days ago

Did he say 535 israeli members in the US congress?. The heads of NATO, primarily the American idiots who must spend their lives playing war games on their play stations and watching 007 movies all of which imply Russia is the bad guy, need to divert their efforts to making friends within our world instead of wasting money and lives on starting wars and escalating minor civil disputes to full blown wars,

IMHO, the best thing that could happen to our world is a WAR between Israel and Saudi Arabia with no outside help .

Jordan Ali

3 days ago

If these guys take the money and leave. U will sleep in the street hhhhhhh u better shut up

F Busoni

1 month ago

Who is the Clayton Swisher ding dong? Another harbinger of imaginary gloom and doom. Hey Clayton, your mom is calling you.

Alex Sunderland

2 months ago

Good job free America from aipac

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