Ted Deutch - no debate about it, Israhell to dictate America military action

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Phil Giraldi tells us about the plot against American independence by Ted Deutch .  https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ted-deutch

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The second bit of government-by-deception inevitably relates to America's best friend Israel. One recalls that Congress frequently returns from recess and finds that its first order of business is doing something for the Jewish state, pandemic or no pandemic. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee recently passed, without any public discussion or floor debate, the United States-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act of 2020.

The purpose of the Senate bill, S.3176, is to codify into law the military aid, inclusive of extra funding for missile defense, committed to by the United States for Israel in a 2016 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). Readers will recall that the package, negotiated by President Barack Obama, uniquely guarantees $3.8 billion per year for ten years. S-3176 was introduced to the upper chamber and co-sponsored by boy-Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who enthused "I was proud to reintroduce this bipartisan bill that strengthens our nation's strategic security alliance with Israel, a vibrant democracy that faces growing and unprecedented threats to its security and stability."

When the original MOU was issued, Senator Lindsey Graham remarked that he and other Senators would regard the annual payment as a minimum, that Israel would still expect, and receive, special authorizations as needed. S.3176 would appear to reflect that pledge by Graham, as it includes revised language stating that the annual payment would be "not less than" the $3.8 billion.

The bill also extends Congressional permission for the Pentagon to increase "forward-base" weapons stockpiles in Israel, which the Jewish state can now access as needed without having to provide any notice or seek any approval. Beyond that, the lengthy document is positively dripping with more money for Israel in the form of various co-production and cooperative schemes that will bring absolutely no benefit to the United States.

After the Senate bill is approved in its final form, which will occur imminently, it would then need to reconciled with a similar but possibly even more extreme bill passed by the House in July 2019 by a voice vote, also without any debate or discussion. The House version was introduced by passionate Zionist Congressman Ted Deutch, Democrat of Florida. It would allow Donald Trump or whoever succeeds him to determine that if "Israel is under an existing or imminent threat of military attack" the White House could "direct the immediate transfer to Israel of such defense articles or services the President determines to be necessary to assist Israel." In other words, the president acting alone could involve the United Starts in a war on behalf of Israel without any approval process, only relying on what Israel is telling him or her about an alleged impending threat. 

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Meet Ted Deutch, an anti-Palestinian Jewish leader
https://mondoweiss.net/2022/10/meet-ted-deutch-an-anti-palestinian-jewish-leader/?ml_recipient=69305265999054374&ml_link=69305016066770665&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2022-10-18&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines

Ted Deutch, the 56-year-old fresh face at the American Jewish Committee, was introduced on a Zoom published on Facebook last week and the debut was remarkable: Deutch erased Palestine.

The former Florida Congressman spoke repeatedly of the Israeli "miracle" and its gifts to the world over 45 minutes. He did not once refer to Palestine or Palestinians.

The cheerful CEO was eager to talk about many people and places he cares about: Uzbekistan, Russia, the Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus, Haiti, Buenos Aires, Paris, the United Arab Emirates, the Gulf countries, Europe, Boca Raton, the African American, Hispanic and Asian American communities. All got name-checked by Ted Deutch in his introductory video. Never Palestinians or Palestine.

The webinar was a living, breathing demonstration of anti-Palestinianism in the Jewish establishment. And I thought that maybe the American Jewish Committee would try to become more worldly with the departure of David Harris. No, they've just doubled down, like the ADL has with Jonathan Greenblatt.

Deutch called Israel "our state of Israel" and made clear that he was indoctrinated in Zionism as a boy in the Jewish community, and has never cared to look outside that worldview. He told of going to a religious Zionist camp in Pennsylvania for ten years from 12 on. "That as much as anything helped to form my Jewish identity, my proud Zionist identity, and it's what's informed so much of what I've done ever since."

Throughout his remarks, Deutch expressed an identification of Judaism and Zionism. Jewish life in the U.S. is centered for him on the "miracle" of Israel. His new job allows him "to be in a place where I could work every day to try to bring our community together to advocate for one another and collectively in defense of our state of Israel and the U.S.- Israel relationship especially."

Any effort to delegitimize Israel as a Jim-Crow state is of course antisemitism in Deutch's view.

"We're going to work to make sure that people understand that when a group says that Israel the one Jewish state in the world does not have the right to exist, that that's antisemitism, and we're going to come together to oppose it."

Of course Deutch did the same in the House of Representatives when he was representing the good people of Fort Lauderdale. "For 12 years... Ted Deutch was Israel's best friend in Congress," AJC crows.

Deutch auditioned for his job on the House floor in September 2021 by smearing Rashida Tlaib as an antisemite when she dared to cite reports by Human Rights Watch and B'Tselem saying that Israel practices apartheid.

Now Deutch's job is to lobby officials at the highest level in capitals around the world, "to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people in Israel." And the AJC starts with American pols at the local level, long before they get to Congress:

"Those of us who care so deeply about the US Israel alliance understand that you can't wait until someone decides that they're going to run for Congress when they'll be making foreign policy decisions to start to talk about the importance of Israel. And the relationships that are formed at the state and local level with mayors and state legislators and county commissioners who will become congresspeople senators and cabinet officials– those relationships set the stage for an ongoing dialogue about the importance of the U.S.-Israel alliance."

Deutch said he's now going to be working with Republicans as he did not in the past. Because Israel can't afford to have its support politicized. "I understand how important it is to be a nonpartisan advocate...working with Republicans.... It's almost the inverse of what I have experienced before." [/quote]

Deutch said his own feelings about Israel were cemented as a teenager. First at camp. Then he went to the University of Michigan and was active in the Hillel, an organization his wife works for today, and led protests of the student newspaper for editorials critical of Israel. Israel was central.

"This was something we talked about at home, the Jewish community spent 2000 years hoping and praying for an opportunity to return to the state of Israel... I felt then the way that I do still all these years later as we are headed toward Israel's 75th, the miraculous modern state of Israel, its just an incredible thing to behold what Israel is and has become. Yes it's the homeland for the Jewish people and that's within me and I think within all of us, but beyond that it's become this modern miracle of innovation and technology and contributes so much to the well being of the world and addressing some of the biggest problems the world faces."

Deutch's comments reminded me that Tom Friedman also got his indoctrination as a Zionist camper, in Wisconsin, reenacting the Dreyfus trial. "Israel had me at hello," he explained to a Jewish audience in 2019, when he said his job as a columnist was to back Israel.

Ted Deutch debuted as CEO of the American Jewish Committee in a 45-minute video that erased Palestine. The former Congressman repeatedly praised the "miracle" of "our state of Israel" but did not once refer to Palestine or Palestinians. The cheerful CEO gushed about his Zionist indoctrination as a youth and was eager to talk about any place and people but Palestinians: Uzbekistan, Russia, the Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus, Haiti, Buenos Aires, Paris, the United Arab Emirates, the Gulf countries, Europe, Boca Raton, the African American, Hispanic and Asian American communities. All got name-checked by Ted Deutch. Never Palestinians.