Kevin Barrett: Yes, Congress is completely owned by this Israeli lobby. If Obama wants to get his way with Congress and some of these other issues, he has to at least be seen as kowtowing to Netanyahu and it is a disgrace.”
Press TV has conducted an interview with Kevin Barrett, senior editor of Veterans Today, about the US President Barack Obama once again repeating threats against Iran over the country’s nuclear energy program.
What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Looking at the recent comments made by Barack Obama, it seems the pressure from the Israeli lobby in the US is getting to him. How far do you think he can resist in as far as coming up with a negotiated deal with Iran?
Barrett: Well he should be able to resist. After all he is in his second term. He does not have to run for re-election again. So that is the time when presidents historically have been willing to stand up at least a little bit for American interest rather than Israeli interest.
And I think President Obama has a history of not particularly seeing eye to eye with Mr. Netanyahu. So I would hope that these words of Obama’s are really just sort of empty words that he is feeding the Zionist lobby to try to keep them happy.
Unfortunately, I just don’t see why it is necessary. I think it is a disgrace to the presidency and to the United States of America that a criminal against humanity on the scale of Netanyahu who has blood all over his hands in so many ways, who is actually a prime suspect in the controlled demolition of World Trade Center in September 11, 2001- a terrible attack on the United States – he immediately went on television and said that this, his reaction was, it is very good. That was his reaction to September 11, it is very good and then he caught himself and said well actually I meant it was just good for Israel.
But he was basically celebrating 9/11 just like the dancing Israelis who were caught at celebrating the success of the demolition of the Twin Towers in New York.
Now it is just a disgrace that somebody like that can come to the United States and try to dictate to the American President how he should conduct his foreign policy. And more and more Americans are being outraged by this and were hoping that some day we will have a president with the intestinal fortitude to stand up against these Israeli mass murderers and big liars.
Press TV: Right but Mr. Barrett, this is a President who has been brought down on his knees by Congress and the spending bill that we were just discussing earlier is a prime example of it and Israeli lobbies do have a lot of impact on the way Congress decides, the way things should move in American politics. So do you see Obama buckling to that pressure?
Barrett: Absolutely. The Israeli lobby does not just have a lot of clout in Congress. It owns Congress, outright. About half of the money that is contributed to federal candidates in the US comes from Zionists and it has very strong strings attached.
This has been going on ever since we heard from President John F Kennedy who confided to his close friend Gore Vidal that he had been approached by Israeli lobby people who told him that if he would let them run his foreign policy, they would take care of all of his financial needs from then on. And the same thing has been going on ever since. Kennedy rejected the deal and that’s one of the reasons he was killed.
So yes, Congress is completely owned by this Israeli lobby. If Obama wants to get his way with Congress and some of these other issues, he has to at least be seen as kowtowing to Netanyahu and it is a disgrace.
Source : PRESS TV
