British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has said he is open to the idea that UK citizens who are jihadists and travel to Iraq or Syria to fight with ISIS could be tried for treason. (My guess is that rather than spending a great deal of money on trials he and his cabinet colleagues would prefer jihadists to be blown to pieces by air strikes). The question provoked in my mind by what Hammond said was this. Is there a case for considering treason charges against those members of the U.S. Congress whose unconditional support for Israel right or wrong drives policy in a direction that is not in America’s own best interests and, more to the point, endangers those interests?
Before I summarise my answer I want to quote from a despairing but brilliant article by Gideon Levy because what he said under the Ha’aretz headline Yankees, go home for the sake of peace provides some context for my question.
QUOTE
This may be the greatest mystery of all: the relations between Israel and the U.S.A. They are everything but logical. We have a protégé that humiliates its patron power and a power that grovels in front of its protégé; a power that acts against its own interests and a president who acts contrary to his worldview. We have a protégé whose dependence on the power grows with its effrontery and a power’s unbelievable weakness in the face of its protégé’s brazenness. It’s a wild sado-masochistic game, in which it is not clear who is the slave and who is the master, which is the power and which is its protégé.
Nothing can fully explain this phenomenon, certainly not in its current dimensions. No Israeli government has permitted itself to disregard the American administration with such impudence as the current one. No American administration has received the spitting in its face as submissively as this one. No other ally in the world, including the European powers, has dared to act so explicitly against the United States’ positions. All this is happening with Israel isolated in the world and dependent on the United States’ mercy, while its policy endangers American and global interests.
UNQUOTE
President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry are fully aware that America’s Zionist-driven failure to require Israel to end its defiance of international law is an underlying cause of Arab and other Muslim hurt, humiliation and anger and, as a consequence of that, the rising tide of anti-Americanism throughout the entire Arab and wider Muslim world. Kerry came close to acknowledging this in public when he said on returning from his last visit to the Middle East that the unresolved Israel-Palestine conflict is “fuelling recruitment for the Islamic State group.”
Question: What is a traitor?
Answer: One who is not loyal to and betrays his or her own country.
On that basis, and in the simple logic of commonsense, there is surely a strong case for saying that those men and women who are elected to the U.S. Congress and put the interests of a foreign power (Israel) before those of their own country are traitors and, because they are endangering America’s own best interests by doing so, should be charged with treason.
Unfortunately it’s not that simple because of Section 3 of Article 3 of the United States Constitution. It defines treason as specific actions, namely “levying War against [the people of the United States], or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”
Strictly interpreted that seems to mean that those in Congress who do the Zionist lobby’s bidding and by doing so endanger America’s own best interests are protected and can’t be charged with treason because the foreign power they are assisting is not a declared enemy. (Some will no doubt say that Israel did levy war against America when it attacked the U.S.S. Liberty during the Six Days War of June 1967 and should have been declared an enemy then).
But….. Is there not a case for saying that because those in Congress who support Israel right or wrong are effectively giving aid and comfort to America’s Arab and other Muslim enemies they should be charged with treason?
I think the time has come for this question to be debated in America.
Footnote
The last American to be charged with treason was Robert Henry Best in 1948. He was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Best was a journalist who worked for United Press International (UPI) and occasionally contributed to the New York Times, the Chicago Daily News and Newsweek. His act of treason was broadcasting Nazi propaganda from Germany to America.
I think there is a strong case for saying that that those in Congress who support Israel right or wrong and effectively tie the hands and feet of the occupant of the White House are endangering America’s best interests to a far greater extent than Best did.
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So long as the mainstream media is firmly under Zionist control, all ethically challenged western politicians are untouchable. That is why the Zionists have harnessed the dissemination of information as far back as 1904 and have been peddling distortions ever since.
Put simply, what is needed is a thorough decontamination of the media and absolute freedom of speech with no taboos or no-go areas, none whatsoever.
I am beginning to think there no real Americans left in the congress or senate,only groveling baboons waiting for there masters (Israel)to throw them a banana. When Rahm Emanuel ran for mayor of Chicago it was a foregone conclusion he would win. He won by a landslide, All the unions came out for him. I cannot believe their are so many people in power that are dual citizens, If push came to shove where would there loyalties lie? Not with the good old U.S of A. and that you can take to the bank.I only wish that Ron Paul could have, he was not even invited to the debate because the debates was in he won.You know and I know it is only a matter of time before we go to war for Israel.I do not wish to see my grandsons die for Israel,let them fight for their own interests, but you and I know it aint gonna happen.
It is never too late to turn a Negative into a Positive...( No matter what the nay-sayers try to make you believe. The Average ? American citizen today..in this US of A...Knows Our ? Congress has become infested with These zionist-jew creatures who think they are fooling us into Thinking they are 'serving us..but in actuality, What they are serving is This Isitreal state that was Stolen by using Every means..from the Palestinian People . It has taken A century for These Squatters in our Government to infiltrate and infest our nation to this unbelievable state of 'ill-being ! Now, we must begin in absolute Dedication.. in our efforts..in reclaiming our Country from this bunch of rotten fish. It took time to Reach this point..and it will take time to Clean our House of their infestation..Are we Awake yet ? I think so. Even fleas are not easy to eradicate...even with all the ''defenses we have at our disposal..to deal with them. So is much the same tactics must be taken if we are going to get our House back.. and Cleaned up. It just requires our Getting To iT ! Be very diligent in Who we Elect..( Check everyone who Is In Govmt. out Thoroughly.. not just Before, but through out their occupancy in our Congress, and in all phases of Our Govmt. WE Have learned the hard way that it is not bright at all..to Trust Blindly, or think we can Just Take Anyone in on Faith ! Not Any more. Let`s start Showing UP !! We must cull out the bad from the good. It can be done,but will take time to Do this job right There is too much to lose by procrastination..and So much to be gained by just ' getting the job done.'
Mr. Hart with due respect, Gideon is no friend of Palestinians. He is a typical Crypto Zionist like Dr. Chomsky.
In Israeli daily Ha'aretz (November 5, 2010) – Gideon came up with a novel idea by which the Zionist regime can isolate, neutralize and ultimately weaken the Islamic Republic.
“Iran is dangerous; an Iran that is bombed will be even more dangerous. The regime in Iran is stable; the regime after a bombing will be even more stable. Anyone who wants to strengthen it is invited to bomb. Anyone who wants to unite the Iranian people even more behind its leadership is invited to threaten and attack. Anyone who wants to spur on Iran even more to get a nuclear bomb is invited to intimidate it. Even the last of the ayatollahs knows the truth: If Afghanistan or Iraq had an atomic bomb, the United States would not have dared to invade them, and their regimes would have been spared,” wrote Gideon Levi.
“The last of the ayatollahs also knows that lashing out at Israel the occupier is the best way to preserve the regime. And in Israel, the last of the experts knows that bombing Iran will merely delay the development of a bomb by a few years. Anyone who wants to prove that Israel knows how to bomb – to bomb once again – is invited to embark on that crazy adventure,” he added.
http://rehmat1.com/2010/11/09/gideon-levy-how-to-weaken-iran/
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the Jewish couple was the only Americans executed for treason. They're tried and found guilty of stealing America's nuclear secrets for Russia in 1948.
However, Dr. Zalman Shapiro who helped Shimon Peres to steal 741 pounds of highly enriched uranium suitable for weapons production from NUMEC was honored with America's 'National Medal of Technology and Innovation' for helping US ally Israel to become a nuclear power.
http://rehmat1.com/2011/01/10/us-award-for-stealing-bomb-grade-uranium-for-israel/
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strike 1. Israel six pointed star on the sides of each?
strike 2. Congressional House seat.
strike 3. This allowed flagrant treason star , replacing our original five pointed American star , has resulted in the death's and physical damage to how many of or Finest at arms?
Three strike your out of hear, its that time of year. Also its long past time those sham zio star's are struck down from our Congressman's seats, our is that the real question. Our Congress, could show there individual loyalty to the American House' and: pin, past a Five pointed star on the sides of there seats. And show they represent America, and are Finest in harms way in the middle east contrived zio wars, First.
Ronald Douglas Kennedy
re Rehmat
The Rosenbergs were convicted of Espionage, not treason.