Iron Dome Is to Israel What Invisibility Paint Is to Jack the Ripper

Congress has spent billions to build a missile defense shield for the one nation in the world that most should not be shielded from the consequences of its actions.

In 1951, Congress passed and President Truman signed the first transfer of American wealth to the brand new country at the east end of the Mediterranean called Israel. The bill authorizing the payout was called “An Act to maintain the security and promote the foreign policy and provide for the general welfare of the United States by furnishing assistance to friendly nations in the interest of international peace and security,” better known by its acronym, the AAMSPFPPGWUSFAFNIIPS Act [82 H.R. 5113]. It read:

SEC. 205. In order to assist in the relief of refugees coming into Israel, not to exceed $50,000,000 of the funds authorized under section 203 hereof may be utilized during the fiscal year 1952, under such terms and conditions as the President may prescribe, for specific refugee relief and resettlement projects in Israel.

This was only three and a half years after Jewish terrorists entered Deir Yassin, a small Palestinian village sitting on a hill west of Jerusalem and slaughtered the inhabitants.

From Al Jazeera:

According to a 1948 report filed by the British delegation to the United Nations, the killing of “some 250 Arabs, men, women and children, took place in circumstances of great savagery”.

“Women and children were stripped, lined up, photographed, and then slaughtered by automatic firing and survivors have told of even more incredible bestialities,” the report said. “Those who were taken prisoners were treated with degrading brutality.”¹

Despite having just signed a non-aggression pact with the local indigenous population, the militias rampaged through their villages.

An estimated 15,000 Palestinians were killed and hundreds of thousands fled their homes to live as refugees in other parts of Palestine or neighbouring countries, an event known by Palestinians as the Nakba – “the catastrophe”.²

Not a Routine Israeli Massacre of Civilians

Our response to that atrocity was to send the murderers money. To be fair, in that same bill to “provide for the general welfare of the United States,” we also sent money, maybe, to their victims’ relatives:

SEC. 204. Not to exceed $50,000,000 of the funds authorized under section 203 hereof may be contributed to the United Nations during the fiscal year 1952, for the purposes, and under the provisions, of the United Nations Palestine Refugee Aid Act of 1950 (22 U. S. C. 1556)³: Provided that, whenever the President shall determine that it would more effectively contribute to the purposes of the said United Nations Palestine Refugee Aid Act of 1950, he may allocate any part of such funds to any agency of the United States Government to be utilized in furtherance of the purposes of said Act and any amount so allocated shall be a part of the United States contribution to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East and shall be so credited by said Agency.

By the way, 50 million 1951 dollars is equivalent to more than 600 million 2024 dollars,⁴ which means the dispossession and slaughter our Best Friend and Only Democracy in the Middle East inflicted on the innocent Palestinians in 1948 cost us more than 1.2 billion dollars.

That was seventy-six years ago, and we’re still paying. Just this week, Congress passed a bill appropriating $95 billion dollars of our wealth for the benefit of Jews in Israel, Jews in Ukraine, and something called “Taiwan.”

It does look like Congress is a reckless and out-of-control global menace. There is, however, at least one faint sign of fiscal restraint on Capitol Hill. Another bill introduced in this Congress and currently in committee, H.R.2275, says “amounts authorized to be appropriated or otherwise available for US Department of Agriculture, Rural Development Programs, Mutual and Self-Help Housing Grants for fiscal year 2024 may not exceed $30,000,000.”

There you have it: $30 million for rural Americans; $95 billion for Jews.

Let’s visualize that.

Rural America is where Christian Zionism is most prominent, and, perhaps, fittingly, it is in rural America where the despoliation and cultural collapse are most pronounced.

In 2014, a former student of mine at Shanxi University in China came with his wife and daughter to visit me in Washington, DC. He’d just finished a year as a visiting scholar at Oberlin College in Ohio. On their final day in the States, I asked Du Jun what he had found most surprising about the US. He thought about it for a bit (he’d been my favorite student in Taiyuan because he was so intellectually deliberate). “The United States is a very rich country,” he finally answered, “but, I was surprised by how poor the people live.”

Indeed.⁵

We’re being impoverished to pay for the vicious slaughter of innocent Palestinians. Jews and Christian Zionists in this country who politically support these Israeli demons have covered themselves in depraved immorality. They should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

Aaron Bushnell

At the opposite end of the morality/immorality scale is Aaron Bushnell and his stunning sacrifice. These stickers arrived yesterday and everyone who got a yard sign will get one. The QR code will direct to this webpage (which I’m not done with yet).

Anyone can get a free sticker. As soon as I get everything ready, I’ll let everyone know.

1. Al Jazeera, “The Deir Yassin massacre: Why it still matters 75 years later,” April 9, 2023

2. Ibid.

3. This law was repealed on Aug. 26, 1954

4. $50,000,000 in 1951 is worth $600,638,461.54 today [calculator]

5. One of my favorite places in DC to take visitors is the Old Library of Congress across the street from the Capitol. As we exited, Du Jun said, “For the first time, I see the greatness of America”—a remarkable thing to say, especially as the explicitly stated purpose of the library’s builders was to showcase the greatness of America. See why he was my favorite student?

When visiting a place that attracts a lot of tourists, as the Old Library of Congress does, the tour guides are frequently retirees who do the job simply out of a sincere love for whatever it is they are showing and a desire to share it with others. Sometimes, if, during the tour, you ask them a question showing real interest, that love will come pouring out. On another trip to the Old Library of Congress, with different visitors, I asked the old guy leading the tour about the strange figures ringing the outside of the building. His face lit up as he explained the “ethnological busts” and for the rest of the tour, at every pause to let people look around, he gave us all sorts of interesting history. Did you know the Library of Congress was the second building in the United States to have electric lights (the first was in Cleveland, where the bulbs were manufactured)? The public unveiling was the social event of the season in Washington. The tour guide asked us to imagine the long line of horse-drawn carriages out front that evening as ladies in gowns and men wearing top hats alit amid the crowds of onlookers and climbed the steps to the gala event. It was the first time in their lives anyone had ever seen light indoors at night that didn’t come from fire. And when they entered, this was the room in which they saw it. Just imagine.