Senator Arlen Specter, who left the Republican Party to join the Democratic Party last month, provided reasons for his decision which I do not believe. Rather, he most likely wants to save his political future, as he would have lost the Republican Party nomination in Pennsylvania. Indeed, even if he had been nominated by the party, he would most likely have lost as well, as the Republicans are on the decline. In fact, Specter's situation is well representative of that of the GOP, in view of his old age, political decline and pro-Israeli extremism. I do not recall ever reading Arlen Specter's name but coupled with a stance against Arabs and Muslims, specifically siding with Israel against the Palestinians. Hence there is no need for me to return to my references to say that he supported the war in Iraq, the summer 2006 war against Lebanon, and Israel's war against the Gaza Strip between the end of last year and the beginning of this one. Should Israel kill another thousand Palestinian children, he will continue to support it and find excuses for it. I consider the likes of Specter, Senator Joe Lieberman and Congressman Tom Lantos, who passed away last year, to represent Israel before representing their states or constituencies in Congress. Any review of the voting record of these Israeli apologists would prove the charge sufficiently to ensure their conviction in any human rights tribunal. Those extremists do not represent the Jews in Israel, the United States or around the world, as the Jewish majority has always been liberal centrist. In the United States in particular, they have always voted for the Democratic candidate, and the percentage of Jews who chose Barack Obama (and his middle name is Hussein) is among the highest of any religious or ethnic group in the US, amounting to 78 percent. Jewish extremists are a minority, yet one that is loud and influential. While most of them are racist right-wingers devoid of humanity, they also include a group of moderates and leftists who refuse to believe that the Jews have created the Israeli monster, or are willing to accept a relationship with a government that kills women and children, while accusing a people under occupation of extremism merely for resisting this occupation. I return to Specter, who resigned on the 28th of last month. I received the latest issue of the New York Review of Books, dated 14-27 May, and found that Specter had written an article there entitled “The Need to Roll Back Presidential Power Grabs”. The magazine mentions that Arlen Specter is a Republican Senator from Pennsylvania, and the prime Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which means that the magazine issue, despite the date it carries, was published before Specter moved to the Democratic Party. Specter has been a member of the US Senate for 29 years, and was Chairman of the Judiciary Committee between 2005 and 2007, when the Republicans held the majority at the Senate. The article he wrote could only be written by a politician of the utmost arrogance such as him. Indeed, he writes that the United States has since 9/11/2001 “witnessed one of the greatest expansions of executive authority in its history, at the expense of the constitutionally mandated separation of powers”. Specter was a key member of the party holding majority, and he supported the war (and every war that benefits Israel at the cost of young American lives). He has now awoken to the fact that a war administration led by a gang of imperialists and Jewish Neoconservatives robbed the US Congress, to which he belongs, of its powers, as it did the Judiciary, which is supposed to be independent and a fair arbitrator in any dispute. Thus Specter says that he wants to introduce a bill requesting the Supreme Court to review the decisions over wiretapping citizens' phone calls. The whole article is filled with I, I and I, saying: firstly, I will introduce legislation, and secondly, I will introduce legislation... And I will also reintroduce legislation, and as Chairman of the Legal Committee I led efforts… Thus, I was surprised... And I realized... And I was convinced... Specter explains how he worked to improve the text of the 2001 Patriot Act, which would have originally expired at the end of 2005, had it not been extended while Specter was Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. I have said in the past and I say today that the Israeli Knesset is better and more moderate than the US Congress. I have also written more than once that Congress was “land occupied by Israel”. Later I found that someone had beaten me to such a description, but that topic deserves an article of its own.
