Israel has a stranglehold on US foreign policy

By Mark Dankof

Donald Trump's escalation and rhetoric on Iran is reflective of both of the Zionist advisors that he has in foreign policy. It's really an intensification of a really bad foreign policy that the United States has found itself getting into since 1948.

Kennedy was the only President of the United States in my lifetime that exhibited any degree of independence from the Israeli lobby. We know what happened there. And the truly bad thing about this election is that the alternative to Donald Trump is a ravenously Pro-Zionist Biden-Harris ticket.

So I would have to say that I would be in total agreement with what has been said by a number of commentators on this whole subject of the stranglehold that Israel has in the foreign policy of the United States through both of the major parties.

And in my particular case, I admit that I voted for Donald Trump this week in early voting in Texas, primarily because I don't care for the Marxist character of the Black Lives Matter movement. I happen to be pro-life on the issue of the unborn. I also happen to be a member of the National Rifle Association and I very firmly believe in the Second Amendment of the United States. So it's on that basis that I voted for Donald Trump, but I did so without any illusions whatsoever that in this key area of foreign policy, and the dangerous risks that this kind of foreign policy poses for world peace that Trump is any good at all in that department, but then neither are his opponents. And this is the sad state of affairs in the American political scene.

Israel will be well served to the detriment of everyone else regardless of who wins this American presidential election. So for me, it boiled down to some domestic issues before I made a final choice in the voting, knowing full well that I was voting for someone who has already demonstrated some very very serious deficiencies in judgment. That's a terrible thing to admit about my vote. It's a terrible thing to admit about the state of this country, but that's the way it is and I want to assure the Iranian people, that if there had been a decent anti-Zionist pro-peace candidate running, who had been at all conversant with some of my ideas on other issues, I would have voted for that person even had been a member of the other party.

But Israel has an absolute stranglehold in this process. That's why you have a Biden-Harris ticket on the Democratic side of the aisle. And at the end of the day, we will be going into 2021 with a very very dangerous situation regardless of what happens on the first Tuesday of November.

Both Trump and Biden are Zionist puppets ready to do Israel's bidding

Donald Trump and Joe Biden both are Zionist puppets who are ready to do Israel

I think Trump is playing to his constituency. And sadly enough when you look at this whole issue of Jewish voters it is noteworthy to me that the Jewish News Service reported either yesterday or two days ago that in terms of Israelis, 63% of Israelis believe that Donald Trump will be better for Israel than Joe Biden.

Now whether or not that's true in fact is something that remains to be seen. But the fact that that perception is there really undercuts Trump's appeal to an America first constituency at home that wants to stay out of these foreign conflicts. So this is where we are. And we're involved in a situation where in terms of Jewish money and Jewish political support both of the major party candidates are trying to outdo the other one, in terms of appealing to that basic element that has controlled American foreign policy, and American elections at least since 1948.

Foreign Ministry slams US presidents' using of Iran as campaign cudgel for own gains

Iran slams US presidents for using Tehran as a

*Mark Dankof, a former US Senate candidate, is a broadcaster and pastor in San Antonio, Texas. He recorded this article for the Press TV website.

Press TV’s website can also be accessed at the following alternate addresses:

www.presstv.co.uk