President Washington Warned of "Passionate Attachment"

This is an appropriate time to repeat an often quoted portion of a speech by the first president of this George Washington. It is from his Farewell Address given in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 17, 1796, and his words still have the ring of truth today in 2003. “A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation [Note: Israel], facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained [Note: Such as complying with UN Resolutions.], and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld; and it gives to ambitious, corrupted, and deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation [Note: Zionist Jewish Americans and their supporters, such as the Christian Right] ) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country without odium, sometimes even with popularity, gilding with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.”

Washington goes on to say, “As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot [such as myself and many others]. How many opportunities do they afford to domestic factions [Jewish lobby groups like AIPAC and think-tanks like JINSA] to practise the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to the public councils! Such an attachment of a small or weak toward a great andpowerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter [or the other way around as in the case of Israel and the U.S.]. Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens), the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. But that jealousy, to be useful, must be impartial, else it becomes the instrument of the very influence [racist Zionist influence] to be avoided, instead of a defense against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of the influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite [Israel] are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people to surrender their interests. [My note: and their freedoms!] The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.”

If only George Washington were around today to repeat this speech. I believe he would be truly appalled on the course that George W. Bush is leading the country today, completely pandering to the narrow interests of Israel, a country which has been regressing into racist, fascist apartheid and not progressing into the ideals that we Americans truly believe in: justice and liberty for ALL, regardless of religion, ethnicity or sex, and we have laws to back it up. Israel does not even have a constitution, and to again quote the Israeli Refusenik soldier, Israel has “a racist, anti-democratic, apartheid regime.” America is betraying its own beliefs, ideals and best interests by supporting a country such as Israel. I believe it is high time that our government sever its “special relationship” with Israel, unless it transforms into a truly secular, democratic country renamed Palestine-Israel, with equal rights for all, including the right to return for all 5 million Palestinian refugees whose right it is to return to their ancestral homeland of Palestine-Israel, according to UN Resolutions, International Law and world opinion.

You can find Washington's entire speech by doing a Google-search on "Washington's Farewell Address".