Wayne Madsen
Freshman
US Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota and a
Somali-American Muslim, is not the first nor will she be the last victim
of Zion’s sting. Omar is merely the latest in a long line of US
politicians who have faced the onslaught of Israel’s powerful lobbying
vise grip in Washington. In fact, long before there was a state of
Israel, American presidents and statesmen fell victim to the power of
political Zionism to retaliate against those who failed to back the
concept of a Jewish homeland in the Middle East.
On
March 5, 1891, President Benjamin Harrison received a visitor to the
White House bearing a petition signed by 421 influential American
citizens urging the president to recognize Palestine as the “restored”
homeland of the Jewish people. The bearer of the petition, evangelical
Christian clergyman William E. Blackstone was one of the earliest
“Christian Zionists” in proclaiming solidarity with certain Jewish
Zionists in support of a Jewish state in the Holy Land.
Blackstone was
no different than many of today’s Zionists who ensure total fealty of US
administrations to Israeli policy, no matter how reprehensible it may
be, especially toward the Palestinian people. Blackstone’s petition had
been signed by John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, US Supreme Court Chief
Justice Melville Fuller, Speaker of the US House of Representatives
Thomas Reed, inventor Cyrus McCormick, co-owner and managing editor of
The Chicago Tribune Joseph Medill, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee Robert Hitt, and US Representative and future president
William McKinley.
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