Michael Piper and Final Judgment

[Albert Doyle]

Show us the budget for aid to israel as approved for 1964.... from 1963.
Show us that the incoming administration has no affect on this budget... NOTHING was changed, no decisions were changed...

Seems to me the escalation of war in Vietnam MAY have caused the 64 budget to be amended a bit... ya think?

He already did. Mark showed you that the funding budget for '64 was decided in October 1963 when the 1964 fiscal year was planned. The very dip you cite in funding falls right in line with Kennedy's attempts to disempower Israeli militarization as shown in both Piper and The Unspeakable. It's YOU who needs to do the showing here and show us how what you wrote makes any attempt to honestly answer this?

You then follow with Chomsky's Kennedy VietNam escalation. Brilliant David!

" Military aid to Israel increases by a factor of five during LBJ's tenure. "




Excellent point Mark... let's take the FIRST POTUS to offer ANYTHING MILITARILY to Israel and compare it to the buildup to the 6 day war....
You really got me there...

There's no comparison between JFK's approach towards Israel and LBJ's. Nor is there any denial that the origin point was Kennedy's assassination. In spite of this we have David offering us the full Chomsky banquet accompanied by taunts. Meanwhile there's no resistance from those who otherwise attack this Chomsky-type position on a regular basis. Here we have David offering Kennedy as the escalator and Johnson as the de-funder during the Liberty era, not only unopposed, but with the praises of some.

Let's forget the actual correspondance between LBJ and Eshkol, that I posted and you dismissed, which stated exactly the same position about the middle east and peace, as JFK... offensive/nuclear weapons are a threat to the balance of power in the middle east...

David, why hold back? You should continue and show us some LBJ quotes on his seriousness in seeking the truth behind the assassination with the Warren Commission. Now you're doing Caro! Trust LBJ! There you have it! David sourcing LBJ unquestioned while admonishing us on our sources. There you have David, right in broad daylight, having the unmitigated chutzpah to suggest LBJ pursued a similar policy as JFK. And none of the anti-Chomsky protesters utter a word.



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