America Shamed Again: A colonized peoplePaul Craig Roberts Forty Senate Republicans made it clear that not only do they refuse to put their service to America ahead of their service to Israel, but also that they will not even put their service to America on a par with their service to Israel. To every Americans shame, the Republicans demonstrated for all the world to see that they are wholly owned subsidiaries of the Israel Lobby. (The Israel Lobby is not their only master. They are also owned by other powerful interest groups, such as Wall Street and the Military/Security Complex.) The most embarrassing behavior of all came from the craven Lindsay Graham, who, while in the act of demonstrating his complete subservience by crawling on his belly before the Israel Lobby, dared Hagel to name one single person in the US Congress who is afraid of the Israel Lobby. If I had been Hagel, I would have written off the nomination and answered: You, Senator Graham, and your 40 craven colleagues. Indeed, Hagel could have answered: The entire US Congress, including Rand Paul who pretends to be different but isnt. The real question is: Who in the Congress is not afraid of the Israel Lobby? The hatchet job on Hagel is driven by fear of the Israel Lobby. The facts are now well known, but as far as Washington is concerned they are dead letter facts. The entire event has been moved to some parallel universe. Why are the Senate Republicans out to destroy Hagel for Israel? The answer is, first, back when Hagel was a US Senator he refused to be intimidated by the Israel Lobby and declared, I am a US Senator, not an Israeli Senator. In other words, Hagel did the impermissible. He said he represented US interests, not Israels interests. Hagels position implies that the interests of the two countries are not identical, which is a heresy. The second part of the answer is that Hagel doesnt think that it is a good idea for the US to start a war with Iran or for the US to permit Israel to do so. But a US war with Iran is what the Israeli government and its neoconservative agents have been trying to impose on the Obama regime. Israel wants to get rid of Iran, because Iran supports Hizbollah in Southern Lebanon, thus preventing Israel from annexing that territory and its water resources, and because Iran supports Hamas, the only Palestinian organization that tries to oppose Israels total theft of Palestine, although Iran has never supplied Hamas with effective weapons. The two organizations that oppose Israels territorial expansion, Hizbollah and Hamas, represent large numbers of Arab peoples. Nevertheless, both are declared, on Israels orders, to be terrorist organizations by the servile US Department of State, which in all reality should be called the Israeli Department of State, as it never puts US interests before Israels. In other words, Hagel did not grovel. He did not say how much he loved Israel and how it would be his great honor to sacrifice all other interests to Israels, how he has waited his entire life for the chance to serve Israel as the US Secretary of Defense. Hagel is not an opponent of Israel. He merely said, First, I am an American. His lack of craven subservience is unacceptable to the Israel Lobby, which has branded him an anti-semite. Lindsay Graham, in contrast, has what it takes to be Israels perfect choice for US Secretary of Defense. Graham will go out of his way to please the Israel Lobby. He will pull out all stops and behave with maximum servility to a foreign power in his effort to embarrass the President of the United States and his nominee, a war veteran and former US Senator who simply thinks that the US Congress and the executive branch should put American interests first. Senate Majority Leader Reid has used Senate rules to keep Hagels nomination alive. 