John Boehner and Bibi Netanyahu the two men who are leading their respective countries off a cliff.

First, David, try reading Mearsheimer and Walts "The Israel Lobby" or Deliberate Deceptions’ by Congressman Paul Findley - first hand information about Israel and AIPAC.

Israel will get away with whatever they can and have done for 60 years and with AIPAC controlling all the weak, sycophantic but disloyal (to the US) Congress members, the US will continue to lose respect and standing all over the world.

Watch the parade of our Senators and Representatives and Presidential candidates going before them, promising to always maintain our "unshakable", “special relationship” with Israel. In effect, our Congressmen and candidates are asking for AIPAC’s blessing. It is disgusting that our national representatives act in such a obsequious manner to an organization that represents only 3-4% of the U.S. population.

And here enters the helpless Obama. When Obama mentioned the Palestinian right in his Cairo speech, a coalition of pro Israel Democrats in Congress threatened to scuttle his Health Care Reform package, according to the Financial Times. Democratic leadership in Congress then, Reid and Pelosi, rushed to inform Obama to be nice to Netanyahu, or else.

The mad dogs at AIPAC were all over Obama tearing his flesh to pieces; while Jewish leaders across the country threatened to switch their sizable campaign bribes to the GOP, unless the Democrats restrained Obama.

The best Congress AIPAC can buy.

However, the solution is simple - when an AIPAC endorsed candidate runs just spell out for the people in that district all the money we give to Israel that could be spend here at home. People understand dollars and cents.

Make AIPAC and the people who run on a pro-Israel ticket defend giving 10 millions dollars a day to a 'vibrant democracy' when our own are going without. Spell it out for them and shame these AIPACers. It's long overdue.

If they are such a 'vibrant democracy' they don't need our money.

Israel and the United States are not one country. Being pro-Israel should not wield so much power that it becomes a principal issue in American elections.

When the National Republican Senatorial Committee challenges Alexi Giannoulias because he desires equal peace and justice for Israelis and Palestinians, there is something inhumanely and terribly wrong.

When a neophyte candidate for Congress like Mark Reed takes his own President to task and shows fealty to a foreign leader over his own, there is something terribly wrong.

When the United States consistently sides with Israel to the detriment of American citizens and America's standing in the world, there is something terribly wrong.

It's time to right this wrong. Holding office in America is not for the purpose of serving Israel. It's for the purpose of serving America, the American people, and America's honor.

. . the Arab-Jewish rapprochement may be underway in Israel, as Arabs and Jews find common cause against the cowboy capitalists who run the place.

Can a Nobel Peace prize be awarded to the global economic crisis for fostering peace in the Mideast?

As for the Congressional visitors -- please, please dress them up in IDF uniforms and drop them 20 miles inside the Lebanese border.

Well said Mr. Rothkopf. The even more baffling question is why the American press isn't saying more about it?

Sorry, but given the damage that the spectacle of the debt ceiling negotiations did, these guys will do less damage to our country the longer they stay in somebody else's. BTW, I'm sure that if this 20% went to a country like China or even France, it would be all over the cable news channels, filled with images of angry white dudes saying, "What is wrong with these guys? There are big problems right here in America!" But, because the visit is to Israel, cable news lets it slide.

Nothing like another election cycle to see all the suck up head to Israel so they can panhandle to jew back home for money.

SO if 47 are freshman from congress how many of them are teabagger who claim we should cut spend, well here the first place we cut, is govt trip to country to don't have our interest in mind, the jews will do what they by taking our money and give us the finger.

Mr. Rothkopf writes, "The president ought to take to his podium and demand they return."

David... perhaps you've heard of the U.S. Constitution?

If so, apparently you're not all that familiar with the four page document, so allow me to help you out:

Article 2; Section 3; Clause 2 -- "The President may call extraordinary sessions of one or both Houses of Congress...."

(You're welcome!)

Bill Barker
Harriman, NY

No good angel at Mr Boehner's other shoulder.

Your lips to god's ear.

The vile Israel hatred manifested by the contributing writers are on a par with Julius Streicher's "Der Stürmer" antisemitic publication during the Third Reich.
He was hanged at Nürnberg - for those who don't know who was that man - along with the Jewish KAPO-s who supported their own tormentors.

There is no logical argument put forth here and in the article only the festering, frothing at the mouth bestial hatred against your governing body - Congress - and Israel.

Being European I am very familiar with the mindset of many of you because it originated in Europe some 90 years ago and now reached your shore belatedly. I am not Jewish but no one can deceive our keen eyes which was sharpened by the horrors of the last century: Bolshevism and its twin, Fascism.

Pointing out the 800 pound sacred cow in the room isn't anti-anything. And if you want to support Israel and its Bible-based policies of territorial expansion and ethnic cleansing fine but don't send other people's money and other people's children to fight and die in the Israeli Foreign Legion.

Bashing Congress makes no sense in a multi-party political system for you had the freedom to vote for Cynthia McKinney, an accomplished and inveterate antisemite, the 2008 presidential candidate for the Green Party.

She is in Iran, she was partaking in the anti-Israeli Islamofascist-Leftist flotilla; -she's your dream candidate. And she's not alone: the Wahabi Oil money can support just as many Islamist as AIPAC does.
Not to mention Soros the godfather.

Viewing from Europe it seems the majority of Americans did not subscribe to Sharia and doesn't support the mass killing which is taking place in the Islamic word at this very moment.

According to Merkel, Cameron and Sarko the Cultural Marxist "multikulti" crap has failed, it lives only at Pres. Obama's territory and on the FP forum.

From Budapest, Hungary

It's almost too shameful for words. This government has become a joke. This gerontocracy is poison, no cancer, and needs to be cut out. But how could the situation be any different with the American people the way they are?

Signs can be put, but are they signs if nobody takes notice?
Is there opportunity when nobody even realizes there is?
Is there hope when most decide to ignore the problem?
Is it far that such a small portion of the country (the Jews/Israelis/Zionists, whatever you want to call them) have such influence?

What those congressmen are doing is essentially bowing down to an imperial emperor. Treason, disrespect, spinelessness, and weakness.

They are in Israel....because their "hero" Glenn Beci is there!

The former Fox News host's event has triggered a debate over whether he is a true friend of Israel or just a fanatic who has been accused of anti-Semitism.
Glenn Beck speaks during an event in Caesarea, Israel. (Oliver Weiken, European Pressphoto Agency)August 23, 2011|By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
Perhaps it was only a matter of time before conservative American commentator Glenn Beck, viewed by many supporters as a modern-day prophet, brought his messianic message to Jerusalem.

But even in an ancient city that has seen its share of religious enthusiasts, Beck's high-profile Holy Land tour this week, culminating Wednesday in a rally just a stone's throw from the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock mosque, is raising eyebrows

Betting the US taxpayers will be paying for this little junket. Some of those people who want to cut Medicare and Social Security should be made to pay for the expenses of their little excursion. I'm tired of the Israeli government and the way they treat the rest of the countries near them. No wonder the Arab nations hate them. They are supported and equipped by the USA. Sometimes I wish the UN never would have given Israel nation status. Time for all of them to act like intelligent beings instead of spoiled brats.

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As Mark Twain called them our only homegrown criminal class, we shouldn't be surprised.

The Palestinian cause and demands for justice, homeprojects including the same right of return that the Jews maintain, has the full backing of a quarter of all humanity, being the entire Muslim world, and much of the rest. The de-legitimization of Israel continues apace.

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