-SPAN host: "You mean strategically?"
Scheuer: "Strategically. They have no resources we need. Their manpower is minimal. Their association with us is a negative for the United States. Now that's a fact. What you want to do about that fact is entirely different. But for anyone to stand up in the United States and say that our support for Israel doesn't hurt us in the Muslim world, or our support for Hosni Mubarak's dictatorship doesn't hurt us, is to just defy reality."
Earlier in the same interview, however, Scheuer made it clear what he felt should be done regarding Israel. In his opinion, the U.S. should "persuade" Islamic terrorists threatening America "to focus their anger" on Israel and on oppressive Middle Eastern regimes.
American Jewish Groups 'Hurt' Critics of Israel Scheuer also later elaborated on what he said is the way criticism of Israel is prevented.
A caller named Nicki from Maryland thanked him for his comments on Israel and asked, "Why is it that the United States does not want to talk about Israel?" Prefacing his remarks by asserting that "Israel has every right to do what it needs to do" to defend itself, including the development of nuclear weapons, Scheuer said that the U.S. has no real interest in either Israel or the Palestinian Authority. "That is a religious war in which we have no stake," he continued.
Scheuer: "Why don't we talk about that? Because AIPAC and other influential American Jewish groups are extraordinarily involved in the funding of American political campaigns and have the ability to reach out and make sure that people lose their jobs, or are otherwise hurt, if they dare to criticize Israel."
Scheuer went on to claim that he lost a job with the Jamestown Foundation think tank for saying that then-presidential candidate Barack Obama was "doing what I call the Tel-Aviv Two Step". As a result, he claimed, "the donors to that foundation" ordered that he be terminated.
The clown Scheuer was in charge of the Bin Laden desk at CIA under Clinton. That’s all you need to know about that crowd.
Ron Paul has been saying essentially the same thing for years now.
American jews will still give them 75% of their votes, heck they’d get a majority if Obama dropped nukes on Israel.
Leftists are leftists before anything else.
Isn’t this the guy that Michael Savage thinks is so damned wonderful. I understand that his book was one long anti-American, anti-Bush. I had read that somewhere. I haven’t actually read the book. Does anyone have any more info this?
So this coward basically says muslims hate Israel, so there we should drop all support of Israel and let the muslims attempt to crush them.
Nice, real nice. What a scumbag.
Scheuer and his friend Ron Paul have been spewing this antisemitism for years.
I didn’t know Ron Paul calls into CSPAN.
Ping...
Scheuer is an anti Israel scumbag.
Muslims have no respect for natural rights. They are opposed to a free society and just government. They are the opposite of being our friends. Islamic governments deserve to be overthrown by any moral government that is willing, and a moral government installed in their place.
Holy crap....this guy is worse than I ever realized. I’ve always had mixed rections to his views- but who knew he was an antisemite?
Friends? Um, okay.
Ultimately, Israel is a country that is of no particular worth to the United States."
Scheuer was all over the place after 9/11, full of criticisms for the Bush administration. But I guess his real agenda wasn't clear until now.
Liberals. More dangerous to American than Muslims.
This anti-semitism on the left (which melds with crazed Ron Paul/Pat Buchanan sycophants in some odd way) has been building for decades. George Soros is now the center of the Democrat Party U-Verse, never was a bigger self-hating jew in history. Unless Satan counts as a jew.
Their media wants to pretend that all the hate comes from the right when the majority does not. Sure there are wackos on the right, but seething hatred is not a conservative principal its a leftist mentality.
It is very sad to see that Liberalism comes before literally anything else with the left. This means that there are no principles whatsoever with the left movement.
((I sent this as a private message but I thought it was something worth sharing))
A caller on a C-Span interview program Monday complained about "all these Jews" having "way too much power" in America and pushing the U.S. into wars with the Muslim world. He found his comments echoed and expanded upon by the studio guest. Michael Scheuer, the former director of a CIA unit assigned to track down Osama Bin-Laden, calmly expressed the view that American soldiers are now dying in Iraq for the sake of Israelis. (snip) The interviewer for C-Span's Washington Journal program did not react to the blatantly anti-Semitic exchange. Several other callers praised Scheuer for his position regarding Israel, adding their own condemnation of the Jewish State and its supporters.Paleocon ping.
Hmmmm, isn't INTEL, an Israeli affiliated company? Aren't there dozens more of leading American companies with essential Israeli connections?
This guy is not only bigoted, but he's a fool.
I’m furious that FOX keeps having Scheuer on as an expert.