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March 5th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Press TV has conducted an interview with Sarah Marusek, political analyst, to further discuss the issue.
The following is a transcription of the interview.
Press TV: I found the [Barack Obama’s] whole speech quite interesting and actually common in that it almost sounded like a presidential campaign raised for the state of Israel instead of the United States. What’s your take on this speech overall?
Marusek: Yes, I definitely agree that is sounds like Barack Obama is the president of Israel and not the president of the United States. We sit hear listening to his speech wondering who he’s actually listening to? Is he speaking to the Israeli people or is he speaking to the United States’ citizens or is he speaking to whom?
Unfortunately, the people sitting in the room at AIPAC are much less representative of the American people than they are of the Israeli people.
And so really it’s a sign that he’s not speaking to people like me, to my family, my friends, my colleagues or even many Republicans throughout the United States or other members of the Democratic Party.
But he’s speaking to the Israelis.
It’s quite shameful, really, as an American to stand and watch your president really grovel to another country in this way, and to lose authority by begging this group, this audience, these people to accept him, to approve of his actions for their country and not really take into consideration the interests of the United States, the security interests of the United States, the economic interests of the United States.
All of these interests are really hurt when he completely sidelines American interests and pursues policies for Israel’s interests especially when it comes to the case of Iran for example.
The recent sanctions against Iran which, granted, were passed through the Congress, but many of the other sanctions were pushed through the White House as well, are really going to affect American tax payers and are going to affect American pockets when we look at how different budgets are going to be spent preparing for the American military intervention in Iran if it comes, hopefully still it will not come.
But the American industrial military complex is, of course, going to begin preparing for this and spending a lot of money and spending on all kinds of military planes, missiles and all of these other things to attack Iran.
And then, of course, the sanctions against Iran’s bank and oil, that’s going to hurt the American citizens because the price of gasoline is going to go up in the United States.
All of these policies are not in America’s interests and yet we have a president standing, bowing to AIPAC and to the Israeli community.
Press TV: Sarah, where’s the American people in general in all of this? As a fellow American and looking at this it’s very difficult to see. I’m wondering where the average American is when the US president, basically, the loyalty lies with a foreign state?
How can this happen that the president of the United States of America, first priority, [serves] a foreign state instead of the country that he has been sworn in, taken an oath of office to serve and protect. What is the responsibility at this point, in your perspective, of the American people when they see such a speech and they hear the very type of pro-Israeli rhetoric coming from their president? What do you think should be the reaction of the average person and why aren’t we seeing it, basically is the question?
Marusek: I think we can see that the American people are becoming increasingly confused when it comes to this issue. And of course, traditionally, the American people have long sided with the Israeli people and with the Israeli government in particular when it comes with anything to do with foreign policy in the Middle East.
But if you look at recent polls, for example, half of Americans actually suggest that there shouldn’t be any military strike against Iran. And even more importantly, 20 or 30 percent of Americans would support an Israeli strike. So if Americans do support some sort of action against Iran, which of course we hope still would not happen, they actually prefer America to do it and not Israel.
So you see that perhaps maybe growing distrust of Israel’s leadership among the American people.
But then it’s very difficult to say what the general American public thinks because we are a diverse country with many different people, many different viewpoints.
And unfortunately we have the Republican presidential candidates coming to every place in America, places that most Americans couldn’t find on a map, let alone other countries, and these presidential candidates like Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich are actually telling voters that Iran is going to come and attack them, which is absolutely outrageous.
So this mixed message coming from our political elite – well actually it’s not a mixed message of course, it’s a message against Iran – but this misinformation, I should say, coming from the Washington elite is really confusing Americans.
Although, I think we see an increasing number of us growing weary of giving Israel so much control over our foreign policy and our people in Washington, we also are hearing these lies about the dangers posed by Iran against our own interests and that sometimes pushes us closer to Israel.
GMA/JR
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