Council for the National Interest

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CNI works for U.S. Middle East policies that represent the highest values of our founders and our citizens and that work to sustain a nation of honor, decency, security, and prosperity.

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Billions in Aid American taxpayers give Israel over $8 million per day. This is to a nation, at its peak, of 7.4 million people – smaller than West Virginia. Israel has received more American money than any other nation on earth. It receives this money in a lump sum at the beginning of the fiscal year. Read the Full Story

Aggression Israel initiated almost all of its wars and is virtually always the instigator of renewed bouts of violence. For example, while many Americans have been led to believe that the 2008-09 Israeli assault on Gaza was defensive, in reality, Israel was the party that first violated the ceasefire. Read the Full Story

USA Attacked Israeli forces attacked a US Navy ship, killing or injuring 200 servicemen. An independent commission by extraordinarily high-ranking military officers found that Israel had commited an act of war against the US, the President had recalled rescue aircraft, and had ordered a cover-up. Read the Full Story

Israel Lobby The Israel Lobby is one of the most powerful and pervasive special interest groups in the United States It consists of a multitude of institutions that work to influence Congress, the Presidency, academia, the media, religious institutions, and the American public on behalf of Israel. Read the Full Story

The Basics: Re-examining our Policies

Many of the most serious dangers facing Americans today stem from our highly unusual relationship with Israel.

Our uniquely massive support for Israel has cost trillions of dollars and multitudes of lives.

It has diminished our moral standing in the world, lessened our domestic freedoms, and exposed us to unnecessary and growing peril.

The majority of Americans – as well as our diplomatic and military experts – oppose this unique relationship.

Yet, special interest lobbies continue to foment policies that are disastrous for our nation and tragic for the region.

If we are to have sensible, effective policies that promote safety rather than danger, then it is essential that all Americans become active and informed. Lives depend on it.

US Expert's Comment

The Hidden History

US-Israel relations, the birth of the "Special Relationship" and the American diplomats who warned against it.

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National Summit to Reassess the US-Israel "Special Relationship"

The public is invited to a nonpartisan symposium Nov. 8-9 that will examine the impact of the US-Israel relationship on Americans. Panels will include top military, diplomatic, intelligence, academic, governmental, and economic experts, as well as former Congressional representatives. Read more

George Washington:

"...a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils.

Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into aparticipation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification.

...and it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country,

...such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils...

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence... the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake..."

Washington's Farewell Address