John F. Kennedy: "America Will Never Fight Israel's Wars"

[00:00:00]As Donald Trump shoved the United States into a war with Iran for Israel for Israel and just also publicly stating that at least several times now, it's hard to imagine there was ever a time that the United States told Israel directly they would never fight their wars and that Israel better obey the United States of America. But there was and it was during the presidency of John F. Kennedy. So I want to go ahead and show you guys these documents and then also show you something Bibi Netanyahu has recently stated. It shows you just how much times have changed changed since then. Let me go ahead and share my screen here. This is a conversation between the the mayor of Jerusalem at the time who was also the director director of the Prime Minister's office of David Ben-Gurion's office with the with the United States. And in the letter, it talks about how the director of the Prime Minister's office of and also the mayor of Jerusalem, how he felt that per he also thought that while Israel is a friend of the United States, perhaps more likely to be a friend who would necessary who would attract attract strong sympathy in an emergency, but not necessarily one for whom the United States would go to war for. In addition, time element would be all important. He thought that closer US-Israeli relations would tend to undercut the still widely held view that even though no plans now for manufacturing a nuclear weapon would be short-sighted for Israel not to move towards that position quickly where it could exercise that option if later circumstances required. So this is before they had the nuclear bomb and they were going back and forth and really Israel at this point wanted to get entrenched with the United States.

[00:01:34]His goal was to basically build a US relationship as close as possible while the goal of the United States at the time was to distance and make sure that it treats everybody in the region as a fair a fair player. Obviously Israel ended up succeeding in attaching itself parasitically to the United States.

[00:01:50]That's what ended up happening. Now here's what's really interesting and then you're going to you guys are going to find the the next uh I'm going to show you really cool. This is from 2024.

[00:01:59]Barak Ravid is the author. He's If you guys are on X, you'll see him a lot.

[00:02:03]He's just basically an Israeli propagandist. But he he stated something that Bibi said 2 years ago. He said, "Bibi's rant, Israel isn't a vassal state of the United States." A day after President Biden warned Israel that a major attack on Rafa would cross the red line for US support. Rafa's gone now, by the way. The whole city's gone. It's It's It's flattened. Uh Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who went on a rant during with his security cabinet, "We are not a vassal state of the United States," he declared, according to three people with knowledge of his remarks.

[00:02:34]Uh clearly, no. Israel is or the United States is actually a vassal state of Israeli interests, of Israeli policies.

[00:02:41]The reason I'm showing you guys this is because there was another Prime Minister that also stated the same exact thing.

[00:02:48]And it was Israel's first first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion. And he was getting upset that the United States was putting pressure on Israel regarding their development of nuclear weapons.

[00:02:58]And he ended up stating to at this In the same exact way Netanyahu said it to Israeli officials, David Ben-Gurion also said it to Israeli officials. And he said uh he referred to a statement in the Knesset saying, "When I make a statement in our parliament, as trustworthy as made by any high officials in our government, it can only be treated as such." Uh here it is. "We are not a satellite of America. We are and will never be a satellite. We are an independent, proud nation." That's what David Ben-Gurion said after the United States was putting pressure on Israel regarding their development of nukes.

[00:03:28]So, in both cases, there there's this recurring pattern when it where Israel wants everything it can get out of the United States. And when the United States puts even the slightest bit of pressure, the slight There is no pressure. When they When they When they believe the United States is putting pressure, whether or not it's there, they'll freak out and then they'll say, "We're an independent nation. Give us all your money. Give us all of your resources. Give us all of your bombs.

[00:03:51]Give us vetoes at the United Nations, uh basically protect us from the entire Middle East, but we're also an independent nation and you can't tell us anything to do, but we just want to take and take and take and take and take and take and take. That That's how Israel's always been. But, what's different and what has changed is that the United States posture has changed. The United States isn't always It isn't acting now as it's always been. There was a time.

[00:04:14]So, when they tell you in the media, "Oh, you know, the US special relationship with Israel." It's the It's the Israeli relationship that basically attached itself to the United States and wanted to get deeply entrenched. Even during uh Levi Eshkol, the second Prime Minister of Israel, the one that was really going back and forth with JFK aside from David Ben-Gurion, he at the same He stated the same thing and there's a lot of documents. These documents you can all find if you go to um if you go to the GW GWU National Security Archives. And he stated the same thing. He basically said that he wants the United States and Israeli partnership to be much closer. And J- John F. Kennedy at the time was like, "Mm, no, absolutely not. We want to make sure we're an equal player in the game, so we don't want to get We don't want to get too close to Israel to the point where it's going to alienate the Arabs."

[00:05:02]And Israel at the time was not having it having it. They really really wanted to attach themselves to the United States.

[00:05:07]JFK was like, "No."

[00:05:09]There was even a time and there This was in conversation. I should have had those documents pulled out as well where John F. Kennedy obviously was putting a lot of pressure on Israel to stop the development of nukes consistently. Levi Eshkol, the second Prime Minister, if you haven't seen him, let me um pull up a photo of him so you guys can just so you guys know. Levi Eshkol, the second Prime Minister of Israel of Israel, because JFK was putting so much pressure on this guy uh talk about the nuclear weapons, he said, "Okay, fine.

[00:05:35]Well, if you don't want us to have have nuclear weapons, then will you give Israel explicit security guarantees that if the United that if Israel gets attacked by its neighbors, then the United States will 100% go to war for Israel. He just asked straight up for a security concessions the same way that Ukraine is asking right now with the EU, with the US. Same sort of thing where they're asking give us explicit security guarantees.

[00:05:59]The United States John F. Kennedy after he told Israel you better not develop a nuke, they asked for concessions. He also stated no, we're not giving you we're not giving you explicit security guarantees either. And in John F.

[00:06:10]Kennedy stated directly while you know, we want to support you we think any further will actually be detrimental for both you and for us because it won't it won't allow us to be an equal player in the game.

[00:06:23]They wanted explicit security guarantees. He said no. They wanted to build a nuke. He said absolutely not.

[00:06:27]We're not going to allow that to happen.

[00:06:29]I previously made a video. I've done a lot of JFK videos. I have a whole JFK playlist where I showed you guys that the Israelis were getting so concerned with the idea that JFK would get in the way of them building a nuke that the Israeli officials I think an Israeli an Israeli government official in the manager that of the airborne fleet something to that degree. He there were already plans being conceived in the IDF of operations of how to handle a US invasion into Israel to capture Israel's nuclear material.

[00:07:03]I mean the idea that that would be something that could even possibly happen whether or not the United States was planning it. They likely weren't.

[00:07:09]The Israelis were so nervous that that's how far they went. They started thinking what would happen if the United States invaded to retrieve the nuke our nuclear material. It wasn't even there. They stole it from the United States from a plant in Pennsylvania. But that's how far concerned they were.

[00:07:24]The the Israelis were also concerned the US was going to sanction them on it. The United States was going to sanction Israel to stop them from developing the nuclear weapons. And John F. Kennedy actually started floating the idea. This was actually this was serious. John F.

[00:07:35]Kennedy was considering sanctions on Israel.

[00:07:40]uh, B. Johnson is vice president obviously at the time who took over the presidency when JFK was assassinated.

[00:07:46]Lyndon B. Johnson uh, immediately told the Israelis, "I'm going to end that real quick. I'm going to shut down that down real quick." That's basically, paraphrase, that's basically what he said. And he basically coerced and told John F. Kennedy like, he basically shut down the idea that the United States would ever sanction Israel at all. He said, "I'm going to shut that down real quick." And then obviously, uh, the United States never did and Israel got away with building the nuke after John F. Kennedy's assassination. So, why is it important to bring up? It's important to bring up especially because of the fact that they asked for explicit security guarantees. We said no, it infuriated them. They said, "Okay, fine, then we're going to go ahead and build the nuke." At the end of the day, they ended up getting both. They ended up getting explicit security guarantees, although we don't we don't actually have that formalized in writing, we do that.

[00:08:27]That's we've already seen that. Every US politician stated, "We will go to war for Israel in some degree or another."

[00:08:33]That's that's already been proven whether or not it's written on writing.

[00:08:36]That was what they wanted and they wanted to build a nuke. Both of those things they've gotten at the detriment of the United States of America.

[00:08:44]And now, we're looking at the situation we're in with Iran and you're like, "Wow, imagine if there was a day where the United States actually had some sort of autonomy." Things would have been so much different. Things would have been different decades ago. There would have been there would have been self-determination for Palestinians during John F. Kennedy's administration had he remained alive. The 1967 war would not have happened. The only reason they were able to do that war that Israel started is because Israel built the nuke by the time they started the war.

[00:09:10]They wouldn't have started the war. They wouldn't have instigated it had they not have the nuke.

[00:09:14]And the Israelis were actually considering testing the nuke inside in the Sinai Peninsula to scare the Arabs.

[00:09:19]They decided not to.

[00:09:21]That's also there's a lot of documents on this as well. Everything I'm saying this is there's official there's FOIA requested documents. This is all this is all well reported now. So, that's that's how we've gotten to the place that we're at now.

[00:09:33]Anyways, just thought you guys might find it interesting. I did, so I wanted to share it anyways. If you guys enjoyed this video, I'd appreciate it if you click the subscribe button below and give it a thumbs up as well. It helps me reach more people like you. Also, if you guys haven't yet, one of the best ways you can support my channel is through super gifts and chat, so definitely consider that if you enjoyed this video.

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