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The comment comes as US President Barack Obama has awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Israeli President Shimon Peres, the man who has overseen the killing of Palestinian women and children by Israeli forces in the occupied territories for decades.

Obama awarded the 88-year-old Israeli president the highest civilian honor in the United States during a dinner ceremony in the White House on Wednesday.

“No individual has done so much over so many years to build our alliance… as the leader we honor tonight — our friend, Shimon Peres,” Obama said during the event, which also hosted former US President Bill Clinton.

Obama also stated that the “bonds” between the United States and Israel are “unbreakable” and “non-negotiable.”

The Israeli president has been honored by Obama a few months ahead of the US presidential election of November 2012.

The Washington ceremony in honor of a major Israeli figure comes two weeks after Israeli aircraft carried out an attack on the southern Gaza Strip, injuring three Palestinians.

Israel conducts airstrikes and ground attacks on the occupied Palestinian territories on an almost regular basis.

Press TV has conducted an interview with freelance journalist and blogger, Michael Santomauro, to further discuss the issue.

The video also offers the opinions of two additional guests: Paul Larudee of the Free Palestine Movement and co-President of the Palestinian and Jewish Unity, Bruce Katz. The following is a rough transcript of the interview.

Press TV: Peres said he has “a vision of Israel living in full, genuine peace, with Jerusalem becoming the capital of peace.” Now peace seems a virtue untouched by the Israelis looking at the wars and aggressions that it has been involved inside the region, and most of all the annexation of Jerusalem al-Quds is not recognized by the international community, illegal settlement building continues, not to forget the segregation wall. These elements don’t constitute a capital of peace. How do you perceive that?

Santomauro: I agree it’s not when Obama expressed himself using peace and freedom concerning Peres in the same sentence, it’s a sick joke. Obama and Peres are both war criminals in expensive clothing, it’s ironic that they both won the noble peace prize and if you want to do a gradation Peres is more of a war criminal than Obama, extensively more so.

There is a reason why Peres got the award during the election year here in the United States because more than half of the funding that Obama is going to be receiving and he has to rely on is from the Jewish pact money that dominates the political arena here in the United States. The Jewish American affluence is the political elite and the financial elite in the United States in Washington politics, both national and local politics.

But concerning national politics you have to filter everything through Jewish pact money. There is a heavy, heavy reliance on Jewish pact money here in the United States, 35 percent of the money for the Republican Party comes from Jewish pact and 60 percent of the funding for the Democratic Party comes from Jewish pacts.

Press TV: What do you think about Peres receiving the medal for freedom. Let’s look at his report card in 1996 during his brief stint as prime minister for the Israeli regime following the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and interestingly just two years after he received the Noble peace prize, he ordered the Israeli army to bomb the UNIFIL headquarters at the village of Qana in Southern Lebanon. In that attack a 106 people were killed and at least 110 were seriously injured.

Santomauro: Well, it could have been stopped if the United States at the time, president Clinton or any president since 1967 has stood up to the Israel lobby, none of these atrocities or war crimes would have been committed, you know, in many ways when it comes to the Middle East and maybe even most of the foreign policy worldwide it’s really being dictated in Israel not in Washington but getting back to your specific question about 1996, could Clinton have picked up the phone and stopped it?

Yeah, but that was also the year for Israel election he had to rely on the funding that’s provided here in the United States by Jewish pacts. You know, Jews only represent about 2 percent of the population of the United States but you have to realize there are over 200 major ethnic groups in the United States, the top 30 ethnic groups in the United States represent about 90 percent of the population.

Jewish Americans are somewhere in the middle, like 15, 16- yet they represent the bulk either in majority or in plurality for the funding on presidential elections. 40 percent of the billionaires in the United States are Jewish Americans. Jews in the United States are the most affluent ethnic group of that top 30 that I was referring to.

And if you’re getting 60 percent of your funding for the Democratic Party coming from Jewish pacts and 35 percent of the funding for the Republican Party from Jewish pacts and this is according to Richard Cohen who is a Jewish American and he wrote this in his column sometime in 2005 in The Washington Post.

He was just updating something that was researched by J.J. Goldberg in his book called Jewish Power that was published in the early 1990s, but getting back again to president Clinton in 1996 he could not have picked up the phone and stopped Peres from doing that atrocity because he was running for reelection.

Santomauro: [In response to another guest: Paul Larudee] I strongly disagree.

Press TV: Mr. Santomauro, if you have anything to add, please do so.

Santomauro: Well, he is referring to American interests, I think the parallel he was trying to make is not correct. Israel is not a foreign policy issue, it’s a domestic issue. It has to do with pact money and funding for the Democratic Party, in majority money and the Republican Party in plurality money. You can’t compete with that, it’s a very cohesive ethnic group here in the United States, they will dictate the terms just based on financial elite power that they have.

Larudee But where is the money coming from. Where are they getting their money? Their money is coming from a contract that Israeli consumers or the Israeli government has with US companies that are paid through US aid to those companies and therefore that money gets recycled back to the US and those who receive US money are investing some of that money in the influence of the Israel lobby in Washington. It’s a circular process there and they donate money to create groups like the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Santomauro: First of all, there is no obligation on the part of…

Press TV: Mr. Santomauro, is Israel an asset or a liability to the United States and why?

Santomauro: It’s an extreme liability. It’s caused a lot of headaches and problems for America. 9/11 would not have happened had we not had a lopsided foreign policy in the Middle East and I just want to touch on the other guest about the money, some of the money does get funneled back to the United States, the billions and billions that we give to Israel every year but there is no strings attached and there is no obligation how Israel spends that money as opposed to Egypt where there are strings attached.

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