NETANYAHU IRATE AT FAILURE TO FORCE OBAMA’S HAND
INSERTS
HIMSELF INTO THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE
Benjamin
Netanyahu angrily lashes out because President Obama
does not
share his sense of urgency over a “nuclear Iran”.
(Sept. 16, 2012 – New York,
NY) Of all the complexities, nuances,
facts and fictions that have defined United States foreign affairs, foreign
policy and all our geopolitical relations since the end of World War II, the
most enduring fallacy is that the nation of Israel is our closest “friend” and
“ally” in the Middle East. That this
belief is accepted by so many today is a testament to the herculean efforts by
decades of American and Israeli leaders, politicians, and special interests to
perpetuate what is in harsh reality a myth.
The truth is that the relationship between our two countries is the most
one-sided of the many that America is engaged in around the world. Time and time again, in well-known episodes
and deeply held secretive operations, Israel has clearly proven she is neither
friend nor ally, not an equal partner with America but rather a parasitic,
duplicitous entity that has used the United States in selfish, self-serving
ways since its very creation in 1949.
Self-righteously standing behind the dark horror of the Holocaust,
Israel has operated under the misguided premise that the atrocities of Nazi
Germany somehow imbue them with a special, if not sacred place in the community
of nations. That is simply not the
case. As tragic and inhumane as the
Holocaust was when it was perpetrated in the late 1930’s until the American led
Allied victory over Germany and the Axis in 1945, it no longer has any
relevance to the realities of the
seemingly intractable issues that keep the Israel, her neighbors and the entire
Middle East mired in perpetual conflict and turmoil.
The latest demonstration of
Israel’s belligerent, petulant insistence that America stand with her no matter
what the cause or ramifications is heard in the bellicose blustering Israel’s
current Prime Minister, a hard line militant conservative of the Likud Party,
Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu. Bibi declares
with a rabid certainty that the impending realization of “Iran’s nuclear
capability” has his nation, today or tomorrow, “facing annihilation”. Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press earlier
today he assured the viewing audience that Iran is “within six months of having
a 90% capability to make an atomic bomb”;
an eerily reminiscent statement much like George W. and his crew’s
assertion about the existence of WMD in Iraq. We watched the tragic
consequences of those lies. Netanyahu
bloviates and barks about drawing “red lines” with Iran and that they are
already in the “red zone and we cannot allow them to make a touchdown”. Well, if that is in fact the case, do what
you must Bibi, to eliminate the “existential threat” you must feel Iran
poses. But, you should be well advised
and consider that if you are wrong, if your own fanaticism and extremism is
driving your policy and you are trying to somehow force President Obama’s hand,
you will not succeed.
For the first time in recent
memory or at least since the days of the George H.W. Bush Administration, we
have an American president with the resolve to stand up to a bullying Israeli
Prime Minister and not be conned into making statements and commitments that
indicate to the world that Israel can do whatever she pleases. At a time of real overt hostility and
violence towards the United States in the Middle East as demonstrated by the
attacks on our Embassies in Libya and Egypt that took four American lives,
President Obama is putting some much needed distance between the Jewish State
and the United States. And this is how
it should be. This is not
“anti-Semitic”; no. This is good, sound policy
that places our interests ahead of the parasitic Israel that has for far too
long depended on us for support if not protection.
FALLACIES ABOUND
The fundamental argument for
our unimpeachable support of Israel has always been that she is the “only
bastion of democracy” in a hostile region surrounded by neighbors committed to
her destruction. Israel is no more a
democracy than was South Africa during the brutal Apartheid era. Democratic nations do not oppress a
substantial segment of their population as Israel continues to do to the
Palestinians. Democracies do not commit
human rights violations on an epic scale nor do they consistently ignore dozens
of United Nations Security Council resolutions with galling impunity. For decades the only “ally” Israel has had in
the United Nations has been the United States who has always vetoed pro-Palestinian
resolutions as well as any international efforts aimed to stop Israel’s
unchecked abuse of millions of her non-Jewish citizens.
Israel, thanks to arms of
every type supplied by the United States, has a very powerful military
apparatus. The Palestinians forced to
live in small segregated noncontiguous portions of Israel have no military, no weaponry
that comes close to that of Israel’s. When
the Palestinians in the West Bank or Gaza Strip manage to lob a rocket or grenade
over one of the towering walls that confine them, Israel responds with a level
of disproportional military might that results in the murders of unknown
innocents as well as the destruction of entire neighborhoods. Some Palestinian kids throw rocks at the
Israeli troops who control every aspect of their lives and Israel with drop a
bomb on the neighborhood those kids lived in.
The criminal asymmetry of this on-going conflict defies international
law and clearly demonstrates Israel’s disdain for the morals and ethics that
define democratic society.
Inextricably linked to the
litany of lies sold to the American people regarding the imperative that we
stand ‘shoulder to shoulder” with Israel are a host of hypocrisies and
disingenuous pseudo-explanations for the crimes Israel has perpetrated on the
United States. Israel is a nuclear power
(yet refuses to admit it) due largely to the theft of our nuclear secrets and
the cooperation of a cadre of Zionist scientists who labored on the Manhattan
project. Israel has and continues to
conduct active espionage operations on our soil. They have never fully apologized for the
attack of the USS Liberty and they continue to try to barter for the release of
Jonathon Pollard, a convicted spy responsible for providing Israel with some
our most valuable technical data about our intelligence satellites.
Israel has so coopted many of
our politicians that they are confident that the United States will continue to
do its bidding. Israel has no friends;
they use the United States under the flimsy guise of ‘friendship”. Well, we won’t be fooled again. We must not allow Netanyahu to influence the
presidential race between President Obama and his pandering opponent, Mitt
Romney who looks out at the Middle East from within the hip pocket of his old
Boston buddy Bibi.
Israel is a sovereign nation free
to act in her own security concerns. If Netanyahu’s
paranoia compels him to launch preemptive strikes against the alleged nuclear
facilities of Iran, that is his business and he must deal with all the
complications and ramifications of thrusting the entire Middle East into lethal
turmoil.
TAGS:
Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Nuclear Iran, President Obama, Mitt Romney, Middle
East Policy, National Security, Presidential
Politics, Israeli
Interference
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