You Get the Truth Only from ‘Former' Officials': Relying On Zionist Money
10 October 2010By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban
Warning from the Obama administration's submission to
Israeli pressure, in an interview with OTV, Michael
Scheuer, a ‘former' senior CIA officer, said: "Three
hundred million Americans could wake up tomorrow to
discover that a foreign leader, Benjamin Netanyahu,
led them to war with Iran, which might lead to war
with the rest of the Muslim world". He added, "Israel
has no value whatsoever when it comes to American
interests. It does not produce or give us anything we
need. The only thing we get from it is that it is
leading us to a religious war it seeks with Islam".
Documents released by the National Security Archives
Center, after having been declassified, show that
hours after the 9/11 attacks, US Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld talked about attacking Iraq –
according to minutes of a meeting held that day – and
asked for "evidence which shows an alleged
relationship between the former head of the Iraqi
regime and al-Qaeda leader". The United States
acknowledged later that no relation existed between
the former Iraqi regime and the 9/11 attacks.
Nevertheless, it went ahead with invading Iraq.
In his memoirs, ‘former' British Prime Minister Tony
Blair admitted that "there was no evidence to prove
Iraqi ties to al-Qaeda", or that it possessed mass
destruction weapons". The decision to invade Iraq was
taken on the first day that George W. Bush and his
team took office.
Shall we wait, every time, for a certain official
responsible for waging a war to retire, to know the
real objective of that war? The more important
question is: why do not Western officials, who play
leading roles in their countries with impact on the
lives of millions of people in other countries, dare
say the truth and behave accordingly? Why do they, in
moments like invading Iraq, toe the line of other
forces and reduce themselves to mere instruments. The
answer might be that these forces are capable of
shaking their positions or even putting an end to
their political existence altogether under one pretext
or another.
If we examine what is happening today, in light of
what happened in the past, we find that the six
countries involved in negotiations over Iran's nuclear
program state repeatedly that they "prefer a
diplomatic solution with Iran". President Obama,
during his election campaign, said he "does not want
or intend to strike Iran". Even today, Augustus R.
Norton, Professor at Boston University, said, "There
is little enthusiasm at the Pentagon to launch war
against Iran". Who then is drumming up war against
Iran? And who is drumming up war against it or against
Lebanon every time the prospects of a peaceful
settlement looms in the horizon? One should also ask
about the source of Islamophobia; and its relation to
what Israel is trying to achieve in terms of massacres
and ethnic and religious cleansing of Muslims and
Christians in order to create their Jewish state.
There are two main factors here: the first is that
most Western media are owned by sympathizers with
Israel and edited by people of their elke. That is why
most Western officials do not dare say the truth when
it comes to Israel's crimes. They might whisper in
private, or write in their memoirs after they leave
office and become
‘former' officials about the racist reality of Israel
. But it is rare to find a Western official prepared
to sacrifice his position to reveal the truth to the
World. When Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh did
this, she lost her life in obscure circumstances. That
is why private memoirs of ‘former' officials shed
light on past events. But we should learn the lesson
from past decisions which brought destruction and
disasters to millions of people in order to avoid
similar ones which could bring the world similar
disasters.
The second factor is that Arabs in general still deal
with the United States, which gives billions of
dollars worth of weapons to Israel, in addition to the
money given to expand settlements and support
settlers, as if it were neutral and an honest broker
between Arabs and Israelis. In this regard, they
should not spend hours of research to find out that
this is only an illusion. They only need to recall
footage of American Secretary of State Hilary Clinton
arriving in occupied Palestine and received by Shimon
Peres, holding his hands and massaging them with
warmth and affection. Her body language reveals that
they are one side trying to entrap the Arab side and
destroy it. She did so, as if she had not heard the
racist statements of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who said
about the Arabs, on the Jewish New Year celebrations,
"God should strike them with a plague, them and these
Palestinians"; and as if she did not hear of Israeli
soldier Eden Aberjil, after she posted photos of her
blindfolded Palestinian prisoners on Facebook, "I
would enjoy killing Arabs". All this racism did not
merit a word of condemnation from any Western
official.
The reason is pretty clear; and the essence of which
could be found in an article by Jeff Gates entitled
"How the Israel Lobby Took Control of U.S. Foreign
Policy" in which he explains how AIPAC invites
candidates for elections who show a willingness to
serve Israeli interests and provides them with a list
of contributors who could double their election
budget, and how AIPAC insures that its candidates are
elected to Congress. He gives names and figures of
people whose political history changed after they
relied on Zionist money, particularly President Harry
Truman who recognized Israel minutes after the
announcement of its creation. Gates concludes that
"Therein lies the perils of an entangled alliance that
induced the U.S. to invade Iraq and now seeks war with
Iran. By allowing foreign agents to operate as a
domestic lobby, the U.S. was induced to confuse
Zionist interests with its own".
This explains why the US Defense Secretary protested
what is expected to be a deal to sell Russian missiles
to Syria after Israel declared its opposition to the
deal, although it is armed to the teeth with all sorts
of mass destruction weapons.
Part of the tragedies of the peoples of Palestine,
Pakistan, Afghanistan and Somalia, and the dangers
threatening Iran, Sudan and Yemen, is caused by the
cowardice of leaders and their succumbing to the
dictates and temptation of Zionist money and the
blackmail of Israeli media and not responding to their
human conscience and the interests of their nations
which they are supposed to represent.
Prof. Bouthaina Shaaban is Political and Media
Advisor at the Syrian Presidency, and former Minister
of Expatriates. She is also a writer and professor at
Damascus University since 1985. She's got Ph.D. in
English Literature from Warwick University, London.
She was the spokesperson for Syria. She was nominated
for Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.
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