Israel: Latest Victim Of America's Weird Foreign Policy?
01 May 2011By Jane Stillwater
Don't even get me started on America's failed foreign
policy in the Middle East. Just try to name even one
country east of Suez that America hasn't tampered with
and made a mess of. "Israel?" you might say. Yeah
right. Just imagine what Israel would be like today if
America had resisted the temptation to interfere with
its policies, the direction it was taking and its
priorities.
America, like some strange King Midas in reverse,
seems to have completely screwed up everything that it
touches in the Middle East. And, yes, this statement
appears to include Israel too.
First of all, in any kind of sane world Israel would
have gotten its hand slapped for bombing the USS
Liberty back in 1967. But it didn't. 34 U.S. sailors
were deliberately and callously murdered by Israeli
armed forces and apparently no hand-slapping was
involved -- with the possible exception of some
bizarre spy vs. spy story from Wayne Madsen about
America then sinking an Israel submarine in
retaliation and then Israel sinking a French submarine
to get even and also sinking a U.S. cargo ship
returning empty from Iran after dumping off tons of
weapons from Reagan to the Ayatollah, thus getting in
the last word. http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/
oldsite/article.asp?ID=10051.
If this bizarre story is true, however, America's and
Israel's leaders' foreign policies and moral compasses
are even more off-base than we thought!
And after the USS Liberty incident, Israel's
leadership must have been on top of the world. "Wow!"
they must have said to themselves in stunned
disbelief. "If Americans let us get away with
deliberately murdering 34 U.S. sailors in cold blood,
they'll let us get away with anything! Let's go for it
guys." And apparently they did.
America over the past several decades has appeared to
support every single bad thing that Israel has done
since its inception. "America NEVER sends us to our
room without any supper -- no matter how badly we
behave!" seemed to the message that America sent to
Israel's leadership after the USS Liberty was
heartlessly attacked, bombed and strafed.
So Israel, like some naughty child, was allowed to
pull as many wings off as many Middle East butterflies
at it wanted to. That mess in Lebanon in the 1980?
That mess in Lebanon in 2006? The heartless bombing of
Gaza with deadly white phosphorus that killed hundreds
of women and children in 2008? Rachel Corrie's
death-by-bulldozer in 2003? Go for it!
And even more important, Israel has suffered
inestimable harm to its international reputation as a
religious nation. And it has suffered economic harm.
And moral harm. And its citizens have become racists
and murderers without even a qualm. The whole country
looks like South Africa during Apartheid or Warsaw
during World War II. Yuck! http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=ylVlFfFUk8w&
Not to mention the price Israel has to pay as its
returning soldiers suffer from PTSS.
Not to mention the price Israel has to pay as its
entire civilian population suffers from PTSS!
"But Jane," you might say, "if Israelis hadn't fought
back, then Palestinians would have thrown them into
the sea!" Not true. That "Poor Me, underdog, David vs.
Goliath" story is getting more and more unbelievable
every day days. Did David own a whole fleet of F16
jets or over 200 nuclear weapons? I think not.
Not only that, but a huge number of Israelis these
days are voluntarily throwing their own selves into
the sea. We will never know how many Israelis with
European roots have packed up their families in the
middle of the night and moved back to Europe where it
is safe and where Europe's leadership doesn't use them
as fall-guys for some real estate grab and their
children won't grow up to be bigots. I've heard that
there are more Israelis living in Berlin right now
than there were even back in the 1930s.
In an article entitled, "Three Myths of Israel's
Insecurity," Ira Chernus lists three frequently-told
stories that are actually purely myths. "Myth Number
1: Israel's existence is threatened by the
ever-present possibility of military attack. In fact,
there's no chance that any of Israel's neighbors will
start a war to wipe out Israel....
"Myth Number 2: The personal safety of every Jewish
Israeli is threatened daily by the possibility of
violent attack. In fact, according to Israeli
government statistics, since the beginning of 2009
only one Israeli civilian (and two non-Israelis) have
been killed by politically motivated attacks inside
the green line (Israel's pre-1967 border). Israelis
who live inside that line go about their daily lives
virtually free from such worry.
"Myth Number 3: Israel's existence is threatened by
worldwide efforts to delegitimize the Jewish state.
Early in 2010, Military Intelligence Chief Amos Yadlin
told the Knesset, Israel's parliament, that the
country was not 'suffering from terror or from an
immediate military threat.'" http://original.antiwar.com
/engelhardt/ 2011/ 04/17/the-great.israeli-
security-scam/print
Now let's talk about the BDS (Boycott, Divest,
Sanction) economic movement worldwide -- where both
Israeli and American companies who support apartheid
are being boycotted. This movement is putting Israel
in more danger than possibilities of violent attack.
And the BDS movement is a direct result of Israel
having been influenced by America's ineffective, weird
and immoral foreign policies in the Middle East. And I
have the YouTube flash mob videos to prove it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=Ww7OUUfjoBQ
Of course I could continue to cite you cases in point
here all night about how Israel's military, economic
and racist policies are failing it bigtime all over
the Middle East, and also in the eyes of world
opinion, with regard to Israel's military and foreign
policy strategy. For instance, there's the case of the
new Arab Spring movements that appear to have been
originally inspired by Arab hatred of injustice in
Palestine. However, I am more of a philosophical
person than a military fact-checker or foreign-policy
wank and would prefer to focus on investigating how
Israel's American-inspired-and-funded cruel, unjust
and apartheid policies appear to be also destroying
Israel from within as well as allegedly from without.
Most practicing Jews -- both outside of Israel and
inside it -- are religious and righteous people who
put a heavy emphasis on observing mitzvahs and
pursuing justice. And slowly but surely these
practicing Jews are becoming fed up with the vicious
persecution of Palestinians that currently makes
Israel more resemble Warsaw than the Promised Land.
And not only that, but Israelis have stolen -- stolen!
-- millions of olive trees from Palestinian farmers.
You gotta sink pretty low in order to steal some poor
farmer's olive trees. Where in the Talmud does it say
that olive-tree-stealing is kosher? Nowhere!
Arab Jews in Israel are also getting fed up with being
prejudiced against -- even though they are in the
majority in Israel. In an article published recently
by a group of Arab Jews in Israel, young Mizrahi Jews
stated that, "We believe that, as Mizrahi Jews in
Israel, our struggle for economic, social, and
cultural rights rests on the understanding that
political change cannot depend on the Western powers
who have exploited our region and its residents for
many generations." http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/young-arab-jews-open-letter-to-arab-peers.html
Arab Jews are also getting prejudiced against in
Israel -- remember those famous ringworm experiments
that maimed thousands of Jewish children of Arab
origin? The ones where children were irradiated
deliberately? And paid for by America?
It's not only Christian Arabs and Muslim Arabs that
are getting kicked around in Jerusalem. Arab Jews are
getting kicked around there too. That's just wrong!
For decades, America has offered Israeli leaders
billions and billions of dollars if Israel only will
serve as its cats-paws in the Middle East. And Israeli
leaders just hold out their hands, happily selling out
their country, willingly corrupted by wealth.
And then there's that infamous Subaru ad where a
Zionist driver thinks it's just peachy to run over
Palestinian children. Now tell me again how Israelis
could have sunk so low morally? It's amazing what the
power of American money will do when it is waved in
your face. http://www.facebook.com/ note.php?note_id=198500
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Just like Americans have been corrupted into believing
that killing and maiming hundreds of thousands of
women and children in the Middle East is both
necessary and cool, Israelis have also sold their
birthright as moral human beings in order to serve
bogus U.S. foreign policy goals in the Middle East
that do NOT serve Israel's own national interests at
all -- nor America's either.
PS: Here's a link to an article written by Holocaust
survivor Hedy Epstein, "As a Holocaust Survivor, AIPAC
Does Not Speak for Me": http://www.moveoveraipac.org/2011/04/
as-a-holocaust-survivor- aipac-does-not- speak-for-me/
"At the end of one of my first journeys to the
Israeli-occupied West Bank in 2004, I endured a
shocking experience at Ben-Gurion Airport. I never
imagined that Israeli security forces would abuse a
79-year-old Holocaust survivor, but they held me for
five hours, and strip-searched and cavity-searched
every part of my naked body. The only shame these
security officials expressed was to turn their badges
around so that their names were invisible...."
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