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Corporate media pretend
U.S.-Israeli relations are in “crisis,” just as they have many times in
the past. It’s all a charade, a play for national and international
audiences. In real crises, relationships are called into question. But
there has never been any question about who is in charge of this
“partnership”: Israel. And don’t you dare forget it.
The
United States may invade and occupy Iraq, undermine elected presidents
in Haiti and throw its weight around in numerous ways in numerous parts
of the world. Yet there is one country it does not dare to confront. Of
course, the nation in question is Israel.
Israel
and its allies in the United States make certain that no president, no
political party, no congressional leader nor any citizen who wishes to
be in any way influential, will dare to step outside the lines of
proscribed behavior and discourse. The American public, either because
they are aware of the pro-Israel grip on power, or because they have
swallowed the propaganda whole, remain cowed and silent.
Israel
can do whatever it wants not only with the United States, but with
other western nations as well. Mossad agents succeeded in murdering
Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabouh in Dubai last month by using doctored
British, Irish, French, Australian and German passports and credit
cards issued to an Israeli-run bank
located in South Dakota. None of the nations involved has uttered more
than the slightest peep after having their sovereignty violated in such
an obvious manner.
Just in case there was any doubt about who is in charge, Israel insulted Vice President Joseph Biden
and the United States government when Biden made a recent visit to
Jerusalem. Biden made the pro forma journey to go through the motions
of requesting that the peace process continue. The Israelis could have
nudged, winked and gone through the pretense of moving forward on a
just peace process. Instead they announced that more Jewish housing
will be constructed on Palestinian land, embarrassing the Vice
President and his boss, who wanted to pretend to be even handed when
they and the rest of American political leadership are anything but. The
Obama administration, like every other presidential administration in
the last sixty years, does what Israel wants it to do. There shouldn’t
be any reason for Israel to yank the Americans’ chain so hard and so
publicly, but why follow the rules of diplomatic niceties when doing
otherwise has been so successful?
The
only thing worse than the obvious slap in the face, is the phony
outrage surrounding it. No one gets anywhere near a presidential
nomination without first swearing obedience to the Zionists and their
lobby. If Obama and Biden and Hillary Clinton were truly upset with the
Israelis, it is only because they were so blatant in making them all
look like chumps.
Just a few weeks before Obama was sworn into office, George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice were the victims of an Israeli public beat down.
Bush was literally pulled off a stage where he was about to give a
speech and forced to take a phone call from then Israeli prime minister
Ehud Olmert. Rice had worked on a Security Council resolution which
merely called for a cease fire in Israel’s massacre of thousands of
people in Gaza. Olmert bragged in a press conference, “I said, ‘I don’t
care; I have to talk to him.’” Not content to tell the world that he
ordered the American president to follow his orders, he took a swipe at
Rice too. “He gave an order to the secretary of state, and she did not
vote in favor of it — a resolution she cooked up, phrased, organized
and maneuvered for. She was left pretty shamed, and abstained on a
resolution she arranged.” It isn’t surprising that Israel would repeat
the humiliation just a year later with a different president.
It
doesn’t matter if David Axelrod goes on the Sunday morning news shows
and fakes outrage about Israel’s settlements. It matters that Israel
continues to steal Palestinian land and it matters that only those
willing to go along with the crime are allowed to entertain any idea of
having a role in United States foreign policy decisions.
Far
from being angry at Israel, the United States government is actually
becoming more and more like that nation. The Obama administration
claims the right to carry out extra judicial assassinations
just like their Middle East partner in crime. The temporary
embarrassment and damage control pronouncements are not worthy of
anyone’s attention.
The
only lesson to learn from this sorry episode is that nothing new has
taken place between the United States and Israel. All Americans are
still made complicit in the joint criminality and earn the enmity of
most of the world as a result. So don’t believe the hype. There is
nothing to see here, just move along.
Black Agenda Report
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