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The United States government and its subject peoples think of the US as
“the world’s only superpower.” But how is a country a superpower when its
entire government and a majority of the subjects, especially those members of
evangelical churches, grovel at the feet of the Israeli Prime Minister? How is
a country a superpower when it lacks the power to determine its own foreign
policy in the Middle East? Such a country is not a superpower. It is a puppet
state.
In the past few days we have witnessed, yet again, the “American
superpower” groveling at Netanyahu’s feet. When Netanyahu decided to again
murder the Palestinian women and children of Gaza, to further destroy what
remains of the social infrastructure of the Gaza Ghetto, and to declare Israeli
war crimes and Israeli crimes against humanity to be merely the exercise of “self-defense,”
the US Senate, the US House of Representatives, the White House, and the US
media all promptly declared their support for Netanyahu’s crimes.
On November 16 the Congress of the “superpower,” both House and Senate,
passed overwhelmingly the resolutions written for them by AIPAC, the Israel
Lobby known as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the only foreign
agent that is not required to register as a foreign agent. The Global News
Service of the Jewish People reported their power over Washington with pride.
http://current.com/19su0kc Both Democrats and Republicans shared the dishonor
of serving Israel and evil instead of America and justice for the Palestinians.
The White House quickly obeyed the summons from the Israel Lobby.
President Obama announced that he is “fully supportive” of Israel’s assault on
Gaza. Ben Rhodes, White House deputy national security adviser, told the media
on November 17 that the White House “wants the same thing as the Israelis
want.” This is an overstatement as many Israelis oppose the crimes of the
Israeli government, which is not the government of Israel but the government of
the “settlers,” that is, the crazed land-hungry immigrants who are illegally,
with Netanyahu’s support, stealing the lands of the Palestinians.
Netanyahu’s Israel is the equivalent of the Lincoln Republicans 150
years ago. Then there was no international law to protect Southern states, who
left the voluntary union, a right under the Constitution, in order to avoid
being exploited by Northern business interests. Subsequently, the Union army,
after devastating the South, turned on the American Indians, and there was no
international law to protect American Indians from being murdered and
dispossessed by Washington’s armies.
Washington claimed that its invasion forces were threatened by the
Indian’s bows and arrows. Today there is international law to protect the
Palestinian residents of the West Bank and Gaza. However, every time that the
world tries to hold the Israeli government accountable for its crimes, Israel’s
Washington puppet vetoes the UN decision.
The notion that Israel is threatened by Palestinians is as absurd as the
notion that the US is threatened by Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria,
Somalia, Pakistan, and Iran. No government of any of these countries has ever
made a threatening statement against the US. Even had such a statement been
made, it would be meaningless. If a Superpower can be threatened by such
impotent and distant counties, then it is not a superpower.
Demonizing a victim is a way of hiding state crimes. The American print
and TV media is useless as a check on state crimes. The only crimes reported by
the media are assigned to “terrorists,” that is, those who resist US hegemony,
and to Americans, such as Bradley Manning and Sibel Edmonds, who liberate truth
from official secrecy. Julian Assange of WikiLeaks remains in danger despite
the asylum granted to him by the President of Ecuador, as Washington has little
regard for international law.
In the US the exercise of the First Amendment is coming to be regarded
as a crime against the state. The purpose of the media is no longer to find the
truth, but to protect official lies. Speaking the truth has essentially
disappeared as it is too costly to journalist who dare to do so. To keep one’s
job, one serves Washington and the private interest groups that Washington
serves.
In his November 19 defense of Israel’s latest war crimes, President
Obama said: “no country on earth would tolerate missiles raining down from
outside its borders.” But, of course, numerous countries do tolerate missiles
raining down from the US. The war criminal Obama is raining down missiles in
Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen, and has rained missiles on Libya, Somalia,
Iraq and Syria as well. Iran might be next.
The German assault on the Warsaw Ghetto is one of the horror stories of
Jewish history. Such an event is happening again, only this time Jews are
perpetrators instead of victims. No hand has been raised to stay Israel from
the goal of the operation declared by Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai to
be “to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-pounds-gaza-from-air-as-troops-assemble-8326924.html
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