Jewish Corruption of US Power

In an act of sheer farce, Powell was sent on a slow boat to Israel, via Madrid and Morocco. Before Powell even arrived, former Israeli PM Benjamin
Netanyahu summoned fawning U.S. senators and arrogantly informed them
Powell’s mission would fail.

While the rest of the world condemned
Israel’s invasion and destruction of the
Palestinian ghettos, not a peep was heard from the White House, Congress or
America’s media about Israel’s violation of U.S. law in using U.S.-supplied armour and warplanes against civilians. Nor about
Israel’s violation of the Geneva
Conventions and other international laws.
There were no protests when Israel’s
Shimon Peres described massacres of
Palestinian civilians by Israeli soldiers.

Nor even a
tut-tut when Sharon named to his
cabinet a fanatical right-wing general
who advocates ethnic cleansing of
Palestinians – the same crime for which
the U.S. pursued Serbia’s Slobodan
Milosevic.

To be sure, there is deep and justified sympathy in the U.S. for the frightful suffering Israel has endured at the hands of suicide bombers, and its need for self-defence.

Still, why was America alone in defending Israel’s ruthless punishment of the Palestinians?

How could Bush, only a few weeks ago, still bathing in the bogus glory of a military “triumph” against a few thousand medieval tribesman in Afghanistan, be so suddenly made to look foolish and impotent by events in the Mideast?

Simply put, Sharon’s right-wing Likud party has come to dominate U.S. Mideast policy through its powerful American lobby, which “guides” Congress.

Under pressure from the Israel lobby,
89 out of 100 senators and at least 280
congressmen recently demanded Bush give
Sharon carte blanche to crush Palestine.
As the Israeli writer Uri Avnery wryly noted, if the Israel lobby gave orders to repeal the Ten Commandments, Congress would vote in favour.

America’s media is strongly pro-Israel and averse to dissenting views. A coterie of hawkish, Israel-first neo-conservatives dominates media opinion-making and the
Pentagon, leading the charge for a war against Iraq, Iran, and Syria. One even helped to write Bush’s foolish “axis of evil” speech.

Tight U.S. mid-term elections are approaching.

Bush does not want to anger American
Jewish voters who believe Israel is in mortal danger.

George
Sr Roasted

Bush obviously recalls that when his father sought to pressure Israel to halt building illegal settlements, Bush Sr. was unfairly roasted by the media as an anti-Semite and forced to back down. No wonder Sharon can thumb his nose at the
White House.

Bush likes to talk tough, but this crisis has shown him to be the exact opposite. In Texas, they’d say, “big hat, no land.” Bush has so far failed to take any real action to halt America’s Mideast interests being undermined by the bloodbath in Palestine and Israel.

The best way to protect Israelis from terror attacks is to withdraw their
200,000 illegal settlers and end their colonial rule over the West Bank, Gaza and
Golan; divide East Jerusalem into Jewish,
Muslim, and Christian sectors, have NATO troops police peace accords and either normalize relations with the Arabs, as the
Saudis propose, or build a wall to isolate
Israel from its neighbours. This cannot be done so long as settlements remain.

Sharon is dead set against this sensible idea. He needs to be pushed the way Dwight Eisenhower ordered
Israel, in 1956, to get out of the Sinai, which it had invaded and occupied – or else. Had Bush Eisenhower’s integrity or genuine patriotism, he would compel Sharon to accept the wise Saudi peace plan and forget dreams of recreating biblical
Greater Israel. This would be a boon to
Jews and Arabs alike.

But Bush junior is no Eisenhower. His dithering over the Mideast has made the
United States appear both helpless and a tacit supporter of Israel’s West Bank repression – and made America the potential target of more terrorist attacks from the enraged Arab world.