POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Israel is pushing hard now for one reason, and it is the same reason why they have Obama and Clinton looking like Neanderthals over the worthy agency, UNESCO.
Obama is extremely vulnerable going into the next election, and he needs all the campaign funds and good press he can get.
It is a nightmare situation in which we have a tiny state with extreme views and never-ending belligerent demands literally push around the world's super-power.
Although they play a role, American fundamentalist Christian notions about Israel are really not what determine this poisonous relationship.
It is America's campaign-finance system that does, and also, to some extent, the concentration of media in so few hands.
The United States’ government is so bamboozled by Israel that it will do close to anything if Israel demands it loudly enough.
Kill an American citizen with impunity? Israel has done so on many occasions from the attack on the USS Liberty to the piracy on the high seas of a humanitarian convoy.
Use American high-tech weapons, supplied in great abundance at knock-down prices, while totally ignoring the strict provisions about use only for self-defense contracted into their supply? It has done so on countless occasions.
Ignore America and the world's strict regime governing nuclear weapons? And doing so even while pointing the finger at another state, demanding that it be attacked although innocent of the very behaviour of which we know Israel is grossly guilty?
Ignore America and the world's strict regime governing the proliferation of nuclear materials and weapons? Israel got off with complete impunity for assisting the apartheid regime in South Africa to develop nuclear weapons.
Start a secretly-engineered war of aggression, the 1967 War, in which you quickly seize the lands of millions of others - lands which you feel you are entitled from a 2500-year old collection of religious mysticism – and reduce the entire populations to an apartheid regime in which you strip them of all rights and proceed gradually to steal their homes?
Have the name of the most damaging, treacherous spy in American history, Jonathon Pollard, honored in Israel as a national hero?
Patiently endure an endless stream of demands that Pollard be released, the latest to which it has been reported Obama was almost ready to agree, completely to the opposition of almost all high-ranking military and intelligence officers, this last being the only real barrier against the lunatic idea?
The very fact Pollard was not executed in the first place, his treachery being far more damaging than that of most of the spies the United did execute?
Having Israel's argumentative and demanding and unpleasant Prime Minister with virtually open access to the Oval Office?
Having the United States fight proxy wars for Israel, the only genuine explanation for the horrors of the Iraq invasion?
Giving Israel unfettered access to American markets and technology, often in direct conflict with the interests of American companies?
There seems to be almost no limit to Israel’s impossible demands of America.
Now the thug, Netanyahu, wants war with Iran. Israel keeps blustering that it will itself attack Iran – using, of course, the very American weapons whose use for aggressive war is contractually forbidden. But Iran is not helpless, and Israel knows, that even if it does have the capacity to attack a thousand miles away that there will be serious (and deserved) consequences.
So Israel wants a get-out-of-jail-free card from the United States if it does prove itself to have the capacity for a first strike, and, if it does not have that capacity, it again wants the United States to do its killing.
We have here a black comedy of, pound-for-pound, the world’s most belligerent and lawless little country demanding an attack on a country which has attacked no one in its entire modern history. And it makes this irrational demand of the world’s super-power, whose current weak and pathetic president might just prove inclined to grant the evil wish.
God help the world of our children with the deadly legacy of a genuine Frankenstein monster now driving its maker.
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FROM A READER:
"Iran for 36 years has been taunting the Jewish State with "wiping it off the map".. Constant anti semitism and hatred.. Now Israel will raise its mighty hand and nuke tipped Sam 44's and lob one down the throat of the Beast! Happy Hunting!"
An incredibly ill-informed and violent comment.
Iran has not once threatened Israel, not once.
It does not even possess the means to do so seriously.
And every source of genuine intelligence tells us Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons.
The only support for your nonsense view was the current President of Iran's mistranslated and endlessly repeated words.
What he actually said was no different to the CIA's assessment of Israel's future: Israel cannot maintain its current fantasy situation in the part of the world where it is located, in a sea of Arabs.
It will eventually meld with Palestinians and others into a single Middle Eastern state, with many of its non-Middle Eastern citizens, dual-passport Americans and Europeans, returning home.
Your comment serves only the purpose of exhibiting for all to see what irrationality and violence are at work in Israel's demands.
