John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY MICHAEL ARRIA IN MONDOWEISS
“Democrats are already folding on [Israel’s proposed] annexation [of the West Bank]
“Senate Democrats move away from call to condition aid to Israel, even though it is popular with the party base”
Democrats?
Why would anyone expect anything else from the Democrats? It is an American illusion that they represent the American Left. There is no American Left when it comes to empire.
There effectively is only one American political party, the War and Empire Party.
It has two wings, and they only differ in quibbling over social programs which in fact can never be legislated because war and empire consume all the resources.
Both wings of the party are financed by big money, the only ones who can supply campaign funds (and other influential helps) in sufficient quantity.
American oligarchs and lobby groups play a big role, and America's pathetic campaign-finance laws make it possible as well as the country's poor laws around lobbying - self-inflicted wounds.
Everyone in the game benefits by it, so there is no reason to expect change.
The Democrat wing has never opposed a war or coup or incursion. Never.
Indeed, it has supplied the country a number of blood-soaked administrations - Truman, Johnson, Clinton, and Obama.
Please note that Israel is, de facto, an integral part of the American empire, a kind of super-privileged imperial colony in the Middle East. A Crusader Fortress. An American pied-a-terre in the Middle East.
That is its current reality far more accurately than describing it as an independent state with ancient roots.
It is not at all genuinely independent. It is floated on a sea of American public and private subsidies, and it has many unique privileges (as free trade, special access to leaders, technology, many desirable American contracts, etc.), and it has been able to position the US into fighting a number of wars largely for its benefit - as in Iraq, Syria, and Libya.
But no matter how unfair and abusive America and Israel continue to be towards the Palestinians, they are not going away.
The Palestinians are the true “facts on the ground.”
Millions of them.
