COMMENT POSTED TO A VIDEO ARTICLE BY JONATAN FREEDLAND IN
THE GUARDIAN
More propaganda from Jonathan Freedland - there really is no
other word to adequately describe this verbal output short of an unfortunate
bout of severe verbal diarrhea.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, Trump has said or advocated is
not being done already in other places.
Immigrants? Look to your own Prime Minister for inspiration.
He plainly just does not want them. Then look to Israel which takes only one
kind of immigrant and no other. Walls? Israel has them going up in a number of
places, and various states of Europe are building strong fences.
And speaking of immigrants, we have a flood of refugees
today which is why fences are going up in Europe.
Why is that? Because America, Israel, Turkey, and Saudi
Arabia five years ago make a decision they had no right to make: to seek to
destroy the government of Syria and hurtle that beautiful, historic land into
chaos, sending millions running for their lives.
There is no other explanation for the horrors we see than
geopolitics over humanity and human rights and, yes, even democracy, because
Assad has popular support in Syria and is a defender of religious rights.
And America, in consultation with Israel, has made what can
only be termed Hitlerian decisions more than once, destroying a well-run
society in Libya and utterly devastating Iraq.
And poor Egypt, finally free of a hideous dictatorship after
thirty years, was quickly turned around, its young democracy destroyed, and is
back saddled with dictatorship. Why? Bottom line is that Israel detested the
democratic government of Egypt.
All of this was to create a cordon sanitaire for Israel and
to eliminate rulers who looked to their own countries' interests rather than
toe the line of America's authoritarian policies.
And what can we say of the country for whose benefit so much
of this horror was launched? It builds walls everywhere, and on other people’s
land. It destroys houses that have stood for centuries. It regularly just helps
itself to parcels of other people’s land. It holds thousands as prisoners. It
holds five million or so effectively in bondage with no rights, no votes, and
no future.
This is what Mr Freedland effectively is defending.
It is simply a fact that Israel’s government intensely
dislikes Donald Trump because it sees him as an independent decision-maker, and
it is simply a fact that apologists for Israel now all work hard to bad mouth
Trump. You can see it in American publications and in British publications like
The Guardian, ranging from subtle to vitriolic attacks.
I actually dislike being put in the position of being a
defender for Trump because he does not represent most of my views, but I do
believe he could bring a desperately-needed fresh approach to foreign affairs.
Sometimes it takes a bastard to get a vital job done.
As for Hillary, she is nothing less than a blood-soaked
goddess of war, and Ted Cruz is a dishonest, insincere, and intensely unlikable
man who frequently sounds like a salesman for Israel Bonds. You want more
stupid war and destruction and refugees, you vote for either of them.
Trump may well prove an important agent of change, ushering
the world into a new, more promising era, but of course the unspoken agenda for
so many attacking him is that they like things just as they are. It is very
much at least worth a try.
