Jewish-American Israel-Firsters have subordinated America's national security to that of Israel. Senator Fulbright once said that 80% of the Senate is controlled by Israel. That was twenty years ago, today it is closer to 95%!
The influence of this Zionist Fifth-Column of Israeli-Firsters in our government is slowly destroying our American democracy and obscuring the vision of our leaders.
BUSH AND SHARON SEE EYE TO EYE
by
Eric S. Margolis 31 Jan 2002
NEW YORK - When President George Bush called for a `crusade against terrorism last fall, flustered aids quickly claimed he had misspoken and really didnt mean to invoke the medieval Christian invasions of Muslim nations.
But in his bellicose state of the union speech last week, evangelical Christian George Bush left no doubt that a crusade was exactly what he had meant. Better a crusade than facing the spreading Enron scandal or explaining away a looming deficit brought on by reckless spending.
Or explaining the mess made by the Administration in Afghanistan: spreading chaos and warfare; Russias takeover of the north in alliance with old Afghan communists; full force resumption of heroin exports to the US thanks to the overthrow of Taliban; 5,000 plus civilians killed by punitive US bombing; murder or inhumane treatment of captured enemy fighters; and, of course, the escape of Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaida leadership.
No matter. Afghanistan, trumpets the White House, was a great military victory that will be duplicated against other Muslim malefactors who resist Americas will.
Bush proclaimed in Churchillian tones that an `axis of evil composed of `terrorist nations Iraq, Iran, and North Korea threatened the US and the world. This silly, simplistic reduction of complex foreign policy issues into comic book terms, and Bushs threats of more military action around the world, made good political theater in the US, where war fever has been stoked to fever pitch by the White House and the all too accommodating American media. The State Department was apparently not consulted about Bushs saber-rattling speech, leaving Secretary of State Colin Powell out in the cold.
Interestingly, the most-wanted on Americas new hit list Iraq, Iran, and North Korea just happen to also be top enemies of Israel. (North Korea supplies missile components and technology to Israels Arab foes and Pakistan.)
A near unanimity of policy and views has developed between the Bush Administrations super-hawks and Israels hard right Likud government led by Ariel Sharon. Both are intent on liquidating any Muslims who resist, both have declared war on the PLO and its chief, Yasser Arafat, both view resistance by Muslims as `terrorism, and both routinely disregard international law and UN resolutions.
In short, Gen. Sharons iron-fisted policies have become those of George Bush. Bushs speech made disturbingly clear that the US has become the enemy of the Muslim world. Muslims nations must either bow to American diktat or be deemed hostile.
White House claims that Iran is a mortal danger to the US because: a. it supports Lebanons Hizbullah movement, and b. is trying to develop limited strategic weapons. This shows how disconnected from reality the Administration has become, and how much its policies are being shaped by parties who do not always place Americas interests first.
Hizbullah waged a long, dirty guerilla war against Israels long occupation of southern Lebanon. Israel and its media supporters branded Hizbullah `terrorists. But most nations regarded Hizbullah as a legitimate national resistance movement fighting to free Lebanon from Israeli occupation, which was repeatedly ruled illegal by the UN and in violation of international law.
Iran helped arm and finance Hizbullah, whose guerrillas were to Iran what the Nicaraguan Contras and Afghan `freedom fighters were to America. To brand Iran a `terrorist state because of its support of a legitimate resistance movement is mendacious and Orwellian.
Iran has opposed US hegemony in the Mideast, sometimes by in covert operations. But bombings of US military bases long blamed on Iran was done by the al-Qaida group. Before damning Iran, look at Americas own record.
During WWII, the US, Britain, and the USSR invaded Iran, an independent nation. In 1953, the US and Britain overthrew Irans government when it sought to gain control of its own oil resources. The US put Shah, Mohammed Pahlavi on the throne and kept his outrageously corrupt, kleptomaniac regime in power through the army and the dreaded US and Israel-trained secret police, SAVAK, which tortured and killed tens of thousands of Iranians.
After the Shah was overthrown by the 1979 Iranian revolution, the US sent Iraqs Saddam Hussein to invade Iran and crush its Islamic government. The US secretly supplied Iraq with money, arms, intelligence, and chemical and biological weapons. The US shot down an Iranian civilian airliner and waged a naval war against Iran in the Gulf. Iraqs invasion cost Iran 250,000 500,000 dead.
The US repeatedly sought to overthrow the Iranian government, even financing the terrorist Mujihadin-i-Khalq organization, which assassinated much of Irans leadership with bombs.
Iran does not yet have nuclear weapons, but is developing medium-ranged missiles that may reach Israel. Such weapons, claims Iran, are for self-defense, to counter Israels nuclear/bioware arsenal. Israel has openly threatened Iran with nuclear attack. If Irans missile and strategic weapons program is `terrorism, then Pakistan, India, Syria, Israel, Egypt, Taiwan, South Korea, Turkey, and many other nations are equally guilty.
Instead of threatening war against Iran, a nation of 68 million, the US should be pressing all Mideast nations including Israel to scrap their weapons of mass destruction and work for peace in Palestine. The terrible 9/11 attacks were the result of Americas five decades of policy blunders in the Mideast. The US does not need any more enemies or Mr Bushs crusade. |
