Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
The United States government and its subject peoples think of the
US as “the world’s only superpower.” But how is a country a superpower
when its entire government and a majority of the subjects, especially
those members of evangelical churches, grovel at the feet of the Israeli
Prime Minister? How is a country a superpower when it lacks the power
to determine its own foreign policy in the Middle East? Such a country
is not a superpower. It is a puppet state.
In the past few days we have witnessed, yet again, the “American
superpower” groveling at Netanyahu’s feet. When Netanyahu decided to
again murder the Palestinian women and children of Gaza, to further
destroy what remains of the social infrastructure of the Gaza Ghetto,
and to declare Israeli war crimes and Israeli crimes against humanity to
be merely the exercise of “self-defense,” the US Senate, the US House
of Representatives, the White House, and the US media all promptly
declared their support for Netanyahu’s crimes.
On November 16 the Congress of the “superpower,” both House and
Senate, passed overwhelmingly the resolutions written for them by AIPAC,
the Israel Lobby known as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee,
the only foreign agent that is not required to register as a foreign
agent. The Global News Service of the Jewish People reported their
power over Washington with pride. http://current.com/19su0kc Both
Democrats and Republicans shared the dishonor of serving Israel and evil
instead of America and justice for the Palestinians.
The White House quickly obeyed the summons from the Israel Lobby.
President Obama announced that he is “fully supportive” of Israel’s
assault on Gaza. Ben Rhodes, White House deputy national security
adviser, told the media on November 17 that the White House “wants the
same thing as the Israelis want.” This is an overstatement as many
Israelis oppose the crimes of the Israeli government, which is not the
government of Israel but the government of the “settlers,” that is, the
crazed land-hungry immigrants who are illegally, with Netanyahu’s
support, stealing the lands of the Palestinians.
Netanyahu’s Israel is the equivalent of the Lincoln Republicans 150
years ago. Then there was no international law to protect Southern
states, who left the voluntary union, a right under the Constitution, in
order to avoid being exploited by Northern business interests.
Subsequently, the Union army, after devastating the South, turned on the
American Indians, and there was no international law to protect
American Indians from being murdered and dispossessed by Washington’s
armies.
Washington claimed that its invasion forces were threatened by the
Indian’s bows and arrows. Today there is international law to protect
the Palestinian residents of the West Bank and Gaza. However, every time
that the world tries to hold the Israeli government accountable for its
crimes, Israel’s Washington puppet vetoes the UN decision.
The notion that Israel is threatened by Palestinians is as absurd as
the notion that the US is threatened by Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen,
Syria, Somalia, Pakistan, and Iran. No government of any of these
countries has ever made a threatening statement against the US. Even had
such a statement been made, it would be meaningless. If a Superpower
can be threatened by such impotent and distant counties, then it is not a
superpower.
Demonizing a victim is a way of hiding state crimes. The American
print and TV media is useless as a check on state crimes. The only
crimes reported by the media are assigned to “terrorists,” that is,
those who resist US hegemony, and to Americans, such as Bradley Manning
and Sibel Edmonds, who liberate truth from official secrecy. Julian
Assange of WikiLeaks remains in danger despite the asylum granted to him
by the President of Ecuador, as Washington has little regard for
international law.
In the US the exercise of the First Amendment is coming to be
regarded as a crime against the state. The purpose of the media is no
longer to find the truth, but to protect official lies. Speaking the
truth has essentially disappeared as it is too costly to journalist who
dare to do so. To keep one’s job, one serves Washington and the private
interest groups that Washington serves.
In his November 19 defense of Israel’s latest war crimes, President
Obama said: “no country on earth would tolerate missiles raining down
from outside its borders.” But, of course, numerous countries do
tolerate missiles raining down from the US. The war criminal Obama is
raining down missiles in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen, and has
rained missiles on Libya, Somalia, Iraq and Syria as well. Iran might be
next.
The German assault on the Warsaw Ghetto is one of the horror stories
of Jewish history. Such an event is happening again, only this time Jews
are perpetrators instead of victims. No hand has been raised to stay
Israel from the goal of the operation declared by Israeli Interior
Minister Eli Yishai to be “to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-pounds-gaza-from-air-as-troops-assemble-8326924.html
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