Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has selected as his Minister of Justice a woman who has expressed hatred against all Palestinians, and he has appointed as his negotiator with the Palestians a man who said, and who has always followed though with, “We are all against a Palestinian state, there is no question about it.”
These policies are direct rejections of the U.S.-overseen 1978 Camp David Accords, and
of consistent U.S. policy since. The Camp David Accords were so bad for
the Palestinians that the signatory on their behalf, Egypt’s leader
Anwar Sadat, was despised by virtually all Muslims and was assassinated
for having done this. But Egypt abided by the Accords, while Israel for
decades since has been constantly hemming and hawing about when they
will some day fulfill their obligations under them; and, now, we finally
have been given the answer: It’s never. They signed an agreement that
was so bad for Palestinians it was rejected by them and by the U.N.,
but now it’s finally clear: to Israel, it’s not bad enough to
Palestinians. So: Israel insists upon continued (and now upon
never-ending) military occupation.
Netanyahu has proven by actions, not mere words, that Israel is
America’s enemy, refusing to do even what Israel had signed an
American-sponsored accord in 1978 promising to do — and, now, at last,
installing a government that is deeply committed to never complying with it.
In 2011, someone posted to facebook an article, “List of Politicians with Israeli Dual Citizenship,” and gave no links to sources but merely his own untrustworthy allegations, that the following U.S. Government officials possess dual U.S. and Israeli citizenships:
Elliott Abrams, Kenneth Adelman, Stuart
Bernstein, Brad Blakeman, Lincoln Bloomfield, Samuel
Bodman, John
Bolton, Joshua Bolten, Nancy Brinker, Michael Chertoff, Bonnie Cohen,
Eliot Cohen, Ruth Davis, Douglas Feith, Ari Fleischer, Lawrence
Franklin, David Frum, Christopher Gersten, Joseph Gildenhorn, Adam
Goldman, Steve Goldsmith, Marc Grossman, Richard Haass, Henry Kissinger,
Daniel Kurtzer, Frank Lavin, Jay Lefkowitz, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby,
Edward Luttwak, Ken Melman, Michael Mukasey, Richard Perle, Robert
Satloff, James Schlesinger, Mel Sembler, Martin Silverstein, Cliff
Sobel, Mark Weinberger, Ron Weiser, Paul Wolfowitz, David Wurmser, Dov
Zakheim, Robert Zoellick.
Subsequently, other (and some even lengthier) lists with equally undisclosed souces, were published.
Such lists circulate mainly in right-wing circles, like Joseph R.
McCarthy’s lists of “communists in the State Department” did in the
1950s. Yet most of the names on these alleged dual-citizenship lists are
themselves right-wing and far-right, not left-of-center.
The very idea of dual-citizenship, for a government official, is
repugnant in any real democracy. Certainly, there ought to be a
requirement for all individuals who are employed by the U.S. Government
or by any U.S. Government contractor, to publicly renounce any other
citizenship before being hired. That’s just basic.
But, in any case, now that we know that Israel is an outright enemy
of the United States, the public should be demanding the U.S. President
and Congress to side with the Palestinians against Israel.
Countries throughout history have changed from allies to enemies and
back again. Nothing is permanent in history. Israel is now an enemy, and
apparently has been for a long time, and should be treated as such.
They’ve been given more than enough time to cease being an apartheid
State like South Africa used to be. Whereas South Africa evolved to a
democracy, Israel remains racist. Unless the United States wishes to
return to the era of Reagan and before — the era of accepting racism as
State policy in an allied country — the U.S. has no moral choice but to
switch to supporting, openly, the Palestinians. The Palestinians have
every right to reject, and rebel against, Israel’s racism.
Israel’s clear determination to continue the military occupation over
them gives the Palestinians the right to do what they must to establish
their own state, even to take over all of Israel if that’s the only
option that the military occupiers offer as an alternative to permanent
military occupation and oppression.
Even if it were the case that this would not be the best thing for
Jews who live in Israel, the U.S. is obliged only for the welfare and
decency of Americans. We are not responsible for the welfare or decency
of the people of any other country. This doesn’t mean that we can’t be
concerned about that; we’re concerned about a lot of things that aren’t
our basic national obligations to be concerned about. But Israel is now
clearly an enemy country, and should be treated as such.
There should be such consequences for any country that has
lied to the United States for so long a time, and finally shown that
they intend to remain permanently non-compliant with a U.S. treaty or
U.S.-sponsored treaty. That’s like a declaration of war against the U.S.
It’s a declaration by means of action, not by means of mere words.
Israel’s mere words, to the United States, are now clearly shown to have
been lies, for decades. Actions are what matter. Actions are what show
authentic intentions. Israel’s authentic intentions are now clear — and
extremely hostile.
Israel has declared itself an enemy not only of the Palestinians, but
of the Americans. If there are any dual-citizenship U.S. Government
officials, they should be fired, even if they cannot be prosecuted. And,
if any of those dual-citizenships are with Israel, then they’ve been
foreign agents all long and are now agents of an enemy nation.
Or, is the United States instead itself occupied by Israel? Let’s
hope that that’s not the case. We’ll soon know if it is, and has been.
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