OBAMA TO NETANYAHU – “YOU WIN”
08. Dec, 2010
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By: Alan Hart
Those of us who are associated with the truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel, and who call for justice for the Palestinians, now have reason to say “Thank you” to President Obama. With his decision to abandon efforts to persuade Israel to renew a freeze on illegal settlement building on the occupied West Bank, he has proved that the makers of American policy for resolving the conflict are Israel’s leaders and their lobby in the U.S. (including its many stooges in Congress and the mainstream media), not the man who occupies the Oval Office in the White House.
Of course I know this has always been the case (actually since the departure from the Oval Office of General Eisenhower who was the first and the last American President to oblige Israel to act in accordance with international law), but for a sitting president to provide by default the absolute proof is quite something.
The implications are truly terrifying, obviously for the occupied and oppressed Palestinians but also for Americans; and why is not difficult to explain.
As all seriously well informed people know (sadly the very few, not the very many), unconditional American support for the criminal state of Israel is not in America’s own interests. It is the best recruiting sergeant for violent Arab and other Muslim extremism and the prime cause of the gathering, global storm of anti-Americanism at street if not yet government level.
The first responsibility of any American president is to protect the security of his own people. With his latest surrender to Netanyahu and the Zionist lobby, Obama is effectively saying to his fellow Americans, “I’m sorry, I’m not allowed to do that.”
As things are, the name of the game from here on in my view is not the pursuit of peace, that’s a mission impossible.
Priority number one is preventing the final Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
Priority number two is preventing the rising tide of anti-Israelism from being transformed into violent anti-Semitism.
Alan Hart is a former ITN and BBC Panorama foreign correspondent who covered wars and conflicts wherever they were taking place in the world and specialized in the Middle East.
His Latest book Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, is a three-volume epic in its American edition. He blogs on www.alanhart.net and tweets on www.twitter.com/alanauthor.
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the actual scene was more like Monika Lewinsky kneeling before Billy Bob Clintonstoned in the Whore House, but you get my drift…strictly not hetero, for damned sure!!!
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I cannot believe our president is so spineless. He who comes from a people who were oppressed for 400 yrs. to act like this. Mr. obama you shame all things sacred to the begining of our nations history. To go along with the subjugation of the native population is totally immoral. I thought when he came into office he might stand up to Israel& say If you want to keep America as an ally, you will start treating the people of the middle with respect & dignity.I must say i am proud of the leaders of Argentina,Brazil,& Uruguay for the recognition of the statehood of Palestine. When did America lose its morals.
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It is nothing new in it that American President is kneeling to Zionist Israel.It is being happening since 1948.
I believe,peace loving Americans didn’t expect this thing from Obama.I am sure he will not dare to stand up to Zionist Israel as the whole administration of US– the White House,CIA,Pentagon,Business,Congress,–
everything is being run by the Zionists.
The American citizens should stand up to US Govt.and Zionist lobby to free their country the “ZIONIST SLAVERY”.
Otherwise, the very existence of US will be in stake.Unconditional support to Zionist Israel– the US is digging her own grave.
May ALLAH bless the Palestinians and all human beings on earth.
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