Its leader, wanted by the international Criminal Court as a suspect in a war crimes investigation, is backed by the military might of another leader who a month or so ago was given to hissy fits because the Nobel Peace Prize had not been bestowed on him in recognition of the wars he has either threatened or been involved in. Yet not enough Americans consider it an imperative to change the president, content instead to change his diaper.
Israel is considered a vital strategic partner to the US in the Middle East. Former president, Joe Biden has been consistent in his assessment first made in 1986 that “Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region.”. His reason for opposing the sale of arms to the Saudis four decades ago was because they could not fulfil Whitehouse strategic ambitions to serve as “agents of .U.S interests in the Persian Gulf region.” He brazenly cited the “naked self-interest of the U.S.”
Biden perhaps as a child was denied by his parents the opportunity of watching the movie, Frankenstein. It would have alerted him to the dangers of creating monsters. More likely, he did watch it and found the concept of monster-making a great idea, earning for himself the moniker Genocide Joe as a result.
Either way we are left with the monstrosity that is Israel, a settler-colonial, apartheid, racist regime. From the US perspective, it is considered good realpolitik for genocidal Israel to have a nuclear bomb but not theocratic Iran.
When we consider the bellicose nature of Israel, the most warlike state on the planet, there is a logic overflowing from the observation made last year by the American columnist Ted Rall:
For now, skip the pretence that the US supports Israel because it is the only democratic regime in the Middle East. It is the only genocidal regime in the Middle East but that is not why the US supports it. It supports it out of its own strategic interests. For people like ourselves in the Drogheda Stands With Palestine group, until this marriage made in hell is dissolved, to cite The Conversation, 'the U.S.-Israel relationship will remain “ironclad” and Palestinians will continue to pay the price."
Israel is considered a vital strategic partner to the US in the Middle East. Former president, Joe Biden has been consistent in his assessment first made in 1986 that “Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region.”. His reason for opposing the sale of arms to the Saudis four decades ago was because they could not fulfil Whitehouse strategic ambitions to serve as “agents of .U.S interests in the Persian Gulf region.” He brazenly cited the “naked self-interest of the U.S.”
Biden perhaps as a child was denied by his parents the opportunity of watching the movie, Frankenstein. It would have alerted him to the dangers of creating monsters. More likely, he did watch it and found the concept of monster-making a great idea, earning for himself the moniker Genocide Joe as a result.
Either way we are left with the monstrosity that is Israel, a settler-colonial, apartheid, racist regime. From the US perspective, it is considered good realpolitik for genocidal Israel to have a nuclear bomb but not theocratic Iran.
If the US was a force for good in the world it would have bombed Tel Aviv not Tehran. However, bombing to stop or disrupt genocide is not something the US routinely does. It refused to bomb Rwanda in 1994 to disrupt the Hutu Power genocide of the Tutsis. It bombed Laos and Cambodia in 1970 with genocidal ferocity. In 1945 it bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the same dark spirit, which again is casting a dark shadow across the world as the global community sees the hand of the doomsday clock move towards the midnight hour.
When we consider the bellicose nature of Israel, the most warlike state on the planet, there is a logic overflowing from the observation made last year by the American columnist Ted Rall:
As a political entity, Israel is a witch. Its conduct is incompatible with 21st-century civilization. To whatever extent it ever had one, Israel no longer has a right to exist.
While averse to any suggestion that the citizens of Israel should be subjected to the type of barbarism that the Palestinians have endured, it must be asserted that no state has an automatic right to remain in existence particularly when it is in perpetual violation of international law and norms. Apart from Justin Barrett, there seems to be a general scarcity of people making the news because of their insistence that the state of Nazi Germany should have been be allowed to continue in existence.
Given the breadth of support within Israel for genocide and crimes against humanity it seems impossible to envision de-nazifying Israeli society as a workable alternative to the dismantling of the state of Israel. In the interests of world peace, its statehood has to be rendered obsolete.
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