Who will Stand Up To America and Israel?

By Paul Craig Roberts

“5/27/09 - “Obama Calls on World to ‘Stand Up To’ North Korea” read the headline. The US, Obama said, was determined to protect “the peace and security of the world.”

North Korea is a small place. China alone could snuff it out in a few minutes. Yet, the president of the US thinks that nothing less than the entire world is a match for North Korea.

We are witnessing the Washington gangsters construct yet another threat like Slobodan Milosevic, Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, John Walker Lindh, Hamdi, Padilla, Sami Al-Arian, Hamas, Mahkmoud Ahmadinejad, and the hapless detainees demonized by the US Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld as “the 700 most dangerous terrorists on the face of the earth,” who were tortured for six years at Gitmo only to be quietly released. Just another mistake, sorry.

The military/security complex that rules America, together with the Israel Lobby and the financial banksters, needs a long list of dangerous enemies to keep the taxpayers’ money flowing into its coffers.

The Homeland Security lobby is dependent on endless threats to convince Americans that they must forego civil liberty in order to be safe and secure.

The real question is who is going to stand up to the American and Israeli governments?

Who is going to protect Americans’ and Israelis’ civil liberties, especially those of Israeli dissenters and Israel’s Arab citizens?

Who is going to protect Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Lebanese, Iranians, and Syrians from Americans and Israelis?

Not Obama, and not the right-wing brownshirts that today rule Israel.

Obama’s notion that it takes the entire world to stand up to N. Korea is mind-boggling, but this mind-boggling idea pales in comparison to Obama’s guarantee that America will protect “the peace and security of the world.”

Is this the same America that bombed Serbia, including Chinese diplomatic offices and civilian passenger trains, and pried Kosovo loose from Serbia and gave it to a gang of Muslin drug lords, lending them NATO troops to protect their operation?

Is this the same America that is responsible for approximately one million dead Iraqis, leaving orphans and widows everywhere and making refugees out of one-firth of the Iraqi population?

Is this the same America that blocked the rest of the world from condemning Israel for its murderous attack on Lebanese civilians in 2006 and on Gazans most recently, the same America that has covered up for Israel’s theft of Palestine over the past 60 years, a theft that has produced four million Palestinian refugees driven by Israeli violence and terror from their homes and villages?

Is this the same America that is conducting military exercises in former constituent parts of Russia and ringing Russia with missile bases?

Is this the same America that has bombed Afghanistan into rubble with massive civilian casualties?

Is this the same America that has started a horrific new war in Pakistan, a war that in its first few days has produced one million refugees?

“The peace and security of the world”? Whose world?

On his return from his consultation with Obama in Washington, the brownshirted Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that it was Israel’s responsibility to “eliminate” the “nuclear threat” from Iran.

What nuclear threat? The US intelligence agencies are unanimous in their conclusion that Iran has had no nuclear weapons program since 2003. The inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency report that there is no sign of a nuclear weapons program in Iran.

Who is Iran bombing? How many refugees is Iran sending fleeing for their lives?

Who is North Korea bombing?

The two great murderous, refugee-producing countries are the US and Israel. Between them, they have murdered and dislocated millions of people who were a threat to no one.”

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Hawkeye-

You write: “I am a little surprised that you do not know why. I seems pretty obvious to me. But it is not something poltically correct to post. It would not be prudent to blurt out the very simple truth.”

No, I do not know what you’re getting at. I have read a lot on this subject, and I am left still wondering how they do it. Please tell us what you think is so obvious.
And please don’t say “the Israel lobby”. We all know the huge power of that most powerful of all lobbies. But exactly how and why does that lobby have such power? That’s the question I can’t answer.

Take a stress pill, go to sleep and don’t do anything rash or illegal. Two wrongs don’t make it right.

I agree with the remainder of what you said and it is monumentally frustrating to see the Republic, an experiment contaminated from it s beginning falling apart on purpose to make an empire out of it. Just crappy and disgusting. How to stop the evil? Violence brings out the cabal with rapacious alacrity. They are ready to take such a threat on and demolish it both in print and in reality.

Tired… tired…tired, physically and mentally, of commenting on fascist Israel and its terrorism, military occupation, atrocities committed against the native Palestinians over a period of over sixty years, and its total disrespect for human rights, basic decency and world opinion!

However, my outrage is not reserved for Israel for doing what it was created to do in the first place! My outrage is reserved for political-military America, my adopted homeland, and its hypocrite and enabling stand that allows Israel to continue its fascist polices through financial, military, and moral support. What compounds my anger and frustration is that, against my will and choice, part of my taxes money goes to support Israel’s atrocities, terrorism and fascism. I literally feel that I have blood on my hands, and I don’t know for how longer I am going take this without committing an explosive act that expresses my anger, frustration and despair!

Please just spit it out. “Political correctness” is just a faux fig leaf the reich wing hides behind. I am for free speech, now spill it.

Obama may just be a friend in a long line of friends of Israel. He may show some surface deference to the Palestinians but the partnership will be with Israel uber alles. Both for religious and geo-political reasons they are attached. Even if it is a two way parasitical relationship.

Obama isn’t a coward, he is an agent and partner of Wall St. and Israel. Just a friendly ally doing his duty to his constituents. No, it isn’t us!

US presidents since Kennedy have been an ally of Israel. Just they don’t always say they are against Palestine. It is that when it comes down to real action against Israel and for the Palestinians it doesn’t happen. Just watch and learn by what they do.

This piece by truthdig illustrates why the American population has such difficulty mobilizing against the US powerstate.  A half million Israeli colonists have been settled on Palestinian land, and two hundred thousand more are currently planned.  this has been done while a fake Peace Process has been in operation disguising ethnic cleansing.

The Obama administration has rebranded the fake Bushite Roadmap to Peace to continue the Peace Process while Israeli ethnic cleansing proceeds.  This is what Israel and Obama call “normal life” in the settlements.  The Peace Process is with Abbas, the Israeli puppet whose troops are funded by the US.  The real military-political reprentative of the Palestinians, Hamas, is boycotted by US-Israel.

But truthdig and other Progessive truth agents are totally corrupt, giving the impression that Clinton, and Obama, are actually trying to effect a two state solution.  This neutralizes the opposition to Israeli oppression by american rank and file progressives.  The fake political dialogue is far to the right of the people’s dialogue.

This is why it is crucial for the American population to develop its own truth media, and this can only be done if we can support them financially in some way, the way business supports the capitalist mainstream media.  this is why anarcissie’s cooperative approach may be crucial.  It is the only way to get money and other support for a rank and file truth system.

Israel will win. In American politics, Israel always wins. I don’t know how it does it, but it does.

“Why did America commit suicide for Israel?”: that will be the question for the ages, after Israel has used us up, and the dried husk of us has crumbled and blown away.

Israel is betting Obama will show no more backbone in dealing with it than he has in dealing with Wall Street.  The Israelis think he can be rolled.

““We want to work to reach understandings with the new administration” that are “fair” and “workable,” said an Israeli official…”

Fair and workable for whom, certainly not for the Palestinians?! This is exactly what happens when you allow a bully to run roughshod over the neighbors, they demand more and more!  The holocaust that the Israelis are committing against the Palestinians must be halted!  The “fair” and “workable” solution, Israel must go back to the pre 1967 borders, and allow for the self determination of the Palestinians.  DIVEST FROM ISRAEL NOW!!!