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The 'Israelization' of American foreign policy
(Djoko Susilo, The Jakarta Post, May 3, 2006)
President George W. Bush has learnt from his father, president George H.W. Bush, that if he wants to successfully complete his second term as the United States president, never ever confront the powerful Jewish lobby. . . . Bush Jr. who succeeded Clinton, learnt this lesson well, and has done more than any other U.S. president to blindly help Israel, including by committing unspeakable crimes against Palestinians and abusing human rights in the Middle East. . . . Bush Jr. was and is adamant about pursuing policies to weaken the Arabs and Muslim countries in favor of a strong and militaristic Israel. Even racist Israeli politicians such as Benjamin Netanyahu or Gen. (ret.) Rafael Eitan have been depicted as "democrats", while Hamas, which democratically won the Palestine election, has been branded as "a terrorist organization". . . . The success of Israel in gaining total support from the American administration is the result of the grassroots movement, the Jewish lobby organizations. The most important Jewish lobby groups in the U.S. are AIPAC, the American Jewish Congress (AJC), and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). . . . They have been working hard to build an emotionally intense American identification with Israel. This has been pursued through various means. The most important is, American consciousness is saturated with guilt over Jewish suffering. . . . The feeling of guilt has been used to silence Israel's critics. Those who dare to raise questions over Israeli brutality against Palestinians would be branded as "anti-Semite". For American politicians, it equals the death sentence. . . . The Bush administration's war on terror was a good opportunity for Israel to position itself against "the dark forces" and the rising tide of Islamic fundamentalism. Israel is now marketing itself in the U.S. as a strategic and reliable partner to combat the axis of evil in the Middle East . . . Repositioning of the Israel-Arab conflict with "Islamic terrorism" is a very clever move. Not only did the Jewish state manage to avoid dangerous wars against Arab regimes but also strengthened its position in the U.S. by taking support from the Christian fundamentalists who perceive the war on terror as a new Crusade. . . . In no time president George W. Bush has been converted into a new crusader. . . . Bush laid out a binary policy: You are with us or against us. Condoleezza Rice, his secretary of state runs her department as a bastion of neocon, and on Middle East policy, she has successfully accelerated the process of the Israelization of American foreign policy which began under Clinton. . . . As a result, we cannot expect a long lasting and just peace in the Middle East if the foreign policy of only superpower and the strongest nation on earth has been hijacked and controlled by Israeli extremist politicians such as Netanyahu, Eitan, or other hard-liners who seek to occupy permanently al Quds (Jerusalem) and perpetuate the occupation of Palestine.

posted by LoZo 5:26 AM