This is not good news. Given the obtuse nature of the Biden administration, this could easily lead to a massive war in the Middle East. Very sad. It could have been prevented if Biden had had the guts to stand up to Netanyahu!
This is not good news. Given the obtuse nature of the Biden administration, this could easily lead to a massive war in the Middle East. Very sad. It could have been prevented if Biden had had the guts to stand up to Netanyahu!
Biden doesn't lack "the guts" to stand up to Netanyahu; his government is by far the more powerful. Biden is an ideological Zionist—a true believer. He has been unconditionally defending Israel for longer than many people reading this post have been alive. So have almost all the people around him making the regular decisions during his administration, as well as the overwhelming majority of u.s. parliamentarians. If only the police chief had the guts to stand up to his lieutenant!
I believe that the U.S. government policy in the Middle East is not primarily a product of the Israel Lobby's purchased influence over both parties in Congress and the White House. The Biden Administration is play acting when it pretends to try to restrain Netanyahu in Gaza and elsewhere, while in fact never failing to provide whatever weapons, intelligence, U.N. votes or diplomatic and propaganda support is needed by Netanyahu and the Israeli government. This unfailing support is provided not due to AIPAC pressure but because it is the long-standing and still followed policy of the American deep state to use Israel as America's enforcer to maintain control over the Middle East and its oil resources. It has long done this not only to profit U.S. oil companies, but to exert political control over Europe, Asia, Latin America and other parts of the world. More recently, a big priority is to deny China competitive access to oil and to isolate Russia. Oil still determines much of U.S. foreign policy and a strong Israel is still seen by the ruling sectors of the Washington Establishment as key to U.S. policy. As Joe Biden said in the past, "If Israel didn't exist, we'd have to invent it." It is seen as our "unsinkable aircraft carrier" in the region. The bad news for both the U.S. and Israel is that the world has changed. The U.S. no longer has unrivaled dominance in the world and Israel, as a proxy of the U.S., can no longer pursue its increasingly messianic goals in the region with the impunity it once had. Once the U.S. sees that this proxy is becoming more a liability than an asset, it will cut it loose like Ukraine or the Shah of Iran or South Vietnam. No amount of money and PR from AIPAC will convince the unsentimental oil men, bankers, political opportunists, media operatives and cynical intelligence agencies to keep a failing proxy alive any longer than necessary. As Henry Kissinger once said, "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." (My worry is that the incompetents running the failing American empire and its increasingly desperate Zionist proxy have a good chance of blowing up the world before they come to their senses and act accordingly.)
This is not good news. Given the obtuse nature of the Biden administration, this could easily lead to a massive war in the Middle East. Very sad. It could have been prevented if Biden had had the guts to stand up to Netanyahu!
Biden doesn't lack "the guts" to stand up to Netanyahu; his government is by far the more powerful. Biden is an ideological Zionist—a true believer. He has been unconditionally defending Israel for longer than many people reading this post have been alive. So have almost all the people around him making the regular decisions during his administration, as well as the overwhelming majority of u.s. parliamentarians. If only the police chief had the guts to stand up to his lieutenant!
I believe that the U.S. government policy in the Middle East is not primarily a product of the Israel Lobby's purchased influence over both parties in Congress and the White House. The Biden Administration is play acting when it pretends to try to restrain Netanyahu in Gaza and elsewhere, while in fact never failing to provide whatever weapons, intelligence, U.N. votes or diplomatic and propaganda support is needed by Netanyahu and the Israeli government. This unfailing support is provided not due to AIPAC pressure but because it is the long-standing and still followed policy of the American deep state to use Israel as America's enforcer to maintain control over the Middle East and its oil resources. It has long done this not only to profit U.S. oil companies, but to exert political control over Europe, Asia, Latin America and other parts of the world. More recently, a big priority is to deny China competitive access to oil and to isolate Russia. Oil still determines much of U.S. foreign policy and a strong Israel is still seen by the ruling sectors of the Washington Establishment as key to U.S. policy. As Joe Biden said in the past, "If Israel didn't exist, we'd have to invent it." It is seen as our "unsinkable aircraft carrier" in the region. The bad news for both the U.S. and Israel is that the world has changed. The U.S. no longer has unrivaled dominance in the world and Israel, as a proxy of the U.S., can no longer pursue its increasingly messianic goals in the region with the impunity it once had. Once the U.S. sees that this proxy is becoming more a liability than an asset, it will cut it loose like Ukraine or the Shah of Iran or South Vietnam. No amount of money and PR from AIPAC will convince the unsentimental oil men, bankers, political opportunists, media operatives and cynical intelligence agencies to keep a failing proxy alive any longer than necessary. As Henry Kissinger once said, "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." (My worry is that the incompetents running the failing American empire and its increasingly desperate Zionist proxy have a good chance of blowing up the world before they come to their senses and act accordingly.)
... a [white] house full of heartless hypocrites. my EU country follows its lead, too, alas.
Boycott Chevron, Israel’s source for energy.