Editor’s remarks: Dr. Philip Giraldi in his latest article
articulates with such precision and eloquence what is on the minds of
many anti-war and antifascist people in America, Europe and the rest of
the world. He identifies the reasons why US President Joe Biden
obediently follows what the ultra-right Israeli manipulator Netanyahu
decides.
Vital US interests are sacrificed to avoid offending Israel and its Lobby
by Philip Giraldi
I don’t have anyone whom I would consider a friend who supports the
genocide being carried out by Israel in Gaza. But my occasional
interaction with the psychopaths who infest the US government and media
and who are intimately connected by virtue of their political instincts
as well as their personal interests in campaign donations and/or
elevated salaries derived from Israel and its powerful lobby have plenty
of sound bites to throw out to demonstrate their love of the Jewish
state in all its manifestations. They mouth the Pelosi-Schumer-Biden
assertion that “Israel has a right to defend itself” and that Israel is
“America’s closest ally” and “best friend,” all of which can readily be
exposed as a series of self-serving lies and deliberate
misinterpretations of international law. Beyond that, they inevitably
cite their view that critics of Israel are fully responsible for what
they choose to refer to as the ultimate evil of “surging anti-semitism.”
In so doing they conveniently ignore the obvious fact that anger
towards Jews collectively speaking is nearly always derived from the
crimes against humanity committed by the Zionist political entity that
now legally defines itself as Jewish.
I sometimes ask the friends
of Israel what interest the United States has that would warrant our
country becoming complicit in committing war crimes that, collectively
speaking, amount to precursors for the complete expulsion or killing of
millions of Palestinians from what remains of their homes. They try to
weasel word their way avoiding the implications of that question by
observing that the United States is not directly engaged in the
conflict, an evasion that I belittle by pointing out that Washington is
providing funding, arming and political cover for the more powerful and
lethal party engaged in the conflict while also blocking attempts to
bring about a ceasefire to comply with orders from that same party,
which sure looks like direct involvement to me. I also point out that
Israel is working hard to get the US military engaged against Hezbollah
in Lebanon and also against Iran and is likely to be able to maneuver
the stoneheads in and around the White House to do its bidding vis-à-vis
both objectives.
So the big question has to be “Why does the
United States engage in a conflict that inter alia has utterly ruined
our country’s reputation worldwide and for which there is no real
compelling national interest?” The answer is, of course unpalatable to
many, but has to be that the US government is in many respects and
vis-à-vis some of its designated national policies completely under the
control of Israel and its powerful domestic as well as international
lobby. This habitual bowing to force majeure has warped the thinking of
the ambitious scallywags who seem to be present wherever one turns in
places like Washington. How else does one explain the infamous and quite
frankly ridiculous comment delivered at the 2018 Israeli American
Council meeting by leading politician Nancy Pelosi, who said that “I
have said to people when they ask me if this Capitol crumbled to the
ground, the one thing that would remain is our commitment to our aid…and
I don’t even call it aid…our cooperation with Israel. That’s
fundamental to who we are.”
The delusional Pelosi, who appears to
have no “fundamental” attachment to the interests of the American
people whom she represents, is unfortunately not unique in the halls of
Congress, even less so in the Joe Biden White House, which might be
regarded as the illustration of what happens when you appoint Zionists
to nearly all key positions running your foreign, economic and national
security policies. The degree of direct Zionist/Israeli control over the
hapless Biden can best be illustrated by reviewing the course of the
recent redrafting of a UN Security Council resolution authored by the
United Arab Emirates that sought to bring about a suspension of the
fighting and the urgent resumption of humanitarian supplies for Gaza.
The US forced the revisions after coordination with Israel to permit the
Israelis to continue to attack civilian targets and avoid entering into
anything like a ceasefire, changing the word “suspension” in the
original draft to the less demanding creation of “conditions for a
sustainable cessation of hostilities.” Language authorizing the lead UN
role in monitoring and delivering the assistance to the Gazans was also
expunged leaving to belligerent Israel the task of completely
controlling the distribution of any supplies allowed entry into the
areas inside Gaza, which it is also simultaneously continuing to bomb,
thereby slowing the stream of urgently needed supplies to a trickle
while also killing hundreds more civilians.
To be sure, it was
the United States blindly supporting Israel that rendered what was a
promising proposal to put an end to the multiplying civilian deaths
toothless. Israel demonstrated just how high it regarded Joe Biden when
it contradicted what the president said about the US being able to
moderate some Israeli offensive action in Gaza. Netanyahu denied that,
saying that he and his war cabinet were continuing to make all relevant
decisions based on Israel’s own interests. Israel Defense Force (IDF)
Chief of the General Staff General Herzi Halevi followed on with his own
assessment that finishing the job in Gaza, i.e. totally destroying
Hamas by whatever means it requires, will take “many more months.” The
Israeli military has indeed visibly increased its efforts by opening up
new “battle zones” inside Gaza, to include directly targeting the
crowded and starving refugee camps outside the cities. The civilians are
paying the price while a grinning Joe Biden is spending his New Year’s
holiday in the American Virgin Islands.
Allowing Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a known liar and habitual war criminal to
tell the US government what to do is about as low as it gets, Mr. Biden!
You should not only be ashamed, but more than that, humiliated,
compelled to do ghastly things in support of your own fear of possible
Jewish/Israeli reaction if you do not bow down before King Netanyahu. He
and the band of inhuman monsters he has assembled in his cabinet have
made no secret of their intention to remove the Palestinians from
Palestine, either by forced emigration or by killing them if necessary.
On Christmas Day, Prime Minister Netanyahu told a meeting of his Likud
bloc “that he was still working on the ‘voluntary’ immigration of Gaza’s
inhabitants to other countries.” His associates Itamar Ben-Gvir and
Bezalel Smotrich have made it clear that the ethnic cleansing process
will proceed even if it is not in any way voluntary. As Israel is the
occupying power in the former Palestine, what is taking place is, as
defined by the Geneva Conventions, the Genocide Convention and the UN
Charter, a crime against humanity and the United States is completely
complicit in it not to mention actually enabling the slaughter through
its supplying of arms and money to the Israelis. It has recently been
reported in the Israeli media that the United States has delivered an
astonishing “10,000 tons of armaments and military equipment on 244
cargo planes and 20 ships” to sustain the Israeli homicidal assault
against the people of Gaza. And to demonstrate its gratitude for the
flood of weapons, America’s “best friend” and “closest ally” Israel has
nevertheless complained “about a delay in the delivery of munitions.”
The
total support of the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians by Washington
and the media is not only shameful, it is lacking any context for a
crime against humanity that has been going on with US connivance for the
past 76 years. Under international law, an occupied people has a right
to use force to resist occupation, but even given that, the majority of
Israeli deaths on October 7th should probably be attributed to so-called
“friendly fire” from the Israeli army not from Hamas. The occupied and
woefully abused Palestinians rising-up and seeking both freedom and
sovereignty in the land that was once completely theirs is fully
justified and should be respected. Israel’s killing women and children
through deliberate starvation or even by execution style is indisputably
a war crime. Bombing hospitals or leaving newborn incubator babies
abandoned to die is a crime against humanity. Arresting innocent
Palestinians before parading them naked and even desecrating their dead
bodies by harvesting organs that you then sell is unspeakable and almost
unimaginable evil as is deliberately targeting and bombing schools and
churches where people are trying to find shelter.
The genocide
and destruction in Gaza is the worst crime committed in modern history
and the man who could have stopped it, Joe Biden, sits on his hands and
grins. No one should remain silent when confronted by this horror but
the silence and the deliberate distortion of what is taking place is a
tribute to Jewish power in America and elsewhere. I am including some
recent commentary from the illustrious Australian Journalist Caitlin
Johnstone which demonstrates perfectly the hypocrisy and inhumanity of
both Biden and the leaders of Britain, France, Canada, and Germany:
“Sometimes Israel’s crimes are so horrific that at first you don’t even
understand what you’re looking at. You just stare at it trying to make
sense of what you’re seeing for a bit, like you would if you suddenly
saw a space alien or a leprechaun or something… It’s so incredibly
obvious what we’re looking at here. The only thing putting a wobble on
people’s perception is the immense amount of propaganda distortion the
media is churning out on this issue, plus the fact that the demographics
look a bit different from what history has conditioned people to watch
out for. If there were two million Jewish people trapped by Christians
in a giant concentration camp and placed under total siege, being told
that half of them had 24 hours to relocate into the other half or be
killed, nobody would have any confusion about what they were
witnessing.”
And a leading American journalist Daniel Larison
must have the last word of advice from his site on Eunomia: “We are
witnessing one of the gravest crimes of our time. Our government is
aiding and abetting the perpetrators. It is up to people in this country
to make our government cut off all support for this war and to press
for an end to the war itself.” Amen, Daniel!
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