by Charley Reese
It is long past time for American politicians to quit carrying water for the state of Israel and its powerful U.S. lobby. Congress' craven obedience to the lobby is a disgrace.
America's strategic interests in the Middle East lie with the Arab countries. Israel is a strategic and economic liability. The U.S. government's slavish support of Israel brands us as a hypocrite and is responsible for most of the hostility toward the U.S.
Americans have been brainwashed into believing that it's the Arabs, and the Palestinians in particular, who don't want peace. That is a big lie. The Palestinians made an enormous concession when they agreed to settle for a state on 18 percent of Palestine. Saudi Arabia proposed several years ago a peace plan in which all of the Arab countries would recognize Israel in exchange for Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories. The Israelis rejected it out of hand, just as they reject Arab efforts to have the Middle East a nuclear-free zone.
Israel's goal is and always has been to take all of Palestine and to get rid of the Palestinians. The Israelis employed ethnic cleansing in 1948 and again in 1967 to make hundreds of thousands of Palestinians refugees. For 40 years, the Israelis have refused to give back the Palestinian and Syrian lands they seized in war. They have blatantly violated international law by building settlements on occupied land, and by violating the airspace of other sovereign countries.
AntiWar.com
Charley Reese is an old codger and a Republican, but he tells it like it is. Arabs/Moslems don't hate us for our freedoms, they hate our damned sold out to Israel policies.
He used to write a column for the Orlando Sentinel, but got let go, even though his column was well read, popular and syndicated nationally. That's the reward one gets these days for telling the truth about our fucked up ME policy. You get smeared, vilified, cursed, threatened with bodily harm and more often than not, fired from your job.
If the people behind a campaign of that sort aren't terrorists, then the word has no meaning.
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