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By: Paul Craig Roberts
The United States government and its subject peoples think of the US as “the
world’s only superpower.” But how is a country a superpower when its entire
government and a majority of the subjects, especially those members of
evangelical churches, grovel at the feet of the Israeli Prime Minister? How is a
country a superpower when it lacks the power to determine its own foreign policy
in the Middle East? Such a country is not a superpower. It is a puppet state.
In the past few days we have witnessed, yet again, the “American superpower”
groveling at Netanyahu’s feet. When Netanyahu decided to again murder the
Palestinian women and children of Gaza, to further destroy what remains of the
social infrastructure of the Gaza Ghetto, and to declare Israeli war crimes and
Israeli crimes against humanity to be merely the exercise of “self-defense,” the
US Senate, the US House of Representatives, the White House, and the US media
all promptly declared their support for Netanyahu’s crimes.
On November 16 the Congress of the “superpower,” both House and Senate,
passed overwhelmingly the resolutions written for them by AIPAC, the Israel
Lobby known as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the only foreign
agent that is not required to register as a foreign agent. The Global News
Service of the Jewish People reported
their power over Washington with pride. (http://current.com/19su0kc).
Both Democrats and Republicans shared the dishonor of serving Israel and evil
instead of America and justice for the Palestinians.
The White House quickly obeyed the summons from the Israel Lobby. President
Obama announced that he is “fully supportive” of Israel’s assault on Gaza. Ben
Rhodes, White House deputy national security adviser, told the media on November
17 that the White House “wants the same thing as the Israelis want.” This is an
overstatement as many Israelis oppose the crimes of the Israeli government,
which is not the government of Israel but the government of the “settlers,” that
is, the crazed land-hungry immigrants who are illegally, with Netanyahu’s
support, stealing the lands of the Palestinians.
Netanyahu’s Israel is the equivalent of the Lincoln Republicans 150 years ago.
Then there was no international law to protect Southern states, who left the
voluntary union, a right under the Constitution, in order to avoid being
exploited by Northern business interests. Subsequently, the Union army, after
devastating the South, turned on the American Indians, and there was no
international law to protect American Indians from being murdered and
dispossessed by Washington’s armies.
Washington claimed that its invasion forces were threatened by the Indian’s bows
and arrows. Today there is international law to protect the Palestinian
residents of the West Bank and Gaza. However, every time that the world tries to
hold the Israeli government accountable for its crimes, Israel’s Washington
puppet vetoes the UN decision.
The notion that Israel is threatened by Palestinians is as absurd as the notion
that the US is threatened by Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Somalia,
Pakistan, and Iran. No government of any of these countries has ever made a
threatening statement against the US. Even had such a statement been made, it
would be meaningless. If a Superpower can be threatened by such impotent and
distant counties, then it is not a superpower.
Demonizing a victim is a way of hiding state crimes. The American print and TV
media is useless as a check on state crimes. The only crimes reported by the
media are assigned to “terrorists,” that is, those who resist US hegemony, and
to Americans, such as Bradley Manning and Sibel Edmonds, who liberate truth from
official secrecy. Julian Assange of WikiLeaks remains in danger despite the
asylum granted to him by the President of Ecuador, as Washington has little
regard for international law.
In the US the exercise of the First Amendment is coming to be regarded as a
crime against the state. The purpose of the media is no longer to find the
truth, but to protect official lies. Speaking the truth has essentially
disappeared as it is too costly to journalist who dare to do so. To keep one’s
job, one serves Washington and the private interest groups that Washington
serves.
In his November 19 defense of Israel’s latest war crimes, President Obama said:
“no country on earth would tolerate missiles raining down from outside its
borders.” But, of course, numerous countries do tolerate missiles raining down
from the US. The war criminal Obama is raining down missiles in Afghanistan,
Pakistan, and Yemen, and has rained missiles on Libya, Somalia, Iraq and Syria
as well. Iran might be next.
The German assault on the Warsaw Ghetto is one of the horror stories of Jewish
history. Such an event is happening again, only this time Jews are perpetrators
instead of victims. No hand has been raised to stay Israel from the goal of the
operation declared by Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai to be “to send Gaza
back to the Middle Ages.” (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-pounds-gaza-from-air-as-troops-assemble-8326924.html)
Source:
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/11/19/puppet-state-america-paul-craig-roberts/