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Warning. It is required of all right-thinking people of the world to hate Israel, but I am guilty of the sin of not hating Israel. I dislike Netanyahu but I think he was legally elected. I disagree with the settlements in the so-called Occupied Territories, but I look forward to the day that the world addresses its settlements on occupied territories before beating up a little country like Israel. Shall we all return the lands won in war? What if we were attacked in that war? The US, China, Russia, the UK, etc, builds settlements in lands they took in wars, wars in which they were the aggressor. Shall we have a UN Resolution to demand that they return those lands? I am all for it. But to criticize Israel for actions that other nations are guilty of is blatant hypocrisy. All in a days work at the UN, I suppose.
John Kerry announced to the world that the US vote at the UN to
condemn, isolate and ultimately destroy Israel was in accordance
with the best values of the American People. Now, what values might
he be referring to? I think those values are lies, betrayal,
hypocrisy and maybe just a little irony.
We
are told and we are expected to believe that the Obama Administration
did not initiate, encourage and coordinate this UN Resolution. Well,
I suppose that one thing that we have learned from the last few years
and certainly this election season is that lies no longer have to be
plausible, that Americans will believe pretty much any baseless lie
if they want to. But not even a nitwit, not even a Trump supporter,
could possibly believe this one. Sure, appropriate cutouts (1) had to
be found. Yes, America had to have their hands clean when someone put
in the knife. Now who would that someone be? England? France? And
then one of the little guys, you know like Senegal would have to take
the fall. Of course it is just coincidence that this happens in the
last month of the Obama presidency and before four years of Trump
about whom, whatever else you might say, is apparently not prepared
to sell Israel down the river. Of course, coincidence! The Obama
administration does not even have the guts to say what everyone
knows, that this last minute arranged vote is a reversal of
60 years of American foreign policy. Liars..
Betrayal
is also a core American value. In this case we have at least two
beautiful examples of American betrayal at its finest. Of course the
United States has just betrayed Israel, that goes without saying.
But even more delicious is the lovely betrayal of those in this
country who support Israel's right to self-defense who supported Obama through two presidential elections. Obama waited until he did not need their
support anymore, and then stabbed these supporters in the back,
knowing there was no way to undo the damage. And he did it in a way
that he escapes the results, he does not have to run for election
anymore. The poor Democrats in Congress though are going to reap the implications of this. Of course the old Democratic coalition has been dead for years, this is merely another shoe dropping.
But
the highest value exposed here is our value of hypocrisy. Hypocrisy
is as American as mom and apple pie. Shall we review which of the
countries on the security council have built settlements on the
“occupied territories”? Well, lets see. Britain (N. Ireland),
New Zealand (North and South Island), China (Tibet), Spain (Basque
territory), Russia (so many places), and dont forget the good old US
of A (Hawaii, N. Mexico, Ca, and frankly most of N. America depending
on how you look at it).
Is there any irony in this episode? That would depend on how you interpret a topic in American history. That topic being to what extent Jewish Americans were involved with and important to the Civil Rights movement in this country. And even if Jews were important to the movement, did it really matter that they were Jewish, in some sense of that word? But to the extent that Jews were important to that movement that worked to achieve civil rights for all Americans, regardless of color, then some of the children of these activists will note that when the time came for the USA to condemn, isolate and attempt to destroy the Jewish state of Israel, that it was the first Black American president who did so. This seems like irony to me.
Is cowardice an American value? Not that I am aware of. But one thing we can be very sure of here, this
particular little betrayal by Obama was handled in a way that
demonstrates that first and foremost, Obama is a coward.
But lets get real here. Lies, betrayal and hypocrisy are three of the fundamentals of international diplomacy. There is nothing particularly new here when you look at the big picture.
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1.
A “cutout” is an intelligence term for a person or organizaton
that is between the real perpetrator and the victim. It provides
plausible deniability, at least under some circumstances.
tags:
lies, hypocrisy, betrayal, greed and corruption
