I am
often asked why I have this “thing” about Israel, with friends
suggesting that I would be much more respected as a pundit if I were to
instead concentrate on national security and political corruption. The
problem with that formulation is that the so-called “special
relationship” with Israel is itself the result of terrible national
security and foreign policy choices that is sustained by pervasive
political and media corruption, so any honest attempt to examine the one
inevitably leads to the other. Most talking heads in the media avoid
that dilemma by choosing to completely ignore the dark side of Israel.
Israel
– not Russia – is the one foreign country that can interfere with
impunity with the political processes in the United States yet it is
immune from criticism. It is also the single most significant threat to
genuine national security as it and its powerful domestic lobby have
been major advocates for the continuation of America’s interventionist
warfare state. The decision to go to war on false pretenses against
Iraq, largely promoted by a cabal of prominent American Jews in the
Pentagon and in the media, killed 4,424 Americans as well as hundreds of
thousands Iraqis and will wind up costing the American taxpayer $7
trillion dollars when all the bills are paid. That same group of mostly
Jewish neocons more-or-less is now agitating to go to war with Iran
using a game plan for escalation prepared by Israel which will, if anything, prove even more catastrophic.
http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/why-confronting-israel-is-important/
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