Israel Wants to Keep Waging War
Surprise!
From my morning Reuters feed:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's promises to press on with Israel's wars in Gaza and Lebanon dashed hopes that the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar might help end more than a year of escalating conflict in the Middle East.
Is anyone surprised at this? Netanyahu gains power from war. He evades prosecution and accountability through war. He achieves his vision of a one-state solution through war. It was never just about Sinwar or Hamas or even vengeance. It’s all about adding Gaza and the West Bank to a “greater” Israel while killing, starving, and displacing more than two million Palestinians in a second Nakba or catastrophe for them.
America’s role is simple: Help and obey Israel in its genocidal activities. And American politicians are more than willing to do this. Look at Congress rapturously applauding Netanyahu. Look at President Joe Biden describing himself as a Zionist. Look at all the money U.S. politicians willingly take from Israeli-American lobbyists. Look at the fear in U.S. politicians’ eyes when AIPAC threatens them.
Kamala Harris says Israel has a right to defend itself and that she’ll never approve an arms embargo. Donald Trump is 100% for Israel and accuses Harris of hating Jews and Israel (Harris’ husband, of course, is Jewish, even as Harris herself wholeheartedly defends Israel). Trump’s advice to Israel is to “finish the job”: Trump even accused Biden of being a Palestinian! It’s a strange Palestinian who hugs and defers to Bibi, who proclaims himself to be a Zionist, and who has taken more than $5 million from AIPAC over the course of his career.
And so Trump competes with Biden/Harris over who can be more loyal and subservient to the far right in Israel while ordinary Americans suffer and the Palestinians burn. Politics in America is a sick joke.
You nail it, Bill. Hamas or the hostages or Hizbollah are just a means to an end: augmenting the zionist colony by stealing land by any means necessary...by killing anyone in the way.
When snipers shoot children in the head, a woman working in the olive grove, we know it has nothing to do with Hamas or its leaders.
In writing to my senators and congressman calling for an end of US support for the genocide, I received a lengthly letter in response from Ted Cruz yesterday. After first assuring me, "Input from fellow Texans significantly informs my decision-making and empowers me to better represent our state." He then went on to state, "When I arrived in the U.S. Senate in 2013, I made clear that preserving and strengthening the U.S.-Israel alliance would be among my top priorities as a lawmaker. It is deeply in America’s interest to ensure that Israel has the military resources and diplomatic support it needs to defend itself and counter its enemies, which are trying to destroy the Jewish state."
After paragraphs repeating every Israeli lie and distortion, he never does outline how the U.S.-Israel alliance is in America's interest. Pathetic, pathetic, pathetic. Exactly right, Bill, politics in America is a sick joke.