| by Paul Craig Roberts
( November 20, 2012, Washington DC, Sri
Lanka Guardian) 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.
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