..."Israel has been committing and continues to commit acts of genocide, displacement, land theft and harassment on us for over 65 years. Every known crime that is deemed illegal or a crime against humanity by entrenched international law has been perpetrated. But Israel frankly does not give a damn. Why? Because Israel knows, very well, that no matter what it does it can always rely on the active support of the United States of America. They have ‘Israel’s back’, as they fondly say and have used their privileged position as a permanent member in the Security Council to use their veto on 42 occasions to cover Israeli crimes, no matter how heinous these crimes were. This is not a number I picked out of the air, but from an article published by The Institute for Public Accuracy on February 7th 2012. “The United States has used its veto power 83 times, primarily in defense of allies accused of violating international humanitarian law. Forty-two of these U.S. vetoes were to protect Israel from criticism for illegal activities, including suspected war crimes.” click here Despite all of that, America is conducting these talks ‘in secret’ and whom did they put in charge? None other than Mr. Martin Indyk, a well-known Jewish Zionist, ex AIPAC staffer, an ardent supporter of Israel, who has served as the US Ambassador to Israel twice and was until this appointment Vice Chairman and Director of Foreign Policy of the Brooking Institute. Do you remember another American Jewish Zionist diplomat of the same ilk, namely Dennis Ross? I do. Is my use of déjà vu justified? The then US President, Bill Clinton appointed him as peace envoy for the Middle East, despite his strong Zionist credentials. In fact, former Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath described him as being more "pro-Israeli than the Israelis.” They talk about America being an “honest broker” and America talks about “our values and way of life”. Do me a favour. It’s as clear as daylight that this is another stitch up to make us, the Palestinians look guilty and make Israel look magnanimous in victory. You know what I find perplexing is how so many Americans are oblivious to what their successive governments do in their name and then ask, ‘why do people hate us?’. I shall leave it to this American man of the cloth, Father John Sheehan, to answer. “Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can help but think that before Israel we had no enemies in the Middle East.” Wise words." Jwahar Rimini
Posted on: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:24:23 +0000