Puppet
State America
By Dr.
Paul Craig Roberts
Global
Research, November 19, 2012
Region:
USA
In-depth
Report: PALESTINE
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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