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and wouldn't even have the power to do so, if the Bush junta hadn't demonized Iran and called it one of the "Axis of Evil," and if the US hadn't destroyed Iranian democracy and installed the horrid Shah, who was followed by the Mullahs. We have committed atrocities against the Iranian people, among them, trading with Saddam at a time when he was using chemical weapons on Iranians in the Iraq-Iran war, and permitting US companies to supply components of those weapons.
Read the Project for the New American Century, the Bushites plan for Holy Roman Empire II. They've been threatening and provoking Iran for some time; and inspiring fear and paranoia. Further, no one can deny that Israel's Likud gov't intensely lobbied the US gov't to draw the entire US military machine into the Middle East in an unjust war on Iraq. They have subverted people in our gov't to obtain US national security info. One such person in the AIPAC case (Franklin) just turned state's evidence to avoid prosecution as a spy.
Both Jews and the people who were in Palestine when Israel was created have a right to be there; are entitled to a home, and to safety and prosperity there. Why there is conflict about it is like a shouting and garbage-throwing contest between angry, unruly neighbors over a back fence. It has to stop!
The Likud party's view of Israel as a medieval fortress, armed to the teeth, walling itself in, is completely untenable. To expect the US to help them maintain this madness, and to utterly impoverish itself and destroy American democracy, in order to support this aggressive and desperate (and, with regard to Palestinian lands, greedy) Israeli policy, is the extreme of unwisdom. It is extremely detrimental to the interests of the Israeli people and all people in the Middle East.
Real and lasting security can only come from diplomacy, peacefulness and generosity--and from truly caring about the interests of all of the people in the region, not just Israelis. The Likud party's mad policy is leading straight to nuclear war in the Middle East. And, if you are familiar with Carl Sagan's book, "The Cold and the Dark," you will understand that even a limited nuclear exchange will not only poison the region, it would likely destroy all life on earth, due to impacts to the atmosphere.
Nothing is worth that! Nothing! Peace MUST be the goal. And peace MUST be achieved. There is no other option.
But neither the Bush junta nor the Likud party is SEEKING peace--and that is the problem.
The true driver on the US side are the war profiteers--Halliburton et al--who don't give a crap about Israel or its people. Get the war profiteers out of this situation, and the corrupt leaders who are in their thrall, and people will work things out. Most people want to live in peace!
Can we not, for the sake of all our Gods, and for the sake of all of our children, find a way to STOP this thousand year religious war, which has ever been a boon to the arms dealers? Can we not grow up? Can we not evolve? Can we not save ourselves? Is our self-extermination inevitable?
I know Israel is scared, and so are its Jewish and other supporters in the US and around the world. Scared of losing US support. Scared of its neighbors. But fear feeds on itself, and poisons and eventually kills the organism that is experiencing it. Fear PREVENTS wisdom. Fear ends up fulfilling its own nightmares. That is what I see in the ME situation: Israel's fear. Iran's fear. Fear on all sides. And too many innocent victims already--tens of thousands of them.
Israel has had America's ear to the virtual exclusion of all other interests in the Middle East. We--most Americans--never get any hearing of the other side, let alone a fair hearing. And the US/Israel leadership, currently, is so locked into violent policies, and so driven by war profiteers, and have together so bludgeoned the UN, that no other solution except endless war is ever proposed or discussed.
We can't even get to the negotiating table with the Arab/Muslim countries involved. It is not even being thought of!
Are we human beings, or are we rats running a maze? That's what I want to know. Do we have any brains or not? Maybe the Bushite fascist followers are right. We haven't evolved. We're the same stupid beasts we've always been, and the entire history of civilization is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing!
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