The United States 'trusted' ally in the Middle East

"don't worry about American pressure, we the Jewish people control America."
- Ariel Sharon, 3 October 2001 Source >

Inwardly strong, outwardly weak

One of Israel's self-stated strengths lies in convincing the world that it is weak.

"we have continued to foster a sense of our own inferiority, as if we were a weak and insignificant people, which, in the midst of an anguished struggle for its existence, could be exterminated at any moment ..."
- Ma'ariv, 24 March 1972

Such tactics draw upon and exploit the horrific pictures painted by the first holocaust, when jews were persecuted with the singular goal of extinction.

Far from being in need of "protection" however, Israel spends more per head of population on its military capability than any other country in the world, including the United States.

The U.S. national security strategy states that the United States will not shy away from preemptively attacking... groups it believes have nuclear or chemical weapons.

How ironic then that Israel has refused to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, actively diverted nuclear research materials from civilian use to weapon production and has refused to divulge the full extend of its nuclear arsenal - let alone allow one singe IAEA weapons inspector to set foot in the state.

Instead, such headstrong behaviour is rewarded with trusted ally status and an offer to protect "by whatever means necessary".

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In Palestine Zionist paramilitary groups were gradually wearing down British morale. Towards the end of the Arab revolt the Jewish community had launched terror attacks against the Arabs. In July 1938 more that 100 Arabs were killed when six bombs were planted in Arab public places. The last of these, detonated in the Arab melon market in Haifa [Haifa is now a town in the state known as Israel] killed 52 Arabs and a Jew (Palestine Post, 26 July 1938). Towards the end of the Second World War such tactics were turned on the British mandatory authority. Roads, bridges, trains and patrol boats were destroyed. British army barracks were attacked and banks and armouries were looted. On a single day in 1946, Zionist paramilitary groups launched 16 separate attacks on the British Army., destroying many armoured vehicles and leaving 80 dead and wounded (Hirst, 1977). Lord Moyne was assassinated by the terrorist Stern Gang, British officers were captured, flogged and killed; and in the most spectacular attack of all, the centre of British mandatory power in Palestine, the King David hotel, was destroyed by 500lbs of explosives, leaving 88 dead including 15 Jews.

Funding for the terror attacks was provided by sympathetic sources in the United States. The Hollywood scriptwriter Ben Hecht produced an article for the New York Herald Tribune entitled 'Letter to the Terrorists of Palestine' in which he wrote:

"every time you blow up a British arsenal, or wreck a British jail, or send a British railway train sky high, or rob a British bank, or let go with your guns and bombs at the British betrayers and invaders of your homeland, the Jews of America make a little holiday in their hearts... Brave friends, we are working to help you. We are raising funds for you".

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Jon Snow interviews Dep. Israeli Ambassador on Israeli terror

U.S. blames Iran for their lack of progress in Iraq

Speaking alongside Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon, Gen Casey stated that though they could offer no proof, their suspicions had now been confirmed and that Iran was offering support to Shia extremist groups. Analysts, in reply, have said Gen Casey was wrong to accuse Iran. "It has not been Shia militants who have fuelled the insurgency in Iraq, it's been... Sunni Islamist groups and the Jihadis from the outside have been coming from Sunni countries such as Syria and Saudi Arabia and Jordan," Karim Sadjadpour, of the International Crisis Group in Washington, told the BBC. "So to think that Iran is among the reasons why the US enterprise in Iraq has been unsuccessful I think is really a scapegoat".

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Olmert: Israeli lives worth more than Palestinian ones

Almost three times as many Palestinian civilians have been killed by Israel in Gaza in the past nine days as Israeli civilians in Sderot killed by Qassam rockets in the past five years. Kofi Annan, the UN secretary general, this week called on Israel to ensure its responses to alleged attacks were "proportionate and do not put civilians at grave risk".

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"Israel will not tolerate nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran"

Despite keeping their nuclear facilities secret for decades, Olmert warns the press in London, Monday 12th June 2006 that Israel will not tolerate nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran.

Iran has signed the NPT, has allowed weapons inspectors into their facilities and does not have aspirations to build a nuclear weapon. By contrast, Israel has repeatedly refused to sign the NPT, has never allowed weapons inspectors into any of their nuclear facilies and has amassed an undeclared stockpile of approximately 200 nuclear warheads. Iran is the threat?

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Charges of Ethnic Cleansing

Such protection is offered because much is made of the Iranian president's statement that he would like to see Israel 'wiped off the map'. A sentiment shared by over the years by many of Israel's Arab neighbours, ever since the State of Israel was formally created in 1948. UN Resolution 181 had recommended the Jewish state be established in 57 per cent of mandatory Palestine. By the end of 1948 the Israeli state had control of 78 per cent.

"it must be clear that there is no room for both peoples together in this country...
We shall not achieve our goal of being an independent people with the Arabs in this small country. The only solution is a Palestine ... without Arabs ... not one tribe should be left ... Only after this transfer will the country be able to absorb the millions of our own brethren. There is no other way".
- Davar, 29 September 1967

In Denial

In many countries holocaust denial is a crime (when surely the lack of credibility and public ridicule resulting from denying it would be punishment enough). However, denial goes both ways:

"'It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist"
- Golda Meir, 1979

and, after the eviction, occupation and expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their land over a period of time spanning decades:

The number of actual [Palestinian] refugees is close to nil.
- Netanyahu, 2000

Trusted Ally

According to President Bush Israel is a trusted ally as it does not represent a threat to peace in the Middle East. Even with an arsenal of nuclear weapons sat atop U.S. supplied cruise missiles, pointed out towards their Arab neighbours.

There have been suggestions that the 1973 conflict nearly precipitated both a nuclear exchange between the superpowers and a threatened Israeli nuclear strike on Egypt.

In 1981 Israel launched the world's first air strike against a nuclear power plant, when it preemptively destroyed the Osiraq nuclear centre in Iraq Read more >

The Pentagon [stated] that ... the recent sale to Israel of 500 BLU-109 [bunker-busting] warheads, [was] meant to "contribute significantly to U.S. strategic and tactical objectives." Evidently Israel has plans to attack Iran, and the United States has no plans to stop them: Read more >

The U.S. Administrations view that Israel does not present a threat to Middle East peace is revealing and thought provoking.

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