By Latheef Farook
Somewhere in the early 1980s there were speculations of United States Secretary of State Alexander Haig contesting the US Presidential elections. Then Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin,the architect of Deir Yassin massacre which killed more than 250 innocent Palestinians said “ the road to White House is through Tel Aviv –Israeli capital.
This spoke volume for the role played by Jewish lobbies in the US in making politicians and presidents who in turn obediently support Israel in all its wars and war crimes as US President Joe Biden doing now.
Reiterating this Pat Buchanan , author, media figure, political commentator and one time influential staff member in the Nixon and Reagan Administrations, asserted in June 1990 that : “Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory”. It was the time US, under pressure from Jewish lobbies, was preparing to invade Iraq . Pat Buchanen said “The Israelis want this war on Iraq desperately because they want the US to destroy the Iraqi war machine.
Father and son George Bush, then presidents, invaded Iraq, killed more than a million Iraqis, and turned this almost developed ancient country where the people lived in peace and prosperity into a virtual grave yard.
Before that George Bush junior invaded and destroyed Afghanistan under false pretext.
In the same way former US President Barack Obama ,pushed by then US Secretary of States Hilary Clinton, invaded oil rich Libya and overthrew Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi who was killed later .When Hilary Clinton was asked about Gaddafi’s killing, she cackled and exclaimed: “We came, we saw, he died.”
Barack Obama later turned Syria into a graveyard where hundreds of thousands were tortured and killed while millions still live in refugee camps in miserable conditions .These four Muslim countries were destroyed and millions of innocent people were slaughtered only because Israel wanted it .
U.S. presidents in general remain obliged to support Israel in all its crimes. For example even before advancing to the elections, U.S. presidential candidates visit Zionist lobby organizations to pledge their support for Israel. An article written by Alan McLeod and published by Global Research explains in detail how U.S. politicians have been held hostage by the power of the Israeli lobby. President Joe Biden, is said to be the largest recipient of Israel lobby funds. According to reports the total money he received from the Israel lobby since 1990 is $4,346,264. In correlation with receiving this money, Biden, throughout his political career has always been a loyal defender of Israel.
Israel’s latest conspiracy is to drive out Palestinians from occupied Gaza to create Greater Israel . President Joe Biden who reiterated that he is a Zionist supplied, and continues to supply, Israel with the most destructive weapons, money and political support to commit Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. He also vetoed three times UN Security Resolutions calling for ceasefire.
Lindsey Graham, a Republican Senator and a staunch supporter of Israel, suggested Israel could resort to nuking Gaza to put an end to the war in the same way US nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War 11.
Former US Ambassador to the UN ,Nikki Haley during her recent visit to Israel left a message on an artillery shell, declaring, “Finish Them!” Omar Suleiman, an American Islamic scholar and civil rights activist, slammed Haley for her action. “While Americans watch Israel burn Gaza alive, and Palestinian children are beheaded, Nikki Haley writes love notes on bombs that drop on civilians. Let the world bear witness to your moral depravity,”
In another development the US House of Representatives voted to punish the International Criminal Court for charging Israeli leaders with war crimes in Gaza. They even threatened ICC chief Karim Khan and his children.
US soldiers were involved in the Israeli massacre at Nuseirat refugee camp on 15 June 2024 when 274 Palestinians were killed and 698 wounded to rescue four Israeli captives.
Columnist Linah Alsaafin said the genocide we are witnessing today has had total support from Washington, Berlin and London. Now, they’re all in favour of a “ceasefire”, because they think enough Palestinians have been killed and it’s become counterproductive. US blanket support for Israel has isolated both countries in much of the world.
However the ongoing genocide in Gaza has opened the eyes of Americans and people worldwide to the cruelties of Jews and their iron grip on US politics . As a result there has been countrywide protests demanding an end to Israel’s senseless slaughter of Palestinians .
Growing opposition to Israel war crimes is such that pro-Palestinian demonstrators shouted down the US vice president Kamala Harris calling her a murderer and a supporter of “genocide” in Gaza . In the footage, several activists can be heard interrupting the recording of the show by shouting out “Stop the genocide” and “You’re a murderer and war criminal ” at Harris.
Lily Greenberg Call, a former Jewish-American employee appointed by President Joe Biden to the US Interior Department resigned because of the President’s “endorsement of genocide” in the Gaza Strip. The President (Biden) has weaponised the idea of Jewish safety to justify the atrocity in Gaza,” she added.
US Senator Elizabeth Warren said “ had the US been serious about providing humanitarian aid, it could have done so without too many problems. Washington could have ordered Israel to clear the air space so that US planes could deliver aid, or ordered Egypt to open the frontiers to allow US-protected trucks to bring needed food and medicines.
Well known British Journalist David Hearst said “Hamas is willing to commit to the ‘full and complete ceasefire’ touted by Biden – but Washington continues to throw its full support behind an intransigent Tel Aviv. At every stage in this eight-month war, US diplomacy has showed its weakness, and it bears a heavy responsibility for where this has now landed both Israel and US forces in the region.
Under such circumstance what could the unfortunate Palestinians expect from US ? The tragedy is Arab dictators who betrayed Palestinians depend on this very same US for their survival
Under the circumstance expecting US to deliver justice to Palestinians is nothing but mirage in the desert.