The Charade of Israeli-Palestinian Talks

[mudplanet]

"Washington’s pathetic capitulation to Israel while pleading for a meaningless three-month freeze on settlement expansion – excluding Arab East Jerusalem – should go down as one of the most humiliating moments in U.S. diplomatic history."

"Israeli and U.S. high-tech civilian industries are closely integrated. It is small wonder that the most fervent support for Israeli actions comes from the business press and the Republican Party, the more extreme of the two business-oriented political parties. The pretext for the huge arms sales to Saudi Arabia is defense against the “Iranian threat.”

However, the Iranian threat is not military, as the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence have emphasized. Were Iran to develop a nuclear weapons capacity, the purpose would be deterrent – presumably to ward off a U.S.-Israeli attack.

The real threat, in Washington’s view, is that Iran is seeking to expand its influence in neighboring countries “stabilized” by U.S. invasion and occupation.

The official line is that the Arab states are pleading for U.S. military aid to defend themselves against Iran. True or false, the claim provides interesting insight into the reigning concept of democracy. Whatever the ruling dictatorships may prefer, Arabs in a recent Brookings poll rank the major threats to the region as Israel (88 percent), the United States (77 percent) and Iran (10 percent)."

Read the entire article at http://www.truth-out.org/the-charade-israeli-palestinian-talks65701

[ladjf]

1. Every move is wrong. nt

[dbonds]

2. I could have used a little of that money...

I'll not be greedy, say .01%

[azurnoir]

3. we already give Israel 3 billion a year

Obama would be giving them an additional 3 billion in the form of F-35's, now we are told that it helps jobs in the US but Lockheed Martin is laying off 1000 people and closing their plant in MN the plant does not build F-35's apparently

[mudplanet]

4. Here's an idea: Rather that giving Lockheed $3 billion to build fascinating

weapons of destruction, out of which 1000 people are paid decent wages for three years and Lockheed's stockholders get to buy their fifth vacation homes, why don't we just GIVE the money to the Lockheed employees and the employees of their suppliers, the ones on the line that actually do the work. It'd be a much more constructive use of the money.

[Mosby]

5. nice spin

The "official line" is what it is. The truth however, coming from the wikileaks docs show clearly that the ME, in particular the gulf states want the west to deal with iran.