Israel Being Sacrificed by Bush to God of Oil& War: Isaac on the Altar

[McCamy Taylor]

Everyone knows the story of how Abraham finally got a son, after years of waiting, and how, after all that trying. God told him to sacrfice his son. Being a man of faith, Abraham did as he was told, and God rewarded him by giving his son, Isaac a reprieve.
I think that the people of Israel have taken that story to heart. They believe that if they fight the battle before them with enough dedication and determination, they will be sent a reprieve in the form of US military assistance. Certainly, it would be much easier to persuade the American people to go to war on a new front in the mideast to protect Israel than it would be to persuade them to invade Iran on the orders of Bush and Cheney.

The Neo-Con plan for the new world order, which has been in the works since the 1970s when Wolfowitz and the others worked for Sen. Scoop Jackson, has called for the overthrow of first Iraq and then Iran. However, 70% of Americans believe that Bush-Cheney lied about WMDs and they are not about to buy another mideast war from that pair of oil obsessed cowboys. On the other hand, Americans have a soft spot in their heart towards Israel and want to see the people there living in peace. Or rather, MOST Americans have a soft spot in their hearts about Israel and want to see the Israelis living in peace.

One group has some pretty odd ideas about Israel. They think that it is OK to take the battle started in NYC on 9-11 from our backyard and fight it in Israel's backyard. They think that securing peace for Israel is a waste of time. Instead, they expend a tremendous ammount of money, resources and even sacrifice American lives to keep up a constant state of war in Iraq so that muslim terrorists have a training ground and muslims worldwide have a cause which will keep their anger simmering--anger directed at Israel as well as the US. They supported the most miltant Israeli leaders and backed them when they repressed Israel's Palestinian minority. And yet, strangely, they praised Lebanon, the country that allowed terrorists to control its southern border with Israel, for its western style democracy. An independent observer might look at things that were said and done and say that this group of people was trying to push the state of Israel into war.

This group is the Bush administration, of course. Ever since Israel over reacted to the kidnapping of two soldiers by declaring war on the country of Lebanon, Bush has been acting even more crazy than usual. Every effort by the UN to condemn Israel for the violence of its attacks against Lebanon has been vetoed by John Bolton. A UN resolution calling for peace---something that everyone should agree upon, right?---has been vetoed by the US. Within hours of the Israel declaration of war, the US announced that it blamed Syria and Iran. Israel quickly began to echo these US sentiments, though this has not stopped it from venting its wrath on Lebanon. At home, we are told that Israel's actions are just like ours after 9-11, even though there is no comparison between the kidnapping of 2 soldiers and the destruction of the 2 towers of the World Trade Center.

Perhaps the most frightening development of all is the way that right wing Christians are beginning to celebrate the Apocalypse. Now, ordinarily one does not celebrate that kind of thing. But I dont think they mean the End of the World. I dont see them giving away their worldly goods or going on pilgrimages to the Holy Land. I think they are referring to a much more localized form of Armageddon, the sacrifice of one little but important piece of land. I think that the Religious Right and the Bush Administration are biding their time, waiting for Israel to get in WAY over its head.

For months, those who have speculated about how the administration will attempt to get the war between the US and Iran started have predicted that Israel will be used as an excuse. Israel's enemies count Syria and Iran as their ideologic allies. If either of these two countries retaliate or can be made to appear to have retaliated against Israel, the US can make a case for going to war to help its ally. However, the American people are sick to death of war. They do not want to step in just to help a well trained and equipped Israeli army win a war faster and more efficiently than it might have done otherwise. No, the American people will be persuaded to go to war with Iran when they see Israel bloodied, broken, crying on the battle field. That is the kind of war that will help Bush regain his lost popularity points. That is the kind that will get the news media to stop talking about Jack Abramoff and Valerie Plame and domestic spying scandals and give the GOP a snowball's chance in hell of retaining control of Congress this fall.

But if Bush-Cheney are going to get that kind of war, Israel has to step up to the altar and bare its neck and allow itself to be sacrified, like a dutiful son.

Now, I know that Israel does not want to die for a pagan diety of War, Oil and Money worshipped by a bunch of cowboy Christians from Texas. But at this point, who can save them? They are like a train out of control. The US has John Bolton aboard the UN to make sure that it wont help Israel fix the breaks. The other middle eastern countries are going to have helping Lebanon as their top priority. Is there some world body that the US has not tainted that will pull Israel back from the brink? The European Union? An alliance of China and Russia?

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1. An interesting perspective.

Too bad the state of Israel is such a willing participant.

Thanks for the post.

[McCamy Taylor]

2. From the horses' mouths. Neo-cons tell us Israels' war is OUR war.

I had not even read this before I went over to Salon to post the piece I just wrote there. However, I knew without even hearing them say it, that this was what the Neo-cons would be up to, because they never vary from that script they wrote all those decades ago. They are so damn predictable.

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/07/is-israels-war-also-our-war.html

[drduffy]

3. Israel deserves a little more responsibility

for having promoted this course and its actions can be also interpreted as a move to ensure the US continued involvement. The U.S. govt. - as much as I loath it - seems to make decisions in concert with powers in Israel

[Poll_Blind]

4. Ho ho! So Israel is the innocent child on the sacrificial altar then?

That's an interesting way to look at it.

PB

[McCamy Taylor]

5. Yes, I think that even Israel's crimes pale in comparison to Bush greed.

And I think Israel's leaders are clueless about how quickly Bush and Cheney will toss them to the wolves when it is politically expedient. It is not too late for the people of Israel and the people in the US who support them to wake up.

[Poll_Blind]

7. Israel subserviates itself to no-one. Never has, never will. If you...

...really believe, after what is presumably some sizeable portion of personal research, that is the case there is nothing I can say or show you to change your mind. They rely in part on billions from the United States but they are not beholden to us. The inability for the U.S. even to put pressure on the for what they're doing in Beirut (I mean the massive civilian killings, something like 65+ in the last few days, the open and wanton destruction of civilian infrastructure, etc.) might give you an idea about how much control or lack of control we exert over that little, very well-financed nation.

PB

[lovuian]

6. Israel won't sit back and be taken down

they learned that lesson In WWII

[AusGail]

10. Could you please tell me what atrocities were committed

on the Israelis by the Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians and Iranians during world war 2?

They are living in the past. They antagonize their neighbors and they also commit atrocities.

[sam sarrha]

8. only Schizophrenics hear gOD tell them to kill their children, then or now

nothing has changed in that department...

one reason i feel religion is Bogus. Mohamed was a descendant of Abraham and Schizophrenia runs in families.. anybody today who talks to god is considered a candidate for schizophrenia.. nothing has changed..

i believe people dont need religion to be good and do good works.. and i dont see any possibility of the worlds big 3 religions to even want to keep from destroying civilization in my life time.

but isn't that why they call it Samsara.?

[Just Me]

9. Interesting theory except PNAC and AIPAC go hand-in-hand.

I believe the "Isaac" comparison is,...off base. This is more like,...well, I won't say because it would rattle too many, too much.

[McCamy Taylor]

11. Who? Jesus? I wouldnt go that far. There is nothing Holy about Israel.

They are just someone that people in the US happen to be fond of, so that makes them like a favorite son, like Isaac.

[Poll_Blind]

12. AIPAC, though, doesn't make policy. It just ensures that the U.S.

...continues to make policy favorable to Israel and that the money and favorable public opinion keep rolling in. Based on my current understanding which I am sad/proud to say is always in flux based on whatever information I have accumulated so far a melding of Revisionist Zionism and a bit of Religious Zionism + 20 years of political evolution from the 80's on comprises what I call a ZionCon. They make up a small part of Kadima, larger portion of Likud and a very large portion of Shas. These ZionCons have their own goals and their own problems reaching them. Different from NeoCons who again have goals and problems specific to their beliefs and environment.

  Like Al Quaeda, which is a loose confederation of groups, these Cons (Neo and Zion) work together but are not, necessarily, the same. The work together because it benefits them to do so.

  Just my take...

PB