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although Americans who answered that way (it's not Israel's fault) may have done so for different reasons.
And I think it's kind of interesting that the poll--although it rated disapproval of Bush (very high)--didn't include the Bush junta as one of the choices in the list of those responsible for the war on Lebanon.
What we're looking at, in my view, is Plan B of the Bushite/NeoCon "Project for a New American Century": get Israel to do it. In a recent poll I saw here at DU (I'll cite it, if anybody wants it), EIGHTY-FOUR PERCENT of Americans disapproved of any U.S. participation in a widened Mideast war. And a widened Mideast war has been the Bush junta's goal all along--but a frustrated one, due to massive American disapproval, and also the disapproval of Russia, China, Europe and indeed the whole world. Their solution? Egg Israel on to make all the gains against its enemies it has ever dreamed of, massively fund their military way beyond defense (for aggression), give them the go-ahead, to set up conditions for some "Gulf of Tonkin"-type incident, by which to draw the U.S. in, and let Israel take all of the opprobrium and all of the consequences. Israel has made a very bad bargain with the fascist Bush junta, a regime that is loathed by most Americans, and is the pariah of the world. The Bushites are traitors, liars, and thieves, on an unparalleled scale. Their favorite political tactic is to stir up bigotry--now gays, now brown immigrants, now "liberals," now blacks, now Arabs. And they will be the first to abandon Israel, if they see profit in it. Their buds are the Saudi sultans and the bin Ladens!
So, look to the hand behind Israel for this new front on the corporate oil war--the hand that holds the military purse strings. It's a proxy war. Israel's rightwing government and war profiteers are eager to pursue it--for sure--but it will not be to Israel's betterment, nor bring anything but very temporary safety (the temporary safety of an aggressive armed fortress). It is insane. Do Israel and the Bushites think they can rule the entire Middle East as an armed fortress? They think they can occupy Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Iraq? Look what a great job the Bushites are doing in Iraq!
The only real safety is in patient diplomacy, wisdom, compassion and generosity--and care for the welfare and safety of all the peoples in the Middle East. The Bush junta has offered the temptation of easy, brutal repression, and Israel's belligerent government has jumped right in--in the most ironical alliance in history. The family that funded Hitler now hand in hand with the people that Hitler tried to exterminate. A bad bargain, Israel. Wake up!
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(Please take note: Some leftists blame Israel and the Israel lobby for the Iraq war. I do not. Yeah, the rightwingers in Israel have been all for this, and have lobbied for it. But that doesn't mean they caused it. Countries and groups lobby for things all the time. I think what the rightwingers in Israel--and Israel's supporters here, as well--have done, is to make Israel into a pawn of the Bush junta's corporate oil war. Ask yourself this: If there were no Israel, and no Israel lobby, would the Bush Cartel still be bent upon dominating the Mideast oil fields? The answer to that is yes. It's greed, with them. It has NOSHING to do with Israel's safety, which they would sacrifice in a minute, if it suited them. Israel's only hope is with American DEMOCRACY, and the American peoples' sense of fairness and justice--not with American fascism! Israel has taken the wrong road, and it is being USED. Some claim that Israel is using the Bushites. I think that's laughable. Israel doesn't have that kind of power. Israel is a tiny, vulnerable country, amidst hostile neighbors, some of which are in direct collusion with the Bush Cartel. Remember who procured arms for Iran, under Reagan! Some of these same Bush junta operatives! Remember who funded Osama bin Laden! It's a BAD bargain that Israel's rightwing has made, and it will never result in peace and safety.)
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