Now We Know. America Really Doesn't Care about Injustice in the Middle East.

[unhappycamper]

Now We Know. America Really Doesn't Care about Injustice in the Middle East.
by Robert Fisk
Published on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 by The Independent/UK

I came to the latest uproarious US diplomatic history with the deepest cynicism. And yesterday, in the dust of post-election Cairo - the Egyptian parliamentary poll was as usual a mixture of farce and fraud, which is at least better than shock and awe - I ploughed through so many thousands of American diplomatic reports with something approaching utter hopelessness. After all, they do quote President Hosni Mubarak as saying that "you can forget about democracy," don't they?

It's not that US diplomats don't understand the Middle East; it's just that they've lost all sight of injustice. Vast amounts of diplomatic literature prove that the mainstay of Washington's Middle East policy is alignment with Israel, that its principal aim is to encourage the Arabs to join the American-Israeli alliance against Iran, that the compass point of US policy over years and years is the need to tame/bully/crush/oppress/ ultimately destroy the power of Iran.

There is virtually no talk (so far, at least) of illegal Jewish colonial settlements on the West Bank, of Israeli "outposts", of extremist Israeli "settlers" whose homes now smallpox the occupied Palestinian West Bank - of the vast illegal system of land theft which lies at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian war. And incredibly, all kinds of worthy US diplomats grovel and kneel before Israel's demands - many of them apparently fervent supporters of Israel - as Mossad bosses and Israel military intelligence agents read their wish-list to their benefactors.

There's a wonderful moment in the cables when the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, explains to a US congressional delegation on 28 April last year that "a Palestinian state must be demilitarised, without control of its airspace and electro-magnetic field , and without the power to enter into treaties or control its border". Well goodbye, then, to the "viable" (ergo Lord Blair of Isfahan) Palestinian state we all supposedly want. And the US Congress lads and ladies appear to have said nothing.

Instead, in The New York Times, we read through the Wikileaks files for the best quote. Here is Saudi King Abdullah, via his ambassador in Washington (a dab hand with the press), sayingthat Abdullah believes America must "cut of the head of this snake" - the snake being Iran or Ahmadinejad or Iranian nuclear facilities, or whatever.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. Robert's major myopic problem?

He reviews MSM reporting and pretends that it reflects the thinking across America.

Frankly, you take 10 people off the street, and most of them would be upset at the closeness (to the exclusion of Palestine) we still have to israel, especially in view of the settlement issues, invasions, clusterfuck bombs, and more. It is not AMERICA that does not care, rather, it is our MSM that deliberately skews the reporting that America sees.

He simply reports on reporting, which is not the same thing as taking the pulse of the country. Far from it.

[stray cat]

2. If you are against injustice - America needs to clean it's own house