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and orchards, and from water supplies, creating Israeli "settlements" (land grabs) that have been condemned by most of the world. WHO has created what are basically prison camps for Palestinians to live in?
Colombia's position ain't much different from the U.S., which is no surprise, since Colombia is a U.S. client state, recipient of the second biggest U.S. military aid package in the world ($7 BILLION), except for Israel.
Translation: "The day they reach a peace agreement with Israel..." = 'The day they give up all the land that Israel has brutally stolen...".
And it's interesting to consider what U.S. taxpayer support of these militaries has resulted in, in both countries. In Colombia, FIVE MILLION peasant farmers have been displaced from their farms by state terror--the worst human displacement crisis on earth. And in Israel, the most scandalous human displacement crisis on earth, with an entire people--the Palestinians--cut off from farm lands, water, sea access and commerce.
There does seem to be a campaign going on whereby country after country in Latin America has recognized the Palestinian state. It is possible that Colombia has gone along with this accord--or half gone along with it--because it costs them nothing and they have little "common ground" with the rest of South America, due to their U.S. client state status, rule by a vicious fascist elite and the official horrors of their 70 year civil war. Brazil and Uruguay now have presidents who were tortured by fascist regimes akin to the current one in Colombia--presidents who joined leftist guerrilla groups to fight them. This is the tenor of things in South America these days. And Colombia NEEDS trade with many countries with leftist governments--most notably Venezuela, but others as well. So they may just be sort of supporting a Palestinian state with no sincerity, to improve their cache a bit with the rest of the region, but, when push comes to shove, they will side with the U.S./Israel on what Palestinians have to swallow, to get an independent state.
I could be misinterpreting--or somewhat misinterpreting--what is going on with U.S. foreign policy in both situations--U.S. client state Colombia and its relations with the rest of Latin America, and Israel/Palestine. On the surface, we see two advances toward peace: The accord between Colombia and Venezuela (forged by Chavez and the new leader of Colombia, Manuel Santos, after Alvaro Uribe was likely ousted from that position by the CIA, albeit with a "golden parachute), and a move toward a two-state solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict. God knows things were worse with the Bush Junta, which seemed bent on a Colombia/Venezuela war (proxy war for the U.S.) and nuking Iran (Armageddon in the Middle East). So Obama/Clinton at least backtracking these U.S. aggressions gives these regions a breather anyway.
The trouble is that what I see happening with the switch-off, back and forth, between the Bushwhack monsters and the compromising, colluding, also pro-corporate, also pro-war profiteer Democrats is that the Democrats prepare the way for U.S. corporate/war profiteer land and resource grabs, then the Bushwhack monsters carry them out. Happened on Iraq--Clinton sanctions and no-fly zones, and destruction of Iraq's air force; then Bushwhack "shock and awe" bombing, invasion, torture and mayhem. So, what is being prepared now--for what may well be Diebold/ES&S's second Bush Junta in 2012?
Is there anything genuine in Obama/Clinton/Panetta policies, as to peace and justice? Or was, say, the Colombia/Venezuela peace accord just to reopen the border for more infiltration (spies, destabilization ops, CIA bullshit) and maybe to gain some points with Venezuela ally Brazil in a pretense of peacefulness? (And with the Thugs and Scumbags who have taken over the U.S. Congress, how long will that peace last? Their Miami mafia element has already called for war on Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua.)
I'm afraid that Honduras is the template, as to Latin America. The Thugs and Scumbags, who were in the MINORITY in the prior Congress, basically instigated a rightwing coup in Honduras, probably designed by the Bush Junta. The elected president of the country is removed at gunpoint, and exiled via a flight that lands at the U.S. air base in Honduras for refueling. Obama/Clinton waffle around about this for months--continuing to FUND the coup government (despite what they said publicly)--and finally produce a farcical election, under martial law, while leftist opposers of the coup are still being shot, decapitated, imprisoned and tortured--an election that every reputable election monitoring group in the world refuses to participate in. And, guess what? The fascists "win" the election!
The Democrats--to appearances caught in a vise by Bushwhack operatives--acquiesce, give in, make it happen, pull a veil over it. They let freshman 'Senator' Jim DeMint (SC-Diebold) take over U.S. foreign policy in Latin America.
This and other events give me NO CONFIDENCE that Obama/Clinton/Panetta mean well--or that, in pursuing corporate/war profiteer goals, they might, at least, not be as brutal and bloody-minded as the Bushwhacks. All I have left is a very, very battered shred of hope--that maybe I'm not interpreting things correctly. But the facts--those that we can see--say otherwise (scream otherwise?)--that U.S. policy in Latin America, as outgoing president of Brazil, Lula da Silva, said in his last speech, "HAS NOT CHANGED."
As for the Middle East, the "drones" speak--not to mention the apparent effort by U.S. military techs to cause an "accident" in Iran's nuclear facilities.
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