Saying Goodbye to Benjamin Netanyahu Is Long Overdue
President Donald Trump’s address to Congress and the nation on Tuesday night was remarkably devoid of any mention of why the United States continues to both enable and be complicit in the Ukrainian conflict with Russia as well as with the war crimes that are being committed by the state of Israel against nearly all its neighbors on a daily basis. The most recent abomination committed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his band of thugs is the cutting off of food, medicine and temporary housing to the Gazans who were bold enough to return to their ruined homes due to a ceasefire negotiated successfully by US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff in January. Now that Netanyahu has decided to come up with some false assertions to break the agreement, allowing him to continue his extermination of the Palestinian people, Trump as peace maker seems to have disappeared without a trace even though the US was in a sense a guarantor of the phased disengagement. Instead, Trump has doubled down on the side of Israel, issuing a “last warning” to Hamas during direct negotiations with the group to release all of the hostages in Gaza immediately. Per Trump in a posting on Truth Social on Wednesday: “Release all of the hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered, or it is OVER for you.” Trump wrote that he would send Israel “everything it needs to finish the job,” and warned that “Not a single Hamas member will be safe if you don’t do as I say.” It should also be noted that Israel holds thousands of Palestinian prisoners whose fate is evidently of no concern to Donald Trump while the Israeli “world’s most moral army” has continued to kill numerous Palestinians even while the ceasefire was allegedly in place without a squeak coming out of Washington just as it has also been killing Lebanese and Syrians.
I still recall with some fondness the Monty Python movie entitled “The Meaning of Life,” in part because the United States has, since 9/11, been on a berserker course to teach the rest of the world about the “meaning of death.” Some observers maintain that the imperative to deliver millions of dead has been necessary to maintain US dominance in an unstable world, which is a “good thing” for everyone who survives the carnage as they will live by the “rule of international law” as laid down by Washington. But I have something like a different theory, i.e. that much of that kind of thinking derives from the neoconservatives, largely a Jewish-led and funded movement which has come to dominate the foreign policy and national security thinking of both major American political parties. Going back to the first Gulf War, the neocons have believed that US dominance has been good for Israel, particularly as they subsequently perceived that 9/11 was a gift from Jehovah that enabled the full might of the United States military to be used against Israel’s enemies starting with Iraq. Indeed, the Baathist regime was attacked and destroyed based on a series of lies and false intelligence concocted by monsters like Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Doug Feith at the Pentagon plus Scooter Libby in the office of Vice President Dick Cheney. Israeli intelligence officers from the Embassy in Washington had full and free access to the Wolfowitz Pentagon office while the process was playing out. President George W. Bush was clearly too stupid to realize that he was being conned.
But getting back to President Trump’s evident reluctance to discuss the one remaining war that he could stop in a heartbeat by cutting off all aid and political support, there is the question that is unanswered about why the US should become an accomplice to mass murder in a slaughter where there is no conceivable American national interest. Indeed, one might reasonably argue that the involvement with Israel and its human rights disaster has already done considerable damage to both the repu
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