Israel, Religious Insanity and Our Current Self-made Nightmare

By Mike Biseborn
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The Bush Administration celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Israeli nation this week.

W visited the one or two places in the Middle East where the entire population would not massively attempt to undo him. Israelis are the only people to give W a standing ovation, moving our grossly failed president to tears. It’s the only country where he feels welcome.

Which should tell us much about our policy of continuing knee-jerk defense of Israel, no matter what crimes their government commits. As we wait for a new administration, and struggle toward survival in the dawning of a new age, we must re-think our relationship with Israel and it's neighbors.

As a nation founded on, among other things, the separation of church and state, we should not support, to the death, any religious state and yet, under this administration, that is exactly what we have done.

There can be no real Democracy in a religious state because, by its very definition, one group will have privileges and rights that another group does not. It never fails. Religion becomes just another excuse to beat up on someone else, as it has many, many times in the history of this world.

Our policy should be the same, no matter the religion and that would include the "worship of the state," as in Communism.

In 1947, the United Nations approved the partition of the Mandate of Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. The Arab League rejected the plan, but on May 14, 1948, the Jewish provisional government declared Israel's independence. Israel thus became the first Jewish state in the world, now with a population of just under 8 million. It’s about the size of greater Los Angeles and 85% Jewish.

Which was one of the greatest mistakes in human history. When will we admit that and do something about it?

Since the UN recognized this new nation, especially after the 1948 Israeli-Arab War, Israelis have pushed their borders east into Muslim territories. Israeli expansion has enflamed decades long fighting between Jews and Muslims with no resolution in sight. Emphasis on the differences in their religions has continually ignited hate on both sides of the battles.

Oh joy. Lets commit more murders for God. Is this really any more civilized than sacrificing people to volcanoes for various gods and goddesses?

Neither side is innocent in this ongoing war between Jews and Muslims. Despite the holy image of Israel that once warmed the hearts of many Americans, war has stained the saintly Israeli aura.

Israel remains the preeminent military power in the Middle East. It has nuclear weapons, strong conventional forces and the capability to strike at will, as it did in September when it destroyed what it believed to be a Syrian nuclear facility.

(Oh poppy cock!)

Last year, Israel signed a 10-year, $30 billion arms deal with Washington aimed at keeping that edge for years to come.

That's pocket change compared to what we have spent on the Iraq quagmire.

Given Israel’s massive military capabilities, is it any surprise that Iran does everything it can to protect itself? Once a close ally with the US, Iran is now forming alliances with China and Russia for its oil and weapons exchanges.

Given Israel’s US support and military might, is it really any surprise that Palestinians resort to terrorist reprisals and other such guerrilla war tactics? Of course, terrorism and guerrilla warfare is unacceptable, as should be all types of war. Yet, let’s also keep in mind that Israelis have not been innocent of their share of terrorist reprisals either.

For the US to grant Israel complete unconditional love is to take sides with one party in a war that has no innocent perpetrators.

Israelis roll out the red carpet for Bush mainly because W and his old neocon war mongers have loved Israel unconditionally...and waged war for them. Israel enjoys all the benefits as if the 51st US State and without the tax bill for the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Funny, I said the same thing just the other day. Maybe more and more minds are changing. Let's hope so. But, in all seriousness, how long would Washington put up with California arming itself to the teeth, with it's own nuclear arsenal?

Many experts on Middle Eastern affairs have shown convincing evidence that W pushed the invasion and occupation of Iraq solely to serve Israeli interests to fortify its power in the region. As a fundamentalist Christian, Bush believes in the second coming of Jesus and, so prepares for Armageddon.

W, like his buddies Hagee, Falwell, Robertson and the rest, believes in an impotent God, one whom he must assist? Glad my God isn't all that weak.

This means that neither oil or freedom or anything else motivated W more in his personal war against Iraq than religious ideology.

It was about the religious fervor that stirs the hearts of neocons like Bush, and now McCain who has gained endorsements and support from Israeli enthusiasts like Pastor Hagee and Preacher Pat Robertson. Those religious fanatics beguile the blind following of large swaths of gullible, uneducated American voters.

It stands to reason that without the interest in oil wealth of the region, the US would not support a war in those deserts for the sole sake of ousting a dictator. If this were the case, the US could easily invade North Korea, or China, or Zimbabwe…ruthless dictators run all of these and other countries.

When W first came to power, Israeli leaders like Sharon and now Olmert had long since urged the neocon fundamentalists in the US to invade and occupy Iraq and Iran. This fact is so publicly documented no references are needed, except for those in denial.

The bitter pill of Bush’s complete failure as a President, though, comes from how these Israeli leaders now voice disappointment in the US invasion of Iraq. Did I say “bitter?” Bush served the Israeli leaders faithfully like a choirboy serves the Catholic priest, in orthodox and unorthodox manners, bending over, assuming the position, and taking it all in deeply.

During the Bush admin, the US has granted Israel complete and utter unconditional love, sacrificing thousands of young American patriots and trillions of tax dollars.

"The sum total is that if you measure Israeli security at the beginning of this administration and at the end of the administration, based on things the president either could have done, should have done or failed to do, the report card is pretty negative," said Daniel C. Kurtzer, who served as Bush's first-term ambassador to Israel. (Washington Post, 14 May 2008)

Kurtzer has since switched political parties. He saw the light. He now advises Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Kurtzer sees Bush's neglect of the peace process for most of his seven years in office. Despite the president's optimism that he can achieve a Palestinian-Israeli deal in his final year, Kurtzer and many other analysts believe that Israel remains unwilling to negotiate peace with its neighbors. As is typical of Bush, he ignores the advise of non-religious, non-neocons. In his recent speech in Jerusalem, Bush claims that “Israel stands for peace.”

Oh, My God! What total BS! If Israel stands for peace, it's for damn sure peace doesn't stand a chance. No nation has ever, in my lifetime, stood for peace, with the possible exception of Switzerland. Since before the recognition of Israel by the U.N, while the Zionists fought to build a religious state, there has been nothing but bloodshed there. We have only ourselves and Britain to blame for supporting such a state and, of course, the people in the area who believe that Religion is worth killing over or is meant to be killed for. I, for one, have just about had it with the Abrahamic religions. Now that Greenland is melting, why not put them all up there and let them fight it out and, preferably, to the death, or how about Anartica.

As a kick to the dead horse (Bush), the Israeli defense establishment voices second thoughts about Bush's decision to remove Saddam Hussein and the botched occupation of Iraq. Despite Israel’s urging the early Bush administration to invade Iraq, those policies, they now argue, have helped fuel the rise of Israel's nemesis, Iran, whose president has spoken openly of trying to wipe Israel off the map. The war has also threatened to destabilize neighboring Jordan with a flood of refugees.

Early on, the Iraq invasion "looked as if it would serve Israel's interest," said Shlomo Brom, a former director of strategic planning for the Israel Defense Forces. But "the way that it was implemented by this administration is eventually causing damage to Israel. It is strengthening the radical elements in the Middle East."

When will you people realize that war is not the answer?

"People are mistaken,” says Brom, “to think that the most friendly president [to Israel] is also the best president that Israel has ever had."

Interesting phraesology, don't you think?

And now to stave off further criticism from his Israeli masters, Bush pursues serious talks of invading Iran, and this even after various intelligence has proven that Iran has no nuclear capabilities. W and his neocons, like McCain, have not yet learned an obvious and simple lesson in leadership, namely, that to twist up CIA intelligence and to ignore common sense advise, can lead the US into military and financial catastrophe.

Like his neocon advisors, Bush wages his wars mainly motivated by religious ideology, ‘crusades’ as he calls them in speeches. We see the results.

I have a hard time believing that the Iraq war was completely motivated by religious insanity, although that was part of it. The Bushies (the neocon branch) never do anything for only one reason. If one carefully studies their actions over the past almost eight years, one will find that any action, especially a big action, on their part usually serves at least three purposes. At the top of those purposes, is the imperial presidency and one party rule for generations to come. They blew it, big time, which renders most of the rest of their goals null and void and leaves the nation in great peril. (I think that if I were a Republican, I would be packing heat and tracking them all down, just as soon as the next president takes office. Dick Cheney and Karl Rove would be at the top of my list.)


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