Sunday 29 May 2011

Firm And Sure?

Netanyahu told Congress that America had "no firmer ally", or "no surer ally", or something like that, than Israel. His hirelings applauded wildly. But in fact, other than America's gigantic subvention to Israel, there is almost no economic relationship between the two, just as there is hardly any Israeli emigration to America, and not very much in the other direction these days, either.

There is no formal treaty of common defence between the two, and the only intelligence "relationship" is the colossal level of Israeli espionage against the United States, for which, unlike either the British Empire or the Soviet Union is their respective heydays, Israel has the sheer bad manners to send the bill to the American taxpayer. Exactly as many Israeli military personnel were or are deployed in Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Can you guess how many?

Netanyahu also drew ovations for claiming that the only Arabs in the world who could vote were the ones who were Israeli citizens, and that Israel was the only Middle Eastern country that did not persecute Christians. Where does one even begin? Perhaps with the Palestinian Authority and with the Christian quota for elections to it?

1 comment:

  1. Netanyahu and his American lackeys have a lot of gall to talk about the lack of democracy in the Arab world when it has long been Israeli and American policy to suppress popular opinion and support dictators instead. And they can’t claim that it is out of fear of Islamism, as America and Israel have supported dictators long before Osama bin Laden and his followers appeared on the scene

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