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Merrick's avatar

Thanx Binky, Keep up the good fight, bro!!!

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Jewell's avatar

Thank you.

In 2012, a study was commissioned by 16 American Intelligence Agencies which resulted in an 82 page paper entitled: Preparing for a Post Israel Middle East. [ https://www.eurasiareview.com/28082012-america-preparing-for-a-post-israel-middle-east-oped/ and https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2012/08/28/us-preparing-for-a-post-israel-middle-east/ ]

I could not locate the actual report but when you look at the findings - one has to wonder why it was ignored?

Among the many findings were:

** That US taxpayers had spent billions (in one report 3 trillion) in direct and indirect aid to Israel since 1967 and that US public opinions no longer supports funding and executing widely perceived illegal US wars on Israel’s behalf and that such beliefs are increasingly being shared by Europe, Asia and the international public;

** Gross Israeli interference in the internal affairs of the US through spying and illegal US arms transfers, including supporting more than 60 ‘front organizations’ and approximately 7,500 US officials who do Israel’s bidding and seek to dominate and intimidate the media and agencies of the US government should no longer be condoned;

*The expanding chasm among American Jews objecting to Zionism and Israeli practices, including the killing and brutalizing of Palestinians under Israeli occupation, are gross violations of American and International law and raises questions within the US Jewish community regarding the American responsibility to protect (R2P) innocent civilians under occupation;

* Israel’s segregationist occupation infrastructure evidenced by legalized discrimination and increasingly separate and unequal justice systems must no longer be directly or indirectly funded by the US taxpayers or ignored by the US government;

* Israel has failed as a claimed democratic state and continued American financial and political cover will not change its continuing devolution as international pariah state;

*The Israel leadership support of 700,000 illegal settlers on the occupied West Bank is out of touch with realities of the Middle East;

* Increasingly, rampant and violent racism exhibited among Jewish settlers in the West Bank is being condoned by the Israeli government to a degree that the Israel government has become protector and partner;

*Israel, given its current brutal occupation and belligerence cannot be salvaged;

*The post Labor government Likud coalition is deeply complicit with and influenced by the settlers’ political and financial power and will increasingly face domestic civil strife which the US government should not associate itself with or become involved with;

* The US commitment to belligerent and oppressive Israel is becoming impossible to defend or execute consistently given paramount US national interests which include normalizing relations with the 57 Islamic countries;

*The international opposition to the increasingly apartheid regime can no longer be synchronized with American claimed humanitarian values or US expectations in its bi-lateral relations with the 193 member UN.

* The US needs to avoid entangling alliances that alienate much of the World and condemn American citizens to endure the consequences.

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