BUSH Has: "Left Israel more threatened than when he assumed office in January 2001" (WAPO)

WP:



As former US government officer active in the region told me in response to news about Lebanese Druze leader surrendering to Hizbollah, "Same guys that gave you Gaza gave you this. Do you think any of them are smart enough to see what they've done?"

http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/007385.html

by its rightwing leadership's alliance with the despised Bush Junta.

Israel cannot survive indefinitely as a tiny medieval fortress, armed to the teeth, in the midst of hostile neighbors. It MUST become more cooperative, more diplomatic, and more integrated with its neighbors on common economic and cultural goals, or it will perish. For one thing, we are broke. And what broke our piggy bank was the Iraq War, which Israel's wingers and war profiteers actively supported. Opposition to that war has reached a whopping, epochal 70%, with 80% of the people of the U.S. believing that the U.S. is "on the wrong track." And there is considerable danger that Israel will be blamed for that, unfairly in my opinion, but inevitably. Israel--or at least its rightwing leaders and war profiteers--certainly wanted the entire U.S military to be ensconced in the Middle East, but it could never have happened without the fascist coup that occurred here, with two stolen elections. It was designed and implemented by OUR bad guys, not theirs. And now they are stuck with it--a crazy, militaristic policy that portends endless war--internally, in Israel, on their borders and throughout the region. What could have been--the best future for Israel--has possibly been destroyed, but at the least has been forestalled, for a very long time, and the worst future for Israel--a war they cannot win--has been made all the more likely, by the Bush Junta's mass murdering, torturing, thieving war, and by its encouragement of the worst rightwing policies in Israel.

The result: Israel--rather like Colombia in South America--has become isolated, with few if any allies besides the Bush Cartel--and has become utterly dependent on Bush/U.S. military aid to continue its rightwing policies. As Americans have learned what's happening in Colombia--the slaughter of thousands of union leaders and others by rightwing forces--that country has become so radioactive that even a failed Democratic Congress, with an approval rating worse than Bush's, balked at the Colombian "free trade" deal, and Hillary Clinton was forced to fire (or shove to the back room) her chief political adviser, Mark Penn, who is a paid agent of the Colombian government. The South American leftists are saying that Colombia has become the "Israel" of South America, and what they mean by this is a Bush/U.S. armed troublemaker that has no friends, and has only one policy: belligerence.

Is that the dream that Israel was to the hundreds of generations of Jews who have longed for a homeland--a safe haven in a world of bigotry and pogroms--and a democratic paradise where justice and fairness are the abiding rules?

The Bush Junta putrifies everything it touches, and Israel's rightwing has made a bad, bad decision--one that may mean Israel's demise--by allying themselves with these universally hated war criminals, for temporary gain.

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