Our tentative friends

Our American friends are not only ours. America is also the friend of Wahhabite Saudi Arabia, totalitarian Egypt, the Al Jazeera state of Qatar, Bedouin Jordan, Islamist Kuwait, terrorist Iraq, and just about every other enemy of Israel. Even Russia would be a more reliable and attractive imperial master for Israel than is the US. Our American friends sell immense quantities of advanced weapons to Saudi Arabia, provide $1.4 billion in annual aid to Egypt, fought for Kuwait, and spent more in Iraq in the last four years than they gave to Israel in the last forty years. The US plays it nice: it vetoes the UN’s empty proclamations against Israel, scorns Ahmadinejad for the genuine anti-Israeli feelings of all Muslims, and pats amenable Israeli leaders on the shoulder.

America used Israel as a bulwark against the Soviet Union’s expansion in the Middle East. In the late 1960s, America enjoyed wooing Israel away from France. But the best thing for America about Israel is that she creates a controllable threat. Arabs perceive Israel as a dangerous dog and the US as her master. The dog must be well-armed to bark loudly and increase the master’s importance. The American establishment needs Israel to be in conflict with Muslim states. The states threatened by Israel appeal to the US for protection and arbitration. Such policy doesn’t require the absence of peace treaties between Israel and Muslims. America has it both ways in the case of Egypt: the peacemaker’s laurels for pressing Israel and Egypt into the peace agreement, and afterwards the position of the power broker who arms both Israel and Egypt and oversees their hostile relations. A dog barks when it feels insecure; Israel in the eight-mile-wide Road Map borders will be permanently insecure, thus hysterical. The peace agreement with the Arabs would make Israel so narrow that she would not be able to afford war. Israel was very relaxed after 1967, enjoying a great depth of defense in Sinai. Ludicrously narrow Israel, surrounded by the Hezbollah-dominated Lebanon, Hamas-run Palestine, saturated-with-Russian-missiles Syria, and Iraqi-controlled Jordan—such an Israel will brandish her weapons to steer enemies away. The enemies will be afraid and spiral the arms race and lean toward America. It is soothing to believe that the US foreign policy establishment is stupid; no, it is devilish.

Only the stupid Jews imagine that the US Administration seeks Israeli benefit in the peace process.

Danny the Admin 2007 October 08

To Rey: Sure, the post is about American government, not American people.
To Rex: I can suggest much better objects for your contributions than LIBI. Hebron community, for example, or the organizations which work to boycott Palestinian labor.
To Unaha-Closp: do you know that the US government planned landing its troops in Sinai in 1956 an 1967 to fight on the Egyptian side against Israel?

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To Jonathan: It’s funny how the people like you presume to speak on behalf of God. God has already laid down the Torah, and we just follow it. Palestinians have the right to our land? Great, go give the United States to the Red Indians. Start changing the world with yourself. And it may come as a surprise to you that the Palestinians never settled Israeli plains: those were desert and marshes before Jews made them oasis and the Arabs swarmed the place. Even now, mere 10,000 Arabs live on more than half of Judea and Samaria (which people like you call the West Bank).

To Unaha-Closp: Israel won in 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973 without American support (it came when the war drew to the close in 1973). We have nuclear weapons. America twisted our hands not to enter Cairo and Damascus in 1956, 1967, 1973, and 1982.
The problem is, the cooperation with the US cannot be improved, but abandoned. We don’t want to alienate American people by taking their money, and we don’t want the American Administration to steer the Jewish state. We welcome American friends, but not masters.