“The West interprets veilling as repression of women and suppression of their sexuality. But when I travelled in Muslim countries and was invited to join a discussion in women-only settings within Muslim homes, I learned that Muslim attitudes toward women’s appearance and sexuality are not rooted in repression, but in a strong sense of public versus private, of what is due to God and what is due to one’s husband. It’s not that Islam suppresses sexuality, but that it embodies a strongly developed sense of its appropriate channelling – toward marriage, the bonds that sustain family life, and the attachment that secures a home,” – Naomi Wolf, an American Jewish feminist in her article titled ‘ Behind the veil lives a thriving Muslim sexuality’.
I did not know Ms Noami Wolf until I watched her being interviewed by Riz Khan on Al-Jazeera in my Istanbul hotel a few days ago and decided to read more about this open-minded American female rights activist and author of such books as ‘The Beauty Myth’, ‘The End of America’, ‘Give Me Liberty’, and many more. Naomi told Riz Khan that during her travel to several Muslim countries – she was treated with more respect and love in the Muslim homes than she could ever expect similar treatment in the Jewish homes. She also said that instead of listening to their politicians – Jewish and Muslim communities should try to understand each other and stop hating each other. That way they would be able to live together in Palestine as one nation.
Naomi Wolf was born into a San Francisco Jewish family in 1962. Both her parents, Leonard Wolf and Deborah Goleman were also authors. She graduated from Jewish-dominated Yale University where she experienced her first case of sexual harassment from her professor Dr. Harold Bloom. Her sexual harassment claim – blaming a Jewish professor – unleashed Zionist dogs on her. She was targetted with usual name-calling by Zionist thugs using Jewish-owned news-media such as ‘The New York Observer’, ‘The Wall Street Journal’, ‘The Washington Post’, ‘Slate Magazine’, ‘New York Press’, etc.
In an interview with a fellow Jewish anti-war activist, Amy Goodman, for Democracy Now - Naomi Wolf said: “Lenin (a Jew) pioneered secret prisons; Mussolini developed the confino system, and Hitler (allegedly Jewish) studied Mussolini and developed the People Courts. And what start to happen is – and this is what’s so scary about Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib and these black sites around the world – apart from the moral issue – and your interview just now with the Palestinian representative brought me to tears, because when he said it’s not just the Palestinians he’s concerned about, it’s the Israelis who lose their souls by this kind of occupation – it’s not just the often innocent prisoners in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib and these black sites around the world we should be concerned about, it’s our own American souls that are at stake. But just for purely personal reasons, we should be afraid when State start to torture people that it sees as the margins; brown people on an island in Guantanamo with Muslim names, whatever. That is what they (Catholic and Jewish Nazis) did in Germany in 31 and 32: anarchists, communists, Gypsies, Jews, whatever, homosexuals, whatever…..”
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
Foreign spies in Islamic Iran
America’s successive administrations have shown their double moral and diplomatic standards when it comes to Washington and Israeli interests. America’s Jewish owned mass-media is always in the front to spread propaganda lies about the countries which may have challenged the regional or global Israeli interests especially if the countries happen to be Muslims such as the recent case of the Roxana Saberi, who was found involved in espoinage activities against the Islamic State for the US.
Roxana 32, who worked as a translator at the offices of the Expediency Council – was released on probation past week. She originally was sentenced to eight-year in prison for buying wine (an illegal act for Muslims in Islamic Iran); staying in Iran even after her journalist visa expired last year and found guilty of spying for United State government. Some Iranian political analysists claim that her release could be the result of some high Iranian officials, such as, Majlis speaker Ali Larijani and the former Majlis speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel – who want to reciprocate US president Barack Obama’s recent ‘friendly gesture’ toward the Iranian people. Iranian media (Press TV) has reported that one of Obama Zionist administration’s senior advisor on Iran, Vali Reza Nasr (son of renowned Islamic philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr) is currently on a secret visit to the Islamic State.
According to The New York Times (May 13, 2009) – Ms Roxana stole a classified secret document on the planned US invasion of Iraq and she made several trips to Zionist entity (Israel).
In 2000, the Jewish media showed a similar outrage when ten Iranian Jews were arrested for spying for Israel and sentenced to 4-13 years in prison – while another three were acquitted.
In June 2003 – Canadian-Iranian photojournalist, Zahra Kazemi, was arrested for taking pictures of some ’sensitive national defense’ sites. Later she died of unknown causes while under Iranian custody.
However, when it comes to Zionist military forces killing foreign journalists – the same Jewish media and the US government officials are found with ‘duct-tape’ put on their mouths. According to International Freedom of Expression eXchange Alaa Murtaja, Basel Faraj, Hamza Shahin, Fadel Shana, etc. are some of the journalists, who died as the result of Ziofascism.
“There is a cynical attempt to ensure that media tell the story from the Israeli side only. The truth cannot be told unless journalists are free to move to talk with everyone involved and to see with their own eyes what is happening on the ground,” said IFJ.
Americans of moral conscience have not forgotten how one of their daughters, Rachel Corrie 23, was crushed to death by an Israeli Jew with his army bulldozer in 2003.
The total number of Jewish and Israeli spies in the US - convicted or expelled to Israel – exceeds the number of spies convicted of all other ethnic or foreign groups.
Roxana 32, who worked as a translator at the offices of the Expediency Council – was released on probation past week. She originally was sentenced to eight-year in prison for buying wine (an illegal act for Muslims in Islamic Iran); staying in Iran even after her journalist visa expired last year and found guilty of spying for United State government. Some Iranian political analysists claim that her release could be the result of some high Iranian officials, such as, Majlis speaker Ali Larijani and the former Majlis speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel – who want to reciprocate US president Barack Obama’s recent ‘friendly gesture’ toward the Iranian people. Iranian media (Press TV) has reported that one of Obama Zionist administration’s senior advisor on Iran, Vali Reza Nasr (son of renowned Islamic philosopher Seyyed Hossein Nasr) is currently on a secret visit to the Islamic State.
According to The New York Times (May 13, 2009) – Ms Roxana stole a classified secret document on the planned US invasion of Iraq and she made several trips to Zionist entity (Israel).
In 2000, the Jewish media showed a similar outrage when ten Iranian Jews were arrested for spying for Israel and sentenced to 4-13 years in prison – while another three were acquitted.
In June 2003 – Canadian-Iranian photojournalist, Zahra Kazemi, was arrested for taking pictures of some ’sensitive national defense’ sites. Later she died of unknown causes while under Iranian custody.
However, when it comes to Zionist military forces killing foreign journalists – the same Jewish media and the US government officials are found with ‘duct-tape’ put on their mouths. According to International Freedom of Expression eXchange Alaa Murtaja, Basel Faraj, Hamza Shahin, Fadel Shana, etc. are some of the journalists, who died as the result of Ziofascism.
“There is a cynical attempt to ensure that media tell the story from the Israeli side only. The truth cannot be told unless journalists are free to move to talk with everyone involved and to see with their own eyes what is happening on the ground,” said IFJ.
Americans of moral conscience have not forgotten how one of their daughters, Rachel Corrie 23, was crushed to death by an Israeli Jew with his army bulldozer in 2003.
The total number of Jewish and Israeli spies in the US - convicted or expelled to Israel – exceeds the number of spies convicted of all other ethnic or foreign groups.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
India is mortgaged to Uncle Sam
Yesterday, The Times of India reported Prakash Karat, secretary general Communist Party of India (CPI), claiming that prime minister Manmohan Singh’s Congress government has mortgaged India’s foreign policy for an Indo-US nuclear deal.
“The government of premier Manmohan Singh has given a commitment to buy 10,000 mega watts of American nuclear reactors, which will cost the country not les than 280 billion rupees (US$5.8 billion)…..With this step Singh has mortgaged India’s foreign policy for the Indo-US nuclear deal.”
Maybe Prakash Karat is living in ’self-denial’ - because, he should know that no matter which of the two major political groups lead by the ruling Congress, and the Hindu extremist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wins the current elections - India is mortgaged to the US through Jewish Lobby, which was the major force behind the said Indo-US nuclear deal. While Congress’ Muslim-hatred is hidden under cosmetic surgery, BJP is openly in bed with the Zionist regime in the occupied Palestine.
India (with reported 80-105 nuclear bombs), Pakistan (35-50 nuclear bombs), and Zionist entity (240-400 nuclear bombs) - all refuse to sign NPT and open up their dirty closets for internation nuclear watchdog (IAEA). However, Washington is more than glad to help the Jewish and Hindu racist governments to advance their nuclear ambitions further while tightening screws around the only Muslim nation-state with nuclear arsenal under various ‘false flag’ reasons.
Washington’s installed Zardari government is carrying out USraeli nuclear agenda in secret by cutting funding to Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC). According to inside sources, “several development programs including some classified ones, have been slowed down and some even halted as government has imposed an unprecedented squeeze on budget.” the budget cuts range from 15 -35%, affecting over 30 projects.
On Friday night, in his press conference at the White House, Obama, pleased his Israeli supporters by asserting: “Washington has a huge national security interests in making sure that Pakistan is stable and that you don’t end up having a nuclear-armed militant state.”
Earlier, celebrating his 100-day in the Oval Office - Obama assured the press that America has full control over nuclear weapons housed in Pakistan and that it would prevent atomic bombs from getting into the hands of Al-Qaeda and Taliban-linked militants.”
The so-called “world’s largest democracy”, where more than 220 million Dalits (untouchable) lives under worse conditions than the Palestinian Muslims and Christians live in Israel - has just completed its third round of the five-round election - with voters’ participation on the decrease. According Indian media - First-ballot (57%), second-ballot (55%), and fifty percent in the third-ballot.
The month-long election is expected to close on May 13 with final results expected to be announced three days later - which are widely expected to result in a shaky coalition government (like BB’s in Israel) to will have to steer the country through an economic slump.
Amy Kazmin reported in Financial Times, March 27, 2009:
Deep insecurity still haunts India’s Muslims, 62 years after the traumatic partition of the British-ruled subcontinent into Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.
Although their families stayed in ostensibly secular India, Indian Muslims say they have been treated as second-class citizens of doubtful loyalty, if not as outright traitors and terrorists.
Perceptions of pervasive discrimination were reinforced by a 2006 government report, which found the Muslims were one of the most educationally, economically and socially deprived communities in India, with a status similar to Dalits, the lowest caste Hindus formerly known as “untouchables”.
For decades after independence, Muslims (150 million) were a bulwark of support for the Congress party, with its professed commitment to secularism. Its main rival, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party, portrays India as a Hindu society and has accused Congress of “minority appeasement”.
In recent years, Muslims have watched other downtrodden groups, including Dalits, gain greater political clout for their communities by voting along caste lines.
Muslims have normally held just 6 to 9 per cent of parliamentary seats, scattered among various parties. Some constituencies with significant numbers of Muslim voters have long been reserved for low-caste Hindu representatives as part of New Delhi’s effort to redress injustices stemming from the caste system.
India is not without Muslim success stories. Its vast film industry is dominated by Muslim superstars. Wipro, one of its biggest software companies, is controlled by a Muslim, Azim Premji. Muslims are scattered across government, the professions and the private sector. Congress party during its rule has supported several Muslims as President of India - Dr. Zakir Hussain (1967-69), Mohammad Hidyatullah (1969-69), Fakhrudin Ali Ahmed (1974-77), and Dr. Abdul Kalam, the ‘Father of India’s Nuclear Bomb’ (2002-2007).
“The government of premier Manmohan Singh has given a commitment to buy 10,000 mega watts of American nuclear reactors, which will cost the country not les than 280 billion rupees (US$5.8 billion)…..With this step Singh has mortgaged India’s foreign policy for the Indo-US nuclear deal.”
Maybe Prakash Karat is living in ’self-denial’ - because, he should know that no matter which of the two major political groups lead by the ruling Congress, and the Hindu extremist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wins the current elections - India is mortgaged to the US through Jewish Lobby, which was the major force behind the said Indo-US nuclear deal. While Congress’ Muslim-hatred is hidden under cosmetic surgery, BJP is openly in bed with the Zionist regime in the occupied Palestine.
India (with reported 80-105 nuclear bombs), Pakistan (35-50 nuclear bombs), and Zionist entity (240-400 nuclear bombs) - all refuse to sign NPT and open up their dirty closets for internation nuclear watchdog (IAEA). However, Washington is more than glad to help the Jewish and Hindu racist governments to advance their nuclear ambitions further while tightening screws around the only Muslim nation-state with nuclear arsenal under various ‘false flag’ reasons.
Washington’s installed Zardari government is carrying out USraeli nuclear agenda in secret by cutting funding to Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC). According to inside sources, “several development programs including some classified ones, have been slowed down and some even halted as government has imposed an unprecedented squeeze on budget.” the budget cuts range from 15 -35%, affecting over 30 projects.
On Friday night, in his press conference at the White House, Obama, pleased his Israeli supporters by asserting: “Washington has a huge national security interests in making sure that Pakistan is stable and that you don’t end up having a nuclear-armed militant state.”
Earlier, celebrating his 100-day in the Oval Office - Obama assured the press that America has full control over nuclear weapons housed in Pakistan and that it would prevent atomic bombs from getting into the hands of Al-Qaeda and Taliban-linked militants.”
The so-called “world’s largest democracy”, where more than 220 million Dalits (untouchable) lives under worse conditions than the Palestinian Muslims and Christians live in Israel - has just completed its third round of the five-round election - with voters’ participation on the decrease. According Indian media - First-ballot (57%), second-ballot (55%), and fifty percent in the third-ballot.
The month-long election is expected to close on May 13 with final results expected to be announced three days later - which are widely expected to result in a shaky coalition government (like BB’s in Israel) to will have to steer the country through an economic slump.
Amy Kazmin reported in Financial Times, March 27, 2009:
Deep insecurity still haunts India’s Muslims, 62 years after the traumatic partition of the British-ruled subcontinent into Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.
Although their families stayed in ostensibly secular India, Indian Muslims say they have been treated as second-class citizens of doubtful loyalty, if not as outright traitors and terrorists.
Perceptions of pervasive discrimination were reinforced by a 2006 government report, which found the Muslims were one of the most educationally, economically and socially deprived communities in India, with a status similar to Dalits, the lowest caste Hindus formerly known as “untouchables”.
For decades after independence, Muslims (150 million) were a bulwark of support for the Congress party, with its professed commitment to secularism. Its main rival, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party, portrays India as a Hindu society and has accused Congress of “minority appeasement”.
In recent years, Muslims have watched other downtrodden groups, including Dalits, gain greater political clout for their communities by voting along caste lines.
Muslims have normally held just 6 to 9 per cent of parliamentary seats, scattered among various parties. Some constituencies with significant numbers of Muslim voters have long been reserved for low-caste Hindu representatives as part of New Delhi’s effort to redress injustices stemming from the caste system.
India is not without Muslim success stories. Its vast film industry is dominated by Muslim superstars. Wipro, one of its biggest software companies, is controlled by a Muslim, Azim Premji. Muslims are scattered across government, the professions and the private sector. Congress party during its rule has supported several Muslims as President of India - Dr. Zakir Hussain (1967-69), Mohammad Hidyatullah (1969-69), Fakhrudin Ali Ahmed (1974-77), and Dr. Abdul Kalam, the ‘Father of India’s Nuclear Bomb’ (2002-2007).
Friday, May 1, 2009
Look who is not invited to the dinner
US president Barack Husein Obama says he is committed to the so-called Two State solution of Palestine - though not based on Balfour Declaration of 1917, which awarded 44% of land to the Natives and 56% of land to foreign Jews. However, to implement his plan - he has to front the Zionist terrorists ruling Israel and their supporters in his administration and at home.
Obama’s greatest adversary is Israel’s hardliner prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has openly defied Obama. Netanyahu doesn’t want the agenda of an independent Palestine state next to Israel on the table - because, he fears that the proposed Palestinian state, most probably, will be run by pro-Iran Islamic groups (Hamas, Islamic Jihad, etc.) and not by USrael’s favourite secularist Fatah.
In order to confront Netanyhu’s ‘Islamic fear’ - Obama has laid down a dinner table at the White House for some of Israel’s ‘friendly Muslim rulers’. Obama has already played host to King Abdullah II of Jordan. His list of guests for the month of May includes Netanyhu, Hosni Mubbrak (Egypt), and Mahmoud Abbas (PA) - while the elected Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya is not welcomed to tell Obama Palestinians’ side of the story.
As far inviting the leader who wields the most influence in the world’s troubled arena and can help Washington to solve some of its problems in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Gazzah, Venzuela, and Cuba - the Iranian President Dr. Ahmadinejad, is not on Obama’s invitation list. Even the very thought of it would make the powerful Jewish Lobby shake the White House. The Jewish Lobby has already linked Palestinian solution with Islamic Iran. “The US must deal with Iran first, before Israel will even consider discussing the US’s peace agenda (on Palestine),” - Israeli deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon said recently.
On the other hand - Obama’s Zionist Jewish boy at the White House, Rahm Emanuel reportedly told a Jewish leader: “In the next four year there is going to be a permanent status arrangement between Israel and Palestinians on the basis of two states for two people, and it doesn’t matter to us who is the prime minister (of Israel)…….US sympathy for Israel position vis a vis Iran depends on Israel’s willingness to live up to its commitment to get out of the West Bank and permit the establishment of a Palestinian state there, in Gaza, and East Jerusalem……”
Anyone who has read the history of western colonialism - should be aware of the fact that European colonialist never lived side-by-side with an independent country of their vivtims. The ‘two state’ solution is like chasing a mirage. Furthermore, the dream of the World Zionist movement always have been the creation of a ‘demographic (only for Jews) state’, which play a western bully to the Arab world. The ‘two state’ solution is nothing but a short-time cosmetic surgery. The only viable and durable solution would be ‘One Palestinian State‘, a democratic state with equal rights for all its citizens - Muslims, Jews, and Christians.
“Once again the West and especially the Anglo-Americans must acknowledge the obvious fact: democracy in the Arab world mean Islam. Unless someone is really Islamophobic this should not raise a problem. But apparently, we have too many Islam haters, both in the left and in the right, who happen to be horrified by the success of Islam in the masses……One democratic and secular Palestine has apparently very little to do with the Palestinian reality. Apparently, the majority of the Palestinia people in Palestine prefer to live in an Islamic state rather than a secular and democratic one……” - Gilad Atzmon on Hamas victory, published in ‘peacepalestine’ on January 26, 2006.
“Personally, I am not in favour of the so-called ‘two state’ solution and would prefer one state with equal rights for all the dwellers of Palestine/Israel…..” - Israel Shamir in ‘Oops!’
“Sometimes we get so overwhelmed with the huge amount of propaganda that we are not able to see the whole picture, the clear chain of events with similar patterns from the Gaza Strip to Baghdad to Somalia to Darfur to Beirut. Some elements can be different in each case, but they have one thing in common, the master colonialist project of United States and the high security risks that these events cause to its main settlement in the region, Israel. These places are strategically interconnected and the success of the US plan in the region depends being able to control them….” - Nadia Hasan, America Don\’t Worry: Israel is Behind You!
Helena Cobban in her article titled “Obama and Netanyahu: Storm Clouds Ahead“, wrote:
“Policies toward Iran have, certainly, become linked to policies toward Palestine in a number of complex ways. Hillary Clinton yesterday told a congressional panel that Israeli recalcitrance on the Palestine issue would make it much harder for the U.S. to win Arab support for continuing the confrontation with Iran.
Netanyahu, for his part, has hinted openly that he might be ready to launch a pre-emptive military strike against Iran — especially if he feels he is under pressure on the peace question. The well-informed Israeli journalist Aluf Benn noted, with some understatement, that this constituted a threat “to disrupt Obama’s ‘new order’ in the region.”
For now, both Obama and Netanyahu are still engaged in “pre-game sparring” and other preparations for the big confrontation between them that may well erupt next month.
For the past 16 years — including during Netanyahu’s earlier term in office, 1996-99 — there has not been any big open rupture between Washington and Tel Aviv over the peace process or any other issue.
Throughout those years, successive Israeli prime ministers could always rely both on the support they had in the White House and on the deep funds of support Israel always had in Congress. Thus, if a president looked as if he might even be considering starting to apply pressure on Israel, the Israelis felt they could always rely on Congress to bring the White House to heel.
But now, the level of support that Israel formerly always enjoyed in Congress, regardless of the content of its policies, has been significantly reduced…..”
Obama’s greatest adversary is Israel’s hardliner prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has openly defied Obama. Netanyahu doesn’t want the agenda of an independent Palestine state next to Israel on the table - because, he fears that the proposed Palestinian state, most probably, will be run by pro-Iran Islamic groups (Hamas, Islamic Jihad, etc.) and not by USrael’s favourite secularist Fatah.
In order to confront Netanyhu’s ‘Islamic fear’ - Obama has laid down a dinner table at the White House for some of Israel’s ‘friendly Muslim rulers’. Obama has already played host to King Abdullah II of Jordan. His list of guests for the month of May includes Netanyhu, Hosni Mubbrak (Egypt), and Mahmoud Abbas (PA) - while the elected Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya is not welcomed to tell Obama Palestinians’ side of the story.
As far inviting the leader who wields the most influence in the world’s troubled arena and can help Washington to solve some of its problems in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Gazzah, Venzuela, and Cuba - the Iranian President Dr. Ahmadinejad, is not on Obama’s invitation list. Even the very thought of it would make the powerful Jewish Lobby shake the White House. The Jewish Lobby has already linked Palestinian solution with Islamic Iran. “The US must deal with Iran first, before Israel will even consider discussing the US’s peace agenda (on Palestine),” - Israeli deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon said recently.
On the other hand - Obama’s Zionist Jewish boy at the White House, Rahm Emanuel reportedly told a Jewish leader: “In the next four year there is going to be a permanent status arrangement between Israel and Palestinians on the basis of two states for two people, and it doesn’t matter to us who is the prime minister (of Israel)…….US sympathy for Israel position vis a vis Iran depends on Israel’s willingness to live up to its commitment to get out of the West Bank and permit the establishment of a Palestinian state there, in Gaza, and East Jerusalem……”
Anyone who has read the history of western colonialism - should be aware of the fact that European colonialist never lived side-by-side with an independent country of their vivtims. The ‘two state’ solution is like chasing a mirage. Furthermore, the dream of the World Zionist movement always have been the creation of a ‘demographic (only for Jews) state’, which play a western bully to the Arab world. The ‘two state’ solution is nothing but a short-time cosmetic surgery. The only viable and durable solution would be ‘One Palestinian State‘, a democratic state with equal rights for all its citizens - Muslims, Jews, and Christians.
“Once again the West and especially the Anglo-Americans must acknowledge the obvious fact: democracy in the Arab world mean Islam. Unless someone is really Islamophobic this should not raise a problem. But apparently, we have too many Islam haters, both in the left and in the right, who happen to be horrified by the success of Islam in the masses……One democratic and secular Palestine has apparently very little to do with the Palestinian reality. Apparently, the majority of the Palestinia people in Palestine prefer to live in an Islamic state rather than a secular and democratic one……” - Gilad Atzmon on Hamas victory, published in ‘peacepalestine’ on January 26, 2006.
“Personally, I am not in favour of the so-called ‘two state’ solution and would prefer one state with equal rights for all the dwellers of Palestine/Israel…..” - Israel Shamir in ‘Oops!’
“Sometimes we get so overwhelmed with the huge amount of propaganda that we are not able to see the whole picture, the clear chain of events with similar patterns from the Gaza Strip to Baghdad to Somalia to Darfur to Beirut. Some elements can be different in each case, but they have one thing in common, the master colonialist project of United States and the high security risks that these events cause to its main settlement in the region, Israel. These places are strategically interconnected and the success of the US plan in the region depends being able to control them….” - Nadia Hasan, America Don\’t Worry: Israel is Behind You!
Helena Cobban in her article titled “Obama and Netanyahu: Storm Clouds Ahead“, wrote:
“Policies toward Iran have, certainly, become linked to policies toward Palestine in a number of complex ways. Hillary Clinton yesterday told a congressional panel that Israeli recalcitrance on the Palestine issue would make it much harder for the U.S. to win Arab support for continuing the confrontation with Iran.
Netanyahu, for his part, has hinted openly that he might be ready to launch a pre-emptive military strike against Iran — especially if he feels he is under pressure on the peace question. The well-informed Israeli journalist Aluf Benn noted, with some understatement, that this constituted a threat “to disrupt Obama’s ‘new order’ in the region.”
For now, both Obama and Netanyahu are still engaged in “pre-game sparring” and other preparations for the big confrontation between them that may well erupt next month.
For the past 16 years — including during Netanyahu’s earlier term in office, 1996-99 — there has not been any big open rupture between Washington and Tel Aviv over the peace process or any other issue.
Throughout those years, successive Israeli prime ministers could always rely both on the support they had in the White House and on the deep funds of support Israel always had in Congress. Thus, if a president looked as if he might even be considering starting to apply pressure on Israel, the Israelis felt they could always rely on Congress to bring the White House to heel.
But now, the level of support that Israel formerly always enjoyed in Congress, regardless of the content of its policies, has been significantly reduced…..”
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