Israel and the United States

Israel and the United States

Who controls who?

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The unfolding drama over the appointment of Chuck Hagel and John Brennan is playing out like an Hollywood 24 Hours movie staring Jack Bauer. Chuck Hagel has been confirmed from all quarters as more than qualified but it seems some people will not get over the 'daymare' of Barack Obama winning the presidency. From the protest letter of secession to fiscalcliff now to Chuck Hagel and his purported anti-Israeli stance, America is telling the world that all is well and really well too only if a white 'guy' is in the White House for white reasons.

It is totally open that the fear of Israel is the beginning of wisdom for America. The revered erstwhile Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon has opined before that Americans themselves know that Israel controls their country. The American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has bought the hearts and minds of Americans. It is never against human rights if Israel kills Palestinians, blocks funds, occupy lands illegally and build settlements at will. It is never against human rights to kill harmless Palestinian protesters at Israel's leisure. Israel has every right to defend itself by killing innocent Palestinians with flimsy excuses of Hamas' human shield but it is an act of aggression if Iran sends US' drone away from her airspace.

Chuck Hagel is a Vietnam veteran. A pentagon foot soldier who still carries shrapnel wounds around. Chuck and his brother Tom were the first two brothers to serve in the same unit in the army. Chuck rescued his brother when he was almost killed by a landmine. His own convoy was later hit causing him severe injuries. He is a realist alongside John Brennan not a pacifist who genuflects for Israel. His statement about 'Jewish lobby' is the only thing that disqualifies him in a country he spends his life to defend. Who really owns the US? Americans or Israel? Hagel and Brennan are averse to the use of unnecessary military power. This qualifies them more to Obama.

Alon Pinkus, former Israeli consul to New York gave Chuck a thousand and one pass-marks on the job. He declared that the noise against Hagel is to get at Obama and that those manoeuvering around Israel wants the issue public and create sort of scandal with it. In this, they are succeeding. Publicly, in a joint interview and discussion, President Barack Obama in 2011 calmly and diplomatically informed the rash and harsh Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, who has been confirmed to be a renowned liar by both Obama and Sarkozy, that the best method to end the Palestinian debacle is for Israel to revert to the 1967 borders and renounce all lands it is illegally occupying. Netanyahu openly, publicly blatantly rebuffed this, calling it an indefensible border. Indefensible indeed to the only nuclear power in the Middle East.

In presenting the duo, Barack Obama said: 'Chuck knows war is not an abstraction. He understands that sending American troops to fight and bleed...is something we have to do when it's ABSOLUTELY necessary. (Emphasis mine). This of course does not and cannot go down well with Binyamin and his American apologists who as at now are impatient to see the first bomb land on Iranian soil. It is in this 'daymare' that a UK-based Iranian foreign policy expert, Mohamed Ali Shabari, who shuttles Tehran and Britain confirmed that officials in Tehran believe the US cannot afford a war now and are less worried. They even hold on to the notion that the least credible thing to occur is an Israeli attack.

Hagel has been labeled 'enemy of Israel, friend to Iran'. Is it a crime to be rational on war in the United States when it comes to Israel? Obama is an anti-war President. An end-war leader. Hagel is a military personnel who understands the agony of war. A real human-soldier not monster-soldier. Israel continues to drag and push America into wars she can avoid. Once Israeli leaders ratchet up rhetoric against a potential enemy in the Middle East, the war drum immediately begins to sound in Pentagon and reverberates in the White House. When Israel sneezes, United States catches cold.