Open Letter to President Obama: Change the Rules of the Game
It might be, President Obama, that you are one of those who still subscribe to the notion that Israel went to war then either because the Arabs attacked first (that was Israel’s first claim) or were about to attack (Israel’s second claim), and that the Zionist state was therefore fighting a war of no-choice or self-defense. As the documented truth of history proves, that was Zionist propaganda nonsense. The Six Days War was a conflict of Israeli choice or aggression. (So far as Israel’s military and political hawks were concerned, it was the opportunity to complete the unfinished business of 1948/49 and create Greater Israel. President Johnson was actually opposed to Israel expanding the war to Jordan and Syria and grabbing more Arab territory, and it was to blind him about Israel’s intentions to do so that defense minister Moshe Dayan ordered the attack on the Liberty, the state of the art American spy ship).
The truth of what actually happened and why invites, I say demands, only one conclusion. The major powers, led by America in the Security Council, ought to have demanded, with the promise of sanctions if necessary, that Israel withdraw from the newly occupied Arab territory without conditions.
Because, at Zionism’s insistence, the definitive article “the” was dropped from its text, Security Council Resolution 242 gave Israel scope to attach conditions to its withdrawal. From then on Israel had, effectively, a power of veto over any peace process.
Hope for peace might still have been rescued if the Security Council had said to Israel something like: “We will not allow you to build so much as one settlement on occupied territory. If you defy the Council on this matter, we will use all enforcement measures as necessary to oblige you to comply with international law.”
The consequence of the Security Council’s American-led surrender to Zionism was the creation of two sets rules for the behaviour of nations – one set for all the nations of the world minus Israel, the other, exclusively, for the Zionist state. (It can be argued that under the neo-conned regimes of President George “Dubya” Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair, America and Britain played by the rules for Israel, but that’s another story).
It follows, Mr. President, that if you really want to be serious about ending the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel, you must insist not only that Israel freeze all settlement activity (that’s only a sideshow), but that it be obliged to comply with international law, not that of the jungle.
I fully understand that going over the heads of Congress and your Zionist minders to tell your fellow citizens and the world the truth could be a dangerous business. It could even cost you your life. But I have great faith in the so-called ordinary people of America. As I sometimes say and write, they are (not their fault) the most under-informed and mis-informed and therefore gullible people on Planet Earth. But deep down they are also the most idealistic. In my judgment, telling them the truth about who must do what and why for justice and peace in the Middle East would enable you to create a constituency of understanding that, in turn, would enable you to break the Zionist lobby’s grip on Congress.
In conclusion I’ll share with you one of my dreams. The Jews, generally speaking, are the intellectual elite of the Western world. The Palestinians, generally speaking, are the intellectual elite of the Arab world. Together in peace and partnership they could change the region for the better and, by so doing, give new hope and inspiration to the whole world.
With respectful good wishes,
Alan Hart
PS While I was writing this letter, news came that you had turned down the request of seven former directors of the CIA to halt the investigation into allegations of the abuse of suspects held by the agency on your predecessor’s watch. You apparently said, “Nobody is above the law”. With respect, Mr. President, you are wrong. Israel is. And that, as I’ve said above, is the single most important aspect of the matter you must address if your commitment to justice and peace in the Middle East is real and “deep”. Pictures of you with the rejectionist Netanyahu and the largely discredited Abbas prove nothing.
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William Garrett:
October 11th, 2009 at 4:47 am
Obama is only interested in being president,justice means nothing to him. In 2008, with no pressure on him other than to get votes, he gave away illegally annexed east Jerusalem. He did this at a vote grabbing meeting with AIPAC (Israel lobby group) when he said that Jerusalem should be the capital of Israel and be undivided. This was not in the speech given out beforehand but in the speech he gave AIPAC. I presume this was a ploy in that the Zionists would get to know but those not present would probably just read the pre-meeting handout, not what he actually said.