Obama V Netanyahu (Shadow Boxing or A Real Contest?)
Though Zionism doesn’t want the world to know it, the reality I’ve just summarised includes the fact that Hamas is firmly on the record as saying that it could and would live with the two-state solution of the Saudi-inspired Arab peace plan. This is Hamas’s real position because its leaders are not stupid. They don’t like the two-state solution because it doesn’t go far enough to right the wrong done to the Palestinians by Zionism. But Hamas’s leaders know they would have no choice if Israel agreed to the creation of sovereign, independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with either East Jerusalem as its capital or an undivided and united Jerusalem the capital of two states. Why would Hamas’s leaders have no choice? Because the two-state solution is still what the vast majority of Palestinians are prepared to settle for. (In verbal parenthesis I’ll add that for how much longer that will remain the case is a good question).
The real positions of Hizbollah and Iran are also not what Zionism asserts them to be. In reality both Hizbollah and Iran are prepared to accept whatever the Palestinians accept.
I am sometimes asked why I think Netanyahu is giving propaganda and political priority to asserting that Iran is seeking to acquire nuclear weapons to destroy Israel. My answer is in two parts.
In order to justify its crimes – past, present and future – Zionism must have enemies it can present as representing a threat to Israel’s existence. As I demonstrate in documented detail in my book, Israel’s existence was never, ever, in danger from any combination of Arab military force. Not in 1948. Not in 1956. Not in 1967. And not even in 1973. Zionism’s assertion to the contrary was the cover that allowed Israel to get away where it mattered most, in America and Western Europe, with presenting its aggression as self-defence, and itself as the victim when, actually, it was and is the oppressor. The more people become aware of this truth of history, the more Zionism needs, must have, a new enemy. It is Iran.
For the sake of argument, let’s assume that Iran did possess a nuclear bomb or two or several. Would it then launch a FIRST STRIKE on Israel? Of course not! If it did the whole of Iran would be wiped off the face of the earth. No Iranian leadership will ever be that stupid. If Netanyahu and others of his kind really believe the nonsense they talk, they are deluded to the point of clinical madness.
The other reason why Netanyahu is playing up the alleged Iranian threat is to divert Obama’s attention away from Israel/Palestine.
In conclusion for now I want to say this. You should not take anything I have said to be an indication that I believe the Zionist lobby’s stranglehold on Congress will be broken. I am saying only that it could be broken IF President Obama is assisted to create a constituency of understanding in America – understanding of the fact that support for Israel right or wrong is not in America’s best interests; and understanding of the fact that the Zionist state Israel, not the Arabs or other Muslims, is the obstacle to peace.
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Martina Tamburrino, Rome:
July 26th, 2009 at 5:10 am
Dear Alan,
if your analysis of Obama’s Cairo speech is correct (and the analysis coming from a Person like you, with such insight and moral standing, I’am sure it is)it would raise back my very low sunken spirits about Obama’s intentions. Only those who have been struggling for a Good Cause for an endless time, perhaps, are able to keep an optmistic attitude and to spot the even tiniest of openings when they occur.
I got very angry when I listened to the Cairo speech because I was wandering all the time what would have been in it for any hopeful Palestinian that had tuned in. Do you think that one small – though I admit meaningful – sentence was enough to reassure a Palestian about Obama’s intentions, after the utter silence that came from the newly elect Obama about the 22 day Gaza Massacre. I listened to the speech from the point of view of that smiling and enthusistic Gazan baker: When Obama was on his middle East tour after he secured the nomination, this Gaza baker had baked bred in the shape of the the name O B A M A and had shown it joyfully to the tv crew that was filming him. During the speech I was wandering weather that baker was still alive, and if so, what was he feeling listening to Obama.
I have been watching Obama very closely, day and night, ever since the beginning of his campaign, to this day, and I must say I was appalled by his choice of Biden, H.Clinton and ‘Rambo’ Emanuel, though I supposed he did that to appease and reassure some polititians of his own party and of course all the crazed Zionist lobbyists. So I wonder, being surrounded by such kind of people, is there anyone he, Obama, can turn to for “real advice” about “real and serious politics”? Is he at all free to relate to people of his own personal and private choice or to appoint even one single person of his choice? Do you happen to have any insight in the Chazz Freeman affair?
But back to the Cairo speech: if that one single sentence about the Palestine plight was meant to be an invitation to act, who are these so finely tuned ears that are able to get the message? who was the message meant for? I dout any avarage American or even a mainstream journalists, was able to single out that one sentence as you, Alan, were able to do. So I wonder who was being briefed here.
Let’s hope Obama will take advantage of the ‘window of opportunity’ you discribed concerning the fist 9 months of Presidency. As I have such a great admiration for you and your commitment, I will join you in in your optimism.
With my gratest regards
Martina, Rome
P.S.In case you missed it : PressTv’s Program ‘FACE TO FACE’ is airing a 2 part interview by A.N.S.W.E.R. Coaltion Brian Becker to Film producer Landrum Bollinger – you may find it interesting, Bollinger goes very much along your line in describing the Obama-Israel-Palestine issue)