Today's LAT has a disquieting report that the Obama people have offered the right-wing Israeli government essentially a $3 billion bribe to freeze "settlement" construction in the illegally occupied West Bank. Here's the quote:
"The package includes 20 stealth fighter jets worth $3 billion and a promise to veto anti-Israel proposals raised in the U.N. Security Council during the next year, including a potential Palestinian bid to seek international support for a unilateral declaration of statehood. In return, Israel would renew its partial West Bank construction moratorium for 90 days."
Ned is appalled that the US would resort to such a pathetic bribe at a time when world opinion is overwhelmingly opposed to further Israeli occupation of Palestine, in violation of UN resolution after UN resolution. Furthermore, that the US would agree to veto the UN support of a unilateral declaration of Palestinian independence is unworthy of a Great Power that sells itself as the arbiter of Global Morality, or a nation that is, in the words of Republican lawmakers, "the greatest country that has ever existed in the history of the world or anywhere else."
Furthermore, while serious proposals to ease the US budget deficit include a 50% cut in foreign aid, it is beyond outrageous that the US would use so much of it to provide obscenely expensive toys for the Israeli military that could only realistically be used for a nuclear strike against Iran, which would probably precipitate a global crisis unlike anything seen since the Cuban Blockade.
Obama is rapidly wearing out his welcome to Ned. Moreover, the fact that neither political party has the fortitude to challenge the out-of-control right-wing Israeli government simply fuels the flames of the Tea Party, already prepared to light its torches and carry pitchforks to the gates of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave on the subject of illegal immigration.
Ned might just join them if invited, under cover of course.
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