Has the U.S. goal in the Middle East been to fragment and even dissolve Arab nations in order to plunder their wealth? Furthermore, now that using Israel as a beachhead toward this goal has run its course, has Israel become a liability in this Western colonialist plan? Columnist Hafiz al Barghouty from Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah of the Palestinian Territories writes that Israel is faltering as the West’s ‘front line’ – and that even the Americans are concerned that the country is threatening U.S. interests and American troops.
Israel has lost its strategic appeal over recent decades, having become a burden to the West, since now the West is defending Israel instead of Israel defending the interests of the West. Israel appears to have awakened to this fact, particularly after the term “Palestinian state” entered the lexicon as being in America’s interests; and after the U.S. and other nations though their presence Iraq and Afghanistan, ended up having direct borders in the region as if the two countries were neighbors of the United States, like Mexico and Canada.
That is why American generals say openly that Israeli policies endanger America’s presence and the lives of American soldiers. That is why Israel began moving amongst the European political right to overturn this conceptual tide, the consequences of which have been seen in former and current prime ministers like Aznar [Spain], Berlusconi [Italy] and neoconservatives in the United States and Eastern Europe. Through the agency of these allies, the mantra that Israel is a defender of democracy and Western civilization amid a savage Arab environment was sustained.
Oil is not as un-ending as colonialism … And Israel, like oil, is limited. In the end, the only thing that will remain on the land is its salt – not its oil.
[Editor’s Note: This sentence refers to the expression “You are the salt of the land”, meaning that without “you”, the land has no flavor – no value. So in the last sentence, “salt” refers to the Palestinians, who the author says were there before the founding of the state of Israel].
READ ON AT WORLDMEETS.US, your most trusted translator and aggregator of foreign news and views about our nation.
