Monday, December 23, 2019

They mutilate History to shape Foreign Policy

As usual, the intent of Richard N. Haass is to make America tend to Israel's every need, including coming to its rescue if and when Israel blundered into an adventure that would get it into deep trouble from which it could not extricate itself by itself.

This is the subtle message that Haass is advancing in his latest piece of work; the one that came under the title: “The Post-American Middle East,” and the subtitle: “The United States has dialed down both its presence and role in a region that it has dominated for nearly a half-century.” It was published on December 18, 2019 on the website of the Council on Foreign Relations.

To argue his point in a convincing way, Richard Haass relied on history to say to the current rulers of the United States that their country pursued a winning formula for half a century, but they are now deviating from that formula, which will result in unpredictable consequences. Haass's conclusion being that America must get back to pursuing the old policy or at least pursue something that approximates it.

The trouble with the Haass argument however, is that it is based, not on real history, but on mutilated history. He imposed the mutilation in four instances that altered the appearance of what America stood for in the Middle East during the half century that he took pain to describe. Here are those instances:

First, Richard Haass neglected to say that before George H.W. Bush (41) had publicly uttered the words: “This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait,” he privately said that Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait was an inter-Arab affair, and that he will not interfere. When the Arab League got wind of this, it put pressure on the American president to interfere, and he did. He thus helped the Arab coalition, which included Syria, Egypt and the Gulf countries, to kick Saddam out of Kuwait.

When all was said and done, and to show their appreciation for being cooperative, Saudi Arabia handed America a check for a cool thirty billion dollars. What remains to be unveiled, perhaps by future historians, is how the idea of an Arab payment for American mercenary services came about. Did the Saudis offer the payment on their own? Did America ask for it? Was the deal negotiated before the war, or was it after the war? History will be served well if these questions are answered honestly.

Second, speaking of other American interventions in the Arab and Muslim worlds, Richard Haass neglected to mention serious facts that would show how asinine these interventions were. There was the invasion of Iraq by Bush (43). There was the unnecessary policy of overkill that was adopted in Libya. And there was America's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal. Haass failed to mention that all these American adventures were carried out at the insistence of the Jewish mob that's occupying the American State Department, and the mob that makes up the foreign policy pool of Jewish punditry.

Third, Richard Haass says that, “increased domestic production of oil and gas has diminished the importance of the Middle East to the US.” What he neglected to say is that the statement belies the persistent American claim that America was spending a great deal of money, and was putting its own people in harm's way to ensure the free flow of oil, thus protect the economies of Europe and Japan. This was said even at a time when the Americans were expressing glee that the closing of the Suez Canal due to the 1967 war, was serving America well by making oil more expensive to the European economies that had grown enough to seriously challenge the American economy. No, the Americans were not paying a heavy price to benefit the Europeans and Japan; they were doing it to serve their own interests.

Fourth, Richard Haass says that the Trump “administration has not made any serious effort to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” when the reality is that every attempt made by the administration was torpedoed by the Jews of America who turned out to be fanatically loyal to Israel. This was proven time and time again by the fact that they unashamedly served as mouthpieces for Netanyahu's Likud Party.

In addition, the claim that's made by the Jews of Israel to the effect that they adhere to a system of liberal democracy, was proven to be a sick joke. In fact, an important precept of democracy –– that of having an election –– proved to be not a concept that leads to a way of governance in Israel, but a trinket that’s used by the Jews to distract the Americans and make them believe that the democratic mirage they see in Israel is an oasis in a desert that’s otherwise an arid expanse.

The Jews turn the trinket on or off to coincide with the events that develop in Washington. Thus, when the administration came up with a plan to resolve the Palestinian question, the Jews of both Israel and America joined hands, and had the unveiling and implementation of the plan postponed indefinitely by turning off having a government in Israel.

To that end, the Jews manufactured an incident and used it as excuse to dissolve the existing pseudo-government. They subsequently went several times through the motion of forming a new government only to fail for no apparent reason. They still don't have a government, which is why it has been nearly a year that the American plan to resolve the Palestinian question has remained in limbo.

In fact, that is where the Jews want the plan to remain until they determine whether the current administration in Washington will survive the predicament it has created for itself. After that, the Jews will decide on what kind of virtual government they'll have, and who will pretend to head it.

But no matter what they do, the governing blob in the Washington Beltway will remain subservient to the orders that will continue to emanate from the Likud basement in Tel Aviv.