Paul Craig Roberts | November 25 2012
The United States government and its subject peoples think of the US as “the world’s only superpower.” But how is a country a superpower when its entire government and a majority of the subjects, especially those members of evangelical churches, grovel at the feet of the Israeli Prime Minister? How is a country a superpower when it lacks the power to determine its own foreign policy in the Middle East? Such a country is not a superpower. It is a puppet state.
In the past few days we have witnessed, yet again, the “American superpower” groveling at Netanyahu’s feet. When Netanyahu decided to again murder the Palestinian women and children of Gaza, to further destroy what remains of the social infrastructure of the Gaza Ghetto, and to declare Israeli war crimes and Israeli crimes against humanity to be merely the exercise of “self-defense,” the US Senate, the US House of Representatives, the White House, and the US media all promptly declared their support for Netanyahu’s crimes.
On November 16 the Congress of the “superpower,” both House and Senate, passed overwhelmingly the resolutions written for them by AIPAC, the Israel Lobby known as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the only foreign agent that is not required to register as a foreign agent. The Global News Service of the Jewish People reported their power over Washington with pride. (http://current.com/19su0kc). Both Democrats and Republicans shared the dishonor of serving Israel and evil instead of America and justice for the Palestinians.
The big story was the meeting between the Prime Minister of Israel and the President of the United States on Monday. Netanyahu told Obama in no uncertain terms that he was tired of waiting to attack Iran over its nuclear program. Iran has said repeatedly it is for the peaceful production of energy, but Israel is not buying it. Netanyahu did not announce it would attack but, also, did not mention a word of letting the sanctions work or diplomacy. I think this was a very dark omen, and in my mind, Netanyahu was publicly putting the President on notice that an attack is going to be launched. It has, also, been reported that Israel was requesting bunker buster bombs among other military hardware needed to carry out an attack. (For more on the story, please click