Murdering foreign leaders is an act no American president should ever commit. How can the United States claim to defend the rule of law and political morality while engaging in assassination and sabotage?
Unfortunately, Donald Trump is not the first US president to descend to such depths. The Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations employed criminal elements in efforts to overthrow the stubborn Cuban leader, Fidel Castro. Nearly seven decades later, the US continues to try to choke Cuba by maintaining blockades on food and fuel and disrupting its power grid.
But how did Washington become involved in such disgraceful tactics? The US government has largely been overtaken by Israel’s radical far-right leadership and its American allies—a faction the late respected Israeli journalist Uri Avnery termed ‘Jewish fascists.’ Few in the US media dare use this phrase, despite its aptness. Israel’s current right-wing administration is fully subjugated to extreme nationalist factions, many allied with ultra-Zionist groups in the US pushing for an expanded Israel stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates.
Israel possesses many commendable attributes, especially in medical, military, and scientific fields. However, its violent settler movements are decidedly not among them. Israel has the potential to elevate the Muslim world and Africa from their challenges. Indeed, I have observed that Israel is deeply, albeit quietly, respected from North Africa across to China’s Great Wall. It could emerge as a leading light for the Muslim world—if only it could treat Palestinians and other Arabs with dignity and empathy. After all, during the Middle Ages, Arab nations and Iran provided refuge to Europe’s Jews fleeing brutal persecution by Christian Europeans. How can Israelis expect peace while continuing the assassination of Muslim leaders and waging wars against neighbors?
Violent nationalism is a deadly toxin. Sadly, many Israelis, a gifted and intelligent people, have been intoxicated by the same poisonous nationalism that afflicted parts of Europe last century. As the visionary Rabbi Elmer Berger warned in the 1950s, the Arab-Israeli conflict would eventually spread to North America and infect American politics. This warning is unfolding now as the powerful Israel lobby and its proxies in Congress and the media face backlash from Americans frustrated by being manipulated by Israel’s extremist regime, whose power is rooted in a radical settler movement.
Even more troubling, this backlash is fueling antisemitism in the US after it had largely subsided. The world is now aware that the US launched an unproven and unjustified multi-billion-dollar war against Iran—likely to prevent Israel from exposing blackmail material involving its agent Jeffrey Epstein and his influential associates and operatives in Washington and New York.
Original article: ericmargolis.com
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