The current goon, of course, is George W Bush who for the last eight years has:
(1.) Basically allowed America's foreign policy to be dictated by extremist right wing Israelis, via the neocon cabal and assorted special interest elite/fundamentalist acronyms. In short, we have been the tail wagged by the dog of "another country" -- much to the infinite shame of millions of Americans.
(2.) Now add to this Bush's dufus religious fanaticisms (e.g., the world is going to go *boom* any day now) which blended nicely with this dog/tail arrangement and justified anti Palestine and Muslim policies that can only be described as a kind of time warp Hate Crusade against Muslims.
However, there are indications that this dog/tail relation between Israeli right wing extremists and American foreign policy may finally be on its way out, and an ironic symptom of this sea change (even before Bush is flushed down the toilet of history) is the appearance of more and more pro Israel sites on the net which remind the world that the right wing, elite/fundamentalists of Israel no more speak for the entire State of Israel than do murderous Sarah Palin-type religious wackos speak for the entire United States of America.
For example, the Labor Party of Israel is MUCH more progressive than the DLC rags that used to be America's Democratic Party; plus murder in the name of God billionaire religious fanatics (of ANY country) are increasingly seen for the sociopaths they are.
Self evidently, the Hamas bombardment in all this absolutely should not be discounted, but the world is getting sicker and sicker of hearing America’s bought and paid for media (with a few honorable exceptions) describe violence from Palestinians to Israeli’s as “terrorism”, but violence from Israeli’s to Palestinian’s is always “retaliation”. This BS propaganda doesn’t fool chickens and ducks anymore, so how about at least a plague on both their houses? Or better, in this lose/lose tragedy there are never any winners.
And never, NEVER forget that none of this was happening before May 14, 1948!
And never, NEVER forget that once upon a time America’s Middle East foreign policy was not a tail wagged by the dog of elite/fundamentalist right wing Israelis!
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