Noam Chomsky, Current Affairs, Amnesty International, Al Jazeera, Harry Targ
https://currentaffairs.adda247.com/greater-israel-map/
US Supports Israel with $3 billion in Military Aid Per Year Since 1979: this year $18 billion more
“… the crises will be serious in what President
Eisenhower called “the most strategically important area in the world.” In the
early post-War years, the United States in effect extended the Monroe Doctrine
to the Middle East, barring any interference apart from Britain, assumed to be
a loyal dependency and quickly punished when it occasionally got out of hand
(as in 1956). The strategic importance of the region lies primarily in its
immense petroleum reserves and the global power accorded by control over them;
and, crucially, from the huge profits that flow to the Anglo-American rulers,
which have been of critical importance for their economies. It has been
necessary to ensure that this enormous wealth flows primarily to the West, not
to the people of the region.”(Noam Chomsky, Excerpted from Fateful Triangle,
1999).
https://youtu.be/Mtcj9oTxgzA?si=e0ApT_t-mTJ-LWd4
The Current Campaign of Israeli/US Genocide in
the Middle East
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/24/israel-attacks-lebanon-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker
The Middle East and the Peace Movement
Most
American politicians express their belief that the US must maintain a special
relationship with the state of Israel. One of the few active mobilizations for
peace today is the worldwide campaign to demand governments, corporations, and
other institutions boycott, and divest holdings in what is regarded as an
apartheid state, Israel, which oppresses its Palestinian population and those living in the
Occupied Territories. The campaign is so effective that along with national
politicians, governors and state legislatures have taken stands against the BDS
campaign.
Next to
the historic US ties to Israel, most analysts see the deconstruction of the
Middle East as a direct result of the
Iraq war initiated in 2003. Since then, Syria, Libya, Yemen and other countries
have been torn apart by civil war fueled by western, primarily US,
intervention,
The Middle East policies of the United States, and its proxy Israel, have created a growing resistance, directed at western targets and an ideological campaign against all the traditional imperial powers who dominated the region for hundreds of years.
With this as a backdrop, Israeli responses with United States complicity is stepped up high-tech killing justified by a public campaign that demonizes Muslims everywhere in the world including in the United States.
It is the
obligation of the US peace movement to work even more vigorously to oppose US
imperialism in the region and the transfer of military aid to Israel, and to
demand autonomy for the Palestinian people. And for now the peace movement must
continue to demand that the US pressure Israel to stop the bombing and killing
of people in the entire region. The Greater Middle East vision of the United
States and Israel has been a brutal vision.
