With Friends Like Israel Washington Doesn't Need Enemies

There are rare instances when both Israel and Hamas have valid points and concerns in their base ideological conflict for both hearts and minds but the garbage we're being constantly fed to justify Israel's ethnical cleansing of Gaza by Washington and its minions in the Ministry of Propaganda fails to fairly portray what is really happening in Gaza and just how duplicitous Israel's crimes -- often in collusion with Washington -- really are. When we talk about Israel there is never any mention of how closely tied to the U.S. in military, economic, cultural and psychological terms Israeli is, how the U.S.-Israeli relationship came to fruition or what the Israeli government has done to the U.S.
 
With friends like Israel Washington doesn't need enemies. Israel could not get away with all the repetitive crimes against humanity and egregious false flags it has conducted were it not for Washington's undying loyalty and support of the Israeli government's criminal regime which is much like Washington's criminal regime. Everything about the Israel-Palestine debate -- which for the most part is nothing but sordid propaganda and lies designed to make Israel look like the victim -- is exacerbated by Washington. One has to fully understand Israel's intricate relationship with Washington, which it and its fraudulent lobbies own most of, and why every U.S. politician kowtows to and is beholden of Israel. Much of understanding those relationships is due to Israel's long sordid history of blackmailing and illegally spying on Washington to make it cater to their every whim. Unsurprisingly, Israel has been flagged as a top spy threat to the U.S. by the NSA which identified them as a security threat in several areas, including "the threat of development of weapons of mass destruction" and "delivery methods".
 
THE HYPOCRISY AND CHUTZPAH OF ISRAEL’S IMMORAL DECEPTIONS
 
Israel's latest illegal escapades could not have happened were it not for the fact that the genocide of innocent civilian women and children in Gaza has Washington's fingerprints all over it and the U.S. has provided all the weapons to Israel to use in Gaza. U.S. aid to Israel stands at more than $3 billion a year paid for by U.S. taxpayers. That amount has increased as the conflict has gone on since Washington didn't feel that was enough aid to prop up Israel's criminal actions and has been steadily restocking Israel's arsenal of bombs and military equipment in addition to offering more financial aid. The more Israel blackmails and bribes Washington's criminal regime, the more the U.S. gives to Israel to continue its genocide in Gaza.
 
Israel’s Zionist dream is based on the repeated slaughter of innocent victims on a massive scale. By fallaciously believing they are the chosen one, Israel has made a mockery out of God and religion. The people of Gaza have no place to run and hide as they've been prisoners on the Gaza strip for some time and Israel has stolen a lot of their land. Even more telling is the lies and propaganda being used by Israel courtesy of an American public relations firm that spins lots of Washington's fairy tales to justify their ongoing crimes being perpetrated in Gaza and the West Bank. The fact that Israel has to use fraudulent public relations maneuvers to justify their illegal activities in Palestine tells you all you need to know about just how convoluted and corrupt the Israeli government is. Despite the lies, Israel is committing massive war crimes in Gaza with total impunity.
 
So far more than 1,800 Gazans -- mainly civilians -- have been slaughtered based on Israel's lies. Israel's lies about Hamas using human shields have already been repeatedly debunked and there is a lot of evidence that proves Israel uses human shields too. There have been several reported incidents of Israeli soldiers using Palestinian civilians, including children, as human shields which reveals the hypocrisy and chutzpah of Israel's immoral deceptions but there are several other lies Israel has used that have also been totally debunked:
 
•Invisible Bias - the latest slaughter in Gaza per Washington's Ministry of Propaganda, started after 3 teenagers were kidnapped and killed, but one day prior to that happening, a Palestinian man and 10-year old child were killed in Gaza by an Israeli airstrike. It wouldn't be at all surprising to find out that Israel killed those 3 teenagers as a precursor for starting its latest illegal genocide in Gaza;
•Hamas fired rockets first - Israel always claims Hamas fired missiles -- outdated and often defective missiles -- first but the truth is those missiles were not fired during many of the times Israel claims. Hamas observed the ceasefire brokered in 2012 and arrested Palestinian militants when they fired some rockets. Hamas only started firing missiles after Israel's violent crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank and after an Israeli air strike; and
•Occupation and Self-Defense - Israel has illegally occupied Palestinian land for decades, and has been illegally seizing more land for the past several years. Israel cannot claim "self-defense" when they have been aggressively and illegally stealing Palestinian land. Israel has repeatedly violated International law by occupying the land it has stolen from Palestine.
 
More on Israel's delusional claims of self-righteousness and the lies they have repeatedly told to justify their ethnic cleansing in Gaza can be found here. Other egregious myths and public relations stunts used by Israel to justify their criminal actions can be found here.
 
THE HYPOCRITICAL ABSURDITY OF WASHINGTON’S CONDEMNATIONS
 
Israel's deceptively themed "Operation Protective Edge" appears to be more of a "kill the kiddies" campaign as made apparent by the slaughter of 4 Palestinian kids playing soccer on a beach and the dubious bombing of 3 UN schools that were supposedly off limits. Palestinian children have paid a heavy price for Israel's latest round of ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Targeting journalists and ambulances in addition to a multitude of civilian dwellings make Israel's intentions crystal clear. We've witnessed Israel's crimes against humanity in Gaza twice in the past 4 years, but this time around Israel has gone too far and appears to be doing what it does best -- perpetrating acts of state terrorism.
 
Granted, as noted by Chris Hedges, all governments lie, including Israel and Hamas, but Israel engages in the kinds of jaw-dropping lies that characterize despotic and totalitarian regimes. Israel does not deform the truth; it inverts it, routinely painting a picture for the outside world that is diametrically opposed to reality. Questioning Israel's claims about their criminal actions in Gaza invokes what is tantamount to a dubious new form of American McCarthyism because it points to the truth that Israel is blatantly committing genocide. When Israel is singled out in a situation like this, it's not because people hate Jewish people. It's because people hate occupation, discrimination and rogue criminal states that routinely commit war crimes.
 
The twisted "logic" of Zionism and the pathetic modus operandi of quoting twisted scripture to justify your ignorance while demanding genocide in Gaza demands a closer look. A look at the Zionist story can be found here. The deafening silence of our criminal regime in Washington who continue violating our rights and subverting our laws while blindly supporting -- in more ways than one -- the criminal actions of the Israeli government also demands a closer look. To understand Washington's unfaltering support for Israel's criminal actions you have to know the hidden history of how the U.S. was used to create Israel. America's foreign aid to Israel, who receives more than any other country in the world from U.S. taxpayers, is but one component of the staggering cost of our alliance with Israel.
 
When President Obama decries Israel's attack on a UN school in Gaza as "totally unacceptable" and "totally indefensible" while proceeding to approve another $225 million in aid to Israel for its Iron Dome and to restock weapons for the Israel Defense Force (IDF) to hit more schools and slaughter more innocent Gaza civilians, the hypocritical absurdity becomes glaringly obvious. Despite the fallacious condemnations of Israel's actions in Gaza, America is still courting a racist, fortified, paranoid and aggressive criminal regime in Israel as its best friends, essentially making Americans complicit in Israel's crimes. Washington condemns Israel's actions in Gaza but doesn't do anything about it. Washington is only interested in continuing Israel's genocide in Gaza, not stopping it.
 
TWISTING BOGUS CLAIMS OF SELF-DEFENSE INTO STATE TERRORISM
 
Regardless of the hypocritical criticism of Israel by Washington, the slaughter in Gaza will continue unabated. Constant cease fires only last so long before Israel resorts to continuing their crimes in Gaza. Israel's intention in Gaza isn't simply to stop crude rockets from being fired into Israel or to destroy the network of tunnels built by Hamas. Attacking hospitals, schools and innocent civilians is a carefully calculated plan aimed at terrorizing the entire population of Gaza and breaking the 66-year old history of Palestinian resistance to Israel's illegal occupation of its land. Detaining, torturing, targeted assassinations, collective punishment and the indiscriminate shelling of urban areas are all similar to the atrocities committed by Nazis during the 1930s and 1940s. Acting like the very Nazi war criminals they like to recall so much reveals just how corrupt the Zionist leadership in Israel is. The lesson of the Holocaust should be "never again" for anyone, including Palestinians but Israel apparently prefers genocide and illegal land grabs.
 
Israel's crimes in Gaza have also revealed how complicit the American media -- much of which is owned and operated by people with Israeli citizenship -- is and how they will use any lie necessary to justify their criminal actions. Using deceptive doublespeak to perpetuate a certain kind of mythology to make Israel's genocide appear okay only works until you become aware of the propaganda. Repeating lies over and over does not make them true. Clinging to the dogma and lies repeated by the media reflects the corruption of apologists for Israel used to justify Israel's criminal actions. Israel has lied repeatedly about defending themselves and is only interested in killing Palestinians, not Hamas. All the passivity and ignorance of those in charge of Washington's criminal activities and undying support of Israel's crimes has been on full display and all the lies in the world cannot cover up those facts.
 
Ironically, the typical Israeli propaganda justifying the Zionist agenda in Gaza -- "They only understand force," "They teach their children to hate" and "They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity" -- are all the same lies Israel uses to justify their genocide in Gaza. Israel's and Washington's actions are all based on lies and deceptions and playing the victim is no excuse for what Israel has done in Gaza. Israel's right to exist is not under threat. The lives and existence of the Palestinian people is. There are plenty of reasons to argue for cutting off U.S. aid to Israel, especially since U.S. law specifies that "no security assistance may be provided to any country the government of which engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights" which Israel is certainly guilty of, and has been for many years. Ending U.S. support for Israel's government will not put Israelis in danger. It will only force the Israeli government to quit endangering Israeli by committing illegal aggressive acts against its neighbors. Because Washington operates the same way and pays no attention to laws, aid to Israel and its genocide in Gaza will continue. Consequently, it is up to us to put an end to it.