Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Findley Paul
Title : Deliberate deceptions Facing the facts about the U.S.-Israeli relationship
Year : 1993

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Prologue. The Arab-Israeli conflict is fraught with disastrous consequences for the United States, and much of the trouble is of our own making. The damage goes far beyond the financial and economic burdens that are created as our government continues to donate billions of dollars each year to Israel and to lavish tax and trade favors on that state. The worst of the consequences arise from U.S. collusion in the dreadful, longstanding violation of human rights that Israel has perpetrated on a vast scale. The United States maintains a pivotal role in Israel's control and exploitation of the occupied territories-the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, southern Lebanon, and the Golan Heights-all of it Arab land. Our government provides unwavering financial, diplomatic, and military support while Israel persists in the violation of international law, maintains a tight and often brutal military rule over nearly two million Arabs, and masks all of this behind a shield of deliberate deceptions. Beyond the suffering Arabs, the principal casualty of this collusion is America's reservoir of goodwill in the Middle East. Respect for the United States-once deeply rooted and widespread among Arabs and Israelis alike-is being squandered in the unseemly, perpetual quest by politicians in this country for the approval of pro-Israel interest groups. The collusion is transparent in the appalling double standard that the U.S. government applies in the enforcement of Middle East-related UN Security Council resolutions. When Iraq invaded and annexed Kuwait in 1990, the United States organized and led a massive multinational military assault that, under UN sanction, reversed the conquest. ...