[Peace-discuss] Protest Israel's invasion of Gaza / US responsibility

[C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss]

On Jul 18, 2014, at 9:17 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

This Sunday, between 2:00pm to 4:00pm at our usual spot Neil and Church St, downtown Champaign. 
AWARE will provide signs. Hope you all can make it. 


I've sent the following missive. --CGE

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Editor, Champaign-Ubana News Gazette:

Who is responsible  for the Israeli military assault on Gaza? Many can be blamed for  Israel’s committing what the Nuremberg Tribunal called “the supreme international crime - launching aggressive war” - but the final responsibility lies with the American President.

Without the support - economic, military, political, and diplomatic - that the US government provides, Israel’s crimes would not be possible. 

But the US does not provide this support because of undue influence from the  government of Israel or the Israel lobby. The US government supports Israel - and its oppression of Palestinians - because Israel is America’s “stationary aircraft carrier” in the Mideast. 

Most Americans think of US war in the Mideast as beginning after 9/11/2001, with the American invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, but in fact our government has been killing people in the Mideast since the Second World War to secure control of what the US State Department called then “the world’s greatest material prize,” Mideast gas and oil. 

The US government demands not just access to Mideast energy resources but control of them, because a strangle-hold over world energy flows gives the US the advantage over its economic rivals in Europe and Asia, notably Germany and China.

Obama fails to stop the killing - as he could, with a word - because it’s been the policy of all US administrations for two generations to allow the Israelis to continue their oppression of the Palestinians so long as Israel supports and participates in the crimes of its US master.

--C. G. Estabrook

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