KK-Forum,
det er vanlig på venstresiden å forklare USAs støtte til Israel som
resultatet av en meget sterk jødisk lobby. Den siste som forfektet dette
syn var vel Fritz Nilsen i KK (mulig jeg husker feil og at det var en annen
kjent person). Dette syn må ikke få spre seg. Det er en oppdatert versjon
av Sion Vises Protokoller, om de allmektige jøder.
En viktig og tankevekkende artikkel om dette er å finne på ZNet
http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/mar95zunes.htm.
Anti-Semitism in U.S. Middle East Policy
By Stephen Zunes
her er noen utdrag:
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The fact is that U.S. support for the Israeli government and opposition to
Palestinian rights are based not on an all-powerful lobby, but by the same
elite interests that lead the U.S. to support any militarized pro-Western
government and oppose any Third World nationalist movement. The U.S.
“supports” Israel for what that country has done for U.S. interests.
Israel has successfully prevented victories by radical nationalist
movements in Lebanon, Jordan, and Yemen, as well as in Palestine. They have
kept Syria, for many years an ally of the Soviet Union, in check. Their air
force is predominant throughout the region. Israel's frequent wars have
provided battlefield testing for American arms, often against Soviet
weapons. They have been a conduit for U.S. arms to regimes and movements
too unpopular in the United States for openly granting direct military
assistance, such as South Africa, Iran, Guatemala, and the Nicaraguan
Contras. Israeli military advisors have assisted the Contras, the
Salvadoran junta, and foreign occupation forces in Namibia and Western
Sahara. Their secret service has assisted the U.S. in intelligence
gathering and covert operations. Israel has missiles capable of reaching
the former Soviet Union and has cooperated with the U.S. military
industrial complex with research and development for new jet fighters,
anti-missile defense systems, and even the Strategic Defense Initiative.
As a result, the United States has been encouraging some of the more
chauvinistic and militaristic elements in the Israeli government,
undermining the last vestiges of Labor Zionism's commitment to socialism,
non-alignment, and cooperation with the Third World. As former Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger put it, “Israel's obstinacy. . . serves the purposes
of both our countries best.” As Israeli military strength and repression of
the Palestinians has increased, so has U.S. aid, contradicting the
widespread belief that U.S. aid is to defend a threatened and democratic
Israel.
....
One of the more unsettling aspects of U.S. policy is how closely it
corresponds with historic anti-Semitism. Throughout Europe in past
centuries, the ruling class of a given country would, in return for
granting limited religious and cultural autonomy, set up certain
individuals in the Jewish community to become the visible agents of the
oppressive social order, such as tax collectors and money lenders. When the
population would threaten to rise up against the ruling class, the rulers
could then blame the Jews, sending the wrath of an exploited people against
convenient scape-goats, resulting in the pogroms and other notorious waves
of repression which have taken place throughout the Jewish Diaspora.
...
The idea behind Zionism was to break this cycle through the creation of a
Jewish nation-state, where Jews would no longer be dependent on the ruling
class of a given country. The tragic irony is that, as a result of Israel's
inability or unwillingness to make peace with its Arab neighbors, the
creation of Israel has perpetuated this cycle on a global scale, with
Israel being used by Western imperialist powers -- initially Great Britain
and France and more recently the United States -- to maintain their
interests in the Middle East. Therefore, one finds autocratic Arab
governments and other Third World regimes blaming “Zionism” for their
problems rather than the broader exploitative global economic system and
their own elites who benefit from and help perpetuate such a system.
...
Historically, any country which has pursued the policies that Israel has
followed -- extraordinarily high levels of militarization, territorial
conquest, suppression of minorities, flaunting of international law, and
gross and systematic human rights violation -- has had to pay the
consequences. The inevitable repercussions are self-defeating: such
policies eventually result in economic collapse, military defeat,
debilitating international sanctions, or internal rebellion.
However, the Israeli leadership has been able to maintain its otherwise
self-destructive direction because it has been backed diplomatically,
financially, and militarily by the world's dominant superpower. The need to
compromise by allowing for Palestinian national rights has not yet become
apparent to the majority of Israelis and Jews elsewhere, knowing they have
an American umbrella under which to hide from the consequences of their
actions.
Therefore, those who attack Zionism as inherently racist, expansionist, or
militaristic are once again falling into the trap of blaming the Jews
instead of those who are, in fact, responsible. Any nationalist movement
based in a hostile region which has received the kind of backing Israel has
would likely behave no differently.
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Den ultraortodokse teolog Yeshayahu Leibowitz, var en av de første som
snakket om nazisme i Israel. Han mente Israels politikere og andre "har
glemt - eller forsøker å se bort fra - at styrken i Israels knyttneve
skyldes at den er ikledd en slåsshanske av amerikansk stål foret med
dollar. Hva med Israels sikkerhet den dagen amerikanerne finner det for
godt å trekke tilbake hansken og foret?"
Knut Rognes
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