"Israel has lost its strategic
luster over recent decades, having become a burden to the West, since now the
West is defending Israel instead of Israel defending the interests of the West.
… That is why American generals say openly that Israeli policies endanger
America's presence and the lives of American soldiers."
In a recent editorial, the
former prime minister of Spain, Jose Maria Aznar, repeatedly describes Israel
as the first line of Western defense, similar to the way former U.S. Energy
Secretary Richard Moon spoke of oil as being at the center of U.S. security policy
in the 20th century. Both have contributed to the division and fragmentation of
the Middle East into mini-states.
Even if he didn’t explicitly
say that Israel is a forward base for colonialism, the former leader of Spain was
speaking the language of the colonial powers, which want to extend colonialism
and loot the wealth of the Arab region and elsewhere.
Israel emerged out of this
concept, i.e.: the destabilization and breaking up of the Arab Nation, with the
aim of stealing its wealth. The aim of the Iraq War was purely oil, since
studies in the U.S. noted that Iraq sits atop the second largest oil reserves
after Saudi Arabia, and that what remains undiscovered would likely far exceed
Saudi Arabia's.
Whoever controls the region's
oil controls both East and West. Meanwhile it has now been revealed that Afghanistan
possesses a wealth of strategic minerals estimated to a $1 trillion. This is
why we find a colonialist Western military “straw man” in Afghanistan, in order
to justify continued hegemony. These wars of aggression are cloaked with slogans
about democratization, defeating extremism and terrorism, and establishing
peace. But in fact, these are colonialist wars in new packaging.
Israel has lost its strategic
appeal over recent decades, having become a burden to the West, since now the
West is defending Israel instead of Israel defending the interests of the West.
Israel appears to have awakened to this fact, particularly after the term
"Palestinian state" entered the lexicon as being in America’s interests;
and after the U.S. and other nations though their presence Iraq and Afghanistan,
ended up having direct borders in the region as if the two countries were
neighbors of the United States, like Mexico and Canada.
That is why American generals
say openly that Israeli policies endanger America's presence and the lives of
American soldiers. That is why Israel began moving amongst the European
political right to overturn this conceptual tide, the consequences of which
have been seen in former and current prime ministers like Aznar [Spain],
Berlusconi [Italy] and neoconservatives in the United States and Eastern Europe.
Through the agency of these allies, the mantra that Israel is a defender of democracy
and Western civilization amid a savage Arab environment was sustained.
Instead of talking about the
necessity of peace and establishing Israel as a peaceful country, the current right-wing
trend in the West and Israel is toward escalation and complexity. This arises
out of a deep-seated malice that underpins the continued looting and
fragmentation of the Arab region, with the goal of breaking up or even
partitioning whatever is left. Champions of colonialism like Aznar make these
statements to break Israel's international isolation, which they fear will
later became a siege of the country.
With their statements they show
that the core reason for Israel's presence in the region is to be an aggressive
colonialist settlement and fortress at the service of others. This is
consistent with the policies of the Israeli government and its wolf-like political
parties, which push Israel to the brink of being an isolated ghetto amid regional
tensions and the loss of any hope for peace.
Oil is not as un-ending as
colonialism … And Israel, like oil, is limited. In the end, the only thing that
will remain on the land is its salt - not its oil.
[Editor's Note: This sentence
refers to the expression "You are the salt of the land", meaning that
without "you", the land has no flavor - no value. So in the last
sentence, "salt" refers to the Palestinians, who the author says were
there before the founding of the state of Israel].
