DE ECHTE AS VAN HET KWAAD
BY JEFF HALPER
Jeff
Halper (1946) is an American-born anthropologist, author, lecturer, and
political activist who has lived in Israel since 1973. He is a co-founder of
The People Yes! Network (TPYN) and the former Director of the Israeli Committee
Against House Demolitions (ICAHD).
Halper
has written several books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and is a frequent
writer and speaker about Israeli politics, focusing mainly on nonviolent
strategies to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is a supporter of the
BDS movement and the academic boycott of Israel,
and
considers Israel to be guilty of “apartheid” and of a deliberate campaign to
“judaize” the occupied Palestinian territories.
In de inleiding stelt hij zich de
vraag: “Hoe Israel wegkomt met zijn
wangedrag”.
This
book began with a question that many activists like myself have asked over the
years: How does Israel get away with it? In a decidedly post-colonial age, how
is Israel able to sustain a half-century occupation over the Palestinians, a
people it violently displaced in 1948, in the face of almost unanimous
international opposition? Why, indeed, does the international community
tolerate an unnecessary conflict that not only obstructs efforts to bring some
stability to the wider Middle East, a pretty important geo-political region in
which the United States and Europe are
fighting a number of wars, but one that severely disrupts the international
system as a whole?
Hij is niet de enige Jood, die weigert te zien c.q.
ontkent hoe de Joodse Gemeenschap in de Verenigde Staten de buitenlandse politiek
t.o.v. het Midden Oosten in belangrijke mate bepaald.
Ook Naomi Chomsky https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky, Stephen Zunes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Zunes and Jerome Slater http://mondoweiss.net/author/jerome-slater/ zijn die mening toegedaan.
Jeffrey Blankfort http://www.politicalresearch.org/campus-profile-jeffrey-blankfort/#sthash.PQEggd4E.dpbs weidt daar een uitgebreid artikel
aan. The Israel Lobby
and the Left: Uneasy Questions http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-blankfort.html.
Een zeer aannemelijke verklaring is dat deze publieke
figuren willen vermijden antisemitische sentimenten op te roepen/ aan te
wakkeren.
The people who make up the movement, Jews and non-Jews alike, have
embraced Chomsky’s position because it is the message they want to hear; not feeling obligated to “blame the Jews”
is reassuring. The fear of either provoking anti-Semitism or being called
an anti-Semite (or a self- hating Jew), has become so ingrained into our
culture and body politic that no one, including Chomsky or Zunes, is immune. This is reinforced by constant reminders of the
Jewish Holocaust that, by no accident, appear in the movies and in major news
media on a regular basis.
Chomsky, in particular, has been heavily criticized by the Jewish
establishment for decades for his criticism of Israeli policies, even to the
point of being “excommunicated,” a distinction he shares with the late Hannah
Arendt. It may be fair to assume that at some level this history influences
Chomsky’s analysis.
Naast deze in mijn ogen zeer belangrijke invloed van de “Israel Lobby” verwijst
Halper naar een andere invloed die Israel op de internationale gemeenschap
heeft.
I noticed that Israel has diplomatic relations with 157 countries, and
virtually all the agreements and protocols Israel has signed with them contain
military and security components. From those tiny threads, it dawned on me that
when military relations are mixed into diplomatic stew, new, surprising and
seemingly impossible constellations emerge. As I began to trace Israel’s
military relations more closely, another picture emerged in which Israel was
actually a regional hegemon accepted as such – or at least related as such – by
the other countries of the region and beyond. Israel’s position in the world
could not be explained by normal international relations; again, most countries
strongly oppose its Occupation
policies. Nor could lobbies or the Holocaust explain that.
Israel it seemed was succeeding in parlaying its military and securocratic
prowess into political clout, in pursuing what I now call security politics. The Occupied Palestinian Territories, I now
understood, did not pose a financial burden on Israel or an unwanted source of
insecurity and conflict. Indeed, the opposite was the case. Without an
occupation and an interminable conflict, how would Israel sustain its strong
international standard? The Occupation represents a resource in two senses: economically, it provides a testing ground
for the development of weapons, security systems, models of population control
and tactics without which Israel would be unable to compete in the international
arms and security markets, but not less important, being a major military power
serving other militaries and security services the world over lends Israel an
international status among the global hegemons it would not have otherwise.
EEN AANTAL FEITEN
- In dit “Military-Industrial Complex” naam voor het eerst gebruikt door
President Eisenhower in de vijftiger jaren gaat per jaar 2.25 trillion dollars
om.( Het Amerikaanse, Canadese en modern Engelse trillion betekent 1000 × 1000
tot de 3de macht, dus een biljoen
10 tot de 12de macht = 1.000.000.000.000 $).
- In 2011 bedroeg het defensie budget van de Verenigde Staten $708
miljard, het hoogste sinds de Tweede Wereldoorlog en een derde hoger dan op het
hoogtepunt van de Vietnam Oorlog. De US geeft 4.3 % van zijn bruto binnenlands
product (BBP) uit.
- Israel geeft $15 miljard aan de defensie uit, dat is 6.5-8.5 % van het
(bbp). Israel is de 15de op de lijst van de defensie uitgaven en
geeft zodoende veel meer aan bewapening uit dan Iran, Noord Korea, Pakistan of
Egypte. In 1982 werd meer dan een derde van het Israel defensie budget door de
V.S. gefinancierd.
- in 1981 is Israel van een wapen importeur een wapen exporteur geworden
en wel de 7de van de wereld met een omzet van $1.3 miljard.
- De aanval op de V.S. 9/11, de Bush II regeringsverklaring met de “War
on Global Terror” en de dramatisch verlopen oorlog met Irak hebben de vraag
naar geavanceerde bewapening doen toenemen. Naast wapentuig levert Israel
militaire ‘adviseurs’ en modellen voor ‘security control’. Homeland Security is
daar een centraal thema in. De ervaringen op gedaan in de Occupied
Teritory zijn daar van essentieel belang bij..
Despite being dependent on the US, Israel has emerged
as a key player in the international arms market, especially in areas such as
high-tech weaponry, upgrading, intelligence gathering, surveillance, and
counter-terrorism.
In 1990 waren Israel en de V.S. betrokken in 322
gezamenlijke ondernemingen en 49 projecten ter waarde van $2.9 miljard. De
projecten waren gericht op co-ontwikkeling, co-productie en onderzoek. Deze
voorkeursbehandeling maar ook die met de NAVO in 2004 werd bekrachtigd, gaf de
Israëliërs unieke mogelijkheden.
Over the years, there were quite a few cases in which
defense deals preceded the establishment of political-defense relations. For example
diplomatic relations with Sri Lanka followed exports of weapon systems. Israel
directed its export to a range of countries, including states that were
“ostracized” by the international community (Chile and South Africa); South
American states suspected of drug dealing; African states connected to genocide
(and even China); states that were formerly hostile to Israel (Egypt and
Jordan); “wavering” states in North Africa, and the Gulf emirates. Israel
managed to establish connections with African states via supplies of arms needed
by those states, for example, in exports to Uganda, Congo, Kenya, and Ethiopia.
Overall, Israel has contributed vital targeting information for the air
campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, since its spy satellites are dedicated
to covering the Middle East more thoroughly than those of the US and other
countries. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, UAVs or Drones, play a key role in
establishing dominant maneuver. Israel was the first country to appreciate the
combat and surveillance value of Drones.
usRAEL
THE EVIL AXIS
Embracing the Dark Side
for their EVIL
Ambitions
We
live in a World of Lies and We Always Have (Robert Fisk)
Who
Rules heWorld? (Noam Chomsky)
Stop Living in Denial,
Israel Is an Evil State (Gideon Levy)
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