THE LIKUDNIKS & THE WARRIOR PRINCESS

by Malik Isasis





At an AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) dinner earlier this month, Senator Hillary Clinton in attempt to man-up, tried to blunt future criticism by the AIPAC lobby by calling Iran a danger to the U.S. and one of Israel's greatest threats, she also said "no option can be taken off the table.”

Senator Clinton also stated, "U.S. policy must be clear and unequivocal: We cannot, we should not, we must not permit Iran to build or acquire nuclear weapons," the Democrat told a crowd of Israel supporters. "In dealing with this threat ... no option can be taken off the table."

Sounding like Bush’s fraternal twin, she marched onward with all the neocons’ talking points.

"To deny the Holocaust places Iran's leadership in company with the most despicable bigots and historical revisionists," Clinton said, criticizing what she called the Iranian administration's "pro-terrorist, anti-American, anti-Israeli rhetoric."

Instead of embracing the qualities of her femininity, Senator Clinton runs away from it, choosing instead to embrace stereotypical knuckle-dragging, chest-beating masculinity. She is constantly trying to show that she too, is tough. She too, can start a war. She too can be manly.

Instead of being herself, she has modeled herself after her husband Bill Clinton—
triangulating her base, her political enemies, her critics and those who love her at every opportunity. It’s a good way not to take responsibility for her actions or her words.

Clinton’s presidential campaign will support going to war with Iran if it will curry favor with her critics and win her popularity. She wants to be seen as a warrior and as a mother. Those two things aren't compatible. Being one or the other is a life style choice. Being the President of the United States is not about being a warrior, it is about diplomacy; it requires that one is flexible, an active listener and have the ability to work with those with whom there is very little trust; it’s about having respect for the rules of law and protecting the Constitution with dignity and respect.

Bush of course has molested the job title by constantly referring to himself as Commander-in-Chief and going on murdering-sprees and declaring it national security. If this is the mantle Clinton wants to inherit, her campaign is right on target.

The propaganda of war

The Likudniks and the Christian conservatives have completely subjugated both the Democratic and Republican parties through the powerful lobbying group AIPAC. Israel’s foreign policy has become the United States’ foreign policy priority, even if it is against the interests of the United States as so eloquently stated in the paper, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.”

Israel is, in fact, a liability in the war on terror and the broader effort to deal with rogue states. To begin with, "terrorism" is a tactic employed by a wide array of political groups; it is not a single unified adversary. The terrorist organizations that threaten Israel (e.g., Hamas or Hezbollah) do not threaten the United States, except when it intervenes against them (as in Lebanon in 1982). Moreover, Palestinian terrorism is not random violence directed against Israel or "the West"; it is largely a response to Israel's prolonged campaign to colonize the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The Israeli neocons are the engine behind the Iran campaign. It is the Israeli government who stands to benefit from a war that is completely unnecessary for the United States.

It is presumptuous for the United States to threaten a sovereign nation with war for wanting to build nuclear weapons for what it perceives as protection for its citizenry. The very idea that American politicians in public, spout out degrading epithets against heads of states is racially motivated, and bigoted. The basic assumption about the Iranian leadership is that they are savages and can’t be trusted with nuclear weapons. The real deal is that if Iran wanted to start a war with Israel, it would have done so. Iran has not been to war since the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran War.

Since the rise of the Military Industrial Complex at the end of World War II, the United States has been in a state of perpetual war--starting with Korea 1950-53, Indonesia, 1950-53, Guatemala 1950-53, Congo 1964, Cuba 1959-61 Vietnam 1961-73, Peru 1965, Laos 1964-73, Cambodia 1969-70, Lebanon 1982-83, Grenada 1983, El Salvador 1980, Libya 1986, Nicaragua, Bosnia, Iraq 1990-current. That’s 57 years and counting of non-stop warring.

Senator Clinton

In Senator Clinton’s dinner speech, she went out of way to stress that Iran is one of Israel’s greatest threats.

How so?

Are we just suppose to take the word of politicians who’ve been compromised by the most powerful lobbying group in the country? Where is the proof that Iran is so dangerous?

Senator Clinton has sold her soul to the lobbying group, AIPAC, to produce a veneer of credibility as a warrior princess and protectorate of Israel; apparently, support from the American public is not enough.



Background and history on AIPAC:

AIPAC's Overt and Covert Ops
AIPAC's Hold

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