by James Buchanan

Many Americans are probably wondering when the US government will place sanctions on Israel for its repeated invasions of Lebanon or the Israeli massacre of the Jenin refugee camp or their assassinations of people outside Israel or the selling of kidneys of murdered Palestinians or their building of the “Apartheid wall” or their murders of American and British peace protesters inside Israel or the mass murder of 34 Americans on the USS Liberty in what the survivors describe as a premeditated deliberate attack. Surely our government cares about human rights and would be willing to cut off military and financial aid to Israel. Right?

Wrong. Our government is neither sufficiently moral nor willing to apply even the slightest pressure to Israel over its long history of evil deeds. Our politicians (with one or two exceptions in the House) are whorish puppets for the Israeli Lobby and will continue to give the bandit state of Israel whatever weapons and aid it desires to continue to inhumanely oppress the original Palestinian natives, whose land they’ve stolen. Our government is so thoroughly disconnected from morality that they are attempting to fabricate the case for yet another war in the Middle East, this time against Iran.

A recent [1] news article reports “The Senate quietly passed legislation Thursday implementing tough new sanctions against Iran that advocacy groups say will cause more pain for the citizens of the country than for the government it’s intended to cripple. The sanctions would target gasoline companies and Iranian imports of refined petroleum products. In addition, the bill includes provisions to ban imports to the US and exports to Iran, with the exception of food, medicine and other humanitarian aid goods. Assets of certain Iranian individuals could also be frozen. Aside from these direct sanctions, the bill, passed in a voice vote after only five minutes of debate, would also force the US to ban trade with foreign companies which continue to do business with Iran that is subject to sanctions.”

Not only has Obama failed to withdraw our troops from the illegal Iraq occupation, as promised; the imposition of sanctions on Iran is clearly another step in the direction of war.

We have been propagandized with Jewish lies against Iran for at least ten years. Paranoid little Israel wants Iran bombed back into the stone age, which is how they react to any of their Muslim neighbors advancing technologically. The US should have friendly relations with Iran (or at least non-hostile relations). The tension that exists today is entirely due to a smear campaign by the Jewish-controlled media.

Iran has large quantities of uranium, and they wish to generate electricity with that uranium. The United States was helping Iran build a nuclear reactor for this purpose at Bushehr in the 1970s. A popular revolution against the Shah of Iran took place, and the US (and Israel) has been hostile toward Iran ever since.

Even if Iran were secretly building an atomic bomb (as the neocons, who lied us into the Iraq War, keep insisting), it would take decades of work and tens of billions of dollars for Iran to develop a nuclear bomb, and then they would have ONE bomb while Israel has hundreds and the US has thousands. Iran poses no serious threat to the US. In contrast, Israel has stabbed the US in the back multiple times, most notably the Lavon Affair and the deliberate, premeditated Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, which resulted in the mass-murder of 34 Americans.

We should be demanding that Israel give up their 200 nuclear weapons, rather than picking a fight with another of Israel’s many enemies.