The US Democratic Party’s big mistake – support for ‘Israel’

Biden and Netanyahu
By Dan Lieberman*

Followers of Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer found guilty of murdering George Floyd, are chauvinists. No country on the planet houses more chauvinists than Israel, where a large majority of the populace favours the everyday strangling of the Palestinian people

Democratic institutions, in Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain and the United States, strongly condemn venomous white nationalism but take no action against its principal advocate – the Israeli Knesset. The Democratic Party does not factor into its decisions the effect on voting patterns due to the alliances between the reactionary political parties in Israel, which are a majority in their electorate, and the religious right, and Trump supporters in the United States. Big mistake, and a neglect that will eventually serve to defeat the democratically oriented Western governments. Why will this happen?

The US Democratic Party poses itself as the protector of human rights, guardian of equal rights, defender of religious persuasions, supervisor of fair immigration policies, keeper of a liberal world order that guards against genocide, ultra-nationalism and militarism. Yet, it ardently supports an Israel that oppresses the Palestinians, denies them equal rights, places its own religion before other religions, has the most discriminatory immigration policies, is bringing about the genocide of the Palestinian people, and is one of the most nationalist and militarist nations in the world.

Israel represents everything the white nationalists desire – dominant ethnicity, extreme nationalism, militarism, biased immigration policies and chauvinism.

An apparent hypocrisy of the Democratic Party makes it anathema to the US electorate, losing voters who prefer conviction to hypocrisy, isolating the electorate left that will not compromise with party policies on human rights and Israel, and disabling voters that would rather stay home than vote for a deceitful political party.

By not confronting Israel, the Democrats place Israel in a commanding position on the international stage, making it an example of successful ultra-nationalism, which excites, encourages and augments the ranks of ultra-nationalists and militarists in all Western nations. Israel represents everything the white nationalists desire – dominant ethnicity, extreme nationalism, militarism, biased immigration policies and chauvinism. Democratic Party policies towards Israel give approval to the Trump-led factions that benefit from the policies.

Arguments that Israel serves as a support for America’s presence and policies in the Middle East are refuted by Israel’s unilateral actions that counter US policies — Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, Israel’s alliance with apartheid South Africa, Israel’s settlement activities, Israel’s violation of UN resolutions, and Israel’s relations with America’s principal adversary, China.

In 2015 the Shanghai International Port Group Company contracted with Israel’s Transportation Ministry to renovate and run Haifa’s commercial port, which prompted objections from the US government in 2018 – ships from the US Navy’s 6th Fleet use an adjacent Israeli navy base. Israel refused a Trump administration request to allow the US Coast Guard to inspect the port at Haifa for Chinese surveillance capabilities.

Israel‘s escalating contracts with China (a summary of these extensive projects are described here) disregard the United States’ agenda. Israel is a sovereign entity and has a right to act independently. However, subverting US security interests and allowing China to maintain naval facilities in the Mediterranean Sea undermines US power. For these reasons, Israel cannot be considered a faithful ally or capable of providing a beneficial relationship. By establishing a tight relationship with China, Israel can play from both sides and demand considerations from each for concessions to each.

The US gives Israel funds to purchase weapons and Israel uses the funds to develop weapons and compete with its benefactor in the arms trade.

Another factor: The US grants Israel $3.8 billion a year to purchase US military equipment. Studying, testing and capitalising on US technology has enabled Israel to become the eighth largest exporter of weapons. The US gives Israel funds to purchase weapons and Israel uses the funds to develop weapons and compete with its benefactor in the arms trade.

While expecting that close relations to Israel will benefit US interests, the reverse has occurred – the US obediently serves Israel’s interests.

  • US military assistance to Israel in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war helped turn a possible Arab victory into a defeat.
  • US sanctions against Sudan defeated a previous Israel antagonist.
  • US declared Hezbollah a terrorist organisation, although Hezbollah’s activities only counter Israel’s activity against its organisation.
  • US declared Hamas a terrorist organisation, although Hamas’s activities only counter Israel’s activity against its organisation.
  • US sanctions have crippled Syria, an Israel adversary.
  • US Invasion of Iraq destroyed a strong Israel antagonist.
  • US played a leading role in destroying Libya, another Israel antagonist.
  • US sanctions and hostile relations with Iran have greatly harmed the economy of Israel’s major adversary.

State Department veto of numerous UN resolutions, which may have halted Israel’s oppressive and militarist tactics, is another example of US subservience to Israel. Israel dictates US policies rather than the US shaping Israel’s policies.

President Joe Biden, in a speech responding to the new strife, reminiscent of speeches from other Democratic presidents, declared, “Israel has a right to defend itself.” Hamas warned it would respond if Israeli military continued its hostile actions at Al-Aqsa mosque. Another US president who is unaware that Israel’s oppressive actions provoke retaliation. Examine President Biden’s statement.

Those firing the rockets are those who had their land, livelihood, and the futures of all their descendants stolen from them by the Israelis.

When rockets from Gaza strike Ashkelon (previously the Palestinian town al-Majdal), whom do they hit, and who fired them? Those hit by the rockets are descendants of those who stole the land or are benefactors willing to accept the theft from the Palestinian families who lived in the area for generations. In the 1945 statistics, al-Majdal had a population of 9,910. Not only had Ashkelon been awarded to the anticipated Palestinian state in United Nations Resolution 181, but the mass of Palestinians living in the area played no part in the hostilities. An Egyptian army, not invited by al-Majdal inhabitants, entered the town to protect its status under UN Resolution 181 and failed in the endeavour –  Israeli forces captured al-Majdal on 4 November 1948. In the later months, the original inhabitants that fled the engagements were denied return and the remaining inhabitants were forcibly removed, almost all to Gaza.

Those firing the rockets are those who had their land, livelihood, and the futures of all their descendants stolen from them by the Israelis. The innocent victims of land theft and ethnic cleansing first suffered from deprivation in the barren desert of Gaza. Later, for 38 years they endured oppressive Israeli occupation. After an end to physical occupation, Israel has controlled and intruded into their lives with constant violence against them – destruction of their buildings, factories, agricultural lands, water supplies, power stations, cultural institutions, denial of the fishing rights, keeping them caged in a small area and preventing them from leaving. Israel determines Gazans’ fates and seizes every opportunity to make their lives miserable.

President Biden has an opportunity to separate the Democratic Party from the worldwide chauvinists, who believe in their superiority and that might makes right. Leaders of the Democratic Party, when will you become honest and wise?

According to the president of the United States, who spent his entire political career receiving protection in being elected in return for approving the criminal actions, the terroriser (Israel) is a victim of terror, and those who have been constant victims of severe criminal attacks (Palestinians) and have been thwarted in all legal means to seek justice have no right to respond to the original crimes and the succeeding decades of criminal attacks against them. The frustrated, tormented and oppressed Palestinians periodically relieve the psychological tension that daily strangles their lives by letting the criminal oppressors know how it is to live in fear, anxiety and menacing death.

Those who support the deceitful and kleptomaniac Israel are the same as those who support the deceitful and kleptomaniac Donald Trump. Those who fear the end of democracy take no heed to a fundamental cause of the threat – Israel. President Biden has an opportunity to separate the Democratic Party from the worldwide chauvinists, who believe in their superiority and that might makes right. Leaders of the Democratic Party, when will you become honest and wise?


*Dan Lieberman edits Alternative Insight, a commentary on foreign policy, economics and politics. He is author of the non-fiction books A Third Party Can Succeed in America; Not Until They Were Gone; Think Tanks of DC; a Kindle: The Artistry of a Dog, and a novel: The Victory (under a pen name). He can be reached at [email protected]

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