[lit-ideas] Re: Vanunu's Secret
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 19:10:53 +0100
Not ally, Omar: satellite.
Judy Evans
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Vanunu's Secret
--- carol kirschenbaum <cskir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This "joke" implies an irrational US prejudice
> towards Israel, on
> racial/ethnic grounds, and against the Arab states
> in the almost completely
> Arab region. It ignores the simple fact that Israel
> has been a US satellite
> for 55 years (and counting), which has benefitted
> the US's global interests
> enormously. Israel has been a trusted and
> trustworthy ally to the US. If
> Israel were situated less strategically, its
> existence as a Jewish state
> would still interest the US, yes, though hardly to
> the extent that it has.
Andreas has already made most of the points that
needed to be made here. That Israel has been a US ally
since its inception is somewhat of a current myth.
When Israel proclaimed independence in 1948, it was
not certain of US recognition. Moshe Sharret went to
President Truman and said that Israel would be
independent only within the borders stipulated by the
UN partition plan, whereupon Truman reluctantly agreed
to recognize it. When Israel, in alliance with Britain
and France, attacked Egypt in 1956, the US strongly
objected to the adventure and forced Israel to
withdraw. It was only after the Six-Day in 1967 that
the US political establishment starting perceiving
Israel as a close ally. This was due in part to
Israel's perceived usefulness at keeping the Arab
countries low and counter-ballancing the Soviet
influence in the region, but it also had a lot to do
with the influence of the Zionist lobby at home, hence
"irrational prejudice" in favor of Israel and against
the Arabs had a big part to play in it. The usefulness
of the alliance to the US, especially after the Soviet
Union has disappeared, is not extremely obvious and it
is certainly given to questioning, as Andreas pointed
out.
O.K.
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