Finally, the US and UK are treating Israel like an adult, letting it know that there are consequences to their actions and “Daddy” won’t always be there to bail them out (although they know we always will).

I credit President Obama for this new willingness to tell Israel there are consequences to their actions and we won’t automatically take their side on every bad decision, out of fear of appearing to be “anti-Semitic”.

Now, if only the people of the Middle East will recognize this fact and not do anything to screw it up.

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Isn’t the goal of terrorists to change the politics of the people being terrorized? Surely, deliberately starving children to get their parents to change their politics qualifies as terrorism. Some would call it Genocidal, akin to the sanctions applied to Iraq.

July 28, 2010

By Noam Chomsky

there are important tasks of education and organization that have to be addressed seriously if US policies are to be shifted. They should lead to actions focusing on specific short-term objectives: ending the savage and criminal siege of Gaza; dismantling the illegal “Separation Wall,” by now a de facto annexation wall; withdrawing the IDF from the illegally annexed Golan Heights and from the West Bank (including illegally annexed “Greater Jerusalem”), which would, presumably, be followed by departure of most of settlers, all of whom, including those in East and expanded Jerusalem, have been transferred (and heavily subsidized) illegally, as Israel recognized as far back as 1967; and of course ending all Israeli construction and other actions in the occupied territories. Popular movements in the US should work to end any US participation in these criminal activities, which would, effectively, end them. That can be done, but only if a level of general understanding is reached that far surpasses what exists today.

link to zcommunications.org

Please remember, it was France and Germany that opposed the invasion of Iraq. One would do well to recognise such common sense when discussing issues between the UK and EU.