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Lajany Otum wrote
The US is loyal to the Israeli state exactly because the Israeli state
is loyal to the US in the way that no major Arab client or puppet regime
can be, no matter how craven and servile. It is the fact that the very
existence of Israeli state and society as a colonial outpost, against
the will of the natives, depends in its entirety on the good will and
largesse on the ruling imperial power of the day, Britain yesterday and
the US today, that guarantees its utility as the bedrock of the imperial
order in West Asia. By comparison, the Arab people (substitute any other
semi-colonial peoples here), does not owe its existence to the imperial
order and the puppet and client states which have been foisted upon it,
but rather contains large majorities whose material interests are
fundamentally at odds with the imperialist order, and who continue to
live from day to day in spite of of that criminal order and its
depredations. Egypt demonstrates this is the source of the instability
and unreliability which is built into the foundations of the native
puppet or client state, and why the US persistently regards the
interests of its Israeli colonial garrison above those of even the most
servile of its native clients in this important region.
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Succinct and helpful clarification, for someone who hadn't read Amin's
Empire of Chaos or heard of this distinction. Thanks.
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