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It's more than just the "loyalty" of something otherwise "different": Israel is an extension, an annex, of the United States in the Middle East. The United State of the Middle East. All the "Jewish" stuff is just the blue and white paint-job. Why? Not because there is a mysteriously all powerful "Israeli Lobby" in Washington, but because the United States Congress IS the Israeli lobby! In the same way, and for essentially the same reason that the U.S. Congress is tout court the Pentagon Lobby. Because "Israel" is a big node in the so-called "military industrial complex", that sector of capital either wholly or substantially reliant upon the Pentagon "market", aka the core of the imperialist nexus. If the imperialist regime fights tooth and nail to not even lose a little face with a "premature" departure of a (from the racist imperialist POV) POS like the Mubarak family - you know, 'give 'em an inch, the masses will take a mile' - then imagine how they'll fight to preserve a key node like "Israel". It would be like surrendering Fort Bragg to the Infidel. Israel == America in the Middle East. Memorize that formula. -Matt 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. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
