In CNN’s Larry King Show, former US President Jimmy Carter said that THE key factor in the Middle East problem is the US. He explained that the US has the power to force Israel into accepting a peace agreement because the US government gives Israel TEN MILLION DOLLARS A DAY. Plus, the US protects and defends Israel militarily and diplomatically (through the UN).
As a former US President who was able to forge an agreement between Israel’s Menahem Begin and Egypt’s Anwar Sadat, no one can dispute Mr. Carter.
While Larry King took on the Western media’s argument that Hamas is the culprit, Mr. Carter said that everything should be taken into perspective – like comparing the deaths on both sides due to the Hamas rockets and due to the Israeli air strikes and tank invasion.
Larry King, again mouthing the usual US-Israeli argument, asked Mr. Carter if somebody sends rockets to Atlanta, would he not answer back. The former president answered that he would; but, he would look for other options first. And the option Israel had was merely to open “the gates” of Gaza so water, food and gasoline could be delivered to 1.5 million people in Gaza.
Mr. Carter also mentioned that Israel bombed UN buildings, mosques and schools. Mr. King, playing the devil’s advocate, argued that Israel said these buildings were used by Hamas to fire rockets from. Mr. Carter answered that he knows only what the United Nations reported (which said that there were no Hamas people in the UN buildings). And, Mr. Carter added that if one wants to destroy a city, – and Israel bombed TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND (22,000) buildings – one could not pick one building from another. It was inevitable that UN offices and warehouses, schools and mosques would be among the 22,000 buildings destroyed.
Mr. Carter also said that if Israel did not want to kill civilians, it could have just bombed the tunnels that Hamas uses to smuggle goods into Gaza.
AMERICA SUBSIDIZES ISRAEL
With the immense power of media, one hopes that the Americans would now realize that Israel is nothing without American support.
During the 1972 Arab-Israeli war, Israel was losing in the first few days. But thanks to then US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, America sent air-lifted tanks, ammo and other war materiel on a DAILY basis to save Israel from defeat. It was then that the Arabs, especially Egypt’s Anwar Sadat, realized that they were not fighting the Israel. They were fighting America.
With America going into economic Depression, the American people might re-consider subsidizing war-freak Israel. If the American Jews would like to continue propping up the state of Israel, then they should do so in a PRIVATE manner. The Hollywood Jews and other American multi-millionaire Jews should donate their private money to Israel. The other Americans, many of them are now unemployed or homeless or facing the specter of unemployment or homelessness, need all the money the government can give them directly or indirectly.