Is the United States an empire or not ?? Many American and world thinkers debate this issue , surely all our military , political and economical rhetoric , activities and exertion of influence , in our last one hundred and fifty years at least , and till our very near present , indicate that we strongly believe ourselves to be an empire of some sort , or at least our modern version of it .
Only and somehow when we deal with Israel , we seem to be totally powerless and even impotent , not capable of influencing , or enforcing our beliefs and our interests .
Mr. Kerry our secretary of State , is only the last victim of all his preceding secretaries and U.S envoys , of continued failure , impasses and incapacities to apply comprehensive peace initiatives , not to mention , as is the case right now , not being able to impose a cease fire , when the matter does not fully suit the state of Israel . Yet we keep hiding our failures and frustrated interventions behind nice rhetoric of ; " our allies , and standing behind the only democracy in the area !! " No matter how ugly this so called democracy behaves or acts , whether it's in our interests or totally against .
Israel has been successful in portraying it's actions against the Palestinians in general , and in Ghaza in particular , as a war against Hamas , and in self defense , for the strict protection of it's border citizens . The simple fact is , that it is another lingering and obstinately persistent war against all the Palestinians , to destabilize and demoralize a whole population . But , and in my honest opinion , I believe that Israel's chronic use of force , as it's only means of reaching it's goals is failing , and it is definitely dragging down the U.S credibility , predominance and respect with it .
Might Israel and behind it the U.S. in fact be bound by their mutual total misreading of historical facts , driving them both to ultimately only blind destruction ?? Couldn't we , and shouldn't we be considering other imaginable pasts , as well as different possible futures for this eternal sad conflict ??
Some people lately here in the States , have been calling our actual president ; the anti-Christ , would they dare call or label Mr. Netanyahu of the same ?? My usual many thanks to all my good readers .
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