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Israel, International Law and the insult to the USA
09.12.2010

The capital city of the United States of America, is, to all intents and purposes, apparently not Washington DC, but Tel Aviv. The USA donates billions of dollars of its tax-payers' hard-earned cash every year to Israel and what is the payback? In three words, the stiff middle finger.

Before anyone starts mud-slinging and yet again accuses the author of being anti-Semitic, before any Jewish website opens another hate site, before my perceived real-life name and address are posted with blood-curdling death threats on hate forums, once again, let us get one thing clear: bringing to the attention of the public Israel's crimes and flouting of international law is a right which as a journalist and a human being, I shall exercise for as long as I choose. A racist and a xenophobe I am not. Neither am I a coward.
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Getting to the point: the Middle East peace process, in which Russia, the USA, European Union and UNO compose the Quartet and in which the USA has a huge weight and influence. Or should have, given the amount the US taxpayer forks out every year. How much? Some 2.5 billion USD a year, every year, these days, and a total of some 134 billion USD since 1948.

And this money is paid out in return for what?
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This decision was seriously criticised in the European Union, whose Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton has declared that "it contradicts the efforts by the international community to resume direct negotiations and the decision should be reversed". Washington's lackadaisical approach could well backfire, since Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas now states that he hopes the EU can begin to play a more important role in the process, like the USA.
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As long as the United States of America continues to aid, abet, finance, arm and support Israel, despite its criminal acts and clear violations of international law, then neither country can be taken seriously with a view to implementing a peace process. However well-meaning Washington may be, the truth of the matter is that the United States of America has its throat gripped in a tight, vice-like clinch by Tel Aviv, which in turn makes a mockery of its "ethical foreign policy".

Until Israel starts to abide by international law, and until Washington insists it does, neither of these countries is making a serious move towards peace, instead they are breeding generations of children brought up on hatred, giving them a cause and undermining the serious efforts of the international community.

And guess who is paying for it? The US taxpayer.

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru