Bill F.
The military aggression, political intrigue and subversion of
US imperialism have engulfed all the Middle East and spread fear and misery to
millions of people.
Yet, it is a decaying and corrupt empire, despised and
rejected as it thrashes about trying to assert its hegemony.
The legacy of US aggression and occupation is painfully
obvious in Iraq, where murderous gangs and religious zealots compete for
influence, bringing terror and indiscriminate violence to the cities and towns.
A succession of puppet governments pretends to rule over the terrified population
and shattered infrastructure, while their US trained military defends the
privileges and mansions from the wrath of the people.
Libya is no better.
It too has suffered the terrorising of its population and
the destruction of its infrastructure. Like Iraq, the legacy of US imperialism
has been ethnic and religious division, economic chaos and ceaseless violence.
Like Iraq, US trained puppet rulers pretend to represent ‘peace, freedom and
democracy’ while practising war, repression and dictatorship.
Syria is proving to be a harder nut to crack. In spite of
the specialist teams of CIA advisors, the generous supply of weaponry and the
infiltration of foreign Islamic fundamentalist extremists, the Assad government
has rallied the people and the armed forces to resist the terrorists and the
plans of their master.
So far, US imperialism has not been able to get much support
from its ‘friends’ for either a ‘no fly zone’ or military intervention. However,
it should be noted that the US has thousands of troops already stationed across
the border in Jordan training mercenaries and keeping “all options on the
table” as they say.
Egypt
Currently the focus is on Egypt. US President Obama has been
officially critical of the military coup, but has avoided naming it as such,
since this would invoke a US law that would cut off all military aid. In fact,
the Egyptian military is a creature of US imperialism which has armed and
trained them for decades, to the tune of US$1.3 billion a year from a total
‘aid’ package of US$1.5 billion. The US virtually bribes the Egyptian military
to close down supply tunnels into Gaza and enforce the Israeli blockade against
the Palestinians.
The popular uprising that overthrew Mubarak was led mainly
by the working class and unemployed youth while the Muslim Brotherhood and
other conservative forces held back. Morsi and the Brotherhood were then able
to mobilise quickly and effectively to win the subsequent election. This did
not concern US imperialism greatly, as the armed forces were still beholden to
the US. However, alarm bells rang when the Morsi government said that it
intended to review the US inspired ‘peace treaty’ with Israel. This perhaps
explains why the US has not sent in the Marines to defend an elected government
and why military aid is continuing.
Obama and Kerry have set up a new round of ‘two state’
negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority led by Abbas.
Immediately this was announced the Netanyahu government approved hundreds of
new settlements inside the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, an outrageous
provocation thinly disguised by the release of a few prisoners whose time was
nearly up anyway.
A statement issued by the Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine quite properly denounced the negotiations as a fraud. “These negotiations are scheduled to take place under the
shadow of the construction of settlements in Jerusalem and the West Bank, the
terrorism of the settlers, the tightening of the siege on Gaza, ongoing war
crimes and violations against the Palestinian land and people, as well as the
manipulation of the issue of the prisoners. The negotiations serve only to
support the decisions and intentions of the occupation to engage in war crimes
while labelling it a ‘peace process’. By participating in the negotiations,
Palestinian parties help to achieve the goal of the occupation.”
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Further reading: US imperialism has brought political and economic crisis to Libya with the overthrow of Gaddafi. See:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/special-report-we-all-thought-libya-had-moved-on--it-has-but-into-lawlessness-and-ruin-8797041.html
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Further reading: US imperialism has brought political and economic crisis to Libya with the overthrow of Gaddafi. See:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/special-report-we-all-thought-libya-had-moved-on--it-has-but-into-lawlessness-and-ruin-8797041.html
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