Controversy in Zion

It's no coincidence that this public tantrum in US-Israeli relations happened on the eve of AIPAC's annual war party in Washington, DC... with Netanyahu as its guest of honour. There was no "stinging rebuke" from Clinton this time as she told the delegates exactly what they wanted to hear. What else could she say, given that nearly every Congressman and woman signed a letter to her supporting Israel's Yahweh-given right to conquer what remains of Palestine? The strongest card Emperor Obama could play in this charade was to stand Netanyahu up for dinner. The conference ended to the news that Israel intends to rev up its colonisation with plans to triple the number of settlements across the West Bank, while more bombs rained down on hapless Gaza. Israeli "Defence" Minister Ehud Barak made use of the all-Zionist parade at the AIPAC war party by securing another massive arms deal from the Pentagon. That's chutzpah for you folks.

And yet, I do wonder if a real schism is developing between the US and Israel. Gordon Duff over at VeteransToday.com makes a good case for this being so. The problem is that the US is so thoroughly double-crossed by its partner in every sphere that any attempt to remove the parasite's tentacles puts the country in mortal danger.

For now, Obama is staying on message about the Israeli fantasy of Iranian nukes. This episode has only emboldened Israel to brutalise the Palestinians some more, their US-made-to-order jets, helicopters and tanks terrorizing Gazans over the Easter weekend. In fact, Israel is menacing all its neighbors in the knowledge that it has the US over the barrel of a gun.