Second, ending war and political turbulence in the Middle East also requires ending the suffering of the Palestinian people and the occupation of their land. All that is needed to be done here is simply to carry out the long-standing UN resolutions regarding the Palestinian-Israeli relations. This, of course, requires curtailment of the Likud/AIPAC power, as well as the influence of their supporters in the US congress and the media.
While this may appear remote and unlikely, it is bound to happen. It is simply a matter of time. I only hope that more Jewish people will wake up to the ominous trajectory of expansionist Zionism and play a salutary role in the unfolding of this inevitable outcome. The sooner they realize and/or acknowledge (as many far-sighted and peace-loving Jews already have) that militant Zionism is a con game, headed toward a dead end, the better.
No doubt, the leaders of militant Zionism are, by and large, intelligent and politically savvy people. But they are also shortsighted, as they seem oblivious to the fact that their project of Greater Israel remains, ultimately, hostage to the political utility and profitability imperatives of imperialist powers. They fail to realize or acknowledge that forceful conquest and occupation of the Palestinian land cannot be continued or maintained for ever; and that, as the late Albert Einstein put it, "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
Notes
1 Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, "Have We Already Lost Iran?" The New York Times (May 24, 2009).
2 Justin Raimondo, "War With Iran: Has It Already Begun?" Antiwar.com (June 03, 2009).
3 "ABC News Exclusive: The Secret War against Iran" (April 03, 2007).
4 "Seymour Hersh: US Training Jondollah and MEK for Bombing Preparation," CASMII Press Release (July 8, 2008).
5 "Jundullah: Jundullah Admits MKO Connection," WorldAnalysis.net (June 02, 2009).
6 Raimondo, op. cit.
7 Jay Deshmukh, "Iran's Khamenei Slams US as Obama Reaches Out," AFP (June 4, 2009).
8 James Cypher, "The Basic Economics of Rearming America," Monthly Review 33, no. 6 (1981): 20-21.
9 Ibid.
10 Philip Giraldi, "Setting a Higher Standard for Making War," Antiwar.com (May 26, 2009).
11 Leverett and Leverett, op. cit.
12 For a detailed discussion of this issue please see Chapter 6 of my book, The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism (Palgrave-Macmillan 2007).
