Why They Are Seeking a Blockade of Iran

But there is a counter-consciousness, articulated in the Bible alongside moments of domination-consciousness attributed to God, and this counter-consciousness emphasizes the possibility of a world based on love, justice, peace and caring for others.

From our standpoint, the blockade of Iranian oil is a provocative step meant to push Iran into taking counter-steps that would then allow Israel or the US to provide their own people with alleged justification for a larger assault.

The major forces pushing this are NOT the State of Israel and the American Jewish establishment, but the Vice President Cheney and the oil companies whose interests he serves. It is they who worry most about Iran emerging as the dominant force in the Middle East, particularly after the US moves out of Iraq in the years following an Obama election to the presidency.

They believe that such a situation would involve Iran having dominant influence in a Shiite dominated Iraq, and that between Iraq and Iran the Arabs might take serious moves to reduce the power of the oil companies and possibly even threaten the stability of Sunni dominated Saudi Arabia, which works hand-in-glove with US oil interests.

After having fought a war in Iraq so that we could hand over the oil fields to the US oil companies, something that was vigorously denied in the past but in the past few weeks has become the explicit goal of the US puppet regime in Iraq, US oil interests are not willing to see their promised mega profits be threatened by Iran.

They imagine that this may be their last moment (that is, from now till Jan. 20, 2009 when the new president takes office) at least for another four or eight years, and so they want to do something that could provoke a larger war that the new president would have to support.

They care little about Israel, except as a useful idiot pawn, a country so traumatized by fear that it imagines that it needs sole nuclear dominance in the Middle East to preserve its survival, and so is anxious to join or even lead any assault on Iranian potential nuclear sites.

But this is for the oil companies and the Bush Administration a side show—they could not care less if Israel were wiped out in the long run; what drives their policies is their fanatic commitment to the oil interests and to the super profits that they have no been able to amass.

The American Jewish Establishment, operating through AIPAC and many other sources, has aligned itself with this crusade of folly, first in Iraq and now in Iran. And they have been able to call upon many of their supporters in Congress to do likewise.
    

But then there are the majority of American Jews who do not support the war in Iraq and would not support a war in Iran unless it was perceived as being Israel’s only path to self-defense.

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