Tuesday, May 8,
2018
In Provoking Iran and Allies Alike to Please
Netanyahu, Is Donald Trump the Most-Pro-Zionist American President Ever?
By Dr. Rodrigue
Tremblay
(Author of the
books “The Code for Global Ethics”, and “The New American Empire”
“Our
position is straightforward. This is a bad deal [Iran
Nuclear Deal]. Either fix it — or cancel
it. This is Israel’s position.” Binyamin
Netanyahu (1949- ), Israel Prime
minister, (comment made on Tues. Sept. 12, 2017).
“…You know that I am the best thing
that could happen to Israel…and I’ll be that.” Donald Trump (1946-),
(in a speech to Jewish donors and supporters to his presidential campaign, in Washington D.C., on Thurs., Dec. 3,
2015).
“When the representative body have lost
the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of
their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which
the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office
becomes dangerous.”
Thomas
Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd President of the United States, 1801-09, (in The Articles of Confederation, 1793).
“Power tends
to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always
bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when
you super add the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.” Lord
Acton (1834-1902), English historian, politician, and writer.
There
are presently warmongering characters (Netanyahu, Erdogan, Trump, etc.) in
charge in some countries, and they show no respect for international law,
whatsoever. The most dangerous among
them is, of course, the U.S. President Donald Trump.
It has become
more and more obvious, for those who have ears to hear and eyes to see that
Donald Trump’s drive to power is making the world a less secure place, possibly
a very dangerous place. Trump is constantly poking the fires of war with his
bullying foreign policy, a policy that seems to be framed by Israel’s Netanyahu.
This is a complete
reversal of what Donald Trump said during the last American presidential
campaign, considering that he ran as some sort of ‘peace candidate’. Indeed, on
numerous occasions, Trump has denounced Republican President George W. Bush for
having “destabilized” the
Middle East, in making the “mistake” of attacking Iraq.
The most recent
example is his reckless so-called unilateral ‘decision’
of Tuesday May 8, without any input from the U.S. Congress, to withdraw the
United States from the Iran
Nuclear agreement,
a deal concluded between China,
France, Germany, Russia, USA, plus the EU, and Iran, in 2015. Trump seems to be very anxious to return his country to a position of being
able to raise aggressive sanctions against Iran, with even a possibility of a
joint U.S.-Israel military war of aggression against that country, which has
not attacked the United States in any way or form. Is this a means for him to
pay his political debts to some of his rich donors? That is a fair question.
This could have
been expected since Trump has surrounded himself with known Zionists, in the
persons of his new National Security adviser John Bolton, a rabid neocon
warmonger and one of the architects of George W. Bush’s 2003 illegal war
against Iraq, Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and a close friend of Netanyahu,
and Stephen Miller—the former being Trump’s special adviser and the latter
being Trump’s speechwriter.
That may be one
reason, among many others, why Donald Trump is considered by some
observers to be the ‘most pro-Zionist’ American
president, in U.S. history. It is not a coincidence that both Trump and
Netanyahu are presently facing big political problems at home, and beating the
drums of war could be a good way for both of them to change the public
discourse. Indeed, the political technique of “Wag-the-Dog”,
with the frequent active encouragement of corporate media, is quite alive in
the United States, among unscrupulous politicians. American presidents Bill
Clinton, George W. Bush and Donald Trump, among others, have all found it
convenient to use it to deflect from their domestic political problems.
In general, it
can be expected that when crooked
politicians are facing a quagmire of their own making, and when they feel powerless
and under attack, they will be tempted to spend unlimited amounts of public
money and to sacrifice unlimited numbers of other people’s lives, in order to
save face.
Conclusion
Sadly, it can be
said that the warmongers are at it again. They will stir the pot to find
pretexts for war, in any way they can, because they think that the more chaos
they create, the more they stand to benefit personally, politically speaking.
History seems to
repeat itself. And Donald Trump is true to himself in being autocratic and
petty. His provocations are designed to please his rich Zionist donors, even if
in doing so, he greatly increases the chances of war. He does not care, because
he thinks that this is convenient for him at this juncture. Maybe he should
study history a little more. He would discover that tyrants usually end up very
badly.
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International economist Dr. Rodrigue Tremblay is the author of the book “The Code for Global Ethics, Ten Humanist Principles” and of “The New American Empire”.
Posted, Tuesday, May 8, 2018, at 12:30 pm
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