By SJ Otto
When it comes to US foreign policy, it seems there is no
such thing as justice or fair play. President Donald Trump does whatever he
wants and the entire congress, with the acception of Representative Ilhan Omar and
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, just goes along, especially when it comes to Israel. That
country is an abomination, a nation that continues to elect leaders who are
bent on fighting wars with their neighbors, such as Iran and shooting unarmed
Palestinian protesters. While its supporters like to point out that Israel has
been a stable “democracy” for its entire history that is about the only thing
that keeps that country from being an outright fascist dictatorship.
Even the most liberal Democrats seem to turn a blind eye to
the human rights abuses committed by the Israeli government. Omar
is one of the first congress person to actually call Israel on its
abuses of Palestinians and in return she has been ridiculed by Trump, she
has been labeled “ignorant” and “anti-Semitic” by other congress people and
some of them have called on her to resign, some from her holding office and
others want her to resign
from the Foreign Affairs Committee she sits on. All of this over her
criticism of Israel. Many of those congress people ignore the fact that many US
citizens, including myself, have serious criticism of Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been running
for re-election and he has said that he will annex
Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank if he is re-elected. The
building of settlements on Palestinian land is nothing more than stealing from
those people. Since the election of both Trump and Netanyahu there has been
absolutely no effort put in to a peace process. If anything, the peace process
seems to be moving backwards away from the “two
state solution” that many people have been supporting for the Jews and
Palestinians.
Trump has been openly supporting Netanyahu against his main
opponent, Benny Gantz, who is also a right-wing political figure, although he
might be slightly less obnoxious than Netanyahu. One thing Trump did to help Netanyahu
was to declare
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, a powerful arm of the Iranian military
as a foreign terrorist organization. This will cause some
confusion for neutral countries or adversaries who already aren’t happy with
the sanctions Trump has placed on Iran.
Trump has had it out for Iran since he got elected. He
pulled out of an agreement that was meant to keep Iran from building nuclear
weapons. He has also sanctioned Iran, which will cause hardship for that
counties people. As in Venezuela, Trump is willing to use sanctions, which are
part of the reason that country has so many shortages. Trump and his supporters
are willing to use the hardship of other people as a weapon to get the foreign
policy outcomes they want. Those kinds of tactics have become common place for
US foreign policy, And NO ONE—no other country can do anything about US
policies. Our leaders do what they want and the rest of the world just has to
go along and put up with it.
Another out-right lie by Trump!
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