'Satellite or parasite state?' By Naseer Alomari

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THE BUSH-Sharon partnership has reached a shameless level. Following a public rebuke of the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for his intention to take unilateral steps towards a final settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Bush administration backtracked and replaced its words of reproach by words of praise. While the words of rebuke carried Colin Powell's signature, the words of praise carried the radical Zionists'. The sudden change of stance has more to do with getting the Jewish vote in 2004 than with advancing the peace in the Middle East. While the Jewish vote is critical for George W. Bush, it is business as usual for radical Zionists. No matter who loses the 2004 American presidential election, radical Zionism will be a winner. With George W. Bush's Zionist neoconservatives on the right and Joe Lieberman's pro-Israel Democrats on the left, Israel will most likely sustain its parasitical relationship with the American people indefinitely.

The biggest conspiracy in American history has been to hoax Americans into believing that there is no Zionist conspiracy, a diabolical counter-conspiracy tactic if you like, to blur the vision and hide the obvious truth. Hence, a culture of fear has dominated America vis-?-vis the dubious role of the Zionist movement in outright controlling America's foreign policy in the service of the state of Israel.

I was stunned when many of my American colleagues would lower their voices or whisper a few words of disapproval when the topic of Zionist control of American foreign policy came up. How free American men and women have come to whisper their opinions regarding Israel although thousands of their ancestors died to allow them to speak up!

Even when clear-headed Americans politely raise concerns about the nature of the American-Israeli relationship, they are usually silenced by a number of false arguments to justify what is clearly a parasitical relationship that has killed thousands of Americans on Sept. 11. When Osama Ben Laden justified his attacks against innocent Americans as retaliation for America's support for the state of Israel, radical Zionists scurried to eclipse the well-established link between terrorism and America's unfair and biased approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Radical Zionists and their right and left American cronies have always countered the above commonsensical statements by falsely claiming that Israel should be unconditionally supported because the latter is a democracy and a close ally of the US. According to a number of dictionaries, an ally is a supporter, a helper and a partner. Can one think of a battle that Israel has fought alongside the United States? How about the current conflict taking place in Israel's backyard, Iraq?

As for being a partner, would a business partner be considered one if he or she swindled his or her “partner” out of $10 billion a year? How does grabbing billions of dollars make Israel a partner?

If the state of Israel is so strategically important for the United States, why is the former watching as American men and women are killed everyday in Iraq to make Israel safer?

I once read an interesting description of how in a parasitical relationship between animals one eats into the other's skin and then internal organs until the victim dies.

The writer is a Jordanian assistant professor of English education at Ittihad University, UAE. He contributed this article to The Jordan Times.