Someone wisely said, Without an established moral code in a society, there will exist no society. I like whoever it be that said this very much. ***Important article blessed by 82-paged thinking CIA soon to be released doc. (And my aside, a glaring P.S.--What is the word republican doing anywhere in the same sentence with the words moral code or humanitarian relations when in regard to Israel, Gaza, and our current American standing in the world? Unhidden diaper needed and asap:) foreignpolicyjournal/2012/08/28/us-preparing-for-a-post-israel-middle-east/ EXCERPT ONLY: ...Simultaneous with, but predating, rapidly expanding Arab and Muslim power in the region as evidenced by the Arab spring, Islamic Awakening and the ascendancy of Iran, as American power and influence recedes, the US commitment to belligerent oppressive Israel is becoming impossible to defend or execute consistent given paramount US national interests which include normalizing relations with the 57 Islamic countries; Gross Israeli interference in the internal affairs of the United States through spying and illegal US arms transfers. This includes supporting more than 60 ‘front organizations’ and approximately 7,500 US officials who do Israel’s bidding and seek to dominate and intimidate the media and agencies of the US government which should no longer be condoned; That the United States government no longer has the financial resources, or public support to continue funding Israel. The billions of dollars in direct and indirect aid from US taxpayers to Israel since 1967 is not affordable and is increasingly being objected to by US taxpayers who oppose continuing American military involvement in the Middle East. US public opinion no longer supports funding and executing widely perceived illegal US wars on Israel’s behalf. This view is increasingly being shared by Europe, Asia and the International public; Israel’s segregationist occupation infrastructure evidenced by legalized discrimination and increasingly separate and unequal justice systems must no longer be directly or indirectly funded by the US taxpayers or ignored by the US government; Israel has failed as a claimed democratic state and continued American financial and political cover will not change its continuing devolution as international pariah state; Increasingly, rampant and violent racism exhibited among Jewish settlers in the West Bank is being condoned by the Israeli government to a degree that the Israel government has become its protector and partner; The expanding chasm among American Jews objecting to Zionism and Israeli practices, including the killing and brutalizing of Palestinians under Israeli occupation, are gross violations of American and International law and raise questions within the US Jewish community regarding the American responsibility to protect (R2P) innocent civilians under occupation; The international opposition to the increasingly apartheid regime can no longer be synchronized with American claimed humanitarian values or US expectations in its bi-lateral relations with the 193 member United Nations; The Draft ends with language about the need to avoid entangling alliances that alienate much of the World and condemn American citizens to endure the consequences...
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