THE ISRAELIZATION OF AMERICAN POLICY
Marwan Bishara, International Herald Tribune, 6/27/03
http://www.iht.com/articles/100893.html
PARIS- For the past few months I have watched with bewilderment as America
has adopted Israel's mistaken strategy in the Middle East. Will America
take as long as Israel to realize that starting a war is nothing like
finishing it, and that military occupation does not bring about peace or
security?
Two pictures in the International Herald Tribune on the same day, June 16,
spoke volumes. One showed an Israeli soldier in Hebron pointing his
automatic rifle at civilians with their hands in the air, and another of an
American soldier doing exactly the same thing in Falluja, Iraq. If there
were no captions, you couldn't tell one photograph from the other.
America, like Israel, is getting increasingly bogged down by an open-ended
military occupation, as attacks on its troops continue almost daily in
Iraq. The situation has been aggravated by America's break-up of state
institutions such as the army, rendering millions of Iraqis unemployed.
Powerful but vulnerable, America and Israel seem to bring out the worst in
each other. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, Washington has internalized
Israel's claustrophobic view of a world full of hatred and terrorism. Its
post-Cold War optimism has given way to vengeful pessimism.
President George W. Bush is walking down Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's path
as he uses the dramatic events of the past two years to whip up a new
theological patriotism to strengthen his governing base and confront those
- mostly Muslims - who "hate us for what we are..."
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