{"id":9742,"date":"2011-05-16T14:27:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T22:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=9742"},"modified":"2011-05-16T14:27:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T22:27:42","slug":"the-expected-pro-israeli-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/16\/the-expected-pro-israeli-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Expected Pro-Israeli Policy…"},"content":{"rendered":"

News of the Israeli navy firing shots at another Gaza aid ship today<\/a> has prompted reminiscence of the deadly and illegal attack on the flotilla aid ship to Gaza<\/a> back almost a year ago now. The ship was carrying sewage pipes to solve what is apparently<\/a> an ongoing<\/a> problem<\/a> in Gaza<\/a> for many people living without proper sewage systems, threatening health and environment. Properly functioning sewage is apparently a luxury Gazans aren\u2019t allowed to have, among many others<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This comes after George Mitchell\u2019s resignation<\/a> as well as the shooting and killing of unarmed Palestinian protestors<\/a> just yesterday. The White House has released a statement on yesterday\u2019s attacks<\/a> with the ringing praise and support we\u2019ve all come to expect. Given the fact that, as the Washington Post<\/em> reports<\/a>, \u201cIsraeli military officials have confirmed that preparations are under way to stop any new flotilla,\u201d we can expect the requisite praise and support for this action too. It should, of course, always be reiterated that any Israeli military action against Palestinians is in fact a U.S.-Israeli action against Palestinians. The money, weapons, and political support that allows such Israeli actions comes directly from America.<\/p>\n

Mitchell resigned \u201camid growing frustration over the impasse in peace talks.\u201d He surely felt the negotiations were intractable. Well, of course they were. He had to operate within a very rigid constraint: unreserved, unwavering support for Israel and virtually everything she does. There is no viable settlement with that prerequisite.<\/p>\n

A glimmer of hope to those less cynical among us is an expected UN Security Council Resolution<\/a> for a Palestinian state existing within the pre-1967 borders in September. That deal has been accepted unanimously by the Arab League<\/a> and even by Hamas<\/a>. Israel has rejected it. George Mitchell lent credence to it<\/a>, but he is no longer in the picture. The last resolution which gave a glimmer of hope \u2013 to call for the end of settlements – the Obama administration vetoed<\/a>, so make of that what you will.<\/p>\n

Obstinacy and aggression has been the protocol for U.S. policy in Israel-Palestine. September shall prove that position ongoing policy, or a fleeting fad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News of the Israeli navy firing shots at another Gaza aid ship today has prompted reminiscence of the deadly and illegal attack on the flotilla aid ship to Gaza back almost a year ago now. The ship was carrying sewage pipes to solve what is apparently an ongoing problem in Gaza for many people living […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9743,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9742\/revisions\/9743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9742"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}