US
in Disgraceful Double-flip Policy!
by Steven
Shamrak
A few days ago, Joe
Biden, the US Vice President, said in a pre-taped interview with ABC's George
Stephanoupolos: "Look, Israel can determine for itself - it's a sovereign
nation - what's in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran
and anyone else… What we believe is in the national interest of the United
States, which we, coincidentally, believe is also in the interest of Israel and
the whole world… Look, we cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they
can and cannot do."
Does this mean that
Obama's administration has finally realised that Israel was right about Iran
all the time and the policy of appeasement of Iran has gruesomely failed? Why
has Israel suddenly become "a sovereign nation" with no pressure from
the United States and "coincidentally" with the same interests as the
US "and the whole world"? Shouldn't Israel be recognised as a
sovereign country, as any other state is, without any special permission and
dispensation from the United States?
By now, the US
administration and even many Muslim countries have realised that they need
Israel to do their dirty work for them in order to prevent Iran from developing
a nuclear weapon! Later, without any doubt, they will vigorously deny their
desire to subdue the Iranian nuclear ambition and will scream at Israel with
wild accusations of aggression etc, just as they did after Israel stopped
Iraq's nuclear ambitions in 1981.
Biden's statement was
made after the election in Iran failed to produce a change in the political
leadership in Iran and the president of Iran rejected any negotiations toward
ending Iranian development of a nuclear weapons program. At the same time, he
has expanded his irrational verbal assault and threats toward the United
Kingdom and Europe.
Almost immediately, State
Department spokesman Ian Kelly began a damage control offensive, rebuffing
suggestions that Biden could be seen as giving the Jewish state a green light
to attack Iran: "I certainly would not want to give a green light to any
kind of military action," Kelly said, although he repeated Biden's point
that Washington considered Israel a "sovereign country" with a right
to make its own military decisions. "I wouldn't read into it any more than
what you see... as I said, that we respect Israel's sovereignty." And it
did not take long for President Obama to deny - "absolutely" - that
Washington gave green light for Israel to strike Iran's nuclear facilities.
At the same time: Egypt
has vigorously denied that an Israeli submarine crossed through the Suez Canal
into the Red Sea last month and now it is able to reach the Persian Gulf off
Iran in a matter of days; Saudi Arabia has rejected reports that it agreed on
use of Saudi airspace by Israeli fighter jets on a mission to bomb nuclear
targets in Iran.
On the final analysis the
US administration and many Muslim countries would love and even be quite eager
to see Israel striking at and destroying the Iranian nuclear and ballistic
rocket programs, but the President Obama and other players want to keep their
hands clean and maintain their ambiguous position toward a military attack on
Iran in order to be able to rebuke and assault Israel politically later after
attack. What a disgraceful double-flip hypocritical policy!