Opinion Editorials, September 2007
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Who's Really Running America?
By Ali Al-Hail
ccun.org, September 27, 2007
Many argue that, the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and it's alleged executive arm, the Israeli lobby has vividly, reinforced its unlimited 'invisible' power over the Bush administration once more lately. One may presume, as do many that as usual, the committee and the lobby attempted to remind those who are concerned that, they are the body which is in charge of US foreign policy, pertaining in particular to the Middle East albeit, it visibly, doesn't look so in public.
This influence couldn't be clearer than that in Dr. Rice's, the US Secretary of State statement, which considered the Gaza Strip as a hostile entity. Obviously, it's an echo exactly, to what the Israeli cabinet announced only, hours prior to Dr. Rice's arrival to Israel. Arguably, such a manner represents a negative image of the U.S.A. as an independent superpower whose sovereignty is apparently, hijacked by the AIPAC and the Israeli lobby.
Furthermore, the Bush administration's persistence on stopping an Iranian assumed nuclear program while Israel does have it for yeas and in access with reportedly, more than two hundred (200) nuclear heads, strengthens the latter argument and raise critical quires about the role of the AIPAC and the Israel lobby in the US foreign policy over the past four decades, mush less this current administration.
Since both Iran and Israel are in the same region, why should Israel have it and Iran shouldn't? Geopolitically speaking, Iran occupies three islands in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) allegedly, with the consent of the UAE, which is the only Iranian geopolitical expansion, while Israel expanded geopolitically, far much more than the Iranians in the region. The Bush administration's emphasis on the notion that, Iran is a threat to its neighbors, but Israel is not, it merely, defends itself and it has the right to defend itself clearly, manifests the AIPAC's and the Israeli lobby's pending effect upon the US foreign policy in the Middle East.
Now, after all these and other observed impact by the AIPAC and the Israeli lobby upon the US foreign policy, are there any doubts left that, the AIPAC and the Israeli Lobby who run the US foreign policy in the Middle East for Israel and in its favor. How oddly, ironic such a reoccurrence?
Professor, Dr. Ali Al-Hail, Professor of Mass Communication, Twice Fulbright
Award Winner, Fulbright Visiting Scholar and Board Member of AUSACE, ASC, IABD, NEBAA, BEA, IMDA and EAJMC American Associations.
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