Obama's Zionist Wannabe Veep

"If I were a Jew, I would be a Zionist. I am a Zionist. You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist."- Senator Joseph Biden

Considering
the last eight years and the current (viable) options, I'll admit to
wanting Barak Obama in the White House in January. Undoubtedly, more
people around the world will have a better chance of surviving the next
four years with his finger on-or rather off-the button. However . . .

For
all of Obama's campaign promises of "change," his choice of Joseph
Biden as his running mate sends a clear signal to Israel's lobby in
Washington and its right-wing government in Jerusalem that for the next
four years there will be no change in the United States' unconditional
support or its annual $6 billion in direct and indirect aid.

Predictably,
neither will there be a change in the hopelessness and the impotent
rage of the Arabs suffering under a U.S.-supported Zionist ideology in
Palestine.

Senator
Biden is the ardently pro-Israel chair of the Foreign Relations
Committee. He is a 36-year veteran politician whose specialty is
foreign policy. When he told a reporter from the Jewish cable network, Shalom TV,
that he is a Zionist, he knew the implications of that admission for
the Palestinians, the entirety of the Arab world, and America's global
"war on terror."

Matt
Dorf, the Jewish outreach coordinator for the Democratic National
Committee, said that "Israel would have no better friend in the vice
president's office than Joe Biden." Dorf might just as easily-and as
honestly-have said, "Palestinians would have no greater foe in the vice
president's office than Joe Biden."

Commenting
on the unrest in Palestine in 2007, Biden planted his flag deep in
Israel's camp: "The responsibility rests on those who will not
acknowledge the right of Israel to exist, will not play fair, will not
deal, will not renounce terror."

Obama's
running mate has chosen his side. He cannot be a neutral American
statesman brokering a Middle East peace or he cannot be a Zionist.

One cannot be a Zionist and place the suffering of Palestinians on the same moral plane as that of Israeli Jews.

One
cannot be a Zionist and demand that Israel dismantle its illegal
settlements that co-opt nearly half the land in the Gaza Strip and
Occupied West Bank.

One
cannot be a Zionist and place the blame for sixty years of violence and
the deaths of innocent thousands-both Palestinian and Israeli-on the
cold-blooded determination with which the Zionist cadre executed the
ethnic cleansing of 800,000 Palestinians from the land they had
inhabited for untold generations.

One
cannot be a Zionist and contemplate the return of Palestinians to their
homes that are now occupied by Israeli Jews or the rebuilding of the
500 Palestinian villages destroyed during the great Nakba (catastrophe)
of 1948.

One
cannot be a Zionist and abandon the dream of Eretz Israel in order to
live as equals with an Arab neighbor in a truly democratic
Palestine-Israel.

One cannot be a Zionist and demand that Israel's apartheid wall be torn down.

One can be a Jew. One can be an Israeli. But one cannot be a Zionist.

Joseph
Biden is neither a Jew nor an Israeli. He is the Democratic vice
presidential candidate who unabashedly declared, "The Democrats'
support for Israel comes from our gut . . . and ends up in our heads."
Sound familiar? Haven't we already had eight years of a president who
"thinks" with his gut and expects the rest of us to behave like dung
beetle larvae? Speaking strictly for myself, I'm tired of their balls
of poo.

Could
it be there is no difference, no possibility of change as Obama
promises, between the Democratic and Republican parties' subservience
to Israel's shadow government on K Street or their tacit support of
Israel's internationally condemned policies toward the Palestinians?

Could
it be that the two parties' overt support for Israel's regional
aggression exacerbates the "war on terror" and makes the people their
candidates swear to God to protect and defend less safe?

Could
it be that the "ball of dung" being fed to the American people by both
parties conceals the obvious truth that there is no strategic value in
our irrational alliance with Israel?

Commenting
on the unrest in Palestine in 1921, Winston Churchill, one of the
architects of the modern Middle East, told the House of Commons: "The
cause of unrest in Palestine, and the only cause, arises from the
Zionist movement, and from our promises and pledges in regard to it."

Joseph
Biden's self-professed Zionism plays well on Shalom TV, but it is a
liability for the United States in the global "war on terror" and a
death warrant for Palestinian and Israeli innocents.