When will the US gain independence from Israel?

In a video recorded in 2001, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly said, “The main thing, first of all, is to hit them [Palestinians]. When will Not just one blow, but blows that are so painful that the price will be too heavy to be borne.” Dismissing the possibility that the United States would be an obstacle to the perpetration of such gruesome crimes, he added, “I know what America is. America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won’t get in the way.

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When will the above statement was first reported in various media outlets in 2010

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More than a decade on, if we unpack the intricacies of US-Israel relations, we may not characterise Netanyahu’s statements as hyperbolic or counterintuitive. Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear understand that the US-Israel relationship is asymmetrical and lopsided in favour of the latter’s interests. Successive US governments have been acting against the stated values and principles of their country in order to offer unconditional support for inhuman Israeli policies against Palestinians. US governments—both Democratic and Republican—have been routinely ignoring their own human rights stance by using the veto power at the UN Security Council to protect the Israeli state from criticism of its gross violations of human rights and international laws.

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The US’s acquiescent submission to Israeli authorities has become more conspicuous, and the magnitude of its catastrophic consequences more evident, since early October 2023 when Israel launched its ongoing genocide against Palestinians. At the expense of its domestic and international interests as well as its global standing, the US has been providing Israel with economic incentives and military munitions, which the latter has been using to slaughter innocent Palestinian children, women, and men and to demolish educational institutions and other critical facilities—all designed to trigger a mass exodus of the surviving Palestinians from their land.

There are instances when the US government treated its own citizens’ lives as less valuable than the interests of Israel.

In March 2003, Israelis went on their routine killing and demolition spree in the Palestinian town of Rafah. At that time, Rachel Corrie, the 23-year old US citizen and an alum of Evergreen State College in the state of Washington, was part of a team of peace activists who went to Palestine to prevent Israelis from bulldozing indigenous homes. On March 16, 2003, an Israeli bulldozer was approaching to flatten a house where a Palestinian pharmacist named Samir Nasrallah lived with his wife and three children. It “stood alone in a sea of sand and debris,” as Israelis had levelled most other Palestinian houses in the area.

Rachel Corrie stood in the path of the bulldozer, urged the operator to stop, and acted as a human shield to protect the property. Her urgings fell on deaf ears. Manufactured by the US company Caterpillar, Inc, the bulldozer ran over Corrie, fracturing her skull, shattering her ribs, and puncturing her lungs; she was crushed to death on the spot. Later, an Israeli court acquitted the IDF soldier who “deliberately” ran the bulldozer over Corrie, and the US government didn’t protest.

Emails that Rachel Corrie sent from When will Palestine before her death included the following:

“It is most difficult for me to think about what’s going on here when I sit down to write back to the United States I don’t know if many of the children here have ever existed without tank-shell holes in their walls and the towers of an occupying army surveying them constantly from the near horizons. I think, although I’m not entirely sure, that even the smallest of these children understand that life is not like this everywhere.”

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