Blind Support for Israel Will Destroy the America We Know

And Further Weaken a Struggling United Nations

Hossein Askari
6 min readDec 10, 2023

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The United States supports Israel with arms, money and diplomatic cover. Seldom a word of criticism let alone serious arm twisting to change Israeli policies, even when it comes to dropping our 2,000 pound bombs on innocent Palestinian women and children. Our media protects Israel and Zionists with reporting that is designed not to inform, but to misinform, Americans — detailed emotional coverage of the death of a single Israeli and only a passing mention of the thousands of children massacred by indiscriminate Israeli bombardment with a death toll of 18,000 in Gaza and a number approaching 1,000 estimated in the West Bank. The message is that killing thousands of women and children with bombs is somehow better that killing 1,200 with guns and knives! All killing is bad.

The Israeli propaganda mission has gathered a full head of steam with exaggerations and lies, with high-profile Jewish academics attacking all those who criticize Israeli policies, corporate America joining in defense of Israel and the media and Hollywood trumpeting Jewish suffering at the hands of the Nazis and the horrific Hamas attack of October 7. This past week, the State Department went so far as to bypass the U.S. Congress to facilitate and push the sale of tank munitions to Israel. Biden is seeking billions of dollars in additional military aid for Israel’s war in Gaza as Israel violates America’s rules for arming foreign nations — that…

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Hossein Askari

MIT engineer-economist. Prof: Tufts, UT-Austin, GW. IMF Board. Gov Mediator: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait. Focus on Econ-Fin, Oil, Sanctions, Mid-East, Islam