America, stop sucking up to Israel

Dateline: Haaretz 01/11/2009

By Gideon Levy

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Dead Palestinian. A war without end until the US acts with honesty and foresight.

Before no other country on the planet does the United States kneel and plead like this. In other trouble spots, America takes a different tone. It bombs in Afghanistan, invades Iraq and threatens sanctions against Iran and North Korea. Did anyone in Washington consider begging Saddam Hussein to withdraw from occupied territory in Kuwait?

But Israel the occupier, the stubborn contrarian that continues to mock America and the world by building settlements and abusing the Palestinians, receives different treatment. Another massage to the national ego in one video, more embarrassing praise in another.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Gideon Levy (Hebrew: Israeli journalist for the Haaretz newspaper, where he is also an editorial board member. He is a prominent left-wing commentator,[1] and publishes on the weekly column “Twilight Zone” of Haaretz, where he covers since 1988 what he describes as Palestinian hardships and suffering in the West Bank, which he attributes to the actions of Israel and to Jewish Settlers. He is a regular participant and a representative of the left-wing in a television panel on the TV show, “Moetzet Ha’Hahamim” (Trans. ‘The Committee of the Wise’).  Levy was awarded the 1996 Emil Grunzweig Human Rights Award and the 2007 Anna Lindh Foundation Euro-Med Journalist Prize for Cultural Dialogue.[2] Levy also served as spokesman for Shimon Peres from 1978 until 1982.[3]