September 6, 2006
by Russell Cole

I agree that the hyperbole and rhetoric is deployed by all sides of this issue. However, there is a more fundamental dynamic that seems to be organizing this problem in a manner that prevents the relevant parties from coming under the direction of any form of multilateral internationalism. This condition results from the failure of Israel - similarly to the United States - to recognize international provisions for adjudicating these types of matters; implementations of international law that are nearly universally accepted. The United States, of course, fails to submit itself to very basic standards of international law because officials would be vulnerable to prosecutions for war crimes and other related crimes against humanity. Obviously, Israel is motivated by the same considerations as the United States.

Neo-conservatism is not an ideology that is limited in its scope to the politics of the United States. Neo-conservatism is simply the form that a more general ideology presents itself in the context of United States politics. I would describe this larger ideological phenomenon as the metropolitan discourse of Anglo Empire; an entity with which Israel is in collusion, and, in fact, an extension - a conclusion supported by reference to the Oslo Accords.

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Remember, the Middle East assumed its current sociopolitical configuration from a source stemming from the vestiges of a colonialism that was organized and orchestrated not only by the British but by America as well. An example would be the protection of business interests that resulted in the British convincing Eisenhower to cause a regime change in Iran in order to thwart the nationalization of oil resources in that country that were intended to usurped control of the resources from British corporate interests. By helping the Americans procured for themselves a share of the exploits.

To put it in a nutshell, there are larger forces at work - which I am doing a poor job in identifying - that actively seek to prevent any resolution to this conflict, because if the Middle East was to resolve this issue it would effectively create a condition where Anglo interests could no longer impose themselves via a mechanisms, which it currently possesses, functions through its role as a broker of power; a capacity currently assumed through an extension of Anglo Empire that is essentially the Israeli regime.

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Russell Cole [send him email] is a contributing author to the Populist Party of America, and is the coordinator for the Populist Party's Midwest Alliance, the Midwest Populist Party.  Read more from Russell Cole at the Midwest Populist Party blog.