Permanent BFF-hood

Vice President and former Delaware Senator Joe Biden visited Israel this week, promising them “absolute, total, unvarnished commitment to Israel’s security.”

Thus, Biden espoused the same iPod-on-replay rhetoric politicians have been unquestioningly utilizing for the past forty years.

Are Biden’s words of unconditional support for Israel truly unusual to the critical American citizen (wherever he or she is), albeit Israel has recently disobeyed its earlier commitments to peace-building efforts by announcing more settlements in East Jerusalem?

Nah, not really.

For the past several decades, the United States has continued to maintain its patently fixed support for Israel – a nation to which we supply more military and financial aid than almost any other nation.

Yes, Israel has conducted what most of us would define as horrific war crimes, failed to acknowledge the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in its policies (not that U.S. is any better), and continued to stagnate any productive talks with the Palestinian Authority through settlement building and fervently hostile language.

Nevertheless we will still – as Biden bluntly put it – continue to support its security in absolute terms!

How can we support Israel’s security absolutely when the country self-imposes its own insecurities every day through violent actions, oppressive leadership and deceptive promises to “talk it all out” with Palestine?

We can’t. So stop this unpalatable “imperialist buddy-buddy” system with Israel, U.S.. Palestinians and Israelis are dying and devoid of information as a result of uncriticized economic and political ties, and we can’t allow it to go on any further.