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The US
knows a liberated Palestine
would mean the END of US control over the Middle East- Prof. Jason Hickel
‘US support for Israel goes back to the 1960s, during a time when Arab nationalism and Arab socialism were extremely popular in the region and gaining substantial traction. These were movements toward national liberation and economic sovereignty.
The US considered this to be a problem, because it knew that it would mean Middle Eastern countries would have more control over their own resources and production, which of course means their resources would not be so cheaply available for Western firms and Western profits.
So the US wanted to intervene, to crush this tendency, and they used Israel to do it. This is a decades-long project. They armed Israel to run operations all across the region to decapitate national liberation movements and destroy these tendencies.
In this sense, Israel is not an ally of the US in a conventional way, but rather a kind of proxy force, a military proxy force. The US knows that a liberated Palestine would mean the end of this proxy arrangement and ultimately the end of US control in the region.
A liberated Palestine means a liberated Middle East, and this is something the US is not willing to accept. They see the Middle East as the centre of the world, the hinge of Africa, Asia, and Europe.
The idea of liberation and sovereignty in that region is antithetical to Western economic interests. So we have to understand the genocide in this broader context.
Clearly now with the ceasefire, it’s clear that the Western political classes are trying to get us to forget about the genocide and normalise Israel. But it’s crucial that we insist this cannot be allowed to happen.
The only acceptable approach is to isolate Israel until the genocidal government is dismantled, the perpetrators have been jailed, and the occupation and apartheid are ended. The settlements, of course, also have to be removed.
We have to keep all of this in mind, and reject the discourse toward normalisation.’
-Prof. on the latest episode of Going Underground
FULL INTERVIEW BELOW IN THE REPLIES
knows a liberated Palestine would mean the END of US control over the Middle East- Prof. Jason Hickel
‘US support for Israel goes back to the 1960s, during a time when Arab nationalism and Arab socialism were extremely popular in the region and gaining substantial traction. These were movements toward national liberation and economic sovereignty.
The US considered this to be a problem, because it knew that it would mean Middle Eastern countries would have more control over their own resources and production, which of course means their resources would not be so cheaply available for Western firms and Western profits.
So the US wanted to intervene, to crush this tendency, and they used Israel to do it. This is a decades-long project. They armed Israel to run operations all across the region to decapitate national liberation movements and destroy these tendencies.
In this sense, Israel is not an ally of the US in a conventional way, but rather a kind of proxy force, a military proxy force. The US knows that a liberated Palestine would mean the end of this proxy arrangement and ultimately the end of US control in the region.
A liberated Palestine means a liberated Middle East, and this is something the US is not willing to accept. They see the Middle East as the centre of the world, the hinge of Africa, Asia, and Europe.
The idea of liberation and sovereignty in that region is antithetical to Western economic interests. So we have to understand the genocide in this broader context.
Clearly now with the ceasefire, it’s clear that the Western political classes are trying to get us to forget about the genocide and normalise Israel. But it’s crucial that we insist this cannot be allowed to happen.
The only acceptable approach is to isolate Israel until the genocidal government is dismantled, the perpetrators have been jailed, and the occupation and apartheid are ended. The settlements, of course, also have to be removed.
We have to keep all of this in mind, and reject the discourse toward normalisation.’
-Prof. on the latest episode of Going Underground
FULL INTERVIEW BELOW IN THE REPLIES
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