It is careless to believe the promises made by U.S. governments regarding the possible solution to the problems of the Middle East.
Has anyone forgotten the famous Roadmaps promoted by Washington to convince the world that peace between Palestinians and Israelis was approaching?
I remember perfectly how the United States – implicated to the core in the problems of this region – summoned the warring parties to the White House. The leaders posed for the cameras and the cynical smiles on the faces of the hosts were captured forever.
One can find hundreds of photographs and videos of these encounters in the archives.
In short, they were decades in which the only thing accomplished was that Israel expand its settlements in occupied Palestinian territories, the Arab population be barbarously massacred in Gaza, and the credibility of international institutions - first and foremost the UN Security Council - fall to its lowest ever levels.
While there is a different occupant of the White House today, and he has made many supposed commitments to peace, the situation surrounding this region of the world has become even more complicated; Palestinians continue to be massacred and Washington has just signed an agreement with Israel to provide 38 billion dollars worth of military aid, representing the largest bilateral military package in U.S. history.
The new contract is a 26% increase on that which has been in place since 2007, which established the provision of three billion dollars annually.
It also includes a specific stipulation: Tel Aviv must spend the money solely on arms produced by the U.S. Industrial-Military Complex.
It is all very clear: Israel receives the weapons to guarantee its actions as a U.S. launch pad in the region, while the United States sells them, guaranteeing multi-million profits for the military sector, financed by U.S. taxpayers.
The moment in which Washington has agreed to provide Israel with so many arms — mainly state-of-the-art combat aircrafts — and about 500 million dollars a year specifically for missile defense, is worth noting.
A few days before signing the agreement, U.S. diplomacy, with great fanfare, signed a supposed pact with Russia to facilitate a ceasefire in Syria.
Yet one only has to look to the simultaneous events in Syria to see the hypocrisy of U.S. discourse. First, there are 22 terrorist groups operating in the Arab nation who refused to obey the agreement.
These groups began to violate the ceasefire and launched attacks against government positions in the northern districts of Aleppo and offensives in Hama and southern Syria, according to the Syrian Arab news agency Al Manar.
Similarly, the Al Nusra terrorist group (now calling itself the Jabhat Fatah al-Sham), armed and financed by Washington and certain governments bordering the Persian Gulf, is now receiving the military support of Israel.
Israeli television’s Channel 10 reported that the army of Tel Aviv has been given the order to step up support to terrorist groups operating in the Syrian provinces of Daraa and Quneitra, in the south of the country. This includes providing weapons, ammunition and explosives, as well as intelligence collaboration.
The warmongering logic of Tel Aviv and Washington, increasingly involved in the Syrian conflict, could cause a regionalization of the war, fatal not only for the region but also to world peace.
Israel seized a territory of 1.2 thousand kilometers of the Golan Heights from Syria during the so-called Six-Day War in 1967, which it later annexed, a move that has never been internationally recognized.
And should anyone be in any doubt about the Washington-Tel Aviv connection, we need only recall the demands made of Washington by the Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: extend military aid, due to the entry into force of the agreement relating to the Iranian nuclear program.
The Zionist demand is an example of the irrationality that prevails in the policy of both Tel Aviv and Washington, as Iran, which has shown the world that its nuclear program has peaceful purposes, has never attacked Israel or provided weapons or money to the terrorists who have killed more than 250,000 Syrians.
The fact is that Benjamin Netanyahu is playing the war card now more than ever, and ultimately that is why he has just been granted a record sum of money for weapons.
