U.S. Foreign Policies Viewed From The Receiving End

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U.S. FOREIGN POLICY REVIEWED FROM THE RECEIVING END

After September 11th 2001, much attention has been given to the developing world and the progressive problems which are present. The precondition to the terror which took place late last year, can be traced back for decades. History portrays dozens of examples of where American covert activities and overt foreign policy has gone against values that the American government so publicly and loudly proclaims. Americans tend not to see this, because they are unconcerned with the rest of the world and tend to uncritically trust their government to do the right thing, believing what they are endlessly told about the promotion of freedom, democracy and human rights. Seldom do they see the behaviour of their government abroad as the rest of the world sees it. That is why America is so hated, even though it's power and privilege is so envied. Americans think it is envy that has stirred such passion. The reality is that it is not. It is resentment and anger at the constant hypocrisy of American governmental foreign policy and behaviour and the total ignorance Americans have of it.

In 1948, Israel came into existence completely dependent on the United States, as a result of the many thousands of American Zionists who had moved there. Within a year, a wave of terror swept through the Palestinian villages under Israeli control, reducing their number from 365 to little over a hundred in just a few months. Waves of refugees, nearly a million in all, fled to the Gaza Strip (then under Egyptian control), the West Bank (then under Jordanian control) and into Lebanon and Syria, to temporary refugee camps, where today, a half century later, they continue to live in those same "temporary" refugee camps.

Not only did the United States do nothing to stop the wave of terror, but actually aided and sponsored it, and has supported Israel then and ever since. Not just morally, either, but with the ...