U.S. Foreign Policies Viewed From The Receiving End

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best weapons in their arsenal, and with vast amounts of money, no matter how extreme it's repression of Palestinians. Israel quickly became and has remained for many years the largest recipient of American foreign aid, both military and economic, in spite of the fact that most Israelis live much better than many Americans - enjoying a much lower poverty rate than Americans do. This, even while Israel continues to engage in forced expropriation of deeded land, the demolition of innocent Palestinians' homes, detention without trial of innocent Palestinians, often for years. Israeli tanks have begun to seek Palestinian villages, and shoot up the place, causing dozens of casualties and fatalities, as often women and children, as men. Ambulances taking the wounded to hospitals, are often held up at roadblocks for hours at a time, often leading to the death of the patients, while Israeli traffic moves unhindered. The Palestinians know quite well that this repression wouldn't be possible without American support. So then Americans wondered why the Palestinians celebrated when the World Trade Centre was destroyed? How does America's hypocritical talk about "state-sponsored terrorism" sound to them? And to the rest of Islamic world?

Throughout the Islamic world, the United States is regarded with suspicion because of it’s pro-Israeli policies. Europe is regarded by Israel with similar suspicion because it has opposed Israel's repression and illegal settlement activities in the Occupied Territories. So neither would be regarded by all parties in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute with objectivity. Hence, it would be logical that the real arbiter of this dispute should be the one agency that was specifically set up to arbitrate and settle international disputes, the only agency that still has credibility...