US Senate Votes for Sanctions on Iran Meanwhile Israeli Crimes Ignored

By James Buchanan – EURO

Many Americans are probably wondering when the US government will place sanctions on Israel for its repeated invasions of Lebanon or the Israeli massacre of the Jenin refugee camp or their assassinations of people outside Israel or the selling of kidneys of murdered Palestinians or their building of the “Apartheid wall” or their murders of American and British peace protesters inside Israel or the mass murder of 34 Americans on the USS Liberty in what the survivors describe as a premeditated deliberate attack. Surely our government cares about human rights and would be willing to cut off military and financial aid to Israel. Right?

Wrong. Our government is neither sufficiently moral nor willing to apply even the slightest pressure to Israel over its long history of evil deeds. Our politicians (with one or two exceptions in the House) are whorish puppets for the Israeli Lobby and will continue to give the bandit state of Israel whatever weapons and aid it desires to continue to inhumanely oppress the original Palestinian natives, whose land they’ve stolen. Our government is so thoroughly disconnected from morality that they are attempting to fabricate the case for yet another war in the Middle East, this time against Iran.

A recent news article reports “The Senate quietly passed legislation last Thursday implementing tough new sanctions against Iran that advocacy groups say will cause more pain for the citizens of the country than for the government it’s intended to cripple. The sanctions would target gasoline companies and Iranian imports of refined petroleum products. In addition, the bill includes provisions to ban imports to the US and exports to Iran, with the exception of food, medicine and other humanitarian aid goods. Assets of certain Iranian individuals could also be frozen. Aside from these direct sanctions, the bill, passed in a voice vote after only five minutes of debate, would also force the US to ban trade with foreign companies which continue to do business with Iran that is subject to sanctions.”

Not only has Obama failed to withdraw our troops from the illegal Iraq occupation, as promised; the imposition of sanctions on Iran is clearly another step in the direction of war. (more…)