Addicted To Occupation

“I think that Israel needs an adult who will save it from its own addiction to the occupation. … I think that this balance of power, this really twisted relationship between the United States and Israel, which is unprecedented—there’s no country in the world that reacts like Israel vis-à-vis the United States vis-à-vis independence from the United States—I think that this is not a healthy pattern. Israel is addicted to the occupation because it benefits a lot from the occupation economically and politically, and above all because it doesn’t pay any price for the occupation.” Ha’aretz journalist Gideon Levy in a Real News interview characterizes Israel as  a drug addict who needs outside help in the form of pressure.

One can either help them get more drugs, as the US at the behest of the Jewish likudist lobby has done in this analogy, and this may be propagated as care, he says, but it is not real friendship.  Levy hopes that the Obama Administration will offer some tough love, because “someone has to push Israel, and the only actor who can push Israel is the United States. This can only happen with American pressure” .

With a solid ZOG and the zionist entity encroaching with 900 new illegal housing units in a South Jerusalem outpost beyond the green line,  it ain’t going to happen anytime soon. (Transcript over the fold, h/t ICH).

Gideon Levy:
“I know there is a change in the Jewish community in the United States, but it’s too little and too late. Still the conservative establishment, the conservative Jewish establishment, is so powerful, and I don’t see signs that it’s losing its power. J Street is a wonderful initiative, very promising, but still the power of AIPAC, of Anti-Defamation League, and other organizations is still very, very strong. And I don’t think it’s a question of months or years that this will change dramatically. Israel is so much not willing to make peace, someone has to push Israel, and the only actor who can push Israel is The United States.”

Notes/Sources:
1.PulseMedia