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By Antony Loewenstein, published 21/7/2006Israel's response is disproportionate and counter-productive.
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No need to say any more about the present White House staff, but except to mention that from what one who has read of Immanuel Kant, he would really point out that such mercenary dual interests, would certainly rule out the US as fit to command his Federation of Nations.
In fact, it seem that the US in the Middle-East, has visions of a type of colonial-type Indian Dyarky or ersatz democracy, with US nuclear projectiles protecting the system as far away as America. Of course, there is also the Green Zone, or future US Embassy, said to be the ultra modern equivalent of the largest of Crusader castles.
In short, the Middle East problems need Kant’s Federation of Nations principle more than any global political problem before it. But the problem has been of course, that the US like the Soviet Union never believed in a United or Federation of Nations. Thus came the annoying veto which has recently been used by America to block any UN diplomacy concerning Israel’s incursion into Lebanon.
So it all depends now on who is calling the tune, and because unipolar America has now openly replaced the UN as the dinkum global voice, Israel is free to do pretty well as she likes.
It is so interesting that the above interpretation can be talked about in the Murdoch School of Humanities, but never much out in the street, and even among many of our onliners Murdoch could be called a mob of fruitcakes or bleeding hearts. Certainly the situation calls for much more commonsense