Multi-millionaire, real estate speculator and winery owner Nancy Pelosi knows her politics alright. Born in to money and married more, she is a staunch supporter of Israel. "We in Congress stand by Israel," she tells Benjamin Netanyahu, Israels Prime Minister. As Palestinians languish in perhaps the world's largest concentration camp, she reassures Netanyahu "at an all-smiles appearance before the cameras" according to the highly censored US mass media that "In Congress we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel." And they think Castro is a bad guy. Just shows, one mans terrorist is anothers freedom fighter. Depends on which side of the class divide one sits.
Pelosi hangs out with top catholic church figures including the pope of Rome, was married in a catholic church as part of the hypocritical game these people play about religion and morals but has no problem ignoring the plight of the Palestinians in Israel, the Iraqis in Iraq or anyone else that stands in the path of the accumulation of capital. As a good bourgeois woman, Pelosi recognizes that the Zionist state is the only dependable ally for US imperialism in the middle east; the only stable defender of US oil interests. She grew up in an anti-semitic religion but the dollar trumps Jesus. The Arab working class is too powerful, has too much revolutionary potential to eliminate the corrupt Arab regimes which makes them very shaky friends. A Jewish state in the middle east, as the former British governor of Jerusalem once remarked, was British, and now US imperialism's "loyal little Ulster" referring to the Protestant dominated north of Ireland created by and occupied by the British.
It is this relationship with the loyal Jewish Ulster in the Middle East that is the prime cause of hostility toward the US in the Muslim world and acts as a recruitment tool for terrorist groups. The relationship with the US Congress and Israel lasts only as long as there is no alternative. The Gentile bourgeois have no time for their Jewish competitors and are forced to keep them close at hand. But we should be clear that as the US economic miracle continues to decline and the US working class is forced more and more to bear the brunt of a failed system, its willingness to fund this tiny little enclave on the Mediterranean could wear thin. And a threatened US bourgeois would resort to whipping up anti-semitism in a minute when it suits them.
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