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Paone compares Israeli and American societies, including relevant
laws, to determine whether they share "common core values" as
claimed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), an
assumption which forms the foundation for American military and
financial support of Israel. His analysis includes the topics of
democracy, freedom of religion, equality, housing, freedom of
speech and the rule of law. He concludes that not only do America
and Israel not share any core values, but their principles are
inherently incompatible. Paone suggests that Jewish Americans are
the only ones with the capacity to deflect Israel from its present
self-destructive course, because the U.S. government has lost all
control over its creation. Though, Paone also notes, it may already
be too late. The coalition of "know-nothing" ultra-orthodox,
settlers and right-wing nationalists from the former Soviet Union
are getting close to running Israel on its own, including, and this
is most worrisome, its nuclear arsenal.
The author explains why North Korea, though impoverished,
nevertheless feels compelled to spend enormous amounts of its
scarce resources on developing nuclear bombs and missiles capable
of being delivered to the US, or at least to US allies. To most
Americans this seems slightly bizarre. But Paone's conclusion is
that North Korea is quite rational - it simply wants to DETER the
US from doing the same thing as it did during the Korea War:
killing three to six million Koreans; burning down hundreds of
villages, towns and cities; and leaving behind tens of thousands to
live the rest of their lives without limbs or with napalm deformed
bodies. We in the US may have only vague recollections of the
36,000 Americans killed or the 93,000 wounded in that war; but the
Koreans vividly remember their millions of dead and the countless
deformed survivors. Paone sets forth his explanation primarily
through American military-oriented sources; the diaries of US
Generals; over 200 photos of war scenes taken by US Army and US Air
Force personnel; daily Press Releases from General Douglas
MacArthur's Command in Tokyo and finally American newspaper
accounts.
The author describes his visit to the Jewish settlement of Gilo in
the West Bank that had been land owned by Christian Palesitians of
the village of Beit Jala. It was here in 2005 that Senatory Hillary
Clinton viewed the Wall being constructed around Bethlehem and
approved of it. Paone describes the terrrible consequences of that
wall and the opportunism of Clinton's blessing it.
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