{"id":10121,"date":"2015-07-16T07:26:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T12:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10121"},"modified":"2015-07-16T07:26:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T12:26:56","slug":"usisraelisaudi-behavior-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10121","title":{"rendered":"US\/Israeli\/Saudi \u2018Behavior\u2019 Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

US\/Israeli\/Saudi \u2018Behavior\u2019 Problems<\/a><\/h3>\n

There is a madness in how the mainstream U.S. media presents the world to the American people, a delusional perspective that arguably creates an existential threat to humanity\u2019s survival. We have seen this pattern in the biased depiction of\u00a0the Ukraine crisis<\/u><\/a>\u00a0and now in how\u00a0Official Washington is framing the debate over the Iranian nuclear agreement.<\/p>\n

In this American land of make-believe, Iran is assailed as the chief instigator of instability in the Middle East. Yet, any sane and informed person would dispute that assessment, noting the far greater contributions made by Israel, Saudi Arabia and, indeed, the United States.<\/p>\n

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Israel\u2019s belligerence, including frequently attacking its Arab neighbors and brutally repressing the Palestinians, has roiled the region for almost 70 years. Not to mention that Israel is a rogue nuclear state that has been hiding a sophisticated atomic-bomb arsenal.<\/p>\n

An objective observer also would note that Saudi Arabia has been investing its oil wealth for generations to advance the fundamentalist Wahhabi sect of Sunni Islam, which has inspired terrorist groups from Al Qaeda to the Islamic State. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers on 9\/11 were identified as Saudis and the U.S. government is still concealing those 28 pages of the congressional 9\/11 inquiry regarding Saudi financing of Al Qaeda terrorists.<\/p>\n

The Saudis also have participated directly and indirectly in regional wars, including encouragement of Iraq\u2019s invasion of Iran in 1980, support for Al Qaeda-affiliate Nusra Front\u2019s subversion of Syria, and the current Saudi bombardment of Yemen, killing hundreds of civilians, touching off a humanitarian crisis and helping Al Qaeda\u2019s Yemeni affiliate expand its territory.<\/p>\n

U.S. Meddling<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the United States, which has been meddling in the Middle East\u00a0overtly and covertly for a very long time, including one of the CIA\u2019s first covert operations, the overthrow of Iran\u2019s elected government in 1953, and one of U.S. foreign policy\u2019s biggest overt blunders, President George W. Bush\u2019s invasion of Iraq in 2003.<\/p>\n

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US\/Israeli\/Saudi \u2018Behavior\u2019 Problems There is a madness in how the mainstream U.S. media presents the world to the American people, a delusional perspective that arguably creates an existential threat to humanity\u2019s survival. We have seen this pattern in the biased depiction of\u00a0the Ukraine crisis\u00a0and now in how\u00a0Official Washington is framing the debate over the Iranian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10,23,135,6963,441,1239,447,1049,522,7330,7203,701,776,821,834,1920,865,901],"class_list":["post-10121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-10","tag-al-qaeda","tag-cia","tag-consortium-news","tag-iran","tag-is","tag-islamic-state","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-nusra-front","tag-robert-parry","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-syria","tag-ukraine","tag-us","tag-us-media","tag-washington","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10122,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10121\/revisions\/10122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}