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Editor’s Note:

Another clear article from Robert Fisk, a 35-year veteran
of Middle East reporting.

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Palestine and Israel, the US simply doesn’t get it
by Robert Fisk

Palestinians ceased to exist in the United States on
Thursday night. Both Joe Biden and Sarah Palin managed
to avoid the use of that poisonous word. “Palestine” and
“Palestinians” – that most cancerous, slippery, dangerous
concept – simply did not exist in the vice-presidential
debate.

The phrase “Israeli occupation” was mercifully left unused.
Neither the words “Jewish colony” nor “Jewish settlement”
– not even that cowardly old get-out clause of American
journalism, “Jewish neighbourhood” – got a look-in. Nope.

Those bold contenders of the US vice-presidency, so keen
to prove their mettle when it comes to “defence”, hid like
rabbits from the epicentre of the Middle East earthquake:
the existence of a Palestinian people. Sure, there was talk
of a “two-state” solution, but it would have mystified
anyone who didn’t understand the region.

There was even a Biden jibe at George Bush for pressing on
with “elections” – again, the adjective “Palestinian” went
missing – that produced a Hamas victory. But Hamas appeared
to exist in never-never land, a vast landscape that
gradually encompassed all the vast and black deserts that
stretch, in the imagination of US politicians, from the
Mediterranean to Pakistan.

“Pakistan’s (nuclear) missiles can “already hit Israel,”
Biden thundered. But what was he talking about? Pakistan
has not threatened Israel. It’s supposed to be on our side.
Both vice-presidential candidates seemed to think that our
ally in the “war on terror” was now turning into an ally
of the axis of evil. Even Islam didn’t get a run for its
money.

Indeed, one of the funniest reports of the week, yet
another investigation of Obama’s education, came from
the Associated Press news agency. The would-be president,
the Associated Press announced, had attended a Muslim
school but hadn’t “practised” Islam.

What on earth did this mean, I asked myself? Would AP have
reported, for example, that McCain had attended a Christian
school but hadn’t “practised” Christianity? Then I got it.
Obama had smoked Islam but he hadn’t inhaled!

Traveling across the US this week – from Seattle to Houston
to Washington and then to New York – I kept bumping into
the results of America’s White House-induced terror. A well-
educated, upper-middle-class lady at a lunch turned to me
and expressed her fear that Islam “wanted to take over
America”. When I suggested that this was pushing things a
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How does one reply to this? It’s a bit like being informed
by a perfectly sane and rational person that Martians have
just landed in Tennessee.

But seriously. There was Biden on Thursday night, telling
us that along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan – he was
referring, of course, to the old frontier drawn by Sir
Mortimer Durrand which most Pushtuns (and thus all Taliban)
regard as fictional – “there have been 7,000 madrassas
built… and that’s where bin Laden lives and we will go
at him if we have actually (sic) intelligence”.

Seven thousand? Where on earth does this figure come from?
Yes, there are thousands of religious schools in Pakistan –
but they’re not all on the border. In another extraordinary
bit of myth-making, Obama’s man told us that “we kicked the
Hizbollah out of Lebanon” – which is totally untrue.

And, of course, Israel – a word that must be uttered,
repeatedly, by all US candidates – became the compass point
of the entire Middle East, this “peace-seeking nation…
our strongest and best ally in the Middle East” (quoth
Palin) of whom “no one in the United States Senate has
been a better friend… than Joe Biden” (quoth Biden).

Israel was “in jeopardy” if America talked to Iran, Palin
revealed. “We have got to assure them that we will never
allow a second Holocaust.” Thus was the corpse of Hitler
dug up yet again – just as McCain resurrected the shadow
of the Second World War last week when he blathered on
about Eisenhower’s sense of responsibility before D-Day.
That Israel can quite adequately defend herself with 264
nuclear warheads went, of course, unmentioned, because
acknowledging Israel’s real power undermines the image of
a small and vulnerable country relying on America for its
defence.

Israelis deserve security. But where were the promises of
security for Palestinians? Or the sympathy which Americans
would immediately grant any other occupied people? Absent,
needless to say. For we must gird ourselves for the next
struggle against world evil in Pakistan.

Biden actually demanded a “stable” government in Islamabad,
which was a little bit hypocritical only a few days after
US troops had crossed its sovereign border to shoot up a
Pakistani house allegedly used by the Taliban. As General
David Petraeus told The New York Times this week, “The
trends in Afghanistan have been in the wrong direction…
wresting control of certain areas from the Taliban will be
very difficult.”

It’s an odd situation. Obama and Biden want to close down
Iraq and re-conquer Afghanistan. The Palin College of
Clichés characterised this as “a white flag of surrender
in Iraq” while continuing to warn of the dangers of Iran,
the name of whose loony president – Ahmadinejad – defeated
McCain three times in last week’s pseudo-debate.

But it’s the same old story. All we have learned in America
these past two weeks, to quote Joan Littlewood’s Oh! What
a Lovely War, is that the war goes on.