The scene in Washington is a very familiar one. Every four years, the competition intensifies between the two candidates to occupy the White House over gaining the favor of the Jewish community and the love of Israel. They bring up legends from the Torah (Old Testament) to add sanctity to such love. The love turns into direct financial support decided by the President without any questions from Congress, and his competitor pledges to do more if he succeeds. The conclusion: more weapons for the Hebrew State to confront its enemies (who are they?), more lands seized from Palestinians, their inhabitants displaced or imprisoned within walls that bear no comparison to the Berlin Wall. The sacred justifies the crime, and turns it into a humanitarian value. The two candidates to the presidency this year have not departed from this firmly established rule. Thus, while Republican candidate Mitt Romney was on his way to Israel to raise funds for his electoral campaign, as he announced, President Barack Obama was meeting in the White House with the leaders of the Jewish lobby AIPAC. He announced during the meeting that the United States would be providing Israel with 70 million dollars, in addition to funding the “Iron Dome". The White House is also expected, over the coming weeks, to ratify a military agreement to provide Israel with 19 F-35 fighter jets. In addition to all this generosity, Obama has sent his Defense Secretary to Tel Aviv to further reassure it that the two countries are standing in the same trench in the face of Iran, and in containing the new situation in Syria. Obama translated his love of Israel in practical terms. As for Romney, who did not miss the traditional prayer before the Wailing Wall, he has nothing to give now but promises. He pledged to recognize Jerusalem as the eternal capital of the Hebrew State, and gave a speech resembling those given by Netanyahu. Some Jewish journalists considered him to be, like the Israeli Prime Minister, a student of the man who inspired the Likud, Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky. To prove his love even further, Romney has chosen his aides from among the Neoconservatives who love Israel the most and hold extremist positions against its enemies and critics, even if they happen to be Israeli or American. Among them are John Bolton, Eric Edelman, Dan Senor and Walid Phares. With such advisers, it is no wonder for American racism in its purest form to permeate the discourse held by Romney, who said that Jewish cultural superiority was the reason behind the advancement of the Hebrew State, something which the Palestinians do not have, neither in economics, nor in politics or science, ignoring the role played by the occupation in imposing such a reality. Romney portends to no good, and is in fact reminiscent of Bush Junior. His advisers are the same ones who advised the former president. Their opinions have not changed, and neither have their racism, arrogance and destructive military tendencies. Suffice it to review what they write in the publications of research centers and in their newspapers. As for Romney's diplomatic gaffes during his visits to London and Warsaw, they are but a mere sample of the idiocy of racists we have grown accustomed to from among former US presidents, the most famous being Reagan and Bush. “The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven't seen them since" (American writer Gore Vidal who passed away a few days ago).
