RE: Re: self-interest vs class consciousness or pro -israeli support drive US

["Niggle, Christopher" <Christopher_Niggle@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps the "ruling class" is the principal beneficiary of the US support
for Israel, but the middle-class and working class love those big suvs....
And some of them (the fundamentalist christians) see Israel as a bulwork
against the dark satanic forces of Islam...Chris Niggle


-----Original Message-----
From: ScottH9999@xxxxxxx [mailto:ScottH9999@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 2:02 PM
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>Subject: [PEN-L:25999] Re: self-interest rather than pro-israeli support
drive US


In a message dated 5/14/02 11:41:05 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
dmonaco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> ...the primary aim of U.S. policy in the Middle East is U.S. dominance
over
>  the region and its oil resources, through support for regimes that play
our
>  game and through our ever-increasing military presence...
>
>  ...That reality is clear: The central principle of every U.S.
>  administration since the end of World War II has been that the resources
of
>  the region do not truly belong to the people of the region, but instead
>  exist for the benefit of Americans
>
>  http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0513-07.htm
>

Please! This should be "but instead exist for the benefit of the American
RULING CLASS."

We live in a society that is so class UNconscious, that even on the left
this
is a problem.


--Scott H.