http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=60854&s2=10
A Wolfowitz in Sheep’s Clothing
Maidhc Ó Cathail
December 8, 2009
Paul Wolfowitz, the chief architect of the Iraq War, now wants the
United States to help refugees. No, not the estimated 4.8 million
Iraqis forced to flee their homes in a war he and other pro-Israeli
neoconservatives planned as far back as 1992. Instead, the unlikely
humanitarian, having brought "democracy" to the Iraqi people in 2003,
has turned his attention this year to "the plight of North Korean
refugees in China."
In a June 16 Wall Street Journal op-ed titled "How to Help North
Korea’s Refugees," the visiting scholar at the neoconservative American
Enterprise Institute expresses his hope that President Obama and South
Korean President Lee, who were meeting that day, would find the time to
address "this purely humanitarian issue."
While it’s hard to imagine any U.S. administration taking anything
Wolfowitz says seriously after the Iraq debacle, Americans should still
take note. Whenever a Zionist poses as a humanitarian, it can be taken
as axiomatic that Israel stands to benefit somehow – often, if not
always, at the expense of U.S. interests.
But how, it may be reasonably asked, could Israel possibly gain from
Wolfowitz’s championing of North Korean refugees?
One obvious benefit is that it diverts the spotlight from Israeli
crimes in Palestine. The best known example of this strategy is the
Save Darfur coalition, which, as the Jerusalem Post once bragged, "was
actually begun exclusively as an initiative of the American Jewish
community." Eliot Engel’s attempt to deflect international criticism of
Israel’s apartheid wall exemplifies this ploy. "Now millions of African
people face genocide," the Democrat Congressman from New York
protested, "and the UN’s top priority is condemning the Israeli
security fence that saves lives on both sides of the security barrier."
Not surprisingly, we also find that those in the forefront of advocacy
for North Korean refugees are pro-Israelis. In his op-ed, Wolfowitz
specifically commends Senators Sam Brownback and Dianne Feinstein and
Representatives Ed Royce and Gary Ackerman for "pressing the issue."
While it would be difficult to find more than a handful of members of
Congress who do not at least publicly support Israel, those singled out
for praise are among its staunchest apologists on Capitol Hill. So,
unless Zionists actually care more about the world’s refugees (provided
they are not Palestinian), something is amiss here.
Weaponizing Human Rights
In explaining the reasons for "inaction" on the North Korean refugee
issue, Wolfowitz provides a hint as to a less transparent benefit for
Israel. "Unfortunately," he writes, "many U.S. government officials
seem ... reluctant to do anything that might jeopardize negotiations
with North Korea."
This oblique criticism refers to the intense struggle between the State
Department and the neocons for control of Korean policy, which was
particularly pronounced during the Bush administration. While the
career diplomats at Foggy Bottom had, in the words of chief U.S.
negotiator Christopher Hill, "no interest in weaponizing human rights,"
this was precisely the approach taken by the neocons.
The controversial North Korea Human Rights Act of 2004, sponsored by
Christian Zionist Sam Brownback, created the post of special envoy for
human rights. Jay Lefkowitz, the Orthodox Jewish appointee, couldn’t
have been more provocative in his dealings with Pyongyang. As Suzy Kim
and John Feffer wrote in Foreign Policy in Focus, "Lefkowitz
deliberately overstepped his bounds to undermine the nuclear talks by
linking them to human rights."
Predictably, the end result of this and other neocon provocations was a
nuclear-armed North Korea.
A diplomatic disaster for Washington, a nuclear Pyongyang is a
geostrategic boon to Tel Aviv, however. In their relentless campaign to
induce the United States to attack Iran, pro-Israelis invariably hype
the North Korean nuclear threat. It serves as an associative warning of
the danger of not preventing the "mad Mullahs" in Tehran from also
acquiring nuclear weapons.
But what about Wolfowitz’s professed concern for the "probably between 100,000
to 400,000" North Korean refugees?
In addition to the nearly 5 million Iraqis displaced by Wolfowitz’s War
for Israel, some 3.9 million Palestinian refugees have been generated
by that state’s expansionist ideology.
If Paul Wolfowitz really gave a damn about refugees, he would renounce Zionism.
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