‘United States is addicted to war’

Obama awarded the 88-year-old Israeli president the highest civilian honor in the United States during a dinner ceremony in the White House on Wednesday. He called Peres “the essence of Israel and the symbol of a decades-long alliance between Tel Aviv and Washington”.

In an interview with Press TV, Kamel Wazni, a Beirut-based political analyst, shares his thoughts regarding the issue. Below is an approximate transcript of the interview.

Press TV: First of all, I would like your impression of the story.

Wazni: Obviously, this is a disgrace for justice; it is injustice by itself. Shimon Peres is a criminal; he committed crime against humanity. In particular, in 1996, 102 Lebanese women and children residing at the UN compound were attacked by Israeli airplane at the order of Shimon Peres who is receiving the honor from another president who is also committing crimes against humanity by initiating what is known as target assassination drones and bombs against civilian that is taking place in the world.

So, basically, one criminal is honoring another criminal and this is injustice by itself. I think the American president should be ashamed of himself for what he has done and what he is doing by honoring somebody whose hand is full of blood with the Lebanese, Palestinians and Arabs throughout his history.

This is the case of April 18, 1996, the massacre of Qana [a village in Southern Lebanon]; everybody will remember the massacre of Qana. There are a lot of pictures, children, women; they were hiding at the UN compound, a United Nations facility where there was nobody but the UN and those civilians.

Shimon Peres ordered the massacre, the slaughter of these civilians. It is absurd to have a president who is running for election, dying for votes to come and embrace a criminal. This is the American at best: disgrace, disgrace, disgrace.

Press TV: What political repercussions will this have for Washington in the face of the international community with Washington claiming it being the supporter of human rights?

Wazni: Obviously, if you [put] the record and footage of what America is doing throughout the world, all these wars, America is addicted to war, been in war since the establishment of the United States.

Among themselves, 500 thousand people were killed in civil war. From that history, they took California; they took Texas from Mexico; they fought their neighbors. They have been fighting with the world and particularly with the Obama doctrine that is known as target assassination where they go with the drone attack, those drone planes; they go from a place in the United States with a computer and they assassinate people throughout Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and throughout the world, in Iraq, sometimes in other parts of the world that we do not know.

But everyday there is a civilian being killed by this target assassination and the fact that Obama picked the targets as was released by the New York Times through the analysis of how he used the drone bombs for target killings. So we have to talk about this issue.

There was a report done by the United Nations in 2010, accusing the United States of committing crimes against humanity and this was actually done by Ban Ki-moon and it is actually a thorough document.

So you can say what the Americans are doing and their record on human rights and their record on democracy and their records on what they call freedom. It is a massive killing that we have seen throughout the history of the United States whether it is in their war in Vietnam, in Cambodia, what they do in their fighting in the Persian Gulf. When they fought Iraq, one million Iraqis were killed and all their cyber attacks against Iran.

America is always committing crimes, over and over and over [again]. So there is no record whatsoever in democracy. America thinks about their own interests, about their own economic interests and their dominant power all over the world. This is a ‘missed justice’ when they talk about democracy. Democracy is a tool to launch, to further their interests and their domination and to control the wealth of the world.

Press TV: Some say that Obama’s move to give the medal was to gain the support of AIPAC in a year of election. Just how much influence does the Israeli lobby have in US politics and the US economy as well?

Wazni: Obviously, they have a very strong control of the election and they have very strong influence when it comes to the media, the money contribution to the campaign. But it does not matter whatever Obama does, I do not think the Jews [will] fight in his camp.

I think they still dislike him despite whatever he did to Israel. He actually gave more money, more weapons and more supplies to the Israelis. But I think there is love-hate [relationship] between him and Netanyahu and I do not think the Jewish vote will help him in this election.

I think Obama’s chance of being reelected is very slim and he probably will not see it. Just a couple of days ago, I was reading [about] the Jewish vote in the United States. They are pretty much against him because they always wanted more from him and from other presidents.

I think America is hostage to the Jewish vote and this is what is really needed: a new democracy in the United States to get off the Jewish taking America hostage for a very long [time].

It is time for America to be liberated from the Jewish influence, from the Jewish vote and I think Obama is trying very hard. But I think the situation in the United States is going to be voted on the merit of the economy and we know the economy in the United States is in the worst condition ever seen in the history of that continent.

Just a couple of days ago, they said America lost about 40 percent of their wealth. This is according to the Federal Reserve Bank. This is the situation kissing up to the Israelis, to the Jewish voters. It is not going to help. They are not going to like Obama and they probably will not elect him and he will not be elected for that reason and other reasons.

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