'Obama threatens Iran to woo Israel'
Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:29AM
Interview with Mark Glenn, Crescent and Cross solidarity movement
US President Barack Obama's anti-Iran threats are only aimed at securing his reelection by obeying the Israelis who put him in power in the first place, an analyst tells Press TV.
Press TV has interviewed Mark Glenn, with the Crescent and Cross solidarity movement about the issue. What follows is a transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Mark Glenn, let's bring you in on this. We're talking about the State of the Union address by President Obama and of course I'm sure you are well aware he resorted to threats against Iran, by saying that 'all options are on the table.'
What is this 'all options are on the table,' first of all? Shouldn't there be only one option- diplomacy? And of course what do you think is the signal that he was trying to send by this threat?
Glenn: Well, as my colleague pointed out this is an election year, Obama like all presidents wants to be reelected and so he knows that he is beholding to the people who put him in power in the first place and he basically has to do what they say if he stands any chance of being reelected as president.
So in that sense Obama's speech really is a speech that was written by Israel's foreign policy planners and that means the United States fighting Israel's wars for her, wherever they may be, if it's Iraq, if it's Afghanistan, if it is Libya, if it is Iran.
We have to remember that the plan that is behind all of this is to secure an Israeli empire, which would encompass all of the land between the Nile and the Euphrates River. So Obama basically has to do what he is told, if he wants to- not only to be reelected but if he wants to be alive.
I mean, we have to remember that the people who are responsible for all of this mayhem in the Middle East, they have absolutely no conscience about killing anyone. If they would kill a million innocent men and women in Iraq, why would they be opposed to killing an American President who happens to get in the way of their imperial design?
And this is something that was recently discussed in a newspaper column. It was written by a Jewish publisher in the United States where he talked about the propriety of Israel's intelligence and assassination service Mossad going after and killing the United States president because the president would not do what Israel demanded vis-a-vie war with Iran.
And so, you know, I think that throughout the world, I think that really it's only within the American system itself that this is something that is not widely known. I think the rest of the world basically knows that the United States has been reduced to basically attack dog status for the Jewish state.
It is not a super power anymore in the sense that the United States can make decisions that are in her own best interest. We are like a dog unleashed and Obama's speech last night was just one more proof in that direction.
Press TV: Quickly, you mentioned about this article in which Mossad was mentioned and I believe I understood you correctly in terms of a threat to the US presidents.
If what Israel wants is not achieved, I mean, is that really something that is the case, that the United States even though it supports Israel by the tune of estimates vary 2 billion to 4 billion dollars a year, has to really somewhat be obedient to Israel?
Glenn: Absolutely, the United States, I mean let's face it, ok, all we have heard from the Israeli press and from the Jewish mainstream media in America since the election of Obama is how much he is not working in Israel's interest. Well, since that time there has still flowed billions, tens of billions of dollars into Israel.
Anytime Obama wanted he could grab Israel by the throat and throttle her and bring her back into line by saying we're not going to give you any more money and we're not going to give you anymore military support or technology.
And we are going to start arresting your agents and spies in this country who are ciphering off our most sensitive military technology and giving it away to countries such as China.
Anytime he wanted he could do that but he hasn't. All he has done is made noise about the settlements issue and of course the fact that he is dragging his feet about attacking Iran.
For good reason, not only is it an illegal war but an attack on Iran has implications as such that could lead to the absolute destruction of the United States, which Israel in the end would want any way. She would love nothing more than to see the United States brought down so that she could rise up as a new power in the world.
So yes, the United States sadly is not a super power in the sense that we are able to decide and act upon our own foreign interests. We have to do what we are told by these people who control our media, our economy, who decide who becomes president, who decide who gets elected to our law making body.
So it is a sad reality but it is a reality, a fact nonetheless and not until the American people come to grips with this fact do we stand a chance of ever rescuing our country or even for that fact rescuing the world.
Press TV: Mark Glenn, US inconsistencies comes to Arab countries or should I say silence, silence in Saudi Arabia with the human rights situation there, Bahrain, Yemen, in terms of receiving Saleh in the United states. How are they supposed to win the hearts and minds of Arabs in the Middle East?
Glenn: Well, they're not trying to win the hearts and minds of Arabs in the Middle East. It's no different than somebody sticking a gun in the face of somebody and saying you will do what I say or I will pull the trigger.
The United States is not interested in winning hearts and minds. In general we have to remember that it is in Israel's benefit and it is in her, both short term and long-term, foreign policy objectives to keep the Arab countries surrounding her in a state of constant instability.
And so having governments sitting on top of these people that oppress them, deny them of their rights and of course saving all of these factions warring against each other constantly this works in Israel's benefit.
Because she sits there very stable, very much in control of her situation, while these Arab countries are falling apart and then they are of course susceptible to all sorts of pressures coming in from the outside.
So as far as winning the hearts and minds [of people], I think that we are going maybe a step too far giving the United States and England and really the West in general, that is, collectively speaking on the same leash that the United States is on vis-a-vie Israel and her policies we are going too far I think.
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