Sunday’s ‘This Week With Christiane Amanpour’ on ABC-TV was broadcast from Egypt and, of course, dealt with the protests against the Mubarak government. One of Amanpour’s guests was Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s national security advisor.
During the interview, Brzezinski mentioned that there were three great nations in the Middle East. He named Egypt, Iran and Turkey.
It comes as not surprise that Brzezinski did not include Israel as a great nation. He has always hated Israel and tries to undermine the Jewish state whenever he can. Last September, Brzezinski even recommended that the U.S. military shoot down Israeli jets if they headed to Iran to bomb their nuclear reactors.
Brzezinski spent his first ten years growing up in Poland, long a hotbed of virulent anti-Semitism. Many Poles eagerly helped the Nazis find and round up Jews for shipment to extermination camps, ALL of which were built in Poland. I suspect that his hatred of Israel likely stems from an exposure to Polish anti-Semitism during his formative years.
Brzezinski was one of Obama’s leading foreign policy advisors during the 2008 presidential election campaign. His omission of Israel from the list of great nations in the Middle East was no oversight. As far as Brzezinski is concerned, Israel should not exist.
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