Listen 0:00 / 0:00 − 1.0x + Default Ready President Barack Obama has done us all a favour with his speech to the United Nations; rarely, if ever, has a US president made it so obvious what many of us started to believe years ago, namely that Israel is now the unofficial 51st State of the USA. So now we know that it is foolish to expect the Americans to do anything remotely objectionable to Israel or remotely beneficial for the Palestinians. We know that it is ridiculous to consider the US to be an honest broker in the Israel-Palestine conflict; how could it be when its president now wears a “badge of honour” bestowed by the right-wing Prime Minister … Continue reading Is Israel now the unofficial 51st State of the United States of America?