Israel’s national interests have been the “centerpiece” and “primary objective” of American foreign policy since the 1960’s, a journalist and political commentator in Ireland says. “US national interest should be the primary objective of American foreign policy, but since the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and even more so since the 1967 six-day war… the centerpiece of American foreign policy has been its relationship with Israel,” says Anna O’Leary. Washington provides $3.1 billion in military assistance to Israel annually. O’Leary, a pro-Palestinian activist who’s lived and traveled extensively in the Middle East, says the Israeli military is committing “a massacre, a war crime, a genocide” in Gaza. She said the silence of the Obama administration and the US media despite Israel’s “terrible destruction” of the Gaza strip is a “disgrace.” More than 650 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed and more than 4,200 others injured since Israel began its latest offensive in Gaza on July 8. Israeli sources say 30 Israeli soldiers and three civilians have also been killed during the 16-day Israeli offensive against the besieged territory. Palestinian resistance groups, however, say they have killed more than 50 soldiers.

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