Latest Hypocritical U.S. Double-Standard

Israeli air attacks on Syrian warehouses, allegedly to stop the transfer of ground-to-ground and anti-aircraft (i.e. defensive) missiles to Hezbollah in Lebanon are endorsed by Obama in the usual terms, “Israel has the right to defend itself.” (“Self-defense” includes the “right” to bomb Lebanon without fear of its planes being shot down.) [1]

Meanwhile, one of the Cuban intelligence agents the U.S. imprisoned who was out on parole and was allowed to return to Cuba for his father's funeral, won't be coming back to “serve out” his “parole.” Those five agents (whose cover was blown by Fidel Castro, in a bone-headed move) were sent to the U.S. to infiltrate U.S.-backed terrorist groups in Florida to provide advance intelligence on terrorist attacks against Cuba. The U.S. convicted them of espionage and imprisoned them.

So Cuba has no right to self-defense. Notice that Cuba didn't spy on the U.S. or infiltrate the U.S. government, much less BOMB targets in the U.S.

And speaking of calling an infiltration of a private organization “espionage,” when American Zionist agents were caught infiltrating American progressive organizations in California and sharing the intelligence with U.S. secret police organizations, no one was prosecuted for anything, much less for “espionage.”

So there's two hypocritical double-standards for ya! Some nations have the right of “self-defense,” and some don't. Some infiltrations of private groups is “espionage,” and some isn't.

1) I don't particularly care if Israel blows up weapons Iran and Syria are giving to Hezbollah. Assad is one of the more loathsome dictators in the world. Iran is a repressive theocracy. And Hezbollah is currently fighting the Syrian rebels on Assad's side. Hezbollah is one of those disgusting religious fanatic organizations. Hezbollah aids and abets the murder of Lebanese citizens by Syrian secret police goons. There's plenty not to like.

Israel is a quasi-theocracy dedicated to ethnically cleansing Jerusalem and the West Bank of Palestinians to complete Jewish colonization there. Religious fanatics control government ministries. It should not be at all controversial to call Israel an apartheid regime. Palestinian citizens of Israel are an oppressed minority who are taxed and deprived of government services and development.

So Israel bombs Syrian arms depots? A pox on both their houses.