The United States has become the sycophant of the world.

What nation allows its sailors to be killed, its secrets to be stolen without taking action, its military to be killed in battles for benefit of another nation, its media and government to be used to excuse the aggressive actions of another nation, and an honored president to be insulted by a leading official of another government? The all powerful United States of course!

Some strong action can still be taken for the 1967 Israeli air force attack on the U.S.S. Liberty in international waters, which killed 34 Americans and wounded 173. A strong action can still be taken for Israeli spying, such as the recent arrest of Connecticut-born military engineer Ben-Ami Kadish for passing classified documents to an Israeli science attaché, linked to sentenced spy Pollard, with whom Israel denied any contact. An investigation can still resolve if the U.S. invaded Iraq and remains there in a quagmire due to the influence of the pro-Israel Neocons.

Israel bombed the sovereign nation of Syria because of the "discovery" that Syria is constructing an atomic reactor. Note that constructing an atomic reactor to relieve oil imports and assist with energy needs is beneficial to a nation. Its development is also a long, long way from constructing a nuclear weapon, especially when the nation has no means of acquiring weapons grade uranium or a means to produce the fissionable material. Imagine if Syria bombed an Israeli plant known to produce nuclear bombs, which Israel prepared to use on Syria. For preventing a nuclear catastrophe, Syria would probably be rewarded with a nuclear catastrophe.

Since Israel won't apologize for its rash action; it remains for sycophant U.S. to offer the excuse for Israel's violation of another nation's sovereignty. The White House described the alleged reactor as "a dangerous and potentially destabilising development for the region and the world".

It's not the U.S. invasion of Iraq, or Israel's invasion of Lebanon, or Israel's oppressive policies in Palestine, or the U.S. confrontation with Iran that are destabilizing the Middle East; no, it's powerless Syria who dared to construct an atomic reactor that has no military potential, who is "a dangerous and potentially destabilizing development for the region and the world" - not just the region, but the world.

Now we have Dan Gillerman, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, on April 24, denouncing former U.S. President Jimmy Carter as "a bigot" for meeting with Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal in Syria. Can diplomacy allow this to happen, for a UN ambassador to audaciously and falsely accuse a revered ex-president of the U.S., one who had always fought for peace and against prejudice, to be insulted in this manner? Can a proud nation not react strongly to this insult to all Americans?

A Ha'aretz Editorial: Our Debt to Jimmy Carter, April 15, 200, said it well.

"Jimmy Carter has dedicated his life to humanitarian missions, to peace, to promoting democratic elections, and to better understanding between enemies throughout the world. Recently, he was involved in organizing the democratic elections in Nepal, following which a government will be set up that will include Maoist guerrillas who have laid down their arms. But Israelis have not liked him since he wrote the book "Palestine: Peace not Apartheid.

Whether Carter's approach to conflict resolution is considered by the Israeli government as appropriate or defeatist, no one can take away from the former U.S. president his international standing, nor the fact that he brought Israel and Egypt to a signed peace that has since held. Carter's method, which says that it is necessary to talk with every one, has still not proven to be any less successful than the method that calls for boycotts and air strikes. In terms of results, at the end of the day, Carter beats out any of those who ostracize him. For the peace agreement with Egypt, he deserves the respect reserved for royalty for the rest of his life."

Declaring the Israeli UN ambassador non persona grata on U.S. territory could demonstrate U.S. still has some pride, some credibility, some standing and some independence in the world.

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