- In the midst of the Arab uprisings throughout the Middle
East, at a time when even the European (EU) has publically condemned Israel's
blockade of Gaza and its illegal land seizures in the West Bank and East
Jerusalem, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou promised a visiting delegation
of American Jewish leaders, that he would do everything possible to undermine
EU opposition and promote Israeli economic, diplomatic and political interests
in Europe. US Zionists, recently returned from a visit
to Athens described Papandreou as by far the most amenable ('servile')
European leader they have met in recent memory. Papandreou's slavish submission
to Israeli interests includes his promise, to a delegation of U.S. zionist
notables, to use his influence to pressure the new Egyptian military junta
to continue to uphold the Mubarak agreements with Israel (European Jewish
Press 2/11/11). These include the continued blockade of Gaza and
support of Israel's military assaults on Lebanon, Syria and
Palestinians. In other words Papandreou is openly supportive of Egypt's
past collaboration with Israeli clandestine assassinations and kidnapping
of Arab militants.
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- Papandreou demonstrates a greater interest
in promoting Israel's exports to the European market, than the country
he ostensibly represents. He promised a delegation from the Conference
of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations "to integrate Israel into
the European market" (European Jewish Press 2/11/11) while he shrinks
the Greeks economy by 10% between 2009-11 and doubles unemployment from
8% to 16%. Papandreou's gross servility to Israel and the American
Zionist power structure is manifested in his cordial reception and recent
agreements withIsrael's Prime Minister Netanyahu and his foreign minister,
the notorious Zionist-fascist Avigdor Lieberman the same Lieberman
who advocates wholesale expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank.
No Greek Prime Minister, since the Zionist state was founded, has exhibited
such a bizarre display of active collaboration with Israel's colonial
claims in theMiddle East. No European leader has so eagerly anticipated and implemented the
demands of American Zionist organizations with such zeal.
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- What is most striking about Papandreou's
servility to Israeli and American Zionist interests, is that it takes place
when most of the rest of the world, from Europe, Turkey, Lebanon,
Latin America, to North Africa (Egypt, Tunisia) and the vast majority
of Arabs are moving toward isolating Israel. In other words,
Papandreou is embracing a pro-Israel policy which is alienating Europe, isolating Greece from
over a hundred million Arabs and undermining Greek agricultural
(citrus) exports to the EU market.
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- Papandreou's perverse and highly prejudicial
foreign policy is matched by his extraordinary adherence and enforcement
of the debt payment policies dictated by the IMF and the bankers of the
EU and the US. His behavior is particularly shameless at a time when
the next Irish government is threatening to declare a debt default if payments
are not reduced. In his eagerness to ingratiate himself with the overseas
bankers, Papandreou has systematically extracted billions of euros via
a 20% reduction in wages, salaries and pensions and transferred it to the
coffers of the banks. In the process Papandreou's policies have doubled
the unemployment rate, shrank the economy and undermined any future growth
for the next decade. Papandreou rejected the Argentine formula, which
in the face of a similar crises in 2001-02 , defaulted rather than deepen
poverty. Under President Kirchner, Argentina renegotiated its
debt, shaving bond payments by 75% and imposing a moratorium. As a result, Argentina recovered
from the crises and maintained a growth rate of 7% for over a decade while
reducing unemployment from 22% to less than 6%.
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- If Papandreou acts as a submissive messenger
boy for Israel and its Zionist fifth column in America, he features prominently
as the eager and aggressive "bill collector" for the overseas
banks. He will go down in historical infamy as a willing accomplice of
Israeli war crimes, an upholder of its unequal treaties with Egypt in
his foreign policy and the enforcer of financial predators who impoverish
millions of Greeks at home.
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- Having decimated the Greek economy via
transfers of billions abroad and undermined economic relations with the
Arab countries, Papandreou offers to sell Greece's most lucrative
transport, ports energy and communication companies to Chinese, Israeli
and Wall Street investors and speculators. It is ironic that George Papandreou
the son of former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou should reverse each
and every one of his father's policies, especially with regard to the Middle
East.
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- In 1981 after Andreas Papandreou was
elected he invited me to Athens to discuss policies and programs
of his future government. The first thing he told me was the importance
of supporting the Palestinian struggle and how he had a successful meeting
with Yasser Arafat, who regaled him with a prized pistol, which he displayed
to me. A year later when I returned to Greece to direct and
develop a research center, he invited me for a swim. We were accompanied
by a dozen underwater security guards, patrolling offshore, against a potential
assassination plot by Mossad, according to the prime minister, in reprisal
for his solidarity with the Palestinians in Lebanon.
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- A few days later over 50,000 Greeks led
by Culture Minister Melina Mercuri marched in solidarity with the
Palestinians and in repudiation of Israel's role in the bloody massacre
of 2000 women and children in Sabra and Shatila. The contrast of the two
generations of Papandreou's could not be more stark; while Andreas saw
Greece as a bridge between Europe and the Arab East, George sees Greece
acting as a pimp for Israeli business interests in Europe and
as a lobbyist for its dominance in the Middle East. The Zionists have
lost an old client in Mubarek and gained a new one in Papendreou.
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- Like Mubarak, George Papandreou combines servility to
his imperial mentors with arrogance and brutality to his Greek subjects.
As the Egyptians demonstrated it will take the Greek people more than
marches and occasional strikes to bring down an entrenched client of the
empire. But it can be done as was exemplified in Cairo!
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