{"id":8473,"date":"2011-02-23T01:33:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T06:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/?p=8473"},"modified":"2011-02-23T13:10:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T18:10:16","slug":"the-sad-irony-of-it-all-%e2%80%93-the-usa-and-the-arab-world%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/the-sad-irony-of-it-all-%e2%80%93-the-usa-and-the-arab-world%e2%80%a6\/","title":{"rendered":"The sad irony of it all \u2013 the USA and the Arab world\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Munzer A. Khair<\/em>
\nPosted By Alex
\nSyria Comment
\nFeb 23rd, 2011<\/p>\n

The amateur author of this outburst is a Syrian Arab, a Semite by ancestry and definition like all Arabs, and proud of it. He is also a part product of US Americana (AUB IC prep school in Beirut, Mount Hermon School for Boys in Massachusetts, dishwashing and waitering, AUB in Beirut, Colorado School of Mines, University of Texas, and even pre-Cheney Halliburton\u2026) of which he is equally proud, fond and grateful.<\/p>\n

This is a call on the United States to reexamine its stubborn, hypocritical and self-defeating \u201cmoral clarity\u201d narrative that defined and severely limited American options in the Middle East, led to unnecessary confrontations and to an unhealthy sense of hopelessness among many Arabs. It prevented cooperation between the United States and leading Arab nationalists that could have facilitated solutions including a comprehensive settlement to the bitter Arab Israeli conflict. While the Arab world attempts to cleanse itself from hypocrite and failed leaderships, the United States should not pass the opportunity to proactively initiate the necessary changes<\/a> on its part.<\/p>\n

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I AM \u2018THE<\/span> HOLIER THAN THOU, THE ALMIGHTY, THE ALL KNOWING. DO AS I SAY, DO NOT DO AS I DO\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can’t help but think that, before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East”.<\/em> Fr. John Sheehan, Jesuit thinker.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In my recurrent use here below of the expression \u201cOne intrinsically noble nation, preeminent among all so-called Western democratic nations<\/em>\u201d, I seem to single out the USA. It just happens that the USA is at the forefront and the most prolific although the French and the English were never innocent bystanders at the beginning, before turning into subservient and really inconsequential yes men.<\/p>\n

One great federated nation, preeminent among all so-called Western democratic nations, has been persistent in its policy of the democratic or not so democratic active pursuit of partitions, secessions, and breakaways. Witness: Korea, Cyprus, Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Iraq, and now Sudan. What comes next? it depends on what suits the United States… The same nation that suppressed, at the cost of some 2 million casualties, the truly democratic secession of its Southern Confederate states from its Northern states.<\/p>\n

One great peace-loving nation, has been persistent in fighting wars, warranted, semi-warranted, unwarranted, or invented out of thin air (remember Iraq’s WMDs), always outside its frontiers, never on its soil\u2026.. Exactly like Israel. The only two times it happened, at Pearl Harbor, even if somewhat remote, and September 11th, it drove this self-proclaimed \u201crule of law, democratic and human rights\u201d nation into a police\/security state. Remember the post Pearl Harbor and World War II mid-desert concentration camps or cities of second generation Americans of Japanese and German origins? Remember the more recent ex-territorial torture \u201cfacilities\u201d? Abu Ghuraib? Guantanamo (still on-going\u2026)? Water boarding? The mercenary gung-ho \u201csecurity\u201d firms? The prevalent Homeland Security Act, Patriot Act, Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act? Legalized wiretaps? Covert intrusion into all radio, phone, fax, email, sms, face book, twitter communications? The demonizing of Islam and the arbitrary suspicion\/questioning\/ harassment of Muslims, Arab or Asian-looking but genuine US and other citizens? The airport scans and intrusive pat-downs?<\/p>\n

One great freedom-loving nation, has persisted in its mind-set of blindly supporting not so democratic kings, warlords or dictators \u2013 as long as they were useful – in its prevalent gung-ho policy of \u201cYes, he is a sonofabitch, but he is OUR sonofabitch!\u201d. Remember Trujillo? Noriega? the Shah of Iran ? Pinochet? Saddam Husein (as long as he was fighting post-shah Iran)? Talibans and Al Qaida (as long as they were fighting and pushing the Soviet army out of Afghanistan)? Saudi Royal family (As long as their money was financing and arming the madrasas that produced the Talibans, Bin Laden and Al Qaida, as orchestrated by the CIA)? Qadhdhafi (after he got the message\u2026)? Al Bashir (after he got the message\u2026)?<\/p>\n

One great humanitarian nation, in its declared pursuit of \u201cbringing democracy to Iraq\u201d after failing to find the trumped up WMDs, has dismembered, vandalized and impoverished a proud and rich nation. The unnecessary war it led and its aftermath, regardless of the invading or local perpetrators, displaced, impoverished, jailed, maimed or killed more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein, murderous tyrant as he was, ever did or could have dreamed of doing if he had stayed in power.<\/p>\n

One great one-man-one-vote nation, has persisted in its advocacy, promotion, support of, and commitment to \u201cdemocratic elections\u201d in the Arab world, as long as said democratic elections come out in its favor. . If not, God forbid, these elections, even if certified by international inspectors, suddenly and automatically turn into \u201cterrorist\u201d or \u201crogue\u201d or \u201cmorally unacceptable to the international community\u201d<\/p>\n

Witness the Palestinian elections in Ghazza, where foreign and Western observers monitored what they labeled as one of the most transparent elections in the emerging world, but which was won by, Oops!, the \u201cwrong\u201d side, Hamas. The people of Ghazza had to suffer since that day.<\/p>\n

Witness Lebanon 2009: according to Wikileaks, 100 Million Dollars were injected just to fly Lebanese emigrants from Brazil and Latin America to North Lebanon in order to vote for America\u2019s \u201callies\u201d. Lebanon between 2005 and 2010: according to no less than Jeffrey Feltman<\/a>, during a recent hearing in Congress, 500 Million Dollars were spent just to pay ad-campaigns, operated by Lebanese US inspired \u201cNGOs\u201d, aiming at tarnishing Hezbollah\u2019s image in Lebanese opinion.<\/p>\n

Terrorist? Rogue? Morally unacceptable? Says who? Whose morality? Who are the holier-than-thou\u2019s doing the accepting or the condemning? Israel and the USA, closely followed by the European Union and the UN Security Council.<\/p>\n

One great egalitarian nation, is hopelessly mired in periodically recurring \u201cdemocratic\u201d elections (State congress(es), State senate(s),State governor(s), US congress, US Senate, US president), and thus constantly subjecting candidates to the pressures and extortion of lobbying, direct or indirect funding and block voting (read, among many vested interests, AIPAC, the Industrial\/Military Complex, Big Oil, Big Banks, etc\u2026)<\/p>\n

How can an independent-minded, patriotic, well-meaning and honest party or candidate of statesman caliber stand a chance?<\/p>\n

Here is what one highly respected US ex-senator, AIPAC\u2019d out of his senate seat, once wrote:<\/p>\n

“<\/em>For many years I have felt that the situation in the Middle East was very nearly hopeless. The fundamental problem for us is that we have lost our freedom of action in the Middle East and are committed to policies that promote neither our own national interest nor the cause of peace. <\/em><\/p>\n

AIPAC (the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee) and its allied organizations have effective working control of the electoral process. They can elect or defeat nearly any congressman or senator that they wish, with their money and coordinated organization.<\/em><\/p>\n

J. William Fulbright (American politician, 1905-95):
\nThe Price of Empire [1989] ch. 6, (p.183)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

George Bush Senior had a similar scathing experience with AIPAC<\/a> when he said the wrong thing in one of his speeches<\/span>. He lost his re-election as president of the United States of America. Exceptional for an untarnished president.<\/p>\n

We might, but history will not, forget the blind but active, direct, diplomatic, military, financial, media support of the implantation of a foreign body in the Arabic and Islamic world and the resulting rape of Palestine, the new diaspora of the Palestinians. Does the word \u201cdiaspora\u201d sound familiar to the newer rabid million or so Jews imported from post-soviet East Europe and Russia, as compared to our otherwise Jewish Semitic cousins with whom we had lived peacefully for some 1400 years?. We will not forget the programmed humiliation of the Palestinian and eradication of his identity, the military kangaroo or civilian rubber stamp courts that legalized the jailing of thousands, the confiscation of lands, the razing of houses, the destruction of century-old olive groves, the humiliation, starving, thirsting (while ever growing Zionist implantations have grass lawns and gardens\u2026), cluster and phosphorous bombing, maiming, murder, assassination of Palestinians, the land and water grabbing, the dislocation and renaming of Palestinian cities and communes, the quarantine and siege of Palestinian cities turning in effect large parts of what is left of Palestine into detention camps, the infamous \u201cwall\u201d (an anachronism, coming after the razing of the Berlin wall\u2026 reverting the Israelis by their own will and doing into a rich ghetto, but still a ghetto)<\/span>, the diminution, eradication, desecration of some of the holiest shrines of Islam, reducing the birthplace of Christianity to a few and isolated spots, and worst of all the international brain wash turning colonizing occupants<\/a> into romantic settlers .<\/p>\n

In their inborn naivety, the Arabs go hat-in-hand imploring the USA against these Israeli actions, forgetting that the Israelis did and continue to do in Palestine exactly what the US Americans did to the red Indians, an exact copy: From a handful of English puritan immigrants in a small enclave in Massachusetts (where they were well received in all hospitality, and helped to survive, by the native red Indians) to the gradual land encroaching and land grabbing, the \u201csettler\u201d halo, the repeated conclusion and almost immediate break of treaty after treaty, driving some hot-blooded young tribesmen in pure desperation into isolated irrational acts of vengeance resulting in the deliberate settler and army massacres of men, women and children, the displacement of \u201ctreaty Indians\u201d from fertile or hunting lands into reservations in arid lifeless, waterless, plant less lands (the so-called \u201cbad lands\u201d of cinema cowboy lore), the eradication of the red Indian in his identity and culture, the transformation of the proud red indian into a drunken lowly servant, etc\u2026..<\/p>\n

Now pops up, in reality not so unexpectedly, the current Egyptian \u201csituation\u201d where we witnessed really genuine democratic mass protests of the prevalent portion of some 80 million people against marginalization, hunger, unemployment and oppression. The 1.5 billion US Dollar aid to Egypt, reportedly 35 billion since 1978, goes in almost its totality to arming and maintaining an army that is committed by treaty not to fight the nation\u2019s only credible threat in the region: Israel (see U of Maryland annual polls<\/a><\/span><\/span>). The other part goes to the police and security apparatus (light armored troop carriers, careening deliberate hit-and-run killer vans, tear gas, sniper rifles, etc\u2026 that have recently graced our TV screens, plus the personnel training as well as the eavesdropping and other \u201csecurity\u201d equipment that we do not see\u2026). A fat lot of good this does to the diminished, hungry, jobless, homeless Egyptian\u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n

The role of a once proud Egyptian fighting army has been reduced to fantasia parades and, more essentially, preserving the security of Israel (for one blatant example, enforcing the Israel-dictated inhuman blockade of Ghazza into the underfed, under heated, underpowered concentration and assassination camp it has become, epitomized in Omar Suleiman<\/a>\u2019s reported whisper in Israel\u2019s ear \u201cGhazza should go hungry but not starve).<\/p>\n

Against this deplorable situation, what is the USA\u2019s \u201cdemocratic, freedom-loving and humanitarian\u201d preoccupation and knee-jerk response? The sacrosanct security of Israel\u2026.. Utterly mind boggling!<\/p>\n

One is tempted to regrettably conclude that this intrinsically noble USA is totally confused, misled and out of touch! For better or worse for us, and for the rest of the world, it is the only remaining super power at the present and near future. The proclaimed change from Bush to Obama is only a change in style; it is not a change in essence. The infamously insidious position papers were written, and firmly dug in, years ago by the likes of Abrams, Feith, Kristal, Perle, Wolfowitz and Co.<\/p>\n

When will the brain wash be sanitized and the blindfolds removed?<\/p>\n

We are humiliated. frustrated, disgusted and fed up, awaiting in anxiety the next eruption that the implant of a belligerent state in our midst is fermenting<\/span>, or being driven in pure desperation into the booby traps of intolerance and extremism. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Munzer A. Khair,
\nDamascus, Feb 4th 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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