THE APATHY AND THE ARROGANCE
OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY
Viewpoint Response
By Nassir M. Al-Ajmi
August 25, 2002
This article is in response to the many
positive comments, suggestions and proposed solutions, I received in response to my
viewpoint article on (Terrorism, Inherent or Acquired?).
I would hazard to guess that most of the responses came from genuine people
who are neither politicians nor planning to run for the U.S. Senate or the House of
Representatives. Please take that as a
compliment because I meant it to be a compliment, and allow me to respond to your
concerns, suggestions and proposals in the following manner:
·
The
Arab/Israeli conflict has defied solutions for the past fifty (50) years, because Israel
simply will not accept any solution to end the conflict.
Ending the Arab/Israeli conflict at this stage does not serve Israel’s
long term objectives, because it stops way short of the declared Zionist dream of greater Israel
– stretching from the Nile West to the Euphrates East.
The massive and illegal immigration and infiltration of European Jews into Palestine
following World Wars I and II, came to make that Zionist dream come true.
·
As long as
Israel has the U.S. blind backing, politically, economically and militarily, it has
no fear or incentive to give up or accept anything short of its fantasies. In fact, Israel’s frame of mind and its
existence may be more dependent on war than on peace.
For Israel, peace is more frightening than war.
·
Israel had displaced some
(800,000) Palestinians in 1948 (54 years), and has been occupying the West Bank and Gaza
since 1967 (35 years) and yet has failed to come up with a single worthy solution to the
Palestinian plight. Suicide attacks are the
results of Palestinian desperation, Israeli oppression and usurpation of Palestinian lands
and properties. Israel has had an ample time
(years) to bring about a just solution to the Palestinian tragedy, but never had the
intention to do so; and stopping the suicide attacks will not change the Israeli attitude. At least that is what the Palestinians think and
history is on their side. Palestinians stopped
their first intifadha over ten (10) years ago in favor of the Oslo accord with Israel and United
States pledge to negotiate a final peace agreement based on the United Nations resolution
242, within five (5) years time frame. Israel
had never intended then, and will not now go back to the 1967 green line borders, accept
fixed and permanent borders, give up old Jerusalem, remove all Jewish settlements on Arab
lands or compensate Palestinian refugees. So
under these desperate economic, political and human conditions, is it reasonable to force
the Palestinians to end their intifadha and stop suicide attacks on Israel and go back to
sleep in hopelessness for another thirty five (35) years?
·
The Arab
front has always been disunited/weak and has been further diminished by Saddam’s war
adventures and American political, economic and military pressures and threats. Therefore, the Arabs are in no position to go to
war against Israel, and even if they were, the U.S. will not allow it. Instead, the Arabs have taken the peace route under
tremendous U.S. pressures and American assurance of maintaining an even-hand and balanced
American firmness in resolving the Arab/Israeli conflict on the basis of U.N. Resolution
242, which simply states that lands acquired by war must be ceded. When the Palestinian Authority asked for
international protection last year, the Arabs supported that request and were willing to
contribute money and military to the effort, but Israel refused and the U.S. vetoed the
proposal in the Security Council. The
Palestinian request for protection would have prevented Israeli destructive and shameful
incursions into the Palestinian territories and stopped suicide attacks – but Israel
prefers a free hand in the Palestinian territories.
·
Although
the United States has been the main player in the Arab/Israeli conflict for many
years, it has failed to come to terms with what is morally right on one hand and the
Zionist grip hold on the American way of life on the other.
Americans recognize the injustice which has been committed against the
Palestinians, but the price to rectify it is too high and would bring about political
devastation to the American political process. For
so many years, American politicians and American political system has been taking the easy
road to perpetuate the injustice rather than face political devastation by Jewish and
Zionist lobbies.
In my previous article (Terrorism,
Inherent or Acquired?), I tried to show how Zionism was able to penetrate the theological
reasoning of the American society. In this
article, I want to demonstrate how Jewish and Zionist lobbies are able to control the
American political thought and process through monetary contributions, threats and
intimidations. For many years, whenever I
tried to discuss the shortcomings of American foreign policy with American friends
including American diplomats, the Jewish influence was always the reason and the excuse. It took me years to understand why highly prominent
and honorable Americans speak out against Jewish lobbies and American Middle East policy
only after they retired from public life. The
following quotes will support my contentions that Jews and Zionists have penetrated and in
full control of the theological reasoning, moral principles/values and the political
thinking of the American society:
Criticism or even-handed comment about Israel’s severe and
often brutal treatment of the Palestinians is muted by Israel’s practice of
dismissing all criticism, no matter how appropriate, as being anti-Semitic. (This is an important book, explaining why the U.S. has so little support
among the United Nations.)
-The Hon. J. William
Fulbright former Democratic Senator from Arkansas and Chairman of
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and author of The Arrogance of Power and The Price of Empire.
This may be the most important book of the past 10 years. It succinctly describes the corruption of the
American political process by PACs, just in the 15 years since they were first authorized
by Congress. Honest political leaders
don’t want to stay in office and honest citizens are reluctant to run for office. PAC money is bad enough, but the central control of
some 100 PACs by a Washington agency, AIPAC, single-mindedly dedicated to defeating every
candidate who is independent of Israel’s policies, is an evil so enormous that even the American
news media are reluctant to discuss it.
– The Hon. Paul N. (Pete) McCloskey former
Republican Member of the House of Representatives from California
American foreign policy in the Middle East has been
devoid of true debate for almost a decade. This
book fills that gap and focuses on what has become a monumental embarrassment to the United States: America’s inability to act in its own national interest and to
formulate a balanced policy that recognizes that U.S. and Israeli interests do not necessarily coincide. This book is essential reading for anyone wanting
to know the truth – the whole truth.
- The Hon. Charles H.
Percy, former Republican Senator from Illinois and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
PACs are bad
news for democracy. They disenfranchise the
voters. The Israeli Lobby is bad news for
peace in the Middle East. It disenfranchises America. The Lobby’s unprecedented use of secret PAC
money succeeds in its manipulation of American politicians who are more concerned with
their own selfish interests than they are with America’s best interests. The
Israeli Lobby is a lobby for a foreign power whose interests are in most cases the
opposite of America’s. This book
tells voters who is influenced by pro-Israeli PAC money, how much they’ve taken, and
why.
– The Hon. James G. Abourezk, former
Democratic Senator from South Dakota, co-author with Hyman Bookbinder
of
Through Different Eyes, and author of Advise and Dissent
In writing
this book, Richard H. Curtiss has rendered a great public service. It is a guide of enduring value to every voter in
the nation. It lists by name, district and
price the politicians who cooperate with Israel’s lobby in the corruption of Middle East
policy-making.
- The Hon. Paul Findley, former Republican Member of the House of
Representatives from Illinois and author of They Dare to
Speak Out
STEALTH PACs:
Source: LOBBYING CONGRESS FOR CONTROL OF
U.S. MIDDLE EAST POLICY
In his book “The Price of Empire”, Former Senator J.
William Fulbright said, “The lobby [Israel] can just about tell the President what to
do when it comes to Israel. Its influence in
Congress is pervasive and, profoundly harmful”.
It is rationally incomprehensible that the President of the United
States, the U.S. legislative bodies, its democratic institutions and the American people
would allow American foreign policy to fall captive to Israel and its American Jewish
lobby. This fact, my friends, is the real
issue between the Arab world and the United States.
For many years, American foreign policy towards the Arab world has caused
incredible damage, economically, politically and socially; and worst of all amounted to
mental rape of Arab masses. Israel’s
usurpation of American foreign policy and international role has alienated and outraged
the Arab world and muted American friends in the Middle East. American “democratically elected”
officials in the White House and the U.S. Congress have shamefully ceded American foreign
policy to Israel against the advice of American friends and allies the world over.
If anyone thinks or believes that I am being harsh or unfair in my
theses, I ask you to study the careers of the above quoted honorable individuals and
observe how the Jewish lobby made waste lands of their honorable services to America
because they dared to speak the truth.
I hope I was able to clarify the difficulty and the complexity of the
Arab/Israeli conflict and to expose the apathy and arrogance of American foreign policy
towards the Palestinian plight and human tragedy. I
am quite concerned because the Palestinian struggle for liberty and war on terrorism have
become synonymous in President Bush’s mental reasoning.
I wonder if Patrick Henry could be considered a terrorist on the basis of
his exemplary statement “give me liberty or give me death”.
Although President Bush tries hard to depict himself as “a
patient man” with deadly options, I am afraid that all the visible indications lead
me to believe that Mr. Bush is concentrating on his deadly options
more than he is on his patience. He is a man
eagerly looking for a fight. I am sorry to say
that Mr. Bush is acting more like a bounty hunter not as a civilized world leader. Mr. Bush is now beating the war drums against Iraq,
to topple Saddam. But the real intention
behind the planned invasion of Iraq is not just a regime change, the main reason is to
move the focus from the Arab/Israeli conflict, bury the peace process and advance the
domino theory one more step. This is a
transpired Israeli/American Zionist plan to change and reshape the geopolitical map of the
Middle East and fix the mess left behind by the British and the French.
In conclusion, I would like to say, America look at thyself, the
enemy may be in your midst. Is your foreign
policy and political process in harmony with American ideals and principals? We are not your enemies; we hold no hateful desire
to destroy your freedom or your way of life. Muslims
in general and Arabs in particular have been victimized and damaged by Zionist and Jewish
inspired American foreign policy, media and stereotyping.
I would like to end my conclusion by quoting an ancient Hindu legend
which has left a lasting impression on me as a human being, the legend goes as follows:
There was a
time when all men were gods. But they so
abused their divinity that Brahma, the supreme creator, decided to deprive them of their
divine power, and hide it in a place where it would be impossible to find. The problem was to find a suitable hiding place.
When the
minor gods were called to a meeting to resolve the problem, they made the following
proposition: Hide the power of divinity
somewhere in the earth. But Brahma refused,
saying, “No, it’s too easy. Someone
will dig into the earth and find it.”
So the gods
replied, “In that case, hide it in the depths of the ocean.”
But Brahma
refused once again, saying, “No, because sooner or later people will explore all the
regions of the ocean. They will surely find it
and bring it back to the surface.”
So the gods
concluded that they were not able to find a place on land or in the sea where the power of
divinity would be safe from man.
Then Brahma
said, “Here’s what we’ll do with the power of divinity: we’ll hide it
in the very depths of man himself, because that is the only place he will never think of
looking.”
Since that
time man has explored the surface of the earth and the ocean depths, looking for something
that can be found only in himself.
From
the book: Mind Power by Christian H. Godefroy
W/D.R. Steevens
Courtesy of and © 2002 by Nassir M.
Al-Ajmi. The writer is a former Executive Vice President of the Saudi Arabian
Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), and Former President of Saudi Railway Organization. He
may be reached by email at nassirajmi@hotmail.com |