ZIONISM:
THE ECSTASY OF DECEPTION
(The ends justify the
means)
obiter dicta: For publication and distribution without
permission:
By Nassir M. Al-Ajmi
Dear Mr. Concerned Citizen:
When I returned from my summer holidays, I
found your e-mail response to my July 7, 2004, article “Defeating
Terrorism”; and although the article was both specific in scope and based on
documented historical facts, you have chosen to employ the usual Zionist approach to
confuse the issue and deceive your readers. It
has been a historical fact that when it comes to confusing the issues, twisting the facts
and rationalizing deceptions, no-one has ever topped Zionists. This is not an accusation or baseless claim on my
part, it is a fact attested to by faithful and decent Jewish intellectual thinkers and
philosophers who have viewed Zionism as a conspiracy against Jews.
Extremism, myopia or otherwise are neither
in my blood nor are they in my intellectual thinking.
You see, in layman’s terms, part of my Islamic upbringing and faith has
been to differentiate between religion and its followers.
I was raised to respect and glorify Judaism and Christianity as well as
recognize Moses, Jesus and Mohammad, “Peace be up them”, as honored prophets of
God. I was brought up to believe that Judaism,
like Christianity and Islam, was descended by God to guide all mankind on the right path
in life, regardless of race, color, geographic locations or time.
I also believe that Judaism, Christianity
and Islam all came from one source, as I believe that there are as many Jews of Arab,
European and African ancestries as there are Christians and Muslims of Hebrew descent. Unless of course Zionism has decreed that religion
is ethnically genetic or genetically ethnic! This
leads me to the logical conclusion that Judaism does not belong only to the Hebrews,
Christianity does not belong only to the Romans and Islam does not belong only to the
Arabs.
Therefore, it follows rationally and
logically that we should view Judaism, Jews and Hebrews as separate and distinct from each
other as we view Christianity and Islam. The
Zionist argument, that all the current world Jewry are the direct descendents of the
Hebrews, is rationally, scientifically, historically and intellectually absurd. Judaism has been a noble and honored faith sent by
God to all mankind, not just to Hebrews, and people of all races and places have been
entering and exiting for centuries. The
Zionist claim defies logic, recorded history and is an insult to faithful Jews of Arab,
African, Asian and European descents. I wonder
if Zionists would submit to DNA tests to prove their absurd purity claim!
Having said that, I will now address your
response to the article “Defeating terrorism” which was an attempt on my part to
differentiate between terrorists and terrorism on the one hand and on the other hand, to
provide the reader with the historical background which I believe, has turned the broader Middle
East into hatcheries of terrorists. “Defeating
Terrorism” was not about religions, it was not about cultures, it was not about
ethnic cleansing and was certainly not about Semitism.
“Defeating Terrorism” was the factual representation of the Middle
East modern history from (1914-2004).
However, and in spite of the
article’s clear inten and specific historical facts, your response to the article
“Defeating Terrorism” lacked honesty, objectivity, rationality, wisdom and above
all, factuality. Your response was basically a
personal attack on me and with the intent to confuse the issues and mislead the reader. You did not address the article, you did not
challenge the facts presented and you did not present credible facts to the contrary. Your response was a collection of fragmented
hearsay, totally irrelevant to the subject article “Defeating Terrorism”.
In order to be fair to you and factual in
my obiter dicta, I have decided to publish the highlights of your response to my article
“Defeating Terrorism” so your readers, my readers and all fair-minded people of
the world can judge for themselves. “Defeating
Terrorism” will be made available on request for those wishing to read it or access
the article on this website www.ladah.org/articles.htm. “Dear Concerned Citizen”, the following
are the highlights of your response to my article “Defeating Terrorism” in
quotations:
Dear Mr. Al-Ajmi:
Read your article dated 7/7/04. Thought
it was interesting, but the irony is that your view seems illustrative of the very problem
you speak about in your article.
For example, why do you not mention anything
of the Nazi influences direct and indirect on the formation of the influential Bathist
regimes? Before there was a modern day Israel the Nazis found support as illustrated by the
formation of the Bathist Party!
Why do you not mention that there are Muslims
that believe on the Qu’ran’s promise of the land you call Palestine as belonging
to the “People of the Book” as well as the fact that since both Hebrews and
Arabic Islamic peoples are brothers of the same God, that the argument may come down to
indigenous peoples warring over the same land?
You it seems however are part of a myopically
orientated faction although a large one at that, that wants the World to be believe in
your interpretation ONLY!
Well, so be it.
Who are the Islamists to believe only the Islamic religion is the end all
especially in light of the terror they have spawned? Why
should Christians and Jews subjugate themselves to a name of the One God Your side has
chosen? God is good and there is no dispute. All come to God!
You are wrong to think otherwise. Even
by your own book!
With all the lands the Islamic believers have
taken by blood through the centuries, how can you justify your human evaluation as the end
all? Pakistan’s creation was thanks in part to Ghandi. Islam spread through belief as well as by
conquering other peoples and killing those that did not follow its way. Islamic extremists even killed their brothers by
denying their respective interpretations of the One God that God Himself gave to them. How Wicked is that?
Yes Christians did likewise, but Muslims DID DO IT and that is not a
question. Why should the Jews be blamed for
wanting to return to their homeland? What is
to dirty about the ZIONIST belief in right of return?
Is that belief not espoused by Islam?
Why do they deserve less than Pakistan since Pakistan was created after the MODERN DAY ISRAEL? Why
do they deserve less than what you are and have been trying to achieve in the Balkans? Why do you not mention the free worlds protection
of the Muslim people more so than the Muslim brothers living in Muslim ruled lands, of
those butchered by Mr. Milosovich???
You sir are a crybaby. Your espousings are
indeed hypocritical. You never point
realistically in the mirror. God is witness to
all, and I will say that in the afterworld, your rewards will be netted out but not quite
as you take for granted it will be. You would
think that after all the persecution the Jews have undergone through the generation the
real Muslim would come to the defense of those people but instead have jumped on the
bandwagon of finger-pointing. Islam has no
greater claim to modern day Israel nor does any Arabic peoples than do the
modern day Jews. They are after all
descendants of those who were before.
You certainly cannot tell me or anyone that a
religion that has stood out throughout history as NOT proselytizing, had a MASS conversion
of non-Jewish people to the Hebrew faith. Where
is your historical prowess now, in proving my statement wrong? And if there has been NO Mass conversion to Judaism
by proselytizing, or mass warfare, as did the Muslim and Christian faiths, then how do you
explain modern day Jews as anything other than natural heirs? By order of the lands taken by Islam and converted
to Islam, how do you deny Israel their 1% landmass and the right of the Jewish
people to call Israel Jewish? How
do you deny Israel what it wants in light of the totalitarian
manner in which the Middle
East is undeniably Islamic
dominated and uniquely run by Muslims?
Where do you account for then in your open an
honest to ALLAH testimony of an article you wrote? Who
are you sir to Impersonate Allah and more than any other human know the ONE GOD’S
Will????
If the shoes were reversed, and Israel was as large as Islamic lands and Islamic
lands were the size of Israel, can you really see Israel turning to suicide bombers and asking their
children to worship Death? Most parents try to
shelter and protect their children, even at their own expense. Your interpretation leaves mothers having babies to
sacrifice them. How caveman-like is that? Is that the representation you wish the world to
see?
I am sorry but your arguments are tainted at
best and slanderous at medium and hate filled at worst.
When you are really open to dialogue and look at your partners as equals
then you will achieve peace. I fear however
you are not looking for peace, but a final solution.
A Concerned Citizen!
As you and the reader can observe, your
response has no relevance whatsoever to the issues I presented or the facts I cited. Your response was an outrageous personal accusation
with allegations based entirely on your perceived attitudes, racism and ethnic-cleansing. You have accused me personally of being “a
crybaby, a hypocrite, an impersonator of Allah, a bathist, a myopic and a slanderous at
medium and hate-filled at worst”. These
are lower human qualities I despise and reject intellectually and professionally. I find it humanely, intellectually, rationally and
professionally impossible for anyone to come to your conclusions and level these personal
accusations based on the article “Defeating Terrorism”.
You have accused the Arab bathist of Nazi
connection and although I am not a member and never was, the Arab Bath is a national Arab
political party which came to being years after the death of Nazism. Can you state or reference the facts of your
accusations?
You also compared the Jewish rights to Palestine
to the rights of Pakistanis and Bosnians to their rightfully and legally deeded homes and
properties. Pakistanis and Bosnians have had
birth rights and hold deeds to their homes and properties.
On the other hand, European Jews left their homelands and came to Palestine
through Zionist organized and orchestrated massive immigrations and with the intent to
displace the indigenous Palestine people, confiscate their homes/lands and create the
current human tragedy which has remained without solution for the past sixty (60) years. I suggest that you read the book “Israel
and Palestine, Why They Fight and Can They Stop?”, by Professor Bernard Wasserstein,
in which he has provided a detailed description of land and population compositions,
Jewish immigration to Palestine, systematic displacement of Palestinians by Jews and
expropriations of Arab lands/properties from 1919 to the present time.
When you use hearsay to cite history, you
should be fair and accurate because citing history can hurt you as well. Although nobody is prefect, your citation of
history reminds me of an Arabic saying, “the rope of lying is short”. Was it the Arabs and Muslims who ran off the Jewish
people from Pharaoh, Egypt, decimated the Jewish nation seven hundred (700) years before
Islam came to being and massacred the Jewish people in Spain, Austria, Germany and
elsewhere? Was it the Arabs and Muslims
who used to put up signs on their private clubs and sport centers bearing the “no
niggers, Jews or dogs allowed”?
When it comes to being a good world
citizen and positive member of the international community, was it the Arabs and Muslims
who continuously defied United Nations/Security Council’s resolutions, routinely
ignore and condemn world opinion and arrogantly reject the judgment of the International
Court of Justice? Nearly one-third of Israel’s
population are Arabs, do they feel they are equally treated?
When it comes to terrorism, occupation and
oppressive treatment, the most highly decorated prime minister of Israel, Mr. David Ben
Gurion was the terrorist who blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem (1940’s)
killing hundreds of innocent people as well as committing massacres in Dair Yassin and
other places – he was called a great freedom fighter!
On the other hand Palestinians fighting occupation are called terrorists
regardless of where they resist Israeli occupation. But
sixty (60) years of land grab, displacement, target killing, oppression and humiliation
are called self-defense by those who once felt unjustly treated by their fellow man. It looks like the crybabies of history are getting
even with a different fellow man.
Mr. Sharon has recently invited all the
French Jews to migrate from their homeland to Israel, while rejecting United Nations
resolution and denying the Palestinians the right of return to their rightfully and
legally deeded homes and properties. If we are
allowed to call things by their correct names, this Israeli policy would easily qualify
for the name racism. Where is Israel
democracy, equality and the rule of law which you were rightly identified as lacking in
Islamic societies?
I can assure you and anyone else that Arab
parents do love their children as much as Jewish parents or any other parents love their
children, but sixty (60) years of Israeli land grab, demographic displacement, military
occupation, cruel treatments, humiliations and zero acceptable options, have sadly made
the human time bombs the only available choice of self-defense against state-armed
terrorism and target killing. It is not a
matter of culture or faith; it is a matter of honor and human dignity.
In addition to the afore-mentioned remarks
and questions which I have presented without malice or prejudice, I am happy to quote the
following pertinent articles which I recently received via e-mail from thoughtful people I
never met or knew:
“God
Gave All Animals the Will to Defend Lives and Home
by
Fighting to the Death”
by: Mr. John W. Willmott
I received Nassir M. Al-Ajmi’s
“Defeating Terrorism” this morning via Dispatch “International News” (sheriff@unforgettable.com) Media-Media (info@apm-ram.org) And
I shall comment and provide you with valuable commentary, the result of a lifetime of
dedication to the principles that all life is God’s most valuable gift, all people
are entitled to be equal and free, and equal law and justice is the basis of civilization. Obviously, where equality of life, law, justice and
freedom, have been denied at the point of a gun and in court of law, then there is no law
except the law of the jungle, the gun, the bomb and the innate animal instinct to fight
individually and collectively to the death to be alive, thrive and be equal and free on
their own breeding ground as God intended.
Unlike animals mankind when illegally abused
will take revenge in the most bloody Falujjah De Ja Vu Somalia kinds of justifiable revolting obscenities to
deter others from their evil acts. Therefore,
it disgusts and scares me to see the Bush appointed Congressional CYOA 9-11 Commission
with Bush, his Judeo-Christian Evangelical Zionist supports and the heads of the
“intelligence” departments with Tom Ridge’s “Homeland Defense” swearing
to hunt out and destroy all terrorists overseas before they hit American again on their
homeland. Lots.Of.Luck!
And we just saw Kerry essentially saying the
same! There is not a whit of difference
between Bush and Kerry when they talk their nonsense about terror and terrorists. Someone besides myself must tell them all that all
Islamic terrorism is a mind-set – a thought in the mind of a person – which
turns into a violent, obscene and justifiable act of freedom fighting for relief of the
pain of injustice with justifiable revenge for those they killed and the homes they stole
and/or destroyed.
Fortunately, the illegally oppressed have
turned to freedom fighting and have demonstrated they have their own WMD of the
“human bomb” against which all the power and men “the Evil Triad” (my
appellation) of Hutler0-Bush, Hirohito-Sharon, Mussolini-tagalong Tony Blair and “4
small U.S. dependent island nations” can muster
against them. The world today numbers
6,377,242,141 souls of 191 nations. Of them,
“The Evil Triad” with a very few “bought” allies and less of the
“willing,” usually have well under 300,000,000 souls! This shows Boy Bush to be an idiot who thinks he
and his Judeo-Christian Zionist zealots can run the world with 0.047 percent or less than
one person to 20! Hitler tried. The World and I said NO! We killed him!
And to prove my point: With 1.2 billion Muslims in the world who
“love” Bush, America and Israel dearly – to death, I quote former Israeli
MOD, Benjamin Ben Eliezer in August a year ago after a 15 dead “magnificent” bus
bombing saying: “What can one do when the kid who looks like your own kid is the one
who will push the button?” Only the blind
cannot see the answer!
So I rest my case in Sen. John Edward’s
lap.
John W. Willmott (www.vermontel.net/~willmot)
AND
“Zionism: A Conspiracy Against Jews”
by:
Henry Makow Ph.D
In 1935 the steamer “Tel Aviv” made
its maiden voyage from Nazi Germany to Haifa with Hebrew letters on its bow and a Nazi
flag fluttering from its mast. The Captain of
the Zionist-owned ship was a member of the Nazi Party.
A passenger described the spectacle as a “metaphysical absurdity”.
Actually it made perfect sense.
The ship transported German Jews who had taken
advantage of the ”Haavara” program, which allowed them to exchange their money
for its value in German products in Palestine. As
a result, the fledging Jewish colony received about 70,000 highly educated German Jews and
140 million Reichmarks worth of German industrial equipment.
This laid the foundation of Israel’s infrastructure. The arrangement also boosted the Nazi economy at
the time when Jews worldwide were boycotting German products. (My main source is “The Secret Contacts”
by Klaus Polkehn a prominent German journalist. It
is included in Olivia O’Grady’s “The Beasts of the Apocalypse”, 2001,
421-447.
Why retell this story of Zionist-Nazi
cooperation now?
Because “Jewish” leaders have been
exploiting their “lesser brethren” for a long time, and are doing so today. Ordinary Jews pay the price and this price could
rise. In my opinion, Zionism is a movement to
deceive Jews into advancing the objectives of British imperialism. (See, “The Jewish Conspiracy is British
Imperialism”) Zionists who have built
their lives on a false premise naturally will reject this view. Specifically, Jews helps the British-Jewish elite
colonize the oil-rich Middle East under the pretext of Jews needing a national
home. Despite the appearance of neutrality,
the British (and Americans) finances, trained and equipped the Jews. (John Coleman, “Diplomacy by Deception”,
p. 107). The “British” are really
the London-based international banking cartel associated with names like Rothschild and
Rockefeller. It doesn’t answer to any
government. Its goal is to colonize the world
and everyone in it. Jews are a means to this
end.
As seen in Iraq, Zionists (a.k.a. Neocons) play a major role
in the colonization of the Middle
East. The important thing to remember is that Israel is the creation of this cartel; both Israel and the US are its tools.
Iraq is only a phase in the emerging New World
Order, which represents a continuation of the goals of “British: imperialism. John Kerry will take up in Iraq where George Bush leaves off. Democracy is a charade.
NAZIS MADE-TO-MEASURE FOR ZIONISM
In 1925, Germany’s 500,000 Jews were overwhelmingly
indifferent or actively hostile to Zionism. The
German Zionist movement had only 9000 members. The
“Central Union of Germans of the Jewish Faith”
represented most German Jews and favored active participation in German life. Its main focus was combating anti-Semitism. Zionists, on the other hand, welcomed the
Nazis’ anti-Semitic policies. Like the
Nazis, they believed in race-based national character and destiny. Like the Nazis, they believed Jews had no future
in Germany. The
Zionists did not protest Nazi persecution such as the removal of 2000 Jewish scholars and
scientists from German universities in 1933. The
Nazis rewarded this “restraint” by allowing the Zionists to go about their work
unhindered. All other Jewish and ant-fascist
organizations were disbanded and their leaders imprisoned.
The Nazis required all Jews to join the Zionist-led “Reich Union”
whose goal was emigration. Jews were to be
converted to Zionism at any cost. The Zionists
were able to publish books and newspapers critical of the Nazis so long as the audience
was restricted to Jews.
The cooperation extended to political and
economic spheres. Adolph Eichmann set up
agricultural training camps in Austria to prepare young Jews for Kibbutz life. He visited Palestine and conferred with Zionist leaders who
confessed their true expansionist goals. There
was even talk of a strategic alliance between Nazi Germany and Jewish Palestine. His report is in Himmler’s Archives. (For more on Zionist-Nazi cooperation, see online
Lenni Brenner “Zionism in the Age of Dictators”.
Also, Lenni Brenner, “51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration With the
Nazis (2002))
The cooperation may have extended to the
Jewish Holocaust and explain why most Jews passively accepted their fate. In his book, “The Holocaust Victims
Accuse” Rabbi Moshe Shonfeld claims that Zionist-led Jewish Councils
(“Judenrats”) collaborated with the Nazis and deceived non-Zionist Jews. See my “Zionism: Compulsory Suicide for Jews”. Europe’s non-Zionist Jews were worth more
dead than alive to Zionists and their financial sponsors.
The Holocaust provided a political and moral rationale for the establishment
of the Jewish state.
Now consider the worlds of an Illuminati
defector, Svali.
“The conflict in the Middle East is only to the advantage of Illuminists. They HATE Israel, and hope one day to see it destroyed, and
are biding their time. One of the olive
branches offered by the UN when it takes over is that they will prevent war in the Middle East, and this will be greeted with joy by many. At the same time, the Illuminati covertly supply
guns and funds to BOTH sides to keep the conflict fuelled.
They are very duplicitous people… These people love the game of chess,
and see warfare between nations as creating an order out of chaos.”
In a personal email, she added:
“I have always wondered this, though, why
some of the highest ranking financial families in the group (Baron Rothschild of France is
one of the 13 European lords, or “kings” that run the group in Europe, and sits
on the World council) are Jewish, yet the group espouses hatred of their own race.”
Conclusion
Ben Hecht said that ready the daily news to
understand current events is like telling the time by looking at the second hand. You have to look at the decade and century hands to
see what is really going on in the world.
The Rothschild-Rockefeller banking cartel is
behind most political (and cultural) trends and its goal is to destroy the nation state,
true democracy, religion, culture, marriage and family, in order to degrade humanity to
animal status in advance of totalitarianism. In
the “war on terror”, they have created a boogeyman to justify a system of
repression to be used when they call in their “loans”. I was once a Zionist who believed Jews needed a
homeland because of anti-Semitism. I realize
now that, like most of history, this view was mostly contrived. Anti-Semitism is caused because many Jews serve
(consciously or unconsciously) the banker’s harmful agenda. Zionism, Communism and Feminism are a few examples. Most Jews are now totally identified with Israel, which is a tool of the Rothschilds’
demented megalomania. If past is preface, this
cannot end well for Jews or anyone.
Henry Makow, is the inventor of the board
game, Scruples, and the author of “A Long Way to Go for a Date”. He received his PH.D in English Literature from the
University of Toronto. He
welcomes your feedback and ideas at henry@savethemales.ca.
Mr. Concerned Citizen, accusations and
counter-accusations, bloody confrontations, Israel’s military superiority and
American backing have not and will not bring the Arabs and Israelis together or produce a
peaceful solution to the Arab/Israeli sixty (60) year old conflict. The sooner the Arabs and Israelis recognize this
fact the better it would be for everyone concerned. Mistakes
have been made, atrocities have been committed, mistreatments have been mounting and
individuals’ dignity has been humbled – a great injustice has been done. But none of these inhumane actions and reactions
has or will have a humane solution to the Arab/Israeli conflict. This is a lose/lose solution to the conflict.
You claimed in your response that Israel
has no Arab peace partners. Israel has had no
equitably defined peace plan. Israel still
today calls occupied Palestinian land disputed land. Israel
did offer a negotiated political settlement which will neither return all the Arab
occupied land nor allow establishment of a legitimate and sovereign Palestinian State. Israel’s
settlement proposals have always been based on the approach “what is mine is mine and
what is yours is negotiable on my terms”. This
Israeli approach has been based on long standing Zionist policies, such as population
forced displacement, home demolitions, land confiscations, settlements/walls building and
state terrorism – target killing. This
Zionist scorched earth strategy is best described by Jeff Halper, “Beyond Road Maps
and Walls”, The Link – Volume 37, Issue 1, January – March 2004, and
“From Barak to the Road Map”, by Baruch Kimmerling (Ehud Barak Fighting the
Demons). Israel’s settlement proposals
were no more than “bantustan/cantons” comparable to American Indian
Reservations.
Arab States, Palestinian Authority
included, approved a peace plan recognizing Israel’s right to exist and to normalize
relations on the basis of total Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 borders as dictated by
relevant UN Resolutions and applicable international laws.
All Israeli had to do was to state or even dictate its security conditions
and the Arabs and the world would have been able to meet all Israel’s security needs
and concerns. This would have been a win/win
solution to the Arab/Israeli conflict. This
was not to be because it was obvious that Israel has no intention of withdrawing to then
1967 borders, it has no intention of vacating all the illegal settlements, it has no
intention of giving up Arab Jerusalem, it has no intention of establishing and fixing
borders and certainly has no intention of allowing a fully sovereign Palestinian nation to
come to being – this is a win/lose solution to the conflict. The history of the Arab/Israeli conflict and all
the facts surrounding the conflict lead to one obvious conclusion, Israel is more fearful
of peace than it is of war!
This Zionist strategy and approach has
failed, will never succeed and most importantly has not and will not be in the best long
term interest and security of the Jewish people. Although
the Jewish people are known for their intelligence and shrewdness, they have been poor
learners of their own tempestuous history. The
history of jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
In this modern era, under the devious leadership of Zionism.
Israel, the most arrogant nation on planet
earth by world assessments and standards, is comparatively insignificant in terms of its
land mass, demography and economic potentials, and yet has created and elected to live
forcibly in a hostile environment of its own making. Israel,
demographically, geographically and economically, is a small rain drop in an ocean of Arabs
and Muslims and whether Israel likes it or not, it has become geographically part of the
Arab world. But does Israel recognize its
size, potentials and geographic location and wish to live in peace with its neighbors? What favorable gestures or positive initiatives has
Israel taken to blend and adapt to the realities of its environment?
Most Arabs and Muslims believe that
history will view Israel’s actions and behavior analogous to those of Nazism and
Israelis’ atrocities against the Palestinian population equivalent to the Jewish
holocaust in Europe. Real or myth, most Arabs
view Israel as an imperialist entity created to maintain and foster western interest and
hegemony in the Middle East. What has Israel
done to dispel these Arab fears and perceptions?
Somehow, better sooner than later, Israel
must recognize its present and future predicaments and come to grips with reality. Not the phantasy of Zionism, but the true reality
of how Israel was founded through massive immigrations of World Jewry, usurpation of Arab
lands/properties and forceful displacement of Arab population. The reality and documented
facts that the State of Israel has been founded on three (3) conspicuous falsehoods: first, a Zionist fable prophecy, second, thievery
and third, flagrant injustice. I wonder what
decent and self-respecting human being would wish to be a citizen of such a nation?
Israel must come to grips with these
realities and look into the future with clear vision.
The Arab peace plan recognizes Israel, fixes borders and normalizes
relations. It is a peace plan praised and
accepted by world communities, including the United States.
Israel must recognize and reconsider its Zionist philosophical strategy,
change its arrogant attitude/practices toward its neighbors and take the necessary steps
to bring about a win/win solution to the Arab/Israeli conflict before the hospitality of
its far away friends and backers runs out. Such
hospitalities had a history of running out in the past and will definitely run out in the
future. No-one should be more cognizant of
this fact than the Jewish people.
Israel has a more dubious alternative
which is to maintain the status quo and remain in virtual isolation in its hostile
environment forever. American right wing
Zionists and Christian fundamentalists would love nothing better because the current
status quo is in line with their strategy which they believe ushers in the battle of
Armageddon and the end of the world. Christian
Zionists and fundamentalists could care less about Israel’s long-term security. They are only concerned with brining about the end
of the world and the second return of Jesus Christ. Is
this what Israel is preparing the Jewish people for?
In the meantime, the tragic history of the
“chosen people” sadly marches on. Are
the Jewish people destined for another five thousand (5000) years of turbulent and tragic
history? Is history repeating itself? Why? Is
it God’s fault? Is it humanity’s
fault? Or, is it the chosen people’s
fault? I wonder!
Neither the Jewish people nor the Arab
people, in my judgment, would relish the choice between converting to the fundamentalist
form of Christianity (born again) or be slaughtered in the battle of Armageddon as
soldiers and supports of Satan-Gog. This is
what Christian Zionists and fundamentalists are preparing the world and the Holy Land for. Their strategy has been in place for some time and
they have the action plans and the military power to continue ushering in the battle of
Armageddon. Since we live in an era of
religious, social and political extremisms and American right wing Zionists and Christian
fundamentalists are in possession of the White House and American super military power,
the fable prophecy may not be as far-fetched today as it was two thousand (2000) years
ago. The day of rapture is looming, the false
Messiah is already here and now beating the war drums of the final battle. Don’t take my word for it, I refer you to the
following quotation from the International Herald Tribune, August 27, 2004, page six (6):
A
Bigot who Must Go
The first reports sounded like an over-the-top
satire of the Bush Pentagon”. The Deputy
Secretary of Defense for Intelligence – the ranking general charged with the hunt for
Osama bin Laden – was parading in uniform to Christian pulpits, preaching that God
had put George W. Bush in the White House and that Islamic terrorists will be defeated
only “{if we come at them in the name of Jesus.”
But now a Pentagon inquiry has concluded that Lieutenant General William
Boykin did indeed preach his grossly offensive gospel at 23 churches, pronouncing Satan
the mastermind of the terrorists because “he wants to destroy us as a Christian
army”.
It was stunning last autumn, after the
general’s lapse into brimstone bigotry because public, when Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld praised Boykin for an “outstanding record” and kept him at the highly
sensitive intelligence post during the inquiry. Not
it is mind-boggling that Pentagon reports suggest the general may survive with only a
reprimand for having failed to clear his remarks in advance.
Boykin has to be removed from his current job. He has become a national embarrassment, not to
mention a walking contradiction of Bush’s policy statement that the fight against
terror is not a crusade against Islam. (Describing
a 1993 fight against a Muslim warlord in Somalia, Boykin preached: “I knew that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God, and his was an
idol.”)
The sense of offense among Muslims is already
deep. Removal of the preacher-general should
be a no-brainer, however much the president’s campaign generals might fear offending
the Christian right voting bloc.
These remarks go beyond bigotry, these
remarks are scary. The fear is not limited to
individual thoughts and ideologies, it is magnified by the fact that the worlds’ only
super-power is managed and controlled by people who firmly believe that they are appointed
by God – their actions are directed and blessed by God and could do no wrong!
Ironically, Arabs and Jews can put an end
to this right wing Christian madness by joining hands in an honorable peace and civilized
co-existence. However, such a seemingly worthy
plausibility can only happen when Israel clearly recognizes its moral responsibilities and
the injustice it has done to the Palestinian people over the years. Israel needs to show that it feels the Palestinian
pains, see their plight through their own eyes and accept the fact that Palestinians view
and compare their dilemma to the Jewish holocaust.
I truly believe that the Arabs have shown
more flexibility, have recognized Israel’s right to exist as a state in Palestine
with normal relations and have tabled a crystal-clear peace plan to this effect. The Arab peace plan was rejected by Israel because
the plan demands that Israel hands over all Arab occupied lands. On the other hand, Israel’s best settlement
offer was contained in the Barak/Clinton’s Plan which was nothing more than a walled
Indian-like reservation camp for the Palestinian people.
How dare anyone say that Israel does not have an Arab peace partner?
Mr. Concerned Citizen, you have elected to
remain anonymous under the noble title of concerned citizen, and I have no intention or
desire to attack you on a personal basis. I
would rather address your comments objectively and professionally because it is not in my
nature to respond in kind to malicious and baseless accusations from someone I do not know
– doing so will not make me a different human being.
While I have no desire to know your identity, your religious/political
affiliation or dialogue with you, I find it useful to expose the fallacies of your
argument and intellectual integrity. I also
wish to invite fair minded people to speak out as some already have in the above quotes
articles.
The current Arab/Israeli paradigm, of
accusations and counter-accusations, brutal actions and reactions and savage treatment,
will neither bring about an equitable settlement to the conflict nor a lasting peace to
the Middle East. Arabs and Jews need to
develop a new and more suitable model based on the realities of today and tomorrow. They need intellectual and political leaderships
that possess moral responsibility, wisdom, human compassion and political vision. The Arab and Jewish peoples need warriors of light
not bats of darkness.
Courtesy of and © 2004 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.
Other
Published Articles by Nassir M. Al-Ajmi:
Terrorism,
Inherent or Acquired? – August 11, 2002
The
Apathy and the Arrogance of American Foreign Policy – August 25, 2002
The Social Economic &
Political Aspects of the Saudi Privatization Plans – November 24, 2002
The
Tyranny of Anglo-American Democracy – February
16, 2003
A Heart
to Heart Talk – A Friend to Friend Discussion – October 27, 2003
Is
America Blind - June 2, 2004
Countdown to Handover - June 7, 2004
Defeating Terrorism - The History of
Betrayal and Injustice - July 7, 2004
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