Israel fights Islam to the last American
by Mohamed
Khodr
The Independent:
March 30,
2002
Robert
Fisk:
"The lies
leaders
tell when
they want
to go to
war"
"How much longer can the Americans remain
so gutlessly silent in the face of a
vicious conflict which is coming close to
obscuring the crimes against humanity of 11
September?
"Now we have an Israeli officer – according
to the Israeli daily Ma'ariv – advising his
men to study the tactics adopted by the
Nazis in the Second World War. "If our job
is to seize a densely packed refugee camp
or take over the Nablus casbah, and if this job is
given to an (Israeli) officer to
carry out without casualties on both sides,
he must before all else analyze and bring
together the lessons of past battles, even
– shocking though this might appear – to
analyze how the German army operated in the
Warsaw ghetto."
Prejudice and Demonization has been the "white
man's burden" and justification for colonialism and enslavement
of the "colored" man throughout history. Beginning with the
Greeks and Romans, followed by the advent of Christianity's
hostility toward Jews, then Islam; until the miraculous irony of
the post Holocaust era where the newly found partnership of the
"Judeo-Christian" world became the defenders of freedom against
the "evil empire" of Communism and the establishment of the
western Zionist colony of Israel. That was followed by the newly
created "evil du jour--Islam"" in 1990 upon Communism's fall to
serve and maintain the military-industrial-media complex of
America's elite. It is no coincidence that Bernard Lewis,
America's Islamophobic spokesperson, wrote his article "Roots of
Muslim Rage" in 1990 immediately after the collapse of the
Soviet Union (Sept., Atlantic Monthly). Professor Samuel
Huntington, Jewish American, followed in 1993 with his infamous
"The Clash of Civilizations" (Foreign Affairs), although
Huntington obviously took the title from Basil Matthews' 1926
book "Young Islam on Trek: A Study in the Clash of
Civilizations". Matthews, a missionary, saw a massive
opportunity for Christian conversion after the Ottoman Empire's
collapse. He wrote: "They (Muslims) have discovered that the
possessors of such power---the rulers over nine tenths of the habitable earth and six out of
every seven Muslims on the surface—are the races of Western
Christendom."
European Christian literature is replete with derogatory and
insulting characterization of Islam and it's Prophet.
Christianity, founded by God himself, could not tolerate or
accept faiths espoused by mere mortals. Thus superimposed on
the "white man's burden" of civilizing the world, Christianity
brought a religious zeal to save the world and exterminate the
obstinate "infidels". Neither the faiths preceding it, such as
Judaism, nor a faith following it denying Christ's divinity is acceptable
to the white western mind. It was Christianity, not Islam,
that invented the trigger phrases of: Infidel--Holy
War--Fundamentalism. And it was Israel that first introduced terrorism in the form of car bombing and
Airplane Hijacking into the Middle East.
The Holocaust guilt, sympathy, and the birth of the "strong"
western rich Jewish lobbyist founded Israel for European
immigrants via the genocide and the "ethnic cleansing" of the
"other, the colored, the infidel", the invisible second victims of the Holocaust. Ironically, Israel
was founded due to Christianity's "us vs. them" holocaust and
now thanks to Israel, the "them du jour" now are the Muslims.
From its founding Israel's leaders such as David Ben Gurion,
Yitzhak Rabin, and Shimon Peres identified "Islam" as the true
enemy of Israel and now by extension to Israel's colony--the
United States.
With the entry of the naive, isolated, gullible American
government into MidEast politics after World War II, Israel
cleverly formulated a strategy to win "America's money, weapons,
vetoes, and blind support" through the
only educational and opinion molding medium the west
understands: the media and film power of Images and Words.
America's politics became hostage to Israel, Jewish political
activism and campaign donations, a media and Hollywood
powerhouse all designed to wield the "carrot and stick". While
the rest of America was self-centered on the "me", Israel's
influence around Washington D.C. became a beltway encircling the
power centers of government much akin to the physiologic Blood
Brain Barrier of the brain that filters the harmful compounds
and allows entry of only Pro-Israeli messages. Hence America's
split personality and erratic foreign policy that often is embarrassing, humiliating, stupid,
irrational, and dangerous to America's long term interest in the
world: America's national interest logically lies with 56
Muslim nations, a fifth of the world's market population with 60% of the world's oil reserves
YET America's cowardly, greedy, short sighted pandering to one
nation--Israel--may ultimately lead to America's definitive war
and American deaths with the Muslim world.
Given America's impotence toward Israel as clearly articulated
by Bush's silence and Powell's "Blame Arafat for Israel's 53
year murder and occupation of Palestine, for Sharon's military
madness, and for forcing us to look cowardly"; what have the Arab leaders done to solve the
Palestinian Diaspora and regain world respect for Arabs? In a
word: NOTHING. In fact, American impotence is only superseded
by Arab impotence, dishonesty, inter-Arab conflict, undemocratic
and inhumane self survival policies, wasted time, lives, money,
and resources, while living a hypocritical image of true Islam.
For 53 years the Arab and Muslim world did not and could not
develop one single strategy to counteract Israel's hegemony of
America and Europe. How shameful it is to hear American
officials say that Arab leaders say one thing in private while
denouncing Israel in public. Islam has been shredded in the
western media as a faith of violence, terrorism, and
intolerance. Yet not one leader has stood up to the
American-Israeli hegemony with faith, courage, and trust in his
people.
America is a capitalistic society that responds to money and
power regardless of politics. Israel has the financial and
political power to wield its influence via the Congress and the
Media. Both are money dependent. Recently it was reported that thousands of Saudi
Arabian princes, alone, have between $500 and One Trillion
dollars in American banks and government bonds. That's just one
family. Imagine if the Arab and Muslim world would adopt a two pronged strategy: one
politico-financial the other cultural.
Imagine if Muslim money and resources was wielded as a political
power via American Banks and financial institutions, Stocks in
major companies including Advertising firms, Stocks in media
corporations even beginning with local markets, Stocks in
Hollywood Production companies, Supporting and strengthening
Arab and Muslim Political Action Committees with a presence in
every state to lobby for Arab/Muslim causes, Establishing
Islamic Institutes and Centers in Universities, Scholarships for
Arab/Muslim students in Communication/Media/Film studies, Hiring or Developing
Professional Public Relations firms on behalf of Islam and the
Muslim victims in Palestine, India, Kashmir, Chechnya,
Afghanistan, China, Burma, Philippines and so on. The Business
of America is Business, yet Arabs act as if that's none of their
Business until they are forced to meet and whine about the
"injustice" to Arabs and Muslims and how great Islam was instead
of how great Islam is and will always be.
Secondly, to develop a strategy to reach the American people via
a widespread grassroots media and cultural level. Americans are
not Islam's enemy. They are a kind, generous, open minded who
seek to live in peace and are thirsty to for others to reach out
to them and inform them of their world and culture. Currently
even American Muslims are silent, intimidated, fearful and
ignorant regarding political activism. Education and training for them is needed urgently. Today, Muslim schools
and mosques serve Muslims but not Islam. The 56 Muslim nations
must develop a unified organization for the sole purpose of
inform Americans and Europeans on the truth of Islam via media,
film, and cultural events in museums, colleges, and film. There
is not one single entity in America that's performing this
function with any professionalism and effectiveness. A
coordinated effort, even state by state, that brings Muslims
together with pride, joy, and trust among themselves will alter
the landscape of the west. Americans and Europeans are
converting to Islam despite Muslims and not because of them.
A short term strategy of pressuring America that its interests
are in jeopardy in the Muslim world will bring the peace process
back on track. America has been looking to invest its interests
and energy policies beyond the
Middle East such as in the Caspian Sea so the timeframe to
influence American policy is short. If Americans can learn to
love the Germans, the Italians, and the Japanese, and accept
Russians and Chinese as strategic friends, surely the Muslim
lands can do the same given that the only wedge between Muslims
and the Christian West is Israel.
First strategy is to make it clear cut that no attack on Iraq is
acceptable and that the Arab League will resolve the issue of
the weapons inspectors. Second, suspend the Arab League Peace
Plan and recall the Arab and Muslims Ambassadors from the U.S.
and England until Sharon withdraws immediately from all
Palestinian Authority areas. Third, insist on a U.N. sponsored
International Conference on the Palestinian--Israeli issue and
on defining Terrorism. America needs the 56 Muslim nations
more than Muslims need them.
Will the Arabs ever manifest such courage and a spine? That's
hard to believe. If they don't then surely their political
survival and American interests will suffer in the long term and
for one simple reason. Neither America, nor the Arab/Muslim world, nor the United Nations have
the courage to stand up to Israel and say enough is enough.
Interesting Relevant Quotes:
1. St. Petersburg Times, Florida: March 17,
2002
"Most troubling is that the Egyptian press continues to promote
hatred and violence against Israel and, frankly, America," says
Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America.
"As we now understand full well, the media can really create a
culture of hatred and violence
."
2. -- George Kennan, US Cold War
planner, 1948
(John Pilger, Hidden Agendas, (The New Press, 1998),
p.59)
"We have 50 per cent of the world's wealth, but only 6.3 per
cent of its population. In this situation, our real job in the
coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which
permit us to maintain this position of disparity. To do so, we have to dispense with all
sentimentality ... we should cease thinking about human rights,
the raising of living standards and democratization."
3.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/730905.asp?cp1=1 (MSNBC 3/28/02 by Eric Alterman): Classifies Media Pundits as to level of Pro-Israel
bias.
Mr. Mohamed Khodr is an American Muslim physician and a
native from the Middle East. He has worked in Academic Medicine
and Public health with national and international health
experience. He is a freelance writer who often writes columns on
the Palestinian cause, Islam and on America's Foreign Policy in
the Middle East.
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