Sunday, November 12, 2006
Israel Pimps For Bin Laden
Below is respected Palestinian journalist Khalid Amayreh's story suggesting that young Palestinians, pushed to the edge by massacre after massacre and yet another US veto in the Security Council on behalf of the apartheid state, may turn to extremism.
Jonathan Cook in "How Israel is Engineering the Clash of Civilizations" quotes Benyamin Netanyahu: “International terrorism is a mistaken term,” Netanyahu added, “not because it doesn’t exist, but because the problem is international militant Islam. That is the movement that operates terror on the international level, and that is the movement that is preparing the ultimate terror, nuclear terrorism.”
It would appear that Palestinians who choose the route of extremism are proxies for Israel just as much as is President Abbas. If Palestinians go this route, Israel will have no trouble presenting itself, quoting Cook again, as the "civilised world's salvation."
Today I woke up to stories about Palestinians fighting Palestinians and Palestinians wanting to fight America. The only people smiling about this sorry state of affairs are the Zionists. One hopeful sign amid all the Palestinian perfidy was a story by Ali Abunimeh, South Africa Seen As A Model For Palestine, calling for one-state, which appeared in the Chicago Tribune, normally a receptacle for Zionist garbage.
I remain hopeful that true US patriots and true Palestinian patriots recognize that we have but one enemy, albeit an enemy which has the US Congress and media infiltrated, hoodwinked, enthralled. And the battle is not only for Palestine, but for America. Zionism is the enemy threatening life and limb in Palestine and our freedoms in America.
It will be only through our persistent efforts both in Europe, the US and in Palestine to wage war daily in our blogs, in our letters to our MPs and Congress and to the media, through our poetry, through our commentaries, and with all the talents that we can muster, that we will prevail.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk
by Khalid Amayreh
Nov 12, 2006, 17:08
Occupied Jerusalem - Only the gullible amongst us Palestinians would have expected the Bush administration not to veto the latest draft resolution at the UN Security Council, which would have provided a modicum of protection to Palestinian civilians in Gaza from recurrent Israeli massacres.
John Bolton, the fascist-minded American ambassador to the UN who actually hates the UN and strongly advocates American unilateralism, was in no way about to transform himself and the policies he is instructed to represent into altruism and self-abnegation.
After all, such ideals and universal human values nearly always constitute ‘the’ exact antithesis of American foreign policy which is based on greed and rapacity and hostility to peoples’ aspirations for freedom, independence and deliverance from the stranglehold of American imperialism.
There is no doubt that the scuttling by the US of the latest draft resolution, which was extremely mild in tone, is another example of the contempt with which the US views the international community, international legality and the UN itself.
Of course, this is not news for us in this part of the world. We have been too accustomed to watching, rather helplessly, the Zio-Nazis in Israel commit one massacre after another against innocent people in the Middle East.
In fact, one would exaggerate very little by saying that Israel’s history is an uninterrupted serial of massacres and atrocities from Dir Yassin to Beit Hanun.
The horrible frequency of these massacres is only matched by the equally affronting frequency of American complicity with Israel at the UN where every Israeli massacre is met with an American veto to shield the Nazis of our time from international condemnation and to prevent justice for its victims.
It is as if the veto-prerogative had been devised solely to protect Israel and enable it to behave and act like a lawless state with impunity.
As to Arab reactions, it is abundantly clear that we have seen the same futile rituals repeat and reproduce themselves ad nauseam. Israel commits a massacre, the Arab League or a given Arab country asks for an urgent session of the UN Security Council, behind-the-curtain bargaining takes place, and then the US scuttles the resolution, with its veto power.
And then everyone goes back to the previous mode, awaiting the next massacre, to be followed by the next American veto. And so the travesty goes, a massacre followed by a veto followed by another massacre followed by another veto. This happens while Arab states and their feeble supporters keep ranting and raving about international law and international legitimacy and Israeli violations.
There is no doubt whatsoever that the massacres, whether in Palestine or Lebanon, will continue unabated so long as the occupation continues and as long as the Arabs continue their self-inflicted weakness and shameful subservience to their oppressors across the Atlantic.
However, this doesn’t mean that things will remain static and America and Israel will have their way in this part of the world. America, thanks to her misguided policy in our region, is forcing tens of millions of Arab youngsters to choose between joining the ranks of the slaves or joining the ranks of Bin Laden.
And, yes, the vast majority might eventually join the ranks of Bin Laden, not so much because they are infatuated with his style and way of thinking, but rather because every other choice they are being offered is uglier than ugliness and void of liberty, dignity and human rights.
© Copyright 2003 by palestine-info.co.uk email: webmaster@palestine-info.info
Jonathan Cook in "How Israel is Engineering the Clash of Civilizations" quotes Benyamin Netanyahu: “International terrorism is a mistaken term,” Netanyahu added, “not because it doesn’t exist, but because the problem is international militant Islam. That is the movement that operates terror on the international level, and that is the movement that is preparing the ultimate terror, nuclear terrorism.”
It would appear that Palestinians who choose the route of extremism are proxies for Israel just as much as is President Abbas. If Palestinians go this route, Israel will have no trouble presenting itself, quoting Cook again, as the "civilised world's salvation."
Today I woke up to stories about Palestinians fighting Palestinians and Palestinians wanting to fight America. The only people smiling about this sorry state of affairs are the Zionists. One hopeful sign amid all the Palestinian perfidy was a story by Ali Abunimeh, South Africa Seen As A Model For Palestine, calling for one-state, which appeared in the Chicago Tribune, normally a receptacle for Zionist garbage.
I remain hopeful that true US patriots and true Palestinian patriots recognize that we have but one enemy, albeit an enemy which has the US Congress and media infiltrated, hoodwinked, enthralled. And the battle is not only for Palestine, but for America. Zionism is the enemy threatening life and limb in Palestine and our freedoms in America.
It will be only through our persistent efforts both in Europe, the US and in Palestine to wage war daily in our blogs, in our letters to our MPs and Congress and to the media, through our poetry, through our commentaries, and with all the talents that we can muster, that we will prevail.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk
by Khalid Amayreh
Nov 12, 2006, 17:08
Occupied Jerusalem - Only the gullible amongst us Palestinians would have expected the Bush administration not to veto the latest draft resolution at the UN Security Council, which would have provided a modicum of protection to Palestinian civilians in Gaza from recurrent Israeli massacres.
John Bolton, the fascist-minded American ambassador to the UN who actually hates the UN and strongly advocates American unilateralism, was in no way about to transform himself and the policies he is instructed to represent into altruism and self-abnegation.
After all, such ideals and universal human values nearly always constitute ‘the’ exact antithesis of American foreign policy which is based on greed and rapacity and hostility to peoples’ aspirations for freedom, independence and deliverance from the stranglehold of American imperialism.
There is no doubt that the scuttling by the US of the latest draft resolution, which was extremely mild in tone, is another example of the contempt with which the US views the international community, international legality and the UN itself.
Of course, this is not news for us in this part of the world. We have been too accustomed to watching, rather helplessly, the Zio-Nazis in Israel commit one massacre after another against innocent people in the Middle East.
In fact, one would exaggerate very little by saying that Israel’s history is an uninterrupted serial of massacres and atrocities from Dir Yassin to Beit Hanun.
The horrible frequency of these massacres is only matched by the equally affronting frequency of American complicity with Israel at the UN where every Israeli massacre is met with an American veto to shield the Nazis of our time from international condemnation and to prevent justice for its victims.
It is as if the veto-prerogative had been devised solely to protect Israel and enable it to behave and act like a lawless state with impunity.
As to Arab reactions, it is abundantly clear that we have seen the same futile rituals repeat and reproduce themselves ad nauseam. Israel commits a massacre, the Arab League or a given Arab country asks for an urgent session of the UN Security Council, behind-the-curtain bargaining takes place, and then the US scuttles the resolution, with its veto power.
And then everyone goes back to the previous mode, awaiting the next massacre, to be followed by the next American veto. And so the travesty goes, a massacre followed by a veto followed by another massacre followed by another veto. This happens while Arab states and their feeble supporters keep ranting and raving about international law and international legitimacy and Israeli violations.
There is no doubt whatsoever that the massacres, whether in Palestine or Lebanon, will continue unabated so long as the occupation continues and as long as the Arabs continue their self-inflicted weakness and shameful subservience to their oppressors across the Atlantic.
However, this doesn’t mean that things will remain static and America and Israel will have their way in this part of the world. America, thanks to her misguided policy in our region, is forcing tens of millions of Arab youngsters to choose between joining the ranks of the slaves or joining the ranks of Bin Laden.
And, yes, the vast majority might eventually join the ranks of Bin Laden, not so much because they are infatuated with his style and way of thinking, but rather because every other choice they are being offered is uglier than ugliness and void of liberty, dignity and human rights.
© Copyright 2003 by palestine-info.co.uk email: webmaster@palestine-info.info
