While The ZIonists Trample Human Rights, The Arab World Shines As A Beacon of Freedom

Religion is the opiate of the people, perpetrated by both the Zionist State of Israel and the Islamist state of Saudi Arabia, both puppets of US oil imperialism. The only way to guarantee peace in the Middle East is for the workers of all ethnicities/religions to unite and get rid of the stinking ZIonist capitalists and stinking Islamist capitalists. The US only pays for the existence of Israel because it protects US oil interests, and that is the only reason it supports the fascist Saudis. All religions are anti-women by definition, and it is irrelevant if they happen to have women hustlers promoting their racket, commonly known as rabbis, priests and the like.

As to Israel, 54 years is enough. (This is similar to the slogan against the capitalist International Monetary Fund, 50 years is enough.) Israel is, of course, the 49th state, having been admitted to the US capitalist union in 1948, for all intents and purposes, if not legally, to protect US oil profits. Congress routinely votes for money for Israel, both Democrats and Republicans . This is why everyone who wants to end this racket called Israel needs to stop voting for all Democrats and Republicans at all levels of government. The litmus test question on the political agenda today, is:
DO YOU SUPPORT CUTTING OFF US AID TO ISRAEL?
If they do not state clearly, "Yes," DO NOT VOTE FOR THEM.

how many people look at china where approx 60 million were killed under communism, or Cambodia, and blame the chinese or cambodian cultures - those atrocities were the responsibility of the government, and neither of these are democracies. So why does it make sense to look at monarchies with unpopular governments throughout the middle east that have been propped up by the US and blame the behavior of their government on their religion of all things (this is the case for Saudi arabia, Egypt, Saddam Hussein in Iraq was supported by us, the shah of Iran, the taliban (we paid them many million last summer for destruction of opium poppies plus funded the mujaheddin during their fight with the soviets- See associated rambo film), Kuwait (monarchy that permits slavery!) Bahrain etc.)

From now on i'm going ot ask everyone i was thinking of voting for if they will stop US AID to Egypt. Egypt is a horribly opressive society than hangs homosexuals. STOP US AID to EGYPT. It's time. They get 2 billlion dollars of our money to breed hate and extremism. Please join me.

Where are the progressives here calling for Justice in Egypt?

Where are the voices calling for freedom in Egypt? Ask any anti-Zionist and they will tell you that the Egyptian regime is a puppet state bought and paid for by the good ol' USA. The Egyptian state just renewed the "state of emergency" that has kept the people in bondage for 19 years. It was passed around the time they made peace with the apartheid settler state of Israel.

Democracy in the middle east means just that.

The Palestinian Distraction

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Vice President Dick Cheney has just completed a tour of the Arab world, where he tried to drum up support for U.S. action to topple Saddam Hussein. He didn't have much success, as the Associated Press reports:

In one Arab nation after another, Cheney has found leaders primarily focused on resolving the corrosive Israeli-Palestinian crisis, no matter how much he tries to change the subject to a tougher stand on Baghdad.

Every Middle Eastern country he has visited so far has rejected proposals to confront Iraq militarily--Jordan, Egypt, Yemen, Oman, and now the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

Whence these Arab dictators' sudden interest in "resolving" the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which they've been happy to have unresolved for decades? In Friday's New York Times (link requires registration), Fawaz Gerges of Sarah Lawrence College offered this explanation:

The actual conflict between Israel and Palestine may or may not be at a turning point. But the ability of Arab states to deal domestically with the intensification of that conflict may indeed be at such a point. Arab League members are now speaking very seriously of normalizing relations with Israel. For the first time in this hundred-year struggle between Arabs and the Jewish state, a consensus exists in the Arab world regarding peace with Israel, based not on the previous land-for-peace formula but on full normalization of cultural, economic and political relations between the protagonists.

Today the Arab establishment, even former hard-liners like Syria and Libya, accepts a settlement that recognizes the existence of Israel and its integration into the regional landscape. The Saudi Arabian peace initiative, anchored within this new vision, has been embraced by pivotal Arab states, including Syria.

Gerges strains credulity when he asks us to believe that dictators of such ultrarepressive states as Saudi Arabia and Syria have suddenly developed a solicitude for public opinion. He shatters it when he claims that this solicitude leads them to seek peace. To whatever extent "public opinion" actually exists in these countries, it militates for war, not peace, with Israel. The Associated Press reports that in Jordan--one of only two Arab countries that have made peace with Israel--demonstrators over the weekend carried signs reading "Saddam, please strike Tel Aviv!" and "Bin Laden, you are dear to us, bomb Tel Aviv!"

http://webcenter.newssearch.netscape.com/aolns_display.adp?key=200203162141000188710_aolns.src

Gerges takes such a blinkered view because he totally ignores the most important change affecting the region: America's new resolve, since Sept. 11, to combat terrorism. There's good reason to think it's the Arabs, not Cheney, who are changing the subject. After all, even Gerges acknowledges that "time and again, Palestine has been used and abused by Arab rulers and their opponents as a political tool to garner public support." So instead of taking at face value the Arabs' professions of tender concern for the Palestinians, why not take them at their word when they say they don't want America to topple Saddam Hussein?

When dealing with dictators, it's safe to assume that their overriding priority is to preserve their own power. Today, thanks to American deterrence and restrictions on Baghdad's military movements, Saddam poses no immediate threat to his Arab neighbors. If he were to invade Saudi Arabia or Kuwait, there is no doubt that America would come to the rescue again--and this time it would go all the way to Baghdad. Saddam knows this as well as anyone.

On the other hand, the thought of an American-backed government in Baghdad must terrify the region's tyrants. "Syria considers that the mere acceptance of the possibility of changing the regime of Saddam Hussein by force will set a bad precedent and make it possible to bring down other regimes in the region by force under any pretext," China Daily quotes Imad Shueibi, a political analyst and professor at Damascus University, as saying.

http://www.chinadaily.net/cndy/2002-03-15/61023.html


And think of what a new regime in Baghdad would mean to Saudi Arabia. If Iraq were democratic, the despotic and corrupt Saudi regime would look by comparison even worse than it does now. A pro-American Iraq, democratic or not, would dramatically increase U.S. power in the region, devaluing the currency of two-faced Saudi "friendship." Even more ominous, the Bush administration has made clear its determination to carry the war on terror to any country that supports it. At some point that will mean going to the source--the financier of fanaticism, the homeland of Osama bin Laden and 15 of the Sept. 11 hijackers, the world's leading exporter of Islamic fundamentalism.

For months the question has been whether Saudi Arabia would permit America to use its bases there to topple the terror-supporting regime in Baghdad. A year from now the question may be whether America will choose to use its bases in Iraq to topple the terror-supporting regime in Riyadh. No wonder Crown Prince Abdullah would rather talk about the Palestinians.




New Frontiers in Appeasement

http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/03/17/niraq17.xml&sSheet=/portal/2002/03/17/ixport.html

Neville Chamberlain had nothing on Britain's Home Secretary David Blunkett. London's Sunday Telegraph reports that a "senior minister" says "Mr Blunkett was concerned that an attack on Iraq would spark riots in the Middle East that could spread to Britain. Mr Blunkett reportedly told colleagues: 'We cannot separate Iraq from the Middle East or we will have major disturbances both internationally and in Britain.' "

The Telegraph adds that "Ahtsham Ali, a member of the Home Office community cohesion review team, said: 'Muslim youths were angry and frustrated at the action in Afghanistan; that frustration may lead to further incidents if there is action in Iraq.' "

Fortunately, Tony Blair seems sensible enough not to allow unruly adolescents to dictate his foreign policy.




Lynching in the Name of Human Rights

http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/03/17/News/News.45300.html

So what was behind last week's Palestinian lynchings of "collaborators"? According to the Associated Press, Yasser Arafat was trying to make human-rights groups happy:

A little over a year ago, Arafat's government cracked down on collaborators, executing two of them by firing squad and sentencing at least seven others to death. But the executions drew an outcry from human rights groups and foreign governments, and none has been carried out since.

"The Palestinian Authority has many considerations in dealing with this, the human rights issue, and because of this they've stopped carrying out verdicts, especially when it's the death penalty," said Abu Mujahid [of Arafat's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades]. "But we have only one issue--our security. So we say, 'If there's someone who's collaborating, bring him to us, and we will do the job.' "

Ha'aretz, meanwhile, reports that the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade "took responsibility" for an attack on Kfar Saba, Israel, that killed an 18-year-old schoolgirl, Noa Orbach, yesterday. And the New York Times (link requires registration) reports from Ramallah: "Palestinians say that Yasir Arafat, their leader, has issued no order in recent days to stop the terror attacks and probably could not enforce one in any case."

http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=142398

Arafat won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1994.