Saturday, January 29, 2011

Israel and change in Egypt

You can only gloat now about the fortunes--sorry misfortunes--of the terrorist state of Israel.  What do you say about a state that based its strategic posture on the preservation of dictatorial regimes all around it.  Do you realize why I always had confidence that Israel's years are numbered, and not only because they should be numbered.  This is a historic necessity that can be analyzed in historical materialist terms.  Do you now understand why Netanyahu has ordered silence about Egypt among all his officials?  Their panic and nervousness equal that of the Mubarak family.  I really doubt that there is one Israeli official left in the Israeli espionage embassy in Cairo.  I really doubt that now.  Do you think that if the Egyptian people were to freely choose their representatives they would impose a siege on Gaza? That they would invite Netanyahu for Ramadan iftar?  Just look at the Iraqi political scene which is a puppet government jointly controlled by a kooky Ayatullah (Sistani, the cleric of occupation) and the US occupation.  Only on--ONE--elected (in a puppet election) guy, Mithal Allusi, dared to speak for peace with Israel.  And how popular is that is even with Israeli and American money allegedly showered on him?  Do you know how many assassination attempts he has survived over the years? Two of his sons were assassinated.  You would be surprised if you think my categorical rejection of Israel is not shared by the Arab people.  I met a young Saudi couple on their honeymoon in the summer in Lebanon: you know what was their first destination in Lebanon? Not the regular tourist sites, they donned Kufiyyahs and went to the Resistance Museum in Mlita.  Comrade Amer yesterday wrote me that he never felt Palestine closer.  I can't disagree.  The picture will only get bleaker for Israel and for Israelis.  This has been the doing of a century of terrorism against Arabs.   The US run Pakistan and when I went on a speaking tour there 4 years ago, the Pakistanis told me that US congress pressured Gen. Musharraf, or Busharraf as Pakistanis liked to call him, and he just could not because he know how explosive that would be in Pakistani public opinion.  The US will continue to pay the price for its decades of wholeheartedly embracing Israeli occupation and terrorists interests over all else.  All for the state of Israel. The US has alienated millions and millions of Arabs over its policies for Israel (and of course over its embrace of Middle East dictatorships and that is part and parcel of its support for Israel).  That was what US Secretary of Defense, James Forestal warned against back in 1948 when Truman was considering to recognize Israel.  This is not to say that the US has imperialist interests of its own: of course it does, and there is oil but the Zionist lobby in Washington, DC has really put all policy considerations under the headline of support for Israel.  On the long term, Israel will also prove to be a big boost for anti-Semitism around the world, especially when Israel goes under.  And for that, you may also blame the Zionist state of Israel and its decades of terrorism against Arabs.