Saturday, January 08, 2011
US Policy in the Middle East: it is racism, stupid (or the Jim Crow of US policies in the Middle East)
There is a Wikileaks document that shows top US diplomats discussing the status of an Israeli terrorist captured in Gaza. I will not mention his name and we should not: they make our victims nameless and faceless: and their victims are not really victims but killers and terrorists and we should only make them famous on a Wanted list of war criminals at large. But there is something to be said about top US officials discussing the plight of one captured Israeli terrorist who was captured while embarking on crimes spree in Gaza. I mean, those US officials--not even at the lowest rank--would never ever discuss the plight of more than 10,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. For them, they all--men women and children--can be grouped as terrorists who deserve the worst punishment from Israel. And the system of thought behind such political and even human behavior is nothing less than unadulterated, old-style racism against a whole people. People ask them why I speak with such vehemence against, say, Jeffrey Feltman--the top Middle East man at the US Department of State. And my answer is that his racism is so blatant in everything he ever says about the Middle East (let alone his deep ignorance and his failures in learning Arabic over the years). Feltman--like many others--drips with racism in everything he says about Arabs and Palestinians in particular. It is the same white racism against blacks. US Middle East policy is still Jim Crow mentality. You may say: but Feltman is on friendly terms with some Arabs--Fayyad and other small puppets like that. My answer: of course. So was George Wallace at the hight of his white supremacist campaigns. There was never a shortage of individual blacks who made white racist comfortable with their racism. Those were the blacks that white supremacists held as models for black ideal behavior--defined always in terms of obedience and submissiveness. So the Arabs who serve as puppets for US foreign policy in the Middle East are unaware that they are peddling thought that holds them as inferior--as cheaper humans. And some Arabs--say Abu Mazen--know but don't care because they deep down view themselves as inferior.