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Point Abid
Ullah Jan
GREATER
ISRAEL
A
dream closer to fulfillment
A
terrible, terrible time is ahead. Nevertheless, we are so indulged
in our personal affairs and so mesmerized by the "mainstream"
media's onslaught and biased presentation of the international
issues that we fail to see beyond what it wants us to see.
We fail to see that the US and Israel are well on their course
to materialize the Zionist dream of Greater Israel and fulfill
God's promise to Abraham in the Bible: "To your descendants
I give this land from the River of Egypt to the Great River, the
river Euphrates."
The US and Israel, self-deluded into the most-superior-states
syndrome, are set to surpass all previous records of bloodletting
in human history. They have set a stage. They have acquired all
the required resources. They have turned the UN into more irrelevancy
than its predecessor, the League of Nations. And they have made
the rest of the world more helpless before their outlaw behavior
than it was before Hitler in the late 1930s. Yet the world lives
with a hope that things will change for better.
Things are not going to change for better. No one can stop the
upcoming bloodshed in the Middle East because no one is ready
to act for better. The so-called world leaders know; the UN knows
and people all over the world smell the unfolding bloody adventures
in the Middle East, but the seeming helplessness on all sides
is making the upcoming bloodshed inevitable.
The three well known and basic causes that make the coming holocaust
inevitable are:
1. The incompetent United Nations, where the unjust distribution
of power in the UNSC and meaninglessness of the General Assembly
have crippled this seemingly all powerful organization. The world
lived with this injustice since its inception. However, all consequences
are coming home to roost at the end of the Cold War and the beginning
of the untold-dream of an American Empire. The world kept watching
the resultant "shock and awe" when the US went around
the UN to invade and occupy Iraq. The whole world would keep helplessly
watching as the Israeli terrorist machine churn into top gear.
What other limits helpless would have when the UNSC is not even
able to condemn Israel for attacking sovereign member state due
to the fear of US veto.
Realizing that the UN is not founded on the principles of justice
and knowing that it is not in a position to dispense justice,
countless suggestions are floating for democratizing the UNSC;
for giving veto power to more countries; for abolishing veto altogether;
for giving veto power to a representative country of the Muslim
world as well, etc. However, no one seems to be in a position
to transform the UN into a body that could provide real justice
to the suffering humanity anywhere in the world. Getting along
the injustice and the inability to bring a meaningful change to
the UN system would be one of the primary causes of the coming
conflict.
2. Everyone admits that Israel is not supposed to occupy
Arab lands and continue to subjugate a people with force indefinitely.
Everyone admits that the United States need not sponsor oppression,
subjugation and terrorism of the Israeli state. But the world,
which was quick enough to end Iraqi occupation of Kuwait, does
not have the will or a way to relieve thousands upon thousands
of the Palestinians from Israeli oppression. The so-obvious helplessness
of the whole world before US-Israeli aggression and continued
terrorism is the second direct factor that will hasten the coming
bloodshed irrespective of the rest of the world hoping that things
will change for better without our taking any meaningful action.
3. Muslims' inability to change their status from divided
sitting ducks to a united bloc for defending their rights, or
at least, effectively demand justice for themselves. It is beyond
all logic that only they are wrong in Palestine, Chechnya, Kashmir,
Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan,
Sudan, and keep naming.
Besides the above mentioned major factors, the realities which
are the building blocks to this coming Arab holocaust are as follows:
1.
The world, including the UN, has left resolving the issue of Israeli
occupation only to the aggressor (Israel) and its sponsor (the
US), who will never come up with a just solution. Possibilities
of conflict-escalation are wide open, whereas there is no solution
at all after Israel's rejection to vacate the occupied Arab lands.[1]
Thus, the conflict will definitely escalate to the uncontrollable
levels.
2.
Three of Netanyahu's advisors - Perle, Feith, and David Wurmser
- occupy top spots in the foreign policy councils of the Bush
administration, where their fulsome support for the Iraq war helped
implement the first part of the plan for Greater Israel.[2] After
calling the US numerous times for attacking Syria and Iran, [3]
after noticing the Americans deterred from launching future wars
due to the unpleasant political and military blowback emanating
from that deepening quagmire, changing public opinion for "no
wars in '04," and the news of secret peace talks between
Washington and Tehran, the Israelis resorted to playing their
trump card by attacking Syria. At the same time, Bush told the
aggressor that it had the right to defend itself. [4]
3.
The world is silent as the US Congress slapped economic sanctions
on Syria for "sponsoring terrorists, seeking weapons of mass
destruction and occupying Lebanon," just three days after
Israeli attack on Syria, clearly ignoring Israeli WMD, endless
occupation and state terrorism. Just two days before Israeli attack
on Syria, the Bush administration gave Congress the go-ahead to
approve new U.S. penalties against the Damascus regime.[5]
4.
Israel's military launched build-up along its borders with Lebanon
and Syria.
5.
Iran is not out of sight. Soon after the outbreak of regional
violence, Iran will definitely become the target of US Israeli
aggression. [6]
6.
Despite Israel's refusal to approve the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty, in addition to strong speculations that Israel owns up
to 300 nuclear warheads and the Arab League's most recent assertion
to the IAEA that Israel now has the capability of producing a
hydrogen bomb, the US does not consider Israel an 'imminent' danger"
and the world has no means to address this problem.
7.
The US and its president are totally helpless before the Christian
extremists, who put Israel's interest first. Their torch bearers,
such as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, believe Israeli hegemony
in the Middle East represents the fulfilment of Biblical prophecy
about the coming of Jesus. A prophecy, in their view, can be self-fulfilling:
it is, however, their Christian duty to expedite it. These themes
are the ever-increasing force behind conservative support for
Bush's war policy and the new efforts to spread the conflict to
Syria, Iran, and beyond.
Keeping these realities in mind, it is hardly logical to deny
- unless these trends and initiatives are effectively reversed
- that an escalation of conflict and unprecedented bloodshed is
imminent, and realization of the dream of Greater Israel is now
a matter of years, not decades. Even if it moves beyond a decade
for some unpredictable reasons, Greater Israel is an inevitable
fate the world has to face due to its inability to cope with the
aforementioned three root causes.
End
Notes
[1] Since the first US war on Iraq, the peace process over the
last 12 years has been nothing but a process to fool the world.
When Bush Senior could draw a line in the sand for Iraq to end
Kuwait's occupation, why can't anyone draw a similar line for
Israel. Instead, Bush tells us that Israel has the right to "defend"
itself - even if it means conquering and occupying all of Palestine
and driving the original inhabitants into Jordan. As "A Clean
Break" projected the plan:
"Since Iraq's future could affect the strategic balance in
the Middle East profoundly, it would be understandable that Israel
has an interest in supporting the Hashemites in their efforts
to redefine Iraq."
Let's hand our Palestinian problem over to the Hashemites, say
radical Likud hard-liners and their American supporters. There
is no such people as the Palestinians, anyway, as Joan Peters
and Alan Dershowitz aver: they are really just Jordanians. A Hashemite
restoration in Iraq would pave the way for the creation of a Greater
Israel.
[2] The first part, the occupation of Iraq, is part of the final
strategy for total Israeli occupation of the Middle East. This
plan was chalked out in a 1996 paper prepared for then Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu by a working group consisting of several individuals
who are now in top spots in the Bush administration. "A Clean
Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" (http://www.israeleconomy.org/strat1.htm),
co-authored by Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks,
Jr., Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav
Wurmser, portrayed Syria as the main enemy of Israel, but maintained
the road to Damascus had to first pass through Baghdad:
"Israel can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation
with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling
back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from
power in Iraq - an important Israeli strategic objective in its
own right - as a means of foiling Syria's regional ambitions.
Jordan has challenged Syria's regional ambitions recently by suggesting
the restoration of the Hashemites in Iraq."
For more details, see William A. Cook, "Sharon Recruits US
Mercenaries Against Syria: Of Pariahs and Pre-emptive Strikes,"
Counter Punch, April 26, 2003
[3] Aluf Benn, "Israel to U.S.: Now deal with Syria and Iran,"
Ha'aretz, October 7, 2003. See also "Israel Wants U.S. To
Attack Syria," Pravda April 17, 2003. "US Assures Israel
That Syria And Iran Are Next," News Report, Baluchistan Post,
http://www.balochistanpost.com/item.asp?ID=3297
. David Wurmser is chief aide to Undersecretary of Defense John
Bolton, who, before a single shot was fired against Iraq, was
already promising Sharon that Syria would be next. As Ha'aretz
reported at the time (scroll down):
"U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton said in meetings
with Israeli officials on Monday that he has no doubt America
will attack Iraq, and that it will be necessary to deal with threats
from Syria, Iran and North Korea afterwards."
In February, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was already demanding
action against Syria. At a meeting with a delegation of U.S. congressmen,
Sharon handed the Americans their marching orders:
"Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday that Iran, Libya
and Syria should be stripped of weapons of mass destruction after
Iraq. 'These are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed
of weapons mass destruction, and a successful American move in
Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve,' Sharon said
to a visiting delegation of American congressmen. Sharon told
the congressmen that Israel was not involved in the war with Iraq
'but the American action is of vital importance.'"
[4] Richard W. Stevenson and Carl Hulse, "Bush Tells Israel
It Has the Right to Defend Itself," the New York Times, October
7, 2003.
[5] Barbara Slavin, "White House stops blocking Syria bill,"
USA Today, October 7, 2003.
[6] "Israel And US Prepare To Attack Iran"
."Goal
is forcing capitulation or risking regional war
.'There could
be very, very serious ramifications in the wake of what's happened
with this air strike by the Israelis in Syrian territory.' Brent
Sadler, CNN. 'It could be a race who presses the button first
(to strike Iran) - us or the Americans'. Israeli Mossad Official"
MID-EAST REALITIES - www.MiddleEast.Org
- Washington - 6 October 2003. "Israel Weighs Strike To Stop
Iran's Nuclear Weapons Program," World Tribune, September
25, 2003.
Note: Also see: Arab Holocaust in the Making, where an attack
on Iraq was predicted in November 2002 and the self-appointed
Muslim spokespersons of the White House challenged the idea, saying,
"What if Bush does not attack Iraq." Now he has, the
time is not far away for further escalation of the conflict
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