- So, how did it really happen? How could a tiny paramilitary
group such as Hezbollah manage to shake the almighty, American-supported
Jewish state; something that the Arab states have relentlessly failed at
doing for almost six decades?
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- In fact, a similar question may be raised in reference
to Iraqi insurgency. While it is rather evident that Saddam's army was
defeated by the overwhelming Anglo-American destructive power, Islamic
resistance is winning the battle on the ground both in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Neither America nor Britain seem able to come up with a reasonable excuse
for the growing number of deadly attacks against their invasion forces.
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- Though the armies of Arab states are occasionally defeated
in the battlefield, though too many Arab statesmen happen to follow the
path drawn by Washington with resolute determination, Islamic resistance,
which is not recognised in any national form, is there to fight back. Moreover,
Islamic defiance is unbeatable. The Israelis have been watching the growing
wall of Muslim resistance for over two decades. In Palestine it is the
Hamas and in Lebanon it is the Hezbollah. In this theatre, Islamic militants
deliver one blow after the other to Israel. Similarly, the American army
is chased on a daily basis by insurgency both in Iraq and Afghanistan.
As much as the far more powerful Soviets failed in Afghanistan, neither
Israel, nor America nor Britain have the capability of responding effectively
to the emerging Islamic guerrilla warfare.
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- Once and for all we better face it. Arabs are far from
being at their very best if they are operating in the format of a 'national
state'. The Arab soldier may lack the necessary will to die for an idiotic
flag. Both in the case of Saddam's Iraq or Nasser's Egypt, once within
a conflict, a growing gap reveals itself between the charismatic, assertive,
far over the top demagogue leader and some serious malfunctioning performance
in the battlefield. Unlike the American, British, French, and Israeli soldiers
who have proved throughout history to have some real tendency towards collective
suicide for some empty promises shaped as 'ideology', the Arab platoon
is slightly behind in exhibiting this kind of idiotic national patriotic
militant zeal. He may as well be just too clever for those kind of deadly
games.
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- Should it be a big surprise? Not at all. Nationalism
is a European concept, it has very little to do with the Arab mentality,
history and general affairs. National patriotism has never made serious
headway into the Arab psyche. The division of Arabia and the Middle East
into small national states with borders and flags has never been a natural
evolvement of the indigenous Arab people themselves. Instead it was the
outcome of some international political manoeuvring imposed upon Arabs
by the superpowers. The slicing of the near east into small national states
was intended to serve the interests of Western imperial forces. In practice
it was Britain and France who drew up the borders of the Middle East already
in 1916 (The Sykes-Picot Agreement) and it was America who joined in later
just to reshape those borders to guarantee Israel's safety as well as a
constant oil supply.
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- With the lack of crude nationalist zeal, it isn't a
big surprise that Arab state armies fail to provide the goods in the battlefield.
Yet, the Hezbollah, the Hamas and the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan
are agonising the Western armies. They manage to do so just with light
weaponry: without tanks, without cruise missiles, without satellites, without
a navy. They win without airplanes and without the support of a superpower.
All they have at their disposal is merely a belief, namely Jihad.
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- Looking at Iraq (or what is left of it), at Bin Laden
(the myth), at the Hamas (the democratically elected Palestinian government)
and the Hezbollah (the ultimate success story) it is rather clear. The
Arab wins when and only when he fights as a Muslim, as a believer. Unlike
the shallow Westerner soldier who gives his life for empty manmade slogans,
the Muslim would give his life for a divine cause. I will spit it out:
if there is any meaningful notion behind 'Arab nation' this notion is Islam.
The Muslim takes orders from the Almighty Lord. I may admit that if I myself,
being a secular had to choose between the call of a retarded American president
and the Lord, I would obviously go for the latter.
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- However, it is rather obvious that the Wolfowitzes of
this world fail to realise that Arab nationalism as defined in independent
states is basically a myth. They mistakenly consider the Arab territorial
landscape as a genuine national reflection of some real authentic ethnic
aspiration as well as geo-political considerations. In fact, such a perception
has nothing to do with reality. Lebanon and Syria are one country, at least
in the eyes of very many Syrians and Lebanese. The north of Palestine is
no different from Lebanon and the West Bank has been long considered a
unified territory with Transjordan.
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- When Lebanon is demolished by the Jewish state's air
might and around a third of its population is displaced, the Syrians would
be the first to provide humanitarian support. When Gaza is murderously
and indiscriminately bombarded by the IDF, the Hezbollah would be there
to open a second front and to ease the pressure on their Palestinian brothers.
When American and British expansionist forces insist upon robbing Iraqi
oil, it is the Muslim brotherhood who would stop them rather than the Iraqi
army. Arab resistance is in practice an exercise in Islamic brotherhood.
For those who still fail to get the picture, Jihad goes far beyond any
Western sense of local national patriotism. Jihad is cosmic, yet it is
personal.
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- While the Wolfowitzes of this world would insist upon
dominating the Arab world in the name of democracy and some other quasi
liberal ideas, it is the Islamic freedom fighter who crosses lands and
seas just to serve the American GIs with the ultimate performance of human
devotion. While the Wolfowitzes of this world insist upon transforming
Britain and America into an Israeli mission force, it is the Muslim brotherhood
that gives us good reason to believe that eventually, when the time is
ripe, peace will prevail.
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- For those amongst us who refuse to acknowledge what
Islam is all about, I will mention that the Arabic 'root' of the word 'Islam'
is Salama which originates from the words Peace and/or Submission, a submission
to God and peace to all humanity.
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- Indeed Jihad itself is a word that bears further analysis.
It stems from the Arabic root word J-H-D, which means 'strive.' Other
words derived from this root include 'effort,' 'labour,' and 'fatigue.'
Essentially Jihad is an effort to practice religion in the face of oppression
and persecution. At its highest form it is fighting the enemy of Muslims
and Islam. Certainly, Condi, Bush, Olmert and his Jewish state are the
bitterest enemies of Islam. And yet, Islam defines the boundaries of Jihad.
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- The Quran tells us (Quran 2:190-193):
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- * Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you, but
do not transgress limits; for Allah loves not transgressors.
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- * And slay them wherever you catch them, and turn them
out from where they have turned you out; for tumult and oppression are
worse than slaughter; but fight them not at the Sacred Mosque, unless they
(first) fight you there; but if they fight you, slay them. Such is the
reward of those who suppress faith.
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- * But if they cease, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
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- * And fight them on until there is no more tumult or
oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah; but if they cease,
let there be no hostility except to those who practice oppression.
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- In short, unlike the brutal Israeli aggression and the
murderous American zeal that know no limits, Islam restricts violence,
furthermore, its aim is not domination, but peace. This will obviously
happen when Israeli occupation is ended and Palestinians return to their
land and home. This will happen when Zionised Anglo-American colonialism
is totally defeated. This message is clear and not open to negotiation.
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- Looking at the Hezbollah, at the Hamas and the insurgent
war in Iraq doesn't leave much room for doubt. While many Arab nations
have been defeated, Arab brotherhood, i.e., Islam is winning. If I were
an Israeli who lived in occupied Palestine I would be rather worried. The
excessive use of power and indiscriminate killing of Lebanese, Palestinians
and UN peace keeping soldiers is the direct outcome of deep Israeli anxiety.
The Zionist tactic is failing and they all know it. Their army doesn't
provide the goods anymore. By now, you may be able to guess why. Nationalism
is foreign to Jews almost as much as it is foreign to Arabs. In fact, Zionism
ceased being a local national movement a long time ago. Since the Balfour
Declaration (1917) more and more Zionists operate as a Jewish Ethnic lobby
promoting Jewish global interests. For more than a while Zionism is not
interested solely in Eretz Israel i.e., 'promised land', instead, it intends
upon transforming our universe into a 'Promised Universe'. This idea is
known as Neoconservatism and its largely Elder Zionist messengers who spread
it are active in London (http://eustonmanifesto.org/), NYC and Washington
(http://www.newamericancentury.org/).
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- But time is running out for Neocon philosophy as well
as its practitioners. I do not know whether history repeats itself in general
but somehow, as far as Jewish History is concerned, the same tale keeps
rewriting itself: it is a story of an obsessive relentless will to power
that always ends in tragic circumstances. It happened in the Middle Ages
in Spain, it happened in17th century Poland and Ukraine (Bogdan Chmielnitzki),
it happened in 20th century Europe and it seems as if something dramatic
is about to happen in America.
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- When the American Jewish Committee (AJC) is manifestly
engaged in dragging America into war in Iran all in the name of world Jewry
- http://www.ajc.org/atf/cf/{42D75369-D582-4380-8395-
- D25925B85EAF}/Al_Qaida_Iran_Hizballah.pdf
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- When the Wolfowitzes of this world happened to be the
architects behind the criminal war in Iraq, one may find oneself wondering
whether Jews themselves ever learn anything from their own history. I really
prefer not to think about what is going to be the outcome of the current
blunt Jewish war waging. Considering the emerging American defeat in Iraq
and growing international isolation, it is just a question of time before
a charismatic American figure points the finger at the Israeli lobby. Devastatingly
enough, it isn't only Jews, many of them totally innocent, who are going
to suffer when that happens. By the time all the Wolfowitzes of this world
realise that it is time to evade the American vengeance (what may evolve
into a new Jewish tragedy namely Coca Colacaust), they will probably try
to escape to Palestine, God Forbid.
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- Clearly, Zionists and their Jewish state are highly
engaged in perpetrating a new world war, we have a good reason to believe
that Olmert didn't rule out the possibility that the current conflict in
Lebanon may lead towards a further escalation with Syria and Iran. It obviously
didn't stop him. Why should it stop him? As soon as the Israelis started
to drop bombs on Beirut Bush and Blair rushed to support Israel's right
to 'defend' itself.
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- The Wolfowitzes of this world have different names for
the conflict they themselves created. They often call it a cultural clash
and they are pretty good in wrapping their naked murderous zeal with some
quasi humanist reasoning. More than anything they love to present themselves
as the messengers of democracy. Yet, if indeed their notion of democracy
is anything like the 'single- race Democracy', practiced in their dearly
beloved murderous Israel, it isn't that surprising why their ideas do not
gain ground anywhere.
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- Seemingly, for the sake of keeping their little racist
Jewish state alive, the Wolfowitzes are happy to wage an all out war against
Islam. So far Condi, Bush and Blair are showing support. The Wolfowitzes
are over the roof but how to say it, half a million Lebanese have lost
their homes as a result.
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- Somehow, the Wolfowitzes of this world always fail to
internalise that human beings are morally orientated creatures. Indeed
nations and people can live through some evil phases. Not that many years
ago it happened in Germany, it now happens in America. Yet, human beings
have something the Wolfowitzes lack. They have an ethical correction mechanism;
humans regret their wrongdoing, they have a conscience. America lived through
McCarthyism but recovered, it still tries to deal with its racist past
and current racial discrimination, it has been dealing with its war crimes
in Vietnam. America, no doubt will shake itself of its Zionist murderous
phase. It just doesn't have any other choice. When this happens the Wolfowitzes
of this world will have to hide behind the rock and tree, and the rock
and tree will say: "Oh American, there is a Wolfowitz behind me, I
am scared, take him away! Help, help!"
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