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Take The Money and
Run
Thursday, August 15 2002 @ 04:47 PM GMT
By Israel Shamir
JAFFA: Travel opens up the vistas of your mind. It is
wonderful to roam our beautiful Earth, from France to
Norway, from China to Russia, from Africa to Latin
America, enjoying its variety and hospitality, and the
profession of reporter gives you a chance to see the
world.
But eventually one pays attention to an interesting
coincidence. It could happen to you in Marseille, as you
walk by the inner harbor, or in Brittany, in the
fishermen’s city of Oriente, in Guatemala or Nicaragua, in
Milan, this capital of Italian fashion, in Naples or in
Shanghai, in Russian White Sea port of Archangel or in
the middle of China, in Berlin and Hamburg, in the
passes of Hindukush, in Tokyo and Baghdad, Manila or
Havana. Suddenly you notice that all these exotic and
diverse places have one thing in common, they were
bombed by Brits and Yankees. These guys sure get
around. Today we bomb Afghanistan, tomorrow the rest,
or whatever they sing in the Air Force. The reasons vary.
They had bombed China for the stubborn Chinese did
not want to buy their opium, Colombia, for they were
selling drugs, Russians and Vietnamese, for being
Commies, Cambodians, for being there, Germans and
French, for offending Jews, Iraqis, for hard cash and
Sudanese by mistake.
Now, we have got a sneak preview of their next
campaign, courtesy of the Washington Post. The men in
charge of the US, and I mean real men, not this
nincompoop in the White House, conspire to erase Iraq,
to continue with Saudi Arabia and finish off with Egypt.
The news was broken gently by a strategist with a
wholesome all-American name Murawiec, smuggled into
Pentagon by one of the men in charge, Defense Policy
Board Chairman Richard N. Perle. This Jewish hawk, a
friend of Sharon, a devoted Zionist, should be
considered the real author of the blueprint calling for
seizure of the Arabian oil fields and realignment of the
Arabian Peninsula.
The Saudis have feigned amazement, while the US
columnists tried to play down the story and have a good
laugh. It surely has its comic value. Glib assessments —
'Wars have been the principal output of the Arab world'
— sound particularly rich when coming from a proponent
of Judeo-American cult, probably the most violent and
war-prone since Genghis Khan. Muraviec’s rhetoric
question — 'What has the Arab world produced?' —
reminded me of a thieving banker, Flatto-Sharon, who
had escaped French police to Israel, bribed voters, got
elected into the Parliament and there had the temerity
to ask Yitzhak Rabin in his beginner’s Hebrew: 'What did
you do for the state of Israel?' It remained as one of the
best Israeli jokes. But I was neither amazed nor
amused. The desire to plunder and kill Arabs is
frequently vented in the Jewish circles, but recently it run
into snags. The Palestinian property had been looted
years ago, their lands and houses taken over and
resold. While killing Palestinians may be pleasing to the
deity of vengeance, it is not a very profitable exercise.
Squeeze of the remainder goes too slow for the
impatient and accustomed to NASDAQ growth folks.
Iraq seems to be an appealing target for mass murder,
and in the prestigious Jewish World Review, a Jewish
American columnist Jonah Goldberg calls: 'Baghdad must
be destroyed. America should go to war with Iraq even if
that risks innocent Iraqi — and American — lives'.
Although life or death of a Goy is surely no objection,
there is no money in bombing Iraq, either.
The riches of the Arabian Peninsula hoodwink the Jews,
being tantalizingly within the reach of IDF Merkaba
tanks. This temptation was well expressed by Jewish
American Professor David D. Perlmutter in LA Times: 'I
daydream — if only! If in 1948, 1956, 1967 or 1973
Israel had acted just a bit like the Third Reich, then
today Jews, not sheikhs, would have that Gulf oil'.
One would think that Saudi crude goes to the US, why
should an American professor mind it? But your average
American Jew values his Jewish-ness well above his
American-ness. Witty Joe Sobran noted, 'It was once
considered 'anti-Semitic' to impute 'dual loyalty' to
(American) Jews. This is now pass'. Dual loyalty nothing!
Dual loyalty would be an improvement in comparison
with their single-minded devotion to their own national
interests.
In order to turn the Perlmutter’s daydream into reality,
usually quite diverse Jewish voices of extreme right and
shades of left are united. While Richard Perle is as
right-wing as they make it, Justin Raimondo noticed
'ex-leftist David Horowitz, who demands all-out war on
the Arab world, and Stephen Schwartz, ex-Trotskyite,
who became a major theoretician of Riyadh as 'kernel of
evil' school.' Even anti-Zionist Trotskyite Lenni Brenner,
whose brilliant pen and cheerful style I admire, decided
to join the US warriors, and called to launch feminist
crusade against Saudi Arabia.
The Jewish-owned media amplified these opinions. A
Jewish journalist, Miss Slavin, reported in USA TODAY
published by the top Jewish leader, Mort Zuckerman,
that a Jewish analyst Max Singer (a founder of the
conservative Hudson Institute, who never had been to
Saudi Arabia but frequents Israel) suggested to
Pentagon officials to dismantle the Kingdom. Value of
Singer’s opinion is next to nil, but it has received good
media coverage more important opinions have been
denied. There was no article by an Arab-American calling
to dismantle Israel, just for the balance. It appears the
organized Jews firmly planted Saudis in the cross-hairs
of their formidable weapon, the mass media.
It leaves us with a difficult query, why do some American
forces, and the American Jews among them, want to
destroy Saudi Arabia, the faithful ally of the US and a
very moderate power in regional context? And another
one, what could be done about it?
Optimists argue that it is just a threat, a psychological
warfare, a pressure applied to the Kingdom. The
reasons for such pressure could be explained by need of
American oil companies to threaten Saudis into
obedience and extend their contracts. Alternatively, the
US military needs to use Saudi air bases for attack on
Iraq, and the Arabs are not sufficiently obsequious.
But I am not sure it is an empty threat. We live in the
shadow of ongoing meltdown of the dollar and the
American-based financial pyramid. It began in August
2001, caused 9/11 as the means to slow the meltdown,
and goes on, gathering speed as an avalanche
snowball. Saudis have too much dollar reserves.
Elimination ('freezing') of their dollar assets would slow
the meltdown, as vast trillions of dollars will vanish from
the marketplace. While injection of money causes
inflation, its evaporation will cause deflationary, upward
pressure on the dollar. In other words, for the Wall
Street, it makes sense to freeze Saudi assets, as they
froze the assets of Iran and Iraq.
The Saudi government probably has time to counteract
it. They should shift their holdings out of the collapsing
dollar zone, into euro, yen or gold. The great idea of
golden — Islamic dinar — promoted by the wise Prime
Minister of Malaysia, Dr. Mohamed Mahathir should be
activated immediately. The Saudis could learn much from
Dr. Mahathir who succeeded to turn his strife-torn poor
country living off oil and natural rubber into the
prosperous land of national accord and stable economy.
The Malaysians squared the circle: Their immigrant
communities are fully integrated, have equal rights, and
still do not endanger the indigenous Malay group. They
develop high tech industries, support charities, provide
welfare state; there is no discrimination, no poor or
needy people in Malaysia. They do not depend on the
US, do not provide their land for the US bases, do not
invest in the US, and still remain on friendly terms with
Washington. Following the Malaysian way, the Kingdom
will reduce its vulnerability. Alas, it would not diminish
the Jewish appetite for Arab oil, nor the organized
Jewish hostility to Riyadh. The Saudi government is
uncomfortably conscious of the threat. Now, the Saudis
have to pay heed to unpleasant reality. Israel is not just
a small Middle Eastern country anymore, but a forward
element of the new aggressive international force,
Jewish supremacists. They have too many good reasons
to undo Saudi Arabia.
- This prosperous and well-armed country must be
brought down to its knees before Israel will make its
most important step, seizure and destruction of the
beautiful Umayyad Mosques in Jerusalem.
- Saudis have too much money, too much oil and too few
friends. his combination brought Kuwait down, but the
US bombed Iraq to restore the Emir of Kuwait.
Washington is not going to repeat this feat when the
Saudi oil fields will pass into Israeli hands.
- The Viagra of Saudi money would invigorate flabby Dow
Jones.
There is an additional reason. The Jewish conscience
had been poisoned by sweet dreams of revenge for the
defeats of times long gone. Mainstream Jewish scholars
of 19th and 20th century betrayed their audience, and,
instead of describing real Jewish history, created an
idealized and distorted picture of wonderful past, old
grievances, undeserved wrongdoing and revenge
dreams. Their readers swallowed the fabricated stories
and grew up as unrestrained nationalists. Modern Jews
are victims of nationalist propaganda, misled and
disoriented, induced with desire to rectify the mythic
wrong.
The Jewish state was established to undo the perceived
results of the Roman victory of 70 AD, and now a new
idea floats in the air, to undo the perceived results of
Prophet Muhammad’s victory over the Jewish tribes and
to bring the peninsula under Jewish rule. Together with
the desire to undo the victory of Christianity, this archaic
spirit will inevitably cause more turmoil in the world.
This spirit reminded me of Sweeney Todd, the Demon
Barber in a late 1970s horror musical comedy. Sweeney
Todd has turned his customers into savory pies’ stuffing
in order to exact revenge on the judge who wronged
him. The Saudis should act before it is too late. They
should rethink their relationship with the Palestinians,
and treat them as their outward defense rather than as
poor relatives.
- there should be more effort and money spent on public
discourse in the US and Europe, as Edward Said
constantly reminded the Arabs.
- We should confront the archaic tendency among Jews
and promote a different spirit, a spirit of understanding
and brotherhood. Though it is not taught in Jewish
schools, Prophet Muhammad won his battles by
attracting like-minded Jews to the banner of Islam as
well. Early converts fought under the green banner of
Islam on every battlefield from Yarmuk to Cairo.
There are many good Jews, in Israel and in the US alike,
and there is no reason for confrontation between the
descendants of Abraham, but the restless spirit of
Sweeney Todd should be exorcised.
Israel Shamir is an Israeli journalist based in Jaffa.
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