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MER FLASHBACK - 20 Very Long Years Ago
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Fahd of Arabia and Ronald Reagan
Twenty Years Ago
"The Saudi King will look like a fool if he comes
[to Washington]... They'll pat him on the head...and
send him off empty-handed... At most he'll get more
promises a few arms, and meaningless gestures.
Fahd's coming here is a serious blunder. It's not
dignified, I don't know how his advisers justify it."
- Middle East International - 1985
"The City [of Washington has]...become the
political Mecca for Arab leaders making their
pilgrimage to the seat of the empire to be dined
(but not wined), pampered, and ceremoniously
given just about everything except justice, hope,
and a future they can live with."
MIDDLEEAST.ORG - MER - Washington - 26 April: Twenty years ago now, in 1985, things were already not going so well in the Middle
East. The Israelis were buildings settlements everywhere, even after having promised at Camp David years before to 'freeze' them all for
good. Lebanon had been invaded by Israel and the U.S., Beirut sieged, American warships firing on an Arab country for the first time in
history, American Marines blown up en mass in an Arab capital as never before.
The polarization and radicalization which was to eventually lead to 9/11 and the Clash of Civilizations was already underway; the era of hostages and suicide bombers had begun.
That was the atmosphere in which the Saudi King came to Washington for a summit with Ronald Reagan in 1985. Many of those who
are today the leading Washington warrior Christian Zionist Neocons - Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, et. al. - were already in positions
of considerable power then. Yesterday the acting Saudi King, Crown Prince Abdullah (for King Fahd is still being kept artifically alive by teams of foreign doctors back in Riyadh), came to visit the current American President, George W. Bush, the man whose father was RR's Vice-President twenty years ago and who was to coin the term 'New World Order' just a few years later after Fahd's visit. At that time, two decades ago, the publisher of Mark Bruzonsky wrote the following column which was prominently published on the
back cover of MIDDLE EAST INTERNATIONAL in London. As a result the Saudis threw a fit, cancelled hundreds of MEI subscriptions,
and put even a firmer squeeze on the various publications and media outlets they subsidize or control, including The Washington
Report on Middle East Affairs which they had recently begun in Washington with some of their so-called 'Arabist' friends.
As for Arab dignity, after meeting yesterday with Bush-Cheney-Rice to plot the next steps in the 'New World Order' crusade, the
Saudi Crown Prince was taken by his handlers and advisers to a local American diner where this man of the people had a photo op with
some common folk looking more foolish and more out-of-place than ever.
Middle East International 1985 "Letter From Washington" is at http://www.MiddleEast.org/archives/meifahad.jpg
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April 2005
MER FlashBack - Wiping Out Palestinian Nationalism
(April 27, 2005)
MER FLASHBACK - Five Long Years Ago: Finally even Arafat's own Fateh is beginning to put into print what has long been suspected and whispered -- the Palestinian people have been
tricked and duped and snookered.
Fahd and Reagan - MEI FlashBack 20 Long Years Ago
(April 26, 2005)
As for Arab dignity, after meeting yesterday with Bush-Cheney-Rice to plot the next steps in the 'New World Order' crusade, the Saudi Crown Prince was taken by his handlers and advisers to a local American diner where this man of the people had a photo op with some common folk looking more foolish and more out-of-place than ever.
Stealth Assassination of Yasser Arafat Resurfaces
(April 25, 2005)
As has become the usual when it comes to matters relating to Israel and the Middle East nearly all the mass corporate media in the U.S. and Europe allow themselves to be manipulated by governments, lobby-groups, and on-the-take commentators and pundits in ways that severely distort or cover up major events. Such was the case with what MER termed even as it unfolded last November the 'Stealth Assassination' of Yasser Arafat.
Saudi Ruler summoned to Texas for pre-war summit
(April 25, 2005)
Today on his Texas ranch the current Evangelical Christian American President has summoned the functioning Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques in Mecca, the acting King of Saudi Arabia. It is a meeting whose origins go back to an American battleship at the end of World War II - the story of which follows.
Information about this new MiddleEast.Org program
(April 25, 2005)
Please Contribute to MER Today
(April 24, 2005)
Interview with Boutros Boutros-Ghali in 1979 - Considerable Historical Insights
(April 23, 2005)
Interview with Boutros Boutros-Ghali in 1979 - Considerable Historical Insights
(April 22, 2005)
For Those Now Using the New MIDDLEEAST.ORG Program
(April 22, 2005)
FlashBack - 5 Very Long Years Ago
(April 16, 2005)
Information about MER
(April 15, 2005)
As many of you have been in touch to inquire this is just a brief note to let you know that MER has been partially and we hope only temporarily suspended for financial and equipment reasons. We know that many of you are concerned and though we have not been able to reply individually we do want you to know
what is happening.
IRAQ AUTOPSY - FlashBack 2 Years
(April 2, 2005)
"The United States has embarked on an imperial adventure in the Middle East. This is the true meaning of the war against Iraq... Washington is
intoxicated by the vision of imposing a Pax Americana on the Arab world... The fatal flaw is that this is not a purely American project.
Rather it must be seen as the culmination of America's strategic partnership with Israel..."
- Patrick Seale
U.S. Behind Original Iranian Nuclear Program
(April 1, 2005)
Hard as it may be for most Americans to understand, contemporary Iran is far more democratic than the regime of the Shah it replaced against great American support for the tyrant. Hard as it may be for most Americans to appreciate as well, contemporary Iran is in reality more democratic than many of the key U.S. client-regimes in the region -- including Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Egypt and Jordan. The hypocrisy and deceitfulness of those in control of the power of the American Empire seems never-ending. But only once and awhile do exposés of the following kind appear in the corporate mass media; and in this case it was buried away on page 15 with a meek headline even though preparations to attack Iran are well-underway and the Bush-Sharon War Summit is about to take place.
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