A New Truth Dawns On the Arab World
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Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Leaked Palestinian files have put a region in revolutionary mood
And as these dreadful papers are revealed, the Egyptian people are calling for the downfall of President Mubarak, and the Lebanese are appointing a prime minister who will supply the Hezbollah. Rarely has the Arab world seen anything like this.
To start with the Palestine Papers, it is clear that the representatives of the Palestinian people were ready to destroy any hope of the refugees going home.
It will be – and is – an outrage for the Palestinians to learn how their representatives have turned their backs on them. There is no way in which, in the light of the Palestine Papers, these people can believe in their own rights.
They have seen on film and on paper that they will not go back. But across the Arab world – and this does not mean the Muslim world – there is now an understanding of truth that there has not been before.
It is not possible any more, for the people of the Arab world to lie to each other. The lies are finished. The words of their leaders – which are, unfortunately, our own words – have finished. It is we who have led them into this demise. It is we who have told them these lies. And we cannot recreate them any more.
In Egypt, we British loved democracy. We encouraged democracy in Egypt – until the Egyptians decided that they wanted an end to the monarchy. Then we put them in prison. Then we wanted more democracy. It was the same old story. Just as we wanted Palestinians to enjoy democracy, providing they voted for the right people, we wanted the Egyptians to love our democratic life. Now, in Lebanon, it appears that Lebanese "democracy" must take its place. And we don't like it.
We want the Lebanese, of course, to support the people who we love, the Sunni Muslim supporters of Rafiq Hariri, whose assassination – we rightly believe – was orchestrated by the Syrians. And now we have, on the streets of Beirut, the burning of cars and the violence against government.
And so where are we going? Could it be, perhaps, that the Arab world is going to choose its own leaders? Could it be that we are going to see a new Arab world which is not controlled by the West? When Tunisia announced that it was free, Mrs Hillary Clinton was silent. It was the crackpot President of Iran who said that he was happy to see a free country. Why was this?
In Egypt, the future of Hosni Mubarak looks ever more distressing. His son, may well be his chosen successor. But there is only one Caliphate in the Muslim world, and that is Syria. Hosni's son is not the man who Egyptians want. He is a lightweight businessman who may – or may not – be able to rescue Egypt from its own corruption.
Hosni Mubarak's security commander, a certain Mr Suleiman who is very ill, may not be the man. And all the while, across the Middle East, we are waiting to see the downfall of America's friends. In Egypt, Mr Mubarak must be wondering where he flies to. In Lebanon, America's friends are collapsing. This is the end of the Democrats' world in the Arab Middle East. We do not know what comes next. Perhaps only history can answer this question.
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Your introduction to the article was more thought provoking than the article itself. You spoke of Egypt being in bed with Israel. Based on several scriptural passages, the Jews have an oral tradition that the Lord has commanded the Israelites not to "return to Egypt." This is a spiritual as well as a physical prohibition, and it applies to the descendants of the early Israelites.
ReplyDeleteI would need an Orthodox Jewish scholar to advise me on this, but the situation you describe has a prodigious stench of "returning to Egypt." Then again, the current rulers of "Israel" are not descendants of the early Israelites anyway.
Funny you should bring that up. I just now posted out for schedule an article coming up at 2 am tonight (tomorrow morning) showing that Israel is shipping crowd control technology to Mubarek to ensure he remains in power. Again, they believe force will prevail and it never has. I don't care how many high tech weapons they have. All that does is shove the resistance underground and we have learned the hard way how that doesn't work in a low tech underground resistance, which we learned in Viet Nam and in Afghanistan.
ReplyDeleteMr Suleiman is the chosen one. He is Egyptian Intel... (read: part of the metabridge)... mentioned in the Late Christopher Soty's articles extensively... it what that release plus a little more that got him killed.
ReplyDeleteThe METABRIDGE is the ONE global intel which acts as pseudo intel for "countries" when its real allegance is to the Shadoe oligarchy.
In my opinion globalization is not the problem... it is inevitable as the people unite against governments... it is a must if we plan to overcome... BUT the globalization must be locally run by EVERY community which should be tightly locally hubbed with all or none votes which will ensure a compromise is always made by ALL of the people for ALL of the people.
Christin, very good thinking outside the box solution. I agree, since I have been doing this blog, I have met the most wonderful people overseas and have enjoyed forging new friendships and was surprised at how much we have in common.
ReplyDeleteSo a global mentality "Think global, work local" is a great idea. The PROBLEM is, nothing will work until you make psychopathy a life sentence or death penalty. That is how we got here. Its more dangerous than a nuke or 10 nukes. It has killed as many people as a nuke attack would have done with no discernment or one ounce of humanity. That is the problem, so first we have to solve that problem, TESTING, AND TREATING PSYCHOPATHY WHICH IS UNTREATABLE.
When we can implant a conscience, only then can we treat it, and that so far is not possible. Any ideas on that would be welcome and then maybe we would never have to go through all this ever again.