Ayoon Wa Azan ( Smoking and the Israeli Cabal )
Jihad el-Khazen Al-Hayat - 11/08/06//
Sometimes I feel like that smoker who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading. I have read the lies of Israel's cabal about the US administration and its racism and diseases and have come to think that life is short and I do not want to get an ulcer out of sadness. Perhaps it is better that I stop reading.
Smoking and Israel's cabal are one and the same as either cause cancer or incurable diseases. From the beginning of this year I had begun to collect articles by pro-Israeli extremists to write a series about them, after writing about Daniel Pipes and Michael Ledeen. However, the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier by the Palestinians on June 25 and then Hezbollah's kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers on July 12 made me change my mind and reorder my topics in a way that would help us understand the thought process of this group up to and including this current confrontation.
Therefore, I chose for the reader examples that demonstrate how truths are forged: Following the explosion of the issue of the insulting cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), it emerged that Daniel Pipes, who has connections with Danish extremists, led a campaign with the Danish newspaper, 'Jyllands-Posten'. I have written more than enough about him so I will choose others. For instance, P. David Hornik wrote an article entitled 'Embracing Islamo-Fascists', reflecting an attempt by the evil gang to popularize the term 'Islamo-Fascism'. I suddenly discovered that the phrase is being repeated in their writings, so much so that I wrote a column to warn everyone about it.
Andrew C. McCarthy, who posed the question: "War? What War? Those who don't learn from history" castigating the Bush administration's reluctance to identify the enemy in the 'war on terror' as not terrorism per se but Islamic terrorism. He insists that mentioning Islamists should not be neglected in this war. Joe Kaufman wrote an article 'CAIR April Fools', attacking the Council on American-Islamic Relations for organizing a conference. The least I can say in the Council's defense is that, unlike AIPAC, it is not teaming with 'spies' who have been prosecuted and found guilty for placing Israel before America. After this he wrote another article, 'An Annual Hatefest', about the annual get-together of Muslim students at Florida Atlantic University.
All I can say here is that if a Muslim wrote an article about a yearly gathering of Jewish university students and used the language Kaufman used, could he possibly escape the charge of anti-Semitism? Even Brandeis University has not escaped their wrath, while a Jewish university, simply because it awarded an honorary doctorate to the Jewish playwright Tony Kushner. Robert Spencer attacked the university because Kushner sympathizes with the Palestinians. Then Spencer attacked the university again because it had the audacity to host an exhibition about Palestinian children.
With the deteriorating situation in Iraq, the continued aimless killing and the failure of the occupation to find solutions, there were those who rushed to the defense of this failure. Edward Luttwak, for instance, writes 'Civil war: the only way to bring peace to Iraq'. The peace he preaches is the peace of the grave. He actually wants a civil war to kill off the Iraqis and his opinion, which reveals the racism and extremism of the author, is too contemptible to deserve a reply.
As for Andrew Walden, he took things a step further with his bizarrely titled article 'Iraq: Safer than DC', meaning Washington DC, the US capital. He even used statistics to back up his claim, which leaves one with nothing to do save thank the occupation for lifting Iraq up to the level of Washington's crime rate!
From Iraq to Iran, we find that warmongering is Michael Ledeen's bête noir. I have already written a series about him, so I will choose someone else, someone who is the most virulent and most filthy of the neo-conservatives, namely, Richard Perle. He has written about the dangers of any retreat in the confrontation with Iran and has opposed negotiations with it. Also, like Perle in this regard, Mike McGavick calls for boycotting or expelling Iran, author of 'Red Carding Iran', getting the idea from the World Cup that was raging at the time. He argued that Iran already got itself a red card when it lost in the first round and had to leave.
Then the confrontation between Israel and Hamas and Hezbollah came and with that the pro-Israeli gang positively outdid itself. Dan Darling writes that 'Israel's enemy is our own'. I, on the other hand, insist that Israel is the greatest enemy of the US and its interests, and that the likes of Darling are responsible for spreading worldwide hatred of the US with their immoral adherence to Israel. In the same vein, Andrew McCarthy, whom I referred to previously, writes: 'Israel's war with Hezbollah is our war with Iran' - in other words, a war in which American boys will die in the service of Israel.
Kevin Toolis, who directed a documentary about suicide operations, wrote 'When in Rome, don't forget the bombs of 1983', pointing to the bombing of the American embassy in Beirut and the headquarters of the Marines. However, the article focused on the 'prince of martyrs' Ahmed Qassir who, in 1982, attacked the Israeli military headquarters in Tyre, killing 76 Israeli troops. This means that this Israeli apologist does not want any resistance at all to savage occupation.
I do not think anybody in the whole Arab world wrote articles objecting to suicide operations as much as I, and I still call for them to be stopped, but only because they kill civilians. Killing occupation soldiers, on the other hand, who have spread devastation in the land, is heroism and true martyrdom. If suicide operations targeted soldiers exclusively, I would not object to them, were it not for the fact that they often hurt innocent bystanders along with the criminal. Therefore, once again, I call for them to be stopped.
Michael Rubin has attacked the Bush administration, in his article, 'All Talk and No Strategy', for not being extremist enough. I found that he reminds the reader of a statement made in 2000 by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, declaring that Israel was a "cancerous body in the region . . . [which] must be uprooted." It seems that Rubin's memory is selective, since every Arab leader up until the end of the 1970s have mouthed the same words, as did Ayatollah Khomeini. I myself used similar terms in this column a few days ago, with the reservation that I do not want Israel wiped out, but I simply want it isolated behind the very exclusion wall it has built to isolate this cancerous tumor away from us.
I surmise that those defending Israel's crimes and dredge up excuses for it are a cancer themselves of another kind, even if they are no less dangerous than smoking!
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