25/03/03

Watch Out Israel!

USA France is not a Western country anymore, it is now the leader of the Arab/Muslim world. Israel has to know France is its main enemy. The United States has to understand they have nothing to expect from today's France except nastiness, treason, and cheating. Guy Milliere - a Frenchman!

An interesting article about the growing numbers of increasingly angry Muslims in Europe - which will also give western women some insight into what is in store for them if they continue to undermine their own men!

"In many French cities with a growing radical Islamist population, no teenage girl can go out in the evening, at least not without a full burqa." - even if she is not a Muslim!

Gang rape has become frequent.

And of relevance in connection with the war against Iraq ...

Six million Muslims live in France, at least ten per cent of them are radical Islamists poised on the edge of violence.

And, indeed, it really does seem to be the case that the spread of information through the internet and through many Arab TV stations such as Al-Jazeera has helped to inflame much Arab and European opinion against the UK and America.

Well, as AH's readers already know, it is through means such as these that the more powerful countries are continually going to lose their powers as more ordinary citizens at home and abroad gain them.

And in connection with the troubles in Iraq, unless there is some catastrophe, the close monitoring that the people of the world can nowadays engage in means that the more powerful are not going to find it so easy any more to have everything going their own way.

And, in the long run, this is very good news.

For example, the way in which Iraq is eventually governed - a topic that is under much heated discussion at the moment - will almost certainly end up being in accordance with the wishes of the Iraqi people themselves - which will make a welcome change for them. 

At the moment, however, there are many in Europe and in the Arab world who fear that America will simply install some kind of permanent military-backed puppet regime in Iraq which will act mostly in the interests of America rather than in the interests of the Iraqis.

For example, here is an Iraqi speaking ...

USA "When someone comes to your house to fight, you fight. They may have come for Saddam Hussein, but they also came for the oil," he continues, noting that he would feel the same way about any invading army, not just the Americans. "We can take care of this problem inside Iraq," he says. "We will find someone to lead us. We will find a man of our own."

But, in fact, the fear that the Americans will cheat the Iraqis is largely unfounded because there is no way nowadays that America could actually get away with doing such a thing - for very long - even if it wanted to. 

The world can nowadays watch far too closely! And America knows this.

(Ah yes. Men at screens!)

However, of particular interest, the developments that are now taking place also mean that Israel is probably going to be in trouble in the near future - well, at least in the sense that it is going to have to be much more accommodating over the Palestinian question than it has been recently. (Though this is not meant to imply that Israel has been particularly at fault.)

The problems for Israel are going to escalate because the Arab world is becoming far more empowered - through the spread of information - and because much of the information that is being spread throughout the Arab world (and much of Europe) is very hostile to the Israelis. And it is having a big effect.

Furthermore, the communications of Osama Bin Laden, and of very many influential Arabs and Europeans, throughout the past many years, make it quite clear that the Israel-Palestine question is a major ongoing source of hatred.

And so unless the Palestinian question is resolved to the satisfaction of the Arab world there is just no hope for peace - not only for Israel and the Middle East, but also with regard to terrorism throughout world.

To repeat. There is no hope for peace unless the Arabs are satisfied with any deals.

But a main problem is that too many Arabs absolutely hate the Israelis.

And so how on Earth are they going to be satisfied with any deals?

Indeed, a very large number of Muslims actually want to see Israel completely destroyed. And because they are becoming more powerful, they are increasingly going to cause more serious problems with regard to Israel's continued existence.

Now, while it is true that the removal of Saddam and the increased presence of American soldiers in the Middle East will go some way toward keeping a lid on things for the moment, there is just no way that a military presence alone will be able to keep the peace in the long term. Indeed, it will almost certainly make matters worse.

And so it is that Israel is going to find itself in an ever-worsening situation whether the American military stays in Iraq or whether it leaves. 

The only solution for the survival of Israel is for information to be spread out over the Arab countries in a manner which heavily influences their populations toward negotiations and peaceful solutions.

There is no other way.

A major problem, however, is that this is almost certainly not achievable in the near future - even if there is a positively huge effort in this direction - because the bitterness and the hatred are far too widespread and far too deep, and because much of the Arab world is actually unreachable at the moment.

And so, in the short term, the potential for disaster both for Israel and for the west is going to remain very high indeed.

However, because the spreading of information is the only way to provide for long term safe solutions, and because the powers-that-be are surely going to recognise this, then you can bet your last dollar that this is exactly what will eventually be aimed for. And when enough people at the top begin to appreciate this much more fully than they do at the moment, the further spreading of information will move forward with some considerably heightened degree of urgency.

Putting all this another way: Unless we in the west keep talking to the Arabs and let them to talk to us, and unless we keep getting closer and closer to them, we are heading for some very serious problems. 

And the very same is true for the Israelis.

In other words, people are just going to have to be a lot nicer to each other. And they are also going to have to talk a lot more to each other.

Finally, it is well worth bearing in mind that, for the most part, the significant protagonists in all of this are men! As such, given that the traditional sources of power (the military) and authority (the politicians) are crumbling before our very eyes and, further, that the men's movement is growing all the time, the onus is very much on men's activists to do their best to promote peace, goodwill, and, of course, the further spread of information.

21/04/03

The removal of Saddam Hussein is not only going to accelerate the relative decline in the power of Israel, but it will also do the same for Jews throughout the western world.

AH has oftentimes spoken about this relative decline for Israel vis-a-vis the Arab world and the Middle East, mostly in connection with the general downfall of the more powerful due to the continuing spread of information, but there is something of a double whammy that is going to be delivered against the Jewish caucus in the sense that it is going to be increasingly 'opposed' throughout the west by an ever-growing and increasingly empowered body of opinion that is firmly stacked against it and/or will simply be competing more successfully with it for 'informational space'.

For example, whether it be heated serious political discussions on the TV and in the press, or fictional movies for children, Jewish folk are going to have less relative 'say' and less influence.

And, of course, the same sort of thing will happen within Israel itself, with the hard right politicians like Sharon losing power all the time.

Correct! 

Nevertheless, AH hastens to add, this is not to cast the 'Israelis' in a particularly negative light. This is exactly what anyone one of us who is lobbying for a cause in which we fervently believe would do!

It is the name of the game!

While Israel is desperate to disempower Saddam, and while it has considerable influence around the world, particularly in America, that influence will be used to put into power those persons and forces that will help to achieve its aims, and it will be used to disempower those that do not!

This is the way that it all works!

If the president - whoever he might be - supports Israel's aims, then the pro-Israeli lobby will seek to empower him. If he does not do this, then they will seek to do the opposite - which will be extremely bad news for him, because out of the door he will go.

But who can blame the Israelis?

Can you imagine what it must be like living on a tiny patch of land in the Middle East surrounded by millions upon millions of people who are purposefully being brought up to hate you?

It must be terrifying.

Now some folk would argue that the Jewish people should not even be living in Israel. They say that it is not their land, and that they ought to go and live elsewhere.

Well, maybe this is true, maybe it is not. AH doesn't know. But, quite frankly, this is somewhat irrelevant at this very desperate moment in time.

From the Israeli point of view, Saddam Hussein's track record shows that he is an extremely dangerous man. And this, together with the fact of the vulnerable situation in which Israelis already have to live on a permanent basis, makes the Israelis feel highly insecure, to put it mildly.

And they are clearly absolutely justified in feeling this way. 

They are surrounded by the enemy.

And so it is that they will do everything in their power to bring themselves more security.

And if this means lobbying, bribing, blackmailing or bringing down the president of the USA, then this is what they will do.

So, no big surprises there!

But some people say that the Israelis are pinching Arab land, and always seeking to pinch a little bit more - along the Gaza Strip and the West Bank etc. 

But just take a look at the size of Israel.

It is absolutely tiny in comparison to the size of the Arab lands!

And there is not enough room for the Jewish population.

So why cannot the Arabs give them a little more space?

The problem is, of course, that no matter how small is the extra bit of land that the Jewish people want, if it happens to be your bit of land, then you are going to make hell of a fuss about it! - hence the Palestinian problem.

What a mess, eh?

So. Where will it all end up?

Well, of course, AH doesn't know.

But he can tell you this!

The longer that the hate goes on, the more likely it is that the Israelis will lose.

Why?

Well, just as the feminists, and the gays, etc, and the Jews themselves, once had a very strong grip on the structures that were needed to maintain their power, all these groups, nowadays, are being disempowered relative to those who would oppose them.

And there are an awful lot of Arabs around!

Indeed, if Israel is to survive, it is going to have to make peace with its surrounding neighbours. And the problem is, of course, that the surrounding neighbours might not actually want to make peace with those in Israel. They may continue to want them out! And they may want to get them out even more keenly once they are themselves more powerful.

And so it is that, in AH's humble and highly inexpert opinion, if peace is not fairly quickly restored to the area surrounding Israel, it is the Israelis who in the long term will likely lose the most.

Here is an article written in 1968 from an anti-Zionist point of view. AH hasn't got a clue with regard to making any judgement about its accuracy, but the important point is that it's there! And that it also reflects what many people believe to be the case ....

USA The first basic fact about populations is that they multiply. The population of Israel is increasing, and the populations of the Arab nations are increasing. In the conflict between populations, either Arabs or Jews must someday end up being driven into arid desert wastes which will not support them, where they will find relief only in the oblivion of death. John Mitchell Henshaw - 1968 - 5 min