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Bush at the cross roads of all conflicts |
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November 30, 2006 at 21:11:10
Bush at the cross roads of all conflicts
by Neal AbuNab
http://www.opednews.com
After 7 months of besieging Tyre, the legendary Greek King Alexander
the Great built a bridge to connect the insolent island with land. He
stormed the high walls with newly invented war machinery and killed
every person in the city (333 BC). He provided future foreign
conquerors with an important lesson: in the Middle East you have to
kill everyone or they will battle with you till the end of time.
The crusaders remembered that lesson when they captured Jerusalem in
1099; they killed all of its Muslim and Jewish inhabitants. In 1258 the
barbaric Mongol King Holako stormed Baghdad and burnt it to the ground.
President George Bush conquered Baghdad in 2003 but left most of its
people alive. He was a kind invader who gave people a choice: convert
to a new religion called democracy or be killed. Most of them did not
convert and they persisted in their old creed. He is now reaching a
fork in the road and it is befitting that he went to Jordan this week
to seek the inspiration of the gods for a new direction.
The Middle East has been and will always be the cross roads of all
human conflicts. A more optimistic term is usually used when referring
to the Middle East as the cross-roads of all civilizations. It is the
birthplace of human civilization and human misery. History has shown
that any nation that wants to be on top must be in control of
Jerusalem. When the British controlled the world Jerusalem was under
their yoke. Before them, the Ottoman Turks possessed Jerusalem and they
controlled half of Asia and Europe. We can keep going back in history
to the Muslim Arabs and before them the Romans and before them the
Persians and before them the Greeks. Every great empire is lured to its
demise in the Middle East.
Today, the Star of David flies over Jerusalem and the children of
Israel rule the world. They allied themselves with a young rising
nation called the United States of America and ruled it from within.
America became addicted to oil. The value of its dollar became addicted
to the control of oil assets. So, Bush found himself like all the other
emperors that came before him, in the unenviable position of having to
conquer the Middle East or risk losing his empire's wealth and power.
After more than three years of waging war in Iraq, Bush thought his
enemies would be worn out. But his own army and his people at home who
grew tired and worn out. The enemy is prepared to fight for another
hundred years, unless Bush is prepared to do what Holako had done.
This week, one of the American Generals in Iraq warned that the
sectarian violence might have developed its own unstoppable momentum.
Iran's President Ahmadinejad, called for the withdrawal of all foreign
forces from Iraq and he blamed them for all the anarchy. Next to him
was Jalal Talabani, the highly ceremonial and powerless President of
Iraq who did not denounce any of Ahamadinejad's words.
The new game championed by Shi'a cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr; admittedly the
most-influential figure in Iraq today, is to break down the Iraqi
government and make it illegitimate just like the Lebanese and the
Palestinian governments. The American forces obtain their occupational
legitimacy from Al-Maliki's government and if it loses support then the
occupation would have to end abruptly.
Bush refuses to negotiate with Iran over the Iraq issue. Iran is going
to make sure that it carves up a big and visible role in Iraqi
politics. Bush will keep denying Iran a role in Iraq until the Maliki
government disintegrates and a power vacuum emerges. The US and Iran
are probably preparing for the next phase of Iraqi politics and each is
grooming his own Iraqi strongman to be the next dictator.
King Abdullah of Jordan warned this week on ABC News that we could have
three civil wars raging in the Middle East; Iraq, Lebanon and
Palestine. The Palestinians offered a cease-fire and it was accepted by
the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert. Hours after the cease-fire
took effect, Israeli forces stormed into Jeneen killing and abducting
scores of Palestinians. The European Envoy, Javier Solana, called for
International monitors to observe the cease-fire. It was summarily
rejected by Amir Peretz, the Israeli defense minister. No one in
America reported the killing of Palestinians in Jeneen. A couple of
primitive rockets were fired by Palestinians from Gaza. Israelis
released a statement saying that they will be restrained in their
response. The US state department praised the Israeli response.
This vicious cycle of American officials sucking up to Israeli
positions is something the Arab world has grown accustomed to. American
officials never mention any of the daily violations that the Israeli
military commits against the Palestinians or the Lebanese. This
asymmetrical reporting maintains the benefit of US policy to the
Israeli side, all the time.
Jimmy Carter's new book "Palestine: Peace not Apartheid" and the
courageous interviews he's been doing to promote his book may help
America understand that all of its problems with Arabs and Muslims can
end if they give Palestinians an independent state. Olmert asked the
Palestinians this week to give up their right of return. Fat chance.
His request is equivalent to asking the Israelis to strike from the
bible any words that may give Israel a right to the land of Palestine.
The battle for the "right of return" is going to be waged in Lebanon as
it inches ever closer towards a civil war. Palestinian refugees in
Lebanon will be caught in the cross fire and they will be forced to
choose between the path to Lebanese citizenship through the
Sunni-Christian alliance or the path of resistance through the
Shi'a-Hizbullah-Syria alliance. Both are rough roads and everyone is
ready to sacrifice the Palestinians for their cause.
At this highly inflamed juncture in the Middle East, if Bush and Olmert
are not prepared to do what Holako had done then they better sit down
with their enemies and work out their differences, sooner rather than
later. Delaying the inevitable will make the loss that much greater for
the American people who never asked for a hundred year war with Arabs
and Muslims. Staying the course to get "the job" done that was laid
out, yet again, by Bush after his summit meeting with Al-Maliki, leads
straight through the gates of hell.
http://www.islampalestineblogger.com/
Neal AbuNab is a Michigan-based author of "The War on Terror and
Democracy"- available on Amazon.com. He is a commentator on Arab and
Muslim affairs and he can be reached at: www.IslamPalestineBlogger.com
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