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Fall Foolishness
20.7.2007
By Gerald A. Honigman, eKurd.net Contributing Writer
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July
20, 2007
Things ain’t going too well In Mesopotamia these
days.
Despite the surge in American troops and so forth,
the reality is that if America withdrew even a year
from now, the fourteen hundred year old divide
between Sunni and Shi’a Arabs would still yield the
bloody results we are seeing daily right now. Short
of either another Saddam-like Sunni or Shi’a version
of that other post-World War I’s artificial state’s
absolute ruler, Marshal Tito, emerging, “Iraq” will
likely come apart at its religio-ethnic seams as did
Yugoslavia.
Worse still, the one people (not perfect themselves,
but still the most deserving) who most merit
American support will be the folks we’ll probably
again abandon to their Arab tormentors--the
Kurds…some thirty million of whom still remain
stateless and whom the American State Department and
its oil-addicted kin make every excuse under the sun
to keep as perpetual victims to their Arab and other
regional oppressors. |
Gerald A. Honigman is a Florida educator who has done extensive
doctoral studies in Middle Eastern Affairs. He has created and
conducted counter-Arab propaganda programs for college youth, has
lectured on numerous campuses and other platforms, and has publicly
debated many Arab spokesmen. His articles and op-eds have been
published in dozens of newspapers, magazines, academic journals and
websites all around the world. |
The very week President George W. Bush announced
plans for a major summit a few months down the road
to reinvigorate his dream of the creation of a
“contiguous” Palestinian Arab State (the Arabs‘ #
22--and second, not first, one in “Palestine“),
reports surfaced of renewed atrocities and ethnic
cleansing of Kurds in Arab Syria--the state where
Kurdish kids are forced to sing songs praising their
“Arab“ identities in schools. Four decades ago,
Ismet Cheriff Vanly wrote The Syrian Mein Kampf
Against The Kurds (Amsterdam 1968)--so such things
have been going on for quite some time. Yet, how
many people know of this? And why aren’t they
reading about the case for Kurdistan in the news the
way they are the cause for yet another Arab terror
state set up in Israel‘s backyard?
The vast majority of Kurds are not involved in and
do not support terror and just want to be able to
rule their own lives and not be subjugated (or
worse) as Arabs are able to do in many other states
which they have come to rule.
Why are thirty million Kurds doomed by the world’s
power brokers to statelessness and perpetual
victimization (keep in mind that Kurds were promised
independence in Mesopotamia/Iraq after World War I)
while Mr. Bush presses Israel to allow for the
creation of either a Hamas or Fatah Arab terror
state?
Recall that it took Saddam’s gassings and such in
Arab Iraq to even bring any attention at all to the
plight of the Kurds.
But that was yesterday’s news...
Today, the plans of the Arabs’ legal representative,
Bush family and petrodollar good buddy, James Baker,
are again setting the stage for shafting America’s
Kurdish friends in the area…friends who are now
seeing through Baker’s and the State Department’s
intentions and are acting sometimes in ways to also
distance themselves from America. A shame…It should
not have come to this.
Sunni Arab states control much of the world’s oil.
Kurds should have the right to do likewise with oil
which sits in land which they have lived in
millennia before any Arab or Turk arrived there.
While I fully supported America’s overthrow of
Saddam, the predicament we now face should have
surprised no one…just ask the British who had a long
history there after World War I.
If America’s honorable desire for a highly
autonomous, federated Iraq falls apart (as it likely
will…too many ancient, powerful forces and factors
working against it), we should cut our losses and
support the one true success story we have already
helped to create…a free and independent Kurdistan,
complete with American bases, in a region where the
latter are becoming less and less welcome. Arabs and
others routinely flee the violence in the areas they
control for the Kurdish north.
And this brings me to the real topic of this piece…
With a less than probable favorable long term
outcome facing us in Iraq--i.e. Iran’s ayatollahs
have begun the countdown to the creation of their
sister Islamic Republic to the west and may actually
be considering reuniting it within Iran’s ancient
borders (Bahrain was also targeted so the other
day)--Bush would like to leave office with a
“success” he can point to in that region. Think of
the last days of Bill Clinton’s presidency and
similar pressures on Israel to give away the store
for promises of Arab “good behavior” at Camp David
and Taba.
Israel is now, once again, under enormous pressure
to play along with this dangerous game.
It has agreed to release Arab prisoners to Fatah’s
Abbas that should have never been taken alive in the
first place… wannabes who “just” maimed instead of
murdered innocent Israeli children and mothers, and
so forth. Additionally, Israel has agreed to grant
amnesty to others of the same ilk if they simply
pledged to be good. As The Jerusalem Post’s Caroline
Glick has pointed out, the Arabs are laughing their
behinds off at this.
But funny it’s not…especially when one considers
that Israel’s alleged “best friend,” America, has
been relentlessly pressuring it to act in this
suicidal way.
Israel must muster the backbone to refuse to attend
such a summit at this time.
Prime Minister Olmert and his even worse Condi Rice
derriere-kisser, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, must
get the boot by the Israeli public before Israel
attends such a meeting.
When such things as the “contiguity ” of that
proposed additional Arab state are brought up at
such a summit, Israel must have leaders who will
insist that Israel’s own contiguity (as just one
example, how does one link Gaza with Judea and
Samaria without dissecting Israel itself ?) must not
suffer to create this.
The desires of Arab state # 22 must not take
precedence over the security of the Jews’ sole,
tiny, resurrected nation.
Before agreeing to attend any such meeting, Israel
must have leaders who will insist upon the
meaningful territorial compromises it is entitled to
under the provisions of post-‘67 War U.N. Security
Council Resolution 242. The latter called for the
creation of secure and recognized borders to replace
Israel’s former 1949, 9-mile wide armistice line
existence.
President Reagan, Secretary of State George Shultz,
and others supported this right, as did all of 242’s
international architects such as Britain’s Lord
Caradon and America’s Eugene Rostow. At one time Mr.
Bush seemed to understand this as well, commenting
that some Texan driveways were bigger than Israel’s
width. While Israel’s goal will not be to rule over
millions of additional Arabs, any territorial
compromise worth the paper it’s written on will see
some Arabs living within the sole Jewish State’s
new, real borders the same way scores of millions of
non-Arab Kurds, Berbers, Copts, Jews, Armenians,
Assyrians, black Africans, and so forth live in
so-called “Arab States.” If they don’t like this,
they may move to the new, second Arab state in
Palestine.
Israel must thus come to such a meeting with demands
of its own and must be proactive instead of
reactive.
So far, Olmert and Co. have simply caved in to one
demand after another in the American State
Department (with Bush approval ) Arafatian Fatah
good cop vs. Hamas bad cop games. Every atrocity
committed against Jews by Hamas was either winked at
or collaborated with by Fatah. And the latter has as
much or more Jewish blood on its hands as the
former. Despite all the denials, for example, it
turns out that Black September (airplane hijackings,
Munich Olympics’ massacre, murderers of Americans,
etc.) was, in fact, simply part of Arafat and his
lieutenant, Mahmud Abbas’, Fatah. And America, in
fact, collaborated with this manure to build up
Arafat’s “good name.”
Massive amounts of American military aid and such
have already fallen to Hamas. It’s likely that more
will go this route as well…not that it really makes
much difference to Israel. And that brings up the
next crucial issue…
The first thing any Israeli Prime Minister must
insist upon at any such meeting is that the days of
Arab hudnas--temporary ceasefires--are over. Period…
Any concrete concessions of territory, amnesty, and
such must be accompanied by a full treaty of peace
in return. This must include the real--not
pretend--revision of the PLO Charter which calls for
Israel’s destruction. Textbooks, maps, imams, and
such which show no Israel or call for its
destruction must be replaced by those which lay the
groundwork for peace and mutual acceptance--not
terror and murder.
If Fatah and Mahmoud Abbas are different than Hamas
in something beyond merely their openly-admitted
Trojan Horse and destruction-in-stages tactics for
Israel’s demise, then it’s time that they put up or
shut up. The time for allowing Arab excuses to
continue murder and attempted murder of Jews has to
come to a quick end. What other nation would demand
less?
Israel must insist that any treaty of peace must
come with recognized casus belli between the two
nations. Certainly one of these must be that both
nations will take responsibility for preventing
aggression being launched against the other from
their respective territories. Certainly America
would not tolerate the murder of its citizens by
folks based in Canada or Mexico. Imagine our
response to repeated rocket and missile attacks.
Would we settle for “we’re too weak (wink, wink) to
stop it? How long would we or anyone put up with
that manure?
If a state can’t control such things, it either has
no right to statehood or no right to complain when
the victim does all in its power to stop the terror
and murder itself.
Casus belli…
The Israeli leadership which attends such a summit
must bring with them illustrations of what true
peace can mean--for all parties concerned. Israel
has been a good friend to many. But that leadership
must also stand firm and insist that acts of war
launched from the Arabs’ new state will be treated
as such.
Despite the State Department’s all-too-frequent
line, there is no “moral equivalency” between those
who attack and those who defend.
No terror, no wall, no checkpoints, etc. and so
forth.
Get it?
While we’re at it, let's face some obvious, if
politically incorrect, facts.
There really is no room in that miniscule space
between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River
for another state. But, if the world and President
Bush insist that yet another Arab one indeed pop up
there--in addition to the state Arabs already have
east of the Jordan River on some 80% of the original
1920 Palestinian Mandate named Jordan--then its
birth must cause Israel the least amount of risk as
possible.
And there will be plenty of risk, regardless.
Given this, more than lip service is required to
grant an extremely vulnerable Israel the security
any other nation would demand. Yet that’s about all
Arabs have really been asked to do up until now.
Speaking of which, Israel must tell the Arabs to
forget about their demand to swamp Israel with
millions of allegedly returning jihadi refugees.
None…zilch…nada.
More Jews fled “Arab ” countries than Arabs who fled
in the opposite direction due to fighting Arabs
started themselves.
Up until now, the pattern has been that the
Holocaust-denying Abbas repeats some sweet talk
(although he ran on an open platform for Israel‘s
destruction--but by more “acceptable” means), and
Jews are expected to say Amen!
Even when Abbas has condemned Arabs blowing up
restaurants, buses and such, he repeatedly did so
not because it was morally wrong, but only because
it hurt the Arab cause. Regardless of what he really
did or didn’t mean by such statements and behavior,
his past history as Arafat’s close associate
certainly is a cause for concern.
Until Abbas & Fatah announce clearly to the world
that they fully recognize Israel’s right to exist in
secure and recognized borders as a Jewish State,
then Israel must treat them simply as Arafatians in
suits.
All of these issues and more must be dealt with
unabashedly by any Israeli leadership which agrees
to attend any summit--regardless of when it actually
occurs.
Bush would love to convene the summit soon for the
reasons already reviewed and for the sake of
Republicans running in upcoming elections at home.
With the mess in Iraq, it would be nice to point to
a "success."
But until Israel gets itself leaders who are once
again non-apologetic in resisting suicidal demands
America would most certainly never consent to
itself, Israel must refuse to join the planned
festivities where it, itself, will likely be offered
up as the sacrificial lamb.
Again, recall, above, the Arabs laughing at Israel's
latest concessions...
Israel must look its best friend in the eye and say
that the issues spelled out above are basic and
pertain to its minimal needs for
survival...something that an America that is three
thousand miles wide with a population of three
hundred million should still certainly be able to
understand. Thirty-four Israels fit into the
territory of Bush's Texas.
If Israel agrees to attend this rushed summit with
Olmert & Co. at the helm, it will simply turn into a
gang-up-on-the-Jews exercise in fall foolishness
that the Jews will certainly pay for in blood.
eKurd.net,
Copyright by Gerald A. Honigman. You may reach the
author via email at: honigman6 (at) msn.com .
Gerald A. Honigman is a Florida educator who has
done extensive doctoral studies in Middle Eastern
Affairs. He has created and conducted counter-Arab
propaganda programs for college youth, has lectured
on numerous campuses and other platforms, and has
publicly debated many Arab spokesmen. His articles
and op-eds have been published in dozens of
newspapers, magazines, academic journals and
websites all around the world. Visit his
website at
http://www.geraldahonigman.com/
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