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...true security for
the Jewish state requires an independent Palestine
-- one that allows the Palestinian people to live
with dignity and opportunity.
Do President Obama or the United Nations lecture
that Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and other
nations in North Africa--lands which Arabs refer to
as theirs and theirs only--that security for Arabs
there requires that Arabs grant dignity and
opportunity to North Africa's true native people,
those whom the outside world call "Berbers?"
Some thirty to forty million Kabyle, Amazigh, and
other such people pre-date the Arab conquest by
millennia. Countless numbers have died over the
centuries--and are dying to this very day--resisting
their continued subjugation and forced Arabization
of their lands.
Dignity?
North Africa's native people are not even allowed to
practice their own culture, nor speak their own
language. Increasingly, they are being told that
they may not even name their children with their own
names, but must use Arab ones instead. Those who
protest are jailed, murdered, and so forth.
Now, who raises these issues in the United Nations
or elsewhere?
Who warns Arabs that for them to have security, they
must first grant political, cultural, and basic
human rights to tens of millions of North Africa's
true natives--and independence, too, if so desired?
The creation of the proposed second, not first, Arab
state in the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine
(Jordan was created in 1922 on most of the land),
which President Obama and the UN demand, will
require yet another partition of that Mandate. So,
why not a partition in North Africa which gives its
true native, non-Arab people control over their own
destiny? Unlike Arabs, who already have almost two
dozen states by conquering them mostly from others,
these people have none.
Take a look at how some Berber spokesmen have
described this problem. Here's a Special Dispatch of
MEMRI on May 3, 2007 written by Belkacem Lounes of
the World Amazigh Congress responding to Libya's
Mu'ammar Qaddafi's denial of the very existence of
the Amazigh people:
The people of whom you speak...speak their own
Amazigh language daily... live their Amazigh
identity...What worse offense to elementary rights
is there than denying the existence of a people...30
million in North Africa? You menace the Amazigh,
warning that whosoever asserts his identity will be
a traitor...identical problems in Algeria and
Morocco...There is no worse colonialism than
internal colonialism--that of the Pan-Arabist claim
that seeks to dominate our people. It is surely
Arabism--an imperialist ideology that refuses
diversity--that constitutes an offense to history
and truth..."
Or, how about these excerpts and such from the New
English Review on January 18, 2008 and reported in
North-of-Africa.com on July 3, 2009:
In Algeria, Berbers were forbidden to use their own
language, Tamazight...riots erupted, reported in
France but ignored elsewhere in the West...America,
of course, had been sufficiently subject to ARAMCO
(the Arabian American Oil Company) propaganda, a
payoff to the Saudis by Big Oil, to allow the latter
to produce and market Arab oil. So, ARAMCO's message
to America was that there is just an Arab world in
this region in which there are no Copts, Armenians,
Assyrians, Chaldeans, Turkmen...and, of course, no
Berbers and no Jews--they all came to Israel, you
see, from Europe for everyone in this region is just
Arab.
Where are the special United Nations sessions on
these matters? Has anyone ever heard the President
or the State Department ever mutter a word about
this? Have I missed a New York Times editorial about
the plight of this people, or a lecture by the
assorted anti-Israel crew in academia?
No...if it's not Israel involved, the silence is
deafening, indeed.
Moving on...
Substitute Kurd for Berber and the story is the
same--if not much worse--for how Arabs have dealt
with another thirty-forty million native, truly
stateless people in a region they simply call their
own..."purely Arab patrimony," to be exact.
Whether in "purely Arab" Syria or Iraq, hundreds of
thousands of Kurds have been murdered and many more
maimed, turned into refugees, and the like just in
this past half century alone.
Look at the title of Ismet Cherif Vanly's book, The
Syrian 'Mein Kampf' Against The Kurds (Amsterdam,
1968)...now, what does this tell you? And long
before the Arabs' genocidal Anfal Campaign in Iraq,
the slaughter and subjugation was going on there as
well.
The murders continue--especially in Syria--where,
again, Kurds are denied the most basic of rights.
Who of you, dear readers, know anything of this? Do
you ever wonder why this is so, while hearing
non-stop about how Arabs are allegedly denied
justice because they only have twenty-one states to
date?
Iraq is better today because of America's ouster of
Saddam Hussein and the Shi'a Arabs' need of the
Kurds, for the time being at least, to be a
counterweight to Sunni Arabs--who like to blow them
both apart.
Who will lecture at the UN demanding dignity and
rights for Kurds?
The same, tragic story can be told about tens of
millions of other native, non-Arab/pre-Arab peoples
in the region as well...Copts in Egypt, black
Africans in the Sudan (and elsewhere), native
Jews--whom Arabs refer to as kilab yahud (Jew dogs),
and so forth. More of those latter Jews from "Arab"
lands, by the way, were turned into refugees because
of the fighting Arabs started upon the rebirth of
Israel in 1948 with a second partition of what was
left of the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine after
Jordan got most of it in 1922 than Arabs who fled
the fighting. The world hears lots about the latter,www.ekurd.netvirtually
nothing about the former.
The problem with President Obama's speech and the
overall approach by the hypocrites in the United
Nations to Middle East "peace making" is that they
all insist, to one degree or another, that Israel
collaborate with this hypocrisy.
In the realm of man, justice is indeed a relative
term, rarely if ever absolute. Yet Arabs insist in
dealing simply with absolutes...
As we've seen, despite scores of millions of
stateless, subjugated, intimidated non-Arab peoples
present in those lands, Arabs refer to them simply
as purely Arab patrimony--and act to insure that
they become so by any and all means necessary.
And that's why, at best, President Obama's speech is
delusional.
He joins the world chorus demanding a 22nd state for
Arabs, knowing full well that even the alleged
moderates of that proposed new state absolutely
refuse to recognize Israel as a state of the Jews.
Instead, they insist that the 9-15 mile wide sliver
of Israel that will be left afterwards consent to
allowing itself to being inundated with millions of
Arab refugees, who became refugees because of an
Arab mindset which allows no one else except
themselves rights in the region (and so refused
partition), and raised on Jew-hatred for decades.
Thus, Arabs not only expect that Fatahland and/or
Hamastan will emerge as their 22nd state, but expect
Israel, itself, to consent to becoming their own
23rd as well.
Does it really take Einstein to explain that if
there are 21 members of the Arab League (with #22
waiting in the wings with observer status)--in whose
lands live scores of millions of non-Arab
peoples--that a resurrected state for Jews in a land
in which Jews have thousands of years of recorded
history, is at least as Jewish (as in Irish,
Swedish, English, Polish) as most of those Arab
league nations are "Arab?"
You see, for Arabs and their supporters, there is
never a win-win solution to any of this.
For them the regional score must always, at the very
least, be...
Arabs twenty-two...all others, zero.
***Note: My own new book,
http://q4j-middle-east.com, gets into all of this in
great depth and detail. It made its debut in
academia in Washington, DC at the Association of
Scholars of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA)
Conference in October 2009.
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/
Gerald A. Honigman, a longtime contributing writer
for ekurd.net. Honigman has published a major book,
"The
Quest For Justice In The Middle East--The
Arab-Israeli Conflict In Greater Perspective."
By Gerald A. Honigman for eKurd.net,
September 25, 2010. You may reach the
author via email at: honigman6 (at) msn.com.
Copyright © 2010 ekurd.net.
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