It Happened One Christmas Eve

We went to the same schools in Egypt and were the best of friends. I came to Canada and we corresponded. I told him how good life was in this country but he never wished to pursue the discussion any further. Not once did he ask me to elaborate on my description of life in my adopted country until one day I received a fairly long letter from him in which he asked a number of questions about Canada. I was convinced he finally decided to come and live here.

Eventually he did come to Canada but without his parents. He explained that his father had business to clear up in Egypt and that he will be coming with the rest of the family when this was taken care of. I knew his father's business well because he was the man who bought the content of our estate when we left the country. The father dealt with new and used furniture and just about everything that is bought and sold.

New in Canada and without a car, my friend spent most of his free time with me. One Christmas Eve in the late Nineteen Sixties when motorists were not afraid to pick up hitchhikers, I was flagged by three youngsters who looked cold standing by the highway. I was running around the city delivering presents to family and friends and had my friend with me in the car. After a quick consultation with him I stopped the car to pick up the hitchhikers but, being hundreds of feet ahead of them, I decided to back up.

As I was doing that, I encountered a patch of slippery ice upon which one rear wheel skidded and went down a ditch running alongside the highway. I tried with my friend to push the car out but could not. A little help from the hitchhikers would have done it but instead of helping, the three flagged another car and went away in a hurry.

My friend commented that I never told him about the attitude of the people like we just saw. I said they are not all like that. And sure enough, a car came along and stopped in front of us. A priest came out of the car and after a short greeting, pulled a chain from his trunk, tied it to my car and pulled it out of the ditch. He got into his car without saying another word and drove away. It all happened so fast, I did not have the time to thank him.

Like me, my friend was stunned and he asked if that was the attire of a priest. I said he looked like a catholic priest even though he was wearing pants. In Egypt, my friend and I first went to a school run by catholic brothers and then one run by priests. Those people always wore a robe and never a pair of pants. Also, my friend who is Jewish was renting a basement apartment in the Jewish district of Toronto and there too, he noticed a difference between the way that Jewish clerics dressed in Canada and the way they dressed in Egypt.

Once out of the ditch, we got back into the car and I drove out of the highway at the first exit. I opted to drive the rest of the way through the city where the traffic was light given that it was Christmas Eve. After a long silence my friend asked a question that baffled me for a moment. Knowing that I am catholic he asked what it was like to make a confession. For a moment I thought he wanted to convert but was not sure about that confession thing, a ritual that intrigues non-catholics. As I groped for a nice way to explain the thing, he told me what he was after.

He wanted to confess to me something that has been weighing on his conscience for some time. I swallowed hard and told him to go ahead. He said he used me once to do something I may not have approved of without telling me ahead of time and this was beginning to bother him. To understand what he did, I must explain something first.

Jews have a worldwide network to help each other move money around. My friend's father had money in Egypt where there was currency restriction at the time. Also, the man owed taxes for which he would be audited going back a number of years before the authorities would allow him to leave the country. I knew such thing was happening to everyone because it happened to my father who was Christian as we were getting ready to emigrate.

But contrary to the current lies by Jewish organizations to the effect that Jews were pushed out of the Arab countries, the rant at the time went like this: "Let my people go," precisely because the authorities were taking time to audit the people who wanted to leave the country and were catching those who cheated on their taxes. What tipped the authorities was that a few who were cleared by the tax man rushed to the bank and tried to exchange money by the millions when they were declaring minimal income and were paying little or no taxes year after year.

Learning from those lessons, my friend had to find someone in Canada who normally sends money to Egypt, perhaps to his family or associates. Instead of doing that, my friend would offer that his own father in Egypt give money to the family in there and that he collect an equivalent amount from the would-be sender here. This will have the effect of getting money out of the country and thus beat the currency restriction. If my friend could not find someone here who was sending money there, the Jewish organizations would find one for him.

In this way, having no money or little of it to convert and take out of the country, the father will have an easy time convincing the tax collector he was not earning much. With a scheme like this, Jews were able to kill two birds with one stone; they avoided paying taxes and got the money out of the country.

But I was not sending money to Egypt and I failed to understand how my friend could have used me to implement such a scheme. He said his scheme was more elaborate than that and then reminded me of the note he asked me to write in Arabic a while ago. This happened when he handed me a sheet of paper with markings on it that clearly showed it was of Egyptian origin. The sheet was otherwise blank and was sent here for the purpose I was unwittingly recruited.

My friend had asked me to write a letter that should speed up the process of his parents obtaining an exit visa in Egypt. I was happy to do that but was taken aback when he told me what he wanted me to say in the letter until he assured me there was nothing to it. He wanted a letter informing his father that so and so had died leaving no money to pay the debt he owes him. I did not know who the dead man was and I did not know the person whose name I was to sign. My friend said both were fictitious characters but the letter will explain to the tax collector why his father cannot pay more taxes. Trusting my friend, I naively accepted the explanation.

Well, as my friend confessed to me in the car, the dead man was real but he did not owe money to his father. As to the letter I wrote, it was not meant to be seen by the tax collector in Egypt but was presented to the dead man's son here in Canada who ran a business importing goods from Egypt. I was assured that no money was asked of the businessman; only a favor in lieu of the debt. The man was asked to let my friend's father pay the suppliers in Egypt next time he imported goods from there upon which he would pay an equivalent amount to my friend here.

But why would a businessman take the chance of doing something illegal and run the risk of getting into trouble with the Egyptian authorities? To understand the reason why the man accepted to go along with the scheme, my friend told me something I did not know about Islam which he, as a Jew, knew more about than I, the Christian. After all, my friend was born in Egypt and lived there until he came here whereas I lived in Egypt less than two years as an infant and then seven years as a teenager and a young adult. On the other hand, I learned to read and write Arabic in that short period of time and he only spoke it.

My friend explained to me that if a Muslim dies owing money and his son is in a position to pay the debt, the son has the obligation to pay up or the soul of the father will not rest. A scheme to beat the currency restriction was offered to the son in lieu of paying his father's debt and the businessman took the deal because the amount involved would have nearly bankrupted him.

With a scheme like this, everyone got something except that I was duped by my "best" friend. Also the country of his birth and mine was cheated out of tax money and had its laws violated at a time when rants were chanted throughout the Western World to the effect that the Jews only wanted to see their "people" let go out of the Arab countries.

Still, I considered it a miracle that a confession was made on Christmas Eve as a result of a priest appearing out of nowhere and pulling my car out of the ditch.

Merry Christmas everyone. See you in the new year.

When The US Congress Speaks Yiddish

I do not speak Yiddish but I have a number of friends and acquaintances who do and they tell me that half the words and expressions in that language are meant to put down someone. All those people I know speak several languages themselves and they assure me that Yiddish is like no other because it is the language of insult par excellence; and as such it stands alone among all the other languages.

I take these people at their word if only because they all agree on this one issue which has been an unusual occurrence in my experience with them. However, every one of them has a different historical version as to why Yiddish was invented in the first place and how it came to be this insulting. And so, when I venture into this part of the discussion, I do so cautiously and I urge the reader to do the same; and maybe do research of their own as well.

I mean to discuss the non-binding resolutions that the Congress of the United States passes from time to time in conjunction with what I have learned about the Yiddish phenomenon. I do so because I see in these resolutions the influence of the language and I hear in them an echo of the Yiddish culture given that the resolutions are a form of insult and considering who is behind them. Indeed, the resolutions are usually initiated by a Jewish member of the Congress or they are brought about by some lobby operating on behalf of Israel or another Jewish cause.

An insult is a moral hurt you inflict on someone who is beyond your immediate ability to injure physically. Thus, to insult someone is to declare that you wish you could injure the target of the insult but that you are unable to do so at this time. And so the question poses itself: why insult someone at all if it seems to be a useless exercise?

Well, you do it because you hope to scare the target of the insult enough so that they bow to your demand. The response you hope to elicit from them will be one motivated by the fear that you may one day develop the wherewithal to inflict a more serious injury on them. In short, the insult serves as a warning or even a threat you send in the direction of your target.

And this is exactly what the Congressional non-binding resolutions hope to accomplish. They are meant to insult other countries so as to warn them or threaten them. When the Congress passes resolutions on behalf of the Jewish, the Zionists or the Israeli causes, it puts the World on notice that America does not have the wherewithal to hurt everyone it wishes to hurt on behalf of the aforementioned parties but watch out because America may someday garner the political will and the means to hurt the countries that refuse to bow to Israel and to the Jews on whose behalf these resolutions are passed.

You do not need a Ph.D. in political science to see that this is a poor way to do politics. In fact, two big mistakes jump at you when you see this manner of conducting international diplomacy.
First, you announce your desire and your intent to hurt someone physically, an act that will make them suspicious of every move you will make from here on. And second, you actually hurt them verbally which will make them angry enough to want to hurt you even before you garner the will and the means to tackle them first.

And because what does not kill them makes them stronger, your action will create enemies who will grow stronger with time. The result will be that by the time you develop the means to go against them in a more serious way they will have developed the backbone and the means to stand up to you more robustly and more resolutely.

So why does the Zionist lobby ask the US Congress to pass such resolutions in the first place? The answer lies in the understanding of a culture that existed thousands of years ago and that is being revived for reasons that baffle the mind and cry out for an explanation.

But here is one tentative explanation. When you look at the pivotal moments in the narrative of the Old Testament, you find them to be marked by personalities who refused to bow to someone. This is how the stories of Joseph, Moses, Esther and many others were constructed, recounted over the ages and passed on down the generations.

In the culture of Biblical Judaism bowing to someone meant submitting to that one. It also meant giving up enough of your rights to turn your human condition into one of servitude. This is what happened to those who found themselves without the means to feed themselves because of one reason or another and to those who got involved in a war and lost.

We must remember that slavery as we define it today did not exist in the ancient world. What existed was a form of servitude that may be compared to today’s domesticity and that carried a time limit after which the “domestic” was released from his or her obligation to resume a free life, even acquire domestics of their own.

A few centuries later Rabbinical Judaism replaced Biblical Judaism and the setting shifted from the Middle East to Europe. Full fledged slavery as we define it today was then practiced in Europe, and bowing to someone meant that you were a slave to that one, owned by them as would be an animal or a piece of furniture. To be in this situation was dreaded by the Jews, as indeed it was by everyone else.

Those were the reasons why it entered into the Judaic culture that to have money and to win wars meant to be a free person. The opposite of that, to be poor or to loose a war meant to be a domestic or a slave, or to have the potential to become one. And so the Jew went through life flaunting the wealth he has and bragging about war victories that may have been real or may have been imagined. In this way, the Jew demonstrated that he was a free person and if persuasive enough, even the descendant of free lineage.

The saying that was passed down the generations was this: accumulate wealth when you can and pile up war victories where you can. But if you cannot start a hot war against your neighbor or win it when you do, unleash a verbal war against him in a language he does not understand but one that carries a threatening tone. Put the neighbor down with your tongue as if it were the fight of your life using every insult you know and every one you invent on the spot.

This is how and why Yiddish was born according to my friends and the research that I did. Whether or not it is true, partially true or totally false, there is no denying that the trouble with this approach to modern life and to international diplomacy is that it drags America into the darkness of the Stone Age.

Seeing that the approach was beginning to cause a backlash against the handling by the Administration and the Congress of the issues relating to Jewish and Israeli interests, the Zionist lobby came up with a response. It called the approach the courage to be modern.

This is meant to hide the fact that when the Americans commit themselves to insulting someone, they close the door to any sort of give and take. They, in effect, tell the world they only see things one way; the Jewish-Israeli way. The signal that the Americans send to the world is this: “It is the Jewish way or the highway. You do as they say or you deal with America's might. You are either with Israel or against her. Love Israel or get off the Planet.”

When this happens, negotiations and compromises are difficult to formulate. The feeling is created that the American hegemon is trying to dictate to the world; also the deep seated suspicion that the hegemon is manipulated by the Zionist Lobby whose aim is to turn the clock back 4000 years to a Biblical era that no miracle can bring back to life.

This is not the courage to be modern; it is the cowardice to run away from the reality of the situation.

A Joke Not Worth Laughing At

They are out and in force again saying that Iran, like Germany of the Nineteen Thirties, is about to launch an offensive in a quest to conquer the World and establish a dictatorship. If this sounds familiar it is because we heard it before. We heard it when they said the same thing about Iraq and were successful in mobilizing enough support in the United Stated and Great Britain to launch the disastrous war that messed up the Middle East and exposed the so-called American democracy as a joke not worth laughing at anymore.

And yet, it would have taken only a minimum amount of thinking for these people to realize that neither Iraq nor Iran can be compared to Germany because of a number of reasons. One reason is so glaring it cannot be missed even by a child who plays war games on a video machine. It is that since the Industrial Revolution, warfare has increasingly depended on the high quality weapons only a nation that is advanced in science, technology and industry can mass produce.

This is not to say the size of the military does not count, it does. But where two helicopters can fight better than one, a lone helicopter gunship can overwhelm a hundred soldiers armed only with hand guns. Thus a modern war machine depends on the quality of its equipment as much as it does on the size of its military.

The Industrial Revolution started in Germany at the same time as in the other nations of Europe. With it came the scientific and technological revolutions because all three revolutions are naturally linked together. In the Nineteen Thirties Germany was as advanced as any nation in the World and in some areas more advanced than all the others.

Moreover, Germany had an industrial base that equaled any in the World and a scientific establishment that surpassed them all. In short, the country was equal to its neighbors, and was even regarded as first among equals. It was therefore realistic to think of Germany as a possible menace to the World in the event that it was taken over and ruled by a deranged dictator.

By contrast, Iran does not come close to being equal to a single European nation of size let alone to the combined might of Europe, the United States and the rest of the World. Iran, like every country that remained behind when the Industrial Revolution was roaring ahead has a two hundred year gap to fill before it reaches the level of Europe.

The name given to the nations that were left behind by the Industrial Revolution is Third World. The name given to those that rode the train of the Revolution since the beginning is West. It so happens that during the past few decades a number of Third World nations seemed to leapfrog the West but this only happened at the superficial level. Yes, the so-called Tigers of Asia and a handful of other nations managed to industrialize their territory at a fairly quick pace but they did not leapfrog the West in the development of their institutions.

This is not to say that industry is the domain of one race and not the other. In fact, it so happens that Japan, which is an Asian nation, managed to close the gap with the West because the country jumped on the modernization bandwagon a century before any other nation in Asia. By the mid Twentieth Century the Japanese were still very much an Asian culture but were thinking and behaving like a Western nation, warts and all. They made themselves equal to the West in many ways and then chose to challenge it. And this is when the Japanese learned they were close to the West but were not completely there yet.

To industrialize a nation is to grow it horizontally but this is not sufficient to make it rival the West because while the launching of factories will expand the industrial horizon, it will not grow the scientific and technological institutions that are needed to move the nation forward. To do the latter, you will need to grow vertically. I call the human and cultural infrastructure that which is necessary to mobilize a nation and remodel it so as to grow vertically. This is what the Third World needs to catch up with the West but this is also where you cannot race against time.

To construct a scientific, technological and industrial powerhouse, you need the time that it takes to raise a child and teach it science, technology and the other subjects. But more than that, you need two or more generations to change the habits and the mindset of human beings. And what makes this task even more difficult is that human beings are steeped in one culture or another and they do not relinquish old habits to pick up new ones on demand.

A Third World country can assemble a team of its own nationals who studied abroad and maybe recruit a few foreigners to build a nuclear bomb in one generation. But it will not be possible for such country to develop the scientific, technological and industrial base as well as the human and cultural infrastructure to threaten the West within that time frame. Having one bomb or a number of them and challenging the West without the logistical support that will sustain a war against it for any length of time will therefore be suicidal. The attempt will look as pathetic as a lone gunman challenging an armored division.

Consider these examples. China, India and Pakistan have experienced an accelerated economic growth for nearly a generation and have produced nuclear bombs yet they still remain at Third World levels because a large part of their societies did not develop in tandem with the rest of the country, let alone attain Western levels. If there is to be an all out war between them and the West, their combined might will not match the developed nations. Argentina has learned this lesson during the Falkland war of 1982 when, as a country fighting near its own shores, it was defeated by a flotilla of British warships fighting thousands of miles away from home.

To understand how something like this can happen, we must know something about economic growth. This word means that a fraction of the population produces enough food and other goods and services to supply the whole nation. It allows the rest of the society to go to school, do research, make scientific breakthroughs, produce art and literature, discover cures and so on. In short, growth creates the surplus that allows the vertical infrastructure to develop which in turn helps to raise the nation to a higher level.

Let us now look at some numbers. To ask the families of a nation to save 30% for their income is to ask them to live on 70% of their annual revenue which is the most they will do on a sustained basis. If they hand you their savings to invest year after year, you can grow the economy of the country by 10% a year. Repeat this performance seven years in a row and you will double the size of your national economy therefore double the per capita income.

This is impressive but if a Third World nation starts an industrialization program when it is at one twentieth the per capita income of the West, it will take it more than 30 years to catch up with the West. However, the West will not stand still and will most likely grow at the moderate rate of 4% a year if only to help the Third World realize its own 10% growth. In this case, it will take the developing nation more than 50 years to catch up with the West and that is equal to two generations already.

But this is not all because in that context, catch up means to catch up with the level of industrial production that exists in the West. It means having a number of machine operators working on the assembly line comparable to the numbers in the West. What is not taken into account is the fact that the assembly line is made of machines which are produced by journeymen, technicians and engineers with levels of education, skills and experience that are higher than those of the machine operators. As a developing nation you will need another two generations or more to educate and train a pool of these people large enough to run your industrial establishment.

And there is still more. There is a layer on top of all that called Research and Development. It is an activity done by a community of exceptional people called inventors, scientists and engineers, and they are found in the colleges, universities, institutes of higher learning, research labs as well as their own garages, study rooms and basements where they think and where they tinker. These people invent new products and they design the machines that produce those new products. Here too, you will need a generation or more to develop such a community, and a few more generations after that to see it attain a world class status. Finally, this is what a country like Iran must develop before it can build a fighting machine that will defy the West and not look pathetic.

What this boils down to is that the 200 years head start the West has had over the World is not going to be filled overnight by a Third World nation anytime soon. It is therefore insulting to our intelligence for someone to pull the ghost of Germany out of the past and say that Iran will have the wherewithal to conquer the World in a few years time.

A Zionist speechwriter may impress the President of the United States by inserting such nonsense in his speech but there are nearly seven billion people on this planet who are smart enough to dismiss the claim off hand. Whatever their form of government, these people can take comfort in the knowledge that they have not sunk to a level where their President would stand in front of the legislature and shamelessly puke the garbage that an imported Zionist riffraff has inserted in his speech.

No doctrine of theirs is ever going to be formulated in this manner and this is why no children of theirs will be sent to die thousands of miles away, taking the treasury of the nation with them, so that a foreign speechwriter may write a book afterward and brag about putting words in the mouth of their President. In this sense these seemingly backward people remain light years ahead of the United States of America, democracy or no stupid democracy.

They Are Not Done Playing Games

The intelligence agencies in the United States put out a report to the effect that Iran had ceased to work on its nuclear weapons program a number of years ago and this changed the tone of the debate dramatically. What the report demonstrates is that the agencies caught the drift of the latest Israeli Zionist game, and the disclosure helped to put the brakes on it. This happened just in time as the game was promising to mushroom into a calamity that would have threatened the World and ended America's standing as a First World nation.

The game that the Zionists were playing was a repeat of the one they played with regard to the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The aim this time was the same as before in that the Zionists wanted to drag America into another war in the Middle East where the end result would have been another American made disaster for mankind to clean up.

There were, however, a few differences, one being that the target this time was Iran and not Iraq. Again, the Israeli agents and their non-Jewish cohorts in the media and the think tanks of America started to circulate stories, opinions and fake findings about nuclear weapons being made in Iran. And again, the Jewish-Zionist fear mongering machine was put into high gear as to the potential threat that the fictitious Iranian project represents for the region, Europe, America and the World.

And the moment it began to look like the idea had caught enough traction in America to move forward propelled by its own inertia, the Zionist lobby began to lay the groundwork for taking credit in the event that the war succeeded or blaming the Arabs if it failed.

In that regard, the Zionists were motivated by the memory of what happened with the Iraq fiasco where they took the blame for the failure of the war because they had neglected to lay the groundwork for blaming someone else. What happened instead was that the moment the fiasco became apparent, the Zionists fashioned the argument by which to blame the failure on the Commander in Chief and the Armed Forces of the United States. But the ploy did not sit well with the Americans and this prompted the Zionists to vow being prepared next time.

And so this time, the Zionists started early to lay the groundwork for blaming the Arabs in the event of a failure. They did so by peddling the big lie about the Arabs, who are mostly Sunny Muslims, being afraid of Iran which is mostly Shia. The plan was to the effect that if the war started to go bad, the Zionists would say the Arabs asked America to destroy Iran but things went bad and America paid the price. So go ahead and blame the Arabs.

What makes this game typically a Judeo-Zionist one is that it dealt with fear and hate, the two legs upon which demagoguery stands. In fact, anyone who has followed those characters would know the rule of thumb by now: It is that these people are so devoid of imagination they boil down every argument to one of fear and hate, a trick they lifted out of the Nazi book of cheap propaganda.

In addition to the American intelligence agencies catching the drift of all that and putting out their report, a few developments in the Middle East conspired to expose the Zionist big lie. One development was the meeting that took place in Qatar which brought together Iran's President with the leaders of the Gulf Co-operation Council. These were the leaders of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Iran and the six Arab nations voiced their desire for a peaceful solution to the stand-off regarding the nuclear issue. The joint communiqué they issued at the end of the meeting said that the Arabs understand Iran's views and will gladly examine that country's offer for a mutual security arrangement and economic co-operation among the seven nations.

Such deal would include Iran into a common market that will improve the negotiating position of the Gulf countries on the international scene. Among the many provisions of the deal there is one stipulating that citizens of every member state will have the right to live and to do business in all the other states. And this will be done in the spirit of strengthening the security and stability of the region which is the desire of all those who live there.

Another development in the Middle East that has been brewing for some time and has matured recently was that Egypt and Iran achieved a thaw in their relationship. That relationship was frozen since the time of the Iranian revolution when the deposed Shah fled to Egypt and was granted asylum there. Political and economic relations which were severed then were renegotiated over the past few months and were sealed last week. These are comprehensive deals that go as far as to set up a jointly owned auto plant in Egypt among a host of other projects. It is worth noting that all this happened during the week that the Cairo-Alexandria Stock Exchange (CASE 30) passed the 10,000 mark, having experienced a phenomenal growth over the past 3 years and growing by more than 40% this year alone.

To avoid developing a morbid fear of each other is the norm to the peoples of the region. In fact, it so happened that while the Zionist and American propaganda machines were calling Iraq a menace to the region and to the World, the people who live there tried to dissuade America from launching a war they did not believe was necessary.

But instead of listening to the Arabs and to the Iranians, the Americans went ahead with the Zionist plan and attacked Iraq in 2003. The result was a mistake that wounded mankind, one that the Americans will have to live with for decades to come.

This is not to say that the Arabs are Pollyannaish about everything regarding their neighborhood. In fact, they were the ones who called upon the reluctant Americans to come and dislodge their friend and protégé, Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, a call that resulted in the first Gulf War at the beginning of the Nineteen Nineties.

This was by all accounts the most successful war in which the Americans had participated, one that brought them into a coalition with the major Arab countries. Not only that but the war cost the Americans very little in terms of lives lost and was paid for by the Arabs who covered the entire financial cost.

When looking at the historical record of the region, future students of history will not fail to see that from the middle of the Twentieth Century onward, America was pulled by two opposite forces concerning the position to take vis-à-vis the Middle East. One force was the influence of the Arabs who tried to persuade the Americans from outside the country, and the other force was the influence of the Israeli Zionist lobby which operated inside the country.

It will be clear to those students that what Israel and the Zionists wanted from America was unconditional and absolute support for Israel without a question being asked. What the Arabs wanted was an America that was less submissive when dealing with Israel and the Zionist lobby. And the result was clear for everyone to see. It was glory and respect for America the world over when the country listened to the Arabs, disaster and contempt for America the world over when the country listened to Israel and the Zionist lobby.

This was inevitable because since the beginning of recorded history, the Arabs have been satisfied with what they had and thus wanted nothing but to be left alone to do commerce and to develop socially and economically at their own pace. They lived with that principle for thousands of years and were extremely successful in everything they did.

On the other hand, the Zionists who rightly or wrongly trace their roots to the landless nomadic tribes of ancient times have always wanted something from someone else and thus raided their neighbors or siphoned off what they could from those they came into contact with.

In this sense, America is no exception; she is just another someone from whom to siphon off what they can. But more than that, they want to use America as a tool to pulverize the Middle East so that Israel can get in there and feed on the resulting bite size pieces. These modern-day Radical Judaists have been evil incarnate since the dawn of history and they have not changed one bit.

Given this history, the safe prediction to make at this point is that the Zionist lobby will lay dormant for a while until the effect of the report from the intelligence agencies is forgotten. After that, the sleeper cells will wake up and try to drag America into another ill fated adventure where the country will lose lives, money and prestige. This will go on until America will have lost everything there is to loose. At this point the Zionist will look for another big power where to peddle their lies and live at the expense of yet another sucker.

The World will say here we go again, and future students of history will ask how could they have been so stupid?

Judaism Is The Problem Not Islam

Some people say that the threat to World peace comes from radical Islam moving into a state that is failing and turning it into a new home for itself where it starts a regime of terror. When the home front is fully secured, those in charge export the terror to neighboring states then go on to far away states where they repeat the performance. And this prompts us to ask the burning question: what is a failing state?

If we define a failing state as one that does not respond to the needs of its people but works for the benefit of a small group of activists operating within its borders then we must conclude that America too is a failing state. And if we define a failing state as one that works for the benefit of a foreign country at the expense of its own people, then we must conclude that America too is a failing state.

This is the reality that the American people face today as they see their country being governed by an Administration and a Congress who do not respond to their needs even when they are hit by a storm with the destructive power of a Katrina. In fact, the American people have gotten used to the idea that their leaders respond only to the needs of a foreign country called Israel, and to the dictates of the Jewish Zionist lobby located within America’s borders. Yet neither Israel nor the Zionists belong to radical Islam and so we ask, what is going on?

To answer that question we must begin by studying the mentality of the Zionist and Israeli actors who figure so prominently in the governance of America. The study will help us develop a clear picture as to what implications may exist in the event that America experiences a catastrophic failure of governance which may be the outcome of the present trend. The study will also help us assess the repercussions that such an event may heap on the rest of the World. And it will help us understand why Islam is seen as the threat by some people when the threat is really Judaism.

It has long been a definition of the Jew that he is one who will attribute to himself the qualities he sees in you and to you the evil that he sees in himself. Psychiatrists have identified a phenomenon that is closely related to this and they called it projection because it begins to manifest itself with the projection of one’s thoughts into someone else.

Well, let the psychiatrists deal with what they see at the individual level in their clinics but let us, who live in the real world, deal with the broad phenomenon we see at the political and cultural levels which is the domain of our daily lives.

From my observation, I have concluded that projection takes place when someone is raised with the notion that he belongs to a group that is absolutely perfect or a one that is absolutely evil. But for something like this to take hold inside someone’s head, two things must happen beforehand. The person’s capacity to have a balanced view of life and his capacity to develop a personal perspective must have been wiped out early on in life.

When the wiping out is completed, the person is educated as to his place in the world. This is done by indoctrinating him with one extreme view or another. But whatever the view, it will be portrayed as a good thing and all the other views will be portrayed as bad.

Because the person is never trained to regard himself as a rounded human being possessing qualities and shortcomings, he will attribute to himself only good qualities and to others only shortcomings. But more than that, he will project into others the evil he sees in himself and into himself the qualities he sees in others. When this happens the projection becomes a total reversal of reality.

However it can happen that an individual experiences a backlash and stops believing he is a perfect human being. But because he can only fathom himself as being totally good or totally evil, he will come to the view that he is totally evil. In other words, he will move from one extreme view to the other and not imagine the possibility that he may be a rounded person possessing good qualities and bad habits at the same time. All of that can also happen to a group of people who are banded together as a collective, not just to an individual.

Having collectively embraced the Zionist ideology, Jewish and Israeli activists have developed and have embraced a forceful system of beliefs that covers the full spectrum with regards to the self, from the narcissistic to the self-hating Jew. And considering the immense range of activities that these people pursue in several fields, their mood swing reflects the state of the American Union more accurately than what the US President tells the Congress in his State of the Union Address.

To be sure these people are up to no good but they are not alone in this category. In fact, the World has been visited by evildoers since the beginning of time, the Nazis being one of the most recent and the nastiest. But there is a difference between the Nazis and the Zionists. It is that the Nazis used to say: We are superior to everyone and the proof is in our scientific, technological and cultural accomplishments. Let someone beat us in these fields and we shall relinquish the title to them.

By contrast, the Zionists say: We are superior to everyone because God says we are his chosen people. We have special privileges and we need not prove anything to hold on to them. The privileges are handed down to our children and they cannot be transferred to someone outside the religion. We have the divine right to take anything we want and you have the duty to hand it to us without question. To do otherwise is to commit an act of terror.

To make sure that those beliefs are understood by everyone and implemented by all, the Zionists have deputized America to police the World. It is useful to recall at this point that during the Vietnam war, a debate was sparked concerning America’s role as policeman of the World. It was decided then that America had neither the right nor the means to do the job.

That right has now been revived by the Zionists and the task was shifted from policing South East Asia to destroying the Middle East. In other words, the task has moved from the idea of deterring the Yellow Peril which was thought to execute a domino game in Asia to the idea of destroying Islam which is thought to execute a plan for World domination.

The glaring flaw in this concept is that no one has put together a plausible scenario as to how a handful of Muslim kids who once were trained by the United States to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan will manage to take over the Arab and Muslim nations where they are despised, and from there move on to take over the whole World.

By contrast, we have a real case study where the sole superpower, America, has become a virtual colony of the Zionists who went past the ambition of merely owning the country, which they now do, all the way to the development of a plan they call Pax Americana in which they openly discuss the take over of the World.

In the pursuit of that dream, the Zionists have dragged the country into endless wars and military commitments that are killing people in may places and bankrupting America. This has left future generations with a bill that can potentially reach four times the present Gross Domestic Product. It is like a family having a combined income of 100,000 dollars a year and carrying 400,000 dollars worth of debts on their credit cards to pay for the habits of their Zionist neighbor.

This is proof enough that the Zionists have projected what they see in Judaism onto Islam, thus effectuating a complete reversal of reality. If at some point in the past a handful of Muslim kids, while backed by America, have turned Afghanistan into a failed state armed with primitive weapons, the Zionists have turned America into an Afghanistan armed with weapons of mass destruction.

The threat was never Islam but has always been Judaism.

Annapolis At The Crossroads

The Annapolis covenant which was signed less than a week ago finds itself at the crossroads already with one of two possible outcomes to choose from. The first outcome is the optimistic one and the second is the pessimistic one. The Arabs who want to be left alone to develop their economies and their societies have brought into the process a great deal of magnanimity and optimism. On the other side, there is the Israeli Zionist lobby which started to sabotage the covenant even as it was being signed.

This trend became apparent when upon the urging of Israel, the United States withdrew the draft resolution that sought support for the agreement only hours after the US had asked the Security Counsel of the UN to endorse it. And it is this silly and self-defeating hesitation on the part of the United States which demonstrates the determination and the power of the Israeli Zionist lobby to paralyze the ability of the Americans to govern themselves as an independent nation and thus disrupt the Annapolis process.

Luckily, the United States of America is not the only big power in this endeavor. There are the other members of the Quartet, mainly Europe, Russia and the UN. And so, while it is the view of the Zionist lobby that America is a tool in their hands and a means to an end, the countries of Russia and most of Europe see themselves as having contributed to a World Civilization that started in North Africa and the Middle East thousands of years ago.

Those countries feel a certain kinship with the peoples of the region and an obligation towards their wellbeing which may well transcend, even neutralize the servile responses that America will display again and again every time Israel will command her to do something silly and self defeating.

It is therefore not surprising to see the symbols of that history boil up to the surface when we look at the forces that move the present events in this part of the World. I shall restrict my discussion to what has come to be known as the Fertile Crescent, a stretch of land that comprises Mesopotamia, Palestine and Egypt.

Palestine is the concern of the Annapolis process, Egypt is the place where the quest for peace in the Middle began in earnest 30 years ago, and Iraq of Mesopotamia is the dark cloud that has forced the United States of America to finally realize that Pax Americana was a failed idea which must be replaced by something else, something like the Annapolis process.

The force that has powered the Egyptian Civilization for thousands of years has been optimism. Flanked by protective deserts on both sides of the Nile, the Egyptians felt secure in their homeland and they developed a love of life so powerful, they imagined the good life to continue unabated after death. To this day, no matter what disaster befalls them, the Egyptians quickly rebound, wear anew their optimistic nature and pursue their usual zest for life. Peace being the most important ingredient for fashioning an enjoyable life and for maintaining it, the Egyptians have adopted an eternal quest for peace.

Mesopotamia, on the other hand, has been the favorite route or destination of every trader, invader or intruder who lived or who came near to that part of the world and who coveted someone else’s possession. It has been a place where the inhabitants suffered at the hands of everyone and so they developed a sense of pessimism unparalleled in the ancient and modern worlds. To this day, the Iraqis adhere to that sense of pessimism when it comes to their personal lot and to their national situation. To them, the calamity they live at present under American occupation is part and parcel of this condition.

As to the influence that the ancient World has had on Europe, there has been several attempts to define the roots of Western Civilization but the one that stood the test of time was the fact that Western Civilization stands on two pillars. They are: one, the optimism of Egypt as represented by the immortality of the soul which then became the bedrock of Christian doctrine. And two, the pessimism of Mesopotamia as represented by the Code of Hammurabi, a document that aims at controlling the dark side of human nature by relying on a system of laws.

Thus, the forces that will power the Annapolis process from now on will be: First, the generosity of the Arabs who feel satisfied with their lot, their kismet as it is often referred to. Second, the hunger of the Israelis for what belongs to someone else given that they have a difficult time putting together one Jewish state when the Arabs have twenty two of them. Third, the opportunism of the Jewish and non-Jewish Zionists who will fish in dirty waters and try to monetize every event that promises to swell their bank accounts. Fourth, the Europeans who will be motivated on the one hand by the optimism inherent in the Egyptian efforts and on the other hand by the pessimism that flows out of the current situation in Iraq. Fifth, the hesitation of the Americans as the nation convulses trying to free itself from the Zionist yoke and to give itself the look if not the substance of a self-respecting great power.

At this stage of the game, America still remains the most important player in that saga. For this reason, we must understand what forces within it make the country act the way it does, and nothing tells this story better than what got America involved in Iraq some years back. Here, in brief, is that sad story.

It has been established that those in America who started the war against Iraq knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in that country when they launched the offensive in 2003. It has also been established that they were planning to invade Iraq since they were out of power a dozen years before that.

This raises two serious questions. How did these people convince the intelligence agencies in several countries of the lie that such weapons existed? How were they certain that the American public will buy the lie long enough to take the war to the point of no return before someone asks the relevant questions?

To answer these questions, we observe that the people who planned the war in the early Nineteen Nineties were comrades in what has come to be known as the neo-conservative or neocon movement. We also observe that the people who deceived the intelligence agencies in several countries were agents of the Israeli government. And we observe that the people who deceived the American public were neocon warriors strategically placed in the media, in the think tanks and in high public places.

This is how it all went: Agents of the Israeli government used a well known technique of disinformation to pull the scam. They started the rumors and fed the same false information to a handful of European agencies about uranium being purchased by Iraq in Niger. This trick established several sources for the same information. When other agencies checked the rumors, they found that several sources had the same information and concluded that it must be correct.

Given the high degree of coordination that was necessary to pull a feat of this nature, we must ask if Israel and the neocons belonged to one and the same organization. The answer is that they have always been one and the same organization. If so, then the war in Iraq and the numerous excuses which were given to justify it were part of an elaborate conspiracy that goes back to the early Nineteen Nineties if not before. This leads to the question: what was the conspiracy about?

We can answer this question by studying the excuses that were given to justify the war. When the excuse about the existence of weapons of mass destruction proved to be bogus, there came the one about the need to democratize the Middle East. It was said that democracy is a good thing because it operates in a transparent manner. Transparency places the public in a position to evaluate the choices that are available and to pick what is suitable. Called the rule of law, this is what America sought to shove down the throat of the Iraqis, homeland of Hammurabi the first lawmaler in history.

The trouble is that nobody but the Americans believe they still adhere to the rule of law at home or internationally. A cursory look at what is going on in that country leads to the conclusion that America is owned and operated by special interest groups, the most powerful being the Israeli-Zionist-Neocon group whose not-so-hidden agenda is world domination by any means, legal or illegal.

The only safe conclusion to draw from the above is that the fate of the Annapolis process depends on the outcome of the struggle now raging in America to free the country from the grip of the Israeli-Zionist lobby. If America wins the process will move forward to completion; if America looses the process will die.

To this the Egyptians would say there is hope. The Iraqis would say not in this life. The Europeans would say we have to give it a try. The Russians would say let the World see how trivial America really is. The United Nations would ask what else is there to do? The Americans would say never underestimate the genius of America to rebound after a setback. Stay tuned, folks.