People have obsessions. They have them as individuals, as a
group, even as a society. The most enduring obsession of a society is the one
that was created while struggling to become what it is today. In the Third World,
that would be the fight against the colonial powers, hence the fear that these
nations express when they think that colonialism is about to return to their
country in one form or another – be it military, economic cultural or
otherwise; what they refer to by the collective epithet neocolonialism. And
that is the big word that the spin doctors use to advance their agendas.
The Americans too have a national obsession. It is called
“freedom” because that is what society struggled to obtain originally. At the
end of the struggle the American colonies were freed from the tyrant king in
England who ruled over them with an iron fist, and taxed them without letting
them have a say in the matter. In time, the idea of freedom became associated
with other activities. For example, there is the expression “tax free day”
which is the day of the year by which most people would have paid their taxes
and start working for themselves.
Of course, the American people also want to be free of debt,
free of harassment, free to travel, free to own a gun and free of many other
things. In fact, these people dread seeing an infringement on any of their
freedoms the way that the Third World dreads seeing neocolonialism raise its
head. But that's not all because in America, the word “democracy” has come to
be associated with freedom. This opened a whole new vista for the spin doctors
to experiment while trying to advance their agendas.
The most belabored spin is the one that has tied American
freedom at home with events abroad. This was achieved by the neoconservatives
(known as Neocons) who say that an international conspiracy exists to battle
against the West – especially America and Israel – with the aim of effacing all
forms of freedom, and turning the world into one Muslim Caliphate ruled by a
dictator. Thus, any progress made in a Muslim country, which happens to be the
neighborhood where Israel was established, must be seen as a threat to freedom
and fought against at any cost.
Once that idea was seen to have taken hold, and when it was
observed to be scoring more than its share of successes, other individuals,
groups, organizations, publications, think tanks, foundations and the like –
not all of them conservative – jumped onto the bandwagon and joined the fray by
echoing the neocon locutions whether or not they understood what they meant.
Leading the pack has been the Foundation for Defense of
Democracies, established by Clifford D. May who still presides over it. He also
writes a column for National Review Online; his latest being the one published
on February 28, 2013 under the title: “The Sanctions Paradox” and the subtitle:
“Economic warfare is absolutely essential – even though it will almost
certainly fail.”
Speaking of the sanctions against Iran which he and others have
agitated to see put in place by America and some of its allies, he now says
these sanctions are unlikely to succeed though they are essential to any
serious and strategic policy mix. And he gives 6 reasons why he believes this
to be the case.
The first reason he gives concerns the bad things he has
been accusing Iran of doing. But those who know their history know that even if
true, none of these things existed in the Middle East before Israel came into
being. They know that these things were started by Israel, and are still being
committed by it even now. Thus, if Iran is doing the same thing, it is doing it
to respond to Israel in kind.
But there is one thing that Israel did and still does that
Clifford May did not mention. It is something that neither Iran nor anyone else
did or will ever do. It is that Israel sterilized the Black women of Africa
before taking them to Israel. It got all the praises in the world, and got
money galore for the airlift which was thought to testify to Israel's humanitarian
concerns.
And then the truth came out, and Israel lied about it for
several decades until it could not lie anymore. It has finally admitted it did
something worse than the Nazis ever did, except that the Nazis did not get
praise or money for their deeds. Only a Jew would want to be paid for
committing acts of horror.
Once you realize that something of this magnitude has been
out there during all these years, and was hidden from the public, you don't
care anymore what else Clifford May is saying in his column. If you continue to
read it, you do so to reverse in your mind what he is trying to convey.
To this end you attribute to Israel all the bad things he
says about Iran knowing that you are one hundred percent correct this time.
And you certainly don't want Clifford May or anyone like him
to defend you.
Take your Foundation and go to Israel, Cliff. This Continent
deserves to be free of characters like you.