The 1002nd Arabian Night...
4.11.2007
By Gerald A. Honigman, Ekurd.net Contributing Writer
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November
4, 2007
-Gerald A. Honigman, (ekurd.net)
Tales Of The Modern Arabian Nights…Or, Abu Alaa And
The Tightening Screws
Forget Aladdin, Ali Baba, Sinbad, & Co., those
wondrous tales of yore.
Have you heard about Abu Alaa?
Well, his story really begins, for those
non-Arabians reading these tales, when Israel’s
Rabin shook hands with his dear friend
and colleague, Arafat, at President Clinton’s
prompting.
During that subsequent 1990’s “Oslo Peace,” Ahmed
Qurei’--Abu Alaa--was one of Arafat’s chief
marionettes. Prior to that, he was
just another Fatah plotter or disemboweler of
Jews…Diplomacy as war by another means. |
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. |
Predictably, Israel got non-stop barbarism for each
unilateral, concrete concession it was pressured to
make. A similar scenario would take place a bit
later at Camp David and Taba when Clinton, seeking
to salvage his stained reputation, gave Israel’s
Barak an offer he couldn’t refuse. And Barak did
offer to give away the store…despite the Arab spin
masters’ twist of this today.
While the late Egyptian ghoul, Arafat, confirmed by
refusing Taba that it makes no difference how big
Israel is, but that Israel is that is the Arab
problem--I mean, how dare Jews want in one tiny,
resurrected state in which they have thousands of
years of continuous history, what Arabs have created
almost two dozen of for themselves on over six
million square miles of territory, mostly by
conquering and forcibly Arabizing non-Arab
peoples--the ghosts of Arafat and Taba still haunt
us today. Taba is now the Arabs’ starting point for
“negotiations.”
In the Arab vision of justice, virtually the entire
region is “purely Arab patrimony.” Hence the
millions of dead, intimidated, subjugated, and so
forth Kurds, Copts, Berbers, black African Sudanese,
native kilab yahud--Jew dogs--and so forth. Dr.
Butros Butros Ghali--Egypt’s Sadat’s Uncle Tom Copt
Foreign Minister--put it to Israel this way. I’ll
paraphrase him: If you want to gain acceptance, you
must consent to Arabization.
And that brings me back to the 1002nd Arabian nights
tale…
A translation by the highly respected Middle East
Media Research Institute (MEMRI) on July 3, 2003
dealt with an interview with Abu Alaa. Among other
things, he was asked about the Arabs’ problem with
having the word “Jewish” placed in front of the
words “State of Israel” at the summit leading up to
the evolution of the current Roadmap. Here was his
response:
“What is the meaning of a Jewish state? Do we
say...Sunni state...Shi’ite state....Christian
state? These are definitions that will
bring...turmoil.”
It is not unusual to hear critics of Israel, even
some academics, proclaim, “if Jews can have a state,
then why not Catholics, or Protestants, or Hindus,
and such?” a la Alaa.
Now think about this for a minute…
Someone from England is English, from Poland is
Polish, from Ireland is Irish, from Sweden is
Swedish, from Denmark is Danish, and so forth.
Indeed, while there are other ways of describing
one’s nationality or ethnicity (i.e. we’re not
Americanish), the addition of the suffix “-ish”
denotes this as well. That’s how Webster’s
Collegiate Dictionary primarily defines it.
So what’s Abu Alaa’s and his buddies’ problem here?
It’s really very simple…
If they admit that Jews are a nation or a people, it
makes Arab rejection of their national
movement--Zionism--more difficult to defend; i.e.
how could Arabs demand a twenty-second state for
themselves--and second, not first, one in
“Palestine” (Jordan carved out of the lion’s share
of the land) while denying Jews their one?
When the Roman historian, Tacitus, wrote the
following amid the Jews’ struggle for independence
against their imperial Roman conquerors, ask
yourselves if he was only referring to a religion or
to a people who coincidentally had specific
religious beliefs. Tacitus and other contemporary
Roman historians, like Dio Cassius, wrote
extensively on this topic, and I quote them
frequently to those who babble as Abu Alaa and his
fellow Arabs do…
“Titus was appointed by his father to complete the
subjugation of Judaea… he commanded three legions in
Judaea itself… To these he added the twelfth from
Syria and the third and twenty-second from
Alexandria… amongst his allies were a band of Arabs,
formidable in themselves and harboring towards the
Jews the bitter animosity usually subsisting between
neighboring nations (Vol. II, Book V, The Works of
Tacitus)”
So, Abu Alaa’s tale is the ongoing saga of Arabs
denying anyone and everyone in “their” region even a
miniscule portion of the very same rights they
demand for themselves. That’s what the Anfal
Campaign was against Kurds in Iraq; what Ismet
Cherif Vanly wrote about in his book, The Syrian
Mein Kampf Against The Kurds, (Amsterdam, 1968);
what Arab genocide in Darfur and the Sudan is about
today, along with murder and intimidation of Copts
in Egypt, Berbers in North Africa, and what’s left
of native Jew dogs, in “their “ lands. The latter
now make up one half of Israel’s Jewish
population…the refugees no one ever talks about.
On October 31, 2007, the Associated Press wrote of
Abu Alaa--now the Arabs’ chief negotiator at yet
another American President’s attempt to improve his
legacy before leaving office by consenting to
traditional State Department Arabist arm-twisting of
Jews-- “raising the stakes” prior to the proposed
gang-up-on-the Jews “peace” summit at Annapolis.
Dalia Nammari wrote…“Queria tightened the screws
Tuesday” and demanded a specific deadline for
establishing a Palestinian state. “We will not
accept negotiations without a timetable…”
The quoted response given by the Israeli spokeswoman
was all too typical of the spineless crew now
running the show at that end, “ negotiations should
be held behind closed doors, not through the media.”
Since Olmert and the Israeli leadership are now
incapable of responding to Abbas, Querei’ and all
the other State Department alleged Arab good cops
properly (Condi knows how to twist such Jews’ arms
well too), let me propose the following Israeli
response to Abu Alaa’s modern Arabian tale…
No nation is obligated to take part in its own
suicide…despite what Czechoslovakia was forced to do
by its “friends” via Munich in 1938.
Israel is not obligated to withdraw to the
U.N.-imposed 1949 armistice lines, which made it
9-miles wide in parts and a constant invitation to
be attacked. Those lines merely marked the point
where invading Arab armies were stopped after the
rebirth of Israel in 1948 on roughly 11% of the
original 1920 Palestinian Mandate created after the
collapse of the Ottoman Turkish Empire which ruled
it for the previous four centuries.
After the latest Arab attempt on Israel’s life in
1967, UN Resolution 242 made this quite clear. A
reading of all of its final draft architects, quotes
from Presidents Johnson and Reagan, Secretary of
State Shultz, and others understood this well.
Israel was to get “secure and recognized
borders”--not armistice lines--in return for any
withdrawal from territories it came to occupy in a
defensive war and this was to be done in the context
of real peace treaties, not hudna-type ceasefires.
Regardless of State Department Arabist attempts to
bury this over the years (the same folks who fought
Israel’s very rebirth in the first place), Israel
must hold its ground and demand that Judea does not
once again become Judenrein, and seek a fair
territorial compromise on that “West Bank.”
Again, Arabs are already controlling over three
quarters of the original territory--just in Jordan
alone. All of Gaza has since been handed over as
well--with Arab mortars and rockets constantly
launched from there against Israel anyway. This
occurred under Fatah’s watch as well as Hamas’s, for
those bent on excusing the good cops. Much of the
“West Bank” is now also under Arab control ,
courtesy of the one-sided concessions of Oslo.
There will be no timetable for the creation of Arab
state # 22.
As Arabs show themselves true partners for a true
peace--not their well known “hudna” games --then
more steps can be taken towards that Arab goal.
No nation would consent to being a partner with
another whose school text books, maps, television
and radio stations, children camps, religious
leaders, etc. and so forth are unrelenting in
calling for the other “partner’s” destruction. All
of this was supposed to change as of Oslo. None of
it did. And Abbas, Abu Alaa, & Co. insist that they
will flood a miniscule Israel, after it withdraws to
the ’49 armistice lines, with millions of jihadist
alleged Arab refugees. Recall Abu Alaa’s problem
with a “Jewish” Israel…
The Arab leopard does not change its spot on this
“purely Arab patrimony” issue.
And it won’t after Annapolis 2007 either.
The Jews will once again be pressured to cave in to
the Arabs’ well-known, post-‘67 destruction in
stages plans, courtesy of their American friends.
Munich 2007...
Hopefully, Israel will quickly snap out of its
stupor and have its own say at how this latest tale
of the Arabian Nights will end.
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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