Posted on 11/04/2005 7:38:14 AM PST by avg_freeper
I am really tired of Westerners (yesterday, on this blog it was a Canadian - CANADIAN!) chastizing me about not being Arab enough, not fighting Israel enough, not pushing for the Arab cause enough.
What in the world is that? [Sorry for this storm of emotion, but I believe blogs are the place to publicly display righteous indignation.]
Who in the world is a Canadian to tell me such things? Because he thinks I should be fighting for the Arab cause, I need to: live without electricity; live under constant bombardment; live with terrorism; live without running water; live in constant fear of violence from all around (remember, pan-Arabists love to fight each other, too).
I'm supposed to listen to people with high speed internet, free healthcare, flower gardens around every house, high salaries, free access to travel practically anywhere without a visa?
I can't even use Skype or Vonage because the connection speed in this country is so slow.
I won't even get into the racism of it all. "Arabs" are supposed to fight Israel. That's part of the defintion. If you have a problem with the term Arab, that means you're Maronite - which according to Leftists means that you are evil.
Well, sorry guys, but there are plenty of leftwing, anti-Israeli parties that don't subscribe to traditional pan-Arabism. The Syrian National Socialist Party believes that the peoples of Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, parts of Iraq, and a sliver of Egypt are all one entity. All those other guys in Saudi and Morocco are totally different people that have nothing to do with "us."
However, you deem the Syrian National Socialists - who take pride in their acts of terror which include the assassination of one President and the attempted assassination of another - in with everyone else because they hate Jews more than the others. Their symbol is a flying swastika, which proves that they hate Joooooos.
But to continue on the racism line: the Maronite attack comes because Maronites are Christians who allegedly aspire to be European. However, Kurds never get blamed for their alliance with Israel. Is it because they are Muslims? Or is it because human rights advocates love to discourse about the poor Kurds to show how brutish, thuggish, and depraved Arabs are for beating up those lovely Kurds who should be given their own nation carved out of Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Turkey?
Kurds identify themselves as being different. They speak a different language. They feel like they are oppressed in their current situations. Why not allow them to have their own country, right?
Maronites identify themselves as being different. They have a different religion. They feel like living in a non-plural society under the helm of Syria oppresses them. Why not allow them to assert their relationship with Israel if they want to? They aren't even asking for a country. (And note that I'm using "they.")
And I don't understand why it is so difficult for people to acknowledge the possibility that Lebanon isn't just an Arab country. We're a Mediterranean country with Jews, Iranians, Greeks, Turks, Turkmen, Armenians, the descendents of crusaders, Italians, Syrians, Arabs, and even the descendents of Russians living amongst us. To claim that we are simply "Arab" is to disenfranchise a huge segment of the population, let alone history. It undermines the pluralism of the Ottoman Empire and ingenious systems the people living in this region came up with to work problems out amongst themselves in coordination with the Ottomans, French, British, Russians, and others.
Why are Canadians and foreign leftists adding to the racist propaganda in the Middle East? Why are they giving credence to fighting a war with Israel?
We don't need any more war here. Let Canada and France and The Netherlands fight a war with Israel if they feel so strongly about it.
Oh, but war is against human rights, so no white person should ever do that. Leave that to the slightly colored folks with big noses and claim that you would be oppressing Middle Eastern culture if you stopped wars in the Middle East. The liberal white people will set the battle lines through international agreements and centuries old lines, but let the savage Jews, Muslims, and tainted oriental Christians fight for rights. The leftwing will support the weaker power, the rightwing will overwhelmingly support the stronger power.
That's the fallacy of the Western leftwing. None of its arguments on foreign policy are coherent.
At least the rightwing is honest about what they are doing. They specifically state that they want democracy because they believe it will prevent terrorism. They say they want democracy because they believe it will be beneficial to Israel. And you can't make the oil argument or self-interest argument about Lebanon because there isn't anything but mountains, water, agricultural land, and people here.
The leftwing response is, "Well, you shouldn't want democracy if it hurts Syria which is waging the eternal war with Israel. Hezbollah is a wonderful party because it wants to destroy Israel. Islamic terror isn't all that bad because the people are merely expressing their oppression and reasserting their power in the eternal Foucauldian battle."
Don't tell me who I should be fighting. Don't tell me that I should be racist against Jews. Don't tell me what is good for me. How the hell do you know?
My life would be a hell of a lot better if I had high speed internet, decent electricity, and full political enfranchisement. Israel isn't stopping that. Syria and their Lebanese cronies did. Fighting Israel does very little for me.
If you want to fight Israel, put your body where your words are. Go fight Israel, but don't do it from my land or I will fight you.
However, if you are doing anything to increase my upload and download connections, working to end Lebanese governmental corruption, and trying to fully rip Syrian security agents and their agenda of terror from my land, then let me take you by the hand.
None the less it is a good article and highlights the Western leftist's need for "dirty brown" arabs to fight the jews for them as Europe & America's liberal elite think of themselves as being above the violence.
They use the "dirty brown" people in the Middle East to do their antisemitic dirty work for them.
That was a good read. Thanks for posting.
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