MER FlashBack:
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"SCHOLARS, INTELLECTUALS,
EXPERTS
BETRAY THEIR VOCATIONS..."
GREATER PALESTINIAN
SUFFERING
CAUSED BY ARAFAT COLLABORATION
"I DON'T THINK IT'S WRONG OR ANY KIND
OF EXAGGERATION TO SAY THAT ARAFAT AND HIS 'PALESTINE AUTHORITY' HAVE BECOME
COLLABORATORS WITH THE MILITARY OCCUPATION, A SORT OF VICHY GOVERNMENT*
FOR PALESTINIANS... "WITH OSLO THE 'PEACE PROCESS' ENTERED A NEW AND MUCH
MORE DESTRUCTIVE PHASE. FAR FROM BRINGING PEACE, IT BROUGHT GREATER SUFFERING
FOR PALESTINIANS... "EVERY LEADER INVOLVED WITH THE OSLO PROCESS -- PALESTINIAN,
ISRAELI, AMERICAN OR EUROPEAN -- HAS ACTED, IN MY OPINION, WITHOUT PRINCIPLES
AND WITHOUT ANYTHING REMOTELY RESEMBLING VISION AND TRUTHFULNESS... "WORSE,
LARGE DROVES OF INTELLECTUALS, SCHOLARS AND EXPERTS HAVE IN MY OPINION
BETRAYED THEIR VOCATIONS, TO SAY NOTHING OF THEIR EXPERTISE AND KNOWLEDGE.
AND THIS BETRAY HAS CONTRIBUTED TO THE AMAZINGLY COMPLIANT ATTITUDE OF
THE AMERICAN MEDIA IN PARTICULAR, WHO HAVE CELEBRATED, EXTOLLED, SALUTED
AND REJOICED WHERE THERE HAS BEEN NEITHER OCCASION NOR CAUSE TO JUSTIFY
SUCH EXCESSIVE HANDCLAPPING AND JUBILATION."
Washington Scene:
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'PEACE' GROUPS &
ARAB-AMERICAN GROUPS
MOSTLY SUCCUMB, FRONTS,
OR IRRELEVANT
MER - Washington - 5/4/97:
The recent orgy of 'activism' surrounding the new
"Har Homa" settlement has given 'peace groups' and various Arab Americans
groups something to do again.
Once again they are claiming to be active and involved
when in reality they are nearly all irrelevant and disingenuous, terribly
misleading their members with deceptive statements, meaningless gestures,
and always safe and simplistic slogans that closely correlate with whatever
the Americanized Arab regimes are pushing at the moment.
With few exceptions these groups have done little
if anything now for many years when it
comes to speaking up seriously and honestly about U.S. policies, the 'peace
process', the Arab "client-regimes", and the collaborationist nature of
the Arafat "PA". The reasons are many, but the bottom line is that nearly
all of these groups have either succumbed or expired (PAS a good example),
been co-opted or taken over (ADC a good example), or simply allowed themselves
to become irrelevant (PSC a good example). Other groups have always been
little but fronts for governments or associated business interests on the
one hand (ANERA and NAAA good examples), or for either the Israeli/Jewish
Lobby (Labor Party wing - 'Peace Now' a good example) or the Arab client-regime
lobbies (Zogby's duplicitous AAI a good example). And still other groups
like AET, CNI, and MEI are pretty much retirement homes for former foreign
service officers and U.S. government officials; never straying straying
far from the views and concerns of those they use to work directly for
and now continue to front for.
Washington is quite literally littered these days
with lies and
treachery when it comes to matters Middle Eastern.
And that too is a part of the realities of the so-called "peace process".
After all, what is really happening today in the
"peace process" was all quite foreseeable years ago, as the quote from
Edward Said makes clearly evident. The notion that Rabin and Peres were
taking things somewhere other than where Netanyahu is going simply doesn't
accord with Israeli history or overall Zionist ideology. Oslo is in fact
pretty much the old "Allon Plan" from the 60s and 70s -- named for the
Labor Party Foreign Minister of that era. And the notion that Bush and
Baker -- with the "New World Order" and Madrid -- were pursuing something
different than what transpired at Oslo simply doesn't accord with the history
of American foreign policy in the Middle East.
Clinton policy is in fact pretty much the same as
that of all American Administrations going
back to Kennedy and Johnson. It was during the LBJ Presidency in fact that
the U.S. clandestinely helped Israel win the "Six-Day War" and capture
the areas they have been colonizing -- with ever-increasing American assistance
-- ever since. The main difference with Clinton, in fact, is the much greater
direct participation of many card-carrying members of the Israeli/Jewish
lobby now as U.S. government officials in charge of U.S. Middle East policies.
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