MEDITERRANEAN UNION: THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST YET AGAIN -- WITH A FRENCH FACE!

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THE HARMFUL IDIOTS’ GREATER MIDDLE EAST HAS A FRENCH FACE.

Could Arab analysts be so dumb as to plead ignorance about the hidden agenda of Nicolas Sarkozy’s Mediterranean Union initiative? They are; they’re pleading ignorance! Being on the payroll of governments, especially the Saudi and that of the harmful idiots, feigning ignorance has become their best escape. Have they forgotten that Sarkozy became President of France thanks in part to being the asset of the axis of the harmful idiots, the American Jewish Right, and colonialist Israel?

I’ll cut to the chase: Sarkozy’s initiative for a Mediterranean Union is yet another version of the “Greater Middle East” initiative advanced by the Bush Administration and inspired by its circle of Israel-obsessed right wing advisers -- those who on behalf of their Israel wanted to break the back of any Arab solidarity left that could threaten Israel’s preeminence. The same idea later became the “New Middle East” initiative, the words being uttered by the September 11 Queen as the Israeli war machine -- its pilots and its artillery men -- rained death on Lebanese civilians, killing them by the hundreds in the summer of 2006.

Sarkozy, the asset of the axis of the harmful idiots/Jewish right/Israel, is president of France likely as a result of the September 11 Queen’s promise to “punish” France for not partnering with the harmful idiots when these had shattered the lives of Iraqis, dismembered an Arab country, and minted thousands of mostly Arab orphans, but American too. Pre- Sarkozy France had been a proud country which had called the Iraq aggression correctly, as had Turkey and Germany. My assessment is that punishing France apparently took the form of US intelligence pumping tons of money into Mr. Sarkozy’s campaign, their French Blair, their minion. Now the man opens an embassy in Iraqi Kurdistan, if only to further humiliate Arabs and register his country’s approval of the dismemberment of the Arab country.

SYRIA AT THE CENTER OF ARAB NATIONAL UNITY, LIMITED THOUGH IT MAY BE?

On March 14, 2001, our Christian Zionist Crusader commented that the “reality is that the nation has got a real problem when it comes to energy... We need more resources of energy.” That’s not the full truth, of course. China, too, needed more energy. And let’s not forget India. What the Crusader was saying was that, having made it to the White House with the thinnest of mandates (the Supreme Court had appointed him), he wasn’t about to tackle America’s profligate use of energy the public policy way. Instead, he would use that alleged need for more resources of energy to grab Iraq’s. It takes an oil administration to think up a grab of the kind.

Grabbing Iraqi oil was meant to place a choke around the necks of China and Europe. Oil is a fungible commodity in that it’ll go where money is paid for it. Grabbing it hardly assures that its destination would be the USA. But

-- grabbing it and pumping to the maximum would bust OPEC;

-- grabbing it would provide lucrative contracts to the harmful idiots' firends;

-- grabbning it with the needed military presence in Iraq would assure the strategic oil choke over China and Europe.

Hey, a win-win scheme, right?

From an Arab perspective, the perspective of the proud Arabs not that of the self-hating traders of Arab dignity, it was humiliating that the Crusader and his coterie, to subdue Iraq, would put to use the most venomous anti-Muslim and anti-Arab domestic political forces -- the Jewish Right and its Christian Crusading ally.

ISRAEL AT THE CENTER, ALWAYS.

The Greater Middle East, the New Middle East, and the Mediterranean Union are all meant to split Arabs more than they already are. The idea is to smash them to smithereens, gut out any solidarity and cultural affinity they feel that would threaten Israel’s preeminence, and ease Israel into their World, victorious and at the center of all of them. Israel should be the center of the Arab World. Not Egypt; not Syria; not Lebanon; not the UAE. All of this without Israel doing what it has to do: helping out in the formation of a Palestinian state on all of the pre-June 4, 1967, territory, all, withdrawing from the Arab Joulan, and paying reparations. (I apologize to the Palestinians; I don't mean to hijack their judgement and future.)

WHY NOT AN ARAB UNION INSTEAD OF THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST AKA MEDITERRANEAN UNION?


The anti-Arab and anti-Muslim animus of the harmful idiots and their Sarkozi is so powerful that their attempts to hide it fail miserably. For instance, had the harmful idiots and their people been logical and not motivated by an anti-Arab animus, they would’ve been pushing for an Arab Union, not a Mediterranean one, and for the Gulf Arabs to share their wealth with their brothers and sisters. As part of the Arab union, not the New or Greater Middle East, these Western Israel-centric Arab-haters would’ve coaxed their minions in the Gulf to share their near half -trillion dollar per year income (Saudi Arabia in 2006 brought n $196 bn.) with the other Arabs, the ones they’re trying to place under Israel’s lordship.

THE HARMFUL IDIOTS' SARKOZY RUSE.

The focus now is, and has been for a while, on Syria. How to steal it away from Iran; how to create an “Arab” front against Iran, under the leadership of Israel, and joining the trillionaires (the Gulf ones) with the paupers (Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan.) One way for achieving this goal is to divert the Arab peoples’ attention away from the orphan-generating and Arab-hating ideas of the harmful idiots (e.g., the New Middle East.) You do that by shifting the source of colonialist domination, if only cosmetically, as a ruse to another country. That country would propose a “Mediterranean Union.” The idea could’ve been Sarkozy’s, but could’ve been , too, the harmful idiots’. Coordinating as likely he is with the harmful idiots, being their “asset,”, Mr. Sarkozi adopted the idea as his own. Or saw in it Israel’s salvation. Hey, the harmful idiots had failed at their Greater Middle East and New Middle East – both constructed on the graves of the parents of mostly Arab children, but American children, too. (But not the children of those who’ve wanted to build the New American Century. God forbid these assholes should send their children to war.) Why not let Sarkozy try out a new and improved Greater Middle East -- a Mediterranean Union -- while, along the way, he pitches weapons and nuclear power reactors to the Arabs?

THEY SPEAK OF NON-ARAB UNIONS , ALIEN TO ARABS. . . THEY SPEAK OF ARAB UNIONS AND A SUNNI WALL AGAINST THE SHIAS.

On or about April 14, 2008, the Saudi cabinet, chaired by King Abdallah, issued a statement which Lebanon or Iraq seemed to be its focal point. (My notes are unclear on this; I apologize.) I jumped when I saw one word in that statement: “Qutr.” The statement was referring to an Arab country as a “Qutr,” plural : “aqtar.” That word is a Baathist word, an Arab nationalist word. In the lexicon of Arab nationalism, the current Arab “nation-states” (e.g., Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia) are not. Each is a car in a train made up of 22 cars and constituting a whole -- one Arab nation of 300 million people. Had the Saudi government turned Arab nationalist?

Hardly. Though my notes aren’t clear (they are clear about the use of the word “qutr”) that Arab nationalist approach was meant for multi-sectarian Lebanon (18 to 19 sects) or Iraq. For other places, such as Yemen, the Kingdom pushes an ideology of Sunnism to contain the Shia revival, made all the more visible by Iran’s easy victory.

Schizophrenic? You bet. How else deal with defeat against Iran, a defeat brought about not by the Kingdom’s weakness but by its oil ally at the White House and the ally of Saudi Arabia's secret government -- Israel.

Though ruled by an Alawite minority, and because of that, Syria is by far more credible as an Arab nationalist entity than Saudi Arabia. Minorities favor Arab nationalism because it’s secular and therefore inclusive. Before the harmful idiots and their Israelis had divided up Iraq you’d be chastised if you had differentiated between a Shia and a Sunni. Iran of course had its Shia proxies in Iraq but these were repressed and the Shia sectarian phenomenon was kept under check -- by repression and by the inclusive ideology of Arab nationalism.

THE ART OF ACTING WITH SINCERITY.

That Syria has accepted to sit with Israel in Turkey, and to open up to Sarkozy’s flirtations -- Syria likely is buying time to wait out the term of the Christian Zionist Crusader and Bald Samson. Syria’s allies had been quite generous with it and it’d be foolish to trust the harmful idiots and their minion, Sarkozy. These want such domination that they’d turn on you and have you hanged the first moment they can. Their only allegiance in the region is to Israel, on which back and that of its diaspora they climb the ladder of blind ambition and associated penile erection. Russia’s Duma recently approved the forgiveness of most of Syria’s debt to Russia. Iran has been Syria’s lifeline ever since 1979, and has helped it stand up to Israel. On a visit to Damascus years ago, I noted to my friend’s father the presence of so many Iranians. “But for Iran,” he commented, “the Syrians would’ve starved.”

But Iran’s help to Syria hasn’t been only economic. It’s been a new ideology of war that has proven its worth twice. Hizbollah, after all, is an extension of the armies of Iran and Syria. And Hizbollah has defeated Israel twice. In other words, hell should freeze over before Syria seriously considers splitting away from Iran. To hedge my bet: it’s possible but highly unlikely.

I think Syria’s defense minister was genuine in his assessment when recently from Tehran he described his country as Iran’s strategic depth. I would add that Iran, too, is Syria’s strategic depth. The Arab adjutants of the harmful idiots, especially the trillionaires, had left Syria alone carrying the Arab onus against those colonialists who for decades have shot down the formation of a Palestinian state as a basic demand of all Arabs. Is Syria now to trust them, via the harmful idiots’ French minion, and be lured by yet another sophomoric and Israel-centric idea as the Mediterranean Union?

I instruct my clients to use the skills of actors. I tell them acting is a most powerful tool, that I wish I had. That if they act responsible until probation is over, that they’d be smart and they’d win against a huge and tangled system of repression.

Damascus is a great actor when it comes to playing along those who Damascus knows wish it and all the Arabs ill in the form of nouveau colonial domination.

DAMASCUS AND ARAB CULTURE.

Damascus is the unquestionable center of Arab culture, hands down. Why? Because Iraq used to be that center and there’s no one else to take its place but econmically humble Syria. The harmful idiots and their Israeli ally had eliminated Arab Iraq. The Arabs are left with Damascus. Not perfect, but what else is there? Before the harmful idiots and the Israelis had destroyed Arab Iraq, of all the Arabs only the Iraqis had thrived on Arab literature. Only they had celebrated the Arabic language so gloriously and patronized its learned vanguard. One Sudanese acquaintance who had gone to college in Baghdad -- a writer -- is fond of telling the story that in most Arab countries a pedestrian would have to wind her way around mountains of shoes and other Chinese-made products piled up on sidewalks. Not in Baghdad. In Baghdad, a pedestrian wound his way around books, Arabic books, books of poetry and prose.

The harmful idiots and their Israelis destroyed that culture. Looting the National Museum was only the tip of the iceberg. The harmful idiot and Israeli barbarians damaged the heart of Arab culture. They damaged Baghdad’s sidewalks, chock full of heritage, literature and poetry. Damascus is what’s left for the Arabs. Will these allow Sarkozy and his masters to destroy Damascus?

To confirm Baghdad’s passion for Arabic literature. When once I approached a Lebanese publisher, a friend who once had lived in DC, to assess whether he would be interested in my collection of Arabic poetry, he said no, not asking to read any poem. We’re only publishing school textbooks these days. Before Iraq had been invaded, we would’ve jumped at the opportunity. But no one buys literature in the Arab World any longer. The Yemenis love Arabic literature but they don’t have the money. The Gulf Arabs, who have the money, don't read. Only the Arabs of Iraq had both: the highly civilized passion for literature and the money. And the Arab Iraqis are no more.