ARAB BI-POLARITY: EGYPT V. HEZBOLLAH -- AND HOSNI MUBARAK'S SONG

(rough, oh so rough, draft, written while pursuing (weekend) Happiness in researching and shopping for a car AKA Freedom , and doing my laundry AKA more Freeedom.)

ACID WORDS

A war of words and more is being waged across the Mediterranean. And no, it’s not between Syria and Egypt. It’s between the Egyptian ruling elite and . . . Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah. The Israeli SS-like extermination of Gaza’s children, executed from a “civilized” distance, brought that war of words (and more -- i.e., the Egyptian claim that they have dismantled a Hezbollah-led cell in Sinai) into the wide open. Hasan Nasrallah, during the Israeli killing campaign of a couple hundred children, unleashed not Hezbollah’s missiles against the Israelis, but a barrage of acid words against the Egyptian ruling elite. That elite is now intensifying its counter-campaign of accusations (Hezbollah as agent of Iran) against Sayyed Nasrallah.

HEZBOLLAH'S AIM

Sayyed Hasan has meant the unrelenting and obstreperous (you like that?) verbal attacks (the last on or around January 30) to achieve the following:

1. To excuse Hezbollah before the Arab public (where that party’s popularity is paramount) for failing to launch missiles against Israel. These missiles would’ve lessened the brunt of that country’s SS-like extermination of Gaza’s children -- executed from a distance, of course, to be “civilized.” (“We’re but modern-day people. We don’t exterminate children but from a civilized distance.”)

2. To busy, so to speak, the Egyptian ruling elite with domestic trouble : Ruling servants of the harmful idiots/Israel v. Muslim Brothers and sympathizers among the middle class. The idea would be to prevent that elite from dispatching a proxy army of intelligence operatives into Iraq. Again, to regress, these wouldn’t make much of a difference against Iran-in-Iraq; but Iran doesn’t want any party to contest its bound-to-increase influence in Iraq, not even when that party would be useless -- e.g., the Egyptian operatives. Who needs a headache, albeit minor? Ask the Iranians. Right? Still, the ruling elite of Egypt is dying to prove its usefulness to the harmful idiots and the Saudi ruling elite. The place to do it would be Iraq, post-withdrawal of our troops.

But Gaza stands in the way. “Those cowardly Israelis,” says the Egyptian ruling elite; "They wouldn't engage Hamas in man-to-man combat." "You do it," answer the Israelis; "We specialize in murdering children, from a civilized distance."

3. To act from within the historic script which says that Hezbollah in the end hails from an Arab nationalist tradition. (Remember the quid pro quo modus operandi between Arab Islamic nationalist forces and Iran -- see two posts back.)

4. To reflect Hezbollah’s conviction (and that of Syria and Iran) that the harmful idiots have exhausted their energy with Iraq and Afghanistan, and that the local actors are taking over. Hence the increased prominence (yet more) of a local political party AKA people’s army -- Hezbollah.

You see: the welfare program (the Iraq and Afghanistan "wars") of the military-industrial complex and the Evangelical churches/Jewish synagogues in the land of the harmful idiots will be trimmed. Crusader and Bald Samson have paid off their loyalists handsomely, making them millionaires and billionaires many times over, while exhausting our country financially. Enough, Mr. Obama is bound to say; I've had it. Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah are aware of this. The Egyptian ruling elite is on its own, so to speak. If Iran doesn’t make a mistake or fall into a trap -- the future should belong to it and its allies.



HOSNI MUBARAK’S SONG

Bye, bye all Arabs
Bye, bye sweet relllll- levance
Hello uselessness
I think I’m gonna die
Bye, Arab public, goodbye

Here go-ooooo my Arrraaaaabs
With someone new [Iran]
They sure look haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaappy
I sure I’m [Israel] blue
They were my Arrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabbbbs
When Nasser Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas innnnnnnnn
Goodbye sweet relllllll----levance
I’m in . . the dustbin