IRAN TO ARAB NATIONALISM, POST GAZA: COME TO MAMA

rough second draft

SO I SAID

In the last post I observed that the Gaza invasion and Gaza’s demise should result in the re-organization of the Arab opposition. I said that the Arab opposition will head underground. I said hat Iran will be the country most adept at nursing this well-organized and secret opposition. I said that Gaza was the last gasp for Crusader and the cult boys of the diaspora, one enduring pillar/pole in American politics attracting the many among the elite. I said that Gaza’s demise would teach the Arab opposition, including the political middle, that the West, the U.S. in particular, can never be trusted. I said that Gaza confirms to the Arab opposition elite and public that the diaspora boys dominate in the land of the harmful idiots. ( I was being diplomatic. Moi! It wouldn’t be a matter of mistrust of the United States, only. Actually, the Arab opposition will view the United States as THE enemy and will organize accordingly.)

NEEDING EVIDENCE OR SIGN POSTS

Crusader, a day or two after my last post, confirmed my observation that he and the cult diaspora boys were behind the invasion. Not that I needed confirmation on that subject. But I did need some indication -- other than my sense about things -- as to the future course of the Arab opposition -- of Arab nationalism, really, since the Arab opposition, Islamic and non, personifies that nationalism.

EVIDENCE!

Abdel-Bari Atwan, the Editor-in-Chief of the Al- Quds al-Arabi (Palestinian nationalist; Arab nationalist; Sunni; Palestinian Islamist; pan-Arab in readership; published in London) came out on January 5 with an editorial smashing the West, in particular the United States -- Crusader and the harmful idiots. (“A Land Attack . . .Anything Left in Barak’s Bag?”) (My translation.)

His mistrust of the United States isn’t the full story. Front page, prominently placed, this headline: “Students of Iran Demand the Closing of [the Strait of] Hormuz and the Consulates in Tehran of Egypt and Jordan.” A silly headline, I admit. But indicative of a high level of desperation and helplessness on the part of Mr. Atwan.

SUNNI-WIDE, ARAB-WIDE DESPERATION

Do you get it? That’s exactly my point! To the extent one would want to use sectarian classifications, Mr. Atwan’s desperation is Sunni-wide desperation, Arab-wide, really. (No, it’s not solely Palestinian. Palestine remains one central theme in Arab identity and nationalism.) In tandem with the prominent display about Iran’s students , the two (Sunni desperation and the prominent display about Iran’s students) outline to me the likely direction of Arab (Sunni) nationalism. But not yet, not fully.

When one adds to the this mix the reality of treason by the ruling elite of Saudi Arabia (funding the Israel lobby, for one!), Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (both doing the bidding, the first for the harmful idiots, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, and the second for the harmful idiots and Israel) -- and the earlier treason by Kuwait’s ruling elite, which along with the harmful idiots set up Arab Iraq to eventually dismember it -- what does one get?

THE FUTURE

One gets Arab (mostly) Sunni nationalism, gone underground, bleeding from Gaza and Iraq, and heading Iran’s way.

THE HARMFUL IDIOTS SOW...

Kudos to Iran for its inaction. The harmful idiots seem to always be doing the work for it (as they are now for Russia in Afghanistan). The harmful idiots, mediocre and harmful, sow massive misery; the Iranians reap the beneficial fruit.