CHANCE ENCOUNTER WITH THE BODY SNATCHERS. OKAY, THEIR PROXIES

A draft.

This blog has never been a chick magnet. Only a magnet for ugly guys: snoops for Government; snoops for the Israelis - - many times they’re one-and-the same, playing good-cop-bad-cop. But never - -NEVER, NOT EVEN ONCE - - a pretty woman. Ugly guys, snitches, snoops. Life really is disgusting. I avoid so many invites because I don’t want to confront my age and the women my age attracts. And I don’t care about seeing ugly guys. Yet, the ugly guys follow me, all thanks to this blog.

The sacrifices I go through.

The two men followed me into a coffee shop, Wednesday, December 2, 2009, around 9:30 AM. They sat right next to me. Cutely, they started arguing about Iran and Lebanon and Hezbollah. They disagreed on whether Iran had good intelligence or rather good analysts. They meant me: I’m the spy for Iran and Hezbollah; or I’m their analyst. Ugly guys go away.

I talked to them.

EITHER JOIN US OR SHUT IT DOWN

To cut to the chase: it seemed to be yet another attempt to steer this blog into an anti-Iran (anti-Hezbollah) direction. Or to shut it down. To recruit this blog into the service of the Israel-centric Idiots, shedding all critical thought. This process had started a long time ago, even earlier than I had once thought. At one time, after a doctored incident at the Lebanese Maronite church in D.C., acted out by Government consulting firms, likely after a coordination session between Israel’s Boys and Government Boys, I did close down the blog. Then I re-started it since I didn’t want to cave in to hooliganism and intimidation by government - -or by anyone.

The fact that these ugly guys chose to accuse me of spying for Iran and Hezbollah tells me that they’re likely one-and-the-same as the consulting firms at the Maronite church: Government agents. There’s a chance that they’re Israeli agents. But since both are pushing the same line . . . you draw your own conclusion. Importantly, the encounter with these proxy-Body Snatchers came soon after the posting of the last blog about Israel’s Boys having now expanded their influence to include U.S. policy towards China. Or, more correctly, their State-Within-the-State has drawn a new alliance with the National Security Establishment where the State-Within-the-State would bully the Chinese in what in essence seems to be no more than a sophomoric act and an empty threat - - albeit they bragged about it on the front page of the Washington Post. Little (empty) victories are important. Not.

I hate to admit it, but it was fun in a sick kind of way talking to these government informants. (Or were they Israeli informants?) Their act was charmingly irritating. Although I think they likely were taping me. My file must be so huge by now. A bit of entertainment isn’t really that bad. But only a bit.

There was the American and there was the Middle-Easterner. The American played the role of the Republican right-winger. The Middle Eastern man: the role of the left-of-center college-educated graduate who can’t get over the stupidity of the American. I joined in with the Middle Easterner.

A lady who sees me there all the time, saw me arguing with the two men. She came over later and berated me. Why?

CONSUMED BY HEZBOLLAH

The American wanted me to admit that Nasrallah of Hezbollah receives his orders from Ayatollah Khamenei. So what? So what? SO WHAT? Lebanon is a bunch of cargo cults, so much so that it is easier to understand it as a micro-balance-of-power-system than a nation united. Barring some people like Salim al-Hoss, most political forces and personalities are on the Foreign-Government-Payroll - - be it Iran’s, Saudi Arabia’s, the United States’, what have you - -and are Grandly Corrupt, TO BOOT. (I’m not talking small corruption.) It was the Harmful Idiots who had played such a critical role in leading Lebanon into its current state via the civil war which shattered the country to pieces. The harmful Idiots, as the Reluctant Ones, were (and still are, now even more) so Israel-centric that they couldn’t fathom the importance of wrapping it all up by pushing their Beloved out of all post-June 4, 1967, lands, paying reparations and building a Palestinian state. Instead they miscalculated on behalf of their Israel (with the help of Jordanian intelligence and Lebanese Army intelligence - - both mercenaries, happy to make a buck) to rein in the PLO. The rest is history.

But for one fact: the Harmful Idiots, after entrapping Arab Iraq to invade Kuwait, made use of Arab Syria to obtain an Arab cover to destroy Arab Iraq’s Army. To achieve this feat - - Arab Syria’s cooperation - - they and their Israelis allowed Syrian conquest of Mount Lebanon. All else is history. It’s the informant’s (be he Government’s or Israel’s) people (the Israelis and the Harmful Idiots) who played such a critical role in destroying Lebanon and who made Hezbollah possible.

I explained to him that Hezbollah was the creation of the idiocy of the idiots in their Beloved’s occupation of South Lebanon. He didn’t get it - - or at least he was waiting for his tape to run its course while I was talking. I told him that there was no question in my mind that Hezbollah receives its money from Iran, but that the Lebanese context for Hezbollah shouldn’t be under-estimated either.


We talked about many things: polling, taxation, the carry trade.

SOPHOMORES LOVE WORDS SUCH AS "CEILING"

We talked about the “ceiling” for Mr. Nasrallah’s decision-making in relation to Iran’s demands of him. In essence, my assessment is that at this point in time, because Hezbollah has to be careful about not plying open Lebanon’s bankruptcy, the ceiling is more sensitive to Lebanon’s needs than to Iran’s. At this point in time, Lebanon is living off the carry trade. Should Hezbollah start a war with Israel, hell would break loose and a lot of the money could leave Lebanon. It’ll be starvation city. The country truly is living precariously, appearances to the contrary notwithstanding. The Lebanon predicament for Hezbollah is such that the Party couldn’t be the one to start a war with Israel. It can, as I suspect it had, dispatch harmless rockets every-now-and-then into Israel, using fictitious organizations, to relay a message to the Reluctant Idiots’ Beloved. Otherwise, Lebanon’s predicament necessitates that the Party reserve its firepower on behalf of Iran to the time when Iran is attacked - - or Lebanon is. Obviously, this so-called ceiling (a word which my interlocutor-the-sophomore liked) will change with the times.

At one time, talking about something which I forgot, I showed him the relatively recent post in this newsletter titled “1964” in which Leonard Binder had warned all Great Powers (not only the U.S.) about direct involvement in the region. That warning had stayed with me for over thirty years and likely has colored the writings in this blog.

The Sophomore tried to force the issue about Hezbollah turning its weapons against the Lebanese. (I think that was in 2007 when Hezbollah routed Hariri’s boys, recruited from across Sunni Lebanon, to attack Hezbollah’s rear.) That’s like - - sophomoric as hell. That ship’s sailed during the Lebanese civil war when unspeakable massacres were committed not only among sects and the Palestinians but within the ranks of those as well. What kind of argument was that? I’ve had to put up with Israel-centric wishful-thinking sophomores ever since college. It really is scary that sophomores run this country’s policy towards such a large part of the world! It’s even scarier albeit …um, oh, let me think, yes - -harmfully IDIOTIC - - that these sophomores of the State-Within-the-State are now going after China.

MAYBE THE HARMFUL IDIOTS CAN LEARN FROM HEZBOLLAH. IDIOTS LEARNING. HA!

In the 2007 confrontation - -to which that man (likely taping me) was referring - - Hezbollah once again showed itself to be terrifically restrained (and therefore smart) by not avenging itself. Few died. Hezbollah collected most of the armed Sunni boys and delivered them to the Lebanese army. Hezbollah, too, didn’t kill Waleed Jumblatt , even though its fighters stood at the doorstep of his residence in West Beirut having surrounded it. Here, once again, that party showed smarts. Killing Jumblatt would’ve made him a Druze Martyr. Joulan’s population is mostly Druze (I believe) and Syria, Hezbollah’s ally, would’ve been scarred with that population had Jumblatt been murdered. At any rate, the stakes weren’t that high to necessitate the man’s assassination. They’d already marginalized him. Syria and Hezbollah had proved to be in control.

Shouldn’t the Israeli-tied Idiots, both Harmful and Reluctant, learn from this and try to emulate it? How about the Israelis learning from it and treating their Palestinian brothers and sisters with like kindness, instead of jailing over 10,000 of them, pressing them under th4e occupation boot, and murdering them wholesale? How about the Idiots learning to think through their Israel-inspired illusions before creating millions of refugees? Wouldn’t that be the smart way to go about things?

So you see how smart that party was? (I'm asking the readers not the Harmful Idiots or the Reluctant Ones.) Now contrast that to the Harmful Idiots delivering Saddam Hussein and the others to the lynch mob. Consider their arrogance (and abject mediocrity - - Israel-centric Harmful Idiocy, really) that they wouldn’t see that the entire Islamic World would live with the image of Christian troops, Israel-inspired, delivering a Muslim leader to the gallows of the lynch mob, the one which they had brought to power. Compare Hezbollah’s careful treatment of the armed Sunni boys, compare that to the Jewish-American U.S. Senator flying to Baghdad as Israeli conqueror (to please his Jewish contributors) to lecture the Kangaroo court trying Saddam Hussein - -to in-the-end speed up his lynching. (And you want to tell me that the Israel-minded Reluctant Ones don’t see the Arab Sunnis as their nemesis and want to crush them! I don't think they hate the Shias. But they do hate the Sunnis - -and disrespect them - - big time.) Most Arabs didn’t care much for Mr. Hussein. At best, they had mixed feelings towards him. But to have Christian conquering allies of Israel (how many times have I seen photos of pastors praying with the troops in Iraq or Afghanistan) deliver a Muslim Arab leader to the lynch mob! Hello.

Let me be crystal clear: I don’t give a fuck about Hezbollah, or Iran, or (believe it or not) Lebanon. Not to forget: Syria. My concern is this country, my country, and the tendency my country, under your Israeli inspiration, forever miscalculates in that neighborhood and brings so much misery to it. When Hezbollah resists hegemonic and arrogant Israel as it did in 2006, all Arabs (myself included) are impressed and moved by its feat. We’ve had it with Her Excellency throwing her weight about and with you the Idiots signing off on anything Her Excellency demands. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t appreciate the fact that Hezbollah is an arm of the Iranians. And as an arm of Iran, all need to consider the possible uses Iran makes or will make of that Lebanese party. I wasn’t born yesterday. But I don’t need any-which-sophomore (my apologies to the informants taping me) to lecture me about Iran or Hezbollah or to try to close this newsletter as they did at the Maronite Church - - necessarily driving my father away from it at a time when he needs it most. So please cease-and-desist from trying to control me and this blog. Yes, I’m impressed by Hezbollah’s sophistication, unimpressed by your Idiocy (though forever awed at its depth), but hardly sympathetic to Hezbollah - - because I really don't care about there, but about here. Simply put: I don’t give a fuck about Lebanon, Iran, Israel, Hezbollah, Syria and certainly the State-Within-the-State: You.

Cease and desist, please. Let it go. If you want to talk to me, send in Senator Mitchell. Or gorgeous and available women. I want to minimize my dealings with riffraff. I work hard on this newsletter not to let it be cheapened by foreign agents or Government snitches.

THE LESSONS: THE RELUCTANT ONES ARE AT A LOSS. HOW CAN THEY FIND AN ARAB OR MUSLIM NEXUS TO COMPETE WITH IRAN?

There’s a lesson in this encounter - - other than harassment, intimidation and the provision to me of yet more material. The lesson and its contours:

1. The harmful idiots drove us blindly into a systemic power vacuum trap. That trap had been long in the digging, by us, having so weakened Arab Iraq which once upon a time had balanced Iranian power. But it took Real Idiots who measure everything by an Israeli yardstick to actually push us over the edge.

2. Now that we’re sitting deep inside the hole, another version of the Idiots, the Reluctant Ones, warriors for Israel, took over. Instead of forging a course of balancing Iranian power while saving us money (e.g., tripwires here-and there, a professional Saudi army), they persuaded our young and handsome President to stay the course—the Harmful Idiot course, that is,

3. Our allies/AKA/Burden, such as Israel and the Egyptian government, want us inside the trap because how else would they make a buck? The two likely played an important role in prodding our President to adopt the “I love it deep inside the muddy trap” theory which the Israel section of the Reluctant Ones had carried over from the Harmful Idiots. The Arab allies have long ago rented Israel’s Diaspora to gain SOME influence in U.S. foreign policy.

4. Our allies/AKA/Burden are bankrupt when it comes to usefulness. The Egyptian government had shed its Arab identity; accordingly it can hardly trust its own armed forces should it dispatch them abroad. The Israelis are harmful, radioactive really; the Jordanians sit on an Islamic time bomb that hasn’t exploded only because (a) the Islamists know that the King brings Jordan needed cargo and (b) because the Islamists are aware that Israel would like nothing better than an Islamist (predominately Palestinian) state next door to which it’d push out its Palestinian citizens.

5. The seeming moral strength of the argument made by the allies/AKA/Burden that you got us into the Iranian mess, so you get us out of it. It’s a ruse. They’re not in any Iranian mess. We can provide them with tons of conventional protection. The rest is up to them. For instance, it’ll help them quite a lot if they re-discover their Arab identity. But they wouldn’t want to disturb Israel lest Israel unleashes against them its American Diaspora institutions and they lose aid (e.g., Egypt) or backing for their system of government (e.g., Saudi Arabia, Egypt.) That IS their bind; not Iran.

6. Having eliminated Arab Iraq (instead of adopting it - - hey, their Beloved wouldn’t like it) - -and with it the veneer of pan-Arab nationalism, funded by some of the Arab oil money, the Reluctant Ones are stuck fighting a losing ideological war with Iran. There was a time when the old WASP establishment would field Americans we Arabs (and Muslims) liked. But now the Arabs, conquered and defeated, are left with Israel’s Diaspora in Washington, D.C., as Judge, Jury, and Executioner. Having no Arab or American institutions left which are not beholden to the Diaspora’s institutions, the establishment finds itself at a loss trying to find a non-military nexus, Arab or Muslim, in its ideological confrontation with Iran.

7. The Sunni-Shia schism which Saudi Arabia had nursed along prior to 2007 proved to be a disaster in Lebanon. Then Israel staged its vicious assault on Gaza, murdering civilians wholesale. The Arab Street, a part of which seemed to have accepted Saudi largesse and had leaned towards confrontation with the Arab Shia, turned around. The Syrian Muslim Brothers, for instance, re-engaged with the Syrian government soon after Israel’s assault. No Arab could anymore accept to see the nation divided. (Until, that is, we got to the soccer competition between Algeria and Egypt which ALL the Arab commentators I read bemoaned and condemned.) The Sunni-Shia schism nexus, therefore, proved futile.

8. At one time, and still ongoing, in its search for that elusive Muslim/Arab nexus to compete with Iran, the Israeli-obsessed Establishment went after Arab Syria. It hoped that Arab Syria would split from Iran, accept to be adopted by the Israel-crazed Idiots, Harmful then Reluctant, and with that adoption strike two birds with one stone: Gain an Arab nationalist foothold for the Israel-centric Reluctant Ones and finish Hezbollah. I’m not going to waste too much time on this. Suffice it to say that Arab Syria isn’t stupid. And, to boot, its ability to resist Israel’s overwhelming firepower and high-tech weaponry proved to be stunning. (I’m talking about 2006.) Not to mention that years earlier it had given an Arab cover for the Idiots’ liberation of Kuwait (after the same Idiots had entrapped Arab Iraq using Kuwait in order to finish Arab Iraq’s army, which now they wish they had), only to be itself threatened by invasion. Syria, therefore, was a no-go. (Syria currently is hedging its bet by cozying up to Turkey, a NATO member, to wait out the war between the U.S. and Iran.)


So, you see, the Reluctant Ones, being as Israel-inspired as the Harmful Idiots, are at a loss. They know that conventionally Iran stands no chance against our technology. But what about Israel-in-South-Lebanon in 2006? And Israel-in-Gaza where it couldn’t get to that leadership of theirs - - while massacring hundred of innocent civilians? Will we be doing the same in Iran and Iraq - - murdering civilians wholesale as our target list necessarily expands? Why? If we want to stay in Iraq and in Afghanistan we will need an Arab angle and an Islamic angle. But all we have is a Jewish angle. Darn. The Arabs and Muslims we have, well—they’ve been kidnapped by the Body Snatchers and have therefore little Arab or MusliM credibility left.

THE PIVOTAL IMPORTANCE OF TONY KHATER AS ARAB (THOUGH NON-MUSLIM) NEXUS - - A MAGNET FOR UGLY GUYS

It all now depends on what Tony Khater will do in his blog. If Tony Khater goes after Iran and Hezbollah, then all will be well. We, the Israel-centric Harmful Idiots, will then control Iraq, Iran Will be reclaimed, and Syria would disintegrate and what’s left of it would bequeath the Joulan to our Beloved Israel. The Palestinians will not have their third Intifadha.

And if Tony Khater doesn’t issue analysis for the benefit of Iran and Hezbollah (and now the Chinese!! I’m so fucking flattered—but where are the gorgeous women?) the Iranians and their allies will then not be able to read the map and, as a consequence, will get lost and bump their heads against palm trees. They’d fall into our sophisticated traps. (Forgive them: Idiots rarely believe they are idiots.) It escapes the Israel-inspired-idiots that I get my ability to analyze not from them but from the Arab press! From them, all I’ve gotten is abject idiocy, intimidation, encounters with ugly guys -- and the constant snooping, of course.

But, you see, we’re ashamed of Tony Khater. We can only accommodate him as a snoop, informant, snitch. We can approach him only as snoops would. We can eavesdrop on him but not have a tea with him in any straightforward fashion. And if we do, we’d have gotten to him by snooping. Anything else and Congress would hammer us. You know what we mean: Didn’t he go after that conquering Jewish-American U.S. Senator (the eye-for-and eye guy not the forgiving Jesus--Old Testament not New Testament) for speeding up the lynching of an Arab Muslim leader? They will call us anti-Semites and we’d have to defend ourselves at Congressional hearings. Hush.

If you’re ashamed of Tony Khater - - well, the feeling is mutual. Because you're idiots.

Then again: the informants are doing it for the money. I’m certainly neutral about having become such a source of Government money for so many assholes.

THE CRACK WHORE THAT I AM

My chance encounter American interlocutor wanted me to go after Hezbollah. So that’s what I am, huh? A cheap mercenary - - worse: a crack whore? He wants to vitiate the years in which I evolved an American persona and return me to that little Lebanon, the one from which I escaped over thirty years ago. Who are these people? Oh dear! Can't they get it into their brain that I write for Americans not for the Lebanese. GET IT? If I were writing for the Lebanese wouldn’t you think I’d write in Arabic? Besides, does it matter or not that all the Saudi money couldn’t defeat Hezbollah. So what makes you think Tony Khater could? I’ve said it in so many places: Only when the Shia reject Hezbollah would Hezbollah weaken. Saudi Arabia tried. How many times did it bring Nabih Berri over to talk him into splitting from Hezbollah? Stop spinning your harmful wheels, for Moses' sake!

As to the gentleman’s concern about American power (he’s now caught on to my American persona and is trying to use it): American power will return vibrant and strong as soon as we arrange our own house - - as soon as we return to taxation and public policy, running the country not as a dumb war machine, as soon as we defeat those of the gentleman’s ilk who come into the White House to weaken the federal government - - the government for minorities, you see - - as soon as we withdraw from wars fought on inspiration by his State-Within-the-State.

CONCLUSION

Soon after the two men left while giving me likely wrong names, a friend called. I told her to meet me at the coffee shop. The reason I asked her to meet me was that, because a socialite, I had this feeling she may have known the couple who crashed the White House party. I was up for some laughter. She did come by. She queried. I said I just had a conversation with two Government informants who had followed me into the coffee shop. She smiled. “Don’t be so sure,” she said.

Oh, no, the Body Snatchers have gotten to her. Strange: She knew I wasn’t in a state to accept these cheap overtures by ugly males. I had been exhausted as hell from care giving since May, rushing about to hospitals and doctors’ appointments and lab tests. She knew this. Why would she do that, then - - lead two informants of the U.S.-Israel National Security Establishment into my hiding place where I do my best work? Could it be money? Her real estate mini-empire is sucking oodles of it and property isn’t selling. Could she have? Unlikely. Still: she should know better. But for the Volvo her great late parents used to lend me when in Lebanon - - the best car for Lebanon, tough heavy steel - - I wanted to jump over the table and strangle her. I didn't.

Then I forgot to ask her whether she knew the couple who crashed the White House party.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: If my judgement is correct - -that the men were taping me - -expect them to doctor the tape in nefarious ways.