Arab masses not goaded [Archives:2002/18/Focus]

COMMON SENSE
Hassan Al-Haifi
Zionist logic seems to defy all reason and common sense. After assuring themselves that they have our rulers under control, thanks to blind American support to the Zionist Establishment and arm-twisting tactics against our fallible rulers, and after finishing all their justifications for the need to end all political support to the Palestinians by our governments, the Zionist propaganda machine started a media campaign against the awesome public contributions provided to the Palestinians.
It was amazing to find Zionist propaganda cry out that the Arab public was actually funding terrorist activities in the Holy Land, and therefore went on to urge our governments that they must fight against organizing such public efforts. Surely, the United Jewish Appeal collection cans and boxes spread in every Jewish establishment in America and the $5,000 a plate dinners have done more to finance terrorism in the Holy Land than all the money that the Arabs have ever spent on Palestine put together!
However, the Zionist logic of what is good for us is not good for anybody else prevails in the minds of Zionist strategists, who continue to think that they are the genius of the world, when it comes to manipulating public opinion. Just think of how ludicrous the Zionist argument is. Every day the Arab masses are watching helplessly as the Zionists are unleashing their holocaust on their brethren in Palestine, while their leaders turn their faces towards their own private affairs, and the international community watches with mild hands-off condemnation, if it can really be called that.
Surely Arabs have emotions also. But Zionists insist that all the sympathy of the world should only be left to what Adolf Hitler did to the Jews in the mid century madness that saw the killing of more than 50 million non-Jews as well, something nobody seems to want to remember. As if Jewish suffering is the only suffering that the world should confront, even now, as the Zionists unleash their hate machine against the Palestinians indiscriminately and mercilessly.
We are not going to succumb to that kind of logic, even if George Bush demands it of us, in order to ensure that he wins his War Against Terror, something manifested by Zionist propaganda to mean a war against any Arab or Islamic cause, notwithstanding its legitimacy and the lies perpetrated by the Zionists on Arabs, and Moslems in particular.
The Arab governments have been unable to take effective measures expected of them because they are under the control of their masters in Washington. Therefore the Arab masses found their own way to show their brethren their concern for the terrible plight of the Palestinians.
Arabs from Mauritania to the eastern tip of Oman have shared their cause. The Arab masses took to the streets and withstood all the oppressive measures of their respective regimes to quell any protest demonstrations and cried out Death to Zionism and all its repressive supporters. In fact every decent mind throughout the world took to the street to support the call for an end to Zionist aggression. It is clear that Zionist propaganda is loosing effectiveness as time goes on and the truth is contradictory to all the Zionist distortions.
These masses also went to whatever meager savings they had and demanded that their brethren in Palestine are entitled to every means of support in these tragic times for them. It is foolish to think that Zionist designs end where the Jordan River flows. Every Arab knows that the Zionist designs know no limit to advancing their society throughout the Holy Land from the Nile to the Euphrates and from Turkey to Sanaa, if not beyond. The Zionist strategists are not really afraid of the Arab governments.
However, the quick response they saw in the Arab masses contribution efforts took them by surprise. Thus, they went on to try to persuade the world that these contributions are for the support of Jihad terrorism. In fact they made it a point to emphasize this during the visit of Crown Prince Abdullah to the United States, by having the American public media air and show Moslem clerics, as they called them, call upon their constituencies to donate to the Palestinian uprising or Intifada. First of all, technically, there is no clerics in Islam.
Most sermonizers in the mosques are grass roots members of the society. Second of all, like the United Jewish Appeal and anti-defamation groups rely on embezzling Jewish constituencies to finance the Zionist designs in Palestine, the Arab masses have a duty to do all they can to relieve the suffering of their brothers from the continuous oppression being unleashed in the Holy Land. It knows no end and recognizes no dogma except Zionist chauvinism.

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