Awakening tothe ‘Likudniks’ [Archives:2003/624/Opinion]

HASSAN AL-HAIFI
It is hard to say for certain whether President George Bush, the Younger, is beginning to see what his Zionists friends are railroading him into. For sure, however, the rest of the United States is not sleeping idly, while their president takes them on a merry-go-round of death and destruction akin to what Ariel Sharon is doing to his people, who might have had a chance to enjoy peace, even if on stolen land.
Lately, many American writers and journalists have raised the question, why is the Bush administration acting so monstrously aggressive? Some answers like this are appearing: “Michael Kinsley attempted to raise a few months ago, namely the influence among the administration's hawks, of what Kaiser carefully calls people with “loyalty to strong positions in support of Israel and Likud.” Kinsley wrote that “the role of Israel in the thinking of [President Bush] is the “proverbial elephant in the room: Everybody sees it, no one mentions it.”
Like the New Yorker's Nicholas Lemann, Kaiser notes without much comment that three top Bush hawks (Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, David Wurmser) were on an eight-person committee that in 1996 proposed to incoming Likud Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: ” hat he abandon the Oslo peace accords negotiated in 1993 and reject the basis for them ) the idea of trading “land for peace.”
Israel should insist on Arab recognition of its claim to the biblical land of Israel, the 1996 report suggested, and should “focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq.” I think that there is really not much explanation that one can add to this demonstration of enlightenment to facts, which this column has often brought to surface on a number of occasions.
Needless to say the YT has received outlandish criticism for pointing the facts to a world that has become submerged in Zionist hate propaganda and a powerful media campaign to attach American destiny with Israeli destiny, like the Yemeni phrase of cozy as “honey and butter.”
It is inconceivable that the Zionist ideologies in the Bush Administration can get away with the murder of hundreds of America's finest young men and women and thousands of Arabs, just to quench the thirst for blood, which Sharon and the Bush Likudniks never seems to be able to quench.
While not so much in the same context, it was also refreshing to hear Mr. Gore Vidal, author of among other things “1876” and other literary masterpieces, point out that the Bush administration has achieved great successes “in uniting people. He has successfully united one billion Moslems against the United States; he has successfully united all of Western Europe against the United States, etc. What can one expect from a “policy of arrogance” as Vidal calls it?
Moreover, it is noteworthy to mention that the millions of protesters throughout the world have demonstrated their awareness of the link between the latest hatemongering by Mr. Bush and his clique of “Likudnik” hawks and the barbaric massacre of the Palestinians that Sharon enjoys, thanks to the “double loyalty of the Likudniks that crawl all over the Bush administration.
Yet, Mr. Bush continues his unleashing real anti Semitic streak, with his attorney general proudly pointing out Wednesday that he has arrested a displaced Palestinian colleague (who has been living in the United States for 25 years), and engineering professor and some other Palestinians, as “dangerous terrorists that undermine the safety of the American people.”
Hogwash! The fact is obvious that the only people who are undermining the safety and security of the United States is George Bush and his clique of evil advisors. To these people, 9/11 is a license to kill and destroy and carry out their chauvinistic ethnic cleansing campaigns for Eretz. Israel has now become part and parcel of American foreign policy, more so than the destruction of Al-Qaeda and Osama Ben Ladin, who is suspected of responsibility for 9/11. (We have yet to see the legal and undeniable truth.)
Surely there are many Americans, who realize that what Mr. Bush is doing is the antithesis of what the framers of the US Constitution had in mind when envisioning what the United States ought to be. As a matter of fact, many American lawyers are raising a suit against the Bush administration, because they see the US invasion of Iraq as a violation of the Untied States Constitution, as Congress has not declared war on Iraq.
One should never underestimate the ability of the American people to see the difference between right and wrong, even by their own goaded leadership, which has fallen into the ugly trap of misguided American Zionist double loyalty.
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