Israel…An ideal and role model for America [Archives:2003/631/Opinion]

By Abdul-Bari Tahir
The link between the Palestinian issue and the War against Iraq are very obvious to be hidden. While it is true that Iraq assaulted his neighbors and went through an ugly war with Iran, and occupied Kuwait in a cruel and unjust way, and used Mustard Gas against the Kurdish minority in his own country, as well as reduced his people to refuges throughout the world. And it is also true that Saddam's a real dictator and autocrat of the first class, besides all the facts cited above. However, these are not the actual reason America and Britain enforced the siege on Iraq for around 12 years, or the reason they are not using their high-tech arms and weapons to eliminate the Iraqi ruler and occupy its land. This is not the reason, because Iraq, with all its outrageous faults cited above was an ally to the USA until recently and in fact committed his tremendous wars in their interest and their allies' favor.
Therefore, one can not search for the causes of the present war in Iraq in Saddam's dictatorship, because everyone knows that the United States of America had close times ties with the worst regimes such as that of Soharto, Pinochet, Duvalier, Salilzar, Franco, Samoza, Sadat, Numeiri, Began, and Ariel Sharon. So getting rid of the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein is a lame excuse for igniting this war, even though all the reasons the USA and Britain had produced forward are true. Undoubtedly, it is clear that the Eleventh of September event had instilled a war fever in American strategic thinking, yet all evidence indicate that the Iraqi regime did not have anything to do with that. The American Administration is using terrorism as an excise to invade Iraq, and convince the American people that war against terrorism is a synonym to war against Iraq, a misleading and fake political coverage for the actual reasons, which can be deciphered by reading between the lines.
The current war has only one purpose and that is to occupy Iraq. That is because the US Government views Israel as an ideal and role model and it should adopt the strategies and perceptions followed by the Zionist Stat. Israel is the best ally of the USA and is occupying Palestine cruelly and systematically expelling most of the original natives of the land for more than half a century now. A sad situation indeed right under the eyes of more than 22 Arab countries with a total of more than 300 million citizens, who are standing motionless and handicapped. And in the end, the Arab governments, with their Arab League, will accept the occupation of and extends their hands to Israel, as well as impose on the Palestinians to accept what is even less than the self-determination, which was approved by the United Nation's General Assembly unanimously, in the International Convention On Civil Rights For All Nations in 1966, as well as th Camp David Agreement in 1977 and the subsequent agreements which emerged from it: Madrid, Oslo, etc. Agreements, which have imposed an attitude of sublimation on the Palestinians and made Palestine an easy target for Israel.
This has led to the frustration of the Frist Intifada Revolt of 1987, and is now clamping down on the present Intifada, imposes a siege on it. The Arab rulers have put all its papers in the hands of Uncle Sam.
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