Zionist arrogance will get US nowhere [Archives:2002/14/Focus]

COMMON SENSE
Hassan Al-Haifi
Like most Arabs and certainly most informed observers elsewhere, I felt sick, hearing US Secretary of State Colin Powell announce the American stamp of approval for the unprecedented Zionist aggression against the unarmed Palestinian Authority, and its humiliating attack on the last remaining symbol of Palestinian “autonomy”.
This occurred, despite the unanimous agreement throughout the rest of the world that such aggression is illegitimate and unacceptable. The US wisely did not veto the UN Security Council Resolution demanding that Israel withdraws its tanks and other destructive machinery from Ramullah and the other Palestinian enclaves. However, it is very clear now that President George Bush is oblivious to all the mitigating human circumstances and apparently ignorant of the Middle East conflict. Otherwise, the president seems careless when considering the sentiments of most of the civilized world.
One cannot rely on a demagogic approach to foreign policy that is based on blind presumptions and Zionist logic. This will only serve to eventually isolate the United States from the rest of the world. Furthermore this will arouse unfair feelings towards the American people, because their leadership enjoys seeing bully tactics and the might of power unleashed against a helpless unarmed people, who have become victims of Zionist terror based on chauvinism for over 80 years.
Perhaps Mr. George Bush should have listened to former Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel speaking right after the issuance of the Arab League Summit’s historical “peace initiative”. Barak said that Israel is a “Zionist Project” in the works in Palestine and that such project does not have room for any Palestinians or any “non-Jews” in its midst, and therefore entails the establishment of a state just for Jews only. Surely, American policy makers cannot ignore such a statement, for it was aired on the CNN at a very important time, when the Department of State was probably monitoring the outcome of the Summit Conference. President Bush, if a “moderate” Zionist said that, one could imagine what the implications of such chauvinistic dogma would be to a bully like your “friend” Ariel Sharon.
This observer believes again that the United States cannot be trusted to broker a settlement of the Middle East problem all by itself. For all practical purposes, the Bush Administration has shown unabashed sentiments towards Zionist arrogance. This is without regard to the serious and flagrant contempt that this arrogance has shown towards world public opinion and long-term American foreign policy objectives.
Apparently the Bush Administration is gullible to Zionist lies about who is the terrorist in the Holy Land and who is the victim of this ugly terror. It is the Zionist demagogues who have a long history of unleashing terror in the region for eighty years. It was only by terror that Israel came to be and continues to exist! One only has to look at the statistics to find that terrorism by the frustrated helpless victims of institutionalized terror is no more than a consequence of well planned Zionist terror, now legitimized by the United States.
Perhaps, Mr. Bush does not have any intellectual curiosity to delve into historical issues like the Palestine problem. However, surely, he can at least listen to his State Department and many American leaders who have echoed the call for greater fairness by the US in dealing with the Middle East problem. One is inclined to believe, judging from Mr. Powell’s briefing, that there seems to be a difference of opinion between the White House and the State Department on the US approach to the latest Zionist aggression.
This brings to memory the famous dispute that erupted between General George Marshall, Secretary of State of the late President Harry Truman, with his boss. In 1948, Marshall was insisting that American support to the establishment of a Zionist state was one of the biggest historical mistakes in American foreign policy, for the simple reason that the Zionists were doing this in land that “does not belong to them, as Marshall plainly put it.
Need we say more?

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