Thursday, October 4, 2007
This is kind of a whacky-left site (from what I can make of it) that someone sent a link in to, but the page on the Middle East actually has some decent stuff on it, organized into short subjects: Agreements Made to Be Broken. For instance:
Arab League, Palestinians and EU Political Convergence
There is a perception about a golden Islamic civilization which does not exist except in a make-believe world and the reason is obvious. It is a view fabricated by many of the EU countries because of the economic potential of doing business with Arabs, which includes immigration to benefit businesses with cheap labor - the same reason President Reagan enacted an amnesty for a million immigrants from south of the border at a time when there was no real problem with illegal immigrants in the U.S. and there was another amnesty in the 90s and George W. Bush has proposed another amnesty for the 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. because it benefits business with cheap labor. The same thing has happened with Arabs in Europe. Nobody can really compete in this capitalist system unless they do it cheaper and that means outsourcing and that means illegal immigration is a necessary condition for capitalist profiteering. And that is the real problem.
Revising History
The fantasy is where Europeans and their American leftist supporters have turned Israel into the pariah and the Arabs into some fantasy people of good-will delegitimizing Israel and elevating the Arab world all of which has turned truth upside down. Since the seventh century Muslims have been persecuting indigenous non-Muslim populations in Judea and Samaria as elsewhere, and Europeans have adopted the false conception that Israel is Dar al-Islam (the land of Islam) because it has been to their benefit to do so.
The Arab League, the European Union and the Palestinians began a political convergence, most notably at the time of the oil embargo in the 70s. It is also especially noticeable with the quick recognition of HAMAS as the elected head of the Palestinian Authority, even though HAMAS has sworn to destroy Israel.
A campaign of hate against Israel has increased, especially after 9/11. Israel was even blamed for 9/11. Some propagandists have suggested that Israel was behind the carnage in order to garner support against Arabs. This allegation, of course, has been disproved. But it persists on the InterNUT...
