How dare we abandon "the Arabs"
As Syria descends into chaos, some ‘pro-Palestinian’ commentators have criticized harshly “the Arabs”.
On BettBead Media, Dimitri Lascaris argues that we Westerners have no right to judge the Arab peoples.
Our governments are brutally oppressing them, and we've failed utterly to put a stop to that oppression.
Rather than criticize our comrades in the Arab world, we should raise our own game and redouble our efforts to end violations of their human rights by Western states and their proxies.
Hello, Dimitri. I watched your latest on YouTube and wish to comment. I am an American man in his 70s. I was an antiwar activist in 1970. I contributed to an antiwar newspaper and participated in marches.
This drew the attention of the “Michigan State Police Red Squad” and its partner, the FBI, and its COINTELPRO, which I am sure you are familiar with. I was set up for a drug bust by local police and threatened with ten years imprisonment. Getting out from under this cost me thousands of dollars, and soon thereafter I was arrested again with another staged drug bust.
I probably shouldn’t write about this on a public forum, but as I said, I am an old man and, really, I no longer care. My small contribution, and large personal sacrifice, helped end the Vietnam War.
I have followed the Palestinian issue since the 1980s. I wrote about Zionism on a now-defunct blog, and this resulted in death threats. I was on the street protesting Bush’s wars, but we saw how that worked out. It did virtually nothing. Bush said we were a “focus group.”
I don’t want to make this too long. Here’s the crux. It does not matter how many millions of people march in opposition to the wars and billionaire corporate oligarchy in the US. There will never be a revolution in this country unless the people begin to feel a financial squeeze, as they are now.
Simply put, the empire must fall from within before anything will change. The corporate fascist state can usually snuff out serious opposition in several ways, as my experience demonstrated.
The only way this will end is if the US and its genocidal Zionist partner implode, economically and socially. That is now happening. Unfortunately, a lot of people will die in the process.
There are billions of "Arabs" throughtout the world. To lump them all together as one homogenous race that should stick up for each other is foolish.
There are 57 different "Arab" countries, each with unique cultures, histories and traditions and varying degress of Islam - Shia, Sunni, etc.. It's like saying westeners are all white-skinned, blue eyed and all Catholics.
There is only one "Jewish" country - Israel. But, not all Jews are Israeli citizens and not all Israelis are Jewish. Not all Jews are Orthodox, Hasidic, Askanzi or follow Zionism.
For Ritter or Galloway to say they've suddenly "given up on the Arabs" deserves further exploration. Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria have harboured tens of thousands of Palestian Refugees since the Nekbah of 1948. The Arab countries that fought for Palestine in 1967, lost the war and, If they accept more Palestinians, they will only be fulfilling the Zionists ethnic cleansing and achieve a Jewish state.
Where l am hopeful is seeing the world waking up to the evils of Zionism. The BDS movement is affecting the Israeli citizens and destroying Israels economy Israelis are leaving in droves (mostly to the USA) and those who remain are on the verge of a revolution. Once the Zionists are cleansed and the citizens realize they've been duped, there will be a two state solution and Palestine will be finally be free.