I have criticized Libyan policies during the past ten years, after having defended them in the ten years before that, especially in the wake of the U.S. raid against Tripoli under Ronald Regan, in April of 1986. Last summer, I found myself suddenly on Libya's side, when its Ambassador to the United Nations Abdul Rahman Shalgam called for a probe into the U.S. war on Iraq. At the time, this was met by rejection from Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, as he considered the request to be interference in the internal affairs of Iraq, as if there is anyone in the world who has not yet interfered in them. This time, I read that, according to WikiLeaks, a shipment of enriched uranium on its way to Libya from Russia was left on the tarmac of a military airport under the heat of the sun, which would have caused an environmental disaster if the radioactive material had leaked out. The U.S. diplomatic cables linked this incident to the fact that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi felt insulted when he was prevented from pitching his tent in New York, when he went there to give his speech at the UN General Assembly. The above was the subject of an article written by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach in The Huffington Post, the prolific liberal electronic newspaper. This Rabbi is an award winning writer and I read that he has published 23 books. Boteach said that Gaddafi is acrophobic, and that he prefers to remain near the ground. For this reason, the Libyan leader would have preferred to pitch his tent in the Libyan mission compound in Englewood, near New York. However, this property is adjacent to the home of Rabbi Boteach, who noticed the renovation and repairs being made at the compound, and realized that Gaddafi must be coming soon. The rabbi then decided, with the help of his friend Mayor Michael Wildes, to organize a popular campaign to protest against Gaddafi and his tent, also with the help of two congressmen who seem to be Likudniks like him. Hundreds protested in front of the mission compound, forcing Gaddafi to stay at the headquarters of the Libyan Mission in New York City. The rabbi said that Gaddafi is a tyrant who is used to getting what he wants, with enough oil to bribe governments like Britain and Scotland (it seems that this ‘knowledgeable' rabbi is unaware that Scotland is part of Britain, and that they have the same government). This allowed the suspected perpetrator of the Lockerbie bombing to be released after eight years, even though he murdered 270 people. Gaddafi thought that people would turn a blind eye to his brutal history and welcome him with open arms. However, he learned that the American people have a long memory when it comes to killers who fund international terrorism… I hope that the reader will realize that in the second half of my column today, I am not defending Colonel Gaddafi, as much as I am attacking the Likudnik rabbi and everything he represents. While Gaddafi is only one man, what Boteach said applies to Israel and its leaders more than it applies to Gaddafi. If the Libyan suspect indeed murdered 270 people in the Lockerbie bombing, then I condemn him unequivocally and demand that he be executed, not just imprisoned. However, his crime remains less heinous in comparison with those of Israel, a fascist state of thieves who invented a religion to steal a country from its inhabitants, and who continue to steal, murder, and destroy to this day. In the last decade alone, Israel killed around six thousand Palestinian civilians, including 1500 minors, i.e. less than fifteen years old. Israel is currently led by an extremist right-wing government that includes in its ranks gangsters engaged in racial policies akin to those of the former South African apartheid. Israel also committed terrorist crimes from Europe to the Arab countries, more than Gaddafi or others ever did. Israel is in its entirety an illegal settlement outpost that has a lobby in the United States, operating against U.S. interests after it took control of the Congress. This has rendered the United States the most hated country around the world, which is unfair to Americans that are robbed by Israel year after year, even when they are going through a major financial crisis. The rabbi also mentions King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz in his article, and the King's shoe sole is more honorable than Israel's entire lobby. The rabbi insolently says that tyrants are hiding behind U.S. military muscle, and “control the lives of most of our brothers and sisters in the Middle East”. We are not brothers and sisters with Israel or the rabbi at all, and I will disown my nation entirely if such alleged fraternity exists. Last but not least, the rabbi had also written about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the same online newspaper on 21/9/2010, and said that Oxford University in Britain refused to receive Benjamin Netanyahu to speak there during his first term (1996-1999), although he is the democratically elected leader of the Middle East's only democracy. While I acknowledge that there isn't even one democratic state among the Arab countries, Israel is worse than all of them. It is an anomalous usurping entity established on another people's lands, and is a militarized, expansionist and racist state. It is an illegitimate state, while Arab countries are indisputably legitimate, despite the fact that they are dictatorships. [email protected]
