I was reviewing the reactions in Israel, and among Israelis in the United States, about the Arab popular uprisings. I tried to enter the details and data, and select pompous words, which would attract readers. I then discovered that the best comment, which every reader understands, would be to say, "There's no point." The Arab revolutions have arisen, demanding freedom, dignity and a decent life. Every Arab people in revolt has things in common with other peoples that are in revolt, and its own particular characteristics, or additional local reasons to rise up. However, what they all have in common, along with Muslims in the entire world, is a hatred of Israel. The reasons for this are as clear as day. Israel is a fascist, occupying country that kills, destroys, builds settlements and rejects peace, even after the Palestinians accept getting 22 percent of their land. This is why we see a consensus among the candidates competing for the presidency of Egypt, from Islamist to secular types, over attacking Israel and its crimes. This is why we find the same stance in both Saudi Arabia and Iran, despite the sharp dispute between the two countries. The March 14 and March 8 camps in Lebanon quarrel over everything, but agree on Israel. A very active American-Israeli website published an article on the transformation of the Arab spring to an unsatisfying Arab autumn; it explained in detail the policy of President "Bashir" Assad. Another website attacked an article by Prince Turki al-Faisal in The New York Times and in it threatened that the US would "lose the country" if it used its veto against in the United Nations, against the establishment of a Palestinian state. The website, along with the attack on Prince Turki, published a photo of his brother, Prince Khaled al-Faisal. A magazine belonging to an evil cabal demanded that American aid to Egypt be halted; this assistance is for Israel, and represents the price for Egypt to continue with the peace treaty with Israel. Without this treaty, Egypt will not receive a dollar of assistance, while the Israelis steal the food from the dinner tables of American taxpayers, with the connivance of the US Congress, which has been bought by the [pro-Israel] lobby. This cabal has the nerve to demand the disappearance of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. I ask, where do they want them to go? It asks that the revolution in Libya be "liberated" from Islamists in the ranks of its leadership; once more, I ask, do they expect the leaders to be Sephardic Jews? I might not have pointed out the demagoguery of the Israeli cabal in the US were it not for the denial of the Israel factor in the Arab uprisings, on the part of Congress, the traditional media and even the extremist websites. The Wall Street Journal might be the world's most important business newspaper, since it is based in New York, although I prefer the Financial Times of London. The latter is moderate and objective, although the former newspaper has the bad reputation of its owner, Rupert Murdoch, while its opinion page is purely Likud-oriented. In this paper's opinion page I read an article by a Likudnik named Josef Joffe, who confessed that he erred in welcoming the Arab revolutions. He thought they were demanding freedom and democracy, but discovered from the attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo, that tyrants remained in power despite the poverty, despair and oppression, because they were feeding peoples hatred of "the other." I find this strange, since people have risen up against tyrants because they do not believe them, and they certainly do not "swallow" the arguments of the other. Israel is a country of terror, murder and destruction and its crimes do not need to be mentioned by others, since Israel talks about them itself. The Egyptian people in particular are among the most aware of this and no one can deceive them. Worse than Josef Joffe, and in the same newspaper, is Fouad Ajami. The former talks about "his origin," as we say in Lebanon, while the latter is a Shiite from the village of Arnoun in South Lebanon, which was occupied by Israel once, and invaded on another occasion, and killed as many of its people as it could. Fouad Ajami spoke of the Arabs' schadenfreude vis-à-vis the US after the terror of 11 September 2001, but he does not talk about the reason for it. He does not mention that all Arabs and Muslims are convinced that foreign policy is in Israel's interest, at the expense of US interests themselves, because of the Zionist lobby and the neoconservatives who have been joined by a university professor who claims to be a "Ajami" (non-Arab Persian) as his name denotes. He observes that the Iranians were sympathetic with the Americans after the terror and cites people of his ilk, such as the Likudnik historian Bernard Lewis, in saying that the people of Iran are with America while the government is anti-American, whereas in Arab countries the governments are with America while the peoples are anti-American. In other words, he wants an alliance with the Shiites of Iran against the Arab Sunnis. Here, I should also note the heartbreak of the pro-Israel people. I will talk about what I know personally. The hatred of this hateful people is the only common denominator between the peoples and rulers of the world, before, during and after the Arab revolution. I heard Egypt's President Husni Mubarak say, after he shut off the tape recorder, "those Jewish sons-of-bitches," and this is not is a racist insult – all Egyptians use this term to describe what they does not like, and it can cover one's neighbors. [email protected]
