There is the one hundred meter race in the Olympics, and then longer races in marathons. Then there are horse races and bicycle races like the Tour de France and in many other countries, and swimming races, be they freestyle, chest stroke, back stroke, and so on and so forth. If there was a race in baseness, however, who would participate and who would win? I nominate the members of the Israeli government, the Israeli army, and the Israeli settlers, as well as terrorists of every kind, including those who come from our countries. I nominate the neo-Nazis (and the old Nazis) and the Holocaust merchants, Christian Zionists, and Congress members who have been bribed by the Israel lobby to work against the interests of their country. The list is long, but who would win? The reader is free to choose from the list I began with or suggest other candidates for the villains' race. Personally, I think collaborators would win. This term includes everyone who dealt with a foreign country against his country to the point of committing treason. My profession, and the travel it involves, made me see a breed of people who ally themselves with the enemies of their countries, and I have seen many such people each time I visit the United States. I am not talking about a person that spies on his country and transfers its secrets to an enemy, as spies are a known case and there are many spies in every country. I mean a certain type of people I know by virtue of my profession. Such people fail as oppositionists in their home countries, find that being in the opposition is risky, or fail without being in the opposition, and so leave to another country, which they use as their base to work against their countries, often in collaboration with the enemy. Such people may be called in the vernacular "lowly," which does the meaning I intend more justice than the term "collaborator." Some of these people may come out of Iran, Arab countries, or leftist Latin American countries to start an "organization" or association in the United States that goes on to spread venom and lies (with facts sometimes) against their countries. These people accept to receive salaries from the enemies of their home countries, as well as funding for their organizations, and then dare lecture on morality. If these collaborators have no organizations to take them in, they could become writers for those media outlets that seek to hurt the former's countries, publishing articles that reflect their ideology, without trying to mix poison with honey, and just spread propaganda against the writers' home countries. In the United States, there is a tradition where a political letter is sent to the president demanding him to do this or that. The Israel lobby, the cabal of war and evil, and the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower once warned against are all active in this area. We thus read letters to Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama calling for military action against Iraq, Iran, or Syria. When one of us reads a letter of this kind, he will find that 90 percent of the signatories are Jewish American Likudniks, i.e. supporters of the crimes of the Israeli government, with some other Americans who sold their souls to the Israel lobby for a lump sum. Then one finds an Arab, Iranian, or European noun among the signatories. If we consider the letters to Clinton and Bush both before and after the attacks of September 11, 2001, we will find that the war on Iraq killed one million Arabs and Muslims, and unleashed a civil war there and the killing continues. How can a Shiite Iranian incite against his own country, or an Arab Shiite call for war on Syria, when he can plainly see the results of the war on Iraq, whose premises are now established to have had been falsified for oil-related and Israeli reasons? Even if we assume that the signatory is not a traitor or a collaborator, and was not paid for inciting against his country, his guilt is the same in both cases, because this person insists on going down a certain path when there is a thousand proof that it is the wrong path. I do not ask for harm for such people, and do not even wish the flu upon them. All I would do is refuse to shake hands with such collaborators, whether they know they are collaborators or not. Winston Churchill once said, "When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home." I know that criticism in our countries could kill, so I don't want anyone to be martyred or to fall into the abyss of treason. In the race among the basest of people, I nominate collaborators to win. [email protected]
