Posted on 06/30/2014 6:22:28 AM PDT by SJackson
More than 700,000 protesters gather in Al-Assy Square in Hama, Syria on July 22, 2001. Photo: Syriana2011.
According to the Saudi Arabia-based newspaper Arab News: “The Arab Spring is not about seeking democracy, it is about Arabs killing Arabs [and] about hate and sectarian violence. … The Arab Spring is an accumulation of years of political corruption, human rights violations, sectarianism and poor education systems. It showed that the Arabs were never united and are now divided beyond anybody’s imagination. We hate each other more than we hate the outside enemy. Syrians are hurting Syrians and the Israelis are the ones who treat the Syrian wounds [in an Israeli field hospital built on the Golan Heights].”
Connecting the dots of the increasingly boiling Arab street highlights the 1,400-year reality of intense intra-Arab violent intolerance, hate education, transient (one-bullet) regimes, tenuous policies, non-compliance with intra-Arab agreements, which are usually signed on ice and not carved in stone, explosive unpredictability, lack of intra-Arab peaceful coexistence and a savage violation of civil liberties.
In 14 centuries, the Arab street has never experienced freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly or movement, which constitutes a prerequisite for free elections and peaceful coexistence. The Arab world is swept by domestic, regional, national and intra-Arab terrorism, systematically and intentionally targeting civilians by way of car bombs, bullets, missiles and chemical warfare. Ethnic cleansing has engulfed Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Tunisia and Libya, underscoring the lack of national cohesion on the Arab street and the merciless intra-Arab/Muslim fragmentation along ethnic, tribal, cultural, geographic, ideological and religious lines. The national cohesion of the three most powerful Arab countries throughout the 20th century — Egypt, Iraq and Syria — has collapsed, threatening Iraq and Syria with chaotic disintegration. The fate of minorities in Arab countries reveals the devastating Arab/Muslim attitude towards the “infidel” Christian, Jews or Buddhist.
Connecting the dots of the increasingly turbulent Arab world has intensified anxiety and panic among the inherently unstable pro-U.S. regimes of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Bahrain. These regimes are aware that deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Libya’s late dictator Moammar Gadhafi, Tunisia’s ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Yemen’s former President Ali Abdullah Saleh (possibly joined by Syrian President Bashar Assad) were perceived to be as stable as the Rock of Gibraltar, but were overthrown summarily and brutally by fanatic Islamic terrorists.
They are cognizant of the clear, present and lethal threat posed by Iran and Iran’s adversary, ISIS (“Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant”), which intends to sweep Jordan, Kuwait and the rest of the Gulf. They are concerned about the lava erupting from the endemic civil war in the intractably fragmented Yemen, which controls the route used by oil tankers from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean.
Connecting the dots of the increasingly turbulent Arab street emphasizes the mutually inclusive nature of the Arab streets. The December 2010 Tunisian upheaval fueled the February 2011 Libyan and Egyptian eruptions, which fed the February 2011 turmoil in Yemen and Bahrain, and provided tailwind to the March 2011 civil war in Syria. It intensified terrorism and disintegration in Iraq, thus posing an imminent deadly threat to the Hashemite regime in Jordan, which could be transformed into another heaven for Islamic terrorism on Israel’s longest, and most vulnerable, border.
Connecting the dots of the increasingly turbulent Arab street accentuates Israel’s unique role as the U.S.’s only stable, reliable, effective, democratic and unconditional ally, whose posture of deterrence — in the face of Islamic terrorism and Iran — is a life insurance policy for the Hashemite regime and other pro-U.S. Arab regimes in the Middle East.
Connecting the dots of the increasingly turbulent Arab street underscores the recklessness of past pressure on Israel to retreat from the Golan Heights, as well as the current pressure on Israel to withdraw from the mountain ridges of Judea and Samaria. These hills dominate the border with Jordan (the Jordan Valley) and overlook Jerusalem, Israel’s international airport and 80 percent of Israel’s infrastructures and populations in the 9- to 15-mile sliver along the Mediterranean (the pre-1967 Israel). An Israel without the mountain ridges of Judea and Samaria would be transformed from a producer to a consumer of national security; from a strategic asset to a strategic burden.
Connecting the dots of the increasingly turbulent Arab street exposes the gullibility of well-intentioned peace negotiators, who consider the Arab Tsunami an Arab Spring, transitioning into democracy, embracing Western norms of peaceful coexistence, compliance with agreements and civil liberties. They believe that a signed agreement can erase a 14-century-old shifty and devious culture. They ignore the fact that the Arab-Israeli conflict has never been “the Middle East conflict,” that the Arab Tsunami has revealed the Palestinian issue as a marginal player in Middle Eastern politics, and that the Palestinian issue has never been the crown jewel of Arab policy making or the crux of the Arab-Israeli conflict. They ignore the reality-driven analysis by the Saudi Arab News, thus pressuring Israel to go through suspension of disbelief, lowering its security threshold and relying on peace-driven security, rather on security and deterrence-driven peace, while the Arab street is boiling.
lots of speaking truth to power here
Will obama, his water carriers, the Us democrat and RINO party, and John Kerry “get it”? (crickets)
No. Kerry is busy bloviating about carbon-caused global warming as the middle east goes up in flames.
“Arab Spring”is not a pro-democracy revolutionary movement
It is a new totalitarian movement guised as “sharia” and confrontation with the West is as inevitable as was the fascism of the Axis .. the question being which side will choose the time, place, and means
Thank Jimmy Carter for not supporting the Shaw of Iran and letting the Ayatollah come to power that created the whole mess and the middle east to go jihad on the world. These savages hate everyone and could care less we helped them in Afghanistan over the Soviet invasion. We let Iraq and Iran slaughter each other for a decade and should do the same again and stay out of it. We can arm the Kurds to keep Iran and Iraq in check. They would be as loyal as Israel to our common interest and less vulnerable than a aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf. We could leave forces there or have an airbase with an agreement, unlike Saudi Arabia.
The "so-what" is that the little people who strut the banks of the Potomac and fly forth from Dulles and Reagan to "fix" all that ails a slowly exploding world do not see, and perhaps cannot see, the reality. obama, kerry and the other mental, ethical and moral midgets think they are dealing with reality, and all they are doing is dipping their hands into the shifting smoke of islam and arab thinking.
I wouldn't care if they were destroyed in so doing, but other than they will be given the burden of standing on the front lines.
You nailed it with that 1970 Life Magazine cover!
I remember that issue clear as a bell. The little hellions with AK-47’s were called “wolf cubs” by Arafat & Habash & the other terrorist kingpins. Trained to hate Jews (of course), crawling through infiltration courses with live fire whistling past, preparing for raids on Israeli settlements in order to kill as many Jews as possible.....
So what’s changed? Not a d@mn thing. These are the children of disaster, generation after generation, and the war of Arab Muslim supremacism versus civilization will simply go on & on, with the Palis as the tip of the spear of world Islam.
Only nukes will change the game, in my estimation. Israel’s got them.
Centralia, PA?
Fruits of Islam and harvest of the “prophet”. (Mohammad).
Thanks!
I guess heresy and apostasy is an inherent feature of all religious groups.
The later, 13th century Cathars are a favorite of mine.
I don't think there is much doubt about that question:
He wouldn't fight, Charlie said.
Abou would, now Charlie's dead.
Today these same secularists battle the Islamic Jihadi nut cases. The PLO (now called PA) hates the HAMAS yet does business with them if the deal includes killing Jews.
Looking at that cover, one sees the word “Pride” and Arabic pride is accomplished either in crying to the world about Israeli “occupation” or how the poor little diddums were hit by the Israelis for some kind of outrage they committed against Israelis or by killing Jews. THAT is their identity and narrative.
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