Posted on 05/10/2004 5:36:50 AM PDT by SJackson
It’s official: The Zionists have struck again. After infiltrating an oil contractor’s office in the Saudi city of Yanbu on Saturday, homicidal Zionist thugs gunned down two Americans, two Britons and an Australian. Following Zionist protocol, they then dragged the corpse of one American through the streets, before being killed by Saudi police.
Welcome to The World According to Saudi Arabia. Overlooking abundant evidence that Saudi extremists were behind the attacks, Crown Prince Abdullah, the kingdom's de facto ruler, offered a neat counter-theory: The Zionists did it! ''It became clear to us now that Zionism is behind terrorist actions in the kingdom,” announced Abdullah. “I can say that I am 95 percent sure of that.”
In a country where 50 people, including nine Americans, have been slain by Saudi-bred terrorists in the last year, the prince’s latest contribution to a long line of state-sponsored conspiracy theories is, to put it charitably, perfectly insane. But it underscores an important development: Confounded by a murderous crescendo of Wahhabi radicalism inside the kingdom, and lacking the will and the stomach to curb its homegrown killers, the notoriously spin-savvy Saudis have begun to falter. They can’t even keep their conspiracy theories straight.
Consider the canard, wildly popular with many a Saudi royal, that a Zionist cabal hijacked the American president and forced him to wage war against Iraq. That would seem to contradict Prince Abdullah’s account of Zionists keen on shooting up westerners. After all, why should these Zionist warmongers target the citizens of the very countries—U.S., Britain and Australia—that make up the military coalition in Iraq? Furthermore, how in the world did these Zionists manage to dodge Saudi Arabia’s strict ban on Jews and infiltrate the country’s supposedly sealed borders?
Abdullah’s explanation? Why, these were no ordinary Zionists. Sexing up the findings of the Saudi Interior Ministry—which identified the attackers as an al-Qaeda-aligned band of Saudi brothers Sami and Samir al-Ansari and their uncles, Ayman and Mustafa al-Ansari—the prince claimed the attackers were linked to two Saudi dissidents living in Britain. Those dissidents, the prince maintained, were financed by Israel. Confused? So were the Saudi dissidents. "The Saudi government has to decide if it is accusing us, Israel or al Qaeda, and then those accusations can be taken seriously," one told Reuters.
Always monstrously absurd, Saudi accounts of a global Zionist conspiracy have escalated in lunacy as the security condition in the country has deteriorated. The reason is easy enough to understand: fearing they may be next on the terrorists’ hit list, and desperate to steer the gun sights from their deep corruption, Saudi rulers have abandoned any attempt resolve their domestic troubles. To this end, they’ve adopted what may as well be the kingdom’s dictum: if it ain’t broke, rest assured, the Zionists will break it.
To illustrate, think back to the Saudi response to Israel’s proposed disengagement plan. When it was announced last month, Ariel Sharon's proposal, which included an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza’s 21 settlements, and the evacuation of four small settlements in the West Bank by the end of 2005, was bitterly condemned by the Saudis. Mouthing platitudes about Israeli attempts to “complicate peace opportunities” and “cripple the peace process,” the Saudis led the charge of opposition. For the Saudis, the Israeli plan was evidence of Zionists subterfuge.
Following the plan’s defeat this week in the Likud party’s vote, however, the Saudis had a change of heart, if not a quite a change of hate. The rejection of the plan to pull out of Gaza, the Saudis now wailed, proved the Jewish state was only interested in tormenting the poor, straitened Palestinians. Here is how Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal put it: "The Likud party's latest stance exposed the hidden intents of this ruling party and indisputably proved that the Israeli government's policy does not aim for security, as it claims, but to grab more Palestinian land and evict residents and leave them homeless." For the Saudis, the lack of an Israeli plan was still more evidence of Zionist subterfuge.
Particularly outrageous in Saudi Arabia, such twisted and often contradictory conspiracies are commonplace in the Arab world, where they are peddled by repressive regimes obsessively guided by a single motive: deflecting the dangerous anger of their oppressed populations to a convenient bogeyman. Which is why Arab “think tanks,” like the now-shuttered Zayed Center in the United Arab Emirates, can, in the same breath, deny the Holocaust and decry Jews as Nazis. And why media like the Egyptian daily, Al-Gumhouriyya, can charge, as it did last month, that Jews are responsible for every terrorist attack in the world.
At the end of the day, there is nothing Israel can do that the Arab world, and its complacent toadies in the UN and the EU, can’t condemn. Something to remember the next time Israelis take the fight to Palestinian terrorists. Of course, those will be real Zionists striking.
When this World War is finished (and don't doubt for a minute that we are in a world war), the Arabs will be dealt with, and the Kurds will have a country. Many of us here understand that.
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