Posted on 04/22/2002 1:06:20 PM PDT by malarski
http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/articles.asp?id=5&date1=4/22/2002
The Frontier Post
Brzezinski’s defence of Palestinians Abdul Rahman Al-Rashid
Updated on 4/22/2002 9:55:30 AM
Former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski surprised many Americans when he criticized the military policy of the Israeli government and compared it with that of the former apartheid government of South Africa.
It is not an easy task to counter the massive pro-Israeli wave in the US media, which have condensed the current Middle East crisis into a war against terror, linking it with the September 11 events in New York and Washington.
Unfortunately, Ariel Sharon has succeeded in making the American public believe that Israel is currently waging a war against terrorism.
Sharon has influenced not only the ill-informed among the people, but also those who should know better.
Brzezinski, who appeared in a debate with Henry Kissinger, also a former security advisor, on CNN, was candid in his arguments and fair in rejecting the present crisis as a war against terror.
Unfortunately, the United States, with its full weight thrown behind Israel, until the latest speech by President Bush indicated a slight shift, has accepted the Israeli claim that it is waging a war against terrorism.
Israel also holds Yasser Arafat responsible for “terrorism”.
Anyone who is conversant with the political climate in Palestine knows well that though President Arafat is the legitimate head of the Palestinian Authority and the popular symbol of Palestinian aspirations, he does not have control over all the events there.
Consequently, besieging him and threatening him with exile can serve no purpose other than that of finding a scapegoat for Sharon’s failure to bring security for the Israelis as he had promised at the time of election.
Sharon needs only a symbolic victory; and he will find it easy to accomplish it, as would any head of a state commanding a mighty army fighting an enemy who has no army at all.
As Brzezinski pointed out, Israelis cannot have both peace and land at the same time.
Thirty-five years of futile occupation have proved beyond doubt that peace can never be achieved by repression.
Even if Arafat is removed from the political scene and isolated or put to death, peace and security will still elude Israel, and for a much more longer time.
The Israeli public knows this fact.
Precisely for this reason, the Americans, who have to pay the cost of this war with their earnings and with their safety, should not be tricked into accepting such ideas.
I noted with great sadness that on the three days I spent in the city of Houston, I found American TV distorting the developments in the Middle East with selective reports and pictures.
All the stations repeated the chorus that this is a war against terror.
They never explained that there are other crimes as heinous as terror.
Occupation is an internationally condemned crime committed against populations and their land.
In a prejudiced and selective manner, the Americans link their destiny with the Israelis by mistakenly drawing a parallel between their country’s response to the attacks on New York and Washington and Israel’s occupation of the Palestinians’ land, thus entering a dark tunnel riddled with dangers.
After comparing the activities of the Sharon government with the racist South African government, Brzezinski warned Israel that the plight of its government would not be different from that of South Africa if it insisted on occupying and humiliating a whole people in the name of security, history or religion or in the name of its special relations with a superpower.
What have you found to be interesting and/or new?
Because Pres. Bush is too cowardly to fire all the Socialist third-world lovers in the State Department?
Since the Pakistani Press likes Brzezinski so much, maybe they could find him a job, foreign minister of something.
I find this very interesting.
Ohhhhhh, I get it, now......
give up some land, get some peace from over here; give up some land, get some peace over there; give up some land, get some peace where you are standing; give up ALL your land, you can have all the peace you want.
Sounds simple enough. (/SARCASM)
No actually Americans compare with our war on terror to Palistinian terrorists blowing up civilians along with themselves, not Israel's occupation.
Let's not forget there would never have been an occupation had not 3 Arab countries not tried to do away with Israel in '67. They brought it on themselves. There also wouldn't be an occupation if Arafat accepted the Camp David peace process in which the Pals would have 96% of the occupied territories.
After comparing the activities of the Sharon government with the racist South African government, Brzezinski warned Israel that the plight of its government would not be different from that of South Africa if it insisted on occupying and humiliating a whole people in the name of security, history or religion or in the name of its special relations with a superpower.
Security sounds like a pretty good reason to me. Until the Arabs/Muslims agree that Israel has a right to simply exist Israel must be ever on the defensive, or at times, even the offensive. And as far as being humiliated, too bad. They brought the humiliation on themselves.
Occupation is an internationally condemned crime committed against populations and their land.
Agreed. However this occupation came about because the agressors in a war lost. And as a matter of self defense Israel has to keep its would be conquerors in check.
Yeah.With Brzezinski's boss at the helm, we gave Iran to the Ayatollah, our nation was disgraced and humiliated, gas prices were sky high with mile long lines at the gas pumps, home mortgages shot up to 17 percent interest rates, and the federal government mandated that all businesses keep there thermostats at 68 degrees during the winter.
Tell Brzezinski and his cronies to move to France and do their bellyaching there.
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