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Subject: Israel Shamir: Orient Express
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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 00:34:02 -0700
Title: Orient Express
TEXT:
Note: Although this article of Sept. 12 is a little outdated by
new findings, it certainly offers food for thought!
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Orient Express
By Israel Shamir
Like the Four Riders of the Apocalypse, the unknown kamikaze
rode their giant crafts into the two visible symbols of American
world domination, Wall Street and the Pentagon. They vanished in
flames and smoke, and we do not yet know who they were. They
could be practically anybody: American Nationalists, American
Communists, American Fundamentalist Christians, American
Anarchists, anybody who rejects the twin gods of the dollar and
the M-16, who hates the stock market and interventions overseas,
who dreams of America for Americans, who does not want to
support the drive for world domination. They could be Native
Americans returning to Manhattan, or Afro-Americans who still
have not received compensation for slavery.
They could be foreigners of practically any extraction, as Wall
Street and the Pentagon ruined many lives of people all over the
globe. Germans can remember the fiery holocaust of Dresden with
its hundreds of thousands of peaceful refugees incinerated by
the US Air Force. Japanese will not forget the nuclear holocaust
of Hiroshima. The Arab world still feels the creeping holocaust
of Iraq and Palestine. Russians and East Europeans feel the
shame of Belgrade avenged. Latin Americans think of American
invasions of Panama and Granada, of destroyed Nicaragua and
defoliated Colombia. Asians count their dead of Vietnam war,
Cambodia bombings, Laos CIA operations in millions. Even a
pro-American, Russian TV broadcaster could not refrain from
saying, `now Americans begin to understand the feelings of
Baghdad and Belgrade'.
The Riders could be anybody who lost his house to the bank, who
was squeezed from his work and made permanently unemployed, who
was declared an Untermensch by the new Herrenvolk. They could be
Russians, Malaysians, Indonesians, Pakistanis, Congolese, as
their economy was destroyed by Wall Street and the Pentagon.
They could be anybody, and they are everybody. Their identity is
quite irrelevant, but the Jews already decided: it has to be
Arabs.
One would think, after Oklahoma, we should become less hasty
with our conclusions. But my countrymen, Israeli politicians are
impatient folk. The flames in Manhattan did not die out yet,
they started political profit taking. Mr Ehud Barak came live on
BBC, and said `Arafat' within three minutes flat. On CNN, his
twin Bibi Natanyahu appropriated the blame to Arabs, Muslims,
Palestinians. Shimon Peres, an old wizened wizard, spoke against
suicide as a psychiatric adviser, reminding his audience of
Palestinian attacks. He looked worried: it is hard to enslave
people who are not afraid to die. This old killer of Kana even
mentioned Gospels. Density of Israelis on the air approached the
saturation point. They insinuated and incited, pushing their
shopping list into a chalk-white face of shell-shocked America:
please, destroy Iran! And Iraq! And Libya, plees!
The first twenty four hours of maximal exposure were utilised by
the Jewish propaganda machine to its utmost. Not a single fact
was yet known, but racist anti-Arab slurs became a commonplace.
While we Jews quite reasonably object to any reference to the
Jewishness of a bad guy, we really do not mind producing
revolting racist drivel of our own. A good Jewish-American
activist, James Jordan, warned in al-Awda: "Making broad,
all-inclusive statements and insinuations about "Jews"
completely marginalizes and discredits your organization". But
how come the endless stream of 'broad, all-inclusive statements
and insinuations', about 'the Arabs' did not 'completely
marginalized and discredited' the Jewish organisations and media
who practice it? Apparently, it is a Jewish right to decide who
will be marginalized in America and who will not.
The connection was in the minds. The American Jewish
supremacists want to turn all the world into Palestine, where
the natives will enjoy harsh local rule and limited local
rights, while the master race will have a rather different level
of life. Israel is just a small-scale model of their new brave
world of globalisation.
As there were no hard facts against Palestinians, the Israelis
made their damnedest from the scenes of joy shot in East
Jerusalem. It is a rather weak point, and I'll tell you why. In
Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, her favourite
detective M. Poireau encounters an unusual complication: all
passengers on board the train have had a good reason to bump off
the unpleasant old lady. My dear American friends, your leaders
placed your great country into the old lady's shoes.
Israelis used the event to the max. They even killed some ten
Palestinians and destroyed five Goyiish houses in Jerusalem. The
reports were rather gleeful, in the style `we told you', and the
experts of Israeli TV concluded by one o'clock, the attack `was
good for the Jews'. Why? It would strengthen American support of
Israel.
The kamikaze attack could do exactly that. America could enter a
new cycle of violence in its troubled relations with the world.
Revenge will follow revenge, until one of the sides will be
obliterated by nuclear blast. It appears president Bush prefers
this course. He declared war on his and Israel's adversaries.
Bush did not even understand that the war was declared by the US
many years ago, only now it started to come home. So many people
are sick of America's ham-fisted approach, that the countdown
for the next attack began.
Alternatively, America could see this painful strike at her Wall
Street and her Pentagon, as the last call to repent. She should
change her advisers, and build her relations with the world
afresh, on equal footing. Probably she should rule in the
domination-obsessed Jewish supremacist elites of Wall Street and
media, part company with the apartheid Jewish state. She could
become again the universally loved, rather parochial America of
Walt Whitman and Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Abe Lincoln.
Jaffa, 12.9.01
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"And the mind - may God preserve you - is more prone to
deep sleep than the eye. Neediest of sharpening
than a sword. Poorest to treatment. Fastest to change.
Its illness, the deadliest. Its doctors, the rarest.
And its cure, the hardest. Whoever got a hold of it, before
the spread of the disease, found his sake. Whoever tried to
wrestle it after the spread would not find his
sake. The greatest purpose of knowledge is the abundance
of inspiring thoughts. Then, the ways to go about one's
needs are met." -- Al-Jahiz ("Puffy"), 9th Century Baghdad,
Kitab at-Tarbi` wat-Tadweer ("Squaring the Circle"), p. 101,
Edited by Prof. Charles Pellat, Institut Francais de
Damas, 1955.
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