<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Qumsiyeh's opinions about the current situation. <div><br></div><div>--mkb<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Mazin Qumsiyeh <<a href="mailto:mazin@qumsiyeh.org">mazin@qumsiyeh.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">August 31, 2013 4:28:41 PM CDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><<a href="mailto:brussel@uiuc.edu">brussel@uiuc.edu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Human Rights Newsletter <<a href="mailto:humanrights@lists.qumsiyeh.org">humanrights@lists.qumsiyeh.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[HumanRights] Obama and global intifada</b><br></span></div><br><div>Obama and global intifada<br>By Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh<br><a href="http://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2013/08/obama-and-global-intifada.html">http://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2013/08/obama-and-global-intifada.html</a><br><br>It is not difficult to understand the power-game being played in Syria<br>and no decent human being should stand on the sideline in a conflict<br>that will shape the future of our humanity. The global intifada<br>(uprising) is spreading and it is rejecting war and hegemony and now<br>even President Obama is reeling under pressure. It is an earthquake<br>that is shaking the very foundation of post-WWII world order (what<br>used to be referred to mistakenly as “the American century” when it<br>was really the Zionist century). The British, French and American<br>public long exposed to Zionist propaganda have joined the revolution.<br>Politicians started to panic especially after the British parliament<br>voted against war. This was the first major and stunning defeat to the<br>US/Israel hegemony of British politics since WWII.<br><br>US President Obama was stuck after the British vote and the clear<br>solid position of Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Russia, China and even<br>overwhelming public opposition in the US despite the attempt to whip<br>frenzy by Israel media stooges like Wolf Blitzer of CNN. Obama was<br>also stunned by what his own intelligence services told him about<br>potential repercussions of a military strike on Syria especially<br>without UN mandate and without US public support. These repercussions<br>included presence of strong defensive and offensive capabilities in<br>Syria. There was intelligence leaks about downed “test” incursion. But<br>repercussions discussed include strengthening rather than weakening<br>Iran (after all, this is what happened after Iraq!). President Obama<br>spent countless hours talking with his Zionist and non-Zionist<br>advisers and key government officials (there are no anti-Zionists in<br>his group). Faced with no good option in trying to maintain Israel/US<br>hegemony, Obama decided not to decide and shift the debate to Congress<br>to buy time. Now it is up to the American people who overwhelmingly<br>reject war on Syria to stand up and pressure the Israeli-occupied US<br>congress to do what is good for US citizens not what they perceive to<br>be good for Zionism.<br><br>The Russian president spoke of a number of key points that he called<br>“common sense” while Obama just lied. Russia and the US had agreed to<br>the parameters of a political conference in which all sides were<br>invited. Russia talked the Syrian government into attending this<br>Geneva conference (even though most Syrians opposed a dialogue with<br>Western backed thugs and Western backed mercenaries). Under Israeli<br>pressure, the US administration started to rethink their agreement and<br>their stooges announced they cannot join discussion with their<br>opponents unless their opponents are defeated and surrender! Syrian<br>government forces then gained momentum against the Western and Israeli<br>backed extremist rebels and cornered them in very few pockets. Syria<br>was opening up and international inspectors were coming. Putin<br>rightly points out that under such conditions: who has the benefit of<br>using chemical weapons: the Syrian government or the rebels trying to<br>provide excuses for Western defeat of a government they could not<br>defeat themselves? It is common sense. Syria, Russia and China and all<br>humanity ask logically: if the US has proof that the Syrian government<br>used chemical weapons to attack its own people (including its own<br>soldiers), then give us the proof. They rightly ask why the mandate of<br>UN inspectors was limited to only find out if they were used but not<br>to explore who might have used them. After the lies Israeli and US<br>intelligence concocted to go the war on Iraq, they now seem rather<br>reluctant to manufacture evidence again.<br><br>Obama lied about many other things and perhaps the only part of his<br>speech that touched on reality is when he admitted that he is part of<br>a system and that he cannot make a decision by himself. The<br>military-industrial complex is now too entrenched in US politics for<br>any president to challenge it. In fact, no one would be allowed to<br>become president if they were to have even a slight chance of<br>potential to challenge it. So Obama says: I am with the machine that<br>was in place before I came to power and will always be with the<br>machine. By this he showed that his campaign rhetoric about “change”<br>was just what American call “bull-shit”. That is why Obama is stuck.<br>When President Obama paid tribute to Martin Luther King Jr just a week<br>ago, he was being hypocritical. King had famously said that the US is<br>the greatest purveyor of violence on earth. The US public can and<br>must push Obama and Congress to change just like they pushed previous<br>politicians to get civil rights, women’s right to vote, ending the war<br>on Vietnam, ending US support for Apartheid South Africa and more.<br><br>The fact remains that the most destabilizing country in the Middle<br>East is the one that receives unconditional billions of US taxpayer<br>money. It is the state that caused millions of refugees and that<br>introduced weapons of mass destruction including nuclear weapons to<br>the Middle East. It is the state that used white phosphorous and<br>depleted uranium on civilian populations. It is the state that<br>started five wars and that lobbied successfully to ge the US to go to<br>wars in places like Iraq and Afghanistan that caused millions of lives<br>lost and trillions of US taxpayer money spent. It is the state that<br>fits all the criteria discussed in the International convention<br>against the crimes of apartheid and racial discrimination.<br><br>The fact is that this latest Israel-inspired conflict is not about<br>form of government in Syria. The US/Israel backed dictators in a dozen<br>Arab countries are far, far worse than Bashar Assad of Syria. The fact<br>remains that this is a clear attempt by the US through ist secretary<br>of state under influence from the Zionist lobby and with the support<br>of puppet rulers in the Arab world to liquidate the Palestinian cause.<br> The parameters of this are clear: liquidating Palestinian rights like<br>the right of refugees to return to their homes and lands, limited<br>Palestinian autonomy that Palestinian puppets can call a state in<br>parts of the occupied West Bank in confederation with Jordan. This<br>will ensure the “Jewishness” of the apartheid state of Israel. Gaza<br>would be relegated to Egyptian administration or continuing to manage<br>it as one Israeli official said “by putting Gazan’s on a diet”. To<br>get this program through, resistance must be made to look futile.<br>Israel set-up a high-level ministerial committee to fight boycotts,<br>divestment, and sanctions. Israel told the US that the<br>Hizballah-Syria-Iran axis must be destroyed. Potentially developing<br>Arab countries will be broken up into sectarian and other conflicts<br>(divide and conquer) beginning with Iraq. They thought Syria is the<br>next weak link that can be removed in the same way that Libya was<br>disposed of. They underestimated the level of rejection to their<br>demonic schemes of divide and conquer.<br><br>What happened actually is the opposite. A strengthening block evolved<br>starting in Iran, Iraq and Palestine and spreading globally. The<br>counter-revolutionary efforts are failing and in some cases getting<br>the opposite effect of unifying and strengthening resistance. The<br>attempts by some to ignite sectarian strife in Lebanon failed<br>miserably. The positions of China, Russia, Venezuela and other<br>governments came to reflect the international consensus of resisting<br>US/Israeli hegemony. No human being and no government can claim<br>neutrality. Neutrality is rather meaningless when there is such an<br>evel attempt to dominate the world for the benefit of just a few<br>people at the expense of millions. The vast majority of people in all<br>countries (Palestine, USA, Britain, France, Russia, China etc) stand<br>on one side of this against the Zionist attempts to drag the world<br>into yet one more destructive conflict. Clearly a win here is a win<br>for Palestine and a win for all people of the world.<br><br>Before we talk about democracy in Syria, we must respect the fact that<br>the vast majority of people on earth insist that Western governments<br>respect their own citizens’ will instead of trying to smother them or<br>shape them with propaganda or bypass them to serve the Israel lobby.<br>Before we talk about democracy in Syria, we must end apartheid in<br>Israel, and end the repressive regimes supported by the US especially<br>those in the oil producing Arab countries. Perhaps this is the reason<br>gulf states are pouring billions to fund murderers in the so called<br>“Syrian rebels” (most of them turn out to be mercenaries). It is the<br>same reason that Netanyahu and Obama are both very nervous. When the<br>US/Israel program of liquidating the Palestinian cause and destroying<br>Syria fails (and it will), all bets are off. People stand up to<br>tyranny and stand up for human rights and that is why governments (US,<br>Israeli, Saudi Arabia, Turkey etc) are starting to panic. They do<br>have good reason to worry because people power is coming and each of<br>us must be part of it. We ask you to join the global intifada which<br>will liberate oppressors and oppressed alike and create a better world<br>for all.<br>_______________________________________________<br>HumanRights newsletter<br>http://lists.qumsiyeh.org/mailman/listinfo/humanrights<br>This message was sent to brussel@uiuc.edu. To unsubscribe, visit:<br>http://lists.qumsiyeh.org/mailman/options/humanrights/brussel%40uiuc.edu<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>