[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [HumanRights] Obama and global intifada

Sun Sep 1 04:01:52 UTC 2013

Qumsiyeh's opinions about the current situation. 

--mkb

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