Republican presidential frontrunner upset Palestinians and supporters recently when he repeatedly stated his steadfast opposition to the establishment of a Palestinian state.
I am writing to set the record straight and declare support for Giuliani’s seemingly anti-Palestinian agenda, and explain how it is, unwittingly, a pro Palestinian one. So, bear with me.
On its face, Giuliani’s agenda seems utterly racist and as Zionist as they can be, and that is not hard to conclude, for example, the dude is flaunting the words Islamo-fascism and Islamic Terrorism in every paragraph he speaks, whether they usefully fit into the sentence or not. (For example, on Larry King commenting after Bush’s address on the September report on Iraq, towards the end of his interview, he threw out the phrase “Islamic extremist” a la carte, apparently that’s all he could do when he realized that he still did not use it and the interview was concluding.)
Furthermore, his views on war and collective punishment of Arabs and Muslims around the world as a response to terrorism helps enforce the notion that the former New York mayor is opposing a Palestinian state out of spite to Palestine, and because he believes that would harm Palestinians, and benefit Israel. At the very least, he believe such a line will get him the Jewish vote, and other pro-war votes.
This makes more sense when one learns that Giuliani had hired as campaign advisors the racist, Zionut, war mongering, pro-Israel, neo-cons Norman Podhoretz, Martin Kramer, and Daniel Pipes. The three are members of the neocon movement that has pushed for the disasterous direction US foreign policy has taken. They pushed for war under Bill Clinton, and again under Bush after September 11th.
Did you know that the ideological founder of the neo-con movement, Leo Strauss of University of Chicago, was mentored by Carl Schmidt, the leading Nazi government lawyer among those who were planted into the academia to facilitate the rise of the police state? Just some trivia for you, and if I had a proposal to suspend Habeas Corpus in order to enable a police state, I would have called it the Patriot Act.
So the fact that his advisor calls for ethnic cleansing and war crimes through the raising of Palestinian villages may offend some. Understandable, but Giuliani’s motivations aside, the establishment of a Palestinian state at the moment is the worst case scenario and is the ultimate “knock-out” blow to the cause of the Palestinian people. See, hate-filled politicians like Giuliani, Tancredo, Brownback and others of their feather lack the tact to hide what they think, and masterfully plot their evil intentions, rather they spell it out in the hopes of rousing the support of the other hoo-ra-ras.
A Palestinian state at this time will be worse than the Oslo agreement, which managed to absolve Israel of responsibility for the well-being of the populations it occupies, and allowed it the PR luxury to picture the Palestinians as another, equally-sized goliath dealing with whom requires a full war arsenal. Even more, Israel opened its hand and the donations in the forms of 500-lb bombs came generously.
At this time, Palestinians have even less: Less land, less rights, less meaningful institutions, less international support, and more importantly, less leadership and sense of direction. Any so called comprehensive deal with out less than bright leaders or other Arab leaders who seem to generously negotiate on behalf of the Palestinians will be a long term disaster. It will set Palestine and Palestinians for failure and more internal strife.
This kind of deal is what Bush and his Israeli friends are trying to achieve in coming year. The rendered whatever Palestinians Authority institutions with any viability impotent, they split the population, and separated the West Back from Gaza, now after they separated the refugees out side of Palestine, and Palestinians inside Israel. We no longer have a representative voice. Yet we have leaders who are contemplating to sign on such deals out of spite for their rivals. Hence Bush’s content-less conference scheduled for November. But Bush and the Israelis may have over played their hand, even Mahmoud Abbas and the Saudi’s are getting restless with the feeling they are being set up and pulled into a trap. Their requests for information on the conference substance have gone unanswered.
The only thing the Palestinians can afford to do is refuse any political deals that attempt to gloss over their weakness, and treat them as equals only as far as the concession making process necessitates. They must look at historic Palestine (Israel, West Bank, and Gaza) as one country, for them and the Israelis, learn to live with the enemy, and as such, transform their struggle into one of demands for civil rights, equality, and coexistence.
And to make sure some slick politician does not preempt such a movement. You could vote for Giuliani.
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