Archive for April 26th, 2009
285. Cursed Cities: Karss (April 14, 2009)
286. Crazy History: Dress it any which way you desire (April 16, 2009)
287. Bi-Weekly Report (#16) on Lebanon and the Middle East (April 16, 2009)
288. Accursed Indexing by the Vatican: Burned alive authors (Part 1, April 17, 2009)
289. “They Tortured me till Dawn” April 18, 2009
290. “Be Free is all that I am” (April 18, 2009)
291. Famous Manuscripts Banned by the Vatican: (Part 2, April 19, 2009)
292. Modern Batch of Banned Manuscripts (April 20, 2009)
293. Power: Modifying the order ranking of natural passions (April 22, 2009)
294. WOMEN IN ISLAM; (Part 1, April 16, 2009)
295. WOMEN IN ISLAM: Infanticide (Part 2, April 17, 2009)
296. WOMEN IN ISLAM: Education (Part 3, April 18, 2009)
297. WOMEN IN ISLAM: Polygamy (Part 4, April 20, 2009)
298. WOMEN IN ISLAM: Marriage (Part 5, April 22, 2009)
299. WOMEN IN ISLAM: Motherhood (Part 6, April 23, 2009)
300. WOMEN IN ISLAM: Divorce (Part 7, April 23, 2009)
301. WOMEN IN ISLAM: Modesty and Dress Codes (Part 8, April 23, 2009)
302. Jewish Colonies in Palestine: Major Dumping Grounds (April 24, 2009)
303. 100 years old RLM and she is kicking (April 25, 2009)
304. Bi-Weekly Report (#17) on Lebanon and the Middle East (April 25, 2009)
305. WOMEN IN ISLAM (Submission to One God) (April 26, 2009)
Modern Day Crusaders: The Ashkenazi Spearhead (April 26, 2009)
First, a brief ancient history for context:
The many waves of Crusading forces assembled in Medieval Europe with the avowed purpose of recapturing the Holy City of Jerusalem from the hands of the Muslim “Infidels” were mainly of trading nature: they were meant of securing the spice and perfume routes of India and the Far east Asia via Egypt.
The Crusaders failed to capture Egypt and the objective of investing money in order to securing cheaper spices and perfumes that were transported by land routes through Iran and Turkey did not generate any return and the campaigns stopped.
The maritime crusading campaigns restarted in the 17th centuries by Portugal and Spain.
India and the Far Eastern Asian sources of spices, perfume, and gold were colonized and maritime stronghold ports were established around Africa, India, Yemen, and the Persian/Arabia Sea. The British recaptured most of these colonies and “trading comptoirs” and secured the direct administration of Egypt.
Slightly Modern history:
Britain, France, and Russia realized that it is too costly to colonize the former empires of Iran and Turkey for no major returns since raw materials could be obtained relatively cheaply by maritime routes.
Their best strategy was to weaken these nations and nibble on their neighboring regions.
Russia got interested on the Caucasus triangle of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia.
France was interested in Syria and Lebanon.
Britain got mandate over Iraq, Jordan, and Palestine. And then oil was discovered in abundance in this region starting in southern Iran around 1906.
The First World War used mechanized troops; diesel engines were substituted to vapor engines as mechanical workhorse for industries. The USA got in the fray since 1920 for oil explorations in the Arabic peninsula and exhibited its colonial ambitions by conquering Cuba and the Philippines from Spain.
Modern history:
Britain enticed the Hashemite king of Mecca, supposedly from the same tribe of the Prophet Muhammad, to support the war effort against the Moslem Ottoman Empire. Britain quickly realized that the Near Eastern population would not mind a “nominal” nomadic king from Mecca but they were too independent and urban to relinquish their desires for autonomy.
Consequently, Britain and France decided that it would be too risky to allow the Near Eastern people to unite under a vital and critical Nation.
The alternative was found by using the Zionist movement as a spearhead to disrupting any unification in the region. The British Foreign Affairs Balfour issued in 1917 a declaration of intent favorable to the settlement of the Zionist movement in Palestine.
In the same year, Britain and France decided to split their mandates over the Near East.
Consequently, the Ashkenazi “Jews” of Central Europe, were encouraged to build agricultural colonies in Palestine in order to establish a “Jewish Homeland” with avowed purpose of re-capturing the Jewish Holy City of Jerusalem.
The modern crusade of the western nations is cloaked in Jewish biblical claims to destabilize this strategic region.
Since 1920, the Ashkenazi Jews were directed by International Zionism to buy and settle Palestine and it was supported by the European governments of Britain and France.
The beginning of Nazi Germany persecutions of Jews in 1933 encouraged the European nations to transfer the Jews to Palestine in order not to alienate Nazi Germany and succumb to its demands for repatriation of the Ashkenazi “Jews” into concentration camps.
It does not mean that the plan to establishing a “Homeland” for the Ashkenazi Jews was inevitable or that the people in the Near East were not aware of the plan and its existential danger. The main troubles were:
First, this region had no credible institutions and lacked unified organizations to counter politically this harrowing plan;
Second, the surrounding empires of Turkey, Iran, and Egypt were struggling for survival and had no immediate interests in their backyard; and
Third, the mandate superpowers of Britain and France controlled and managed the region and its policies.
The people in the Near East are aware that the State of Israel is a western implant of the same kind of crusaders campaigns in the first millennia.
The Zionist ideology prevented the leadership in Israel in alleviating and changing this perception for over 60 years. There are indications that the USA and Europe comprehend that the game is over and are drawing plans for the counter immigration of the Ashkenazi to their original homelands.
The Sephardic Jews have practically nowhere to go and they will manage to integrate Palestine as they did for thousand of years.
It would be beneficial for the western nations to change their policies of “divide to dominate” in the Near East and start negotiating with the national resistance forces, even if they offer the image of religious resistance forces, because this is the most potent factor when secular conditions are weak.
The western nations need to negotiate with all resistances forces in the region as national resistance to a foreign implant so that the new emerging nation does not fall to the extremist conservative religious ideologies.
This is a long term fight of 20 years and the secular democratic forces in the Near East need to have an opportunity for a fighting chance.
Note: I am perfectly aware that many would use the dismissive “anti-semitism” cliché in emulation of the lazy media approach to hot issues. It is interesting to realize that effective and valuable communication is based on personal reflection with rational thinking as guiding rod.