Blair’s Last Sabotage
When a lame-duck draft dodger pardoned a major crook and fugitive— along with his very own drug dealing half brother— American public opinion was righteously outraged. It was par for the course for Bill Clinton, but at least he didn’t saddle the country with anything worse than having to put up with a ghastly person like Mark Rich walking freely around in polite society. His buddy Tony Blair has done better. Even lamer than Clinton was when he handed out the pardons, old Tone has burdened this country with a nice “high representative” who will decide when and if the British Lion will roar. How’s that for a long goodbye?
Mind you, it’s not as bad as it sounds. What they actually decided down Brussels way was to help Europe speak with one voice, creating a more powerful EU foreign policy. This way Uncle Sam can speak to somebody who speaks for Europe, and give orders to one person instead of many. Uncle Sam, after all, has been confused of late, and as he’s getting on in years, we Europeans have to help him out. Hence internal distractions are out, one voice, that of Brussels, is in. Bravo, Tony. You kept your most lethal thrust for last. Now it’s up to Gordon the Illegitimate to figure it out. And I thought Greek politics was a joke.
And speaking of jokes, they sure are eyeless in Gaza nowadays. The struggle between Hamas and Fatah is not a fight between good and bad guys, but a fight to the death between bad guys only. The struggle is over money, moolah and guns which Mr. Elliott Abrams, a convicted perjurer, has been funnelling to Fatah ever since Hamas won a legit election 15 months ago. Abrams is head of the Middle East desk at the State Department and an ardent Zionist. Last time he snuck arms to people it was for a good cause, the Contras in Nicaragua. His plan for Gaza was to empower Fatah in order to refuse the handover of real power to the electoral winner. In cahoots with Israel, his plan has been a resounding success. The fact that Gaza will now become an international base for global jihad is immaterial. What Abrams’s father-in-law, old Poddy, (Norman Podhoretz) says goes.
Following Israel’s disengagement from the Gaza Strip, there was a window of opportunity to turn that miserable place into a Middle East Macao, or even Hong Kong. That was James Wolfensohn’s plan, the ex World Bank honcho. He acquired greenhouses Israeli settlers had abandoned and offered them to the Palestinians. For a brief moment it worked. Flowers, fruit and vegetables for export were being produced until Israel sealed the border and everything went to waste. Issues of security were the excuse. Some were legit, most of them were not. End of story. And in came Abrams with guns and money.
What I find incredible is that there are still people around who wonder why the Middle East is up in flames. Andrew Alexander explained it very well last Friday. 90 years ago Britain initiated a policy of providing a Jewish homeland in Palestine — on predominantly Arab lands. Then Israel was created on land that supposedly belonged half to the Arabs and half to the Jews. But not for the first time, the Jews took a bigger slice. After beating back the Arabs in four wars, Israel now controls the West Bank, the Holy Sites and the Gaza Strip. We Greeks lost Constantinople in 1453, and as late as 1922 were still trying to get our lands back. (We failed miserably but got Onassis and many other good Greeks to move to the mainland). So I ask you, dear readers: Why are people surprised and bored by the fact that only ninety years on Arabs are still smarting over the seizure of their lands? I know I am stating my facts rather plainly, but plain facts are real facts, not propagandistic bull.
But on to less depressing subjects. Like Princess Di and those making millions from her life and death. I recently reviewed Tina Brown’s opus on Diana for the Standard. I gave Tina an A for research and regurgitation of unfounded gossip most likely invented by so called royal correspondents, and a D for originality. One thing is for sure. She deserves the millions she will make because rehashing a life covered ad nauseam by the tabloids would have scared even Hercules away. Now I read a review of the book in The New Yorker which is the kind I would give to something written by my children. The reviewer, one John Lanchester, obviously doesn’t know a lot about the subject. Just what he read in Tina’s book. He still thinks there’s a chance Diana’s life and death will push the Windsors off the throne. Everything is possible, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
If you want a great read instead of such crap, try Blood Rock, the latest thriller-historical novel by James Jackson. I will not spoil it for you. Just try it, because although it takes place five hundred years ago, it is relevant as hell today.
--The Spectator. (Photo found at www.backingblair.co.uk.)
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Dear Taki,
One wonders what the international scene would be like, today, if Great Britain had accepted defeat gracefully in 1916; had booted out into the streets the importuning Chaim Weizmann and his gang of Zionists; and kept faith with the Arabs who had assisted it in fighting against the Turks. Would there have been a 9/11? Would the U. S. of A. have attacked Iraq or threatened war against Iran in the 21st century?
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There is one statement of Taki’s I disagree with- completely.
There are no “ two bad sides” in this Fatah-Hamas contest. Al Fatah represents corruption and collaboration with the occupier and Hamas the resistance of a long suffering people. Period.
Moral ground between the two doesn’t exist. Tsawicki is absolutely right.
As for Tony Blair, just look at his face, wouldn’t it be a pleasure to punch it?
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Well, at least Blair had good taste in music - http://www.ajjan.com/2007/05/fare-thee-well-president-of-europe.html
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The Balfour declaration was made at a time during the First World War when Britain wanted and needed to get as much help as it could, and it sought to enlist the world Jewish community in the Allied cause by making a promise to the Zionists. Simultaneously, of course, it was enlisting the Arabs in its cause by promising them independence from the Ottoman Empire, one of the Central Powers, and it was also dividing the middle east into British and French spheres of influence via the secret Sykes-Picot agreement.
All of this is somewhat reminiscent of that great Jewish comedy, “The Producers,” in which the protagonists sell more than 100% of the proceeds of their proposed musical to a group of backers whom they have no intention of paying off, because they have every expectation the production will fail. Of course, they succeed against all hope, and are left with the dilemma of what to do now.
Just as the Bolshevization of Russia, World War II, the subsequent captivity of eastern Europe under communism, and the Cold War were all consequences of the backfiring of German stratagems, the situation in the Middle East today is an unintended consequence of the Allies’ unexpected success in their campaign against the Ottoman Empire. Allied involvement in Palestine and Mesopotamia during WWI was undertaken to distract the Turks so they wouldn’t enter the European theater. I suspect that Lloyd George and Clemenceau never anticipated that their conflicting promises would some day all come due, like those of the lead characters in “The Producers.” Osama bin Laden and our enemies in Iraq are quite aware of this history. I suspect most Americans are oblivious to it.
Balfour, the procreator of modern-day Israel, was scathingly lampooned in Saki’s “Alice in Downing Street’:
‘ “Have you ever seen an Ineptitude?” asked the Cheshire Cat suddenly; the Cat was nothing if not abrupt.
‘ “Not in real life,” said Alice. “Have you any about here?”
‘ “A few,” answered the Car comprehensively. “Over there, for instance,” it added, contracting its pupils to the requisite focus, “is the most perfect specimen we have.”
‘ Alice followed the direction of its glance and noticed for the first time a figure in a very uncomfortable attitude on nothing in particular. Alice had no time to wonder how it managed to do it, she was busy taking in the appearance of the creature, which was something like a badly written note of interrogation and something like a guillemot, and seemed to have been trying to preen its rather untidy plumage with whitewash. “What a dreadful mess it’s in!” she remarked, after gazing at it for a few moments in silence. “What is it, and why is it here?”
‘ “It hasn’t any meaning,” said the Cat, “it simply is.”
‘ “Can it talk?” asked Alice eagerly.
‘ “It has never done anything else,” chuckled the Cat… ‘
If only Saki could have lived to see the mess the Ineptitude left to his successors!
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I am currently reading a book by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, “A Code of Jewish Ethics.” On page 10, first paragraph, the following is written:
In what is perhaps the Talmud’s most famous passage, a non-Jew asks Hillel to “convert me to Judaism on condition that you teach me the entire Torah while I stand on one foot.” Hillel answers the man, “What is hateful unto you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the whole Torah? All the rest is commentary. Now, go and study.” (Shabbat 31a")
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Hillel,+son+of+Gamaliel+III
As can be seen by this famous passage in the Talmud, Judaism’s core is to do unto others as you would have them do unto you, the complete and absolute antithesis of Zionism and what the State of Israel stands for. Judaism has been destroyed by Zionism.
Every prime minister of Israel except for the current one, Ehud Olmert, was first and foremost a terrorist and murder, often on a grand scale. When GW Bush said, “Arial Sharon is a man of peace.” back in April 19, 2002 I could not believe my ears, the “Butcher of Beirut” a man of peace. How can such an ignorant man be the “leader of the Free World?”
The Israelis (Zionist) have been causing much misery in the Middle East since the early 20th Century. In the early 60’s they were fomenting guerrilla activity by the Kurds against the Iraqi state. Then there is the Levon Affair, the USS Liberty attack and murder of US Navy men. The list goes on and on. And, what don’t we know about what has been done in the name of Israel and Zionism.
When the French ambassador to England blurted out:
“That shitty little country Israel. Why should we be in danger of world war three because of these people?”
she was only scratching the surface of the danger the Middle East as well as the rest of the world faces as a result of the unquestioning US support for the State of Israel.
Spend a short time reading the following to get a flavor of how corrupt and fanatic the Zionists were and still are:
http://www.ameu.org/printer.asp?iid=36&aid=72
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Dear DanDeMan,
I want to thank you for your presentation of actual history apropos the British and Zionist connivance to takeover the Holy Land, called Palestine. The narrative by Naeim Giladi is very important as to the nature of Zionism. Also, I appreciate your citations from the Talmud, which demonstrate an ethic in conformance to the teachings of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. However, certain passages of the Talmud are vicious, calumnious attacks upon the Messiah, Jesus Christ, and His mother. They are extremely insulting to my Catholic Faith. I am wondering if you renounce them, because, dear sir, they are at the heart of the problems afflicting history for nearly 2000 years. With best wishes to you…
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Serious question: was the above photo of Blair electronically superimposed over one of MAD magazine’s icon, Alfred E Neuman?
http://www.leconcombre.com/concpost/fr/postcard4/alfred_e_neuman.jpg
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