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There They Go Again, Those Arab Racists
by Ariel Natan Pasko Monday, Jul. 05, 2004 at 6:59 PM

It looks at the vicious attacks taking place in Sudan against black Africans, by Arab militias. It surveys the Middle East/North Africa, the so-called "Arab World," and proposes an Israeli foreign policy initiative to support the non-Arab and non-Muslim minorities in the region.

There they go again. The story is so old already. Arab militia or Arab army or Arab terrorist attacks non-Arab. Or was that Muslim fanatic attacks non-Muslim? This time it's happening in Sudan.

While we're sitting and talking probably a few hundred more black Africans in Sudan have starved to death, or been brutally killed, raped, enslaved, or simply pushed off their land by 7th century Arab imperialist invaders, or more rightly "Arab Settlers".

Oh yes, that's right "Arab settlers"...

Like the ones Saddam Hussein brought into Kurdistan - i.e. the Kurdish areas of northern Iraq in the 1970's - to displace the indigenous Kurds, during his forced Arabization campaign. Forcibly relocating many Kurds from the Kurdish heartland in the north, he razed all Kurdish villages along a 1,300-kilometer stretch of the border with Iran.

Now Sudan is doing the same thing.

While Arab militiamen known as the Janjaweed, rape, slaughter and drive out over a million black Africans from their homes in western Sudan, the government in Khartoum turns a blind eye. The Janjaweed have killed about 30,000 people and left some 2 million in desperate need of aid, or there will be humanitarian disaster. The Janjaweed has been described as an Arab Islamic group that has targeted mostly black Christians. According to some reports, the Sudanese government itself armed and paid the militia of Arab raiders, and authorized them to slaughter and drive out members of the Zaghawa, Masalit and Fur tribes.

This has all taken place under the watchful eye of Kofi Annan, the UN, Colin Powell, the US, the European Union, and 20-something Arab League states. I can understand the Arab states turning a blind eye to the ethnic cleansing campaign underway (or impending genocide?), it doesn't look good having "Arab Settlers" butchering people. But why haven't Annan and Powell, sons of the African continent, gone ballistic? After all, it is their black brothers who are getting it, from the Arabs this time. And what about the Europeans who are always so "human rights" oriented when it comes to Israel, why not on the African continent?

Sudanese President Omar Bashir pledged to US officials to disarm the Janjaweed and other militias, but he's promised that before...

Jan Egeland, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, complained that the United Nations was slow to act in Darfur, where aid workers say about 350,000 people could die this year of disease or malnutrition. He also blamed Khartoum for lack of action in aiding the refugees.

A typical UN do-goody, Egeland seems to have overlooked the fact that the Sudanese government might have deliberately caused this problem. It's a typical Arab/Muslim land grab. It's happened in Iraq, it's happened in Lebanon with Syria occupying Lebanon and persecuting the Christians there, and it's happened in Israel, where 7th century Arab imperialist invaders and 20th century Arab squatters have tried to displace the indigenous Jewish population.

Arab Settlers, and they're violent at that...

Describing the pogrom-like atmosphere, one woman told how the Janjaweed entered the village. She said, "The Janjaweed shouted, 'We will not allow blacks here. We will not let Zaghawa here. This land is only for Arabs.'"

Another woman described how the Janjaweed took her and her two sisters away on horses and gang-raped them. The raiders shot one sister, and cut the throat of the other, they then discussed how to mutilate her. "One Janjaweed said, 'You belong to me. You are a slave to the Arabs, and this is the sign of a slave,'" she recalled. He slashed her leg with a sword before letting her hobble away, stark naked.

"First the planes were flying over us and bombing us. Then the Janjaweed came," a third woman described. "They started to shoot and burn. They took all our belongings. They took men and slit their throats with swords. The women they took as concubines."

The situation is so horrendous, that the former editor, Abd al-Rahman Al-Rashed, of a prestigious Arab daily "al-Sharq al-Awsat" (London), recently published an op-ed titled, "The Death of 300,000 People." In the article, al-Rashed decried the Arab media's apathy to the violence in Sudan.

al-Rashed wrote, "They are not the victims of Israeli or American aggression; therefore, they are not an issue for concern...Is the life of 1,000 people in western Sudan less valuable, or is a single killed Palestinian or Iraqi of greater importance, merely because the enemy is Israeli or American?"

He continued, "It is a grave matter that government-sponsored forces or militias should be allowed to carry out the annihilation of people in order to achieve quick or decisive victory...As for Arab intellectuals who see nothing in the world but the Palestinian and the Iraqi causes, and who consider any blood not spilled in conflicts with foreigners to be cheap and its spilling justifiable, they are intellectual accomplices in the crime."

What does all this have to do with Israel?

Well, as I wrote back in March 2004, (Israel Should Support the Kurds Against Syria):

"As the discussion of democratization of the Middle East continues, an important point that must be made time and time again, is the importance in building structures that liberate the minorities of the region from oppression.

Non-Arab and Non-Muslim minorities live throughout North Africa and the Middle East. Contrary to the propaganda that the region is Arab/Muslim, these minorities are remnants of the indigenous peoples, before the great Arab imperialist wars of the 7th century, and "Islamicization process" that followed. Non-Arab Muslims like the Kurds in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran; the Berbers - known as Amazighes - in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, have all resisted Arabization for over 1,000 years. Non-Muslims like the Assyrian Christians in Iraq - who argue that they are not Arabs - the Copts in Egypt, Christian Lebanese - many who claim not to be Arab but Phoenician - the Christians in Sudan, and other Christians throughout the region, have been persecuted minorities, since the rise of Islam. Others like the Druze and Jews have also been persecuted by Arab/Muslim regimes throughout history..."

"Only Israel, the Jewish State, has fully liberated itself - in the political sense - from this Arab/Muslim oppression, although it still suffers from physical violence against her people. Israel should take the lead - in it's foreign policy - to support democratization and regime change throughout the region. Israel shouldn't wait until countries of the region reform, but should pro-actively support the legitimate aspirations of the oppressed minorities of North Africa and the Middle East, and build alliances with them."

Since writing those words, news of Israeli security cooperation in the Kurdish areas of Iraq has leaked out. Although denied by all involved, I can only hope that it's true and that the Mossad is listening. It should begin to branch out to work with other minorities throughout the region as well.

I haven't yet mentioned the so-called "Palestinians," and I won't beyond saying, that they are part of the problem, not part of the solution. Aren't they an oppressed minority? No, as Arabs, they are part of the greater Arab Nation who since the 7th century has conquered, oppressed, and occupied everyone else in the Middle East and North Africa. As radical Muslims, everyone can see that Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the other terror groups are continuing down the same path as Bin Laden. In fact, not long before his assassination, Hamas "spiritual leader" Sheikh Yassin had begun speaking about the "Global Jihad" in Bin Laden and al-Qaeda type terms. Hezbollah has also been working in the "Palestinian" administered territories for a while already, as evidenced by Israel's recent capture of a Hezbollah cell in Gaza. So, they are part of the regional oppression network, not the future liberty and freedom alliance that Israel should work to build with other minorities in the area.

Like that Arab murderer in Sudan who said, "This land is only for Arabs," the late Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi said not long before his demise, "We will continue with our holy war and resistance until every last criminal Zionist is evicted from this land. By G-d we will not leave one Jew alive in Palestine. We will fight them with all the strength we have. This is our land, not the Jews." Most of the so-called "Palestinians" agreed with him.

Arab racism marches on...

Israel should speak out strongly against the ethnic cleansing and potential genocide taking place in Sudan today, just as I've urged it do about the atrocious Syrian occupation in Lebanon. Israel should support the rights of the Kurds to an independent state and encourage other indigenous peoples and their liberation movements.

A major element of Israel's strategic foreign policy should be based on supporting the rights of minorities in the area. Only that way, based on democratization, liberation from oppressive regimes, and encouraging freedom, will the Middle East and North Africa be transformed into a region worthy of its millennia old history.

A pre-Arab and pre-Muslim history I might add!

Ariel Natan Pasko is an independent analyst & consultant. He has a Master's Degree in International Relations & Policy Analysis. His articles appear regularly on numerous news/views and think-tank websites, in newspapers, and can be read at:


http://www.geocities.com/ariel_natan_pasko




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It can also be read at:

http://michnews.com/artman/publish/article_4241.shtml

http://www.truthnews.net/world/2004070037.htm

http://israpundit.com/archives/007409.html

http://www.jewishindy.com/article.php?sid=3634

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I think this article is a load of crap
by dannyp Monday, Jul. 05, 2004 at 10:09 PM
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I think this article is a load of crap.

I trust y'all to read this critically.

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MY MY THE BIGOTED INTOLERANCE OF COLONIAL SETTLERS...
by TRUTH FROM WHEREVER? Wednesday, Jul. 07, 2004 at 9:40 PM

WHAT I HEAR IS THE GUILT RIDDEN VOICES OF COLONIAL SETTLERS (EITHER OF YOU NATIVE AMERICANS?) I DIDN'T THINK SO...

WELL US INDIGENOUS PEOPLE (JEWS INCLUDED) ARE GOING TO RISE UP AND TAKE OUR HOMELANDS BACK...WE DID IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL...AND WE'LL HELP OTHER INDIGENOUS PEOPLE BUTT YOU STTLERS OUT !!!

ZIONISM = NATIONAL LIBERATION !!!

SUPPORT FOR ARAB (SO-CALLED PALESTINIAN) SETTLERS = IMPERIALISM !!!

SO SHUT UP WHITEY !!!

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Bones
by TheTroll Thursday, Jul. 08, 2004 at 7:26 PM

Palestine is not a Jewish homeland, even if the Hebrews did slaughter or enslave the locals to rule the land a bit longer than Roman invadors ruled the land. Suggesting that palestine is a Jewish homeland would be comparable to the descendants of Nazis saying that the Anne Frank house qualifies as a nazi homeland. The clames would be the exact same. Thier anscestors once murdered for the land.

ZIonists are so perverted that they believe the Hebrew's murderous theft of the land equates to the ZIonists having a "birthright" of murderous theft of the land too. How? Murderous theft in the past makes for a pretty piss poor pretext for ZIonists to clame they have "birthright" of murderous theft of the Palestinian's homeland.

And Jerusalem is NOT a Jewish city either. When the Romans kicked the Judeans out of the land Hebrews murdered or enslaved locals to rule, the Romans destroyed Jerusalem compleatly. 40 years later, Romans had the former slaves of judeans build a city where Jerusalem once was. Hundreds of years later, the city was remaned Jerusalem im a fit of religious nostalia. But the city was not and is not a jewish city.

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the Hague ignores victims of terrorism
by Wendy Campbell Sunday, Jul. 11, 2004 at 3:55 PM

U.N. court ruling ignores victims of terrorism

July 11, 2004

The quest for a settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has suffered an enormous setback at the hands of the International Court of Justice. In an egregious and shameful ruling against the security fence, this court would sweep aside Israel's right to defend its people. The United States must throw its full weight, including using its veto, against any U.N. effort to further the court's decision.

We know one thing for certain about the 14 members of the court backing the ruling: Their spouses don't face the threat of being blown to bits taking a bus to work. Their children weren't eviscerated with nails from bombs exploded in malls and discos. Their families weren't massacred while sitting down for a religious feast.

To give this opinion even the slightest credence is to deny the reality of the nearly four years of Yasser Arafat's terrorist war against the Israeli people. The fence is being built because Arafat refused to negotiate a settlement. It's being built because of the thirst for blood of Hamas, Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and Islamic Jihad. It's being built because Palestinian society embraces a cult of mass murder -- a poll last month by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found 68 percent of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and 53 percent in the West Bank favor suicide bombings. Of all the reasons the court's ruling is wrong, not the least is its lack of a simple, decent regard for human life. It's as simple as this: No terror, no fence.

This court had no business even taking up the issue. Thirty countries, including the United States, told the court that much last winter. It is supposed to rule only on legal -- not political -- issues brought before it by sovereign nations. Israel didn't ask for it. And thanks to Arafat's treachery, betrayals and dedication to terrorism, there is no sovereign Palestinian state. The court's action, and the U.N. machinations that are sure to follow, will only embolden Arafat in his intransigence and spur fantasies among Palestinians that can still somehow defeat the Israelis. That can only be a blow to any hopes to an eventual resumption of meaningful peace talks.

Israel, of course, isn't about to bow to the court's demand that it declare open season on the lives of its citizens. The fence has proven it saves lives; there's been a 90 percent -- 90 percent! -- drop in attacks from West Bank areas now fenced off by the barrier. That's why it's popular among Israelis on both the right and the left, though they may debate about details in its route.

Now we're going to be subjected to denunciations, grandstanding and vindictive resolutions in the U.N. General Assembly and "Security" Council. But Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli's finance minister and a former prime minister, sums it up well: The U.N. can issue any pronouncement it wants but "it won't make it legal, it won't make it true and it won't make it just."

The court has shown only that it, and not Israel's defensive fence, is illegitimate.

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