By Gilad Atzmon • Nov 28th, 2008At the time I am writing these notes it is far from being clear what really happened in Mumbai. The questions I ask myself are the same ones most everyone else is asking: Who were the attackers? Who was behind them and what did they try to achieve? However one thing is evident. The “War on Terror” is a total disaster. The so-called ‘terrorists’, whoever they are, have won. America and its allies have been defeated.
But it doesn’t stop there, throughout this war America has lost its primacy as a super power. It is now financially ruined. Its leadership is regarded by most people around the world as a solid core of evil. It doesn’t take a genius to gather that this enormous defeat is an outcome of a chain of events that started with a single orchestrated attack that took place in September 2001. To those who fail to remember, the 18 terrorists who devastated the world on 9/11 didn’t carry a nuclear bomb, they weren’t equipped with some advanced weaponry. All they carried was knifes. As bizarre as it may sound, all it took to bring the American empire down was a dozen and a half highly motivated people armed with knifes.
Unfortunately, America and Britain, on their way down, have managed to get themselves involved in some war crimes of colossal magnitude. Two million Iraqis and Afghans are dead. Many more millions are gravely wounded, millions of others are refugees. Each of these victims is a direct outcome of an illegal war launched by the Anglo American democracies.
In spite of the carnage these Anglo American colonial wars have left already, they are far from being over. For weeks we are reading about American airplanes dropping bombs on Pakistani villagers. We learn about the so-called allies targeting ‘alleged terrorist suspects’ in rural Pakistan. Evidently our elected democratic leaders see innocent Muslim civilians and villagers as disposable soft targets. Hence, it shouldn’t really take us by surprise that some people out there in the East see us as equally, subject to terror. They see us as potential soft targets. Yet, while British and American crimes are committed in our behalf, in the name of democracy, by leaders we ourselves put in power, the crimes that were committed yesterday in Mumbai were committed by an unknown body and not an elected one. The crimes in Mumbai were committed solely in the name of those who commit them. The Anglo American crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria are committed by elected governments on behalf of the British and the American people.
Terror is a message written on the wall but for some reason most Westerners fail to read it. Our enthusiasm to bring Coca-Cola to the Muslim world must be curbed immediately. We should keep our liberal democratic fantasy to ourselves, especially now when it had been proven as a faulty concept. Our insistence upon making Arabs and Muslims as stupid as us is not going to work. We must let people live their lives according to their beliefs and cultural heritage.
The British foreign minister Miliband along other politicians announced yesterday that the attack in Mumbai is an attack against Western democracy. I think that we better face it, as long as the Western democracies treat Muslims as soft targets the Western subject may be as well subject to retaliation and terror.
I would suggest Miliband and his colleagues stop immediately trying to democratise the world. Doing so would simply make this world a far safer place and by far nicer to live in.
My response to Gilad Atzmon's article follows
Gilad: It doesn’t take a genius to gather that this enormous defeat is an outcome of a chain of events that started with a single orchestrated attack that took place in September 2001. To those who fail to remember, the 18 terrorists who devastated the world on 9/11 didn’t carry a nuclear bomb, they weren’t equipped with some advanced weaponry. All they carried was knifes. As bizarre as it may sound, all it took to bring the American empire down was a dozen and a half highly motivated people armed with knifes.
My Response: What is really bizarre about this statement is that Arab pilot trainees not only carried knives, but they also managed to do the impossible, which is hit their targets with spectacular precision, for pilot trainees. The truth movement on 9-11 is growing, and growing fast, and there are so many unanswered question about 9-11.
Gilad: I would suggest Miliband and his colleagues stop immediately trying to democratise the world. Doing so would simply make this world a far safer place and by far nicer to live in.
My response: There is no people on the planet who would not choose to get ‘democratised’. It would mean that the people get to vote on how to handle their resources. ‘democratisation’ is the worst threat for the ‘democratised’ countries; for the newly ‘democratised’ countries then would have the power as a people to be in charge of their destiny and not some stooge ‘elected-for-life', as we see around the world. With a democratised world, there would be not ‘imperialism’.! No! Iraq was demolished because the former Jews of Europe in Palestine perceived it to be a threat.
Gilad: Evidently our elected democratic leaders see innocent Muslim civilians and villagers as disposable soft targets.
My response: The most significant word above is ‘Muslim’, and the questions that begs to be asked is ‘why the Muslim’? It again falls back on the former Jews of Europe who now have occupied Palestine and have adopted the name of ‘Israelis', who perceive – and rightly so- that every Muslim on the planet views them very negatively and they are sympathetic towards the besieged Palestinian people. Had the Jews of Europe occupied a land of the Hindus, then they would have perceived Hindus as a threat. The logic is not complicated at all.
Gilad: Our enthusiasm to bring Coca-Cola to the Muslim world must be curbed immediately. We should keep our liberal democratic fantasy to ourselves, especially now when it had been proven as a faulty concept. Our insistence upon making Arabs and Muslims as stupid as us is not going to work. We must let people live their lives according to their beliefs and cultural heritage.
My response: Why is ‘Coca-Cola’ destined only for the Muslim world? We must look at the frightening elephant in the house which is Jewish groups in particular and world Jewry in general. In as far world Jewry is mute on the Palestinian tragedy, a group of people known for being very vocal, objecting to injustices, and their silence on Palestine makes them complicit and and they leave no room for doubt -at least in my mind- that that they are standing in solidarity with their murdering and thieving brethren in Palestine!
[been proven as a faulty concept]. There would have been no need to prove the obvious! People would resist when they sense that 'the civilized world' is not there for the benefit of the dark-skinned people, but for the sole and only benefit of the 'civilized world'. What is it that has been proven as faulty concept? That one can bring 'civilization' to a country that was ALREADY on its way to civilization by bombing it back to the stone age?
Gilad: The British foreign minister Miliband along other politicians announced yesterday that the attack in Mumbai is an attack against Western democracy. I think that we better face it, as long as the Western democracies treat Muslims as soft targets the Western subject may be as well subject to retaliation and terror.I would suggest Miliband and his colleagues stop immediately trying to democratise the world. Doing so would simply make this world a far safer place and by far nicer to live in.
My Response: You don't certainly democratise the world via shock and awe! You don't have the indigenous people's best interest at heart when you rain bombs on Innocent civilians, destroy their infrastructures, cause tribal, religious and regional disharmony! The intention of destroying entire cities is to take them back from 'civilization' and get them crippled enough they would not resist the pillage of their resources.
Gilad: I would suggest Miliband and his colleagues stop immediately trying to democratise the world. Doing so would simply make this world a far safer place and by far nicer to live in.
My response: I would most certainly have liked for Gilad to put the word 'democratise' in quotes. That is never the intention of the West towards the dark-skinned folks of the world. There is deep-rooted racism that those dark-skinned people who own highly salivated after resources do not deserve them. It all belongs to white and civilized people. Eight million people perished in the Congo between 1998 and 2008. 8,000,000 people vanished from the planet! Congo's problems are similar to that of the Arab people, lots of resources under its soil. The way the West schemed to 'democratise' the region is to hire stooges, who are presidents-for-life who are beholden to the West. Congo is squeezed by two such Empire's stooge's: Museveni of Uganda and Paul Kagame of Rwanda. Empire has also hired another president-for-life Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia to kill Somalis on behalf of Empire. Democratization of the dark-skinned folks of the world would end the comfy lifestyles of the people of the West and - they would never allow that to happen.