[Marxism] will Arab regimes pay a price for their complicity with Israel?

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Why Gaza's Message Is Threatening To Some?
 
By Abu Al-Sous (Salah Mansour)* 
The Israeli war on Gaza hasn't been only unprecedented in its ferocity, but  
it has been unprecedented in the support it received from the so called  
"Moderate" Arab Regimes** as well. In all circles, the Israeli attack was  
expected 
but not with this ferocity, however, the open alliance between the  
"Moderate" Arab Regimes with the Israeli policy makers never been this clear 
and  
obvious.  
Early 2006, Palestinians in the West Bank and especially in the Gaza Strip  
voted overwhelmingly for Hamas in a transparent and a fair election that was  
monitored by the former US President Carter. In response, all Western Powers  
(European Union and the United States), the "Moderate" Arab Regimes, and the  
Israelis conspired to topple the newly elected government (see related articles 
 section for details). As a first response, the Israeli government jailed all 
the  elected Hamas' representatives in the West Bank and Western Powers 
started all  sorts of blockade against the freely elected government. I'm not a 
fan 
of Hamas  or its agenda, however, I believe it's critical to understand why 
these Arab  leader joined the Western Powers & Israel in a conspiracy to oust 
the freely  elected Palestinian Government. To simply say they are puppets in 
hands of  Israel and Western powers is not good enough, there must be more to 
it than  that. 
Since the "Moderate" Arab Regimes' hold on power is based on very little  
popular support (mostly imposed on the Arab people by the Western Powers), they 
 
perceive Gaza's messages of democracy, hope, resistance, rule of law, and 
above  all accountability & transparency as an existential threat to their 
shaky  
& undemocratic rule; it scares them that this message of hope could spread  
beyond the Gaza Strip. No other reason explains why President Mahmoud Abbas and 
 
the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak are passionately closing ranks with 
their  Israeli counterparts. This explains why the Israeli Air Force has first 
targeted  the instruments that Hamas uses to enforce the rule of law, such as 
police  stations, prisons, courts, justice & education ministries, fuel depots, 
and  Universities. The primary reason behind the latest war on Gaza is make  
Palestinians submit to their will regardless if Hamas is power or not. Prior to 
 
Hamas' election to power early 2006, it was Yasser Arafat who was targeted 
with  similar policies because he refused to submit to Israeli and Western 
dictates,  and because of that he was branded as an obstacle to "peace". 
The people in the Middle East lost hope in Westerners' call for human rights, 
 liberty, and democracy; sadly Westerners are the first to run from their 
ideals  and principals when their interests are at stake. Their primary 
interests 
in the  Middle East are simple: protecting Israel by all possible means and 
having a  secure access to Middle Eastern oil; promoting liberty, human rights, 
and  democracy are by far secondary. On the other hand, what has been 
shocking and  humiliating to me as an Arab is how the "Moderate" Arab Regimes 
are 
flocking to  support the Israeli government in its attack on our people in 
Gaza. 
In my humble  opinion, this could be a signal that they are disparate; they 
are almost in  panic mode; this is unprecedented. 
Since the blockade on Gaza has been fruitless up to this point, the  
conspirators opted for the usage of Israeli Army to weaken, if not, destroy  
Hamas' 
rule. The urgency to act quickly might have be driven with the fact the  the 
clock is running out on Mr. Abbas' and Mr. Bush's presidencies. I also  suspect 
that the conspirators are worried that the President elect Obama may not  be as 
accommodating as Mr. Bush since he will be focusing on the financial melt  
that hit the US recently. I believe the America's military and financial  
weakness will reflect negatively on its foreign policy, especially in the 
Middle  
East. 
Finally, I like to end this short article by reminding the reader of what 
_David  Ben-Gurion_ 
(http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Famous-Zionist-Quotes/Story638.html)  
(the 1st Israeli PM) wrote in his diary on November 11, 
1948: 

"Let us recognize the truth: we won not because we performed  wonders, but 
because the Arab army is rotten. Must this rottenness persist  forever?" 
(_Simha 
 Flapan_ 
(http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Palestine-Remembered/Story814.html) , 
p. 238)

I believe Arab rottenness which Ben-Gurion spoke of may have started to  
reached its limits; I am afraid we're witnessing the early signs of a political 
 
tsunamis that could transform the Middle East. 
* Salah Mansour is the founder and editor of _PalestineRemembered.com_ 
(http://palestineremembered.com/) ,  the largest Palestinian online community.
** Often Western Media parades Arab  Dictators as Moderate Regimes because 
they serve Western Powers' interests in  the Middle East. It should be noted 
that there is nothing moderate about these  regimes, they are radicals and 
extremist especially when it comes to corruption,  common use of torture, 
deployment 
of the intelligence services in walks of life,  and filling up their prisons 
systems.
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