[Marxism] Mahathir Mohamad on Obama's Cairo speech

[David Thorstad <binesi@xxxxxxxxx>]

 OBAMA'S CAIRO SPEECH

By Dr. Mahathir Mohamad
on June 8, 2009 4
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1. Finally Obama, the black President of the United States has made his 
much awaited speech outlining his views and policies on Islam, the 
Muslims and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is a carefully crafted 
speech and certainly it is different from those of George W. Bush or 
even other US Presidents.

2. The arrogance and the preachings are out but two things American 
still stand out, and that is the United States is a world super power 
and that American loyalty to Israel is undiminished. Other things can 
change but not these two.

3. Hamas is asked to give up terrorism because like the struggles of the 
blacks of America and South Africa, violence achieves nothing. This is 
not quite true, at least with other national struggles for freedom and 
justice. The white Americans themselves fought a war against the British 
and another war to prevent the break-up of the United States.
4. Elsewhere the struggles for freedom and justice e.g. the French 
Revolution and the Russian Revolution just to name two, all involve 
violence.

5. It is not the Palestinians who choose violence. It was the Jews who 
violently seized Palestinian land, massacred the Arabs and expelled them 
from their country. With no one prepared to restrain the Jews, the 
beleaguered Palestinians had to resort to violence. The world, the 
United Nations, even fellow Muslims have deserted them.

6. I am against violence but when Israel seized more Palestinian land, 
build settlements, impose military rule, divide the Palestinians with 
high walls, barred the Palestinians from using roads built by the 
Israelis on Palestinian territory, denied the Palestinian right to a 
homeland, denied the right of return of the expelled Palestinian while 
upholding the rights of return of Jews who for centuries had been 
citizens of other countries, labelled Palestinia ns as terrorists while 
exonerating the Israelis for the massive attacks on Gaza and other 
places, left the Palestinians helpless when attacked by the 
Western-armed Israeli Military Forces, incarcerated thousands of 
Palestinians in Israeli jails, unnecessarily provoke the Palestinians by 
Sharon's visit to Jerusalem and many, many more assaults and 
provocations, is it any wonder that the Palestinians resorted to violence?

7. And now they are asked to stop violence to respect agreements. But 
what about the Israelis? Shouldn't they be told to stop their massive 
violence; shouldn't they be told to respect agreements and all the UN 
resolutions, such as those against their setting up settements on 
Palestinian soil, the occupation of land beyond the UN set boundaries 
for Israel?

8. Obama stresses America's strong bond with Israel. It is unbreakable. 
He recognises the aspiration for a Jewish homeland "rooted in a tragic 
history that cannot be denied".

9. But what is the tragic history? It is that of European persecution of 
the Jew s, of the regular pogroms culminating in the Holocaust? It is 
not the doings of the Muslims. Certainly not the doings of the 
Palestinians.The tragedy was caused by the Europeans through the ages.

10. Obama must know that before there was the United States, the Jews 
invariably fled to Muslim countries to seek refuge from European 
persecution. The Muslims did not turn them back. Before Israel there 
were millions of Jews in Muslim land. Even today quite a few are still 
there.

11. The Muslims have never been part of the tragic history of the Jews. 
Why then must they pay the price for the tragedy caused by the 
Europeans? Had the Europeans offered part of Europe or America for a 
Jewish state, there would not be the sustained violence that we see in 
West Asia. But the Europeans expropriated Arab Palestinian land to give 
to the Jews. Can an injustice in West Asia atone for injustice in 
Europe? The Muslim Arabs have to pay for the asylum they provided the 
Jews by having their land taken away to give to the Jews.

12. To make matters worse the Palestinian Arabs, Christians and Muslims, 
were violently expelled from Palestine. Israel is to be a racist state 
for Jews only.

13. America accepts people of different races and religious 
affiliations. But it supports the exclusivity of Israel as a Jewish state.

14. The Palestinians had tried conventional ways of getting back their 
land. But conventional ways had failed. They have been forsaken by Arab 
and Muslim countries. Everytime they try on their own they lose more 
land because the Europeans and Americans gave military support to Israel.

15. It is only after the failure of conventional wars of liberation that 
they resorted to unconventional attacks. Can they be blamed? Even the 
tiny mouse when driven into a corner will fight literally with tooth and 
nail.

16. We can label the methods of the cornered Palestinians terrorism. But 
they are themselves terrified and th ose who inflict terror on them 
cannot be less of a terrorist than the m. State terrorism is no less 
terrifying than terrorism by irregulars. Indeed State terrorism is more 
terrifying as we witnessed in Nazi Germany and in Cambodia.

17. I will admit that Obama has brought change. It is a relief after 
eight years of Bush. But there is an area that he cannot change and that 
is the blind support for Israel. He has no choice. He will become a 
one-term President of the United States if he does not.

18. For all the talk about democracy in America, the American majority 
have no power to choose their President or their Government. That power 
lies with Israel. They can deny this. But that is the truth. The 
Americans have become the proxy of the Jews. The Americans will pay a 
heavy price for this.


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