Newt Gingrich: The ex-House speaker, now a
serious contender
for the Republican nomination, appears to have irreparably
harmed
his own relations with Arabs.
Samidoon, Palestinian
Territories
'Thank You Newt Gingrich …Your Insolence is Required!'
"This excessively stupid man doesn't realize that his nation's
Arab-dictator friends are falling, one after the other, at the hands of the
Arab youth rebels... In order for it to become a former empire, the United
States needs another president like George Bush Jr. Undoubtedly,
Gingrich is perfectly suited to the task."
After 18
years of talks; the concession of over 80 percent of historic Palestine; the signing
of the Oslo accords, which lent Israel legitimacy and broke its isolation among
Arabs and around the world; and the repudiation of armed struggle as equivalent
to terrorism, here comes America with a double reward for
Palestinians. First from the hands of President Barack Obama, who refused to
allow Palestine's symbolic membership at the United Nations; and second with the
help of Newt Gingrich, the Republican presidential candidate now leading in the
polls, who considers Palestinians to be an "invented people," an
entity undeserving of the status of statehood [video in photo box, right].
Before
the futile and degrading negotiations and the abandonment of the resistance, no
U.S. official would have dared make such a statement. They would have instead been begging
Palestinians to accept a peaceful resolution and - and they would have rejected [Jewish] settlements
as an illegal practice in violation of international law. They would instead
have been pledging to help establish an independent Palestinian state.
What has
changed? ... The Americans haven't changed. It is us, with our own surrender;
and it is the Arabs who, having grown increasingly hypocritical toward Jews and
Israelis, have throw themselves at their feet, literally killing themselves to
please them.
Gingrich
is capable of holding this position, safe in the confidence that it won't hurt him.
Because Arabs simply don't lie at the heart if his country's interests. And in
any case, the Palestinian authority still considers the U.S. a strategic ally, flirting
with American envoys who flood Ramallah carrying
formulas for reviving the peace process.
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When
the Palestinian people turn away from being a people of fighters to a people
who beg; when their security forces work with their Israeli counterparts to
protect settlements from resistance operations, helping make the Israeli
occupation the least costly in history - why wouldn’t Gingrich and his ilk go
beyond the extremism of even Netanyahu, and like him, falsify history and geography?
The fault isn't that of Gingrich, Netanyahu or Barack Obama. The defect
lies within us Arabs - and I mean the Arabs despot and not the Arab revolutionary.
Those Arabs despots humiliated Arab citizens when they prostrated themselves before
the Americans and Israelis. This was done under the banner of pragmatism, realism
and the balance of power. They mocked the people by exploiting their wealth and
lands in the service of the hegemonic plans of the U.S. and Israel. And they participated
with the United States in every one of its wars against Arabs and Muslims - with
an enthusiasm that amazed even Americans.
In the United
States there are three key "lobbies." The first is the Israel lobby; the
second is the oil lobby; and the third is the weapons manufacturing lobby. Some
add a fourth lobby, which the senior citizen lobby.
At a glance
it can be said that the two biggest "lobbies," the weapons and oil
lobbies, are entirely dependent on the Arabs, their oil and the transactions
that derive from them. Nevertheless, we have no impact at all on U.S. foreign policy.
Ironically, the Republican Party is the traditional friend and
ally for most Arabs, particularly the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The relief felt
in the halls of Riyadh after the George W. Bush's electoral victory could
scarcely have been equaled within the Republican Party itself. When the U.S. Supreme
Court declared Bush the winner, one senior Saudi official was heard to say, “We're in charge.”
Gingrich is quite familiar with history and he doesn't need me or
anyone to remind him that Palestine existed thousands of years before America
was discovered. But what we might draw his attention to, is that the collapse
of his nation's empire will begin in the land of Arabs and Muslims. His
nation's policies see the Islamic and Arab world through the prism of
Israeli extremism alone - which is what led to defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan, the
loss of a trillion dollars, 5,000 dead and 40,000 wounded. But the defeat to
come will be much bigger - the coming days will prove it.
In
order for it to become a former empire, the U.S. needs another president like
George Bush Jr. Undoubtedly, Gingrich is perfectly suited to the task, as was
amply demonstrated with the announcement if his choice for secretary of state.
He would appoint John Bolton, one of the most prominent Iraq and Afghanistan
war hawks and architect of Bush's policies in the Muslim world.
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Blinded
by vanity brought on by a fawning Israel-Jewish lobby, Gingrich is unable to
see the reality of politics, to say nothing of the historic changes underway in
the Arab region and world. That is our good luck and Israel’s bad - since this
excessively stupid man doesn't realize that his nation's Arab-dictator friends are
falling, one after the other, at the hands of the Arab youth rebels. And he
doesn't seem aware that President Obama has withdrawn all of his troops from
Iraq in recognition of defeat; nor does Gingrich seem to know that Obama is
preparing to repeat the exercise after a humiliating, ten year war of attrition
in Afghanistan.
Personally,
I was overjoyed after reading Gingrich’s remarks, and I became even happier
when he insisted on repeating them. We need someone like him to pour more fuel
onto the flames of popular the popular Arab revolts and to awake some of the
deeper sleepers in the Arab region.
The
Palestinian Authority condemned the statements, described them as foolish and
shameful and demanded an apology. That position is a shame, because the logical
response would be for hundreds of thousands of people to enter the streets of
Ramallah and cities on the West Bank and elsewhere to protest and express their
anger.
It is a
shame that as Arab youth everywhere are restoring their stolen honor by demanding
justice and democratic change, Palestinian youth is daydreaming, waiting for a
state that will only come to be through resistance. Not by begging for help and
waiting for a monthly paycheck.
