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Hugh Fitzgerald: A Few Questions For Mahathir Mohamed (Part Two)

Nov 19, 2018 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

As to Israel, Mahathir Mohamed blames its existence for all the subsequent trouble in the Middle East. He says that before Israel was founded, there were no problems in the Middle East. Let’s just begin to examine that remark by looking at the Middle East today. The Sunni-Shia enmity, which dates back to the first century is Islam, is now on violent display in Yemen, in Iraq, in Syria, and in Lebanon. In Yemen, the Shi’a Houthis, supported by Iran, are fighting the Yemeni government, which is Sunni and supported by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. That conflict has been going on for several years. It has nothing to do with Israel.

In Iraq, the Sunnis who had been favored  under the rule of Saddam Hussein, have been forced to acquiesce, most unwillingly, in the loss of their political and economic power to the Shi’a Arabs, who outnumber the Sunni Arabs by 60% to 20%, with the rest of the population being Kurds and a few Christians. The continued political maneuverings in Iraq, between Sunni and Shi’a Arabs, and between Arabs and Kurds, have nothing to do with Israel.

It is the same in Syria, where the civil war that began in 2011 as a revolt against the cruel despotism of Bashar Al-Assad, and the corruption epitomized by his uncle Rami Makhlouf, inevitably took on a sectarian cast, for the Assads and Makhloufs are Alawites, a sect considered to be a branch of Shi’a Islam. The opposition to the regime was Sunni, and both Iran and the terrorists of Hezbollah aided Assad militarily, which made the war into one of Alawites and more orthodox Shia against Sunnis. Again, this war had  nothing to do with Israel.

In Lebanon, it was the same: the Hezbollah militia in recent years has became stronger than the Lebanese army, and now lords it over the other two groups that make up the Lebanese polity, the Maronites and the Sunni Arabs. In Bahrain, a Sunni ruler keeps submissive, through force, his overwhelmingly Shi’a population that has been protesting his rule; his crackdown has been enforced by thousands of Sunni troops from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. In Saudi Arabia itself, there has occasionally been unrest among the minority Shi’a who live in the oil-producing Eastern Province; these protests are quickly squashed. In Egypt, the main running conflict is between the ruling despot, General Abdelfattah El-Sisi, and the diehard Muslim Brotherhood supporters of Mohamed Morsi, whom El-Sisi deposed in a coup, but Muslim fanatics don’t forget to attack Coptic  churches, their priests, and their worshippers. Israel does not come into the picture except to share its intelligence with Egypt about Hamas, an affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood, at bases in the Sinai.

In Libya, the rival governments, one in the east and one in the west, fight on for control of the country, which was dismembered by local militias after the death of Qaddafi, who held Libya together the only way he knew how, by his murderous suppression of the slightest sign of dissent. Again, Israel has had no part either in Qaddafi’s  rise or rule or fall, or in any of the subsequent turmoil.

In Tunisia, where the Arab Spring began, the successors to Ben Ali, a greedy despot with an even greedier wife and in-laws (the extended family has a net worth of more than $10 billion), were little better than he was. However, the current government appears determined to bring real democracy and end corruption, while keeping the country relatively secular. So far, under Beji Caid Essebsi, the government has stabilized, and the country has calmed down. Again, Israel played no role.

In Algeria, there is conflict, but now no violence, over the status of the Berbers, who feel that their culture is not sufficiently recognized. Only recently was the Berber language, Tamazight, recognized in Algeria as a national language, though it is still not taught widely in the schools. The Berbers continue to protest their economic condition as being  inferior to that of the dominant Arabs, and there is a Berber movement, centered in the Kabyle region, that combines cultural nationalism with economic grievances and demands. And once more, this source of disquiet and potential conflict has nothing to do with Israel.

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  1. mike says

    Nov 19, 2018 at 10:35 am

    and MSM media refused to reports this. yet after reading the UN’s report and plan to relocate 325 million people the rules in the writing of the UN has made it against the law for this to be reported. The Governments funding would be cut off, But with the democrats and Obama made it possible for the left to cancel there licenses as well. putting the fear of god in there very existence. The ability to report the news also allows them to broadcast everything, and to operate in other countries

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 19, 2018 at 10:27 pm

      The UN does not fund the West–we, foolishly, fund the UN.

    • Phill Violette says

      Nov 20, 2018 at 1:35 pm

      You mean their not there. There is a place and their is a person

  2. Halal Bacon says

    Nov 19, 2018 at 10:36 am

    pretty sure Jews predated moHAMhead

  3. mortimer says

    Nov 19, 2018 at 11:21 am

    Scapegoating. That only works for a few years … should people be duped … after that, you must take responsibility for not FIXING THE PROBLEMS yourself.

    Arabs and lazy and backward and will not accept responsibility for anything due to their fatalism.

  4. mortimer says

    Nov 19, 2018 at 11:23 am

    Mahathir Mohamed only draws attention to the Arabs themselves when he tries through SCAPEGOATING to blame the Joooz for everything that is wrong in dysfunctional Sharia paradises and backward hellholes.

    • Lilith Wept says

      Nov 19, 2018 at 9:11 pm

      The moslems and the liberal leftists, globalists , NWO proponents and those with similar agendas, all,have done something similar……They have screamed racist, Islamophobe , bigot and accused people of lying, and intolerance , discrimination and hate crimes so many times when it was obvious that they were guilty of those things, that no people aren’t nearly so quick to pay attention or believe them when they accuse people of that now.
      You can only lie and unjustly blame people so many times before it becomes transparently obvious that you are lying and that you are doing it this for a reason. In moslems case it’s to cover their own ineptitude and for the Liberal leftist and their ilk, it’s to silence any opposition or critics of their agenda.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 19, 2018 at 10:32 pm

      Why aren’t Muslims embarrassed to claim that 1.6 billion of them are controlled by 6.5 million Jews in tiny Israel?

      Of course, most Jews only interest in ravening Muslims is for them to stop murdering Jewish people.

  5. Angemon says

    Nov 19, 2018 at 12:32 pm

    As to Israel, Mahathir Mohamed blames its existence for all the subsequent trouble in the Middle East.

    Mossad must have stolen his shoe as well…

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 19, 2018 at 10:44 pm

      Good one, Angemon!

      “UK Muslim leader Asghar Bukhari: Zionists stole my shoe”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/06/uk-muslim-leader-asghar-bukhari-zionists-stole-my-shoe

  6. mgoldberg says

    Nov 19, 2018 at 3:42 pm

    Now I could have sworn there were problems with the Ottoman Empire and the rest of the regions they assaulted and attacked, including of course Europe where they had to be repulsed again and again.
    The later days of the arabs, muslims during world war two had haj amin al husseini extolling Hitler, a mass murderer who virtues are today extolled by muslims for their desires to erase jews and judaism, and who lost thank goodness.
    Of course going back in history, the first commercial ships to entire the mediterranean from the nascent US navy were indeed attacked, sailors enslaved, killed and the goods stolen, by the muslims of the N. African nations, known as the magrib. In fact, Mr Matahir should be asked to comment upon all of that especially the reasons for the attacks issued by all these muslims throughout the ages, and as voiced to Thomas Jefferson and Johan Adams in 1789. The ambassador of all the muslim nations of N Africa
    told these two great men, who voiced their concerns over why the american ships had been attacked, goods stolen, people enslaved and murdered:
    Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, then serving as American ambassadors to France and Britain, respectively, met in 1786 in London with the Tripolitan Ambassador to Britain, Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja. These future American presidents were attempting to negotiate a peace treaty which would spare the United States the ravages of jihad piracy—murder, enslavement (with ransoming for redemption), and expropriation of valuable commercial assets—emanating from the Barbary states (modern Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, known collectively in Arabic as the Maghrib). During their discussions, they questioned Ambassador Adja as to the source of the unprovoked animus directed at the nascent United States republic. Jefferson and Adams, in their subsequent report to the Continental Congress, recorded the Tripolitan Ambassador’s justification:  

        … that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.       
    ——————-

    The Prime Minister should be reminded that there was no Israel, that all this happened due to the sharia of Mohammed, and has never actually stopped, being blamed on anything and anyone else, for as long as these 1400 yrs of Islam.

  7. gravenimage says

    Nov 19, 2018 at 10:21 pm

    Hugh Fitzgerald: A Few Questions For Mahathir Mohamed (Part Two)
    ………………….

    Muslims are slaughtering Muslims all over the Middle East, and they have been for almost a millenium and a half–but this is all the fault of little Israel, which has just been around for seventy years.

    Wow! Those Jews are sure cagey! sarc/off

  8. BC says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 6:20 am

    It is best not to pay attention to Mahathir, who as I said yesterday is both ignorant and very possibly corrupt.
    It is a sad comment on Malaysians that they have elected this dreadful old man as their leader

  9. William Harry Giles says

    Nov 20, 2018 at 11:31 am

    Assad’s people were raped, murdered, enslaved, and robbed for 1,700 years along with the Christains, Zoroastrians, and others by the Abbasids who became the Sunni Muslims. After 1700 years, it became a struggle to the death with the Sunni muslims.Every tragedy in Syria is due to their bloodthirsty, mursering, raping, and .slavery. The Sunni terror has taught Assad and his people that there is no such thing as a decent Sunni Muslim, and if they will not change, they must be killed. It is a lersson that other naive people might learn. In India, the Sunni Muslims murdered over 1 billion Hindus, and they are still oing it. That is why the Bhuddist want hem out of their country.

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