The former British diplomat and MI6 agent, Alastair Crooke (born 1950), in his recent article, title Tourists in Washington: anatomy of an European Middle East failure confirms what many unbaised commentators on the US and European submissive foreign policy have been saying for a long time – that Washington is not an ‘honest broker’ in the Middle East.
“Any thought that a (two-state) ‘Palestine solution’ would defuse anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world is likely to prove to be a chimera,” wrote Alastair Crooke, who is founder and director of the Conflicts Forum. Alastair Crooke focus mostly on the conflicts in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan. In 2006, he wrote a 4-part research article, titled How Hizbullah defeated Israel.
Alastair Crooke believes that Israel’s definition of the ‘two-state’ is not what the US and EU are telling the Palestinians. The Zionist-regime, even if agreed under pressure from its donors – is not going to resolve much – as Israel wants to see a Palestinian state in which “the West Bank would stay as it is currently – as would Gaza. And the external refugees would molder on, in some form of unfunded, unresolved international limbo”. The Arab East Jerusalem would continued to be Judaized.
“The Europeans went to Washington to mitigate American policies; but, like many before who made the journey hoping to change Washington, they have been changed by Washington. European leaders became covert implementers of ‘alleviated occupation’ for Palestinians and parties to the suppression of Palestinian dissent to this imposition. It is not surprising that their discourse presents all the symptoms of Schizophrenia,” wrote Alastair Crooke.
Ironically, Crooke, sometimes, himself, also falls into the ”western schizophrenia’ by calling Islamists “radicals” who propagate “political Islam”. These allegations are based on westerners’ ignorance of Islam and Zionists’ projection of Islam through western mass media. In reality, Islam dosen’t divide the faith between God and Cessar as the Bible does. Holy Qur’an teaches that all Allah’s messengers, from Adam to Muhammad (pbuh) came to establish “God’s Kingdom” and not the “Lobby’s Kingdom”. Islam is not a religion like Judaism, Christianity or Hinduism – because it commands obedience from its Believers from ‘craddle to grave’ within the guidelines established by the Creator (Allah) via His Final Revelation (Holy Qur’an) and as practiced by the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), known as ‘Islamic Shari’ah’. State governance (politics) is as much part of Islam as is the daily prayers or Zakat. The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), himself, acted as the Head of the first Islamic State of Medina.
Islamists have no attention of exporting the so-called “political Islam” to the countries where Muslims are in minority – but it’s fair for them to try to live according to the tenets of their faith where they form the mojority. After all – Christians, Hindus and Jews have been doing the same under the smoke-screen of secularism and democracy.
The ‘western schizophrenia’ has nothing to do with religion of Islam – but some future threat to the Zionist cancer in the Middle East. The American award-winning investigating reporter, journalist and author, Max Blumenthal (born 1977), hits the nail in the right coffin in his article The Great Islamophobic Crusade.
“The Islamophobic crusade was launched in earnest at the peak of George W. Bush’s prestige when the neoconservatives and their allies were riding high. In 2003, three years after the collapse of President Bill Clinton’s attempt to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian issue and in the immediate wake of the invasion of Iraq, a network of Jewish groups, ranging from ADL and the American Jewish Committee to AIPAC, gathered to address what they saw as a sudden rise in pro-Palestinian activism on college campuses nationwide. That meeting gave birth to the David Project, a campus advocacy group led by Charles Peters, who had co-founded CAMERA, one of the many outfits bankrolled by Chernick. With the help of public relations professionals, Peters conceived a plan to “take back the campus by influencing public opinion through lectures, the Internet, and coalitions,” as a memo produced at the time by the consulting firm McKinsey and Company stated.
In 2004, after conferring with Martin Kramer, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the pro-Israel think tank where Chernoff had served as a trustee, Peters produced a documentary film that he called Columbia Unbecoming. It was filled with claims from Jewish students at Columbia University claiming they had endured intimidation and insults from Arab professors. The film portrayed that New York City school’s Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures as a hothouse of anti-Semitism.
It was evident from the involvement of figures like Gravers and Spencer that the Islamophobic network in the United States represented a trans-Atlantic expansion of simmering resentment in Europe. There, the far-right was storming to victories in parliamentary elections across the continent in part by appealing to the simmering anti-Muslim sentiments of voters in rural and working-class communities. The extent of the collaboration between European and American Islamophobes has only continued to grow with Geller, Spencer, and even Gingrich standing beside Europe’s most prominent anti-Muslim figure, Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, at a rally against Cordoba House. In the meantime, Geller was issuing statements of support for the English Defense League, a band of unreconstructed neo-Nazis and former members of the whites-only British National Party who intimidate Muslims in the streets of cities like Birmingham and London…….”
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