Knight on the wrong horse

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By Marwan ibn Faisal ibn Abdullah, Special to Arab News
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Wed, 2002-11-13 03:00

Talk about backing the wrong horse! Come on Boucher, et al, give freedom of expression a break. Sole superpower the US of A undeniably is. Leader of the “free world”, “democracy”, “free speech” and “freedom of expression”, apparently no longer. Certainly not with a single standard. How can the global Knight in shining armour complain about a “Knight With No Horse” when the horseless knight and cohorts portray their extended neighbors as knights of darkness night and day. In case the mouthpiece of the globe’s beacon doesn’t see the light, please allow me to elucidate.

The US entertainment industry and media (which we all know is not, cannot be, controlled by Zionists and pro-Zionists — the Aarons to Zimmermans are surely coincidence) stereotype and vilify Arabs and Muslims day-in, day-out, in movies, books, mainstream publications and talk shows, with no regard to history, actuality, or factuality. Spin this way, spin that way, distort, convolute, improvise, bastardize, it’s all there. Let’s not even get into what is said and portrayed in the darling ally, the only regional democracy of democracies, about their neighbors. Heck, they teach their own kids that there was nobody around a few decades ago, right as they sit in the very usurped homes of the ghost people who purportedly were never there. But, then, the Palestinians took a different evolutionary approach. They didn’t evolve the way the rest of us did. It seems that they metamorphose directly from cells in the soil. Darn! Darwin, where art thou? Where do you get off trying to smother the freedom of speech, expression, opinion, and artistic work of a local TV production, whether factual or fictional, while decades-worth of productions demonizing, stereotyping and vilifying “Red Injuns,” “Japs,” “Gerries,” “Vietcong,” “Arab Shieks” and on, and on, live in the memories of millions and are on video shelves for the renting? And please don’t give us the sob story about the Elders of the Protocols of Zion being used as the basis for pogroms and the Holocaust, not when those very events (sad as they were, and promoting of egalitarianism as they should have been) were the pretexts for repeat brutality, eviction, murder, plunder, and apartheid by the Zionists against Palestinians. By perpetuating injustices done to them, Zionists have unwittingly (perhaps not) legitimized original sin. No one is surprised that the Israelis would object to this work. They’re prone to barking. Besides, if they object to something, there’s got to be at least some right in it.

But for the US State Department to take it up on their behalf? Especially when it flies in the face of the very freedoms the US purportedly stands for? Well, did it work? Now everybody is dying to see it. You sure saved the promoters millions in advertising. Don’t be so easily beguiled. Fact and fiction have long been blended in the land of Zion, elders and youngers. Want a sample? Anything that’s termed anti-Semitic probably isn’t. The terms Semite and Semitic have been hijacked by the same group who hijacked US foreign policy in the region. You see, Arabs are Semites, as are the Jews, as were the Assyrians, Aramaeans, Canaanites and Phoenicians. The original Semites were farmers in Arabia, descendants of Noah’s son Sam (Biblical Shem). So, technically, Arabs can’t really be anti-Semitic, can they?

Except, possibly, in works of fiction. But, then, we don’t control the world of fiction, do we? It’s no surprise when Zionists attempt to portray Arabs or Muslims as being “anti-Semitic.” It makes me cringe, though, when a rabid Zionist brands a Jewish brother an “anti-Semite.” Are the Zionists chocking the life out of Jews truer to their faith? Or is that as fictional as the Protocols?

Arab News Features 13 November 2002

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