I was recently given the book “The Jewish Phenomenon” by Steven Silbiger. It disturbed me, and I will tell you why.
I have been observing for a number of years the growth in prominence of members of the Jewish community in the US. This prominence has been recently magnified in a way that is eerily familiar.
You see, the Americans usually pump up those they plan to chop off at the knees.
Newspaper articles, magazine and television interviews, media coverage of all kinds, building up to a crescendo similar to the rising roar of the crowds in the Roman arena, just before the emperor turned his thumb down to signal the death of an unfortunate gladiator.
President Bush and his Strangelovian colleagues of the neoconservative movement are the culmination of a long process whereby the American far right is attempting the hijack of the United States. This can only be done by subverting the democratic process and perverting the US Constitution.
Unfortunately, some members of the Jewish community have supported this attempt in the belief that the state of Israel will be better served by a US firmly in the grip of the far right. These Likudniks, as they are sometimes called, are not looking to ensure the survival of the state of Israel, since realistically this is not an issue, but rather, they are striving to use the Pax Americana to impose Israel’s hegemony over the entire Middle East (from Morocco to Afghanistan).
This is a very grave error. I am reminded of a sailor walking down the gangplank and about to fall into shark-infested waters.
But I believe the current administration will fail in its objectives.
This prediction is not based on elaborate flow charts or reams of studies by prominent think tanks but on common sense (a virtue singularly lacking in today’s White House). This will lead, inevitably, to the mother of all blowbacks.
Guess who will be used to divert the wrath of the American people away from their leaders?
Who will be the fall guys?
So, dear cousins, if you hear a snap in two or three years, it will probably be the sound of the trap shutting on your collective necks.
You have been warned.
Arab News Opinion 13 July 2003
