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There They Go Again, Those Arab Racists
By Ariel Natan Pasko
There they go again. The story is so old already. Arab militia or Arab army
or Arab terrorist attacks non-Arab. Or was that Muslim fanatic attacks
non-Muslim? This time it's happening in Sudan.
While we're sitting and talking probably a few hundred more black Africans
in Sudan have starved to death, or been brutally killed, raped, enslaved, or
simply pushed off their land by 7th century Arab imperialist invaders, or
more rightly "Arab Settlers".
Oh yes, that's right "Arab settlers"...
Like the ones Saddam Hussein brought into Kurdistan - i.e. the Kurdish areas
of northern Iraq in the 1970's - to displace the indigenous Kurds, during
his forced Arabization campaign. Forcibly relocating many Kurds from the
Kurdish heartland in the north, he razed all Kurdish villages along a
1,300-kilometer stretch of the border with Iran.
Now Sudan is doing the same thing.
While Arab militiamen known as the Janjaweed, rape, slaughter and drive out
over a million black Africans from their homes in western Sudan, the
government in Khartoum turns a blind eye. The Janjaweed have killed about
30,000 people and left some 2 million in desperate need of aid, or there
will be humanitarian disaster. The Janjaweed has been described as an Arab
Islamic group that has targeted mostly black Christians. According to some
reports, the Sudanese government itself armed and paid the militia of Arab
raiders, and authorized them to slaughter and drive out members of the
Zaghawa, Masalit and Fur tribes.
This has all taken place under the watchful eye of Kofi Annan, the UN, Colin
Powell, the US, the European Union, and 20-something Arab League states. I
can understand the Arab states turning a blind eye to the ethnic cleansing
campaign underway (or impending genocide?), it doesn't look good having
"Arab Settlers" butchering people. But why haven't Annan and
Powell, sons of the African continent, gone ballistic? After all, it is
their black brothers who are getting it, from the Arabs this time. And what
about the Europeans who are always so "human rights" oriented when
it comes to Israel, why not on the African continent?
Sudanese President Omar Bashir pledged to US officials to disarm the
Janjaweed and other militias, but he's promised that before...
Jan Egeland, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, complained that the United
Nations was slow to act in Darfur, where aid workers say about 350,000
people could die this year of disease or malnutrition. He also blamed
Khartoum for lack of action in aiding the refugees.
A typical UN do-goody, Egeland seems to have overlooked the fact that the
Sudanese government might have deliberately caused this problem. It's a
typical Arab/Muslim land grab. It's happened in Iraq, it's happened in
Lebanon with Syria occupying Lebanon and persecuting the Christians there,
and it's happened in Israel, where 7th century Arab imperialist invaders and
20th century Arab squatters have tried to displace the indigenous Jewish
population.
Arab Settlers, and they're violent at that...
Describing the pogrom-like atmosphere, one woman told how the Janjaweed
entered the village. She said, "The Janjaweed shouted, 'We will not
allow blacks here. We will not let Zaghawa here. This land is only for
Arabs.'"
Another woman described how the Janjaweed took her and her two sisters away
on horses and gang-raped them. The raiders shot one sister, and cut the
throat of the other, they then discussed how to mutilate her. "One
Janjaweed said, 'You belong to me. You are a slave to the Arabs, and this is
the sign of a slave,'" she recalled. He slashed her leg with a sword
before letting her hobble away, stark naked.
"First the planes were flying over us and bombing us. Then the
Janjaweed came," a third woman described. "They started to shoot
and burn. They took all our belongings. They took men and slit their throats
with swords. The women they took as concubines."
The situation is so horrendous, that the former editor, Abd al-Rahman
Al-Rashed, of a prestigious Arab daily "al-Sharq al-Awsat"
(London), recently published an op-ed titled, "The Death of 300,000
People." In the article, al-Rashed decried the Arab media's apathy to
the violence in Sudan.
al-Rashed wrote, "They are not the victims of Israeli or American
aggression; therefore, they are not an issue for concern...Is the life of
1,000 people in western Sudan less valuable, or is a single killed
Palestinian or Iraqi of greater importance, merely because the enemy is
Israeli or American?"
He continued, "It is a grave matter that government-sponsored forces or
militias should be allowed to carry out the annihilation of people in order
to achieve quick or decisive victory...As for Arab intellectuals who see
nothing in the world but the Palestinian and the Iraqi causes, and who
consider any blood not spilled in conflicts with foreigners to be cheap and
its spilling justifiable, they are intellectual accomplices in the
crime."
What does all this have to do with Israel?
Well, as I wrote back in March 2004, (Israel Should Support the Kurds
Against Syria):
"As the discussion of democratization of the Middle East continues, an
important point that must be made time and time again, is the importance in
building structures that liberate the minorities of the region from
oppression.
Non-Arab and Non-Muslim minorities live throughout North Africa and the
Middle East. Contrary to the propaganda that the region is Arab/Muslim,
these minorities are remnants of the indigenous peoples, before the great
Arab imperialist wars of the 7th century, and "Islamicization
process" that followed. Non-Arab Muslims like the Kurds in Iraq, Syria,
Turkey, and Iran; the Berbers - known as Amazighes - in Morocco, Algeria,
Tunisia, and Libya, have all resisted Arabization for over 1,000 years.
Non-Muslims like the Assyrian Christians in Iraq - who argue that they are
not Arabs - the Copts in Egypt, Christian Lebanese - many who claim not to
be Arab but Phoenician - the Christians in Sudan, and other Christians
throughout the region, have been persecuted minorities, since the rise of
Islam. Others like the Druze and Jews have also been persecuted by
Arab/Muslim regimes throughout history..."
"Only Israel, the Jewish State, has fully liberated itself - in the
political sense - from this Arab/Muslim oppression, although it still
suffers from physical violence against her people. Israel should take the
lead - in it's foreign policy - to support democratization and regime change
throughout the region. Israel shouldn't wait until countries of the region
reform, but should pro-actively support the legitimate aspirations of the
oppressed minorities of North Africa and the Middle East, and build
alliances with them."
Since writing those words, news of Israeli security cooperation in the
Kurdish areas of Iraq has leaked out. Although denied by all involved, I can
only hope that it's true and that the Mossad is listening. It should begin
to branch out to work with other minorities throughout the region as well.
I haven't yet mentioned the so-called "Palestinians," and I won't
beyond saying, that they are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Aren't they an oppressed minority? No, as Arabs, they are part of the
greater Arab Nation who since the 7th century has conquered, oppressed, and
occupied everyone else in the Middle East and North Africa. As radical
Muslims, everyone can see that Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the other terror
groups are continuing down the same path as Bin Laden. In fact, not long
before his assassination, Hamas "spiritual leader" Sheikh Yassin
had begun speaking about the "Global Jihad" in Bin Laden and
al-Qaeda type terms. Hezbollah has also been working in the
"Palestinian" administered territories for a while already, as
evidenced by Israel's recent capture of a Hezbollah cell in Gaza. So, they
are part of the regional oppression network, not the future liberty and
freedom alliance that Israel should work to build with other minorities in
the area.
Like that Arab murderer in Sudan who said, "This land is only for
Arabs," the late Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi said not long before
his demise, "We will continue with our holy war and resistance until
every last criminal Zionist is evicted from this land. By G-d we will not
leave one Jew alive in Palestine. We will fight them with all the strength
we have. This is our land, not the Jews." Most of the so-called
"Palestinians" agreed with him.
Arab racism marches on...
Israel should speak out strongly against the ethnic cleansing and potential
genocide taking place in Sudan today, just as I've urged it do about the
atrocious Syrian occupation in Lebanon. Israel should support the rights of
the Kurds to an independent state and encourage other indigenous peoples and
their liberation movements.
A major element of Israel's strategic foreign policy should be based on
supporting the rights of minorities in the area. Only that way, based on
democratization, liberation from oppressive regimes, and encouraging
freedom, will the Middle East and North Africa be transformed into a region
worthy of its millennia old history.
A pre-Arab and pre-Muslim history I might add!