Hoder Fatwa?! (a.k.a. My Zionist Friend)
It’s not going to be long before we hear another fatwa, well; we never fall short of them, did we?
This time, I’m sure it will be titled; “Kill Hoder The Kafer”. But who is Hoder, and why this fatwa?
Hoder is an Iranian blogger (based in Canada) which I meet in London during last GVO meeting. He is also a member of our Global Voices - Middle East & North Africa team. He is a very well known peace activist, especially when it comes to issues related to Iran. Yet, he is not one that American regime likes.
He is planning to make his first visit to Israel today. A visit which he describes as breaking a major taboo.
This might mean that I won’t be able to go back to Iran for a long time, since Iran doesn’t recognize Israel, has no diplomatic relations with it, and apparently considers traveling there illegal. Too bad, but I don’t care. Fortunately, I’m a citizen of Canada and I have the right to visit any country I want.
Big bang! In the few coming days, the media will go crazy about covering this story, positively and negatively. But one can guess how Iran will react. Mullah’s will not miss the chance for a new round of fatwa’s, and you can guess what it will carry.
Meanwhile, the gray media will make its best to show the world that Iran is evil, in spite that Hoder is Iranian, and his mission is as Iranian blogger/activist, not as Canadian or something else, keep that in mind.
Well, I don’t envy Hoder now (but I envy him for being with Lisa), although I really wish to make a visit to Israel, but I would prefer to go through the checkpoints of the Occupied Territories rather than going through cozy gates of Ben Gurion airport… Why? Because if peace has to take a chance, we have to remove the barriers, not jump over them!
Also, before the media goes mad about this, we have to keep in mind that; although Israel, the West and many parts of the world (including me as part of this world), do not like the Iranian regime, but this administration was elected by the majority of its people. Democracy! Heard that? Majority of its people!
I’m not going to claim to be an expert in Iranian issues, but we can criticize the mistakes of a regime, we can call them all what we think they are based on the media and NGO’s reports that leak from here and there, but at the end of the day, the Iranian crowed supports that administration, with all its faults. While Hoder represent? Of course the peaceful wing, tolerant side of the Iranian community. After all, he is in a peaceful mission.
But does this count? I’m afraid that soon the media will bury Hoder story and focus back on Iran nuclear program. Not that the nuclear program of Iran is not a threat to the region, but is it the only one/threat?
I’m just being realistic, and wishing Hoder all the best in his trip, and hoping not to hear anything from the mouths of the Mullahs.
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Below is an impression I would love to share,
particularly with Jewish members on this list. It is a
most disturbing impression that can only be
ameliorated through collegial discourse, in my view.
So I offer it to this list in hope of promoting
discussion instead of slander. Reason can change my
views as they are fraught with alarm that would
appreciation pacification.
The “Big Red Scare” days of the Cold War were heady
days, especially for the once Leninist neocons turned
anti-Red propagandists publishing in CIA sponsored
media directed at the Left. But those days are gone
and many rich careers made in the Conservative
Movement fighting the “Red Menace” came to a crashing
end. Trade names for think-tanks, publications,
publishing houses and other assets could be bought for
a nickle on the dollar as the Corporate Establishment
and CIA ceased funding of the “Red Scare” propaganda
machine and the well payed “experts” had to scramble
in search of real jobs.
Many proved to be as good at scholarship and writing
as at their past trade of scare propaganda and they
found a niche for themselves in academia. But for the
neocons it proved business as usual, for they were
able to move from the “Big Red Scare” to the “Big
Green Scare.” Green is the color of Islam and the
neocons managed to parley venture capital from
right-wing Zionist extremist entrepreneurs into a “War
on Terror” fighting the new Islam scare. Indeed,
deeming the Cold War “World War III,” they declared
“World War IV” on Islam:
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/podhoretz.htm
To be sure, the internationally waged Zionist campaign
to label all Islamists “Jihadists” is not new. In its
desperate effort to impede global recognition of the
Palestinians as a people with national aspirations,
the Israeli Government funded lavishly with American
aid-funds all sorts of front organizations that
depicted every act of terror a tactical battle in the
GLOBAL Islamist War on the West. Recently, Israeli
operative Bernard Lewis was honored on his 90th
birthday as the first to warn of a new war of the
worlds– to the death– between Islam and Christianity
which they say he dubbed, a Clash of Civilizations,
not Huntington, the author of a book by the same name.
Nowhere was his past personal history as agent of an
interested party ever mentioned, after all, a basic
tenet of this operation is the “Don’t show, don’t
tell” inability on the part of us “dumb goyim”
Christians to recognize the bias behind his
“scholarship.”
To be sure, the neocons would be quick to point out,
9/11 has more than signaled the existence of such a
“clash of civilizations.”– but with ALL of Islam?
Here again, as in their past Cold War propaganda, the
neocons relied on their true and tried tactic of
“don’t show, don’t tell,” for we are deemed “dumb
goyim” who will not look behind the blaring slogans.
The fact is that we, the Christian World, came to
Islam to conquer it after it had collapsed as a power,
not the other way around. And, armed by Stalin,
European Jews created out of nothing the state of
Israel. Instead of making the Germans pay for the
Holocaust, we, in fact, made the Arabs pay and pay
dearly; the most helpless Palestinians, according to
Benny Morris, the Zionist historian, suffered a cruel
invasion that caused some more idealistic Israelis to
name it “Zionazi” for its exterminationist tactics of
ethnic cleansing. That 1948 event is, right or wrong,
at the root
of 9/11, as well as our imperial protection of our
“cheap oil” through corrupt regimes we back and
protect against their own subjects.
Through parthenogenesis (eg. self-replication) a
plethora of organization was created by a hand full of
neocons, much as they did as one time Leninists, to
give the impression of a heterogeneous “united front”
of view points. For them, 9/11 was not as much of a
God-sent as was the coalition they managed to make
with the Fundamentalist Christians who believe that
the Day of Rapture will only come AFTER Israel comes
to dominate the Middle East. Coalition with these
“Christian Zionists” (though for reasons that can be
considered nothing more than an extension of their
anti-Semitic position) proved to be like a Stalinist
Coup per the 1936 Dimitrov designed “united front”
that, “neutralizes our enemies and brings them to the
service of our cause.”
Using the Cold War Era and the opportunist Senator
Jackson of Washington State, who really thought the
neocons would bring him to the presidency, (his hopes
were dashed by a massive and fatal coronary) they
campaigned for bigger is better strategic weapons and
thus in an influence peddling scheme linked the
massive American military-industrial complex– that
Eisenhower was so weary of– with that of Israel.
There was plenty of money to be made and, to date,
none of the neocons nor their progeny suffers from
poverty. But, the end of the Cold War seemed to put
all that in jeopardy; that is, until 9/11 brought an
end to the unachievable sure-fire ABM System and gave
cause for a “transformation” of the US military into a
global Christian Expeditionary Force chasing Jihadists
all over the globe and promoting– they hoped–
Israeli domination of the Middle East:
But note, no sooner did we reach achievement of one
such venture in our war on terror that we abandoned it
unaccomplished for yet another. Hence, the masters of
9/11/2001 are still alive and free, today mid-2006,
still directing alQaeda in its terrorizing of the
world. After all, there’s little to be gained from
ending the source of the scare!
In the meantime, the “Big Green Scare” propaganda is
in full swing. For example, the same neocon Hudson
Institute that championed more-is-better nuclear
armaments for the war against the Big Red Scare is now
promoting “expert and great scholar” on Islam Bat
Yo’er, an Israeli who lives in Switzerland (like many
neocons living in “anti-Semite” Europe instead of the
“safe homeland” Israel), from where she propagates the
concept of “EURABIA,” which means that Europe has
already been taken by Islam because of its inherent
weaknesses: (1) anti-Jewish nature and (2) loss of
Christian zeal to destroy Islam. Now if that doesn’t
sound like an obvious attempt to kill two birds with
one stone, I don’t know what does. As Anne Norton
notes in her book, ” Leo Strauss and the Politics of
American Empire,” Yale university Press, there is an
ongoing a full-court-press anti-Semitic campaign
against Arabs and Islam in general, run by the
neocons, which I would dub the “Big Green Scare.”
This campaign has yet another motive: fear that as
more and more Islamics settle and succeed in America,
they will acquire the economic wherewithal to match
the “Israel Lobby” that Mearsheimer and Walt wrote
about in their study– but this AIPAC with “I” for
“Islam” instead of “Israel”– one seeking to sway
Congress, not on Israel’s behalf as does AIPAC, but on
behalf of Islam. Such “dumb goyim” are deemed the
Christian Americans in Congress, that the neocons fear
that, once the Arabs acquire a foothold in American
politics, they will draw Congress away from Israel.
It is most instructive to read how the Neocon
Establishment responded to the Mearsheimer and Walt
analysis of the Israel Lobby and what is fomented by
these neocons– or through their “friends”– about
Islam in order to feed the Big Green Scare; it is
utter ANTI-SEMITISM!!!
Here is one sample of the way the case is made:
part 1
http://www.reportingwar.com/esman032006.shtml
part 2
http://www.reportingwar.com/esman041006.shtml
and below is the URL for the Mearsheimer and Walt
article that caused such a stir:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html
which was so vitriolically denounced by ADL as
follows:
http://www.adl.org/Israel/mearsheimer_walt.asp
So, it would seem, Ye’or on “Eurabia” is O.K. but
Mearsheimer and Walt on AIPAC is “anti-Semitic.” I
leave you all to contemplate and further research
what’s behind the BIG GREEN SCARE.
Daniel E. Teodoru