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“America Don’t Worry! Israel is Behind You!”
By Nadia Hasan
I remember a few years ago walking through the wonderful narrow streets of the occupied Old city of Jerusalem, seeing a small shop managed by an old Palestinian man who was selling souvenirs to the tourists.
I entered the shop, not because I wanted to buy something, I am not a tourist in my own land (despite the Zionist entity who is occupying my land allowing me to enter there just as a tourist) but because I was captured by the smell of fresh coffee that beckoned me from inside the shop.
As I know my people, I knew that as soon as I set foot inside the shop I would be welcomed with this hot and stimulating beverage.
I was right, after just a minute I was enjoying my drink and
having a nice talk with the man. I made the rounds of his shop, looking
at the hundreds small plates, pictures, colorful fabrics of all kinds
of imaginative and very original T-shirts hanging on one of the walls.
T-shirts with pictures of Jerusalem, with Holy Land slogans, with IDF
motives (always wondering who might buy one of those!) and I saw one
that scared me the most because of its realism. It was a simple T-shirt
with the slogan: “America Don’t worry, Israel is behind you!”
When
I left the shop I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I didn’t get it, I
was thinking that the right way to say it is “Israel Don’t worry,
America is behind you!” but not the opposite. Anyway, after a few
minutes of confusing thoughts about who comes first, the egg or the
chicken, I forget the whole thing and continued my walk in the Old city
of Jerusalem.
This happened 3 years ago.
Today, watching
the news and thinking of what is going on in the Arab Homeland this
slogan came to my mind out of the blue and I started to realize the
real meaning of it.
The recent events in Lebanon and in recent
months in the Occupied Palestinian Territory of Gaza Strip proves that
certain international and regional powers are continuing efforts to
implement their “master plan” of chaos for the region as the first step
in a greater plan to make their domination permanent.
This is
not a conspiracy theory as many are saying, is just the result of
decades of efforts from the imperialistic powers to gain the control of
certain strategic areas in the Arab Homeland and to control Arab oil
and monopolize their market. For that reason these incidents are not
limited just to Lebanon. Sometimes we get so overwhelmed with the huge
amount of propaganda that we are not able to see the whole picture, the
clear chain of events with similar patterns from the Gaza Strip to
Baghdad to Somalia to Darfur to Beirut. Some elements can be different
in each case, but they have one thing in common, the master colonialist
project of United States and the high security risks that these events
cause to its main settlement in the region, Israel.
These places are
strategically interconnected and the success of the US plan in the
region depends being able to control them.
Today, US-led
imperialism is threatening national sovereignty and territorial
integrity of all countries. All recent interventions of imperialistic
powers in different regions have resulted in divisions of countries and
separation of peoples by ongoing wars. Kosovo and Iraq are just
examples of the implementation of “divide and rule” policy of
imperialism. And the new states that are the outcome of these policies
are not more than controlled states which serve as bases for
imperialistic activities.
The Arab region is not an exception
and as long as the Arab ruling classes are either unable to protest or
are participating in these externally designed and oriented plans, the
only alternative is popular resistance. Resistance movements of any
kind are just a threat for this goal.
The pro-imperialistic Arab
regimes understand that their position is extremely fragile since they
don’t have the support of the masses, and they compromised their own
people’s sovereignty and development for the sake of their own
survival. Adel Samara, in his book “Epidemic of Globalization”
describes this situation very well:
- “As long as each regime is guarding
a set of foreign interests inside the Arab Homeland, that regime has no
alternative but to oppress the popular classes whose interests are in
contradiction with the ruling comprador and its western capitalist
allies. These interests vary from the plunder of raw material and oil
to an open market where the regime becomes the agent that saturates it
with foreign products and permits the spread of multinational
corporations with their branches in many Arab countries chasing cheap
and oppressed labor“. [1]
To protect these interests and to
guarantee their share, the trickle-down reward, Arab regimes suppressed
all forms of liberties and the current situation in Lebanon is just an
example of that. Siniora’s government didn’t have another option than
to back down the parliament decision of last week to make the
communication system of Hezbollah illegal due the pressure from the
supporters of the resistance, but immediately the Arab League foreign
ministers have expressed support for Siniora, despite the fact that
they are aware of the root cause of Lebanon’s crisis.
Israel is
not standing on the sidelines in what is going on here, in fact it is
very afraid that any resistance movement against its own expansionist
and imperialist plans can take the control over a portion of what it
considers its own domains. Israel is the central Key in this puzzle due
its strategic location. For that reason, Israel is also doing its part
of the deal calling the International Community to take a look of the
situation in Lebanon and in the Gaza Strip and do whatever it can to
stop this frightening crisis to the security of its own state.
Indeed,
[Israel] insists that the International Community consider only the security
interests of Israel alone as they attempt once again to convince us
that religion and sectarian fights are the main reason for the disputes
in the area. In doing so they cover the political motivations and
especially the economic interests involved in the whole process.
How
funny is that? Calling upon the International Community to take an
action from a state who is ‘celebrating’ 60 years of occupation of
others’ land, 60 years of dispossession of other people, 60 years of
terror against civilians and 60 years of neglecting every single thing
the international community has asked for.
If the US and all the
western pro-imperialistic governments for that matters lose control
over this area, the whole plan can came to an end, since they are not
in a position to attack another country and take the control of all the
natural resources without an some kind of convincing explanation for
doing so, or at least not without a propagandistic campaign prior to
the invasion to make it look like a “rescue plan” from the jaws of
evil. What made the US hesitate launching new occupation is Iraqi
resistance, which has truly worn down the US army. This is another
reason why the target of all formal regimes in the west is resistance.
Escalation
of tensions and conflicts in Lebanon and Palestine is in the American
regime’s best interests because they know that no matter what happens
Israel is there for doing what they have so far been doing better than
anyone else: oppressing others, occupying, attacking and killing in
“security’s name”, everything that is needed to make the master plan
succeed. Anyway, they have more than 60 years’ experience doing just
that.
Many Arabs like myself during those walks in the Old city
of Jerusalem 3 years ago, developed a false thinking that the Jews
control the US. This is a miserable way of thinking. Israel is the
product of the interests and needs of the capitalist core two centuries
before the Zionist organization of Theodor Herzl was even founded.
Israel is doing a job in the Arab Homeland; its role is a functional.
The last proof of that is the fact that, while Israel tried to end its
aggression against Lebanon 2006 given the unsuccessful campaign, the US
ordered Israel to continue until its final defeat!
And yes, America Don´t worry, Israel is behind you!
[1] Samara, Adel, Epidemic of Globalization: Ventures in World Order, Arab Nation and Zionism, pp 30, Palestine Research and Publishing Foundation
Nadia
Hasan is a Palestinian activist who was born in Chile and who lives
between various nations of South America and the Middle East. Her site is Palestina Resiste! and she
dreams of the day when all Palestinians can exercise their Right of
Return.
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