Obama and global intifada

By Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh
http://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2013/08/obama-and-global-intifada.html

It is not difficult to understand the power-game being played in Syria
and no decent human being should stand on the sideline in a conflict
that will shape the future of our humanity.  The global intifada
(uprising) is spreading and it is rejecting war and hegemony and now
even President Obama is reeling under pressure.  It is an earthquake
that is shaking the very foundation of post-WWII world order (what
used to be referred to mistakenly as “the American century” when it
was really the Zionist century).  The British, French and American
public long exposed to Zionist propaganda have joined the revolution.
Politicians started to panic especially after the British parliament
voted against war. This was the first major and stunning defeat to the
US/Israel hegemony of British politics since WWII.

US President Obama was stuck after the British vote and the clear
solid position of Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Russia, China and even
overwhelming public opposition in the US despite the attempt to whip
frenzy by Israel media stooges like Wolf Blitzer of CNN.   Obama was
also stunned by what his own intelligence services told him about
potential repercussions of a military strike on Syria especially
without UN mandate and without US public support.  These repercussions
included presence of strong defensive and offensive capabilities in
Syria. There was intelligence leaks about downed “test” incursion. But
repercussions discussed include strengthening rather than weakening
Iran (after all, this is what happened after Iraq!).  President Obama
spent countless hours talking with his Zionist and non-Zionist
advisers and key government officials (there are no anti-Zionists in
his group). Faced with no good option in trying to maintain Israel/US
hegemony, Obama decided not to decide and shift the debate to Congress
to buy time. Now it is up to the American people who overwhelmingly
reject war on Syria to stand up and pressure the Israeli-occupied US
congress to do what is good for US citizens not what they perceive to
be good for Zionism.

The Russian president spoke of a number of key points that he called
“common sense” while Obama just lied.  Russia and the US had agreed to
the parameters of a political conference in which all sides were
invited. Russia talked the Syrian government into attending this
Geneva conference (even though most Syrians opposed a dialogue with
Western backed thugs and Western backed mercenaries). Under Israeli
pressure, the US administration started to rethink their agreement and
their stooges announced they cannot join discussion with their
opponents unless their opponents are defeated and surrender!  Syrian
government forces then gained momentum against the Western and Israeli
backed extremist rebels and cornered them in very few pockets.  Syria
was opening up and international inspectors were coming.   Putin
rightly points out that under such conditions: who has the benefit of
using chemical weapons: the Syrian government or the rebels trying to
provide excuses for Western defeat of a government they could not
defeat themselves? It is common sense. Syria, Russia and China and all
humanity ask logically: if the US has proof that the Syrian government
used chemical weapons to attack its own people (including its own
soldiers), then give us the proof. They rightly ask why the mandate of
UN inspectors was  limited to only find out if they were used but not
to explore who might have used them. After the lies Israeli and US
intelligence concocted to go the war on Iraq, they now seem rather
reluctant to manufacture evidence again.

Obama lied about many other things and perhaps the only part of his
speech that touched on reality is when he admitted that he is part of
a system and that he cannot make a decision by himself.  The
military-industrial complex is now too entrenched in US politics for
any president to challenge it.  In fact, no one would be allowed to
become president if they were to have even a slight chance of
potential to challenge it.  So Obama says: I am with the machine that
was in place before I came to power and will always be with the
machine.  By this he showed that his campaign rhetoric about “change”
was just what American call “bull-shit”.  That is why Obama is stuck.
When President Obama paid tribute to Martin Luther King Jr just a week
ago, he was being hypocritical. King had famously said that the US is
the greatest purveyor of violence on earth.  The US public can and
must push Obama and Congress to change just like they pushed previous
politicians to get civil rights, women’s right to vote, ending the war
on Vietnam, ending US support for Apartheid South Africa and more.

The fact remains that the most destabilizing country in the Middle
East is the one that receives unconditional billions of US taxpayer
money. It is the state that caused millions of refugees and that
introduced weapons of mass destruction including nuclear weapons to
the Middle East.  It is the state that used white phosphorous and
depleted uranium on civilian populations.  It is the state that
started five wars and that lobbied successfully to ge the US to go to
wars in places like Iraq and Afghanistan that caused millions of lives
lost and trillions of US taxpayer money spent. It is the state that
fits all the criteria discussed in the International convention
against the crimes of apartheid and racial discrimination.

The fact is that this latest Israel-inspired conflict is not about
form of government in Syria. The US/Israel backed dictators in a dozen
Arab countries are far, far worse than Bashar Assad of Syria. The fact
remains that this is a clear attempt by the US through ist secretary
of state under influence from the Zionist lobby and with the support
of puppet rulers in the Arab world to liquidate the Palestinian cause.
 The parameters of this are clear: liquidating Palestinian rights like
the right of refugees to return to their homes and lands, limited
Palestinian autonomy that Palestinian puppets can call a state in
parts of the occupied West Bank in confederation with Jordan.  This
will ensure the “Jewishness” of the apartheid state of Israel. Gaza
would be relegated to Egyptian administration or continuing to manage
it as one Israeli official said “by putting Gazan’s on a diet”.  To
get this program through, resistance must be made to look futile.
Israel set-up a high-level ministerial committee to fight boycotts,
divestment, and sanctions.  Israel told the US that the
Hizballah-Syria-Iran axis must be destroyed. Potentially developing
Arab countries will be broken up into sectarian and other conflicts
(divide and conquer) beginning with Iraq.  They thought Syria is the
next weak link that can be removed in the same way that Libya was
disposed of. They underestimated the level of rejection to their
demonic schemes of divide and conquer.

What happened actually is the opposite. A strengthening block evolved
starting in Iran, Iraq and Palestine and spreading globally.  The
counter-revolutionary efforts are failing and in some cases getting
the opposite effect of unifying and strengthening resistance.  The
attempts by some to ignite sectarian strife in Lebanon failed
miserably.  The positions of China, Russia, Venezuela and other
governments came to reflect the international consensus of resisting
US/Israeli hegemony.  No human being and no government can claim
neutrality.  Neutrality is rather meaningless when there is such an
evel attempt to dominate the world for the benefit of just a few
people at the expense of millions. The vast majority of people in all
countries (Palestine, USA, Britain, France, Russia, China etc) stand
on one side of this against the Zionist attempts to drag the world
into yet one more destructive conflict.  Clearly a win here is a win
for Palestine and a win for all people of the world.

Before we talk about democracy in Syria, we must respect the fact that
the vast majority of people on earth insist that Western governments
respect their own citizens’ will instead of trying to smother them or
shape them with propaganda or bypass them to serve the Israel lobby.
Before we talk about democracy in Syria, we must end apartheid in
Israel, and end the repressive regimes supported by the US especially
those in the oil producing Arab countries.  Perhaps this is the reason
gulf states are pouring billions to fund murderers in the so called
“Syrian rebels” (most of them turn out to be mercenaries).  It is the
same reason that Netanyahu and Obama are both very nervous.  When the
US/Israel program of liquidating the Palestinian cause and destroying
Syria fails (and it will), all bets are off.  People stand up to
tyranny and stand up for human rights and that is why governments (US,
Israeli, Saudi Arabia, Turkey etc) are starting to panic.  They do
have good reason to worry because people power is coming and each of
us must be part of it.  We ask you to join the global intifada which
will liberate oppressors and oppressed alike and create a better world
for all.