Arab Fibbing Goes Way Back

One of the outrageous phenomena of our ongoing war with the Arabs is not only that they lie often to the press/media, telling some extravagant and outrageous lies sometimes, groundless lies, sometimes merely silly fibs that only influence fools in the West --but that the Western media and fake "human rights" and "peace" and "humanitarian" outfits are quite pleased to accept the Arab lies, that is, they don't mind being lied to if Arabs do it. Among the more notorious Arab lies in the Oslo War that started in September 2000 are the Muhammad al-Dura hoax [2000], the Jenin massacre hoax [2002], the lie that the war began with Ariel Sharon going up onto the Temple Mount in late September 2000 [more on the actual beginning time of the war in later posts], etc.

But the Arab propensity to lie --even about things that are relatively unimportant-- goes way back. Byzantine Greeks noticed this habit of mendacity back in the Middle Ages.

. . . many Byzantine authors complain indignantly of the unreliability of the Saracens. Indeed one searches the Byzantine sources in vain for a favorable judgement about the Arabs.
[Vassilios Christides, "Saracens' Prodosia in Byzantine Sources," Byzantion XL (1970), p 12]
. . . the constant Byzantine suspicions of Arab trustworthiness.
[p 13]

The propensity of the Arabs to lie, Arab mendacity for short, puts Israel at a disadvantage in the contest for world public opinion and the diplomatic support of governments. Even Shimon Peres is said to have mentioned this in a strategy discussion with an American Jewish professor back in the 1970s. "We can't lie like the Arabs can," Peres is supposed to have explained to the professor. At that time, Peres' Labor Party was still in power in Israel.
At any rate, Peres made the mistake, in my view, of failing to see the propensity on the part of the Western press/media, diplomats, governments, politicians, and "humanitarian activists" of various labels to accept these lies, even the silliest and most unlikely, and to spread them [on the part of the press/media] as an even greater threat to Israel than the lies themselves.
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Coming: More on Obama the war candidate, More on the anti-Jewish racism of the "Peace Process," Jews in Jerusalem, Hebron, the Land of Israel, archeological updates, peace follies, propaganda, etc.

Linkage, a Ridiculous Claim but Not Too Ridiculous for Tony Blair

UPDATING 7-13-2009 link added

Anti-Zionism is the anti-imperialism of fools.

Tony Blair, a snake in the grass if there ever was one, has once again repeated the canard of linkage. This is a subtle, disinguenuous method of endangering Israel that is widespread in British and US State Department circles. It is one of the false but cynical ideas favored by Zbigniew Brzezinski, jimmy carter's national insecurity advisor, now a senior advisor to Obama --most likely Obama's most senior advisor. This idea or method is called "linkage," that is, that every bad thing that happens east of Suez is Israel's fault, and even many bad things happening west of Suez. And anyhow, world peace depends on "solving" --as in Final Solution?-- the Arab-Israeli conflict, which translates for the run of the mill diplomat into Israeli concessions of territory and Jewish rights. Fortunately, a clearheaded Lebanese editor, Michael Young, is willing to call the notion ridiculous.

Here is what Blair said just recently in the Arab village of Beit Iba near Sh'khem ["Nablus"] on the occasion of a visit to an Arab-owned aluminum factory:

Mr Blair said he remains motivated to help resolve the Mideast conflict, despite slow progress. "I think it is ... the single most fundamental issue for us to resolve, in terms of peaceful coexistence, not just between Israelis and Palestinians, but between the West and Islam, the world and Islam," he said.
[VirginMedia 5 September 2008]

In other words, all of the many other conflicts in the world involving Muslims and non-Muslims can only be solved by first solving this "single most fundamental issue." So the Moro "Liberation" Front rebels in the southern Philippines would stop murdering their Christian fellow Filipinos if only this "most fundamental issue" were resolved. At the least, the Arab-Israeli issue has to be resolved first. The same goes for the murders of Hindus in Kashmir and Buddhist Thais in southern Thailand. And so on and so on. So the Arab-Israeli conflict, called above the "Mideast conflict," is linked to so many others in a causal or underlying relationship in which the other conflicts depend or derive from this one.

Almost a year ago [15 October 2007], Blair said that he wanted to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict because of

“my sense of a mission to resolve what I believe is the most important conflict in the world at the beginning of the 21st century.”
[keeptonyblairpm, see at.]

So here he claimed that the Arab-Israeli conflict was the most important in the world. Hence it was likely that other conflicts depended on or derived from it. But Muslims were in conflict with non-Muslims or were oppressing and persecuting non-Muslims long ago, long before the rebirth of a Jewish state in the Land of Israel. How about the Armenian massacres by the Ottoman empire and Sultan Abdel-Hamid's minions starting in the 19th century and culminating in the Armenian genocide during WW One??? There was no State of Israel in the 19th century. Nor did Theodore Herzl convoke the World Zionist Congress until 1897. How would Blair explain that? What about the Muslim massacres of southern Sudanese starting in 1956 and going on intermittently until just a few years ago [that may resume soon]?? Unfortunately, Blair has influence to propound his views, not only as a former UK prime minister but as the Quartet's envoy to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Linkage is one of the subtle, disinguenuous methods of endangering Israel that is widespread in British and US State Department circles. It is one of the false but cynical ideas favored by Zbigniew Brzezinski, jimmy carter's national insecurity advisor, now a senior advisor to Obama --most likely Obama's most senior advisor. Here again is a link to Lebanese editor, Michael Young, who is willing to call the notion ridiculous.

Another of those debunking "linkage" is Martin Kramer. Here is Kramer on "linkage," a notion enthusiastically embraced by jimma carter because it supports his not too well disguised Judeophobia.

Linkage is ridiculous.

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UPDATING 7-13-2009 Here is a link debunking the "linkage" notion.
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Coming: More on Obama the war candidate, More on the anti-Jewish racism of the "Peace Process," Jews in Jerusalem, Hebron, the Land of Israel, archeological updates, peace follies, propaganda, etc.

Did a Hidden Saudi Hand Help Obama Rise to Fame and Fortune?

UPDATING 9-25-2008 at botttom

Percy Sutton, former president of Manhattan Borough [that is, Manhattan island, a separate borough within New York City], disclosed in a TV interview that he had written letters to influential persons at Harvard to help Obama get into the law school. Sutton had done this on the recommendation of one Khalid al-Mansour, a Muslim convert and --according to Sutton-- "the principal advisor to one of the world's richest men." Since al-Mansour's Saudi ties are known, it is quite possible or even likely that certain Saudis, in particular, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, helped Obama with money and with influence, or string-pulling in plain English.

Here is a video of the interview. This post on Judith Klinghoffer's blog also gives links to some background info on Khalid al-Mansour.

Here is a report in Investor's Business Daily.

Here is more commentary on israpundit.

Is Obama a Manchurian Candidate representing Saudi interests?

UPDATINGb 9-25-2008: Obama's campaign denies link to Sutton and Khalid al-Mansour. Reporter discovers another Obama fraud.

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Coming: More on Obama the war candidate, More on the anti-Jewish racism of the "Peace Process," Jews in Jerusalem, Hebron, the Land of Israel, archeological updates, peace follies, propaganda, etc.

OBAMA means WAR - Obama is the war candidate, Zbig and Carter are with Obama

Samantha Power, one of obama's earlier advisors who had to be thrown out of the campaign for being too cynically frank about her boss' cynical hypocrisy, said something rather sensible but revealing about what Obama's policy would likely be as president, when he no longer needed to make foolish promises to his hoi polloi. She said that troops would not be withdrawn from Iraq by a future President Obama until a review of policy weighing pros and cons of various measures regarding Iraq, consulting generals, and taking all significant factors into consideration had been conducted. Then the president and his advisors might decide to withdraw the troops or leave them or increase them. In any case, the troops would NOT be totally withdrawn. Miss Power was telling tales out of class -so to speak- several months ago.

Actually, now, Obama and his staff are talking about increasing the number of American troops in Afghanistan, shifting some away from Iraq to Afghanistan. This appeared on the Associated Press wire shortly after the end of the convention that nominated him to be the Democratic candidate for president. This further confirms what he said in his speech in Berlin at the German army's Victory column. There he told the German crowd:

The Afghan people need our troops and your troops.

Obama's advisor Susan Rice went into more detail.

Here is a jaundiced look at one of obama's chief advisors -- he views Winnie the Pooh as a text in national security.

The identity of these advisors demonstrates the utter fakery of obama's claim to represent the New, the Fresh, the Innocent, untainted by Washington corruption. Zbig and the others are oldtime Washington hands. They have either failed or --if they have succeeded in the past-- they have ill served the American people. For example, Zbig brought the world and America a rabble-rousing Iranian Muslim imam named Ayatollah Khomeini, while helping to promote Syrian domination of Lebenon and helping the old Nazi sympathizer, Anwar Sadat, to get territory away from Israel.

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Coming: Israeli foreign ministry failed and in fact helped endanger Israel by failing to demand compliance with international law in the cases of abducted soldiers, Gil`ad Shalit, Eldad Regev, and Udi Goldwasser. Also Jerusalem, Hebron, archeology, history, peace follies, propaganda, etc.