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From the Mouths of Despots

Ghaddafi’s on a tear at the Arab League, talking in circles while ripping other Arabs a new one, apparently looking to fire up another six-day war. Good fun at MEMRI, where Mo actually makes some good points, inspite of himself. Some highlights:  

People here talked about the pre-1967 borders. To tell you the truth, this is astonishing. Whatever happened to the [Palestinian] cause we had before 1967? Were we lying to ourselves or to the world? Thousands of martyrs fell before 1967. What for? How can you say that Palestine was occupied only in 1967, and that [Israel] must return to the pre-1967 borders?

“Does Palestine consist of only the West Bank and the Gaza Strip? If so, it means that the Israelis did not occupy it in 1948. They left it to you for 20 years, so why didn’t you establish a Palestinian state? Wasn’t the Gaza Strip part of Egypt and the West Bank part of Jordan? The Jews left them to you for 20 years - from 1948 to 1967. If that is Palestine, why didn’t you establish a state there? What is the justification for all the wars, the sacrifices, and the economic embargo on Israel before 1967? The Israelis can sue the Arabs now, and demand billions or even trillions in compensation for the damage caused them in 1948-1967.

Hey, good one.  The Spanish may want to sue about this one:

We Arabs never occupied any country. Well, we occupied Andalusia unjustly, and they drove us out, but since then, we Arabs have not occupied any country.

I dunno. I’m pretty sure they speak Arabic today it many places they didn’t prior to 8th century.

Along comes a foreign power, occupies an Arab country, and hangs its president, and we all sit on the sidelines, laughing. Arafat was in captivity for several years, and we sat on the sidelines, and even convened a summit without him. Why didn’t we refuse to convene the summit unless Arafat was released? Eventually, they killed him by poison. Why didn’t we turn to the Security Council and demand that they investigate the killing of Arafat? Why didn’t they investigate the hanging of Saddam Hussein? How can a POW be hanged - a president of an Arab country and a member of the Arab League no less! I’m not talking about the policies of Saddam Hussein, or the disagreements we had with him. We all had political disagreements with him, and we have such disagreements among ourselves here. We share nothing, beyond this hall.

I thought Saddam and Mo got along pretty well.  He’s just embarrassed because he capitulated when he saw what happened to Saddam, and goes on a bit later about the right of Arabs to have nukes. Of course, a lot of Arab league members didn’t have a big problem with taking out Saddam in the first place, whatever they said publicly. Also, I’m pretty sure the trying and hanging of Saddam was an Iraqi affair.  But this is the sad part.

We are the enemies of one another, I’m sad to say. We all hate one another, we deceive one another, we gloat at the misfortune of one another, and we conspire against one another. Our intelligence agencies conspire against one another, instead of defending us against the enemy. We are the enemies of one another, and an Arab’s enemy is another Arab’s friend. If only we used such ferocity against the enemy.

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“We meet in Syria, which is an Arab country. But the relations Syria has with Russia, Iran, or Turkey are a thousand times better than its relations with its Arab neighbors. The relations that Libya has with Italy are a thousand times better than its relations with its neighbors, Egypt and Tunisia. This is the situation of the Arabs.”

And that’s just country to country.  You should see how Arabs treat each other within their borders. You know, Mo has a point, though as usual he misses it.  If Arabs were able to figure out how to get along with each other and behave in a civil fashion within their borders, and if they were able to develop good relations between their many nations, I suspect they would no longer need to consider us, the West, the United States and Israel, as the enemy. Because they might have finally advanced from feudalism into the 21st century.

Topics: Arabs

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 7:37 am on Wednesday, April 9, 2008

2 Responses to “From the Mouths of Despots”

1. ast Says:
   April 9th, 2008 at 3:29 pm

   Reminds me of the Screwtape Letters. These people are in Hell and will be so long as they think the answers lie in conquest, martyrdom and terrorism. We could give them their own planet, and they’d wipe themselves out fighting over who should rule it.

2. Vanguard of the Commentariat Says:
   April 9th, 2008 at 7:34 pm

   We Arabs never occupied any country.

   Hey Mo, did you ever wonder why parts of the Philippines are Muslim? Not to mention Dearborne.

   He must be pissed off because he didn’t make the cut for the “Axis of Evil”.

   Oh and isn’t Quaddafi one of the Left Reverend Wright’s coffee klatch?

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