The great Middle Eastern drama
WHEN hundreds of people could be convinced to blow themselves up every year just for petty cash, it’s not a big task to arrange thousands to chant slogans against X, Y or Z. There’s no dearth of stooges these days.
It might sound incredible, but it’s true. The world we live in is really manipulative, where everything can be stage-managed – right from the most emphatic attack ever made at the heart of a super power to the demonstrations that lead to the overthrow of the decades-old iron-fisted regimes in a matter days.
If anyone wants to have a better and proper understanding of the events that have been unfolding in the Middle East and North Africa in the past month or so, one has to read with an open mind ‘The Confessions of an Economic Hitman’ by John Perkins.
Though better and more exhaustive works could be found on the subject, I m suggesting ‘Confessions’ because I happened to read the book recently and it helped answer a lot of questions that have been troubling me for long.
It did conform with many of the crazy-sounding ideas that I had picked up from different places and assured me that the world that we see out there is not what it is. That there is more to the blasts that go off in crowded squares, that there is more to the sudden upheavals that keep hitting the third world countries, that the mind boggling food prices are not just due to the reasons we are told, that why a country in the midst of its own worst financial crisis makes a foreign aid of trillions of dollars, that why a third world country is forced to accept it – that there is more to everything then what meets the eye.
That it is coming from the horse’s mouth makes it hard not to believe.
For me, it has always been hard to believe the tales narrated by the News channels and the ‘Confessions’ only gave credence to my apprehensions. Even if everything that we are forced to believe is not a lie – you never know what is – it is hard to distinguish. But mostly it is all a bunch of lies – concocted, doctored and conditioned in a way that suits the interests of a select few.
I know it is hard to believe, but even the fact that Saddam had nukes and the Yankees couldn’t find any is also hard to believe, and the tale that a bunch of half-literate zealots could strike off the heart of a superpower in broad daylight and the most sophisticated armoury in the world couldn’t avert it is also hard to believe. The fact that two air planes hit twin towers and a third skyscraper in the vicinity also comes down in what looked like a controlled demolition and nobody asked a question about it is also heard to believe. The fact that an aircraft hits the bastion of a superpower’s military might and not a single conclusive footage of the event could be found is also hard to believe.
It could be an alibi too many, but they show you a real picture. Now, one could ask how do all these link up with the current events. It does and let me tell you how.
It is a fabric weaved out of one single yarn designed to cover one single entity – you know who.
Just imagine which is the only country that stands to benefit from the prolonged instability in its neighbouring countries?
Not that it doesn’t know of other ways to continue on with its daylight robberies and atrocities, this is just one of the better ways to keep the attention diverted. The longer the upheaval the more time it will have to dig its foundations deeper.
To the naive eyes it might seem that Tunisia had nothing to do with Israel (or its patron US) and it’s not a neighbouring country either. I agree. But, the fact that Tunisia had nothing to do with the Zionist state made it the easiest target – the best precedent for a knock on effect. And to top it, the act would go largely unsuspected, just as it did.
If it was done in Syria or Egypt first, the suggestion that there is an Israeli or Zionist hand in it wouldn’t sound as preposterous as it does in the case of Tunisia.
Here, one would argue that the embattled Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has been a friend and one of the closest allies of Israel and why would it foment trouble for a man who has proven his worth at all times.
True, but history tells us that Israel is a friend to none, and even if it is, it will remain only till it achieves its objectives. It is clear that an 82-year-old Mubarak has past his prime and Israel had gained what it had to from his friendship.
It was obvious that sooner or later he would go and there has been a growing uncertainty in the recent past about who will succeed the octogenarian leader. A hereditary transfer of power wouldn’t be acceptable to the Egyptians and even if it did it wouldn’t do any good to the credibility of the so-called patrons of democracy.
And in case, if there is trouble in the transition of power and undoubtedly there will be, all signs indicated that the so-called “wrong hands” might grab throne, which the Zionists would never want to happen.
So in comes Mohammed Al Baradei, a known stooge. Yes, that former puppet-head of IAEA.
The man, who has been away from his motherland for most of his life, is planted from nowhere as the “leader of the opposition”. One would wonder, when has this man led? Oh, he did when he was making false inspections for WMDs and Nukes! Didn’t he?
They must have thought, “poor chap, he has been doing our bidding for way too long, it’s time to reward him.”
Just think about this: why would a nation rise against a leader so suddenly at the last lap of his rule, when they have tolerated him through the worst of times? How could they muster so much courage so suddenly against a leadership, which has always been synonymous to corruption? It is hard to believe that a nation, which has accepted such farce exercises as the pre-decided elections not for once or twice but for thirty years and as recently as last year, wakes up so suddenly against corruption.
Here is another strangest of the developments that would force you to sit back and think. The Egypt’s biggest opposition group and the face of the country’s middle class, which has always been untouchable for the powers that be, suddenly finds itself being courted by none other than the Big Boss.
The statement by one of the White House officials going out of his way to announce that “US never considered Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization,” speaks volumes about the desperation we are dealing with.
The idea is to have a unity government that would on the face of it have all the parties in power, but in actuality would maintain the status quo – only the figurehead would change, the same players loyal to US-Israel would manage the power.
They know Al Baradei can’t do it alone, they know no Egyptian group or leader can do it alone. Under the circumstances, they know the only way to the throne is through the shoulders of the Brotherhood.
But the questions is: Will Brotherhood allow this to happen second time around? It’s a known fact, how cunningly they were used by Jamal Abdul Nasser to grab power and then trampled brutally during those heady days of Egyptian Independence.
Will they heed that lesson or – to use the cliché – will they allow the history to repeat? Let’s wait and watch. What else can we do?
