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Oct 26 2014
The Left's Worst Crime in the Middle East
By Daniel Greenfield
The left's worst crime in the Middle East has been its support for the
region's Arab-Muslim majority at the expense of its minorities. It has
supported the majority's terrorism, atrocities, ethnic cleansing and
repression of the region's minorities. Very rarely has it raised a
voice in their support, and when it has done so, it was in muted tones
completely different from their vigorous defenses of the nationalism
of the Arab Muslim majority.
The left backed the Arab Spring which rewarded the ambitions of
Arabist and Islamist activists at the expense of Coptic, African and
other minorities. Its great regional obsession is statehood for the
Arab Muslims of Israel, (better known by their local Palestinian
brand), but has little to say about the Kurds in Turkey or the Azeri
in Iran. The million Jewish refugees and the vanishing Christians of
the region never come up in conversation. They certainly don't get
their own lefty protest rallies.
The Africans of Sudan could have used an entire UN organization
dedicated to their welfare, which the Arab Muslims who had failed to
wipe out the region's Jewish minority are the beneficiaries of. But
they had to make do with third tier aid.
Unlike the Arab nationalists and Islamists of Libya, the French,
English and American air force did not come to their rescue. It came
to the rescue of the Libyans who showed their gratitude in the time
honored way of the Arab majority by massacring the African minority
and then killing some Americans. But what's a little genocide between
friends?
The left embraced Pan-Arabism, a race based nationalism, in line with
the Soviet Union's expansionist foreign policy. Pan-Arabism's
socialism made it easy for the left to ignore its overt racism along
with the admiration of many of its leading lights for Nazi Germany.
The same left which refused to see the Gulags and the ethnic cleansing
under the red flag, turned an equally blind eye to the contradiction
of condemning Zionism for its ethnic basis, while supporting
Pan-Arabism, which was ethnically based.
As the sun of Pan-Arabism sets, the left has turned its attention to
Pan-Islamism with equal enthusiasm
Under Zionism, Israel retained a sizable Arab minority. The
Pan-Arabists however drove their Jews out with mob violence, political
repression, prisons and public executions. The left's criticisms of
Zionism are rendered moot by their own support for Pan-Arabism, and
their own longstanding hostility to Jewish national identity,
insisting that socialism demands that Jews assimilate into the
dominant race, whether in Russia or Western Europe. In the Middle East
and North Africa, Arabization has led to repression of non-Arab
minorities and the destruction of other cultures through the
insistence on unity through race.
As the sun of Pan-Arabism sets, the left has turned its attention to
Pan-Islamism with equal enthusiasm. While Pan-Arabism allowed
Christian Arabs some representation, Pan-Islamism excludes based on
religion. Having endorsed a racial tyranny, the left has fallen so low
that it now champions majority theocracies.
The left's fledgling support for Kurdish nationalism has faded as
Turkey has gone from a secular ally of the Western powers, to an
Islamist tyranny dreaming of empire. This perverse twist of affairs
has the left abandoning the national struggles of an oppressed people
when their rulers align themselves more closely with the bigoted
regional majority.
The War on Iraq, which the left hated, removed a tyrant aligned with
the region's Sunni majority and the Libyan campaign, which the left
supported, removed a tyrant who had deviated too far from the
positions of that majority. So too in Egypt, where Mubarak's excessive
tolerance for minorities, led the left to endorse the Pan-Arabist and
Pan-Islamist calls for his overthrow. And in Tunisia, where a
government tolerant of minorities has been replaced by the Islamists.
The pattern repeats itself over and over again as the left rises in
support of racial and theocratic rule. And for all the left's
critiques of American and European foreign policy, its own foreign
policy which endorses racial and theocratic rule and works to bring it
about is a true crime and blot on the region.
It is no coincidence that the one country in the region that the left
hates above all else, is neither Arab nor Muslim. Just as it is no
coincidence that the Arab Spring replaces regimes tolerant of
minorities with Islamists and Arabists. The left's true regional
agenda is the racist agenda of its Arab members. The Arab Socialists
and the Islamists who have defined its regional positions have turned
the left into a vehicle for their racial and theocratic agendas.
For the left to shout racism when Americans empowered the Kurds in
Iraq, or when Israeli soldiers stand watch over tiny strips of land
where the region's oldest and most frequently oppressed minority finds
shelter is the height of hypocrisy. It is the left which is racist. It
is the left which backs theocracies and always supports the majority's
oppression of the minority.
The idiots in their Keffiyahs eager to give everyone a lesson on the
Middle East think the Assyrians vanished in ancient times, have no
idea who the Circassians are, or the Arab Gypsies, think the
Zoroastrians are a traveling circus, and couldn't begin to tell you
anything about the Druze, the Bahai or the Ahmadis--except that
American foreign policy or Israel are probably to blame.
In the meantime they proudly wear a garment associated with the
Pan-Arabists and their rejection of Turkish reforms--while stupidly
believing that it's all-purpose garments of revolution. But why should
they care that they're endorsing a romanticized neo-feudalism that led
to mass murder and the rise of a theocratic reactionary movement
disguised as nationalism. Or that these movements have inevitably led
to the repression of minorities and the ethnic cleansing and attempted
genocide of the region's native inhabitants by their Arab Muslim
conquerors.
The left relies on the intellectual laziness of its followers not to
notice that the nationalism they support is the nationalism of
medieval conquerors and the resurgence of their colonial descendants.
The only two nations with any historical roots in the region are
Israel and Persia. In North Africa, where the Arab Spring has burned
fiercest, the left is cheering the resurgence of an Arab Pretoria,
racist regimes turning into even more racist theocracies run by the
great-great-grands of the men who invaded the region and destroyed
much of its history and culture.
The Arab Spring, with its purges of Coptic Christians and Africans,
its outpouring of hostility toward Jews, is as perverse as if the left
had suddenly decided that Africa needed proper Boer rule. It's the
senseless behavior of racist idiots and totalitarian hypocrites who
think that if they call you a "racist" first then they win the
argument.
The left has endorsed Arab and Islamic rule over the Middle East,
which means that it is in absolutely no position to criticize anyone
or anything. It will talk your ear off about Gaza or Fallujah, but it
won't have anything to say about Turkish chemical weapons raids into
Kurdish areas of Iraq. The tens of thousands of political prisoners in
Turkish jails, some there for no other crime than the use of the
Kurdish language, don't exist for the left. Erdogan's casual threat to
ethnically cleanse the Armenians again doesn't stir their interest.
It is no secret that the left is totalitarian and that it is attracted
to totalitarian movements. But few have been willing to say it openly
and clearly when it comes to its politics in the Middle East.
The left picked Pan-Islamists over secularists in Iran and Turkey. It
picked racialist fascists in Egypt, Iraq and Syria--and their local
Palestinian militias. It backed Islamist and Arabist revolts again in
Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. And after backing every totalitarian
majoritarian regime that wasn't too closely aligned to the United
States--their one great enemy is the region's only democratic state.
The left's worst crime in the Middle East is its craven love for
tyranny, for grand empires built on race and religion, over the
national and political rights of the minority. These Apartheid states
are all they care about. Their greatest effort has been set not on
resolving the stateless problems of the Kurdish minority, on the
national borders of Armenia or ending the Turkish occupation and
settlement of Cyprus--but on adding yet another Arab-Muslim state to
the region.
Palestine, the cynical project of Pan-Arabist and Pan-Islamist thugs,
is the great obsession of the left. Because if there's one thing that
the Middle East doesn't have enough of, it's totalitarian regimes
built on Arab and Islamist identity. And the one thing it has too much
of is democratic state with a non-Arab and non-Muslim majority. And
that one thing is what they are committed to destroying.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/67031
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Oct 26 2014
The Left's Worst Crime in the Middle East
By Daniel Greenfield
The left's worst crime in the Middle East has been its support for the
region's Arab-Muslim majority at the expense of its minorities. It has
supported the majority's terrorism, atrocities, ethnic cleansing and
repression of the region's minorities. Very rarely has it raised a
voice in their support, and when it has done so, it was in muted tones
completely different from their vigorous defenses of the nationalism
of the Arab Muslim majority.
The left backed the Arab Spring which rewarded the ambitions of
Arabist and Islamist activists at the expense of Coptic, African and
other minorities. Its great regional obsession is statehood for the
Arab Muslims of Israel, (better known by their local Palestinian
brand), but has little to say about the Kurds in Turkey or the Azeri
in Iran. The million Jewish refugees and the vanishing Christians of
the region never come up in conversation. They certainly don't get
their own lefty protest rallies.
The Africans of Sudan could have used an entire UN organization
dedicated to their welfare, which the Arab Muslims who had failed to
wipe out the region's Jewish minority are the beneficiaries of. But
they had to make do with third tier aid.
Unlike the Arab nationalists and Islamists of Libya, the French,
English and American air force did not come to their rescue. It came
to the rescue of the Libyans who showed their gratitude in the time
honored way of the Arab majority by massacring the African minority
and then killing some Americans. But what's a little genocide between
friends?
The left embraced Pan-Arabism, a race based nationalism, in line with
the Soviet Union's expansionist foreign policy. Pan-Arabism's
socialism made it easy for the left to ignore its overt racism along
with the admiration of many of its leading lights for Nazi Germany.
The same left which refused to see the Gulags and the ethnic cleansing
under the red flag, turned an equally blind eye to the contradiction
of condemning Zionism for its ethnic basis, while supporting
Pan-Arabism, which was ethnically based.
As the sun of Pan-Arabism sets, the left has turned its attention to
Pan-Islamism with equal enthusiasm
Under Zionism, Israel retained a sizable Arab minority. The
Pan-Arabists however drove their Jews out with mob violence, political
repression, prisons and public executions. The left's criticisms of
Zionism are rendered moot by their own support for Pan-Arabism, and
their own longstanding hostility to Jewish national identity,
insisting that socialism demands that Jews assimilate into the
dominant race, whether in Russia or Western Europe. In the Middle East
and North Africa, Arabization has led to repression of non-Arab
minorities and the destruction of other cultures through the
insistence on unity through race.
As the sun of Pan-Arabism sets, the left has turned its attention to
Pan-Islamism with equal enthusiasm. While Pan-Arabism allowed
Christian Arabs some representation, Pan-Islamism excludes based on
religion. Having endorsed a racial tyranny, the left has fallen so low
that it now champions majority theocracies.
The left's fledgling support for Kurdish nationalism has faded as
Turkey has gone from a secular ally of the Western powers, to an
Islamist tyranny dreaming of empire. This perverse twist of affairs
has the left abandoning the national struggles of an oppressed people
when their rulers align themselves more closely with the bigoted
regional majority.
The War on Iraq, which the left hated, removed a tyrant aligned with
the region's Sunni majority and the Libyan campaign, which the left
supported, removed a tyrant who had deviated too far from the
positions of that majority. So too in Egypt, where Mubarak's excessive
tolerance for minorities, led the left to endorse the Pan-Arabist and
Pan-Islamist calls for his overthrow. And in Tunisia, where a
government tolerant of minorities has been replaced by the Islamists.
The pattern repeats itself over and over again as the left rises in
support of racial and theocratic rule. And for all the left's
critiques of American and European foreign policy, its own foreign
policy which endorses racial and theocratic rule and works to bring it
about is a true crime and blot on the region.
It is no coincidence that the one country in the region that the left
hates above all else, is neither Arab nor Muslim. Just as it is no
coincidence that the Arab Spring replaces regimes tolerant of
minorities with Islamists and Arabists. The left's true regional
agenda is the racist agenda of its Arab members. The Arab Socialists
and the Islamists who have defined its regional positions have turned
the left into a vehicle for their racial and theocratic agendas.
For the left to shout racism when Americans empowered the Kurds in
Iraq, or when Israeli soldiers stand watch over tiny strips of land
where the region's oldest and most frequently oppressed minority finds
shelter is the height of hypocrisy. It is the left which is racist. It
is the left which backs theocracies and always supports the majority's
oppression of the minority.
The idiots in their Keffiyahs eager to give everyone a lesson on the
Middle East think the Assyrians vanished in ancient times, have no
idea who the Circassians are, or the Arab Gypsies, think the
Zoroastrians are a traveling circus, and couldn't begin to tell you
anything about the Druze, the Bahai or the Ahmadis--except that
American foreign policy or Israel are probably to blame.
In the meantime they proudly wear a garment associated with the
Pan-Arabists and their rejection of Turkish reforms--while stupidly
believing that it's all-purpose garments of revolution. But why should
they care that they're endorsing a romanticized neo-feudalism that led
to mass murder and the rise of a theocratic reactionary movement
disguised as nationalism. Or that these movements have inevitably led
to the repression of minorities and the ethnic cleansing and attempted
genocide of the region's native inhabitants by their Arab Muslim
conquerors.
The left relies on the intellectual laziness of its followers not to
notice that the nationalism they support is the nationalism of
medieval conquerors and the resurgence of their colonial descendants.
The only two nations with any historical roots in the region are
Israel and Persia. In North Africa, where the Arab Spring has burned
fiercest, the left is cheering the resurgence of an Arab Pretoria,
racist regimes turning into even more racist theocracies run by the
great-great-grands of the men who invaded the region and destroyed
much of its history and culture.
The Arab Spring, with its purges of Coptic Christians and Africans,
its outpouring of hostility toward Jews, is as perverse as if the left
had suddenly decided that Africa needed proper Boer rule. It's the
senseless behavior of racist idiots and totalitarian hypocrites who
think that if they call you a "racist" first then they win the
argument.
The left has endorsed Arab and Islamic rule over the Middle East,
which means that it is in absolutely no position to criticize anyone
or anything. It will talk your ear off about Gaza or Fallujah, but it
won't have anything to say about Turkish chemical weapons raids into
Kurdish areas of Iraq. The tens of thousands of political prisoners in
Turkish jails, some there for no other crime than the use of the
Kurdish language, don't exist for the left. Erdogan's casual threat to
ethnically cleanse the Armenians again doesn't stir their interest.
It is no secret that the left is totalitarian and that it is attracted
to totalitarian movements. But few have been willing to say it openly
and clearly when it comes to its politics in the Middle East.
The left picked Pan-Islamists over secularists in Iran and Turkey. It
picked racialist fascists in Egypt, Iraq and Syria--and their local
Palestinian militias. It backed Islamist and Arabist revolts again in
Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. And after backing every totalitarian
majoritarian regime that wasn't too closely aligned to the United
States--their one great enemy is the region's only democratic state.
The left's worst crime in the Middle East is its craven love for
tyranny, for grand empires built on race and religion, over the
national and political rights of the minority. These Apartheid states
are all they care about. Their greatest effort has been set not on
resolving the stateless problems of the Kurdish minority, on the
national borders of Armenia or ending the Turkish occupation and
settlement of Cyprus--but on adding yet another Arab-Muslim state to
the region.
Palestine, the cynical project of Pan-Arabist and Pan-Islamist thugs,
is the great obsession of the left. Because if there's one thing that
the Middle East doesn't have enough of, it's totalitarian regimes
built on Arab and Islamist identity. And the one thing it has too much
of is democratic state with a non-Arab and non-Muslim majority. And
that one thing is what they are committed to destroying.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/67031
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress