    Jihad and the Wolfowitzes of the World
    Jihad Abu Az Zamman

    So, how did it really happen? How could a tiny paramilitary group such
    as Hezbollah manage to shake the almighty, American-supported Jewish
    state; something that the Arab states have relentlessly failed at doing
    for almost six decades?

    In fact a similar question may be raised in reference to Iraqi
    insurgency. While it is rather evident that Saddam’s army was defeated
    by the overwhelming Anglo-American destructive power, Islamic resistance
    is winning the battle on the ground both in Iraq and Afghanistan.
    Neither America nor Britain seem able to come up with a reasonable
    excuse for the growing number of deadly attacks against their invasion
    forces.

    Though the armies of Arab states are occasionally defeated in the
    battlefield, though too many Arab statesmen happen to follow the path
    drawn by Washington with resolute determination, Islamic resistance,
    which is not recognised in any national form, is there to fight back.
    Moreover, Islamic defiance is unbeatable. The Israelis have been
    watching the growing wall of Muslim resistance for over two decades. In
    Palestine it is the Hamas and in Lebanon it is the Hezbollah. In this
    theatre, Islamic militants deliver one blow after the other to Israel.
    Similarly, the American army is chased on a daily basis by insurgency
    both in Iraq and Afghanistan. As much as the far more powerful Soviets
    failed in Afghanistan, neither Israel, nor America nor Britain have the
    capability of responding effectively to the emerging Islamic guerrilla
    warfare.

    Once and for all we better face it. Arabs are far from being at their
    very best if they are operating in the format of a ‘national state’. The
    Arab soldier may lack the necessary will to die for an idiotic flag.
    Both in the case of Saddam’s Iraq or Nasser’s Egypt, once within a
    conflict, a growing gap reveals itself between the charismatic,
    assertive, far over the top demagogue leader and some serious
    malfunctioning performance in the battlefield. Unlike the American,
    British, French, and Israeli soldiers who have proved throughout history
    to have some real tendency towards collective suicide for some empty
    promises shaped as ‘ideology’, the Arab platoon is slightly behind in
    exhibiting this kind of idiotic national patriotic militant zeal. He may
    as well be just too clever for those kind of deadly games.

    Should it be a big surprise? Not at all. Nationalism is a European
    concept, it has very little to do with the Arab mentality, history and
    general affairs. National patriotism has never made serious headway into
    the Arab psyche. The division of Arabia and the Middle East into small
    national states with borders and flags has never been a natural
    evolvement of the indigenous Arab people themselves. Instead it was the
    outcome of some international political manoeuvring imposed upon Arabs
    by the superpowers. The slicing of the near east into small national
    states was intended to serve the interests of Western imperial forces.
    In practice it was Britain and France who drew up the borders of the
    Middle East already in 1916 (The Sykes-Picot Agreement) and it was
    America who joined in later just to reshape those borders to guarantee
    Israel’s safety as well as a constant oil supply.

    With the lack of crude nationalist zeal, it isn’t a big surprise that
    Arab state armies fail to provide the goods in the battlefield. Yet, the
    Hezbollah, the Hamas and the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan are
    agonising the Western armies. They manage to do so just with light
    weaponry: without tanks, without cruise missiles, without satellites,
    without a navy. They win without airplanes and without the support of a
    superpower. All they have at their disposal is merely a belief, namely
    Jihad.

    Looking at Iraq (or what is left of it), at Bin Laden (the myth), at the
    Hamas (the democratically elected Palestinian government) and the
    Hezbollah (the ultimate success story) it is rather clear. The Arab wins
    when and only when he fights as a Muslim, as a believer. Unlike the
    shallow Westerner soldier who gives his life for empty manmade slogans,
    the Muslim would give his life for a divine cause. I will spit it out:
    if there is any meaningful notion behind ‘Arab nation’ this notion is
    Islam. The Muslim takes orders from the Almighty Lord. I may admit that
    if I myself, being a secular had to choose between the call of a
    retarded American president and the Lord, I would obviously go for the
    latter.

    However, it is rather obvious that the Wolfowitzes of this world fail to
    realise that Arab nationalism as defined in independent states is
    basically a myth. They mistakenly consider the Arab territorial
    landscape as a genuine national reflection of some real authentic ethnic
    aspiration as well as geo-political considerations. In fact, such a
    perception has nothing to do with reality. Lebanon and Syria are one
    country, at least in the eyes of very many Syrians and Lebanese. The
    north of Palestine is no different from Lebanon and the West Bank has
    been long considered a unified territory with Transjordan. When Lebanon
    is demolished by the Jewish state’s air might and around a third of its
    population is displaced, the Syrians would be the first to provide
    humanitarian support. When Gaza is murderously and indiscriminately
    bombarded by the IDF, the Hezbollah would be there to open a second
    front and to ease the pressure on their Palestinian brothers. When
    American and British expansionist forces insist upon robbing Iraqi oil,
    it is the Muslim brotherhood who would stop them rather than the Iraqi
    army. Arab resistance is in practice an exercise in Islamic brotherhood.
    For those who still fail to get the picture, Jihad goes far beyond any
    Western sense of local national patriotism. Jihad is cosmic, yet it is
    personal.

    While the Wolfowitzes of this world would insist upon dominating the
    Arab world in the name of democracy and some other quasi liberal ideas,
    it is the Islamic freedom fighter who crosses lands and seas just to
    serve the American GIs with the ultimate performance of human devotion.
    While the Wolfowitzes of this world insist upon transforming Britain and
    America into an Israeli mission force, it is the Muslim brotherhood that
    gives us good reason to believe that eventually, when the time is ripe,
    peace will prevail.

    For those amongst us who refuse to acknowledge what Islam is all about,
    I will mention that the Arabic ‘root’ of the word ‘Islam’ is Salama
    which originates from the words Peace and/or Submission, a submission to
    God and peace to all humanity.

    Indeed Jihad itself is a word that bears further analysis. It stems from
    the Arabic root word J-H-D, which means ‘strive.’ Other words derived
    from this root include ‘effort,’ ‘labour,’ and ‘fatigue.’ Essentially
    Jihad is an effort to practice religion in the face of oppression and
    persecution. At its highest form it is fighting the enemy of Muslims and
    Islam. Certainly, Condi, Bush, Olmert and his Jewish state are the
    bitterest enemies of Islam. And yet, Islam defines the boundaries of
    Jihad.

    The Quran tells us (Quran 2:190-193):

    • Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you, but do not transgress
    limits; for Allah loves not transgressors.

    • And slay them wherever you catch them, and turn them out from where
    they have turned you out; for tumult and oppression are worse than
    slaughter; but fight them not at the Sacred Mosque, unless they (first)
    fight you there; but if they fight you, slay them. Such is the reward of
    those who suppress faith.

    • But if they cease, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

    • And fight them on until there is no more tumult or oppression, and
    there prevail justice and faith in Allah; but if they cease, let there
    be no hostility except to those who practice oppression.

    In short, unlike the brutal Israeli aggression and the murderous
    American zeal that know no limits, Islam restricts violence,
    furthermore, its aim is not domination, but peace. This will obviously
    happen when Israeli occupation is ended and Palestinians return to their
    land and home. This will happen when Zionised Anglo-American colonialism
    is totally defeated. This message is clear and not open to negotiation.

    Looking at the Hezbollah, at the Hamas and the insurgent war in Iraq
    doesn’t leave much room for doubt. While many Arab nations have been
    defeated, Arab brotherhood, i.e., Islam is winning. If I were an Israeli
    who lived in occupied Palestine I would be rather worried. The excessive
    use of power and indiscriminate killing of Lebanese, Palestinians and UN
    peace keeping soldiers is the direct outcome of deep Israeli anxiety.
    The Zionist tactic is failing and they all know it. Their army doesn’t
    provide the goods anymore. By now, you may be able to guess why.
    Nationalism is foreign to Jews almost as much as it is foreign to Arabs.
    In fact, Zionism ceased being a local national movement a long time ago.
    Since the Balfour Declaration (1917) more and more Zionists operate as a
    Jewish Ethnic lobby promoting Jewish global interests. For more than a
    while Zionism is not interested solely in Eretz Israel i.e., ‘promised
    land’, instead, it intends upon transforming our universe into a
    ‘Promised Universe’. This idea is known as Neoconservatism and its
    largely Elder Zionist messengers who spread it are active in London
    (http://eustonmanifesto.org/), NYC and Washington
    (http://www.newamericancentury.org/).

    But time is running out for Neocon philosophy as well as its
    practitioners. I do not know whether history repeats itself in general
    but somehow, as far as Jewish History is concerned, the same tale keeps
    rewriting itself: it is a story of an obsessive relentless will to power
    that always ends in tragic circumstances. It happened in the Middle Ages
    in Spain, it happened in17th century Poland and Ukraine (Bogdan
    Chmielnitzki), it happened in 20th century Europe and it seems as if
    something dramatic is about to happen in America.

    When the American Jewish Committee (AJC) is manifestly engaged in
    dragging America into war in Iran all in the name of world Jewry
    http://www.ajc.org/atf/cf/{42D75369-D582-4380-8395-
    D25925B85EAF}/Al_Qaida_Iran_Hizballah.pdf When the Wolfowitzes of this
    world happened to be the architects behind the criminal war in Iraq, one
    may find oneself wondering whether Jews themselves ever learn anything
    from their own history. I really prefer not to think about what is going
    to be the outcome of the current blunt Jewish war waging. Considering
    the emerging American defeat in Iraq and growing international
    isolation, it is just a question of time before a charismatic American
    figure points the finger at the Israeli lobby. Devastatingly enough, it
    isn’t only Jews, many of them totally innocent, who are going to suffer
    when that happens. By the time all the Wolfowitzes of this world realise
    that it is time to evade the American vengeance (what may evolve into a
    new Jewish tragedy namely Coca Colacaust), they will probably try to
    escape to Palestine, God Forbid.

    Clearly, Zionists and their Jewish state are highly engaged in
    perpetrating a new world war, we have a good reason to believe that
    Olmert didn’t rule out the possibility that the current conflict in
    Lebanon may lead towards a further escalation with Syria and Iran. It
    obviously didn’t stop him. Why should it stop him? As soon as the
    Israelis started to drop bombs on Beirut Bush and Blair rushed to
    support Israel’s right to defend itself.

    The Wolfowitzes of this world have different names for the conflict they
    themselves created. They often call it a cultural clash and they are
    pretty good in wrapping their naked murderous zeal with some quasi
    humanist reasoning. More than anything they love to present themselves
    as the messengers of democracy. Yet, if indeed their notion of democracy
    is anything like the ‘single- race Democracy’, practiced in their dearly
    beloved murderous Israel, it isn’t that surprising why their ideas do
    not gain ground anywhere.

    Seemingly, for the sake of keeping their little racist Jewish state
    alive, the Wolfowitzes are happy to wage an all out war against Islam.
    So far Condi, Bush and Blair are showing support. The Wolfowitzes are
    over the roof but how to say it, half a million Lebanese have lost their
    homes as a result.

    Somehow, the Wolfowitzes of this world always fail to internalise that
    human beings are morally orientated creatures. Indeed nations and people
    can live through some evil phases. Not that many years ago it happened
    in Germany, it now happens in America. Yet, human beings have something
    the Wolfowitzes lack. They have an ethical correction mechanism; humans
    regret their wrongdoing, they have a conscience. America lived through
    McCarthyism but recovered, it still tries to deal with its racist past
    and current racial discrimination, it has been dealing with its war
    crimes in Vietnam. America, no doubt will shake itself of its Zionist
    murderous phase. It just doesn’t have any other choice. When this
    happens the Wolfowitzes of this world will have to hide behind the rock
    and tree, and the rock and tree will say: “oh American, there is a
    Wolfowitz behind me, I am scared, take him away! Help, help!”