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!”