AMERICA - Divided, Polarized, Fundamentalist
ARAFAT - Fatal symbolism

By Mark Bruzonsky*

MIDDLEEAST.ORG - MER - Washington - 4 November:

Amazing analogy from one of the best known contemporary American Journalists, 'Hardball' Chris Matthews, yesterday.

Right there on the NBC T.V. Network coming from the heart of the  Washington establishment just moments before John Kerry's concession speech and George Bush's triumphant party at the Ronald Reagan Center a few blocks from the White House Matthews said the following:

"I believe we live in a country that is really culturally
divided now... maybe the way Pakistan and India are."

Indeed! Just think about that for a moment!
Skipping muted rhetoric and gobbledigook analysis the stark realities of now divided, polarized, and increasingly fundamentalist America are more evident than ever, both in "values" and in the policies they breed.
Christian Evangelical Fundamentalists are aligned with Jewish crusading neocons in a kind of double-headed pro-Zionist alliance to bring about a 'new world order' in the Middle East and beyond.
Though for totally different ideological and strategic reasons their combined aim is nothing less than to remake the world in their own image, for their own benefit, and to restructure the Middle East to make it safe for Israel and American corporations for years to come.
Their front-man is George W. Bush.Their Rasputin,some would say Machiavelli, is Richard Cheney.Their crusaders are from the fast-expanding and space-age-equipped legions of the Pentagon and the CIA.
As this historical turning point occurs in the world's only current superpower, the grand Old Man of the Palestinian movement is finally about to pass.Happening in the way it is the symbolism of it all is dastardly, possibly fatal, for the Palestinian nationalist movement Yasser Arafat has himself insisted on nearly solely symbolizing for over fourty years.
Arafat leaves his people destitute and impoverished, fractured and bewildered,  demoralized and imprisoned -- half refugees, half now living under far worse than Apartheid conditions.
The symbolism of his possible passing in the way this is now likely to occur could hardly be worse.
Arch nemesis Ariel Sharon is the Israeli Prime Minister.    All Palestinian cities and refugee camps are now divided from each other and surrounded by a highly technologically advanced occupying army behind electrified fences, trenchs, concrete walls, 'by-pass' roads, and 'settlements'.
The crusading Christian armies of the modern-day Western World, in close coordination with the Jewish armies of modern-day Israel, are on the march everywhere.   Indeed the West and Israel now not only totally dominate the once Holy Land, but one way or another they now control or have rendered into submission most Arab countries and most Muslim holy sites from Jerusalem to Iraq to Saudi Arabia.

As for the symbolism of it all.It now appears Arafat is likely to die, or be pushed from the scene one way or another before he passes, in a foreign western hospital in a European country far from the Middle East.   And then he is likely to be buried either in the now wall-off city of Ramallah -- under Israeli occupation and only if they should so allow it -- or in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan which has for so long collaborating with both the U.S. and Israel to control and defeat Palestinian nationalism.







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