As the media continually mentions President Obama
getting Arab League approval prior to establishing a no-fly zone in Libya, the
media has not explained what the Arab League is, probably because they just
don't know. The public perception of the Arab League, as a result, is that is
just a congress of Arab states, as the name implies. That may be true, but that
is only part of the story that may read like a cheap detective novel, but is
alarmingly true.
Prior to the First Zionist Congress in 1897, Jews were buying
land in the Palestine Region of the Ottoman Empire from absentee landlords.
These were relatively easy purchases, all backed up with land deeds, because it
was land nobody wanted. Just a few years prior in his 1867 book The Innocents
Abroad, Mark Twain described the region as "A desolate country whose soil
is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds. A silent, mournful expanse.
We never saw a human being on the whole route. There was hardly a tree or a
shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of a
worthless soil, had almost deserted the country."
While the growing presence of Jews in the region attracted
many Arabs who wanted to benefit from the influx of money raised by Jews to
reclaim the desert, it also attracted many Arabs who did not want to see Jews
there. It did not take long for boycotts of Jewish interests, starting as early
as 1910, to spring up with the specific intent of starving out the Jews in the
region. However, the Arabs were not content with small-town boycotts and once a
"Jewish National Homeland" was envisioned by the world bodies, the
Arab Congress was formed in 1921 to regionalize their boycott and prevent
Israel from being formed. The Arab plan to destroy Israel predates the creation
of Israel and for that matter, the vast majority of Arab nations.
Later, in recognition that the Arab nations were officially
formed, the Arab Congress changed its name to The League of Arab States, or
Arab League as it is more commonly known today. Although their website
(www.arableagueonline.org) only lists ten official members, there are in fact
21 official member states plus "Palestine." The Arab League meets on
a regular basis, including in Egypt despite not being listed as a member on the
website. Their website, therefore, is more about public relations than their
stated goals.
One topic you can be assured of at every Arab League meeting
is a vote to affirm and strengthen their boycott of Israel. That should not be
a surprise for two reasons. First, of course, the Arab boycott is the founding
principal of the Arab League, and because the Arab League has declared war on
Israel despite not being an actual nation itself. Syria, which hosts the
Central Office for the Boycott of Israel, or Central Boycott Office, holds a
tight reign on the boycott. For example, the CBO forbids any ship that has ever
docked in Israel from ever docking in an Arab nation. Actions such as these are
meant to intimidate everyone from conducting business in or with Israel in
order to further the Arab boycott and their plan to bankrupt Israel.
If the Arab League did not represent the vast majority of
Arab states, the ten voting nations listed on their website would not be a
majority of the Arab world, and therefore would not be able to enact a policy
to remove a leader from its midst. In reality, it took a vast majority vote by
the Arab nations to ask President Obama to establish a no-fly zone over Libya,
as all Arab nations are in the Arab League. Once again, we see evidence that
the Arab League comprises far more than the ten states listed on their website.
Therefore, when President Obama acted in consultation with
and permission from the Arab League to establish a no-fly zone in Libya, which
will no doubt assist with the removal of Quadaffi from power, he acted in the
best interests of those sworn to the destruction of Israel. More worrisome, the
West has no idea who the rebels are and what type of government they plan for
Libya. I believe the Arab League knows exactly who may become the next leader
of Libya, which is why they are so keen on regime change.
By consulting with the Arab League and not Congress before
aiding regime change in Libya, President Obama inherently stated he values the
opinion of people sworn to Israel's destruction more then the opinions of our
nationally elected officials. Unfortunately, this is not the first time
President Obama has acted in the best interests of the Arab League. President
Obama has taken the side of Palestinians against Israel; he changed his Egypt
policy to match the Arab League stance of removing Mubarak from power; and
still refuses to stand with Israel while the Iranian Mullahs threaten Israel's
complete annihilation.
While the Obama doctrine may not be the machinations of a
novelist, it is scary to realize his foreign policy is more concerned with
placating the world than addressing the concerns of our own Congress. It is a
classic Dr. Strangelove paradigm. Nobody knows exactly what is on the
Presidents mind, nor where his Middle East policy is taking us. What we do know
is that is it not good. |
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