Politique Internationale: What Price Oil?
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Taki POLITIQUE INTERNATIONALE: WHAT PRICE OIL? The truth about Palestine. X never thought I'd find myself in the same position as Britain's half-million Jews, infuriated by careless talk of...
...Because that is what it all boils down to, dear American Spectator readers...
...Which is not necessarily a bad thing...
...The PLO's only purpose—its avowed purpose—is the destruction of the Jewish state...
...Taki Theodoracopulos is The American Spectator's European editor...
...Germany, for obvious reasons, has not been too vociferous about Israel, although the Greens and publications like Der Spiegel continue to discredit anyone who is pro-Israeli...
...James Abourezk, a former senator (fortunately) and at present a lobbyist for the Arabs in Washington, recently won an award in Leipzig, East Germany, for a documentary he produced and directed on the Israeli bombing of unarmed civilians...
...Qaddafi was too scared to raise the price of his oil until he saw our "friends" the Saudis and the Shah squeeze the last dollar for their black root of all evil...
...In fact I expect any day now for Lenny Bernstein to throw a party for George Habbash...
...As German law provides that reprinting a libelous item does not constitute libel, they pretty much have a free hand to write anything...
...Not on guns, or blond hookers...
...But that a Margaret Thatcher would be unwilling to harness her government's anti-Semitism, this is astonishing indeed...
...Except it does not surprise me at all...
...But it is over here, in America, that I have found the most surprising anti-Beginism, and among the eastern liberal establishment, of all places...
...Or perhaps Felix Rohatyn, the foppish next Democratic secretary of the treasury, should divert some Lazard Freres funds to Palestine...
...The latter have lots of space and very few Bedouins...
...Their favorite method is reprinting verbatim planted items that have appeared in East Germany...
...C'esttout.r throat...
...But at least he called and gave warning," was Garth's reply...
...I say bull...
...If Rohatyn is so concerned about Palestinian rights, as he never fails to remind us while conducting business with rich Arabs, he should tell his Saudi friends to put them up...
...The British media have been more damning of Israel's clean-up in Lebanon than any other media in Europe (which does not include the olive republic of Greece, where the Prime Minister and the press have consistently likened the Israeli action in Lebanon to Nazi actions against the Jews in the death camps...
...Three ex-cabinet ministers I know, all three titled and extremely rich, have compared Begin to the Fiihrer, with the latter coming out a bit more favorably...
...Now the Palestinians have replaced the Jews as the world's victims...
...The world tolerated its disintegration, occupation by Syria, and collapse into quasi-feudal baronies, but now demands an Israeli withdrawal from the "sovereign" state of Lebanon...
...It is two-pronged: subtle hints by major advertisers to proprietors, and financial encouragement to banks and other such institutions to aid people who are pro-Arab and anti-Israeli...
...That Lebanon was and is as sovereign as San Marino seems of no importance...
...I always knew that if it ever came to a choice between Jewish-ness and radicalism, the pointy heads would jump to rid themselves of the former...
...Good old-fashioned English anti-Semitism, and, of course, good old-fashioned English love for the almighty Arab petrodollar...
...We felt that the terrible crime perpetrated against the Lebanese and Palestinian people should not be forgotten," was Abourezk's excuse for the phoniest production since the Moscow Olympics...
...X never thought I'd find myself in the same position as Britain's half-million Jews, infuriated by careless talk of genocide and by the strong anti-Israeli line taken by Margaret Thatcher's government...
...I predict that within five years he will have to kill more to hang on to his throne...
...Finally, Khomeini's rantings I believe are about to sweep the Moslem world...
...That the Labour Party would suggest such a thing is hardly surprising...
...The PLO has forfeited the right by killing too many innocent people...
...This can mean only one thing: soon we will have no friends in the Arab world...
...In a recent conversation with David Garth, the media consultant, Evelyn Rothschild, the head of Rothschild's bank in London, and an otherwise fine fellow, called Begin a terrorist for having blown up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem 35 years ago...
...Second, Transjordan, the name of a river given to the emirate that until 1922 was a British protectorate, is Palestine...
...As a friend of mine, son of one of the above ministers, pointed out, "All these thirties graduates either are trying to bugger you or are sending classified material to the Russians...
...In London, moreover, where the Jewish community is at full strength, the love of Arab money seems to have caused a few rich Jews to forget their Jewishness...
...Transjordan was 80 percent of the land mass of Palestine...
...Until the early seventies it was the Holocaust, the Rosenbergs, and Vietnam...
...The Labour Party's newspaper, the Herald, went so far as to run a cartoon headlined "The Final Solution," depicting Menachem Begin in a Gestapo uniform giving the Nazi salute over a heap of corpses...
...This traditional British anti-Semitism is helped along by the Oxbridge brigade's traditional liberalism...
...The Arab is like the German used to be: either at your feet or at your throat...
...Fahd admitted to Kissinger that the salad days of the pro-Western princes were over...
...After all, these are the very people who rather than cross a picket line favor leaving cancer patients to die in agony—in fact, have been known to turn off the electricity of hospitals whose staff had crossed picket lines...
...In September 1970 Hussein saved his throne by killing more than 15,000 Palestinians...
...Fourth, and last, the PLO and their plight do not deserve the consideration of Israel...
...Lastly, the only thing the Arabs, friendly or unfriendly, understand is if we are unequivocally behind Israel's armed forces...
...In 1948 Hussein became king and named his country Jordan...
...The camps provide them with terrorists and remind the world of Israel's "crime" of 1948...
...Or rather, let us remind ourselves of certain facts that seem to have escaped the attention of our trendy pontificators: First and foremost, the world's conscience seems to forget that the Palestinians, who were displaced in 1948 and still live in cramped wretched conditions, have only their Arab brethren to thank...
...I also say that Moslems can never be friendly to Westerners because the Moslem religion just about forbids it...
...Remember, the argument used against Begin by the Left is that we are alienating pro-Western governments by our support of Israel...
...Jo, before Noam Chomsky or anybody of his ilk throws a party for the Katiusha set, let us get a few things straight...
...Hussein and his tribe, brought out of Arabia by the Brits, are in fact the only people in Jordan who are not Palestinians...
...My army is de facto pro-Khomeini," is what he told our Henry...
...And the Palestinians do offer the perfect and perpetual underdog for the trendy eggheads...
...Although Margaret Thatcher's background is as ordinary as her leadership is outstanding and courageous, the members of her government are most of them products of the old boys network, that group for whom nothing is more important than what one was, what one's background and family are, what school one attended, and in what regiment one served...
...The French anti-Israeli campaign, however, has been more subtle...
...Third, Israel and Lebanon lived in perfect harmony until the Palestinians were kicked out by Hussein and decided to take over Lebanon...
...C'esttout...
...The rich playboys we see running around with hookers are hardly typical of the Arabs, an extremely rigid people who make Jerry Falwell seem like Larry Flynt by comparison...
...In 1946 the British named Hussein's grandfather king of Transjordan...
...They are, most important of all, fashionable...
...Their very own people, their co-religionists, the leaders of the rich Arab states, have kept these dreadful camps full for political purposes...
...Needless to say, it conveniently forgot to mention the fact that 100,000 Lebanese had died before the Israeli invasion, all at the hands of the fashionable ones...
...Just across the channel, in France, where the press and television are infiltrated with hardcore leftists, it's a wonder that France, or rather Mitterrand, has managed to maintain diplomatic relations with Jerusalem...
...Anything else is wishful thinking...
...Perhaps Harvard can grant the terrorists some lands, but Israel should and will not...
...Clearly, the only thing the Arabs stint in is compassion for these people...
...The editorial writers know of the traditional French dislike of the the Arabs, as well as the power of France's 700,000-strong Jewish community...
...A community, I might add, which has stuck by Begin and the Israeli armed forces...
...When Henry Kissinger visited King Fahd recently, he was allowed to speak with the Minister of Defense only in the presence of high-ranking generals...
...The Arabs, needless to say, have mounted an almost textbook disinformation campaign in the British media...
Vol. 16 • March 1983 • No. 3
