How Our ‘American Masters’ Drove Iraqis to Compare Israel to Iran: Kitabat of Iraq

Iraqi Legislator Mithal al-Alusi: Punished for visiting Israel.

So how is Iraq’s experiment in Western-style democracy coming along, a curious American might ask?

Judging from the recent dust-up over Iraqi legislator Mithal al-Alusi, who decided to visit Israel to attend an anti-terror conference – Iraqis is still have a long way to go. Mr. al-Alusi has been stripped of his parliamentary immunity and is about to be charged with treason for traveling to the Jewish state – all of which has sparked a debate in Iraq about the potential benefits of relations with Israel and the suggestion by some – that Israel would be a better ally for Iraq than Iran.

But according to this article from Iraq’s Kitabat newspaper, there is something more sinister at play: It’s all part of Washington’s ploy to acclimatize Iraqis to something that not long ago would have been unthinkable.

Of lawmaker Mithal al-Alusi, the author writes:

Al-Alusi, who is so loyal to the occupation, which is where he came from and where he will return, like all the others in the National Assembly of donkeys, serve only one religion – complete submission to Uncle Sam. They differ in their support for this or that minor item, but their one and only master is the Lord of the Green Barn [referring to the fortified Green Zone], which is also the Lord of his chosen people [Israel] and the rapist of occupied Palestine.

It’s the game of the American occupation that steers the debate over which side would be better to follow and collaborate with – Iran or Israel. … Now the question of “visits to Israel” and calls to “reestablish relations with her” is a viable topic of debate, whereas before it was the most taboo of taboos. … Friends of Iran have sparked the uproar over this friend of Israel [Al-Alusi], but it’s all just electoral clatter being permitted by the American master to create a huge debate about the advantages of friendship with Israel.

By Eshtaar

Translated By James Jacobson and Nicolas Dagher

September 18, 2008

Iraq – Kitabat – Original Article (Arabic)

Kitabat readers are divided between those who support Israel as a friend and those who are opposed. Supporters have even found a verse in the Quran which talks of Israel’s rights, elevating the country to the highest class, while opponents hold it in the lowest possible regard.

But the issue is simpler than that. That man [Iraqi Assemblyman Mithal al-Alusi - see Editor's Note below ] who is so loyal to the occupation, which is where he came from and where he will return, like all the others in the National Assembly of donkeys, serve only one religion – complete submission to Uncle Sam. They differ in their support for this or that minor item, but their one and only master is the Lord of the Green Barn [referring to the fortified Green Zone], which is also the Lord of his chosen people and the rapist of occupied Palestine. If it weren’t for America, Israel wouldn’t have even survived militarily and economically. How can the rapist be a victim, and the instigator and sponsor of the rape be innocent? How can the rapist be desirous of friendship with Israel and averse to friendship with America? Wherein do they differ? They have but one origin, one doctrine, one goal, one sphere of interest and one method of predation.

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