Are Arabs finally coming to accept that the United States is not really part of a Zionist conspiracy in pursuit of a Jewish takeover of the world?
In this hopeful op-ed from Yemen’s Alsahwa newspaper, Sabah Al Kheshni makes quick work of the global Zionist conspiracy and argues against the common habit in many Arab countries of blaming everything that’s wrong on a conspiracy. In regard to the Iraq War and other targets of Arab angst, he writes in part:
“All strong nations believe they have the right to secure and expand their interests beyond their borders, just as America has done. … The conspiracy theory has become the peg upon which weak societies – most importantly ours – hang their misfortunes … The latest fashion is a conspiracy, hair-styles are a conspiracy – even freedom of expression can’t escape conspiracy …”
By Sabah Al Kheshni
Translated By Jenny Oliver and Nicolas Dagher
June 13, 2008
Yemen – Alsahwa – Original Article (Arabic)
We Muslims believe there is a huge conspiracy that has been hatched against us; woven throughout the decades beginning with the 1897 Basel Conference [First Zionist Congress ] in Switzerland, the speeches of which were said to form the basis of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. This gave birth to the myth that the Jews are planning to exercise control over us and our thoughts, God bless us. The Protocols, which were translated into Arabic, released to the public and widely disseminated, created the modern sense of the term conspiracy theory, all the way from Sykes-Picot [when the European powers carved up the Middle East ] to the shameful chaos and conspiracy of the Iraq occupation. And since political conspiracy is the basis of our community, society needed additional conspiracies. So came conspiracies against women, young people and children. We go from one calamity to another … And the reason is always a “conspiracy.”[Editor’s Note: Zionism is a concept conceived of by French Jewish journalist Theodore Herzl in his 1896 book The State of the Jews. In light of Europe’s history of cruelty and marginalization of Jews and after a French Jewish military officer named Alfred Dreyfus was accused of spying for Germany and convicted of treason in one of the most notorious cases of anti-Semitism in French history, Herzl concluded that Jews would never be accepted in Europe and needed their own homeland. This is the origin of modern Zionism and the drive to create a Jewish state in Israel. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was published in 1905 and is said to be an accounting of the First Zionist Conference. Rather, it is a literary forgery and a hoax that alleges a Jewish and Masonic plot to achieve world domination.]
All strong nations believe they have the right to secure and expand their interests beyond their borders, just as America has done to date. In theory, the strongest nation will impose its history, culture and strategy on weaker ones. A reading of history shows that within the Empire ruled by Athens, it was the Greeks who were the source of mythology, philosophy and military power. And it was the Greeks who mounted invasions and built the great glory that even today is so phenomenally influential. And so when the balance of power shifts toward nations that are imposing their beliefs on others, it is regarded as a conspiracy. When the Muslims were the prevailing power, the Kingdoms of Europe thought a plot had been hatched against them to seize their lands and wealth and change their beliefs.
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