Making Enemies

…..But there is something bitterly ironic in Israel’s support for Fatah against Hamas-and it should be a lesson to governments everywhere that meddle in other states’ affairs. In the past, Israel supported Hamas against Fatah. Indeed, in the 1970s and 80s, Israel played a not insignificant role in encouraging Hamas’s emergence in the belief that such an Islamist group might help rupture support for the mass nationalist movement of Fatah. Twenty years later, Israel has switched sides, hoping that it can encourage Fatah to see off Hamas. It wants “moderate” Palestinians to take on the “extremist” Palestinians it helped create. Like America and Britain before it-both of whom have supported and armed Islamist movements in the Middle East in attempts to undermine secular nationalist parties-Israel is learning the hard way that it is one thing to let radical Islamists off the leash but quite another thing to rein them back in again. If you make monsters, you shouldn’t be surprised if they come back to bite you….. Continue Reading

A dictator created then destroyed by America

…..Who encouraged Saddam to invade Iran in 1980, which was the greatest war crime he has committed for it led to the deaths of a million and a half souls? And who sold him the components for the chemical weapons with which he drenched Iran and the Kurds? We did. No wonder the Americans, who controlled Saddam’s weird trial, forbad any mention of this, his most obscene atrocity, in the charges against him. Could he not have been handed over to the Iranians for sentencing for this massive war crime? Of course not. Because that would also expose our culpability….. Continue Reading

Today’s ‘Islamic Fascists’ Were Yesterday’s Friends

by Brendan O’Neill – August 29, 2006   According to President George W. Bush, America is at war with “Islamic fascists.” Commentators who support Bush’s military interventions also argue that the West faces new religious enemies who do not play… Continue Reading

On Talking With Terrorists

…..What of us Americans? Do we negotiate with terrorists?

At Tehran and Yalta, FDR ceded Eastern Europe to the Great Terrorist he called “Uncle Joe.” Truman at Potsdam affirmed the grant to Stalin. Three years after Soviet tanks crushed the Hungarian Revolution, Eisenhower invited the “Butcher of Budapest” to Camp David and had him escorted on a 10-day U.S. tour.

In the year the Viet Cong perpetrated the massacre at Hue, going door-to-door with lists and executing 3,000 South Vietnamese, U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman sat down with the VC and North Vietnamese at Paris.

In 1972, Nixon went to Peking to shake hands with the greatest terrorist of the century, Mao Tse-tung, even as Mao’s Gang of Four, including his wife, carried out the Chinese pogrom known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution….. Continue Reading

American Black Muslim ‘Terrorists’ Set Up by Feds

…the federal grand jury indictment also painted a picture of a group that had no weapons or other supplies for an alleged “jihad” that was intended to be “as good or greater than 9/11.” ….. Narseal Batiste, considered the recruiter of the group, according to the document, tried to reach out to al Qaeda by contacting someone who was an FBI operative posing as a member of the terrorist network…..”There’s less than meets the eye here,” said his public defender Jimmy Hardy. “The only al Qaeda person was the undercover guy.”….. Continue Reading