The Real Reason They Hate
Us
by Suzanne Nicole
Suzanne Nicole is
webmaster and research assistant for Dr. Alfred M. Lilienthal.
For more
information, see "Greater Israel; What Does It Really Mean?"
http://alfredlilienthal.com/greaterisrael.htm
If America wishes to truly
protect our homeland from terrorist attacks from Islamic fundamentalists,
it might help to know the real reason for their hatred toward us. The
question has become almost proverbial after it has been asked so many
times since the tragedy of 9-11: "Why do they hate us?"
No, it's
not because they despise our free society or our women going around in
skimpy clothing. And it's not because most of us are Christians, Jews, or
secular unbelievers and therefore not Muslims. It started long ago well
before the terrorists who came to our American shores were even
born.
They keep telling us the real reason, but we will not listen.
To hear and to understand and to reply effectively, we would have to admit
our nation's bias for over a half century against the Arab people and
other Muslim nations. We created the reason for their hostility toward us.
It is we and not they who started the grotesque "clash of civilizations"
we now see facing us over the next generation or more.
Let us see
what Arabs and other Muslims have repeatedly been saying for over fifty
years.
In a November 1947 article, entitled "As the Arabs See the
Jews," in The American Magazine, His Majesty King Abdullah of Jordan said:
"I believe that you do not realize how directly you are, as a nation,
responsible in general for the whole Zionist move and specifically for the
present terrorism. I call this to your attention because I am certain that
if you realize your responsibility, you will act fairly to admit it and
assume it."
In an October 1954 report, entitled, "King Saud
Interview by Lilienthal on Arab-American Relations and Zionism," in The
Federal Herald, the following exchange took place between anti-Zionist
Jewish American historian Alfred M. Lilienthal and King Saud of Saudi
Arabia.
Mr. Lilienthal: "…Your Majesty a few months ago… said that
the Arabs do not care if they sacrifice a few million persons in order to
put an end to the Zionists in Palestine."
His Majesty then said:
"Frankly what I said is what I urge and preach. It is the only answer to
what has been published by the responsible persons of Israel about the
necessity that Israel should expand to comprise the beds of the Tigris and
Euphrates, the Sinai Peninsula and the northern part of Saudi Arabia,
including Medina, which is one of the two Holy Towns and the Burial place
of the Moslems’ Prophet, and which is after all my own land and the land
of every Arab and Moslem. We have learned of this Zionist ambition from
the statements of Israeli leaders and its creators who pleaded the course
yesterday, and are still pleading it today. They are making no secret of
this scheme, and they have made its study part of the school curriculum in
Israel, where they cram the students’ heads with these fanciful schemes.
There is no answer to what they are after except this antidote, and the
preparation of what we can in field of might and force."
On June 4,
1983, Imam Khomeini of Iran wrote, "I warn the governments of the Islamic
countries…They should know that Israel, as I have said again and again and
as you have heard time and again, will not be satisfied with these
agreements. It sees the Arab governments from the Nile to the Euphrates as
usurpers, and sooner or later with the help of America it will put its
malicious plan into action if, God forbid, it should find the opportunity
and if the Arab governments do not awaken from their deep slumber. Is it
not a source of shame for the Muslims and the governments of the Islamic
countries that America, from the other side of the world, can govern their
destinies and through the usurping infidel, Israel, can ensnare and ruin
them all?"
Every Arab and Muslim knows about this supposed Zionist
plot to continue to occupy not only all of the Palestinian territories but
to also eventually conquer most of the Arab nations to establish what is
known as Greater Israel. They know about it even if they do not
necessarily believe it. Most Americans, however, have never heard about
this strange dreadful conspiracy, or they dismiss it as the ravings of
madmen like Osama Bin Laden. Yes, Osama has claimed this too as one of his
primary reasons for attacks upon America.
On February 16, 2003, the
content of a tape recording reportedly from Bin Laden was made public. The
Reuters news service version stated, "Bin Laden said an attack on Iraq
would be followed by U.S. ‘aggressions’ against more Arab countries such
as Egypt, Sudan, Iran and Syria for the benefit of its ally
Israel.
‘This attack on Iraq is part of a new crusade to prepare
the region, after dividing it, for the creation of a Greater Israel. This
means the whole region will be ruled by Jews,’ he said.
The
recording began with bin Laden identifying the United States and
its ‘foolish’ President George W. Bush as the enemy."
As the
ferocious "Shock and Awe" U.S. bombing of Baghdad takes place, not only is
President Bush looking foolish in waging a war against Iraq that looks
suspiciously like the start of a war against Islam. There are dozens of
officials in his administration who are currently bragging about the next
American wars seemingly at least in part on behalf of Israel.
On
February 17, 2003, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz carried this headline,
"U.S. official to Israel: We'll deal with Syria, Iran after Iraq war."
Hmm, isn’t that exactly the same thing that Bin Laden was charging against
America in the news only the day before? Worse yet, the persons this
pledge was being made to were Sharon, Netanyahu, and Sharansky who happen
to be well known for their determination to bring millions of more Jews
from America and around the world into Israel itself as well as to
maintain and expand the settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. The
American official responsible for this outrageous statement is Under
Secretary of State John Bolton, a close associate of the well known Jewish
and Christian Zionists actually in the Bush administration or who are
influencing it from neo-conservative think-tanks: Cheney, Rumsfeld,
Ashcroft, Perle, Wolfowitz, Abrams. Plus many others.
In President
Bush’s (justifications for war on Iraq) speech on February 26, 2003 before
a gathering of his apparently favorite think-tank, he proudly proclaimed,
"At the American Enterprise Institute, some of the finest minds in our
nation are at work on some of the greatest challenges to our nation. You
do such good work that my administration has borrowed 20 such
minds."
A visit to the American Enterprise Institute website, and
reading the magazine of the Institute on the Internet, will quickly reveal
an abundance of quotes hostile to Arabs and Islam. Example: "It is useless
for the West to insist it is not at war with Islam. Islam itself is on
trial here; it must now choose its path."
Currently as the war on
Iraq is taking place, we have been hearing that the new democratic
government for the liberated Iraq will not be a puppet regime run by
stooges of American and Israeli interests. It does not take long for
another American official with Zionist ties to prove otherwise. At the
Washington Foreign Press Center Briefing in Washington, DC on March 19,
2003, Marc Grossman, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs,
happened to ridiculously claim about the new Iraqi democracy that will
replace Saddam’s tyranny, "And in terms of whether the first thing they do
will be to recognize the State of Israel, I have no idea. But I certainly
hope it's among the very first things that they do."
So, first we
install a phony democratic regime in Iraq to embrace Israel as its best
buddy. Next we have an American attack on Iran and Syria and on and on
with the falling dominos of Islamic countries all the way to Saudi Arabia.
Will we have in their place an entire Middle East of democratic puppet
regimes in service of Zionism? The American Enterprise Institute magazine
has proclaimed, "We’ll win this war!" The two illustrations of the enemy
used are of the crescent and star of Islam and a photo of a vast gathering
of Muslims kneeling in prayer.
We will indeed win this war of our
own making if we want to bomb billions of Muslims into oblivion and occupy
their devastated countries, as Perle and the rest of the ultra-Zionists
who influence Bush would seem to be deceptively leading us to do. If,
however, we wish to win the minds and hearts of our Muslim brothers and
sisters to join with them in a new century of peace, we need to listen.
Why do they hate us, and why would they stop hating us? King Abdullah of
Jordan stated the problem but also stated the solution as long ago as
1947, "I have the most complete confidence in the fair-mindedness and
generosity of the American public. We Arabs ask no favours. We ask only
that you know the full truth, not half of it."