Princes of Darkness / 3

Jihad Khazen Al-Hayat 22/11/05/

Another day with Laurent Murawiec and his book "Princes of Darkness". He targets Saudi Arabia, but it is not really one country. The neocons, the likudniks and other Israeli apologists in the U.S. have in their sights all the Arabs and Muslims, seeking a "creative destruction" of the Middle East to steal its oil and protect Israel.Dick Cheney asked the Project for a New American Century in 2000 to prepare a study on the region. It was written and presented before 9/11, even before George Bush won the presidency. It called for a sizeable U.S. military presence in the Gulf to guarantee oil supplies. The writers of the study and other neocons wrote letters to Bill Clinton and George Bush calling for an invasion of Iraq. Again, this preceded 9/11. Extreme right wing American politicians, led by Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld form common grounds with Likudniks like Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Pearle, Douglas Feith, Lewis Libby, Kenneth Adelman and David Wurmser in government, and William Kristol, Frank Gaffney, Daniel Pipes, Max Boot, Charles Krauthammer Stephen Schwartz and Murawiec himself on the outside. They are all Jews, but it is not a Jewish conspiracy. It is a neocon-Likud conspiracy. James Wolfenson is Jewish and he has more humility and humanity in his little toe than the whole cabal put together. Ditto Noam Chomsky.Murawiec does not fail to remind us in his book that 15 of the 19 terrorists on 9/11 were Saudi. Of course, this is true and for an obvious reason. Al Qaeda tried to drive a wedge between the United States and Saudi Arabia which is exactly the goal of Murawiec and other neocons.There is a unity of purpose, sources and resources among American and émigré Likudniks. As I was reading Murawiec's book I came across an article by Gaffney under the title "Our Saudi Foes" with the same points as the book on oil prices, terrorism, religious freedom or lack of it and such Israeli points. When Gaffney, like Murawiec, talks about "our" foes he really means foes of Israel. Gaffney complains that oil prices are high. I say they are not high enough and if he does not like Saudi prices he can shop elsewhere, which was my advice to Murawiec as well.Gaffney was unhappy that the Senate Judiciary Committee postponed (it was held Nov.8) a hearing on Saudi Arabia. He tells us that Yigal Carmon and James Woolsey would have testified.Carmon is a former Israeli intelligence officer sent by Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington to establish the translation company MEMRI, which concentrates on obscure Imams of mosques in the Empty Quarter but not the racist diatribes of settler rabbis in Palestinian lands. He is an enemy of Arabs and Muslims who is a party to the conflict and not an independent witness.Woolsey is a former head of the CIA and current ass. No one will take him after leaving office except the neocons and he chose to vie with them in extremist policies. His would be testimony before the judiciary committee was released and it describes Wahhabism as a totalitarian movement which he compares to Nazism or communism. So much for the ass, or asshole.While Gaffney quotes extremist of his elk Murawiec quotes the disgraced journalist Judith Miller. Readers may recall her quoting Ahmed Chalabi about Iraq's WMDs which have since been confirmed as deliberate lies. She has now left the New York Times after a rebellion by colleagues who did not want to work with her anymore.Still Miller is not as bad as the Israeli Carmon.As already stated I stopped reading after the second chapter but went through the Index and found credible sources and not only Miller or Carmon. The anti-Arab anti-Iranian Daniel Pipes was also there and he's been working overtime against Iran since President Ahmedinejad called for wiping Israel off the map. The neocons are trying to get the U.S. to do Israel's dirty work against Iran. But the U.S. cannot handle the Sunni minority in Iraq and a confrontation with Shiites in Iran, Iraq and elsewhere in the region would destroy American interests. Simply put, Iran is stronger than the U.S. in the Middle East.The back cover of Princes of Darkness is a joke. The book is praised by Pipes, Woolsey and Pearle. David Pryce-Jones also wrote in support. He is a quasi-historian, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim since a beggar in Casablanca spit in his face.A serious note to end this column. Neocons and Likudniks are past masters at passing on their faults to others; I have done Psychology 201. Pearle is known as Prince of Darkness, so Murawiec uses this to describe Saudi princes. Taliban were first sponsored by the Pakistani Military Intelligence then the U.S. before reaching Saudi Arabia but the Saudis are blamed alone for financing them on terror. Israel kills schoolchildren so they speak about Palestinian terror and gloss over the fact that five times as many Palestinian civilians were killed in the last five years as Israeli civilians. And then there is the envy about oil prices and the Saudis buying Rolex watches, when many companies in the U.S., or a handful of individuals, have more money than the whole country of Saudi Arabia.Throughout this review I detailed mistakes in the book. Here is another one for good measure. On page 13 Murawiec tells us that Al-Dawla is the government and that Al-Hukuma represents "the chiefs". Of course, Al-Dawla is the State and Al-Hukuma is the Government with ministers not chiefs. I advise Murawiec to immigrate again… to Israel. Otherwise I'll start writing about Poland.