On the surface, it sounds great; bring democracy to the Middle East. Yet, closer scrutiny reveals a fatal flaw in this idea. This democracy that President George Bush plans on bestowing is being brought at the point of a gun and/or blackmail. Sounds like candy-coated fascism to me.



Don't believe me? Here are a few definitions that clarify the issue. From the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, the definition of "Democracy" is "government by the people; especially: rule of the majority." Now here's the definition of "Fascism" from the same source: "a political philosophy, movement, or regime... and forcible suppression of opposition."



President Bush is determined to force democracy upon peoples and nations that have not asked or struggled for it themselves . Also, he is forcibly sacrificing the territorial integrity of the only democratic nation in the Middle East to achieve his unrealistic goals.



Using force to suppress opposition to his single-minded idea of Utopia is Fascism. Meanwhile, forcing a political philosophy upon a people -- no matter how well-intended -- is the absolute antithesis of democracy.



To make matters worse, President Bush, in his quest for his version of 'democracy', is blackmailing Israel to ethnically cleanse her own lands of her own people. Nor does this delusion of putative 'democracy' stop there. Bush plans on bestowing the title of 'democracy' upon an artificially created country whose very core and raison d'etre is anything but democratic.



Mr. Bush has promised the Arabs occupying Jewish Palestine their own state if they institute 'democracy'. However, to Mr. Bush, it seems that 'democracy' is merely the appearance of elections. He ignores the fact that this group of mainly Jordanians and Egyptians (certainly not 'Palestinians') continues to ban and, in fact, murder any Jew who steps foot on the lands they control. Is this democracy? Not in this universe.



As to their candidates, not one embraces equal rights for all people. Not a single candidate has come out and said they would welcome Jews. Israel, in contrast, welcomes Muslims all the time. But then, Israel is a true democracy.



And yet, being a true democracy has not saved Israel from being the sacrificial lamb on Bush's plate of misbegotten forced democracy as a cure for terrorism. Never mind the fact that the Arabs themselves admit that they have no rights to the claim that they are a separate people deserving their own country. As one of the leaders of the 'Palestinian' movement put it so clearly:



"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality, today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism." -- Zahir Muhsein, PLO executive committee member, in an interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw, March 31, 1977.(1)



Meanwhile, Mr. Bush ignores the root cause of terrorism: Islamism. He has yet to state it. With the exception of a few Basques, the occasional Hindu upset over Kashmir, and some fighting in and around the Ivory Coast, every single act of terrorism around the globe for the past few years was committed by an Islamist for the purpose of forcing the slavery and conquest of Islamism upon a non-Islamist world.



Yet, somehow, Mr. Bush seems to think that the superficialities of democracy, such as holding elections, will suddenly turn millions of monsters into peace-loving and accepting human beings. In the case of the Arabs occupying Jewish Palestine, this means electing the US favorite candidate, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen).



Abbas is the author of a notorious work entitled "The Secret Connection Between the Nazis and the Leaders of the Zionist Movement".(2) In this piece of fiction, for which he received a doctorate, Abbas denied that the Holocaust ever took place.



Does this hateful Islamist sound like a prime candidate to enforce democracy? Apparently, Mr. Bush isn't bothered with such trivialities as the denial and rewriting of history, or such as a genocidal bent towards the aboriginal inhabitants of the land Bush wants to steal from Israel and give over to the Jews' sworn enemies and destroyers.



But then, Mr. Bush is counting on the appearance of elections, with the only candidates being Islamists bent upon genocide and the stealing of rightfully Jewish land, to suddenly make these fiends turn into sweet, loving, civilized creatures.



To those who would point out that Abbas declared the current Intifada a "mistake", may I point out something further. He said the Intifada was a mistake because it did not achieve anything for the Arabs waging this nefarious war. He did not say it was a mistake because it deliberately targeted women, children and entire families in a concerted effort to commit genocide. He did not say that tearing lost Jews limb from limb and keeping trophy body parts was a mistake because human beings do not do that. He did not say that fabricating lies about a Jenin massacre was a mistake because such lies foment genocide and are a crime against humanity. He did not say that using a sharpshooter to explode the skull of an infant was a mistake because such a thing is beyond evil.(3)



No.



Abbas said the Intifada was a mistake because it gained the Arabs nothing. Not a word of regret or remorse for the thousands of Jewish victims killed or left living with pieces of rat-poison coated shrapnel in their bodies, or horribly disfigured from the exploding infernos unleashed upon them.



Yet, Mr. Bush thinks ramming through elections and a 'Palestinian' state will halt terrorism.



It will not. But I will tell you what it will achieve. It will give the Islamists -- all of them -- a quasi-legitimate country from which to launch better and more vicious attacks. It will give every Islamist group, including Al-Qaeda and Hizbullah a safe haven and air of legitimacy. And perhaps worst of all, it will show that terrorism has, as its reward, its own country, carved out of the heart of its victim.



Maybe for an encore, Mr. Bush would like to give Al-Qaeda it's own state, carved out of the heart of the US. In that case, I vote for Texas, starting with the Bush Ranch.



Notes:



(1) http://www.paktoday.com/expert.htm.



(2) http://www.arutzsheva.org/news.php3?id=40157.



(3) http://www.middleeast.org/forum/fb-public/1/3830.shtml.