The title of this piece sounds odd, I realize; yet, this is the equivalent of what the Arab and Muslim world is now trying to say regarding the Jews. Saudi Arabia is the newest entrant to this deviant and deceptive stance: Jews are acceptable, but Israel (Zionism) isn't.



Ever since the reestablishment of the ancient and aboriginal Jewish homeland, the Arab/Muslim world has been up in arms, because the Jewish people rightfully dared to take back that which was stolen from them through genocide and war. But make no mistake, the majority of the Arab/Muslim world wants not merely Middle East hegemony, but world conquest. However, this sort of thinking does not go down well with the civilized world. So the Arab/Muslim spin-doctors burned the midnight camel dung(1) and came up with a disingenuous twist. They say that Jews are acceptable, but Israel is not.



This has been their mantra since they lost three wars of aggression against tiny Israel in humiliating defeats, when they outnumbered the Jews by multitudes to one.



Since 9-11, with its overwhelming majority of Saudi murderers, that kingdom has been intent on proving that they are benign, peaceful and loving despots, and that their Islamist country is all sweetness and light. This is because since September 11, civilized people have become aware of the Saudi hand in the slave trade of Africa, even with slave owners among Saudi royalty, persecution, torture and execution of non-Muslims and countless other atrocities - all committed in the name of Islam. Something had to be done.



In response to public awareness and anger at Saudi Arabia's barbarity and unending atrocities, the kingdom ran a multi-million dollar dud of an ad campaign in America to persuade people that the Saudis are next best things to sliced ham. The only change I personally noticed during this flopperoonie of a campaign was that while it was on, oil prices shot up (methinks this was their way of billing us for it). Certainly, the American public is not nearly so gullible as the Arab/Muslim world when it comes to propaganda. Many Americans laughed at their feeble and expensive attempt to make them over into the nice followers of the Profit... er, Prophet.



Within weeks of deciding that throwing good oil pelf after bad was getting them nowhere, Saudi Arabia unleashed their latest sneak bid to bamboozle the civilized world. This stealth attack comes in the form of one Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi.



Dr. Batarfi, someone whose credentials I found impossible to verify, has been put forth as the putative moderate voice of the Saudi ruling despots. In his most recent article, run in an official 'news' organ of the Saudi regime -- Al-Madina -- Dr. Batarfi seems to be a peace-loving dove. This article has the unwieldy title of "The Problem Lies with Those Who Misinterpret History in Order to Serve Self-Interests."



Fortunately for those of us in the civilized world, Dr. Batarfi, who apparently must be the best the Saudis have to offer, is so obvious in his hatred, lies and prejudices that he unwittingly states it in his first two sentences. In the opening of this clumsy bid to gain world approval as a moderate tyranny, the Saudi mouthpiece states the following: "Some of my Jewish readers have doubts. They suspect that Arabs and Muslims hate them, blaming them for Israel's misdeeds and past mistakes...."(2)



Right away he vilifies and demonizes Israel, separating the history, love and yearning for a stolen Jewish birthplace and homeland from Judaism itself. This, in spite of the fact that Jerusalem and a return to the aboriginal Jewish homeland is mentioned hundreds of times in the Bible.



For someone who dares claim a doctorate, Batarfi's lack of knowledge regarding the intrinsic ties of the Jewish homeland of Israel to the Jewish religion is staggering, to say the least. Doesn't this man ever read? His stance is the equivalent of saying that Muslims are okay, but their devotion to Mecca is unacceptable. Or that Catholics are all right, but their ties to Vatican City, Lourdes and other places holy to them are abhorrent.



Further investigation into Batarfi reveals his obvious hatred and ignorance of Jews and Judaism. In an article ostensibly about the Iraq war, entitled "Too Wise to Fall for Tricks", Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi goes out of his way to repeatedly call Israel a monster and a criminal. To wit: "The bigger Israeli monster complained to daddy and demanded specific action. Daddy decided to get rid of his Iraqi evil creation and run business directly with the help of its now one and only partner in crime, Israel."(3)



This putative moderate sounds like merely another genocidal Islamist monster, with an unverifiable pedigree after his name and the backing of the Saudi royal family.



And lest you think this is merely a 'Jewish issue', may I remind readers that the Muslims have already begun their takeovers of Christian holy places, chasing out and/or forcibly ejecting the Christians from one of their holiest lands, Bethlehem. They also used the Church of the Nativity for an Islamist terror hideout for weeks, defecating and urinating inside it and using the Bibles for toilet paper. And the roof of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was turned into a deviant and blasphemous latrine for the King of Modern Islamist Terror -- Yasser Arafat -- and his demonic minions.(4)



Nor have the Islamists stopped with 'merely' Jewish and Christian holy sites. The Taliban destroyed irreplaceable ancient Buddhist statues because they were, in the Taliban's own words, "un-Islamic". Over the centuries, the Muslims have converted Hindu shrines and temples into mosques. And this has nothing to do with the dispute over Kashmir.



Therefore, any Arab or Muslim who is not willing to openly say these behaviors and philosophies are wrong and should be condemned must be considered an enemy of humanity. Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi is, and so are his Saudi royal handlers.



Notes:



1) Lest you think that this fact is inflammatory, camel dung was and often is the most common fuel for fires among desert (Arabian) peoples (www.touregypt.net/featurestories/camel.htm, www.sas.upenn.edu/~nmiller0/dung.html and www.guardian.co.uk/netnotes/article/0,6729,1261812,00.html



2) www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD83004



3) www.arabnews.com/ ...Opinion.



4) conservativetruth.org/opinionet/archives2/ccnr/2002/ccnr09.htm