OCTOBER 2005

On 2-Jun-05, at 3:44 PM, Muhammad Abu Nasr <abunasr1967> wrote:

Unfortunately truth only "wins in the end" when the people fighting for it beat the people fighting against it.

Ardeshir Replies:
Oh no. Study history. Did Christ and the early Christians fight against the Romans? Yet they won in the end against them, indeed they converted the Roman Empire to Christianity!
Did the Buddhists fight against the Chinese and the Japanese and the South-East Asians? Without spilling a drop of blood they converted all these millions of people to Buddhism.

The greatest skill is to WIN WITHOUT FIGHTING, as Sun Tzu says in his book *The Art of War*.

Yes, it often takes time for the truth to emerge victorious, sometimes a LOT of time.
But in the case of ZIONISM it need not take much time, because in THIS day and age, racism is already acknowledged the world over to be evil. Racism is NOT tolerated by any right-thinking person in this day and age. Therefore all that is needed NOW is to point out the truth, especially to Westerners,  that Zionism is RACISM, and Zionism will lose ALL the support it needs to carry on!

At present, NO ONE is pointing this out, except Dave Kersting and (to some extent) myself. Just TWO people! Who else is doing it?

You say that it is obvious that Zionism is racism. It is NOT, at least not in America! If it were obvious, the average American would answer with a resounding "YES!!!" to the question, "Do you think Zionism is racism?" TRY it! Try asking Americans picked at random off the street, "Do you think Zionism is racism?" I'll wager than nine out of ten will answer "No"!  

Gentiles should BOYCOTT the Jews! Gentiles should NOT make use of Jewish products, their currency, their banks, their corporations. We Gentiles should set up our own businesses and banks and media empires and movie-making centres, and PUT THE JEWS OUT OF BUSINESS! We can do it without ANY human bombs. And we WILL win with that strategy.
Heck, the Jews themselves have succeeded with that very same strategy. In the past, GENTILES controlled the media, the professions, and even the banks (before the Rothschilds, the big bankers were people like the Medici of Florence and the Merchants of Venice!) The Jews put the Gentiles out of business.
Why don't WE do it now? Return the favour?
For instance, Islamic banking is one of the best kinds of banking ever devised. Why don't the Muslim peoples put up their own banks all over the world, and DRIVE THE JEWISH BANKS OUT OF BUSINESS? It's not as if Muslims don't HAVE enough money to start their own banks. They have it, and in spades. But they prefer to spend the money on other things, like weapons!
This is the LOSING strategy. It has BEEN the losing strategy for DECADES. For a wise man, for a wise people, a few negative experiences should be enough for them to see the light, learn from their mistakes, and CHANGE their strategy.   Lots of Americans who had NO vested interest one way or another in South Africa chose to call for a boycott of South Africa.
We Gentiles should call for a BOYCOTT of Jews: all Jewish businesses and professions and activities. Why do we BOTHER to do business with them? They are making their money off *us*! Are we stupid, or WHAT?
If we PUT THE JEWS OUT OF BUSINESS, they won't be able to do anything against us even outside Palestine, much less maintain a Zionist presence there.
But our weapons, to do this, must be IDEAS, not guns or bombs! Remember, "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."   An end to Palestinian "terrorism" would finally mean VICTORY for Palestinians!
Why do you think the Zionists MANUFACTURE "Palestinian terrorism" when there is none? They do it because if the so-called "Palestinian terrorism" vanishes, the Zionists HAVE NO EXCUSE TO FURTHER OPPRESS THE PALESTINIANS!
They NEED Palestinian "terrorism", just as they NEED so-called "anti-Semitism" (which is not really anti-Semitism anyway, since it does NOT mean hatred of the Arabs, who are by FAR the majority of Semites in the world, while most Jews - the Ashkenazim - are not Semitic at all.)
And the Jews NEED to con the Americans into thinking that Zionism (as well as Judaism) is NOT racism.
You did not address my earlier question, the one I asked in my last post: how many Americans, when asked "Do you think Zionism is racist?" will answer "Yes"? I wager that nine out of ten will say "No"!
You see, most Americans - and indeed Westerners in general - do NOT think Zionism is racist. Likewise, most Westerners also do not think that JUDAISM is racist. It is up to people like you and me to POINT IT OUT to them.
But once it IS pointed out, although there may be resistance to the notion initially, eventually they will come to realise it, because it really is, as you say, so obvious.
And then they will also call for a boycott of Jews and Jewish businesses! That will eventually result in the end of Judaism as we know it, because the Jews NEED the Gentiles to make their money.
Americans WILL boycott all racist states, because in this day and age, for the average American to admit that he or she is supporting racism is MOST embarrassing.
You want proof? Ask any American whether he would TODAY continue to support an apartheid regime in South Africa! I'll wager, again, that more than nine out of ten Americans will say "No."
Then why do they support Zionism? Because, you see, they don't REALISE that Zionism is racism!
Palestinians CANNOT pound Israel. I explained that the last few times I posted. The Palestinians just don't have a "hammer" strong enough to "pound" Israel!
Do you know that the Allies only "pounded" Germany into submission by bombarding Germany with TWENTY TIMES more bombs that Germany used on the Allies? TWENTY TIMES!!!!
And that's just the bombs dropped on GERMANY: it doesn't even COUNT the nuclear and conventional bombs the Allies dropped on Japan.
Do the Palestinians HAVE twenty times as many bombs as the Israelis do? Let alone the capacity to deliver them to their targets?
Why do you think "pounding" the Zionists can succeed in the next sixty years, where this very same strategy has failed in the past sixty? WHY, in heaven's name?
Remember that in a fight, if you clobber the other guy, it's highly likely that it will just encourage him to want to clobber YOU even harder the next time he can!   What makes you think Palestinians can clobber the Zionists, when day after day for the last sixty-plus years it is THE ISRAELIS who have been clobbering the Palestinians?
The "human bomb" tactics of the Palestinians are no more annoying than a few mosquito bites to the Israelis: I already told you that MANY more Israelis die in traffic accidents, for Gawd's sake, than as a result of such Palestinian "pounding"!
The strategy of using violence to regain lost Palestinian property and rights is a LOSING strategy. Palestinians WILL lose if they adopt this strategy.
They will also lose the support of all intelligent people. In fact, even those who ALREADY sympathise with the Palestinian plight have no interest in cheering for or supporting a LOSING team - a team, moreover, which is DETERMINED to lose!
You know how Zionists think? They think all the time: "How can I WIN?" They are planning all kinds of strategies for WINNING, day in and day out. I know: I've lived among them!
If you want to emerge victorious in an ARMED struggle, you have to beat them at THIS game, the game of WINNING the fight!
Remember that if you want to go to war, you have to go to war and emerge VICTORIOUS! What is the point in trying to fight a LOSING war?
I say, make the truth wisely KNOWN! Especially the truth about the racism inherent in Zionism, and also the truth about the racism inherent in Judaism.
If this is done, the Zionists - and indeed the Jews the world over who support them - will be BOYCOTTED by ALL right-thinking and intelligent people. And as a consequence, the Zionists will be left high and dry, as it were, without any means of livelihood and without any military weapons with which they can pound anyone.
The Jews only succeed in controlling us Gentiles because we Gentiles LET them.   The only cure for losing is ACTUALLY winning. And the only way to ACTUALLY win - and not just HOPE for victory - is to have winning IDEAS. That includes technology, strategies, economics, commerce, professions, philosophy, thinking of ALL kinds. In other words, the TRUTH!   The UN even voted that Zionism is a form of racism - that was back in the days when the Soviet Union existed.  Then after the US won the cold war, it passed a counter resolution in the now rubberstamp United Nations of America saying that "Zionism isn't racism after all."

I know, but that's because Americans don't THINK of Zionism as racism!
Nobody TELLS them, you see. The Palestinians don't, Israel Shamir doesn't, Jeff Blankfort doesn't, Noam Chomsky doesn't, Michael Neumann doesn't, Alexander Cockburn doesn't, Howard Zinn doesn't. Forget people like Friedman: even the closest supporters of Palestine don't SAY out loud that Zionism is racism, and that in this day and age, racism CANNOT be tolerated one bit. Nor do Palestinians like Hanan Ashrawi or Mustafa Barghouti say it.   Dave Kersting said : Defeating that Zionist strategy requires the language of ending any and all official ethnic discrimination that is supported by US investments and/or foreign aid - and getting this message, not to "Jews," but to ordinary Americans and ordinary American peace activists.

THIS is the crucial thing. THIS is the competent thing to do. THIS is what is NOT being done. And BECAUSE it's not being done, THAT'S why the Palestinian struggle doesn't succeed!  

Colonialism collapsed because the world came to realise that colonialism was EVIL, and could no longer be tolerated!
Today colonialism would be condemned well-nigh universally. The Americans could never colonialise Iraq today and stay there for 250 years - the way the British colonised India in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth century!

Zionism is not CONSIDERED in the West to be colonialism, and that is why it persists. Point the fact out, and it too will disappear!
But colonialism is not SO much the issue - RACISM is. Colonialism, though it has a bad rap, doesn't have AS bad a rap as racism!

If you argue that Zionism is colonialism, people can justifiably retort: "The British who were in India could return to Britain, and the French who were in Algeria could return to France, but the Jews have no country of their own to return to. They would have to return to some foreign country, a country which is NOT their own." This is an entirely valid counter-argument. But if you point out that Zionism is RACISM, nobody can counter it with ANY counter-argument!

Point out to the ordinary Westerners the RACISM inherent in Zionism, and ALL Western support for Zionism will stop.

The British left India WITHOUT any British being killed by the Indians. The British armies and politicians left India because they just could not CONTINUE raping India the way they had been doing earlier - their OWN people would have opposed it!
Remember that a military victory is only temporary. If you want to make it permanent, you have to convince people that the victory has resulted in something BETTER. Otherwise the struggle - by the defeated - will go on!

Suppose the Palestinians do succeed in driving all the Jews of Israel out of Israel, or annihilating them - what makes you think the Jews elsewhere won't come back ... and come back with a vengeance? They will, under such a scenario, totally ANNIHILATE the Palestinians, to the last man woman and child!

The Palestinians cannot totally annihilate the Jews, because the Jews are scattered all over the world. But the Palestinians all in one place? Heck, the Jews, enraged at having been driven out of what they consider their "God-given Promised Land", will have a turkey shoot.

Trust me: your strategy is the LOSING one. You want the Palestinians to take THAT road? You want them ALL killed? That's what WILL happen if the Palestinian armed resistance actually SUCCEEDS.

The French were more recalcitrant, but eventually even they could not have kept Algeria for themselves against world opinion.

But more to the point: the Palestinians can shoot as many Israelis as they want, but the ISRAELIS won't leave, the way the French left Algeria. The Israelis will, rather, shoot back! And they will shoot back HARDER. That's what they ALWAYS do!

Remember that the Israelis have a RELIGIOUS motivation to stay in their "God-given Promised Land": their RELIGION demands it. The French and the British did not have THIS motivation!
Don't underestimate the force of this religion. It is fanatical, absolutely fanatical. Such fanaticism does not exist, and never did exist, in European colonialism as such.

The Palestinians are fighting FANATICS. The Zionists will NEVER give up their fanaticism. They - or at least the vast majority of them - can never be convinced to leave their "God-given Land", no matter how many bombs - human or inhuman - the Palestinians throw at them.

The only thing that can be done is to bring them to their knees by THE GENTILES ALL BOYCOTTING THE ZIONISTS ... and also boycotting all OTHERS who support the Zionists (which basically means, the majority of Jews - and also Christian Zionists - living outside Israel).

In summing up, remember just ONE thing: the Palestinians have to have a WINNING strategy. This is an ABSOLUTE necessity. At present, they DON'T have one. Their present strategy is a LOSING one, and the proof is, they have been losing this last sixty years, with no end in sight. They must CHANGE their present strategy if they are to win. And since violence is truly the last refuge of the incompetent, the first thing they should do is ABANDON violence in favour of the TRUTH, for otherwise they will REMAIN incompetent, for ever and ever. And how can an incompetent people formulate a WINNING strategy?

Revolutionary greetings, Ardeshir Mehta.

Ardeshir runs a constant forum discussing a variety of his interests in Life and Truth.
Ardeshir Mehta ardeshir@mac.com

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EXCERPT: Why I Support the Return of Palestinians:
Palestine is not a dead object. It is a living country, Palestinians are her soul. Palestine is what the Palestinians are re-creating in real time, in the same way as France is what the French created and re-create everyday........... To love a country and wish away its inhabitants is a kind of necrophiliac's romance. The late Russian thinker Lev Gumilev described a country as the symbiosis of its people and landscape. Palestine and the Palestinians are inseperable. The peasants and their olives and springs of water, and the domes of their ancestral sepulchres on the hill-tops, need and compliment one another. The Palestinians are not an obscure, mean folk. They created the Star of Ghassul, composed the Bible, built the temples of Jerusalem and Mount Grizim, the palaces of Jericho and Samaria, the churches of The Holy Sepulchre and Nativity, the mosques of Haram al-Sharif, the harbours of Caesarea and Akka, the castles of Montfort and Belvoir. They walked with Jesus, defeated Napoleon and bravely fought at Karameh. In their veins the blood of Agean warriors Bene Israel, David's heroes, the first apostles of Christ and the Companions of the Prophet, Arab riders, Norman Crusaders and Turkmen chieftains blend in unique composition. Its spark is not quenched: the poetry of Mahmud Darwish, the wisdom of Edward Said, the perfect olive oil, the fervour of prayer and the valiant courage of the Intifada prove that...........Palestine dies, the water sources dry out, the hills and valleys are disfigured, her fields are worked by imported Chinese while her sons are imprisoned in a ghetto.The idea of a Jewish State has collapsed. During the last ten years the mad policies of the Israeli Government imported over a million Romanians, Russians, Ukrainians, and Thai and African labourers
......We should live in one State, and not only because of the blatant failure of Oslo. The very idea of partition is wrong............Let us tear up our Declaration of false Independence and write a new one of mutual dependence and love.