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<div><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;"><em>We all  know, of course, that the introduction  of true democracy in the Arab  world is the last thing in the world Israel really  cares about.  Israel  knows quite well that its various interests in the Arab  region can  best be guaranteed by repressive tyrants such as Hosni Mubarak and   Zeinulabideen bin Ali and that these interests would suffer immensely if  not  irreparably if  democratically-elected leaders were to rule in  Arab  capitals.</em></span></div>
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<h1><span style="color:#808000;font-family:Verdana;font-size:large;">Israel wants  Zionist-friendly democracy in the Arab world</span></h1>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">By Khalid Amayreh</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">There are growing   signs that Israel is quite apprehensive about the revolutionary  reforms taking  place in the Arab world.  Israeli officials and  commentators are anxious about  the prospects of these revolutions  “turning Islamic.” Political Islam has long  become Israel’s number-1  enemy, especially after the appearance of the  Palestinian Islamic  liberation group, Hamas, which refuses to recognize the  legitimacy of  Zionism. Hamas argues rather convincingly that Israel is a racist   entity based on military might, ethnic cleansing and land theft and  therefore  has no moral legitimacy.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">Israel has done  very little to influence  revolutions in both Tunis and Egypt. Israeli  leaders and intelligence services,  however, are reportedly to have  alerted their counterparts in the West,  particularly in the United  States, that a prominent Islamist element was “at  work” in these  revolutions. For example, the Israeli media highlighted the  “Victory  Friday” on 18 February when hundreds of thousands of Egyptians, lead by   prominent scholar Yosef al Qaradawi, gathered for congregational  prayers at  Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square to mark the overthrow of  long-time tyrant Hosni  Mubarak a week earlier. One Israeli commentator  remarked that “it is such huge  rallies that Israel should fear most.  This is the new Middle East, it is  Islamist, and certainly  anti-Israel.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">We all know, of  course, that the introduction of  true democracy in the Arab world is  the last thing in the world Israel really  cares about.  Israel knows  quite well that its various interests in the Arab  region can best be  guaranteed by repressive tyrants such as Hosni Mubarak and   Zeinulabideen bin Ali and that these interests would suffer immensely if  not  irreparably if  democratically-elected leaders were to rule in  Arab  capitals.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">Well, this is  true to a very large extent. In the  final analysis, it is hard to  imagine that Arab and Muslim masses would harbor  any consideration for a  hopelessly criminal entity that has been slaughtering  and is  slaughtering fellow Muslims in Palestine and Lebanon for decades and is   now trying rather vigorously to demolish the Aqsa Mosque, the Third  holiest  shrine in Islam.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">I remember that  when Netanyahu was elected Prime  Minister in 1996, several months after  the assassination of Isaac Rabin, he  began prattling and babbling  about the lack of democracy in the Arab region. His  ranting in this  regard was meant first and foremost as a pretext, or a red  herring, to  justify Israel’s refusal to give up occupied Arab land. Soon,  however,  he was instructed by the Mossad intelligence service to “shut up”   because “you don’t know what you are talking about.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">The Mossad told  him that “the survival and  prosperity of tyrannical regimes in the Arab  region was a supreme strategic  Israeli interest and that true  democracy in the Arab world constituted a nearly  mortal threat to the  state of Israel.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">But what Israel  had always been dreading is already  at its doorsteps. This is why  Israeli leaders and propagandists no longer say  openly they don’t want  to see democracy take place in the Arab world. Instead,  they say openly  they don’t want to see Islam being incorporated into Arab  democracy  since Islam doesn’t recognize Zionism and won’t accommodate Zionist   whims in the region.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">Never mind that  the current Israeli government  itself includes Talmudic political  parties with clear-cut fascist and even  Nazi-like trends, as is   evident  in the adoption by the government  of  a new  set of racist  laws, asserting the “Jewish” nature of Israel, which means more  racism  and more discrimination against  non-Jews.  However, when Muslims insist   on giving due respect to the tenets of their faith, then Zionism turns  on their  alarm sirens, warning the world against Islamic democracy.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">Still, Zionism  would like to see a deformed,  soulless, and hedonistic “democracy”  takes place in the Arab world, a democracy  best characterized by the  rampancy of western lifestyles such as promiscuity,  sexual  permissiveness, pornography, teen-age pregnancy and lack of   spirituality.  In a nutshell, Israel would like to see week Arab  societies  falling in the throes of lust, eviscerated of Islam, and  indifferent to Israeli  Nazism and whatever it does to Palestine and its  people.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">The manifestly  fascist wing of Zionism, which is  represented by the current Likud-led  government, is worried that a stronger Arab  world would complicate the  Zionist goal of achieving the final liquidation of  the Palestinian  cause.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">Hence, they are  trying to de-legitimize as much as  possible the ongoing revolutionary  reforms in countries such as Egypt.  Israel  is unlikely to succeed to  replicate the isolation of the elected Hamas  government in the Gaza  Strip with elected governments in Egypt. Egypt, after  all, is not Gaza .</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">However, it is  highly expected that Israel and  Zionist circles in the US, especially  those under whose tight control the  American Congress reels, will start  inciting against any new Egyptian regime  with strong Islamic  component. This incitement might culminate in the Congress  deciding to  sever all economic and military aid to Egypt.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">This is why the  new elected rulers in Egypt,  whoever they may be,  must seek effective  ways and means to neutralize Zionist  blackmail and interference in  Egyptian internal affairs which we all know are  aimed at keeping 80  million Egyptians in a state of enslavement  and  subservience to  Israel.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">In any case, the American aid to Egypt is too  modest to warrant sacrificing Egyptian sovereignty and national  dignity.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">Israel simply  wants to swallow all of Palestine,  hook, line, and sinker, and not be  disturbed by any outside force, Arab or  otherwise.  This is the real  reason Zionist leaders are prattling about the  recent changes in the  Arab world. </span></p>
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