from NY to Israel Sultan Reveals
The Stories Behind the News

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 07:01 PM PDT

Right now Sunni and Shia are busy fighting with purist Sunni
Islam represented by the Wahhabist Al Queda and purist Shia Islam
represented by Iran's Mullah. So too within Israel, Hamas and Fatah are
fighting as well. But what they are fighting over is who will lead the
Arab\Muslim world and their main form of competition is less about killing
each other and more about competing to see who can kill the most
Americans\Israelis.

The struggle for primacy in the Arab\Muslim world has been
going on ever since Britain and France went home and turned over the
Middle East to a handful of jumped up desert shieks who then proceeded to
put their boot on the Jew, the Christian, the Sufi, the Bahai, the Kurd,
the Copt, the Circassian and Armenian and the entire diverse range of
Middle Eastern peoples chained together by the Arab
slavemaster.

With the colonial powers gone, America and Russia
stepped in, with the former trying to maintain the power of the Arab
tyrants while the latter tried to push coups and revolutions and install
new governments friendly to it.

The old colonial powers had hoped
to treat the Arab states like client states, but instead coups overturned
most of the old style rulers leaving some leftovers like the House of Saud
and the Hashemite Kingdom in Jordan (itself a Saudi leftover) in power.
Military coups turned Egypt, Syria and Iraq socialist, while a religious
coup turned Iran into a theocracy.

Throughout all this the one
thing that had not changed was that the struggle for primacy in the Arab
world was based on their capacity for Jihad. The ability to inflict damage
on Israel or on Western powers was what made an Arab country respected
under the Honor-Shame code. By contrast signing peace agreements was a
deep form of humiliation.

Egypt and Jordan, once the region's
primary powers, have never been able to recover from their peace treaties
with Israel and their populations feeling the burning shame of the peace
accords are fueled by an almost unimaginable bitterness and hate for
Israel, not so much for the wars, as for the peace. By contrast the
ascension of the Mullahs Iran and Saddam's Iraq was driven by their
hostility and proxy wars against Israel.

That is of course why the
"Peace Process" or any peace process in the Arab world cannot and will not
work. In an Honor-Shame culture respect is gained from defeating one's
enemies, but making peace with them is a sign of humiliating weakness. And
that is the situation today.

Iran and Al Queda are jockeying for
supremacy in making war on the infidel in order to compete for the
leadership of the Arab world. The stakes are high with Sunni and Shia
religious affiliation on the table, which is why the Gulf Arab states have
been increasingly nudging America and even Israel to do something about
Iran.

Al Queda took an early lead with 9/11 and a few years of
terror in Iraq, and then made the mistake of picking a proxy war with
Iran. The US has managed to clean up much of Al Queda in Iraq, but hasn't
been able to do much about Iran's terror militias, in no small part
because of the ideologues behind the pro-Islamic terrorist foreign
policies of the Carter Administration responsible for helping put the
Ayatollah Khomeni in power. Obama and Biden are their boys, lock, stock
and barrel.

The Democrats can't wait to duplicate the North Korea
boondoggle, giving Iran hundreds of millions in aid and possibly nuclear
fuel, in exchange for a temporary lull in the fighting allowing for a
"Peace with Honor" withdrawal from Iraq, followed of course by a bloody
civil war that Iran's tank brigades will crush. The fallout will make
Cambodia look like Disneyland, but the media will make sure that none of
the ashes and bone fragments blow their way to Obama's front door. The
only hang up is getting Iran to the table, so the bright boys in the State
Department can give away the kitchen store.

In Israel meanwhile,
Hamas is not the more popular terrorist group because it is less corrupt.
Hamas is more popular because Hamas kills more Jews than Fatah does.
Naturally Arafat and Abbas' Fatah have to compete by staging terrorist
attacks against Israel. The United States then insists that Israel
tolerate this situation for the sake of "peace" because the State
Department knows quite well that the only way Fatah can remain in power is
by continuing is attacks on Israel.

Were Abbas, the "man of peace",
to genuinely terminate all hostilities with Israel and seek peace, he
would be a corpse far sooner than Sadat. So the charade goes something
like this, Fatah's thugs paid for with US tax dollars continue engaging in
"limited" terrorism to maintain the legitimacy of Abbas' government with
Palestinian Arabs... in order to be able to make peace with
Israel.

It would take a forensic psychiatrist specializing in war
crimes to even begin to make any kind of sense of this pattern of
justification which has nevertheless served as the basis for the
willingness of US, Europe and several Israeli Prime Ministers' willingness
to maintain and support first Arafat and then Abbas.

But the
pattern stays the same. US diplomats bully Israel into negotiating with
weakened Arab governments that have suffered a major defeat, such as
Sadat's Egypt or Arafat's PLO and are ready to cut a deal. The deal isn't
worth the paper it's written on, it merely extracts Israeli concessions
for a ceasefire that is already either in place (Egypt) or will never be
in place (Fatah) and photos are snapped as journalists and Western
politicians declare that a new era of peace is at hand.

Yet those
same journalists and politicians never seem to grasp that shoving
democracy and peace treaties down the Arab gullet never works. You can
have one or the other. Democracy in an Honor-Shame culture will reward the
party or politician with the most militant stands. Peace or cooperation
against terrorism requires a tyrant. Yet time and time again America
insists on bringing democracy into the picture.

In Egypt democracy
means the foul nest of the Muslim Brotherhood out of which Hamas and Al
Queda both crept. In Israel it means Hamas. In Pakistan it means pushing
out Musharraf, from whom we could count on some cooperation, in favor of a
weak government indebted to the same terrorists we're supposed to be
fighting, which has twice opened fire on our forces.

What is
required to win the war or achieve a peace is realism. It also means
understanding that short of all out conquest and colonization, we cannot
have things our way and in tandem with our principles. It simply isn't
going to work because it denies reality. We can either keep our high
ground or achieve our goals. We can't do both.

Meanwhile the same liberal values of the
politicians and pundits insist that we can achieve peace and an end to
conflict by atoning for our foreign policy. The futility of that whole
approach is that if Israel has proven anything in the decades of striving
for peace, is that peace is a dead road in the Middle East. Signing
accords weakens the Arab governments that sign them and signing accords
with terrorists is less than useless. You can't buy your way out of a
conflict when you are the stronger or the weaker party in an Honor-Shame
culture, all it does is demonstrate your inability to go the distance and
finish the fight. And that perception just pours fuel on the
fire.

In the Middle East peace is an admission of defeat and an
enduring peace cannot even be had between fellow Muslims, let alone
Muslims and Infidels. To survive in the harsh desert, you must struggle
and endure without hope of oasis. It is when you see the mirage of an
oasis and allow yourself to stumble toward it that you are lost. Peace in
the Middle East is a mirage. Conflict is the reality. To survive requires
a willingness to stand on guard for however long it takes until your
enemies have withered away or to go out and destroy them. There is no
third option except your own destruction.