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STATEMENTS
THE WORLD IN 2020
ARTICLES
ALL IN THE FAMILY
GLOBAL CAMPAIGNS AGAINST ISRAEL
GATHERING MOMENTUM ....The world haspaid scant attention to Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW)
from 1 to 7 March 2010. ...................................p.3
By Mohammad Hashim Kamali ................ page 10
MOSSADANDTHE DUBAI MURDER.......TheDubai Police has displayed a degree of courage in
pursuing investigations into the murder of senior Hamas
leader ................................................................p.4
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By Michael T. Klare
PART 1
By Alison Weir .......................................... page 6
KHMER RICHE
By Andrew Marshall ................................... page 8
AN AMERICAN ATTACK ON IRAN WOULD LEAD
TO US COLLAPSE SAYS TOP RUSSIAN GENERAL
By Juan Cole ................................................page 4
As the second decade of the
twenty-first century begins, we
find ourselves at one of those
relatively rare moments in history when
major power shifts become visible to all.
If the first decade of the century
witnessed profound changes, the world
of 2009 nonetheless looked at leastsomewhat like the world of 1999 in certain
fundamental respects: the United States
remained the worlds paramount military
power, the dollar remained the worlds
dominant currency, and NATO remained
its foremost military alliance, to name just
three.
By the end of the second decade of this
century, however, our world is likely to
have a genuinely different look to it.
Momentous shifts in global powerrelations and a changing of the imperial
guard, just now becoming apparent, will
be far more pronounced by 2020 as new
actors, new trends, new concerns, and
new institutions dominate the global
space. Nonetheless, all of this is the norm
of history, no matter how dramatic it may
seem to us.
Less normal and so the wild card of
the second decade (and beyond) is
intervention by the planet itself.
Blowback, which we think of as a political
phenomenon, will by 2020 have gained a
natural component. Nature is poised to
strike back in unpredictable ways whose
effects could be unnerving and possibly
devastating.
What, then, will be the dominant
characteristics of the second decade ofthe twenty-first century? Prediction of
this sort is, of course, inherently risky,
but extrapolating from current trends,
four key aspects of second-decade life
can be discerned: the rise of China; the
(relative) decline of the United States;
the expanding role of the global South;
and finally, possibly most dramatically,
the increasing impact of a roiling
environment and growing resource
scarcity.
Lets start with human history and then
make our way into the unknown future
history of the planet itself.
The Ascendant Dragon
That China has become a leading world
power is no longer a matter of dispute.
That countrys new-found strength was
on full display at the climate summit in
Copenhagen in December where it
became clear that no meaningful progress
was possible on the issue of global
warming without Beijings assent. Its
growing prominence was also evident in
the way it responded to the Great
Recession, as it poured multi-billions of
dollars into domestic recovery projects,
thereby averting a significant slowdown
in its economy. It spent many tens of
billions more on raw materials and freshinvestments in Africa, Latin America, and
Southeast Asia, helping to ignite
recovery in those regions, too.
If China is an economic giant today, it
will be a powerhouse in 2020. According
to the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE),
that countrys gross domestic product
(GDP) will jump from an estimated $3.3
trillion in 2010 to $7.1 trillion in 2020 (in
constant 2005 dollars), at which time its
economy will exceed all others save thatof the United States. In fact, its GDP then
should exceed those of all the nations in
Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East
combined. As the decade proceeds,
China is expected to move steadily up the
ladder of technological enhancement,
producing ever more sophisticated
products, including advanced green
energy and transportation systems that
will prove essential to future post-carbon
economies. These gains, in turn, will give
it increasing clout in international affairs.
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China will undoubtedly also use its
growing wealth and technological
prowess to enhance its military power.
According to the Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute
(SIPRI), China is already the worldssecond largest military spender, although
the $85 billion it invested in its armed
forces in 2008 was a pale shadow of the
$607 billion allocated by the United
States. In addition, its forces remain
technologically unsophisticated and its
weapons are no match for the most
modern U.S., Japanese, and European
equipment. However, this gap will narrow
significantly in the centurys second
decade as China devotes more resources
to military modernization.
The critical question is: How will China
use its added power to achieve its
objectives?
Until now, Chinas leaders have wielded
its growing strength cautiously, avoiding
behavior that would arouse fear or
suspicion on the part of neighbors and
economic partners. It has instead
employed the power of the purse and
soft power vigorous diplomacy,
development aid, and cultural ties tocultivate friends and allies. But will China
continue to follow this harmonious,
non-threatening approach as the risks of
forcefully pursuing its national interests
diminish? This appears unlikely.
A more assertive China that showed what
the Washington Post called swagger
was already evident in the final months
of 2009 at the summit meetings between
presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao
in Beijing and Copenhagen. In neithercase did the Chinese side seek a
harmonious outcome: In Beijing, it
restricted Obamas access to the media
and refused to give any ground on Tibet
or tougher sanctions on key energy-
trading partner Iran; at a crucial moment
in Copenhagen, it actually sent low-
ranking officials to negotiate with Obama
an unmistakable slight and forced
a compromise that absolved China of
binding restraints on carbon emissions.
If these summits are any indication,
Chinese leaders are prepared to play
global hard-ball, insisting on compliance
with their core demands and giving up
little even on matters of secondary
importance. China will find itself ever more
capable of acting this way because the
economic fortunes of so many countries
are now tied to its consumption and
investment patterns a pivotal global
role once played by the United States
and because its size and location gives it
a commanding position in the planetsmost dynamic region. In addition, in the
first decade of the twenty-first century
Chinese leaders proved especially adept
at nurturing ties with the leaders of large
and small countries in Africa, Asia, and
Latin America that will play an ever more
important role in energy and other world
affairs.
To what ends will China wield its growing
power? For the top leadership in Beijing,
three goals will undoubtedly beparamount: to ensure the continued
political monopoly of the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP), to sustain the
fast-paced economic growth which
justifies its dominance, and to restore the
countrys historic greatness. All three
are, in fact, related: The CCP will remain
in power, senior leaders believe, only so
long as it orchestrates continuing
economic expansion and satisfies the
nationalist aspirations of the public as
well as the high command of the Peoples
Liberation Army. Everything Beijingdoes, domestically and internationally, is
geared to these objectives. As the
country grows stronger, it will use its
enhanced powers to shape the global
environment to its advantage just as the
United States has done for so long. In
Chinas case, this will mean a world wide-
open to imports of Chinese goods and to
investments that allow Chinese firms to
devour global resources, while placing
ever less reliance on the U.S. dollar as
the medium of international exchange.
The question that remains unanswered:
Will China begin flexing its growing
military muscle? Certainly, Beijing will do
so in at least an indirect manner. By
supplying arms and military advisers to
its growing network of allies abroad, it
will establish a military presence in ever
more areas. My suspicion is that China
will continue to avoid the use of force in
any situation that might lead to a
confrontation with major Western
powers, but may not hesitate to bring its
military to bear in any clash of national
wills involving neighboring countries.
Such a situation could arise, for example,
in a maritime dispute over control of the
energy-rich South China Sea or in Central
Asia, if one of the former Soviet republics
became a haven for Uighur militants
seeking to undermine Chinese control
over Xinjiang Province.
The Eagle Comes in for a Landing
Just as the rise of China is now taken for
granted, so, too, is the decline of the
United States. Much has been written
about Americas inevitable loss of
primacy as this country suffers the
consequences of economic
mismanagement and imperial overstretch.
This perspective was present in Global
Trends 2025, a strategic assessment of
the coming decades prepared for the
incoming Obama administration by the
National Intelligence Council (NIC), anaffiliate of the Central Intelligence
Agency. Although the United States is
likely to remain the single most powerful
actor [in 2025], the NIC predicted, the
United States relative strength even
in the military realm will decline and
U.S. leverage will become more
constrained.
Some unforeseen catastrophe aside,
however, the U.S. is not likely to be poorer
in 2020 or more backward technologically.
In fact, according to the most recentDepartment of Energy projections,
Americas GDP in 2020 will be
approximately $17.5 trillion (in 2005
dollars), nearly one-third greater than
today. Moreover, some of the initiatives
already launched by President Obama to
stimulate the development of advanced
energy systems are likely to begin bearing
fruit, possibly giving the United States
an edge in certain green technologies.
And dont forget, the U.S. will remain the
globes preeminent military power, withChina lagging well behind, and no other
potential rival able to mobilize even
Chinese-level resources to challenge
U.S. military advantages.
What will change is Americas position
relative to China and other nations and
so, of course, its ability to dominate the
global economy and the world political
agenda. Again using DoE projections, we
find that in 2005, Americas GDP of $12.4
trillion exceeded that of all the nations of
Asia and South America combined,
including Brazil, China, India, and Japan.
By 2020, the combined GDP of Asia and
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It appears that, the International
Atomic Energy Agency is at leastallowing for the possibility that
documents allegedly found on a laptopsome years ago but discounted bythe US Central Intelligence Agency and
the Defense Intelligence Agency as of
dubious provenance and incompatiblewith other intelligence gathered in Iran
point to a nuclear weaponsprogram that no one has been able tolocate. Some close observers have
concluded that the laptop documents
are forgeries. A new IAEA report thatdeclines to dismiss the allegeddocuments will certainly cause the war
lobby in the United States to redouble
its efforts to get up an attack on Iran.
Forged documents on the supposedpurchase of yellowcake uranium byIraq from Niger were used by George
W. Bush to promote a war on Iraq. It
was at that time the Intelligence andResearch division of the Department of
State that attempted to throw cold wateron these documents, but was ignoredby the president. Then head of the
IAEA, Mohammed Elbaradei, was able
to show them false in one afternoon.
The UN inspectors have a right to be
frustrated with Iran, which has
allowed inspections of its Natanznuclear enrichment site, but which has
not been completely transparent oradhered to the letter of its obligationsunder the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty. But the sum of those
frustrations does not point to a nuclearweapons program, unlike the disputed
laptop documents. In statements to thepress this fall, US intelligence officialshave said that they stand behind the
conclusions first reached in 2007, that
Iran has no nuclear weapons program.
AN AMERICAN ATTACKON IRAN WOULD LEAD TO US COLLAPSE
SAYS TOP RUSSIAN GENERALBy Juan Cole
Palestine (RTP) began its proceedings
in Barcelona, Spain. The RTP will examine
not just Israels obligations under
international humanitarian law such as
the Fourth Geneva Convention but also
the moral responsibility of the
international community to act againstIsrael for its continuous violation of more
than 60 United Nations resolutions on a
whole gamut of issues ranging from
illegal settlements to the right of return
of the Palestinian people. A concrete
example of how contemptuous the Israeli
The Dubai Police has displayed a degree
of courage in pursuing investigations
into the murder of senior Hamas leader,
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. The Chief ofDubai Police, Dahi Khalfan Tamim, has
been quoted as saying that he is 99
percent, if not 100 percent, certain that
Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency,
is behind the 19 January 2010
assassination. It is not easy for the Police
Chief to be so emphatic about Mossads
role, considering that Dubai has close
informal ties with Israel.
The Israeli Foreign Minister,
Avigdor Liberman, has neither confirmed
nor denied Mossads involvement.
Israel, he says, maintains a policy of
ambiguity on intelligence matters.
There is some pressure from
within Israel upon the government to
take action against Mossad. The Israeli
daily, Haaretz, has demanded that the
head of Mossad, Mier Dagan, be
removed. This is unlikely to happen.
British, Irish and French
government leaders have also made some
noise about the murder since passport
details of their citizens were apparently,fraudulently, used by members of the hit
squad. Passport details of six British
citizens, three Irish and I French, were
involved in the sordid episode. Since
these governments have been protective
of Israel in the past, however serious its
misconduct, no one expects them to apply
any pressure on the Netanyahu regime
on this occasion.
It is because most governments,
especially those in the West, have not
taken the Israeli government to task for
its lawless behaviour that it has literally
got away with murder, time and time
again. In 1988, for instance, the Mossad,
it is alleged, killed Abu Jihad ( Khalid al-
Wazir) the second in command to Yasser
Arafat. Arafat himself, it is widely
believed, was poisoned to death by
Mossad. Prominent Hamas leaders like
Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, the movements
spiritual founder, and his successor,
Rantissi, were both assassinated by the
Israeli security forces. One of Hamasscurrent leaders, Khaled Mishal, was
almost killed in an Israeli operation in
Jordan in the late nineties.
It is this diabolical track record that
prompted the renowned Israeli human
rights activist, Uri Avnery, to observe a
few days ago that, the Dubai affair is
reinforcing the image of Israel as a bully
state, a rogue nation that treats world
public opinion with contempt, a country
that conducts gang warfare, that sends
mafia-like death squads abroad, a pariah
nation to be avoided by right-minded
people.
This is why by revealing the truth
about the murder in Dubai, the Dubai
Police may be helping, in a small way, to
tame the rogue state.Chandra Muzaffar,
21 February 2010.
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continued from page 3 leadership is towards internationalinstitutions and international law can be
found in its stubborn refusal to accept
the World Courts 2004 advisory opinion
on the wall that it has built on the West
Bank (of occupied Palestine) which the
Court regards as illegal and contrary to
international law.In the last few weeks, the Israeli
leadership has become even more defiant
of international law and international
public opinion. It has accelerated the
Judaisation of Jerusalem through the
usurpation of heritage sites and place
names in spite of protests from even
some of its own staunch allies. It is
because of this arrogance that it has
become even more imperative to
strengthen activities associated with the
Israeli Apartheid Week, the Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions Movement
and the Russell Tribunal on Palestine.
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar,
President,
International Movement for a Just
World (JUST).
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The Obama administration wants
stricter sanctions on Iran, and the
Sarah Palin/ Daniel Pipes lunatic fringewants a military attack on Iran.
But Russias General of the Army
Nikolay Makarov, Chief of the GeneralStaff of the Armed Forces of theRussian Federation, warned that anAmerican attack on Iran now, when
the US is bogged down in two wars,
might well lead to the collapse of theUnited States. He said that such an
attack would roil the region and havenegative consequences for Russia (aneighbor of Iran via the Caspian Sea).
And, he said, the Russian military is
taking steps to forestall such an
American strike on Iran. Makarovmade the remarks in Vzglyad on Friday,
February 19, 2010, and they weretranslated or paraphrased by the USG
Open Source Center:
Makarov also commented on the
recent rumors about the possibility of
an attack upon Iran by the UnitedStates. In his opinion, this would be
complete madness on the part of theAmerican military. He said: Admiral
Michael McMullen, Chairman of theJoint Chiefs of Staff, recently said that,
in the United States, there is a plan forcarrying out strikes against Iran but
the United States clearly understandsthat now, when it is conducting twomilitary campaigns, one in Iraq and the
other in Afghanistan, a third campaign
against Iran would simply lead to acollapse. It would not be able towithstand the strain.
Nevertheless, in proportion to the
winding down of the campaigns in
Iraq and Afghanistan, (the plan for) awar with the Islamic Republic of Iran,
in the opinion of General Makarov,
may again come out to the foreground.
General Makarov, Chief of the GeneralStaff, said: The consequences of suchan attack will be terrible not only for
the region but also for us. Iran is our
neighbor and we are very carefullyfollowing this situation. The leadership
of our country is undertaking allmeasures in order not to allow such a(military) development of events.
The less potentially catastrophic path,
tougher United Nations SecurityCouncil sanctions, however, depend
on Russia and China going along.Despite Washingtons optimism that
Russia is softening toward the idea of
stricter sanctions, Foreign MinisterSergei Lavrov cast the severest doubts
on that idea on Friday.
In a radio interview on Friday with
Ekho Moskvy Radio, which wastranslated by the USG Open SourceCenter, Lavrov was asked, What is
the situation with Irans foreign policy
today? And is it true that we now haveas a whole a united position with the
United States on Iran?
The foreign minister replied, I dont
think that we have a united position.He said that both Washington andMoscow agree on the importance ofnot allowing a violation of the regime
of nonproliferation of nuclearweapons. He said the two countries
have the same position on this issue,
although we do not coincide 100 percent in methods of implementing it.
So what Lavrov is saying is that theUS and Russia do not actually have a
common position or agree on reallytough sanctions. They just both havea vague similar position that
proliferation is bad.
Lavrov said that Moscows
independent stance toward Iran isrooted in the two countries historical
relationship as well as in Russian desire
to get Iranian cooperation on suchissues as the disposition of resources
in the Caspian Sea. (For a quickoverview of Russian-Iranian relations,see N.M. Mamedova, who also
mentions Irans tacit support for Russia
against Georgia in the Caucasus.)Lavrov said:
But Iran for us, unlike the US, is aclose neighbour, a country with which
we have had a very long, historically
conditioned relationship, a countrywith which we cooperate in the
economic, humanitarian and military-
technology fields alike and, let me note
this particularly, a country that is ourpartner in the Caspian along with threeother Caspian littoral states.
Therefore, we are not at all indifferent
to what happens in Iran and around it.This applies to our economic interests
and our security interests alike. Thisalso applies . . . to the task of early
settlement of the legal status of the
Caspian Sea, which is not an easy taskand in the approaches to which the
Iranian position is close enough toours.
Therefore, speaking of theproliferation threats, yes, we areconcerned about Irans reaction.
Lavrov is less convinced there isanything sinister about Irans civilian
nuclear research, though he admitsthat questions remain:
in the process of work, questionsarose both from the IAEAs inspectorsthemselves and on the basis of theintelligence which the IAEA obtains
from various countries. They werequestions that aroused suspicion as to
whether there might in reality be some
military aspects to Irans nuclearprogramme.
These questions were presented to theIranians, as required by the procedures
applicable in such cases. And, sometime ago, Iran answered most of them.In principle, its answers were
satisfactory, in a way that wasconsidered by the professionals in
Vienna normal. However, some of the
questions are still on the table.
So Lavrov thinks Irans answers are
largely satisfactory, though thereremain small areas of uncertainty.
Israeli Prime Minister BinyaminNetanyahu was in Moscow earlier this
week calling for crippling sanctions
on Iran. Lavrovs remarks clearlyindicated that Moscow disagreed thatthat situation was so perilous as to call
for such a step.
But just to be sure there was no
misunderstanding, Lavrov sent out hisown deputy foreign minister, Sergei
Ryabkov, to denounce any such talk.
Ryabkov said, according to Xinhua,The term crippling sanctions on Iranis totally unacceptable to us. Thesanctions should aim at strengthening
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the regime of non- proliferation . . .
We certainly cannot talk about
sanctions that could be interpreted aspunishment on the whole country andits people for some actions or inaction
. . . He said that Russia sought to
settle differences with Iran throughdialogue and engagement. He alsopledged that Russia would honor itsdeal to provide Iran S-300 air defense
systems. He said, There is a contract
to supply these systems to Iran and wewill fulfil it. The delays are linked to
technical problems with adjusting thesesystems
So on Friday, even as the hawks in
Washington watered at the mouth at the
prospect of being able to use the newIAEA report as a basis for belligerency
against Iran, Russias foreign policy
establishment was engaged in a
whirlwind of activity aimed atchallenging the notion that Moscow iswas in Washingtons back pocket on
Iran sanctions. The chief of staffpredicted American collapse in an Iran
conflagration, and vowed in any caseto try to block any such attack. Theforeign minister pronounced himself
largely but not completely satisfied
with Irans answers concerning itsnuclear activities, and underlined that
Russia needs Iran because of Caspianissues (and he could have added,because of Caucasus and Central Asian
ones). And then the deputy foreign
minister was enlisted to slapNetanyahu around a little, presumably
on the theory that it would sting lesscoming from someone with deputy
in his title.
Those who have argued that Russiasincreasing willingness to acquiesce intougher UNSC sanctions might
influence China to go along, too, shouldrethink. Russia doesnt seem all that
aboard with a brutal sanctions regime.China not only has its own reasons notto want its own deals with Iran to bedeclared illegal, but its leaders doubt
Iran has the capacity to construct anuclear warhead anytime soon.
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Juan Cole is an American scholar, public
intellectual, and historian of the modern
Middle East and South Asia. As a
commentator on Middle Eastern affairs, he
has appeared in print and on television, and
testified before the United States Senate. Hisweblob can be found atwww. juancole.com
Recent exposs revealing that Ethan
Bronner, the New York Times Israel-
Palestine bureau chief, has a son in the
Israeli military have caused a storm of
controversy that continues to swirl and
generate further revelations. (See my
piece for CounterPunch, The NYTs
Ethan Bronners Conflict With
Impartiality.)
Many people find such a sign of family
partisanship in an editor covering a
foreign conflict troubling especially
given the Times record of Israel-
centric journalism.
Times management at first refused to
confirm Bronners situation, then
refused to comment on it. Finally,
public outcry forced Times Public
Editor Clark Hoyt to confront the
problem in a February 7th column.
After bending over backwards to praise
the institution that employs him, Hoyt
ultimately opined that Bronner should
be re-assigned to a different sphere of
reporting to avoid the appearance of
bias. Times Editor Bill Keller declined
to do so, however, instead writing a
column calling Bronners connections
to Israel valuable because they supply
a measure of sophistication about Israel
and its adversaries that someone with
no connections would lack.
If such sophistication is valuable, the
Times espoused commitment to the
impartiality and neutrality of the
companys newsrooms would seem
to require it to have a balancing editor
equally sophisticated about Palestine
and its adversary, but Keller did not
address that.
Bronner is far from alone
As it turns out, Bronners ties to the
Israeli military are not the rarity one
might expect.
A previous Times bureau chief, Joel
Greenberg, before he was bureau chief
but after he was already publishing in
the Times from Israel, actually served
in the Israeli army.
Media pundit and Atlantic staffer
Jeffrey Goldberg also served in the
Israeli military; its unclear when, how,
or even if his military service ended.
Richard Chesnoff, who has been
covering Mideast events for more than
40 years, had a son serving in the
Israeli military while Chesnoff covered
Israel as US News & World Reports
senior foreign correspondent.
NPRs Linda Gradsteins husband
was an Israeli sniper and may still be
in the Israeli reserves. NPR refuses to
disclose whether Gradstein herself is
also an Israeli citizen, as are her
children and husband.
Mitch Weinstock, national editor for
the San Diego Union-Tribune, served
in the Israeli military.
The New York Times other
correspondent from the region, Isabel
Kershner, is an Israeli citizen. Israel has
universal compulsory military service,
which suggests that Kershner herself
and/or family members may have
military connections. The Times
refuses to answer questions about
whether she and/or family members
have served or are currently serving
in the Israeli military. Is it possible that
Times Foreign Editor Susan Chira
herself has such connections? The
Times refuses to answer.
Many Associated Press writers and
editors are Israeli citizens or have
Israeli families. AP will not reveal how
many of the journalists in its control
bureau for the region currently serve
in the Israeli military, how many have
served in the past, and how many have
family members with this connection.
Similarly, many TV correspondents
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continued from page 6colonies on confiscated Palestinian
Christian and Muslim land are illegal;
that its collective punishment of 1.5
million men, women, and children in
Gaza is not only cruel and ruthless, it
is also illegal; and that its use of
American weaponry is routinely inviolation of American laws.
* The Times covers the one Israeli
(a soldier) held by Palestinians at a rate
incalculably higher than it reports on
the Palestinian men, women, and
children the vast majority civilians
imprisoned by Israel (currently over
7,000).
The Times neglects to report that
hundreds of Israels captives havenever even been charged with a crime
and that those who have were tried in
Israeli military courts under an array
of bizarre military statutes that make
even the planting of onions without a
permit a criminal offense a legal
system, if one can call it that, that
changes at the whim of the current
military governor ruling over a subject
population; a system in which parents
are without power to protect their
children.
* The Times fails to inform its
readers that 40 percent of Palestinian
males have been imprisoned by Israel,
a statistic that normally would be
considered highly newsworthy, but that
Bronner, Kershner, and Chira apparently
feel is unimportant to report.
Americans, whose elected
representatives give Israel uniquely
gargantuan sums of our tax money (asituation also not covered by the media),
want and need all the facts, not just
those that Israels family members
decree reportable.
Were not getting them.
2 March 2010
Alison Weir is executive director of IfAmericans Knew and a board member of the
Council for the National Interest (CNI). For
more information on Ethan Bronner and his
upcoming speaking tour on college campuses,
join IAKS email list. Alison can be reached at
contact@ifamericanskne
Source: Counterpunch.org
Cooks writes that the bureau chief
explained: It is common to hear
Western reporters boasting to one
another about their Zionist credentials,
their service in the Israeli army or the
loyal service of their children.
Apparently, intimate ties to Israel are
among the many open secrets in the
region that are hidden from the
American public. If, as the news media
insist, these ties present no problem
or even, as the Times Keller insists,
enhance the journalists work, why do
the news agencies consistently refuse
to admit them?
The reason is not complicated.
While Israel may be family for these
journalists and editors, for the vast
majority of Americans, Israel is a
foreign country. In survey after
survey, Americans say they dont
wish to take sides on this conflict.
In other words, the American public
wants full, unfiltered, unslanted
coverage.
Quite likely the news media refuse to
answer questions about their journalists affiliations because they
suspect, accurately, that the public
would be displeased to learn that the
reporters and editors charged with
supplying news on a foreign nation
and conflict are, in fact, partisans.
While Keller claims that the New York
Times is covering this conflict even-
handedly, studies indicate otherwise:
* The Times covers internationalreports documenting Israeli human
rights abuses at a rate 19 times lower
than it reports on the far smaller
number of international reports
documenting Palestinian human rights
abuses.
* The Times covers Israeli
childrens deaths at rates seven times
greater than they cover Palestinian
childrens deaths, even though there
are vastly more of the latter and theyoccurred first.
* The Times fails to inform its
readers that Israels Jewish-only
such as Martin Fletcher have been
Israeli citizens and/or have Israeli
families. Do they have family
connections to the Israeli military?
Time Magazines bureau chief severalyears ago became an Israeli citizen after
he had assumed his post. Does he have
relatives in the military?
CNNs Wolf Blitzer, while not an
Israeli citizen, was based in Israel for
many years, wrote a book
whitewashing Israeli spying on the US,
and used to work for the Israel lobby
in the US. None of this is divulged to
CNN viewers.
Tikkuns editor Michael Lerner has a
son who served in the Israeli military.
While Lerner has been a strong critic
of many Israeli policies, in an interview
with Jewish Week, Lerner explains:
Having a son in the Israeli army was
a manifestation of my love for Israel,
and I assume that having a son in the
Israeli army is a manifestation of
Bronners love of Israel.
Lerner goes on to make a fundamental
point:
...there is a difference in my emotional
and spiritual connection to these two
sides [Israelis and Palestinians]. On the
one side is my family; on the other side
are decent human beings. I want to
support human beings all over the planet
but I have a special connection to my
family. I dont deny it.
For a great many of the reporters and
editors determining what Americans
learn about Israel-Palestine, Israel is
family.
Jonathan Cook, a British journalist
based in Nazareth, writes of a recent
meeting with a Jerusalem based bureau
chief, who explained: Bronners
situation is the rule, not the exception.
I can think of a dozen foreign bureau
chiefs, responsible for covering bothIsrael and the Palestinians, who have
served in the Israeli army, and another
dozen who like Bronner have kids in
the Israeli army.
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Im going to drive a little fast now. Isthat okay? There is one place in
Cambodia where you can hold a cold
beer in one hand and a warmKalashnikov in the other, and Victor is
driving me there. Were powering
along Phnom Penhs airport road withOasis on his Mercs sound system andenough guns in the boot to sink a Somali
pirate boat. Victor is rich and life issweet. His father is commander of the
Cambodian infantry. He has a place
reserved for him at LEcole SpecialeMilitaire de Saint-Cyr, Frances answer
to Duntroon. And, in his passenger
seat, there is a thin, silent man with aChinese handgun: his bodyguard.
His name is Klar, says Victor. Itmeans tiger.
Victor is only 21, but when reach ourdestinationa firing range run by theCambodian special forcesthe soldier
at the gate salutes.
Devastated by decades of civil war,Cambodia remains one of the worlds
poorest nations. A third of its 13 millionpeople live on less than a dollar a dayand about 8 out of every 100 children
die before the age of five. But Victor
real name Meas Sophearithwasraised in a different Cambodia, wherepower and billions of dollars in wealth
are concentrated in the hands of a tinyelite. This elite prefers to conceal the
size and sources of their moneyillegal
logging, smuggling, land-grabbingbut their children just like to spend it.
The Khmer Rouge are dead; the KhmerRiche now rule Cambodia.
I first met Victor at a fancy PhnomPenh restaurant called Caf Metro.Outside, Porsches, Bentleys and
Humvees fight for parking spaces. The
son of a powerful general, Victor hashis future mapped out for him. He wentto school in Versailles, speaks French
and English, and now studies politicsat the University of Oklahoma. My
mother wanted us to get a foreigneducation so we could come back andcontrol the country, he says. Theshooting range is where Victor and his
friends go to relax. Ive grown up
with guns and soldiers all around me,he says, laying out a private arsenalon a table: two automatic assault rifles,
two Glock pistols, one snipers rifle,one iPhone.
My mother wanted us to get a foreigneducation so we could come back andcontrol the country.
Victor and his generation are
Cambodias future. Will they use their
education and wealth to lift their lessfortunate compatriots out of poverty?
Or will they simply continue their
parents fevered pursuit of money andpower? Britains Department for
International Development (DFID),which gave almost $US30 million ofits taxpayers money to the country
in the last fiscal year, offered one
answer in June, when it announcedthe closure of its Cambodia office by2011. The official reason? It was felt
UK aid could have a larger impact where there are greater numbers of
poor people and fewer internationaldonors, said a DFID statement. But
the development agency might alsohave tired of throwing money at anation where so much poverty can be
blamed on a grasping political elite
and their luxury-loving children.(Australia clearly has not: it hasallocated $61.4 million in development
assistance to Cambodia for 2009-10.)
Depressingly, the Khmer Riche Kids
sometimes seem indistinguishablefrom the old colonial ruling class. They
were educated overseaspartlybecause their families wealth madethem targets for kidnapping gangs
and often speak better English thanKhmer. They carry US dollars onlypoor people pay with Cambodian riel
and live in newly built neoclassical
mansions so large that the citys oldFrench architecture looks like Lego bycomparison. And their connection to
the Cambodian masses is almost non-existent.
Sophy, 22, is the daughter of a DeputyPrime Minister. Rich, doll-like and self-
obsessed, she could be the Paris Hilton
of Cambodia. She imports party shoes
from Singapore, brands them Sophy& Sina (Sina is her sister-in-law), hendisplays them in her own multistory
boutique. It has six staff, no customersand a slogan: Its all aboutme. Sophys
name is spelled out in sparkling stones
on the back of her car, a Merc sopimped up that I have to ask her whatmake it is. Its a Sophy! she replies.
We meet at her hair salon, where she
is prepping a model for a fashion shoot
for a magazine she is starting up withher brother Sopheary, 28, and their
cousin Noh Sar, 26,. All three were
educated abroad and prefer to speakEnglish together. Sopheary, who
studied in New York state, seems bothamused and slightly embarrassed by hiswealth and privilege. What can you
do? he asks. Your parents give you
all these things. You cant say no. Ifsomeone gives you cake, you eat it.
Talk to Sopheary and his friends, andCambodias tragic history seems very
far away. The genocidal Khmer Rougeblew up banks and outlawed money
before being driven from power in1979. Later came the 1991 ParisAccords, and the plunder of
Cambodias rich natural resources
forests, fisheries, land began inearnest. Cambodias official economylargely depends on garment, exports,
but there is a much larger shadoweconomy in which only the ruthless
and the well-connected survived and
prosper. If youre doing business, youhave to know someone high up, so he
has your back, says Victor.
The closer you get to Hun Sen,
Cambodias autocratic Prime Minister,the better connected you are. Hun Senstaged a bloody coup detat in 1997
and has kept an iron grip on power ever
since. Opponents have been silencedwhile loyalists have grown rich. Thisincludes ministers, a handful of tycoons
and generals. Cambodians are oftendriven from their land by soldiers or
military police. Formerly a Frenchpossession, Cambodia has beencolonized all over again, this time by
its own greedy elite.
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continued from page 8 you put your money in a bank, everyonewill know how much you have, he
explains.
I had also heard that rich Cambodianshad repatriated hundreds of millions of
dirty dollars from Singapore banks after
a post-September 11 shake up of globalbanking, and that his money had helped
fuel the land speculation.
For the children, the wealth comes with
one big condition: they must do whatMum and Dad tell them. I wanted to
go to art school but my parentswouldnt let me, says Sopheary. Mostkids dutifully join the family business
Richard translated for his father during
overseas gem-buying trips. For some,
that business is politics. Concept likenepotism and conflict of interest dont
count for much in Cambodia.Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh
whose giant house resembles an airport
departure hall, one with its own jet-skilake gave a ministry position to hiswife and made his daughter his chief
of cabinet. Cambodias ambassadors toBritain and Japan are brothers, and their
boss is also their father: Foreign Minister
Hor Namhong. He says he hired his sons
on merit. Its not nepotism, he insists.
Their parents also expect them to marryyoungmen in their 20s, women in
their teensand strategically, meaningto someone from a rich and influentialfamily. These marriages are often
arranged. Its like medieval times in
France, complains Victor, still abachelor. This means that many high-society Cambodians soon find
themselves trapped in loveless unions;affairs are common. Sophy was
married off at 17 to the son of the rich
and powerful Interior Minister.
The web of marriages binds together
Cambodias political and business eliteand ensures the ruling Cambodian
Peoples Partys stranglehold on power.At the centre of the web sits PrimeMinister Hun Sen. His three sons and
two daughters are all married to the
children of senior ruling party politiciansor, in the case of his son Hun Manit, to
the daughter of the late national policechief. Now in his 30s, Hun Manit isbeing groomed to succeed his father.
He graduated from West Point, the US
it down. They gave him a villa, half amillion US dollars, and a 400-hectar
rubber plantation that will generate
income for the rest of Richards life.His parents-in-law gave him
$US100,000 in cash and another villa,
worth $200,000, which he sold and
invested in real estate. Richard alsoruns a busy Phnom Penh nightclubcalled Emerald his parents made theirfirst fortune in gems which provides
him with pocket money. A party of
rich kids can spend $US2,000 ondrinks in a single night, more than an
average Cambodian earns in 3 years.
His parents second, much larger,
fortune comes from real estate. A few
years ago they bought about five
hectares of land just outside PhnomPenh for $US14 a square metre, then
sold it for $US120 a square metre twoyears later, making more than $US5
million in profit. Where else can you
make profits like that? grins Richard.Its crazy money. He has a daughter
called Emerald and a son called Benz.
(His other Benz is a GL450.) They alllive with his parents in a newly built
mansion.
Yet Richards house is modest by theoperatic standards of Phnom PenhsTuol Kuok precinct, part of which
was once a notorious red-light district.A taxi driver shows me theneighborhood its like a homes of
the stars tour in Beverly Hills, except
that Tuol Kuoks backstreets are piledwith rubbish. My driver points out
giant mansion after mansion, and tellsme who lives there. Hun Sens son,Hun Sens daughter, Secretary of
State at the Ministry of Labour. A
Deputy PMSophy and Sophearysdad. A four-mansion compound withlots of razor wire, and a gate guarded
by special forces soldiers Victorsfamily.
Tuol Kuoks houses are well-guardedfor a reason: until there was real estate
to invest in, many wealthy
Cambodians kept their money at homein bricks of cash. We dont trust
banks, says Richard. The old
generation kept their money under thebed. The new generation keep it in
safes in their houses. Victor says his
family also stays away from banks,but for a slightly different reason. If
But the Khmer Riche have a problem.
None of them can answer a simple
question: where does all your moneycome from? says a Western journalist
in Phnom Penh. Ask Cambodian
ministers how they got so rich on ameager government salary, and they
will reply, My wife is good atbusiness.
When I ask Noh Sar, whose father is
a senior customs official, why he isso wealthy, he gives me a slightvariation: My mother works a lot.
Victors mother is also good at
business, according to Country for
Sale, an investigation into the elitepublished by the London-basedcorruption watchdog Global Witness
in February 2009. She is a key playerin RCAF [Royal Cambodian Armed
Forces] patronage politics, holding a
fearsome reputation among herhusbands subordinates on account of
her frequent demands for money,
says the report. RCAF sources havetold Global Witness that military
officers sometimes bribe [her] in orderto increase the chances of her closeconnections to a major timber
smuggler.
It is only in the past few years that thechildren of Cambodians elite have
grown confident enough to show offtheir familys wealth. If you want
people to respect you in Cambodia, you
must have a good car, good diamonds,a good cell phone, explains Ouch
Vichet, 28, better known as Richard.
Its an Im-richer-than-you
competition. Richard is quite acompetitor: he drives a $US150,000Cadillac Escalade and wears a$US2,500 Hermes watch and a
$US13,000 2.5-carat diamond ring. He
doesnt have a bodyguard, althoughsome friends keep them as status
symbols.
Richard was sent to New Zealand to
be educated after a gang tired to abduct
his brother. He is a short, affable man
with an impish grin. In a city wherethe elite have a tribal suspicion of
outsiders, he is refreshingly candidabout his wealth. My money is from
my parents, he says, and then breaks
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The extraordinary sensitivity that
Malaysian Muslims have manifested
over the non-Muslim use of Allah
leaves one in no doubt that theoretical
generalities would fail to address thesituation we are faced with. It is clear
that Malaysia is untypical of much of
the rest of Muslim world and the issue
we face here is one of its kind in that
it touches on acute religious
sensitivities one has little choice but to
recognize. To address the issue on its
own terms is also the correct Islamic
advice as conveyed in a legal maxim
of Syariah: Harm must be eliminated
as a matter of priority. According toanother legal maxim prevention of
harm takes priority over the attraction
of benefit. HRH the Sultan of
Selangors directive to keep Allah for
the use only of Muslims captures the
essence of these guidelines. The harm
that emanates from acts of violence and
destruction of places of worship
provided concrete evidence to supportthat decision.
The word Allah derives from a
contraction of the Arabic definite article
al the and ilaah diety, god to al-
laah meaning the the sole deity, God.
The Quran engages in Allahs reality,
His various names, His actions, and
how He relates to his creatures. Allah
is unique, the only Deity, creator of
the universe and the whole of
humanity, which means that inreference to all monotheists, there
should be no restriction to mentioning
Allah in the spirit of remembrance,
invocation and doa.
Allah has made Himself known to
mankind by His Excellent Names, al-
asma al-husna, which are revealed in
the Quran and are numbered at 99.
That total does not, however, includeAllah. This is because Allah is the
proper name(ism al-dhaat) of God
whereas the asma al-husna are all
attributes(sifaat). Among the 99
names, the ones most favoured and
frequently employed in the Quran are
the Merciful (al-Rahman) and the
Compassionate (al-Rahim). One of the
consequences of this numerical
specification at 99 is, according to
majority opinion, that the believer isdiscouraged from coining new names
and attributes for God. Since the
ALLAH INTHE QURANAND SCHOLASTIC THEOLOGY
The Phnom Penh Post, told HunChea: Dont worry. It wasnt yourmistake. Hun Chea walked away. The
motorcyclist bled to death on the road.
Hun Sen has yet another bad-boy
nephew, the widely feared and mega-
wealthy Hun To (Little Hun). In 2006a newspaper editor filed a lawsuit
against Hun To for alleged deaththreats, then fled overseas to seek
asylum with the United Nations help.Hun To was also once spotted sittingin his luxury speedboat, its sound
system cranked up high, being towed
around Phnom Penh by a Humvee. Afew weeks before, Victor had been inLos Angeles, where he test-drove Hun
Tos latest acquisition before it was put
in a Cambodia-bound shippingcontainer: a $US500,000 Mercedes
McLaren SLR supercar. He hasalready built a special garage for it,
says Victor.
Victor will not dare not criticize
Hun To. But he is critical of Cambodiansociety. From top to bottom, everyoneis corrupt, he says. He hopes to one
day set up a foundation to help poorCambodians send their children to
study overseas. We want to change
things, but well have to wait until ourparents retire, he says.
military academy, in 1999, amidprotests by members of the US
Congress over his fathers human
rights record. In July, Global Witnessurged the British Government to revoke
the visa of the Cambodian Prime
Minister, who visited Bristol Universityto watch Hun Manit receive a doctorate
in economics.
Senior Khmer Rouge figures such asComrade Duch, the mass-murdering
commandant of Tuol Sleng prison, arecurrently on trial at a United Nations-
based tribunal in Phnom Penh. The
Khmer Riche, on the other hand,remain above the law. Victor displaysa military VIP sticker on the front dash
of his Mercedes. It means the policecannot touch me, he says. Richard is
an advisor to a military policecommander, which also effectivelygrants him legal immunity.
Many of his generations abuse suchprivileges. Last August Hun Chea, a
nephew of the Prime Minister, hit amotorcyclist with his Cadillac, rippingoff the mans leg and arm. Hun Chea
tried to drive off but couldnt because
the accident had shredded a tyre.Military police arrived, removed thecars license plates and, according to
But older generation shows no sign of
retiring not when theres so muchcake left to eat. In January, foreign
donors pledged $US1 billion to
Cambodia, its biggest aid package yet.The Government relies on foreign aid
for almost half its budget. It could
break this reliance by exploiting itsreserves of oil, gas and minerals: the
International Monetary Fund estimates
Cambodias annual oil revenues alonecould reach $US1.7 billion by 2021.Could, but probably wont. Why?
Because the same elite who cut downthe trees and sold off the land are now
poised to extract the oil and minerals,
with the help of their children.
Some Hun Sen loyalists have already
been allocated exploratory mininglicences. One of them is General Meas
Sophea, the army chief. He recentlyhired a temp to act as his foreign liaisonofficer. The temp is his son. His sons
name is Victor.12 December 2009
Andrew Marshall is a British author and
journalist based in Southeast Asia who writes
for TIME magazine and other leading
publications worldwide. His website is
andrewmarshall.com
Source: Good Weekend Magazine for theSydney Morning Herald.
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and sifaat) violates the reality of Divine
Oneness That Allahs illustrious
essence naturally includes His seven
most essential (Life, Power,
Knowledge, will etc) without any
distinction or separation. So Asharites
developed the doctrine ofmukhalafahdifference; everything about Allah is
different from all that is known to
humans. Thus when we read in the
Quran that Allah is All- Merciful- al-
Rahman it cannot mean that He has
the human quality of mercy. He has
only given Himself that Name and how
or why this Name is chosen we cannot
know nor should we enquire.
Since human knowledge of the universe
is incomplete, knowledge of theCreator of the universe must also be a
continuing effort. We are thus
encouraged to investigate the world
around us, to acquire knowledge of the
mysteries of creation, and through it
also to increase our understanding of
Allahs exalted names and attributes.
The Quran is expressive of the
manner Allah relates to mankind, which
He clearly made the prize of His
creation and endowed him with nobility
of the highest order: When Allah
decides to create, He merely commands
to be and it is as the Quran tells us (
2:117 ). But in the case of man, Allah
created him with His own hands(Q.,
38:75), fashioned him in the best of
moulds ( 95:4 ), breathed into him of
His own illustrious Spirit( 38:72 ),
appointed him as His vicegerent in the
earth(2:30), taught him the names (and
thus essential knowledge and ability
to forming concept of) all things(2:
31), and dignified him above the rest
of His creation (Q., 17:7). Then Allah,
to Him be all praise, asked the angels
to prostrate to the archetypal man,
Adam, which they did in full
submission to the Lords command
(7:11). In sum Allah has endowed in
man some of His own important
attributes on a limited scale and insuitable quantities. Man has been given
the capacity and power and
subjected to him (for his use) all that
is in the heavens and the earth (31:20)
Almighty has described Himself by
these attributes, it is through these that
we seek knowledge of Him.
Rational theology provides much detail
as to how to understand the meaning
of these attributes and their relationshipwith the Self of Allah. The Quran is
emphatic on the one hand on the
transcendence of Allah- He is utterly
beyond the human and no one can
define Him. Yet the Quran is also
replete with passages wherein the
Almighty personifies Himself with
human-like descriptions not only by
references to His Exalted face, soul,
eye, hand, fingers , foot etc., but also
that He speaks, listens, answers,loves and hates - and yet despite all
this the text says emphatically that
there is nothing like unto Him; (42:
11) that sight cannot perceive Him
but He encompasses sight and He is
the Subtle, the Aware (al-Lateef al-al-
Khabeer). These last are two of the
asma al-husna. Thus no one is able,
not even the Prophet Muhammad, to
actually see Allah; except perhaps in
the Hereafter on Resurrection Day
(ruyat Allah) in the opinion of some
theologians. The Prophet has also
instructed the faithful to ponder upon
the creation of Allah and not on His
Exalted Essence.
Thus the question arises whether
Allahs attributes and self description
should be understood literally or
metaphorically. The latter is
discouraged for leading to speculativeindulgence, while literal interpretation
amounts to anthropomorphism
(likening Allah to humans). The
prevailing Ashari school of theology
holds that we should keep to the literal
meaning of Allahs attributes and view
them in as being in some manner
separate or distinct from the divine
Essence, but not questioning how this
can be (the doctrine ofbi-laa kayf).
However the more rationalistMutazilah school (expired 600 years
ago) taught that such a distinction
between Allahs Essence and His most
important attributes (between His dhaat
so as to harness their resources for his
own benefit, yet with a sense of
responsibility as a trustee and
custodian of the earth.
We may invoke any of the Excellent
names of Allah in prayer and
supplication (Cf., Q, 7:180).It is usualfor the worshipper to address the
Almighty by that name or attribute
which he wishes to appeal to. For
example, in praying for pardon, one will
address God as either al-Afuw the
forgiving or al-Tawwab the receiver
of repentance. Yet of all these, the
one name which the Almighty has used
most frequently is Allah. This name
and its derivatives occur in the Quran
(2,697) times, mostly in the singular.For Allah does not have a plural form.
Yet one of its derivatives, ilaah, does
occur in both singular and plural(the
latter as aalihah). Compare this to al-
Rahman, which is the most favoured
name, next to Allah (Q.17:110), but
which occurs only (57) times in the
text. The Quran does not provide a
clear explanation for this preferential
use of Allah, but the Prophet, pbuh,
has asked the faithful in a hadith to call
upon God by His greatest name (bi-
ismih al-azam), He will respond to
your call, and accept your prayer. The
hadith did not, however, specify the
ism al-azam it referred to, and how,
if at all, did it differ from the rest of
asma al-husna. But another hadith
alludes that the ismal-azam occurs
in two verses of the Quran (i.e., 2:163
& 3:2). When we look at these verses,
Allah, occurs five times whereas al-
Rahman and al-Rahim only once
each in these short verses with a
combined number of only 16 words -
then it becomes clear that the ismal-
azam is none other than Allah.
1 March 2010
Professor Mohammad Hashim Kamali is
founding chairman and CEO of theInternational Institute of Advanced Islamic
Studies (IAIS)Malaysia.He is also a member
of JUSTs International Advisory Panel
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