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Vol 10, No.3 March 2010

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.

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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.

MOSSADANDTHE DUBAI MURDER

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 nonproliferation . . .

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.

20 February, 2010

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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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

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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.

ByMohammad Hashim Kamali


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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

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