Oil has a peculiar smell. It has been described as a stench, which
assails the nostrils. But it does much more than irritate the
membranes in the human nose. It greases the machinery of geo-
politics and lubricates the revenge and envy that nation states
harbor towards each other. It makes and destroys states and peoples
and befouls humanity. It is still a necessary evil, but much of this
black gold happens by fate to lie under the sands of the Arab Middle
East and thus morphs into a terrible weapon wielded by Arab despots
and Islamo-fascist fanatics.
The insane rush to create Kosovo, yet another Muslim state in the
heart of the Balkans, is testament to the curse of oil. Ever ready
to enrich their economies, the Europeans and the United States
combine to appease and placate the Arab kings, Emirs, and assorted
dictators. The price demanded by the Saudis and the Gulf States is a
steep one; namely to pave the way for more and more Muslim influence
throughout the world and hostility to Israel.
The Saudis pour billions of their petrodollars into Europe and North
and South America in order to build lavish mosques where Wahhabi
imams propagate extremist forms of Islam. European and American
universities hold out their begging bowls to receive Arab money and
in return help facilitate the spread of anti-Israel and anti-Western
falsehoods masquerading as Middle East studies.
The recent phenomena of the so-called sovereign funds are
instruments through which European and American financial
institutions receive desperately needed infusions of Arab money to
bail themselves out of their own greed and monetary shortcomings.
And the financial help bestowed upon them comes with strings thus
adding yet another layer of Arab and Muslim pressure.
Islamist influence grows with every passing day. Facts are being
created on the ground, which are changing the demographics and
national characteristics of one European state after another. And it
is in Europe that Arab oil is driving the creation of a Muslim state
that will become a radical Islamist beachhead and threaten what is
left of Christian Europe. In time it will inevitably become a
springboard for terror into the United States itself.
The U.S. State Department's Nicholas Burns has now congratulated the
Kosovars in obtaining their independence from Serbia. This is a
betrayal of the Serbian people and will leave a disfiguring scar
upon the United States for years to come. For the Serbian people,
the province of Kosovo is their very ancestral heartland. The long
suffering Serbs are now forced to witness the witless and perfidious
Western powers ripping away Serbia's heart while their hated ethnic
Albanian and Muslim historical enemies take possession of it. The
Serbs, in fact, call Kosovo their "Jerusalem." That is how holy they
consider their lost homeland.
And we must realize that Israel, too, is threatened by the same evil
created by Arab oil. The Palestinian negotiators all confirm that
Jerusalem is up for grabs and that Ehud Olmert, Israel's Prime
Minister and Tzippi Livni, the Foreign Minister are in advanced
negotiations to give away parts of Judaism's eternal holy city,
Jerusalem.
Under U.S State Department pressure, the Israeli government is
negotiating the dismemberment of the Jewish ancestral heartland of
Judea and Samaria and we must witness with growing fear that what
has happened to the brave and ill served Serbian people will also
happen to Israel.
President Bush has said that before his term of office expires this
year, he will preside over the re-division of Judaism's holy city of
Jerusalem and the creation of a Muslim state called Palestine within
the Jewish biblical heartland. Although Serbs living in enclaves
within Kosovo are not yet being forced to leave, the price of
creating a Muslim Palestinian state is the expulsion – the ethnic
cleansing – of all Jews from its proposed territory. In other words,
it is even worse for the Jews as a new Arab state called Palestine
will be judenrein. And this unthinkable outrage will be sanctioned
by President Bush and the United Nations.
There are striking similarities between the Serbs and the Jews.
Serbia lost its province of Kosovo after being defeated in battle by
the Muslim Turks at the Field of Blackbirds on June 13th 1389. Like
the Jews, who in their 2,000 years of exile dreamed of restoring
their ancient land and their holy city of Jerusalem after losing it
to the Romans, so too the Serbs dreamed of Kosovo and wove their
folk music and national identity around the lost Serbian heartland.
During the late 1990s when President Clinton and his Secretary of
State Madeline Albright, launched a disgraceful war against the
Serbs, the Serbian Deputy Prime Minister, Draskovitch said of
Kosovo: "Our faith was born there, as was our language, our
nationhood, our pride. It is incumbent upon us to defend Kosovo,
even if we all die."
His words were uttered as American bombers, repainted in NATO
colors, bombed Serbia for several months inflicting some 3,000
civilian deaths and destroying all the bridges over the Danube River
in Belgrade. This was not America's finest hour but is now largely
dead and buried by the mainstream media.
The same mainstream media rarely, if ever, tells us about Serbia's
passion during the many centuries leading up to the present and
latest shameful act of the West. When Serbia was part of Yugoslavia,
it was the Serbs who fought alone and unaided against the German
divisions; fighting them to a standstill. No other people in
occupied Europe achieved that remarkable and heroic feat.
Croatia allied itself with Hitler and established a Nazi state. The
Croatians exterminated hundreds of thousands of Serbs and tens of
thousands of Jews. If you visit the Yasenovatz death camp in
Croatia, you will find Jews and Serbs buried there together in mass
graves.
The anti-Jewish Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini, who spent
many days with Hitler in his Berlin bunker plotting the destruction
of Mandatory Palestine's Jewish population, encouraged the Bosnian
Muslims to form several SS divisions who carried out mass murders
and deportations of Jews to the German death camps.
Serbia emerged from the Second World War with the distinction of
defeating the German invasion and inflicting severe losses on the
German army. But the Serbs paid a terrible price, losing nearly
2,000,000 dead or some 12% of their population. The Serbian
partisans, who included many Jewish fighters, were able to save
thousands of Jews from death at the hands of the Croatian, German
and Bosnian murderers.
During the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, the Croatians expelled some
250,000 Serbs from their homes in the Krajna district. As soon as
the Muslims in Kosovo received autonomy in 1974, they drove out
400,000 Serbs. At the same time a vast influx of ethnic Albanians
flooded over the border to take the place of the disinherited Serbs.
The Serbian people have been reduced to only 10% of their original
population in Kosovo. Ethnic cleansing against the Serbs began long
before the Western press ran their lurid stories of Serbian ethnic
cleansing against the Bosnian Muslims. Predictably, the mainstream
press ignored the earlier attacks by the Muslims against the Serbs,
which first led to the war.
The lesson for Israel is that foreign powers have conspired to strip
the expendable Serbs of their ancestral homeland and give it to the
Muslims. In doing so, these same western powers believe that by
placating and ingratiating themselves with the oil rich Arab and
Muslim world they enrich their own economies. After all, Serbia does
not possess any known oil reserves.
Israel, too, is bereft of meaningful reserves of oil. It too is thus
expendable. The pressure upon Israel to give away its own ancestral,
historic, spiritual and biblical heartland in Judea and Samaria (the
West Bank) grows relentlessly and insidiously.
Sadly and tragically, there exists no Israeli government or leader
at this critical time with the intestinal fortitude and spiritual
certitude to adamantly and resolutely resist the cynical and
perfidious machinations of western leaders. Israel desperately needs
a leader who can talk to the world as Draskovitch once spoke for the
Serbian people. Instead Olmert, Livni and Barak call for NATO to
patrol the border with Gaza, monitor Judea and Samaria and, heaven
forbid, oversee a divided Jerusalem.
Carloline Glick, writing in the Feb 23, 2008 edition of the
Jerusalem Post sums up the Israeli government's terminal confusion
thus: "What the Serbs made NATO fight its way in to achieve, Israel
is offering NATO on a silver platter." She adds, "... the lessons of
Kosovo are clear. Not only should Israel join Russia, Canada, China,
Spain, Romania and many others in refusing to recognize Kosovo. It
should also state that as a consequence of Kosovo's independence,
Israel rejects the deployment of any international forces to Gaza or
Judea and Samaria, and refuses to cede its legal right to
sovereignty in Judea, Samaria, Gaza and Jerusalem to international
arbitration."
Serbia must be supported by all who still cherish morality over
expediency. Historical correctness must in all such cases trump so-
called political correctness. As goes Serbia, so goes Israel.
Neither nation deserves to become victim to the international greed
for black gold and the attendant groveling acceptance by oil-
importing states to the demands of the oil producing dictatorships
and Islamic theocracies. Indeed, the stench from corrupting oil that
permeates the international corridors of power makes the very angels
in heaven gag.
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