Mexstan

This is posted for info and interest only and is not an political post. For years the media have lied and twisted the true facts to show sympathy for the so called plight of the 'downtrodden Arabs', and blamed Israel, in spite of much evidence to the contrary. I have read other stories in the past similar to this one, written by Arabs, but this is the most recent. The media constantly ignore the historic fact that the so-called refugees in the no such country as Palestine were created by the Arabs and exploited by the Arabs for political purposes and personal gains by some individuals.
Want to bet that the mainstream media will not pick this one up? I read this story in the Israel Insider, a daily newspaper.
Farid Ghadry is the President of the Reform Party of Syria.





Israel cultivates Nobel laureates, Arabs cultivate suicide bombers
By Farid Ghadry October 17, 2004


The news this week that two Israeli scientists, in addition to an American, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, should be read with interest in the Arab world.

This win says a lot about the state of affairs of the Middle East.

While Israel builds its future with Nobel laureates, the Arab world fills its future with suicide bombers.

Ever since the inception of the State of Israel, Arabs have had this romantic notion that through wars and revenge we can return to our past glory.

Of course, they don?t tell us which past they are referring to.

Was it when we were governed by the Ottoman Empire or by England and France?

Or was it more like 1,300 years ago when spears ruled the battleground?

Ever since 1967, Arabs from all countries -- but especially Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt -- have lived this fantasy that we can throw the Israelis to the sea.

With the 1973 near-win against Israel, Arabs concluded that one more loss is not reason enough to stop and think.

One more loss, with so many lives lost on both sides, is not enough for us to understand that the continued struggle is destroying us from within.

Even after Anwar Sadat came to understand the value of peace and co-existence, it seemed that more and more of our energies were diverted toward destruction.

The downfall of the Soviet Union, the longtime ally of the Arab world, seemed to spur us to seek justice with the barrel of a gun rather than through pragmatic understanding.

The Oslo Accords produced a willing Israel and exposed fraudulent Palestinians. Again, we watched as Arab leaders mounted a campaign of deceit to divert our attention away from our own oppression. We, the obedient Arab sheep, followed. We carried banners, objected, revolted and in the end, we created a new cadre of school children with strong arms to throw stones but without the education and discipline no brains to produce Nobel prizes.

Ever since the Intifada, a term that truly spurns our sense of justice, we have achieved the lowest point of our self-esteem. Arab children that throw stones seem to feel an invisible power that is not available to the children of the State of Israel.

That power to revolt consequently pre-disposes to a low self-esteem, which inevitably helps to build the mentality of a suicide bomber.

Suicide bombers feel nothing, understand little, and cannot see the future.

They go on automatic pilot with the brain functioning as a guiding tool to self-destruct literally, as a person and against the society that developed them. Suicide bombers represent the lowest of our self-esteem as people of Arab descent.

We are in an Intifada, but it is one that is seen through the eyes of the Israeli Nobel laureates.

We, as people of the Middle East, are dying and we cannot even feel it. We have reached the bottom and we do not even know it.

Because of oppressive regimes that give us no chance to think for ourselves, we have no hope, no future, and certainly no Nobel prizes in science awaiting us.

What very few people know is that an Intifada is also attributed to the last movement by a human body upon death.

Could that be this understanding of Intifada that is the true symbol of a struggle that should have ended long ago? All Arabs are in an Intifada, still moving yet not truly alive as citizens of the world.

Every time the Syrian Ba'athists call for armed resistance, secretly support groups like Hezbollah and Hamas, and propagandize Arab unity, we fall further and further into oblivion. The funny thing is that very few Arabs care to understand why we do not have Nobel laureates.

They blame it on Imperialism and Zionism. In their minds, absent these two forces, we could be raking in those Nobel prizes.

So while Israel survives Intifadas, wars, hate, and oppressive Arab rulers, we, the Arab people, must wake-up.

If we pursue the same policies that drove us to the lowest point in our history (Asr al-Inhitat or Era of Despair as opposed to Asr al-Jahyliah or Era of Ignorance that preceded Prophet Mohammed), only we lose.

If we listen to our rulers, we will always be kneeling on the sideline watching Nobel prize winners produced by the Middle East -- but not by us or for us.

crobtex

Interesting.............considering the source.

Mexstan

I thought so too, which is why I was careful to show just where it came from. Seems unlikely if there is much bias here.

bdramsey

Seems to me that the most basic human instinct would be to live, not die.

MCMLV

How true, refreshing aproach, and sad also.

There is no more veritable criticism than genuine self criticism.

AlpineRAM

http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1979/
http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1978/
http://nobelprize.org/literature/articles/mahfouz/
http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/1999/
http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1994/

Just found those within some minutes- actually the article is quite good and IMHO reflects a lot of the dangers the arabic world has to face now, but as a warning article it also exagerates a bit on the just violence, no nobel prize thing.

I shure do hope that the reasonable ones of all the different people in that region will be able to sort it out.

AlpineRAM

Mexstan

Yasser Arafat getting a peace prize was and still is ridiculous. He always was a terrorist and still is. The Nobel Peace prize committee has unfortunately gone the way of much of the world and their awards for the last few years no longer reflect reality. The Nobel prize is now a joke - just like the UN.

AlpineRAM

Hmmm- 3 of those 5 aren't peace prize laureates. I just wanted to show that there are arab nobel prize laureates in several sciences.
I think the peace prize ist the most disputable of the nobel's, but the others are IMHO still a reflection of scientific excellence.
And I also want to say that the UN is not a joke IMHO either. I don't condone some of the trends in it at the moment but there is still a lot of positive stuff in there.
But I must admit that it's much easier to just pick out one of five arguments of somebbody who seems not to agree completely, subject it to ridicule and then shift to a completely different theme where one supposes to have the majority of the audience behind him. With this simple technique from "demagogics for beginners" one doesn't even have to answer to what the potential disagreer has said or written.
I would be very wary of polititians using these methods in a discussion- analyze what was actually said and see the void of meaning in most of their speeches, yet many people get very agitated when you disagree with their wording for no meaning at all.

Have a nice evening

AlpineRAM

Mexstan

Point taken. Thanks.

Ohio Joe

And Sadat was assassinated by who? Arab scientists? NO...
I find it quite ironic that an arab nobel peace prize winner was killed by arab terrorists...

jthorpe

One political thread. Last warning.