Against and not for terrorism

Columnist Lt Col (Retd) ZAMAN MALIK looks at those for and against terrorism.

The Muslim world stretches over a vast expanse of nearly eleven million square miles. It embraces a fifth of the world’s total landmass, and comprises almost a sixth of the world’s population. Its strategic significance lies in its inherent ability to control most of the land, sea, and air routes linking Asia, Africa, Europe, and Australia. The strategic advantage is backed by vast economic resources. The Muslim states not only sustain the economies of the industrialized world, but also are so located that they can either cripple or ensure the continued flow of oil to the industrial world, where life without oil will come to a grinding halt. Only two considerations or factors are kept in mind by Americans for international security: (1) attempts by one or more powers to seize vital industrial commodities like oil, and (2) attempts by some powers to gain hegemony or dominance in Eurasia, or in part of it. Today, the balance of power in Eurasia, according to US calculations, seems assured to US.  But the European Union, China and Japan — the powerful states, plus Russia, can threaten US interests from West Asia to CARS, if US continues to put at stake their interests, as she is doing at present. 11 Sept marked a turning point, a monumental watershed, no doubt, but the way the defiant states of UN (India and Israel) have tried to hijack the US-specific resolutions to justify their own usurpation of the Muslims territories in Jammu & Kashmir and Palestine, it shows as though, the 11 Sept tragedy was enacted with their complicity. Ariel Sharon has very clearly said time and time again that Israel controls America. The massacre of Muslims in Ahmadabad of India, in the disputed territory of Jammu & Kashmir and Palestine, was planned as   one whole.

United States has its own inherent limitations. It cannot safely go beyond its limits. It cannot conquer the world. Like Britain of yore, it lacks essential element: manpower, and, most significantly, the willingness to expend it in conquest. It cannot master Eurasia by force, because its manpower is too small to mount the kinds of military operations necessary to subdue or even establish reliable springboards where required. The Coalition formed by it in the wake of 11 Sept tragedy is likely to fall apart because Israel and India are being given free hand to use the US-specific resolutions, by America, to further their own agenda fast enough. Cracks are clearly visible in the coalition, and the US, given the aforementioned limitations, particularly with reference to manpower, will meet a sad end, provided it does not get out of Israel’s control, soon enough. It will stand isolated as it was after the First World War.              

The Fahad plan, aimed at creating an Arab consensus for recognition in return for a Palestinian state was stillborn. The Fez Summit for this purpose lasted no more than five hours — the shortest Summit in history. The Summit at Fez ended into an exercise in futility because at that time Arabs did not agree for the purpose. How, Crown-Prince Abdullah’s same offer faces disaster because, in the garb of ‘Security, normalization, and implementation’, Israel having turned the US-specific UNSC’s resolutions, to its own advantage is asking for total jurisdiction over the Middle East. This fact highlights clear enough as to how and for what, the tragedy of 11 Sept was enacted by the Zionists.  If not, why does the US fail to come out with a clear-cut definition of terrorism? Why does US bear the insult of being controlled by a UN defiant state, and contradicts or warn Israel of dire consequences, if she continues to malign US, as is being done unambiguously by her?

Israel continues to defy the EU, Russia, China, and the Muslim world; it cares a fig for human rights and leads the US by the nose. The US cannot hope for the sustenance of its vital interests in respect of oil and other resources, and maintain its presence as a world superpower, in the world, without the cooperation of EU, Russia, China, and the G-7 Group of the richest nations. No doubt it dominates the Middle East physically, since the desert storm in 1991. The united stand of the Arab World against US and its UN defiant allies, with the overt or covert support of the other powers, cannot be ruled out, in the near future. The world coalition against terrorism was not formed by US to be used by the terrorist and UN defiant states for unleashing mayhem and pogrom against the Muslims whose territories they have been occupying by force, since 1947, inspite of UNSC’s resolutions of 1948, 1949 and 1967. Negotiations with the usurpers were not conducted to provide an excuse to them for ensuring genocide of the Muslim population but these were meant to restore right of self-determination to them, under UN auspices.

The world coalition formed against terrorism is being used for terrorism. The whole world looks askance as well as frustrated, at the way the US has given up its moral authority obtained by her through her own-specific UK resolutions in 2001, to be used by Israel /in Israel’s favour. Time is fast running out. Either US takes the Coalition into confidence for what Israel is doing/India is doing, or accept the disintegration of the world coalition formed by her against terrorism, and risk the third world war. The coalition was against terrorism not for terrorism!