Did US Syria policy conribute to the conflict turning into religious war?

The Syrian civil war has already turned into a religious regional conflict. There are well over one million Syrian refugees in the region, and the number civilians slaughtered is approaching 100,000, many more than all casualties during the one hundred year Israeli Arab conflict.
The handling of the situation in Syria by the United States allowed a legitimate secular nationalistic movement to be turned into a religious civil war. Hillary Clinton’s policy of attending on the sidelines allowed Iran and Russia to help Assad turn the tide resulting in what is now a religious regional conflict that will expand.
“Leading from behind at Arab Springs,” were a horrible mistake; the Benghazi fiasco may not have been as bad, but was more visible, but Syria!
As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made very bad calls, but Syria is going to prove to be the worst of them all. Standing on the sidelines when a nationalistic and secular rebellion began was a terrible error. Not helping the rebellion allowed Russia and Iran to shore up Bashar Assad, and caused the conflict to grow. It also allowed the Saudis to give the rebels some help, but with that came the introduction of al Qaeda into the equation.
The Syrian conflict is not over; there is an issue with chemical weapons, with long-range missiles (that can reach about 260,000 US troops on the Gulf,) and the effect on the Kurds, Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel.
The incident in Turkey is only one of many, the Syrian situation will have lasting affects on all countries in the region, and on the national interests of the United States. The Obama/Hillary Clinton Middle East dogma has proven, and is continuing to prove to be disastrous!

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CAIR role: Explain how Quran violence can be reconciled with peaceful Muslims!

CAIR has a point, but it also has a much bigger challenge than to deal with a few cases of hate crimes against Muslims.

If CAIR, and the general Muslim community, wishes to have Muslims treated as equals in the United States, images of the World Trade Center, 9/11, Fort Hood, Benghazi, and the Boston Marathon massacre, must be put into some reasonable perspective. Our Government and most politicians blame these evil deeds on “radical Islam,” but to the man-in-the-street, there seem to be no distinction between radical, and other Muslims.

To those who take the trouble to read the Quran, which, unlike the other monotheist Bibles, states that it is “the final word,” (of the Divine,) and is not subject to moderation, CAIR must find a way to explain how one can be a Muslim, live by Quranic law, and be non-violent.

CAIR’s, and whoever else is interested, role is of not going after those who perpetrate crimes against Muslims, but to prevent those crimes from happening. CAIR must move forward by explaining how Muslims can reconcile the violence advocated by the Quran, and being peaceful members of an infidel society that the Quran would like to eliminate. 

CAIR’s real challenge is not to protect Muslims in the United States, but to make sure they (Muslims) do not need protection, that they are accepted as equals to others. The role is tough since in the global arena most terrorist acts are done in the name of Islam, most killing of civilians are by Muslims killing Muslims (as well as a few infidels, on the way,) and that a large number of internationally prominent Islamic leaders are on record calling for violent behavior by their followers.

Fayyad resignation and Hamas control of Palestinians; or “the tail is wagging the Palestinian dog!”

The only competent operative within the Palestinian authority, Salaam Fayyad resigned, leaving Abba, the butcher of Munich to find a replacement.
In reality this a case of the tail leading the dog; nor Abbas, nor Fatah, have anything to do with managing the Palestinian Authority, Khalid Meshaal, and Hamas are in charge, and Fayyad resignation is another display of that relationship.
The Arabs, or Palestinians if you will, are seeing their cause of blaming Israel, and Zionism for all the problems in the Middle East fade away. Synced there are about twice as many Syrian refugees in the region than are Palestinians, and since there were about twice as many Arabs killed in Syria in the last two years than throughout the whole Israeli Palestinian conflict; the Palestinians are quickly seeing their claim to being thud victims, being dwarfed by many other Arab against Arab situations.
In order to keep the pot boiling and try to maintain their plight, Hamas must lead the Palestinian cause since it is vocal about its desire to destroy Israel, and Fayyad was muting that voice.
The Syrian, Egyptian conflicts have so much more world wide significance than that of the Palestinians, that a voice for peace such as Fayyad’s had to be eliminated; Palestinians are facing a hard future with Syrian refugees, and Egyptian turmoil essentially removing them from the world radar screen and they arte looking for ways to overcome that eventuality.

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Syria dwarfing the “Palestinians” problem

Even if the Palestinian Israeli conflict was to be solved, the refugee, and blood shed in the immediate region will continue to grow. Bashar Assad has already created twice as large a refugee problem as that of the Palestinian refugges. Assad also slaughtered more [Arab] civilians than Arab casualties during the entire Israeli Palestinian conflict. The Syria situation, with another bloodshed with unrest in Egypt, suggets that it is timed for the world to realize that Muslims are violent people whose character, nature, and dogmma call for killing in the name of Allah.
It is time for the West to accept that bloodshed in the [Arab] Middle East will continue, and not enough of [oil] money would make that change. It is also time for the West to accept that Islam is a violent religion, it is not a “radical” element within Islam, it is Islam, the whole culture!!!

Zionism not responsible for Middle East strife!

Zionism a ploy, not cause of Middle East trouble. Arabs and Muslims in general, are violent people. The Quran instructs its followers to be so on many occasions!
One tends to counter with the fact that the Bible, both Testaments are also full of violence; the differences are quite clear:
The Quran, as are the other Bibles is a unique document. The Quran, unlike all other Gospels clearly insists that it cannot be modified, that it cannot be changed in any way. Devout Muslims even suggest that translations are not valid because of the [poetic] structure of the Arabic language. The Quran teaches that Muhammad was the last and only valid messager Allah was to give followers of the religion.
Unlike Christianity, in its various forms, Islam does not allow for interpretations, the clergy is made up of enforcers, at various levels, not as interpreters. Christianity underwent significant modernization when Martin Luther translated the Bible so lay people could read it, not having priests as go between the Book and the people.
In the case of Judaism, Rabbis are teachers, and many of the studies and extensive writing from the Diaspora are “modernization” of the Bible. Jews are not held up to some of the violent teaching of the original Bible.
Much because of Quranic teaching, much because the nomad nature of most Arabs, taking a politically incorrect view, and “stereotyping,” Arabs are violent people, and have been so throughout history.
Examples of Islamic violence and brutality are the Ottoman Empire, merciless to Armenians, Kurds, Jews and Arabs. Assad’s Syria, both father and son are another demonstration. Assad the father was responsible for the slaughtering about 60,000 of his people; the son already surpassed his father in approaching 100,000; many more Arab casualties than throughout the ninety-year Arab/Israeli conflict, and in two years.
Assad already caused over a million refugees to leave Syria, about twice as many as are Palestinian refugees in the region.
In 1948, through the largess of the United Nations with its creation of the Jewish State of Israel, the Arabs were given a common enemy. The Arab nations, in a very infrequent move of solidarity named Israel and its supporters as “Zionists,” and deployed the adage: “My enemy’s enemy is my friend,” Zionism being the common enemy.
Declaring Israel a common enemy allowed the Arabs a hiatus from Arab against Arab fighting; they attacked Israel. After several losing attacks on Israel, the Arabs discovered that the Jewish nation was not going to lie down and play dead, they returned to their traditional internal fighting. Since losing in 1967, Arabs nations have not attacked Israel, but returned killing one another.
One must understand, that had there not been an Israel, the Middle East would have been as volatile as it is with Israel, Arabs would be killing Arabs, as they are doing now!
Inter-Islam, or inter-Arab fighting is a way of life and likely to remain so for many years to come. At present, you have strife in Egypt, Yemen, Somalia, Mali, Iraq, and elsewhere, where civilian deaths occur daily. And, of course, there is Syria, which will eventually be followed by Jordan, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia.
Those who think that solving the Palestinians Israeli conflict, and taking care of the Palestinian refugee problem would create regional stability, are wrong. The Palestinian refugee problem, for example is already dwarfed by the ever-growing Syrian refugee problem. When the Syrian conflict ends, the region is likely to have three or four times as many Syrian refugees as Palestinians, and you know what? The new Syria will not welcome them back.
It is time the West, led by the United States comes to realize that the Middle East problem has nothing to do with Israel, Zionism, or “Western Imperialism,” it is an inter-Arab, Inter-Islam problem that the Western Wprld cannot, and should not try to “fix,” except perhaps help democratizing when clearly called upon, and offering humanitarian help when needed.

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Is Obama’s support of Palestinian State akin to Arab Springs?

Obama supporting Palestinian state akin to Arab Springs
It is time to “call a spade a spade,” Mideast problems are inter-Islam issues, “Zionism,” was a short-lived diversion allowing Muslims a hiatus from fighting each other.
Face it, Muslims fight and kill Muslims, Zionism was an attempt at “my enemy’s enemy is my friend,” but to Islam’s chagrin, the Zionist did not just lie down and play dead.
Secretary Kerry visit to Iraq where Iraqis are killing Iraqis, was a first hand view that Iraq is a conduit between Iran and Syria, and an active part of the inter-Islam fight with no concern for US interests. Egypt is in a mess, the Islamic Brotherhood is taking control.
Assad in Syria slaughtered more Syrians than all the Muslims killed during the total Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Syria already dumped on the region about twice as many refugees as are the total Palestinian refugees, with growing numbers.
Palestinians don’t want peace with Israel, the Quran does not encourage dealing with Jews, it says that Jews are of “swine and monkeys,” that is what Palestinians kids are taught in school. Palestinians want the whole area to themselves so that the traditional Muslim against Muslim fight can continue unabated.
President Obama suggestion to the Palestinians that he is supportive of a Palestinian State, is an error of a larger magnitude than was his mistake of “leading [Arab Springs] from behind.” In both cases the American President thought that he is helping democratic movements, while in both cases, he simply shoring up Islamic radicalism.

Intrer-Islam coflict to dispose of a Palestinian state!

Inter-Muslim issues to overshadow and eliminate considerations for a Palestinian state:
After the hiatus of using “Zionism,” as a common enemy, the one in “our enemies enemy is our friend,” Muslims are returning to the state of Muslims fight Muslims, and Arabs kill Arabs.
When looking at the bigger picture one can see that in the last two years over 1,000,000 new refugees, nearly twice as many as the Palestinians, entered rhea region, and the number from Syria, is growing. More Muslims were killed by Muslims in Syria than in all the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
The Middle East is changing, Muslims kill Muslims, after a short hiatus to use “Zionism: as a common enemy, but returned to killing one another (Egypt, Somalia. Mali, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and on and on…)
Muslim issues are going to dwarf the Palestinian issue, so much that the likelihood of a Palestinian state is essentially diminished, Palestinians will simply be absorbed by Jordan and Egypt; too many “larger fish to fry…”

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It is Arabs who are killing Arabs, not the “Zionists!”

There were always conflicts within Islam, within Arab entities. For a few years the Islamic world was able to create a common enemy so that it could say, “your enemy’s enemy is my friend,” that enemy was essentially virtual; it was lumped under the term Zionism. The manifestation of that enemy, Israel became a target of Islamic range, and diverted attention away from its internal conflict.
Israel the “common enemy,” the child of the hated Zionism was handed the Islamic world in 1948 with the creation of the State of Israel, the Jewish State of Israel.
In 1948 five Islamic nations in the region attacked Israel vowing to push the Jewish state into the sea, and let the Arab inhabitant of the region benefit from the spoils, but the large, rich and powerful lost the 1948 war, as well as future wars ending in 1967. After that was the Arabs attempted several internal uprisings, terrorist acts, if you will, never with overwhelming success.
Failing to maintain Israel as anything but a virtual foe, the Muslims starting to kill one another as has been their nature throughout their inception as a single religion.
The Muslim against Muslim phenomena is both religious and cultural, it recognizes few national boundaries and it is bloody and brutal.
This subject deserve a long and extensive review, let me just scratch the surface, enough to demonstrate the severity of the conflict.
Arab Springs was a trigger that started internal wars in North Africa. Egyptians are killing Egyptians, Libyans are killing Libyans, it is so in Somalia, Yemen, Mali, and the list goes on.
Muslims are killing scores of Muslims in Iraq since the Americans left and there is Syria.
Assad in Syria has been slaughtering civilians, and causing thousands of other to leave the country. Since the beginning of the uprising in Syria Assad caused the death of more civilians than all the Muslims killed from 1920 to present time in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
Assad’s action has already brought into the region nearly twice as many refugees than there are Palestinian refugees, and the number is growing.
Muslims, mostly Arab Muslims are killing Muslims by the thousand, they are not likely to stop, not even if they are able to manufacture another was in Israel. The Islamic internal conflict is so deep rooted that there is no end in sight that it is not truly subject to change due to some manufactured external diversion.
Finally, with growing Muslim population in Europe and elsewhere, one can anticipate Islamic bloodshed in streets of those countries in which large number of Muslims live!

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Obama’s politics of hypocrisy: Israel a case in point!

After flirting, and kibitzing with Netanyahu, and after calling Israel America’s “best friend,” President Obama went to visit the Palestinian Authority. While visiting Netanyahu, rockets aimed at Israeli civilians came from Gaza, a part of “Palestine.”
While in Jerusalem befriending the Israelis, and demonstrating a de-facto recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, President Obama did not mention that the United States has a public law requiring that its embassy be moved to Jerusalem. Was that an oversight, or was that one of Obama’s means for circumventing hard issues that must be addressed?
To Mahmud Abbas President Obama offered his full support for the creation of a Palestinian state. No mention was made of the fact, that as things stand, a state would be one that is on record as planning to destroy Israel, America’s “best friend.”
The rockets from Gaza, while President was on a State visit to Israel, was a clear display that Abbas does not control all the “Palestine,” that the United Nations voted as an observer state. At best, Abbas may control the West Bank, a barren landlocked territory that cannot be a viable economic entity without Gaza, and without cooperation from Israel.
All that notwithstanding, both Palestinian fractions, Hamas and Fatah, are on record as vowing to destroy Israel Neither fraction formally recognizes Israel’s right to exist; how can President Obama support statehood for someone who is on record as ready to eliminate a sovereign state, an American ally, and member in good standing of the UN?

There are no Palestinians!

The United Nations accepted “Palestine” as an observer state, a combined entity of Gaza and the West Bank (WB.) Gaza is ruled by the democratically elected Hamas, rockets we lobbed at Israeli civilians from that territory while President Obama was on a State visit to Israel. Since Gaza according to the “Palestinians,” and the United Nations, is a part of “Palestine,” should President Obama reprimand Mahmud Abbas for the rocket attack?
Since Abbas does not control Gaza, which means that there is no single entity called “Palestine,” one must realize that President Obama is not visiting the “Palestinians,” but that in reality he is visiting the “West-Bankians…”
Since there never were an Arab Palestine, it is very unlikely that on will emerge in the 21st Century!
Abbas and his people claim that Israeli settlements are holding back peace talks, that is a “red herring!” What is holding up peace talks is the fact that major “Palestinian” fractions, Fatah (in the Arabic language,) and Hamas have clauses in their carter calling for the destruction of Israel. Until those clauses are removed, Israel should not negotiate with any “Palestinians,” and President Obama should make that point, in public.