Do not be fooled by Arab generals’ hostility to Israel; it is no more than a show meant for domestic audiences. It is not intended to be acted on, ever. This is not due to Arab weakness; it is rather that the generals do not wish to act on their “hostility”.
Woe and destruction to those who try to put that hostility into practice; they will receive a bitter punishment. It’s just a pill to numb the masses, or a tool to release the people’s pent up emotions rather than prepare them for the battle of liberation.
There are plenty of indications that the alleged anti-Israeli feelings that have existed for decades are nothing more than a show. If the generals’ regimes were really hostile to this enemy, they would have treated their people in a completely different way. They wouldn’t have stepped over them with their heavy boots for decades, deprived them of dignity and eradicated all challenge and resistance to the enemy.
Israeli writer Aluf Benn says: “Israel’s regional policy is based on arrangements and a fear equilibrium with Arab dictators, whose authority is a natural barrier to protect Israel from the wrath of the mob in the Arab street.”
Benn has warned the United States against trying to “spread democracy without a watchdog.” Israel is wholeheartedly with the military dictatorships of the Arab world since its leaders have crafted political, military and economic strategies to dominate and control the region and support the dictatorships’ military and security systems. It is the most effective and safe method for the Zionist state and the most intelligent way to meet its needs and maintain its security.
It is absurd and naive that Arab liberals believe Israel or America prefers them over Arab generals. The last thing they desire is to encourage the spread of democracy or liberalism in our region. Believe me, Israel will not overthrow any dictatorial Arab regime unless it finds a more tyrannical alternative. Democracy is a red line.
In order to open the eyes of those taken in by American and Israeli slogans on democratising the region to eliminate totalitarian and oppressive regimes, I just want to remind you of what an Israeli politician once said when asked about the role of Israel after the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of its mission against communism and socialism in the Arab region.
“One of the most important future Israeli tasks is to protect the Arab military regimes from falling in the face of any revolution or coup,” he said.
Let’s take the case of the Syrian regime. It is clear that there is a transparent alliance between the dictatorship’s security apparatus and the Zionist state, and this applies to the entire Arab region.
Arab prisons are filled with advocates of democracy and freedom fighters just to please the enemy. Therefore do not dream of achieving true democracy or liberating your land before getting rid of the tyrants’ military boots and burying them, since they are the biggest protectors and guarantors of Israel.
All Syrian factions know very well that the Syrian regime will not fall until Israel wants it. The Assads made the people of Syria kneel for five decades in order for Israel to sleep well, and turned Syria into a quagmire of corruption. This is the best service the Syrian regime could have offered the Israeli enemy.
When the Syrian people revolted, Israel, which controls the US decision-making process, gave Assad’s regime the green light to turn Syria into a ruin.
Bashar Al Assad will continue burning Syria on Israel’s behalf as long as Syria and its people have some life left; and when he has finished his mission, Israel and America will throw him into the garbage bin the way they did with other tyrants who were once their loyal agents.
The author is a columnist and presenter on Al Jazeera television channel
