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Muslims and Jews in the World System,
structural crisis of the present
Sep 30 2004, 09:12 AM
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Richard Melson
Cambridge Forecast Group
www.cambridgeforecast.org
September 1, 2004
Understanding this Era:
Muslims and Jews in the World System
In the recent book, Karl Polanyi in Vienna,
Samir Amin, the Dakar-based Egyptian economist says:
"In the 1968-1971 period, the world system entered a phase of
structural crisis which continues to this day."
(Black Rose Books, 2000, paperback edition, Amin essay,
" Conditions for Relaunching Development," Chapter 6, page 74)
We will accept this basic intuition and consider the present era to comprise the years
1968-2004 and beyond.
We are interested in the world system as the global "arrangement" that
contains the world economy as a component.
Add geopolitical change to the penumbra of the world economy:
Britain left Aden in 1968 and the Gulf in 1971 (leaving the UAE behind) and this means
that Samir Amin's 1968-1971 is part of a larger story: the departure of the Brits from the
Middle East, leading to the subsequent arrival of the Americans as replacement.
If we posit an "Anglo-American macrohistorical pattern," we should see British
imperial history as a prelude to an American echo.
(No one reading about the Churchill/Gen. Maude invasions of Iraq
(Mesopotamia) from 1917-1920 can fail to see the Bush/Rumsfeld analogue. Gassing Iraqis
from British airplanes was Churchill's 1920 version of "shock and awe", say)
With this backdrop, let us then ask directly:
what is the fundamental nature of the present era, 1968-2004?
To answer this question as simply as possible but not simpler, we would say:
The world system is undergoing a kind of "rotational correction" and faces
two historical gateways imposed by Washington-London:
Neo-liberalism.
Neo-conservatism.
The first embodies the Thatcherite doctrine that the poor have too much
money; the second wants to re-colonize the Third World by force and undo the era of
decolonization from Ghana 1957 through Hong King 1997, replacing it with re-colonization.
Both of these doctrines, to be blunt, were created by Jews for Anglo-American "ruling
groups".
Milton Friedman and the recently deceased Peter Bauer were the Jews behind neo-liberal
theory. This governs West/Third World economic relations today and harkens back to 19th
century Gladstonian policies (we see again the Anglo-American patterning here) . The
so-called Washington Consensus of free enterprise/free trade everywhere pushes this
doctrine on the whole world.
The neo-conservative thrust derives from other Jews: Kristol father and son, Zionist
pressure groups, Feith, Wolfowitz, Perle, Wattenberg, etc. This line surrounds anti-Arab,
anti-Moslem, anti-Third World policies and programs with a "gift wrapping" of
Wilsonian idealism.
The neo-conservatives are actually radical Jewish revolutionaries
who plan to overturn the current world order/world system and replace it with a US/Israel
binary coalition that will conquer and subjugate the Third World, with the thwarting of
the Palestinians as the main symbol of this.
The constant demonization of Arafat is part of this desire to
delegitimate and marginalize Third World aspirations to nationhood, sovereignity, and
development. For these revolutionaries, a Jerusalem (ethically cleansed of Palestinians)
should ideally direct and control Washington. That is precisely why the annual
"Jerusalem Summits" were inaugurated in October 2003.
In other words, neo-conservatism is ultimately an attempted Jewish activist coup in the
world system which attempts to redirect world history itself in a Zionist direction.
America would dominate the world and the Jews (in Israel and
Washington) would dominate America and hence America would implement Jewish visions for
the future.
How did this situation arise in the first place?
After all, many groups would love to hold the steering wheel of Washington policy in their
grasp Why these neo-liberal and neo-con Jews?
The simplest possible answer is this: the ruling wasps (Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld) visualize
these Jewish groups as a kind of Manhattan Project II, a Teller/Oppenheimer secret weapon
grouping, that will give them "new weapons" in the fight for American hegemony
and their own domination.
The Jews are seen as an internal think tank of futurologists that bolsters ruling groups.
In the case of the UK, Thatcher's advisors during her years 1979-1990 were all neo-liberal
Jews: Keith Joseph, Nigel Lawson, David Young, etc. Thatcher and these Jewish advisors
called Third World proposals for a New International Economic Order "a letter to
Santa Claus" and pushed neo-liberal doctrines under the slogan of TINA ("there
is no alternative").
Their other slogan was of course, "there is properly speaking no such thing as
society". This slogan implies of course, "there is no global society".
In other words: simply stated, the 1970's lead to a semi-collapse of
Anglo-American self-confidence. It is this historical panic which lead to a farming out of
policy to Jews, whether neo-liberal or neo-conservative.
The world faces these two Jewish-designed "gateways to the future" because
traditional ruling groups in America and England fear the future.
They particularly fear the reaction of their "publics" to the anxieties of
globalization and its dynamics. This anxiety is precisely what is at the heart of
Christian Zionism, to give one example.
The "assignment" for progressive Muslims worldwide
becomes:
Take the ball away from these Jews and promote the "rotational correction" in
the world system in the direction of Third World development and the replacement of Jewish
worldviews by progressive Muslim ones.
Richard Melson