Was Ibn Khaldoun Right about Arabs?
We have left the jungle, but the law of the jungle still prevails, with a lot of help from the infamous Siamese twins, CIA2/MOSSAD, MI6/AMAN and a few others in between, and the White House Murder INC, and a lot of covert endeavors to push for and perpetuate the legacy of thousands of Tribes with Flags... in order to enforce militarizing energy security for the USA and Israel...
When I looked out of the window of the Riyadh Al Qasr Hotel, I saw the building of the Saudi Port Authority with floors in the form of containers. The sight revived memories of the early 1980s when the building was still under construction. Every time I visited Riyadh, I used to accompany Dr. Fayez Badr, the then Minister of the Port Authority, may God rest his soul, to follow up the progress in construction.
Dr. Badr was a dear friend for years until his death. He was one of the smartest people and one of the most difficult to please. He could only be satisfied with the best in everything, and did not hesitate to hold the neglectful accountable and to express his opinion of them.
I was not very interested in Saudi ports. After Dr. Badr was appointed President of the Saudi Port Authority in the position of minister, he managed to put an end in a few months to the chronic delay in unloading cargoes, which had left the sea before the Jeddah port swarming with ships. I used to talk with Dr. Badr about heritage, literature, poetry, linguistics, and Arab politics.
Perhaps God was merciful by choosing Dr. Badr to be by His side so that he does not see what has befallen the Arab nation since the early 1980s.
The Lebanese civil war lasted till the end of that decade which also witnessed the Israeli invasion in June 1982 following the attempt of the Abu Nidal Organization to assassinate the Israeli Ambassador to London Shlomo Argov, as if Lebanon were responsible for the terror perpetrated by a group having direct ties with MOSSAD and charged with murdering the symbols of national Palestinian activism....
Ambassador Argov condemned the invasion and refused for it to be used as a pretext, while the Kahan Commission which investigated in the Sabra and Shatila massacre, { operations Spark and Iron Brain of IDF } placed a direct responsibility on Ariel Sharon for the massacre and said that he was not eligible to occupy an official position...
He resigned from the Ministry of Defense under pressure, only to return two decades later and resume killing women and children....and organize the most despicable of assassinations against Mr. Elie Hobeika, January 24th 2002.
There have been small-scale and large-scale massacres since that time, in addition to the July 2006 war on Lebanon and the last war on the Gaza Strip.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has attempted, after 1979, to export the revolution, but Saddam Hussein retaliated with a war that lasted most of the 1980s and ended after the death of hundreds of thousands of Iranians and Iraqis, and the delineation of the border exactly as it had been before that absurd destructive war.
Saddam decided to consider himself victorious and invaded Kuwait in August 1990, only to be expelled by an international coalition eight months later. Then there was an international siege on Iraq until 2003 when the United States deliberately invaded it for false reasons, and has paid the price for this, along with the Iraqi population. American and British sources estimate the casualties to be around a million Iraqis and 4300 Americans, with no end in sight.
I am not keeping track of all the wars that have broken out since 1982 (the date of the Falkland Islands War); however, as I was looking out of the window, I recalled my late friend and the misfortunes that have befallen the Arabs, Muslims, and the world since that date. Along with the massacres perpetrated by humans in Africa and Bosnia, not to mention Darfur, there have been misfortunes such as tsunamis and unchecked terror, from the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington until today.
Since that time I have lost my grandmother and then my mother, as well as friends, some of whom were dearer to me than myself. Last month while I was reorganizing my phone directories by entering private and business numbers in the computer, I paused before names of friends who have passed away. I am not able to forget them, so I have kept their names and phone numbers as if I would talk to them tomorrow.
If there had been a prominent feature since the early 1980s until now and probably tomorrow, it is that the Arabs have brought unto themselves the problems and misfortunes they have always faced. Was Ibn Khaldoun right by saying that we are a barbaric nation with no ruling traditions whatsoever? He said that the clannish spirit is what characterizes Arabs, and that it is strong among Bedouins and weak among urbanites. Since people are of different types, some are predisposed to rule whereas others are not. In the same vein, Ibn Khaldoun exposes the Arabs and makes his harsh famous judgment on them. Thus, they are in his eyes "a barbaric nation as the traditions and causes of barbarity are so deeply rooted in them that they have come to constitute their nature. They enjoy rebellion and the non-observance of politics, which are inconsistent with and in contradiction to civilization." For this reason, the author of Al-Mukaddima sees that the Arabs are "the farthest from the politics of ruling." I claim that the Arabs have changed since Ibn Khaldoun's times. In fact, they have been tamed and defeated. They accept good governance, which is a rare instance, and vicious governance, which is the prevailing pattern. At the same time, they blame America and Israel for their own mistakes and sins, and nap in the afternoon....
They have been deemed liable to be violated, and as a result it is only the Arabs and Muslims who are killed these days. If no enemy kills them, they kill each other and then deny that terror has emerged from their ranks.
Death is a fact. I am not referring to an individual loss, but I am rather thinking of innocent people, of whom thousands or millions have been killed as a result of the ignorance on the part of leaders who do not know that preserving life is the first condition of the social contract following the departure from the jungle....
We have left the jungle, but the law of the jungle still prevails, with a lot of help from the infamous Siamese twins, CIA2/MOSSAD, MI6/AMAN and a few others in between, the White House Murder INC, and a lot of covert endeavors to push for and perpetuate the legacy of thousands of Tribes with Flags... in order to enforce militarizing energy security for the USA and Israel...
http://newhk.blogspot.com/2008/12/uniiic-ii-report-revisited.html