Amiri Baraka is being attacked as anti-semetic because he criticizes the politics of Israel and proposes critiques of American foreign policy and the purpose behind Zionism. Do not get it twisted, Zionism is not about religious freedom, it is about a friendly state for America in the Middle East. In 2000, The Council on Foreign Relations (
http://www.cfr.org) published a task force report that stated that the foreign policy of the US and other allied countries towards Iraq should lessen the sanctions on oil exports, and try to limit the power of Saddam Hussein by reducing his weapons of mass destruction (WMD) ability. Thus the UN inspections should increase. The CFR is a group of power statesmen so to speak (check the membership and international board of directors on the website), who's opinions weigh heavily on the minds of world leaders (I do not want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but Dick Cheney and Collin Powell have served on the CFR and Dick Cheney was with them during 2000, when this report was filed).
Everytime someone is critical of Israel, they are immediatley labelled anti-semtic by the anti-defamation league of B'nai B'rnth. It seems that the anti-semite tag most certain gets the wrath of the whole PC police. All the while Israel is nothing more than a friendly "51st" state for the US in the Middle East. The politics of Israel should not be confused with the religion of Judaism.
Think about it, certain oil companies had been desiring that a pipeline from oil field in the former Soviet Union be constructed to run through Afghanistan to the Red Sea, but the Taliban refused. After 9-11, the Taliban is gone, still no Ben-Laden, and now the new Afghani government is welcoming the pipeline. Now oil companies (Dick Cheney is the CEO of Haliburton Energy Corp.) want more oil from Iraq without giving Hussein profits and therefore more power, so now we have to war with Iraq. It is not an accident that these pleas for "Protecting Democracy" arise quickest when we talk about the Middle East. There are Human rights violations all over the world (Rwanda, North Korea, China, and in Saudi Arabia for years) and we don't try to take out their governments. In the Middle East, there is Oil, and all of the sudden it seems like democracy is most threatened there? With these things in mind, it doesn't seem to be a far stretch to think that someone in the Bush administration could have known the intellignce info that was gathered about the terrorist attacks and ignored it, so that they could take advantage of the country's sentiments and make these changes to gain more oil.
Be critical, be observant, and be prayerful in these times. Stand Tall Brother Baraka.
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