"This week in the War on Terrorism US warships shelled mountain villages in the jungle of northern Somalia. They also apparently used cruise missiles, which (although we've almost forgotten) the Clinton administration used against Iraq and Sudan, resulting in the deaths of thousands in the latter country. This week the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in Somalia apparently asked the US for help against a group of jihadis, perhaps refugees from the popular government of Somalia, the Islamic Courts Union, overthrown by Ethiopia at American direction. This attack was at least the third carried out by US military forces in the region since the US-backed invasion.
"The New York Times last Saturday carried an article by Stephanie Strom and Lydia Polgreen that had to be read between the lines even more than usual, but when that was done the article revealed the humbug of the Save Darfur Coalition, an Israeli lobby front group active in the US. NGOs working in Darfur say that the moneys collected by the coalition go to demonizing an "Arab" government -- consistent with the US-Israeli propaganda campaign in the region -- rather than aiding refugees from the rebellion in the west of the country. The US is engaged in a contest with China over African oil, and the World Bank, under neocon direction and acting as a agent of American policy, is losing the battle for influence in Africa to the Chinese. Only the US uses the term genocide in regard to Darfur, and the article draws a direct parallel with the use of the charge of genocide to justify the Clinton administration's attack on Kosovo. Former Clinton administration officials have been calling for US military action against Sudan on that model.
David Green writes bitterly but accurately--
"Jewish organizations offer the service to American elites of distracting
attention from their motives and crimes, and profiting from the credibility of
the association of the "genocide" in Darfur with the Holocaust. It's really
nothing more than an extension of what Finkelstein calls the "Holocaust
Industry," and ultimately it is about supporting the U.S.-Israel agenda. Other
organizations are given the choice of either joining or being perceived as
insensitive to the legacy of the Holocaust, which is "never again" selectively
applied. They either willingly join, cave, or silently abstain without
questioning the obviously cynical motives involved (it is considered impolite to
question the motives). The Jewish leaders who started Save Darfur care no more
about dead Africans now than they did when they supported South African-Israeli
supplied rampagers in Mozambique and Angola in the 1980s, who killed millions.
Their campaign is in no way intended to be effective ... Chinese influence is
arguably the major factor in play here, and will only be countered by military
intervention, to the detriment of those in Darfur."
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