Anti-Semitism without Jews in Malaysia
By Robert Fulford, NATIONAL POST
In Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, politicians and civil servants devote a surprising amount of time to thinking about Israel, 7,612 km away. Sometimes they appear to be obsessed by it. Malaysia has never had a dispute with Israel, but the government encourages the citizens to hate Israel and also to hate Jews whether they are Israelis or not.
Few Malaysians have laid eyes on a Jew; the tiny Jewish community emigrated decades ago. Nevertheless, Malaysia has become an example of a phenomenon called “Anti-Semitism without Jews.” Last March, for instance, the Federal Territory Islamic Affairs Department sent out an official sermon to be read in all mosques, stating that “Muslims must understand Jews are the main enemy to Muslims as proven by their egotistical behaviour and murders performed by them.” About 60% of Malaysians are Muslim.
In Kuala Lumpur, it’s routine to blame the Jews for everything from economic failures to the bad press Malaysia gets in foreign (“Jewish-owned”) newspapers.
The leaders of the country assume that Jews and Israelis deserve to be humiliated as often as possible. In 1984, the New York Philharmonic cancelled a visit because the Malaysian information minister demanded that a composition by Ernest Bloch, an American Jewish composer who died in 1959, be eliminated from their program.
In 1992, an Israeli football player with the Liverpool team was refused permission to play in Malaysia; the team cancelled the visit. The government banned Schindler’s List, calling it anti-German and pro-Jewish propaganda. The same government later decided it could be shown if seven scenes were cut. Steven Spielberg refused, so the government removed all his films from Malaysia’s screens.
In 2003, the prime minister’s political party gave delegates to the United Malays National Organization copies of Henry Ford’s anti-Semitic book from the 1920s, The International Jew, a favourite of Hitler, translated into Bahasa Malay.
For half a century, Israel has tried to establish diplomatic relations, but Kuala Lumpur has always replied that Muslim opinion makes that politically impossible. Instead, Malaysia has joined the Arab campaign to defame Israel. Trade with Israel is officially banned — but goes on nevertheless, through covert arrangements with third countries. (Sales of products from Israel’s Intel computer chip factory to Malaysia amount to many millions of dollars a year. Malaysian policy softens temporarily when confronted with certain products at the right price.)
It’s only when we grasp the unremitting and mindless hostility of countries such as Malaysia that we begin to understand the pain and difficulty of Israel’s place in the world. This is the context in which we should think about the Harper government’s pro-Israel policy. Israel faces automatic enmity from all the Arab nations, most other Muslim-dominated states and the many organizations in democratic countries that dedicate themselves to showering abuse on Israel (and no one else) in the name of human rights.
Except during civil wars, no other state, not even the worst dictatorship, not even Iran or China, is so badly and so often maligned. Now only Canada and the United States (in certain moods) give Israel the benefit of the doubt.
Yet many Canadians apparently believe that there is something unfair in this situation, not in the invective heaped on Israel but in Canada’s habit of friendship with the only democracy in the Middle East. It’s argued that this policy has done harm to Canada. Jeffrey Simpson of The Globe and Mail says that because of our attitude to Israel, “Canada’s reputation in the Arab world is mud.” Tony Burman, of the Toronto Star, former head of Al Jazeera English, and now a journalism teacher at Ryerson University, says that our government’s “passionate pro-Israeli stance” has damaged Canada’s reputation throughout the Middle East “after decades of being one of the world’s respected ‘honest brokers’ on Mideast issues.”
That phrase “honest broker” seems to me one of the most dubious of Canadian clichés. I have not once in several decades seen it applied to us by a citizen of some other country. In my experience, it’s one of those compliments many Canadians, and only Canadians, pay to Canada. Burman expresses nostalgia for an attribute that hasn’t existed, so far as I’m aware, since the 1950s.
Simpson says the Harper government’s policy is based on a simple-minded black-and-white view, on the evangelical Christian streak among Conservatives, on the idea that Israel is a democracy and Arab countries are not and on a hope of prying Canadian Jews away from the Liberals.
Or, just possibly, there might be another reason: Because it’s the right thing to do.
“…the Palis who are the worlds affirmative action pets.”
Good one, Yamit! Well said.
“Other than G_d who else will get the Jews moving on behalf of themselves. Does G_d help those who help themselves?”
I believe HE helps those who help themselves, Bernard. But HE seems to take so long sometimes. As King David wrote, “How long will YOU forget me? Forever?”
yamit82 Said:
It is a red herring that is working to confuse most Jews who appear favor to Pal rights and support giving away the land. Most Jews are not aware that international law is on the side of jews settlement rights and that they are buying false arguments through ignorance. It seems important to convince Jews of their rights in order for them to move their govt forward. I thought that going for it would put a spotlight on it for jews to see and think about in detail and to become aware as to how jews have been swindled even by their own govt. The truth is that every Jew should have been made aware of all this by their own institutions, who obviously have failed them in this effort. Other than G_d who else will get the Jews moving on behalf of themselves. Does G_d help those who help themselves?
How do the Jeffrey’s and Tonie’s of the world justify Malaysia visceral and brainless antisemitism?
Wherever Islam spreads, deserts spread!
Can someone get the names of all these key people in the SD, Foreign office and other Europeans foreign ministries who promote and condone international antisemitism. They most likely must have as their night book bible: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
yamit82 Said:
I agree, and if you notice, I did not involve the Pals in that post. The problem is not capturing the land as it is already captured, theproblem is conviincing the govt to allow jewish srettlement and/or annexation. The GOI appears to want to give away YS and there is no voice loud enough to even pressure to annex area C. The settlers appear to be a minority who has employed direct action with civil disobedience at a low level and failed. I am not saying to have faith in legal rights or the courts. I see only 2 ways right now: one to convince the govt through voting, protest etc. and the other through direct action bypassing the govt. I say to employ the legal and suit approach as one strategy and tactic because it is untried, because it can generate a media spotlight that will enable info to generate to the public who can pressure for change, because it focuses on jews not pals. Primarily to try in Israeli courts like Peace Now does. Can you propose a possible approach? yamit82 Said:
but how to achieve something, or move towards concrete solutions, in the current circumstance?
I have not even got to transfer in this post. How do we get movement beyond giving away all of YS, beyond the current impasse? I can easily say the best is that govt do something like: declare Oslo Null and void, annex YS, transfer the arabs but they do not appear to even think beyond giving up land, especially barak.
@ Bernard Ross:
“They [Children of Israel] provoked Me with a non-god, angered Me with their vanities; so shall I provoke them with a non-people, with a vile nation shall I anger them.” (Deuteronomy 32:21)
I disagree that it is a legal issue. The last time Israel took a legal issue to the International court was Taba and we Lost. I don’t see any court ruling in our favor and even if they did our government would relinquish the territories anyway.
Personally the whole issue of rights is a BS red Herring. We are here and control most of Y&S. Lands given up in the recent and distant past can be retaken. The issue is political,ideological, religious, and a question of Power and national determination.
Israel exists neither due to Balfour, San Remo nor due to the issuance of the meager Palestine Partition Plan, but due only to the fact that the renascent Jewish State militarily defeated the seven Arab states (namely, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan Aka Transjordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Yemen) which, together with the Arab League’s “Arab Liberation Army” and local “Palestinian” militias drawn from Arab population centers throughout the western portion of Mandatory Palestine, had sought to annihilate the Jewish State, thereby igniting Israel’s War of Independence.
Had the Jewish population centers of the western portion of Mandatory Palestine been destroyed by the Arabs, and had Israel thereby lost its War of Independence, then neither, The San Remo agreement or United Nations’ resolutions nor supranational remorse would have sufficed to reverse such a catastrophic denouement.
Our future is in our own hands, and not the Palis who are the worlds affirmative action pets.
“Judea fell in blood and fire, and in blood and fire Judea will rise again.”
WHO BY FIRE (Unetaneh Tokef)
@ Jan steinberg
@ Michael Devolin:
“As far as I’m concerned those gooks in Malaysia can all choke on their spring rolls.”
LOL!
“As far as I’m concerned those gooks in Malaysia can all choke on their spring rolls.”
LOLOLOLOL
So what’s new? The Omnipotent Oranguatang(or whatever them head of Malaysia is called) has been making Anti-Semitic statements for the last few years. Who the hell are they to look down upon us Jews? As a people and as individuals we Jews have given the world all sorts of benefits from the belief in one God to polio vacine. All the Malaysians have contributed to the world were pirates. If Moses had been offered Malaysia instead of the land of Israel, he would have turned it down. I haven’t heard of any Jewish settlement on Malaysian land. However,as this does demonstrate, it’s not a matter of Israeli vs. “Palestinian” or even Arab vs. Jew. It’s Islam vs. Judaism. As far as I’m concerned those gooks in Malaysia can all choke on their spring rolls.
@ yamit82:
YAMIT, I’m a firm believer that everything is subject to change.
Society is always changing. So your leaders’ disgraceful words and acts of surrender can be turned upside down by a massive wave of Jewish patriotism. But it won’t just happen. Individuals with vision need to set things in motion so that it will happen – maybe a year, or five, or ten years down the road.
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I sometimes cite the anti-Zionist villains as an example of intelligent planning. They were few in numbers, but they made sure they got their claws on the children from primary school to university. And even from birth, for those born in kibbutzim, where they were separated from their parents to be raised by their leaders.
Those villains made sure they got key jobs in schools and universities. They also dominated the media. And they slithered their way into government jobs, the courts, etc. That’s how they effected a silent coup d’etat while the majority of the people remained unaware their lives would be controlled by a small minority from then on.
If Good Jews want to regain power, they need to set up a plan to remove the evil anti-Zionists from their places of power as soon as possible. They will also need to DEPROGRAM the entire Jewish population from decades of leftist indoctrination.
@ Canadian Otter: to add: Peace now is doing the same for the pals and shurat har din is doing it along other venues, but no one is pursuing the legally binding right of jews to settle west of the jordan river in any courts. It is a legal issue, in my opinion, of gigantic importance which has been ignored, swept under the rug. As such it is only in courts that justice denied by all others, must be sought, and by those who have the interest. Courts are there to serve the interest of those who believe they have been harmed. If nothing else there is the PR. If no one uses the court because they believe they cannot win then they have learned nothing from the Pals.
Canadian Otter Said:
I wholeheartedly agree with this approach. Together with diaspora jews they can pursue the right to represent world jewry’s interests under the still legally binding palestine mandate(un charter art 80) they can sue to take the agency and to compel the GOI to fulfill its legal obligations under the relevant law. this would create a media focus on jewish rights and interests, rather than pal interests,and would seve to bypass the GOI. It would also cntribute ultimately to pressure on politicians to shift paradigms.
Link to Usenet comment thread is here.
Canadian Otter Said:
I agree 100% but I think we should include BAD jews and that outsmarting killers, and especially their backers, requires ruthlessness to be effective. That one must undertake that which may be illegal and deceptive(at the least)
yamit82 Said:
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yamit82 Said:
yamit82 Said:
Yamit, I agree with you that reversing these travesties is nigh impossible. However, perhaps there is a shred of a seed that can grow. I believe there are legal and moral concepts which can be seized upon to change course and/or reduce the damage. I do not believe that this approach can be initiated at the govt level because they have created the problem and it is too big, in their view, for them to shift paradigms. a radical change of leadership can accomplish the purpose but this is unlikely in the short term without changing Israeli and world Jewry’s public opinion. Here are the legal concepts that, I beleive, first must be internalized by the Jews to change Jewish public opinion
1- That the state of Israel has acted in violation of its legal and moral duties in any and all its possible roles between green line and jordan river:
a)its agency of the Jewish people by not seeking to accomplish the settlement of jews west of the jordan river according to Palestine Mandate Trust,etc.
b) its role as successor to the Mandate trusteeship from UK by not “facilitating and encouraging the said jewish settlement” according to international law
c) its role as the current administrator or occupier of the non sovereign area between the green line and Jordan River, as separate from any trustee role,
That in all these roles the successive GOI individual leaders and administrations have criminally defrauded world Jewry of specific rights and interests in the area between the green line and the jordan river. That the named parties have done so in a conflict of Interests between their perceived interests of the state of Israel and the actual real interests of world jewry. That in principle of law no agreeements are legal which conflict with world jewry’s interests.
2-That justice should be restored to world jewry through the following:
That the state of Israel must be estopped from in its continuing violations of international law as administrator or occupier of the non sovereign territory and cease to obstruct settlement. That under principle of Mandamus it should be compelled to fulfill its mandate obligation to encourage settlement as administrator/occupier and/or as mandate trustee. That it acknowledge that it is only agent of the jewish people in the area over whichit has sovereignty and that it must either declare sovereignty over the said area or cede its agency of the Jewish people in the area between the green line and Jordan river. That as administrator/occupier or successor mandate trustee it should implement an affirmative action program to restore justice and interests to world jewry and to mitigate the damage to those interests resulting from GOI, Jordanian, and UK administrations. The affirmative action program suggested is that non private state lands of the area are given as land grants to world jewry in an accelerated land distribution program similar to the US homestead act in the 1800’s(land rush)
3-That Israel and world Jewry have acted under duress in ceding the legal rights and interests of world jewry and that it is a principle of basic law that agreements and statements made under duress are not binding and have no legal effect. The duress of 2000 years of slaughter and swindling, followed by the same,created a cultural habit of fear which resulted in acquiescing to pressure from the same parties.
My thought is that this be pursued in Israeli courts as it is the only way around the GOI. If coupled with educating jews through media and through an orchestrated media campaign to focus on the suits and their resulting dissemination of information. This can also be pursued in the international courts if the GOI creates obstruction in its own courts. I believe that in international courts this would draw media attention. If GOI is smart it will seize the opportunity to use the suits as opening a basis for publicly rethinking a paradigm shift. Settlers and organizations of diaspora jews, including individual jews, can sue in the various forums to seek agency of world jewry and compelling GOI compliance with mandate law. A long shot but what else is there? It would serve the purpose on creating a focus toward jewish rights and away from palestinians rights. I have not even got into transfer, jewish ethnic cleansing etc here. I think that tactics and strategies should be identified and pursued rather than nothing.
@ yamit82:
The expectation that “human rights” organizations should side with such a clear demand for the right of Jews to worship is to elevate those organizations to a level they can’t ever reach. They are like the UN. Rotten to the core. They only deserve our contempt.
I really like the idea of setting up parallel advocacy organizations to those too corrupt or too weak to do any good. In the case of Israel I keep suggesting the idea of a non-political Yesha organization to displace the Civil Administration in clout and respectability.
The Uited Nations needs to be ridiculed out of existence, or be allowed to continue but with a severely reduced budget, as a quaint cultural club for countries to perform dances, watch international representatives do a bit of stand-up comedy, and to exchange cooking recipes. 🙂
I already posted this link today, but if anyone missed it, here it is, for fellow readers’ amusement:
UN AUTHORITY FIGURES – http://www.eyeontheun.org/un-authority-figures.asp
@ Bernard Ross:
BERNARD, humanity is crazy. Good Jews need to outsmart everyone, the killers and the self-deluded. That’s the only way to survive in a world gone absolutely bonkers. Let’s stop being so deferential to foreign representatives with important titles, and let’s keep in mind their personal and national history. Invariably those dignitaries have too much to answer for, particularly to the Jews, and they don’t deserve our respect.
It’s good to proceed with courtesy, but not deference. And it’s important never to waver from what Israel needs to do to thrive. There is NOT ONE single country in the world Israelis need to look up to. It’s the other way around. It’s the Jews who set up the basis for what Western barbarians in suits claim as civilization.
“The Nazis left an ideological progeny within a pool of 2 billion or so Muslims, who carry on with the task of killing Jews, attacking Israel, and setting up the conditions for another Holocaust. All this with the tacit or explicit approval of Western governments.”
Exactly. And the Jews are pressed from all sides, in spite of this fact, to make nice with the Palestinians, to accept them (and their hatred of everything Jewish) as equal bargaining partners, even though the “persecuted” Palestinians want nothing less than to liquidate the Middel East of Jews and their Judaism (which would necessarily include the State of Israel).
The “tacid or explicit approval of Western governments” is the green light for attacking Zionism, equating it as racism and also of portraying as unjust every step the Israeli government takes to defend its Jewish citizens from such hatred. Why should I care if Palestinians starve? they wish much worse for the Jews of Israel. “I hate them with the utmost hatred; they have become as enemies unto me.” Why should Jews feel guilty about hating their enemies and wishing them dead?
JOHN LOFTUS VIDEO INTERVIEW – I just found this recent interview with author John Loftus. He talks about US government agencies hiring top Nazis during the post-war years, about Americans who financed Hitler and profited from trade with Nazi Germany (some prominent and well-respected families were involved), and much more.
I haven’t watched it yet, but this author has done excellent research on the subject and published several books.
America’s Nazi Secret – with John Loftus – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-fM7i2GW0k
@ yamit82:
The State Department selection of an anti-Semite Muslim to represent the United States at the Warsaw human rights conference is consistent with the US State Department’s fine tradition of hiring German Nazis and Nazi sympathizers.
The German Nazis recruited by the US government after WWII grew old, but the US government did not have to worry. The Nazis left an ideological progeny within a pool of 2 billion or so Muslims, who carry on with the task of killing Jews, attacking Israel, and setting up the conditions for another Holocaust. All this with the tacit or explicit approval of Western governments.
Canadian Otter Said:
Jews have been there done that.
Canadian Otter Said:
If you reread my statement regarding ruthlessness it is specifically referring to a POV, or perspective, and in reply to your own staement about an insane world. It doesn’t make sense to postulate an insane world and then respnd as if it is not insane. This is not about submission or brute force but about focus and acceptance of reality in the achievement of goals. I accept your statement of the fact of an insane world where dealing with jew hatred with optimism and faith in reasonable results seem futile.
Canadian Otter Said:
I would substitute the word ruthlessness for optimism if I accept your statement about an insane world. The optimism seems to imply faith in convincing the corrupt(those to whom who you referred in your original statement to which I replied) All of your suggestions are fine if you can convince the corrupt.
@ Canadian Otter:
Rabbi Cherlow: Why Aren’t Human Rights Advocates Protesting Outlawing Jewish Prayers on Temple Mount?
@ Canadian Otter:
http://freebeacon.com/state-stands-by-its-man/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
State Stands by its Man
Update: Israel critic and terrorist sympathizer ‘valued and highly credible,’ official says
The State Department defended its selection of a controversial anti-Israel activist to participate in a human rights forum in Poland, praising the longtime Israel critic as “valued and highly credible.”
Salam al-Marayati, founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), was selected by the Obama administration to participate in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s (OSCE) annual 10-day human rights conference, the Human Dimension Implementation Meetings (HDIM).
@ Canadian Otter:
My comment to you is also in moderation.
I would add to it by this;
Israels position has been likened to a prostitute and her John quibbling over the price.
@ Canadian Otter:
Rights not asserted are not rights in fact. Israel long ago relinquished her legal rights by first not asserting them and secondly by entering into agreements that essentially forfeited any legal claims.
Our leaders have even stated publicly that we are not the legal owners of what was once termed disputed territories. Israel has adopted positions stating substantively that virtually the whole of Y&S is exchangeable for an agreement providing security to Israel and the Israeli people. It does not matter that the concept is ill conceived and can’t become a reality in fact. The very fact that Israel is willing to trade these territories for agreements negates any legal claim today.
Netanyahu Bar Ilan speech
BB like his predecessors demanded only peace with security not territory. At no time did he or any other Israeli leader state that Y&S Gaza and the Golan were Israels lands by legal or any other form of rights, except by unintended consequence of conquest during wars.
The world accepts the fact we are not the legal owners, try to reverse the last 64 years of disclaimers and agreements?
@ Yidvocate:
Agree! But there is a time and place for ruthlessness. Times have changed. Look at what happened to ruthless Mubarak and Gaddafi.
My previous reply to Bernard was held by the ever vigilant Spam Filter, so I’ll be brief. Israel is failing to use assets already in place, such as those backing its legal ownership of J/S. Also government PR strategies are either non-existent or self-defeating. There is much in between the two speeds of either submission and ruthlessness. Israel needs to use its smarts.
@ Bernard Ross:
Bernard Ross is right. Had the Jews been as “ruthless” as the Arabs in 1948 and years following no one would have heard of a “Palestinian”. If in the wars of annihilation that Arabs waged against Israel and lost, the Jews would have sent the Arabs packing like the Arabs did to the Jews who for centuries lived in Arab lands, the Middle East would have been a more peaceful place and the world would have had less reason to despise Jews.
@ Bernard Ross:
Ruthlessness? What’s wrong with SMARTS?
Ruthlessness has its place. No argument about it. But Israel should have more than two speeds: submission and war. Israel should also have strategies to use its assets to elegantly and intelligently achieve its goals. As it does sometimes.
One example: The legal and PR frameworks are all there to declare sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. a) Legal ammunition in the League of Nations Mandate Agreement, etc. b) PA million violations of the Oslo Agreement making it invalid. c) Tons of evidence pointing to an Apartheid Nazi Palestine. d) Israel’s own record of tolerance for Arabs. e) Evidence of Islam’s inability to function under democratic, humane principles. f) Evidence of PA Arabs inability to function at even the most basic political and economic levels. g) ME turmoil, with Israel the only island of stability. h) Issue of resources (water, etc.) And I could go on…
My point is that there is not always need to choose between submission and brute force. There’s so much that could be accomplished with only the right amount of creativity, insight, optimism, and a set of good legal teams.
Oh, and I almost forgot to add two more items Israel would need to implement sovereignty on J/S: an effective and intelligent PR campaign, and the right amount of ‘persuasion’ applied on Israeli politicians by the people.
Canadian Otter Said:
Agreed, its time to move beyond establishing the fact of Jew hatred to evolving strategies to deal with it. My view is that the perspective towards evolving strategy is to proceed with a perspective of pure ruthlessness, a difficult spirit to conjure up in the Jewish psyche. The enemies are ruthless, merciless,utilize every avenue of legal,public, moral opinion to eradicate jews from Israel and the world. They are aided and abetted disingenuously, clandestinely, covertly and overtly by the usual suspects the 2000 year chronic,culturally congenital, serial Jew killers and swindlers of Europe. Until the Jews recognize the danger of this stronger enemy in the background they will chase their tail. Europe is adept at the art of “diplomacy” as an extension of the war against the Jews. They continue to be inleague with their arab/muslim allies to eradicate Jews.
That Israel has the moral high ground over her enemies should be self-evident. Yet PM Harper is maligned by a morally confused, morally ambiguous, depraved enemedia. But then again, they don’t care what the morally right thing is, they care about currying favor with the oil-rich, vastly more numerical Arab-muslim population.
Jew-hatred is intrinsic to islam, rooted in islamic texts. Western liberals do not grasp this fact and believe the islamic world’s rabid hatred for Israel stems from things Israel has done rather than the muslim world’s own ideology.
TO ALL OF YOU LOGICAL THINKERS:
You’re wasting your time trying to reason with an insane world. A world in which the most racist individuals and the most oppressive countries hold top positions in international bodies created to uphold human rights. Read here and weep: http://www.eyeontheun.org/un-authority-figures.asp –
But that’s not all. Here’s a newsflash:
A representative of the Greek neo-Nazi party has been accepted as a member of a leading European body aimed at combating discrimination. Golden Dawn party member joined the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on October 1 – http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/160610
Nothing makes sense. The inmates are running the asylum. Would you waste your time arguing with the fellow wearing a paper hat who swears he is Napoleon? George Orwell lacked imagination and fell way – way – short of envisioning how deranged and frightening the world would be only a few decades after he published his book “1984”.
there appears to be 2 themes in this article: Malsysia rabid jew hatred and canadian support of Israel in media and govt.
This is the simplest and vilest form of state sponsored anti semitsm: where is the ICC on this crime of incitement to genocide?
DUH??? Spot the connection.
It is important for jews to see global double standards, It is not only about Malaysia’s jew hatred but also about global reaction. The world stands accused and condemned and genuine adherence to so called international law is absurd. International law must be used and violated at will as a strategic tool and tactic. What is all this recent hubbub about the “rule of law” at the UN?
It is difficult to reverse the trend in intelligentsia, universities and media. This is an orchestrated planned campaign to purchase, directly and indirectly, the minds and mouths of public opinion. Saudi money to unversity grants, ngo’s, media stock purchases, etc is a very successful example of this process. This Saudi money is derived from oil purchased by western taxpayers and citizens. If the link between the saud’s and oil money can be broken things can change. Seizing the oil fields is the best solution, forcing them to spend their oil money on self survival is another possibility.