And so begins the great battle of
our time.
The military might of the Zionist machine has begun to
pound the near defenceless people of Gaza and tanks roll into the West
Bank. Of the population of Gaza, half
are children, something in excess of 600,000, another 300,000 are women, tens
of thousands more are elderly, survivors of a life of exclusion and oppression.
The controlled Western media has
been bought and sold by the interests whose only concern is to create an
hegemony of fear in the Middle East. The average Israeli citizen is mere cattle and cannon fodder to
the elite. An elite which transcends
the boundaries of the Israeli state, and many of whom are not even Jewish.
It’s not personal against the
Palestinians. They are just in the way,
an inconvenient obstacle in one sense, but also a convenient example to the
rest of the world of what is round the corner, what the elites have planned for
us all. We must all fear, and submit to
the transnational fascist dictatorship which is rapidly spreading its tentacles
around the globe.
This will fail.
In his epic tale, ‘Dune’, the
best selling science fiction book of all time, Frank Herbert gives us the
Fremen, the dispossessed inhabitants of the desert world Arrakis, the Dune of
the title. Driven into the deep desert
for ten thousand years the Fremen have learnt to survive in the most extreme
adversity. In a world where every drop
of water is precious beyond measure they have adapted to reclaim even the moisture
from their breath. ‘Water discipline’
is fundamental to their culture, to their survival. And alongside this, absolute loyalty to their people.
The Palestinian people are the
Fremen of our world today. In the
bombed out ruins of the largest concentration camp in the world, Gaza, social
cohesion remains, is strengthened by absolute loyalty to their own people. I have been moved to tears by the first hand
reports from, amongst others, Max Igan,
www.thecrowhouse.com http://www.youtube.com/user/aodscarecrow
the Australian peace and truth broadcaster who found his way into the Gaza
strip and made rooftop webcasts about the conditions the people of that place
are forced to endure. He described the
fortitude of the people in this place forgotten by the ‘free’ peoples of the
West, and how they live with constant power outages, salt water showers and
closed borders, even to neighbouring Arab Egypt.
In ‘Dune’, the corrupt and
decadent House Harkonnen usurp control of the planet from House Atreides, and
drive its heir, Paul, into the hands of the Fremen. Dune is the only source in the galaxy of spice melange, a
priceless commodity which enables interstellar travel, and without which
galactic trade would cease. For spice,
read oil. Palestine has no oil, but
Palestine is only the tip of the iceberg of the Arab world, rich in oil. Over the last decade we have seen how the
insatiable greed of the West has made war on the Arab world for, amongst other
things, its oil. Iraq, Libya and of
course Iran is in the sights.
Palestine is the continuing
example, in the event that anyone forgets the million dead in Iraq, the mutant
babies born out of depleted uranium pollution in Falluja, the ruins of Tripoli,
the Afghan villagers strafed by drones, the paid mercenaries undermining the
Syrian regime, and the military hegemony of Israel, paid for by America tax
dollars.
But the fascist dictatorship
fails to understand a critical fact of the human spirit.
In the Second World War, both
sides attempted to break the will of the opponents by bombing civilian
populations. It failed.
We here in the West live in a
culture of complacency, lulled into a sleepwalk of tv gameshows and soap
operas, illusions, sugar coated candyfloss which has no substance but which
rots the mind like sugar to the teeth.
The Palestinian people are the
true, forgotten heroes of our world, surviving the tyranny, building their
inner strength like the Fremen. They
are the example the world needs to wake up to what is going on. Even should they be genocidally wiped from
the planet it will only serve to awaken the conscience of humanity, to show us
all the mettle which is required to live in dignity.
Remember this. It is better to die Free, than to live in
chains in a gilded cage of the mind.
The hero need not be undefeated, only undaunted, and his cause will
never be lost.
The dignity of the Palestinian
people puts to shame a world of MTV pop culture and self absorbed
consumerism. They have built a meme
vital to the future of the human race, and one which we must learn if we are to
survive and overcome the tyranny which threatens to destroy not only freedom,
but eventually the whole planetary ecosystem with its deforestation and
poisons.
They are building, have already
built, the meme of courage, of integrity, of social cohesion in the face of
apparently overwhelming oppression.
The diamond is created under the
greatest extremes of temperature and pressure to become the strongest known substance. In Buddhism, the enlightened being is said
to have built the ‘Diamond Body’, resistant to all attack because it has been
built through experience from which comes a sort of psychic immune system.
The Palestinians are the example
of the Diamond Body of the human race.
The morphic field of this is going out and setting a new resonance in
the planet, even to those who are unaware of what is going on in Gaza or the
West Bank. We see it everywhere, even
in the West. Continuing massive
demonstrations against the corrupt Corporatocracy which has stolen our freedoms
and our pensions, rising awareness of the corruption which has been purposely
hidden from us for decades, even centuries.
The Hillsborough cover up, the Savile affair, Libor, the massive law
suit against the greatest financial houses, the largest in history, which when
courageously reported on CNBC led within hours to the brutal murder of the
chief executives children, and the murder of the child’s nanny who was
transparently framed for the act.
And yet the tyrants and
dictators, who hold their positions in fiduciary trust to the people, exercise
more and more surveillance upon us, working to make us mistrust our fellows,
when it is they who are untrustworthy, it is they who have sold us down the
river to bloated banks and the military industrial complex who see war as not
only the most profitable business, but the ideal means of psychological control
of a weakened and submissive population.
In Dune, the Fremen rise under
the leadership of Paul Atreides, Muad’Dib, more ferocious and fearless even
than the Emperor’s Sardaukar, the SS of their time. If the great battle of our time is not to be fought on such terms
of violence and bloodshed we must learn the lessons of the Palestinians, of the
Fremen. We must learn to stand shoulder
to shoulder with our fellows, to stand up and be counted, to call out the
corruption of governments, politicians and bankers who are stealing our world
and our freedoms from under our very noses.
This great battle is one of the mind, the heart, of the human spirit.
They can kill our bodies, but
they cannot kill the human spirit. That
is why the want to drug us to sleep with chemical additives and genetically
modified food, aspartame, fluoride, hypnotic television shows and
consumerism. In a way the global
fascist dictatorship will cause the awakening to its tyranny because of its
insatiable greed and impatience. They
could have kept on slowly bleeding us dry like they have done for so many
generations. But now, for some reason,
they have become impatient, they can wait no longer, it is not enough to
contain the Palestinians, they must be eradicated. This is their fatal mistake.
Like a predator which moves too soon in the long grass they have begun
to show their hand. An illusion once
perceived can never be unseen again.
Dr Martin Luther King Jr. once
said ‘I have a dream, that the people will rise up….’ We have now reached that time, when we must rise up, we
must find that diamond body of absolute determination within ourselves, and say
No More! If we all found
that courage, if the people of Israel who have been so led into this through
the deception of their leaders refused to allow the oppression and genocide of
their neighbours, then the great tyranny would be brought down, for it stands
only on our compliance.
The Palestinians know, as the
Fremen knew, what is important.
Standing in truth and honour with your fellows against the jackboot of
tyranny, against the boot that Orwell described as grinding in the face of
humanity for ever. The alternative is
to give way into compliance with the bombing and murder of innocent civilians,
and to do so is to abandon all humanity.
Work in your sphere of influence, however small, and it will build.
Speak your truth, walk the talk,
stand up in non compliance with the global fascist tyranny which every day
shows its face more clearly. Comply and
say nothing, do nothing and while today it is merely the lost and forgotten
Palestinians, tomorrow it will be the world, it will be you and me, it has
already begun and too many are blind, hypnotised by the glamours of illusion.
We must learn integrity,
compassion, courage. We must reclaim
our humanity and see what we share with the Palestinians, the Fremen. Awake!
