Those Indefatigable Westerners

7 Sivan 5784 

Carroll Quigley (November 9, 1910 – January 3, 1977) was an American historian and theorist of the evolution of civilizations. He is remembered for his teaching work as a professor at Georgetown University, and his seminal works, The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis, and Tragedy And Hope; A History Of The World In Our Time, in which he states that an Anglo-American banking elite have worked together for centuries to spread certain values globally.  (Source)

Carroll Quigley was no conspiracy theorist.  He was a master documenter of conspiracy fact which is recorded in his books.  He was a great admirer of the early globalists (i.e. the Milner Group).  

He wrote another book in 1966 called The Anglo-American Establishment.  I bought it a couple of years ago (still wading off and on through Tragedy and Hope), but only just now getting into it.  I found some things I thought might also interest my readers.  

The time period discussed is shortly after World War I - the beginning of the Mandate Period -late 'teens to early twenties.  Quotes below, my comments follow.  

...The reluctance of the Milner Group to push the Zionist cause in Palestine was based on more academic considerations, chiefly two in number:  (1) the feeling that it would not be fair to allow the bustling minority of Zionists to come into Palestine and drive the Arabs either out or into an inferior economic and social position; and (2) the feeling that to do this would have the effect of alienating the Arabs from Western, and especially British, culture, and that this would be especially likely to occur if the Jews obtained control of the Mediterranean coast from Egypt to Syria. (p. 170)

...The attitude of the Milner Group toward the Arabs and Jews can be seen from many quotations from members of the Group.  At the Peace Conference of 1919, discussing the relative merits of the Jews and Arabs, [Jan] Smuts said:  "They haven't the Arabs attractive manners.  They do not warm the heart by graceful subjection.  They make demands.*  They are a bitter, recalcitrant little people, and like the Boers, impatient of leadership and ruinously quarrelsome among themselves...."  [John] Dove declared that the whole Arab world should be in one state and it must have Syria and Palestine for its front door....  The Arab world, he explained, needs this western door because we are trying to westernize the Arabs*, and without it they would be driven to the east and to India....  He concluded:

I suggest that partition should not be permanent, but this does not mean that a stage of friendly tutelage is necessarily a bad thing for the Arabs.  On the contrary, advanced peoples can give so much to stimulate backwards ones if they do it with judgment and sympathy. ...Personally, I don't see the slightest harm in Jews coming to Palestine under reasonable conditions.  They are the Arabs' cousins as much as the Phoenicians, and if Zionism brings capital and labour which will enable industries to start, it will add to the strength of the larger unit which some day is going to include Palestine*.  But they must be content to be part of such a potential unit.  They need have no fear of absorption*, for they have everything to gain from an Arab Federation. (p. 171)

...The attitude of the Milner Group toward the specific problem of Zionism was expressed in explicit terms by Lord Milner himself in a speech to the House of Lords on 27 June 1923:

I am not speaking of the policy which is advocated by the extreme Zionists, which is a totally different thing...I believe that we have only to go steadily with the policy of the Balfour Declaration as we have ourselves interpreted it in order to see great material progress in Palestine and a gradual subsistence of the present [Arab] agitation....

...I am and always have been a strong supporter of pro-Arab policy which was first advocated in this country in the course of the war.  I believe in the independence of the Arab countries, which they owe to us and which they can only maintain with our help.  I look forward to an Arab Federation...I am convinced that the Arab will make a great mistake...in claiming Palestine as a part of the Arab Federation in the same sense as are the other countries of the near East which are mainly inhabited by Arabs.  (p. 172)

He then went on to say that he felt that Palestine would require a permanent mandate and under that condition could become a National Home for the Jews,...but "must never become a Jewish state."*

Commenting on the bolded items...

"They do not warm the heart by graceful subjection.  They make demands."

In other words, Jews do not know their place and fail to acknowledge in an acceptable way the superiority of their Anglo overlords.

"...we are trying to westernize the Arabs."

No surprise here.  One hundred years later and while they appear to have succeeded in many respects, there were unforeseen consequences.  When you build a bridge, traffic goes both ways.  Witness London today.

"...if Zionism brings capital and labour which will enable industries to start, it will add to the strength of the larger unit which some day is going to include Palestine."

The Jewish presence in Palestine was only viewed in a positive light by what they had to bring to the table with regards to improving the Arab world - money, progress, good influence.  Do we not see this exact same thinking with regard to Gaza today?!  Nothing has changed in a hundred years.  The only difference is that today it's the United States doing the talking in place of Great Britain.

The "larger unit" mentioned here is a reference to their plan to create one great Arab State, an idea called Pan-Arabism, which supposedly died a natural death in the 1960s.  But is now reportedly enjoying a rebirth of sorts: Neo Pan-Arabism.

...The Arab uprisings of 2011 looked like the final nail in the coffin of pan-Arabism. Syria was the prime example. The last bastion of pan-Arabism, still clutching the slogans of the 1960s and claiming to host regional organizations that would take over the mantle of Arab politics in the future, faced imminent collapse. But unlike in previous decades, when threatened Arab regimes sparked mass protests across the Arab world, few Arab citizens seemed to care about Assad's fate or to be willing to die for him.

... A similar fate befell the Palestinian question. Its staid leadership did not appeal to the younger generation of Arabs; it was older bureaucrats who replaced the handsome revolutionary figures of the past century, using outdated slogans and methods. Moreover, in the midst of the turmoil in the region, the plague of the Palestinians seemed less unique. Blood was everywhere, war was everywhere. Advocates of normalization thought the decade of the 2010s was theirs. Israeli leaders felt the moment was ripe for further advances, not only against the Palestinian Authority, but also against Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran.

And the lethargy was not confined to the state level. There are several pan-Arab institutions and organizations working in the Arab world to promote Arab unity. ...The Arab masses revolted, and no pan-Arab structure could provide a framework for their movement.

Meanwhile, American and European organizations stepped in to provide an alternative. The Open Society Institute/Foundations, the National Democratic Institute, the International Republican Institute, various EU initiatives, to name a few, established branches and sent countless delegations to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries to train local NGOs, empower youth, observe elections, advise the emerging political class, etc.

The objective of Western countries and organizations was subtle. Unlike the USSR during the Cold War, for example, which advocated the establishment of communist regimes and societies; unlike pan-Arabism, with its stated goal of establishing a unified Arab supra-state, these organizations advocated the creation of an open society, a liberal democracy, or, in other words, an Arab world in the image of the neoliberal West, detached from pan-Arab ideology, economically open, and friendly to Europe and the United States. The type of regimes that have been established or are in the process of being established in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria, and Yemen have taken European liberal democracy as a model; they have not adopted any pan-Arab structure.

...Pan-Arabism has indeed had many deaths, but it has also had many rebirths, and theories about the end of pan-Arabism have often been disproved or proven wrong. Already in the period between 2010 and 2012, a series of opinion polls in several Arab countries concluded that "82% of the respondents confirmed that they consider the Arab peoples closer to them than any other group. Europe, for example, was seen as having ties with Arabs by only 7% of respondents, and non-Arab Muslim nations by only 4%" (Sawani, 2012).

It is true that many young Arab activists are Westernized individuals who dress, tweet, write, and even speak like Europeans (Tufekci, 2017). But contrary to the assumptions of many Western diplomats and observers, deep within society, Arabs feel more Arab than democratic or global citizens. They knew they were neither European nor American, but they considered themselves Arab. And just as many Russians resented European and American interference in their internal affairs after 1991, which they saw as a humiliation, so too did many Arabs. The building of neoliberal Arab states was happening on the surface, but behind the thin line, anger was growing. Consequently, the MENA regimes that emerged from the turmoil of the Arab uprisings understood that their legitimacy rested on a rehabilitated pan-Arab narrative.

Pan-Arabism therefore lives on, but in a renewed form; it is neo-pan-Arabism. This new thinking has much in common with its earlier version. It comes with claims about the unity of the Arab world, and it still uses the same institutional mechanisms,.... Palestine is central to its message, and Zionism and imperialism are its declared enemies. It is also a populist way of doing politics and a tool to legitimize existing regimes - or to consolidate their legitimacy.

One of the main characteristics of neo-pan-Arabism is that it is not an ideology. ...It is more about how they present themselves, not what they do. ...these regimes have adopted the trappings of pan-Arabism, but have retained the neoliberal economic model of their immediate predecessors.

Among the peculiarities of neo-pan-Arabism on the international stage is the renunciation of arming anti-Western militant groups. ...Thus, the most threatening statement against Israel made by Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboune during the Arab League summit in Algiers in 2022 was about supporting the Palestinian issue in the United Nations not, say, sending weapons or striking Israel. And unlike classical pan-Arabism, which allied itself with leftist groups around the world, neo-pan-Arabism is not part of the global leftist movement. Its practitioners have ties to the European far right, and many of them prefer Donald Trump to Joe Biden (The Associated Press, 2017).

This left/right paradigm is a subterfuge.  Globalism transcends left and right.  I submit that this is the basis for the Abraham Accords - a joint effort of the US (left and right) and Saudi Arabia to realize this hundred-year-old dream of a Western-oriented Arab Nation 'State' that includes Palestine (from the river to the sea) where moderate Jews who understand their role may participate and prosper, but those pesky "extremists" who continue to insist on having their own Jewish state must go.

"They need have no fear of absorption*, for they have everything to gain from an Arab Federation."  ...but [they] "must never become a Jewish state."

US Secretary of State Blinken prefers the word "integrated" to "absorption", but it's the same thing.

February 17, 2024

MUNICH, Feb 17 (Reuters) - There is "an extraordinary opportunity" in the coming months for Israel to normalise ties with its Arab neighbors, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Saturday, while also emphasizing the need for the creation of a Palestinian state.

The top U.S. diplomat said there were genuine efforts led by Arab countries to revitalize the Palestinian Authority so it can be more effective in representing the Palestinians.

"Virtually every Arab country now genuinely wants to integrate Israel into the region to normalize relations...to provide security commitments and assurances so that Israel can feel more safe," Blinken said during a panel discussion at the annual Munich Security Conference.

"And there's also, I think the imperative, that's more urgent than ever, to proceed to a Palestinian state that also ensures the security of Israel," he added.

The Biden administration has been working to secure a mega-deal that will see ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel normalize. The Kingdom and other Arab countries are seeking the creation of a Palestinian state as part of the deal.

I think this goes a long way to explaining the pushback, as well as the demands, we have been receiving from the US, EU, UN since this war began.  The tactics may change but the goal remains the same, whether it is for a hundred years or two thousand.   

But only the will of the Creator will hold sway.  Baruch Hashem Yitbarach!!!