A Modest Proposal for the Middle East

[ThorsteinVeblen]

We advocate the invasion of Saudi Arabia and the arrest, trial and execution of the elites who underwrote terrorist acts in Israel and the terrorist attacks in the United States on 9/11. Wahhibism shall be removed as the offical, state-sanctioned religion and its practitioners shall be forbidden to enforce its "moral" precepts on those who do not adhere to them. The Saudi Arabian ban on the travel and residency of people of Jewish heritage shall be eliminated and state-sponsored anti-semitic propaganda shall cease.

Egypt shall be punished for its state-sponsored anti-semitic propaganda by witholding the 3 billion dollars of annual aid given by the United States.

Syria shall stop all funding of militant Islamic groups within Israel and the occupied territories. Any violation sponsored by or tacitly approved by the Syrian government shall be grounds for immediate military action and possible occuption.

Iran shall stop all funding of militant Islamic groups within Israel and the occupied terrirtories. Any violation sponsored by or tacitly apporved by the Iranian government shall be grounds for immediate military action and possible occupation.

We advocate the removal of the Sharon Government as well as the Palestinian Authority and the liberation of the Israeli and Palestinian people from their corrupt, evil leaders.

The experiment of a homeland for the Jewish people based on religious and ethnic identity has failed and is no more defensible or morally right than an Aryan homeland. At its root it is fundamentally racist and there is no moral argument for its existence.

Israel has weapons of mass destruction including nuclear weapons and has violated many more U.N. resolutions than Iraq. These facts coupled with Israel's constant human rights violations of the indigenous Arab population of the land occupied during the 1967 war and Israel's refusal to cease settlements illegal under international law demand swift action.

The security wall currently under construction shall be blown up and all Israeli settlements illegal under international law shall be destroyed. Anyone who resists shall be subject to military tribunals and execution as an enemy combatant.

Arafat shall be imprisoned, the Palestinian Authority disbanded and Hamas and Islamic Jihad crushed through the use of military force. Anyone who resists shall be subject to military tribunals and execution as an enemy combatant.

Occupational rule shall be established over Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and a single, unified democratic government established. New leaders representative of both the Jewish and Arab populations of the American occupied territory shall be chosen by representatives of the United States government and shall be consulted during the creation of the new government. The Constitution shall include democratic provisions and guarantee the right of every citizen, regardless of ethnic or religious identity, to equal treatment under the law and municipal codes. Religious monuments shall remain as they currently are - any decimation or destruction of religous monuments shall be swiftly and severly punished. As most religious monuments are of a shared heritage, they shall be open to all people regardless of ethnic or religous identity. Power shall be handed over to a local provisional government once stability is established and elections replacing the provisional leaders shall be phased in one a year, every year over 6 years. Only, at the end of 6 years, after a fully constitutional and democratic government is established shall the United States cease to occupy the territory.