The Jackals Wedding¶
Metadata¶
- Author: [[John Helmer and Claudia Wright]]
- ASIN: B09T2FBFDM
- Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09T2FBFDM
- Kindle link
Highlights¶
strike short and sharp, strike swiftly, strike back. — location: 62 ^ref-44627
The race hatred which Americans have shown, and continue to show towards the Arabs, and also towards the Russians, isn’t dead and buried like Angleton and Mayhew. This is the reason for publishing the book now. — location: 110 ^ref-32365
how closely the officials who have directed US policy towards the Arabs have been following the geopolitical calculations, military maps, oilfield blueprints, and political operations of the German general staff, the OKW of the 1940s. — location: 235 ^ref-57671
the rassenkampf which successive US administrations have waged in Moscow and against Russians since 1991. That’s another generation of experience to inform this 33-year old story. — location: 243 ^ref-42466
for Israel to survive, and for its forces to prevail, it must constantly take the war to the Arabs and destroy them pre-emptively before they grow strong enough, individually and together, to change the balance of forces. — location: 252 ^ref-39288
The count of US liquidation targets includes all leaders, military forces, indeed any organized force of Arab nationalism, support, assembly, even thought, together with the Arab resources to finance them. — location: 265 ^ref-48947
US Congress added two qualifiers to the provision in the US code which defines genocide as a crime to be prosecuted if Americans commit it. This new US law declared genocide is “the specific intent to destroy, in whole or in substantial part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group”[10]. “Substantial part,” the statute now counted, meant “a part of a group of such numerical significance that the destruction or loss of that part would cause the destruction of the group as a viable entity within the nation of which such group is a part.”[11] — location: 270 ^ref-3400
The US senator who drafted it and sponsored it into law was Joseph Biden.[12] — location: 277 ^ref-29167
“nothing succeeds like failure”. — location: 300 ^ref-51053
hamiya harima, “beware the protector who will betray you”.[17] — location: 320 ^ref-46846
trust is mistaken; truth is exceptional; honour is posthumous. — location: 327 ^ref-5058
Kalila and Dimna, — location: 341 ^ref-54812
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s US domestic production dwarfed all other sources of world oil, averaging about two-thirds of the total. — location: 478 ^ref-29560
the economic and political links that were soon to sway US policy in the Middle East were from the very beginning much stronger with the Zionists than with the Arabs. — location: 490 ^ref-56213
it, was a portentous mistake on the Arabs’ part. It left them naive, ignorant, and unprepared to deal effectively in their own interest when the US government decided to intervene politically and militarily in the region in 1942. — location: 492 ^ref-12369
Before Abdulaziz met Roosevelt, the king had told US officials he was unhappy with the swift reestablishment of British control in Iraq and Jordan and of French power in North Africa; he had been expecting the US to support the independence of the Arab states once the war was over. — location: 642 ^ref-32930
No one can say that US protection has improved the life expectancy of the Arabs who have depended on it. — location: 725 ^ref-32236
When they opened fire with their sub-machineguns to kill the president on a military review stand in Cairo in October 1981, one of them had shouted at Mubarak: “Get out of my way ! I only want this son of a dog!” — location: 777 ^ref-45208
US policy towards the Arab and Iranian oilfields was to destroy them at the beginning of world war, and prevent their being taken over by the Soviets or offered to them by the Arabs. This was a highly classified secret, and it is likely that Arab leaders never knew it. — location: 914 ^ref-36323
withdrawal from the Arab bases might signify American weakness elsewhere in the world. That, they were afraid, would stimulate militant demands for the removal of other US bases — location: 939 ^ref-64223
If the protection of western interests in the Arab world could not be shared effectively between the three Great Powers, then the US would have to undertake the task itself. — location: 967 ^ref-60959
Israel had been selected to play the thousand-year old role of the Crusader state, — location: 979 ^ref-11801
Direct US military intervention or US-sponsored Israeli intervention was no longer limited to the protection of US bases or Israel’s borders; — location: 991 ^ref-59987
the Libyan leader, Muammar al-Qaddafi, still a target today after frequent assassination attempts. — location: 1004 ^ref-61098
And so the Arab regimes and Israel have sought US protection in conditions of tension and threat they themselves have fostered, in order to strengthen their appeals to Washington. A succession of US Administrations has responded by licensing an ArabIsraeli arms race, a Persian Gulf arms race, and to a lesser degree, a North African arms race. The economic reward for US arms manufacturers and defence contractors in these regional arms races has been so great that this too has become an end in itself. — location: 1027 ^ref-51795