If we do not have correct understanding of Zionism/Israel, it is impossible to do right politics in Pakistan. Therefore before writing this manifesto, I took up the issue of Zionism/Israel in my work “Why Israel will not get Recognition?: A study which finds the inevitability of the death of Israel and the end of Zionist ideology somewhere during the decline of American imperialism which is already underway”. This will now become a part of Al-Manshoor. You can read this book of about 200 pages on the website, but here I will insert some selected and very brief excerpts from its ‘Foreword’ which is dated December 31, 2007 to give you some idea of this part of Al-Manshoor. The excerpts follow:
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The fact of Musharraf’s open contacts with the Zionists was already with us when Benazir did the same. It is perfectly logical; she did what she should have done. … But then, it clearly shows that our rulers, whether civil or military are American appointees. … Therefore, whatever they tell to the peoples of Pakistan, in fact, means nothing and is meant only to deceive and keep them hopeful.
I believe Zionism is now actively involved in Pakistan’s internal affairs like never before. This underlines the fact that if you shut your eyes on the external front, there is hardly anything substantial and lasting you can accomplish internally in Pakistan. …
When Musharraf established these contacts with the Zionists on September 18, 2005, there was a history of about three years of covert contacts as confessed by the Zionists who were involved in the negotiations with Pakistani officials. …
Although American attack on Afghanistan was a part of the same larger design, which is well known today, in fact its attack on Iraq on March 20, 2003 changed everything and that too irreversibly. And consequently Zionism, which used to be a far away problem for us all of a sudden barged into Pakistan. …
And now … Benazir met Zionists. Dawn reported from New York on Aug 23, 2007 that “former prime minister Benazir Bhutto had an ‘unscheduled meeting’ with the Ambassador of Israel to the United Nations, Dan Gillerman, at a dinner hosted by a common friend in New York the other day.” When asked about the meeting by Dawn, she responded: “We met at a dinner briefly”. “However”, Dawn further reported, “Israeli sources at the United Nations told Dawn that the meeting between Ms Bhutto and the Israeli envoy was pre-arranged and it went on for over three hours. …”
Leaving aside the wishes of the ruling classes of some more involved Christian countries – America and Britain, for example – and Jewish/Christian ideologues and religious extremists, there is hardly any responsible and informed person anywhere in the whole world who can say with certainty that eventually Zionism will be victorious against its opponents – the Palestinians, the Arabs, the Muslims and the enlightened sections of the world. But this fact and that Israel is really a criminal and hence temporary project has not been really told to the masses of the Muslim world so far. Just consider who could have done that? How was it possible that Palestinians alone could have done everything when the problem was of world proportions? So in this environment of a huge gap between reality and perception which is confused about the future of Israel, Musharraf’s and then Benazir’s open contacts with the Zionists naturally can have adverse effects on some people in Pakistan, in particular, and all over the Muslim world generally which can give advantage, although temporarily, to the Jewish entity – the state of Israel — and its supporters in the West.
We have to fight it back. We have to turn the tide. And we will turn the tide because the American-led West, which includes Israelis/Zionists, is on the wrong side of history. And in the foreseeable future there is no likelihood that they can cross over to the right side, which means aggression in one form or another against us will continue. … When a particular stage in history is set, in fact, no one can escape his, her or their destined role in what has to follow inevitably. …
Dawn reported from New York on Sept. 18, 2005: In the first ever address to a Jewish congregation by a Pakistani head of state, President Pervez Musharraf assured America’s powerful Jewish community that he would take steps towards normalization of ties with Israel if the Middle East peace process moved forward. … Explaining how and why Pakistan decided to have direct talks with the Jewish state, the president said it was Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s “bold step” of withdrawing troops from the Gaza Strip that encouraged him to take that decision. … Addressing Pakistan media on Sunday morning, Gen Musharraf said he could not say at what stage of the “roadmap” he would recognize Israel and advised the media to begin a debate on this subject. …
Look what reason he gave to justify his initiating open contacts with the Zionist? He did it for Palestinians! But then why will he stay neutral when Americans/Zionists bomb Iran? …
If it was in the interest of Palestinians, did he consult anyone of them? And, by the way, with whom could he have consultations in the present circumstances? But there were other hundred and one things one could do for the Palestinians in their unending hour of trial. So a straight question to Musharraf is: what did he do for Palestinians since he became all-powerful ruler of Pakistan? …
Pakistan is a nuclear power. … If they can be so much apprehensive about Iran, which has no nuclear weapon, it is unbelievable that they are sitting idle about Pakistan which they know is an unstable country and whose population is bitterly anti-American. Therefore Musharraf must have agreed with the Western-Israeli line that in such a situation Pakistan did not need atom bomb and when it was finally on track for peace with India. Logically Benazir too must have been asked to follow this line. …
The observation that Gaza pullout paves way for further West Bank land grab fits into the overall scenario. This observation had been made about the same time when Musharraf met the Zionists. … Was not it his duty to know such observations and act on his own in favour of the Palestinians?
Hardly had the last of the 8,000 or so Israeli settlers left Gaza than Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced that Israel would expand the settlements on the West Bank. Israel’s “unilateral disengagement” from Gaza—the closure and demolition of the 14 settlements and the dismantling of military installations securing them—together with the removal of four small settlements in the West Bank were hailed as an act of courage on Sharon’s part by the imperialist powers. The international press has re-branded a proven war criminal as a “peacemaker” … But the withdrawal from Gaza is nothing more than a smokescreen to mask Israel’s consolidation of a far more significant land grab of the West Bank …
And when a UN envoy cries and says Israel has turned Gaza into a prison, was not Musharraf’s duty to ask Israelis – his new friends – and the West and act appropriately in favour of the Palestinians? Did he do anything? It was reported [09.26.06] that … “Israel has turned the Gaza Strip into a prison for Palestinians and have thrown away the key,” … “in other countries this process might be described as ethnic cleansing.” …
An Israeli peace activist … on … 27-9-2007 … wrote: “Everything significant that is happening nowadays is a part of the Israeli effort to take over the West Bank and to turn it into a part of the State of Israel. All else is but foam on the water. …”
These and other facts and the history behind them, therefore, make it very clear to the concerned and thinking people all over the world that whatever be the language of any American and Israeli agenda for Palestinians, it cannot be anything but a demand on them for total surrender. Everything else is and will be cosmetics.
But on the other side, the state of affairs of the world today is such, as you will read in the following pages, that American and Israeli wishes will remain wishes. … There is logic in the process. Therefore the direction of this state of affairs of the world points toward ever increasing American and Israeli impotence in the future. So where fits ‘recognition’ of Israel by Pakistan?
And again, the fact is that even if Musharraf opens Pakistan’s embassy in Israel tomorrow and Israel does the same in Pakistan the day after, the direction of the historical process cannot change. These will be too small events to affect any change in the dynamics of that process which is very big encompassing at least the Christian and Muslim worlds if not the whole of humanity. History is preparing and setting its stage when their combined civilizational thrust will make Zionism and so Israel which is an outpost of evil collapse from within. I believe that moment is not very far off.
Therefore now the question is that within this or such an overall scenario, what is the least if not more that Pakistan can do in the meantime? As all this evidence clearly demands — and there is even more in what you can read in the following pages and elsewhere – that Pakistan should take a U-turn, this time for the right cause, and come back to the point when and where it had no covert contacts with Israel. If the rulers do not listen they will be putting more obstacles in the path of the peoples of Pakistan and the Muslim world deserving in return the loss of their rule and an appropriate punishment for themselves and/or their subsequent generations. This is the inevitability of the historical process none of us can escape. ■