{"id":255091,"date":"2018-06-04T17:56:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T21:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=255091"},"modified":"2021-04-18T12:00:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T16:00:14","slug":"peace-is-a-cliche-when-the-west-cannot-control-the-world-unopposed-it-means-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/peace-is-a-cliche-when-the-west-cannot-control-the-world-unopposed-it-means-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace is a clich\u00e9: When the West cannot control the world unopposed it means war"},"content":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For the oppressed, devastated countries, including those in Africa, to call for resistance would be, at least in the Western lexicon, synonymous with the \u201ccall for violence\u201d, therefore illegal. As \u201cillegal\u201d as the calls were for resistance in the countries occupied by German Nazi forces during WWII. It would be therefore logical to call the western approach and state of mind, \u201cfundamentalist\u201d, and thoroughly aggressive.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The West likes to think of itself as a truly \u201cpeace-loving part of the world\u201d. But is it? You hear it everywhere, from Europe to North America, then to Australia, and back to Europe: \u201cPeace, peace, peace!\u201d
\nIt has become a clich\u00e9, a catchphrase, a recipe to get funding and sympathy and support. You say peace and you really cannot go wrong. It means that you are a compassionate and reasonable human being.<\/p>\n

Every year, there are \u201cpeace conferences\u201d taking place everywhere where peace is worshipped, and even demanded. I recently attended one, as a keynote speaker, on the west coast of Denmark.<\/p>\n

If a heavy-duty war correspondent like myself attends them, he or she gets shocked. What is usually discussed are superficial, feel-good topics.<\/p>\n

At best, \u2018how bad capitalism is\u2019, and how \u2018everything is about oil\u2019. Nothing about the genocidal culture of the West. Nothing about continuous, centuries-long plunders and benefits that virtually all Westerners have been getting from it.<\/p>\n

At worst, it is all about how bad the world is \u2013 \u201call people are the same\u201d clich\u00e9. And, also, there are increasingly, bizarre, uninformed outbursts against China and Russia which are often labeled by Western neo-cons as \u201cthreat\u201d and \u201crival powers\u201d.<\/p>\n

Participants of these gatherings agree \u201cPeace is Good\u201d, and \u201cWar is Bad\u201d. This is followed by standing ovations and patting each other on the back. Few heartfelt tears are dropped.<\/p>\n

However, reasons behind these displays are rarely questioned. After all, who would be asking for war? Who\u2019d crave for violence, terrible injuries and death? Who\u2019d want to see leveled, charred cities and abandoned, crying infants? It all appears to be very simple, and very logical.<\/p>\n

But then, why do we not hear too often that \u201cpeace speech\u201d pouring from the devastated and still de facto colonized African or the Middle Eastern countries? Aren\u2019t they suffering the most? Shouldn\u2019t they be dreaming about the peace? Or are all of us, perhaps, missing the main point?<\/p>\n

My friend, a great Indian writer and thinker, Arundhati Roy wrote, in 2001, reacting to the Western \u201cWar on Terror\u201d: \u201cWhen he announced the air strikes, President George Bush said, “We’re a peaceful nation.” America’s favourite ambassador, Tony Blair, (who also holds the portfolio of Prime Minister of the UK), echoed him: “We’re a peaceful people.” So now we know. Pigs are horses. Girls are boys. War is Peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/428531-war-peace-west-control\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: For the oppressed, devastated countries, including those in Africa, to call for resistance would be, at least in the Western lexicon, synonymous with the \u201ccall for violence\u201d, therefore illegal. As \u201cillegal\u201d as the calls were for resistance in the countries occupied by German Nazi forces during WWII. It would be therefore logical to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":328084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}