New Article: The Kushner UAE “Triumph”: White Jewish Supremacy in the Gulf States
David Shasha
The Kushner UAE “Triumph”: White Jewish Supremacy in the Gulf States
We are all by now aware of Jared Kushner’s close connections to the Arab Gulf.
It became fully apparent when he and Lysol bullied Qatar over a loan to bail out his family’s 666 5th Avenue debacle:
Magically, the money came through just in time!
That maneuver was a key inflection point in the ongoing Lysol mishegas in the Gulf.
Critical to the process is the warm relationship between Saudi Arabia and the corrupt White House:
Bully Strongman MBS was given a free pass for hacking Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi to death:
This is the context in which we should understand the establishment of diplomatic ties between the United Arab Emirates and Israel:
We will recall that the debased crook Kushner was put in charge of the Middle East peace process:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/08/trump-jared-kushner-israel-palestinians-peace
The whole thing was set up with Right Wing Settler American Jews allied to Netanyahu:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/06/architects-plan-middle-east-peace-190624182330043.html
The idea was to bypass the Palestinians:
And the Palestinians got the point:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51292865
What followed was an influx of Ashkenazi Zionists to the Gulf:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/Davidshasha/emirates/davidshasha/MZ4a5WoqT4E/M4Y6HmEOCAAJ
As I wrote in my article on the Bahrain Synagogue:
One of those august participants was the formally disgraced Interfaith Dialogue expert Marc Schneier:
He sent out the following letter to his Hampton Synagogue congregants:
In my capacity as Special Advisor to the King of Bahrain, H.M. Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, I was invited in Manama this week for the White House's Peace to Prosperity Workshop. The gathering brought together government leaders, private and public sector business leaders to develop economic opportunities as a step to foster peace between Palestinians and Israelis.
Participants hailed from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Egypt, Jordan and others. The excitement was palpable as high level participants all came together to discuss the White House economic plan. All recognized the need to have a political agreement and there was a genuine optimism that with these economic opportunities in place, peace will be the next step.
In addition to this very promising assembly, there were a couple of other important moments. For the first time in history, Bahrain allowed 7 Israeli journalists to visit and attend the conference. These journalists were allowed access to officials as well - some even interviewed Bahrain's Foreign Minister H.E. Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa.
The second, was that yesterday morning the Jewish community opened up their synagogue for the invited Jewish participants to join them for the Shacharit service. It wasn't lost on the attendees the magnitude of their being in a Jewish synagogue in a Gulf country.
Peace and reconciliation are ahead of us. It is not a matter of "if", it is matter of "when". The Children of Abraham in the Middle East, Israelis and Palestinians share a common faith and a common fate.
I was honored to experience that hope and optimism are very much alive while participating in this historic workshop alongside committed and dedicated leaders representing the United States and the Arab world.
Schneier’s letter encapsulates the heady feeling among the Trumpjews who are seriously feeling the power of their White Jewish Supremacy.
The Bahrain Synagogue get together expresses a new alignment in the institutional Jewish world which reflects the New Fascism as it has become situated in the New Convivencia; a construct that is now led by the criminal potentate Donald Trump.
So, while the Trumpjews are “praying” in Bahrain, the rest of us should be praying that God saves us from them.
Then we learned of NYU Rabbi Yehuda Sarna being “appointed” Chief Rabbi of the UAE:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/nyu-chaplain-to-be-1st-chief-rabbi-of-the-uae/
I wrote about Sarna’s White Jewish Supremacy in the Interfaith Dialogue world in the following article:
As I said there:
The Interfaith Dialogue that is being promoted at elite institutions like NYU is thoroughly grounded in Ashkenazi Jewish domination.
More than this, NYU’s Jewish Studies department is currently free of Sephardim and does not offer courses on the classic literary-poetic heritage of Jewish Andalusia.
In the final assessment, we have seen a plethora of well-funded Interfaith Dialogue programs in religious institutions and universities that have done little to assuage the ongoing tensions between the religious traditions as violence and hatred continue to mark our ever-contentious world.
It is quite telling that in these Interfaith Dialogue discussions we do not see Sephardic Jews presenting their historical and cultural experiences.
It is little wonder that this HASBARAH advocacy, with all the attendant American political pressure, has sought to completely eliminate Arab Jews from any relationship with the Arab-Muslim world.
It is all about the White Jewish Supremacy, as we saw in the following Tikvah Tablet article, conveniently re-posted right after UAE announcement, by Rabbi David Rosen:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/rabbi-david-rosen-saudi-arabia
The HASBARAH domination has not been lost on the Palestinians themselves:
It is part of a larger process meant to throw Palestine under the bus:
The ground for Thursday’s announcement was laid in recent years with athletic competitions and business cooperation.
Just weeks ago, an Emirati firm struck a deal with two Israeli arms giants, supposedly to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
But the public relations messaging focusing on Israel’s agreement to suspend annexation allows the UAE to claim falsely that it achieved something for Palestinian rights, when the opposite is the case.
Relations between Israel and Gulf States including Saudi Arabia and the UAE are founded on a mutual enmity towards Iran.
Liquidating Palestinian rights and bypassing the Palestinian issue is seen as key to building up this anti-Iran alliance under American oversight.
Annexation, moreover, would only be a formal rubber stamp for what Israel has been doing on the ground for decades: stealing land, forcibly displacing Palestinians and building colonies in flagrant breach of international law.
This violent colonization has never ceased and will not stop as a result of this agreement.
The United Arab Emirates, therefore, asked for and received nothing from Israel on behalf of Palestinians in exchange for normalizing ties.
It was thus not at all surprising to see the most prominent Self-Hating Sephardim cheer the move:
https://www.jewishideas.org/article/courage-and-wisdom-make-peace
http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/08/peace-deal-signed-as-uae-jewish.html
I was particularly struck by the following statement from Lyn Julius:
Through the ages, there were never many Jews living in the Gulf, but a modern expatriate community has been steadily growing, and in 2019, came out openly as an official community. Today the community has two synagogues. The Talmud Torah has 40 children.
She makes no comment on the Ashkenazim and Chief Rabbi Sarna. All that matters is the support for Kushner, Trump, and Netanyahu.
In the end, we are fully aware that since Arab Jews left the region to settle in Israel and the Diaspora there has been a massive re-alignment favoring the Oil States and their mercenary interests and debased religious fundamentalism.
Given the way that Arab Jews have been removed from the Adult Jewish Table, it is little wonder that these diplomatic moves are being executed exclusively by Ashkenazim, without any of the cultural knowledge that comes from the many centuries of Jewish life in the Arab-Muslim world.
David Shasha