In early 1975, I took an in-depth special course on the Middle East at the University of Tulsa by one of my favorite political science professors. It proved to be one of the most impactful intellectual experiences of my life, with ongoing consequences for decades.
The professor was Joseph R. Rudolph Jr.
I was, like most students I was acquainted with, as well as most other persons in my community, someone profoundly ignorant and unaware of the actual situation in the Middle East beyond the headlines and the propaganda from the establishment regime media.
Most of the other students in the course were from the region, particularly Saudis and one Israeli. It dramatically opened my eyes and mind to the historic and geopolitical reality and background to the century’s old conflicts in the area.
Simultaneous, something else in 1975 was happening at the UN.
The United Nations resolution that declared Zionism a form of racism was General Assembly Resolution 3379, passed in 1975, which stated, “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination”. However, this controversial resolution was revoked in 1991 by General Assembly Resolution 46/86, with a vote of 111-25, effectively nullifying its original declaration.
Key Details:
Resolution 3379 (1975): Adopted by the UN General Assembly, it equated Zionism (the Jewish people’s national liberation movement) with racism and racial discrimination, influenced by Arab states, communist nations, and some developing countries.
Revocation in 1991: Following the end of the Cold War and shifting global politics, the UN General Assembly voted to repeal Resolution 3379, demonstrating a significant change in international consensus.
In essence, while the resolution existed and labeled Zionism as racism, it is no longer an active UN stance, having been officially rescinded.
It is truly time to end the obfuscation and hypocrisy.
Both sides in the Middle East conflagration were founded and fueled by vicious terrorist entities who waged unspeakable violence on innocent populations.
There is blood on the hands of both the Zionists behind the State of Israel and the Arab and Muslim terrorists in Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt.
Terror Out of Zion: Irgun Zvai Leumi, LEHI, and the Palestine Underground, 1929-1949
Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam — Book by Robert Dreyfus
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“The most clear and engaging history of the deadly, historic partnership between Western powers and political Islam.”—Salon.com
Devil’s Game is the first comprehensive account of America’s misguided efforts, stretching across decades, to dominate the strategically vital Middle East by courting and cultivating Islamic fundamentalism.
Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with dozens of policy makers and CIA, Pentagon, and foreign service officials, Robert Dreyfuss follows the trail of American collusion from support for the Muslim Brotherhood in 1950s Egypt, to links with Khomeini and Afghani jihadists, to longstanding ties between radical Islamists and the leading banks of the West. The result is as tragic as it is paradoxical: originally deployed as pawns to foil nationalism and communism, extremist mullahs and ayatollahs now dominate the landscape, thundering against freedom of thought, science, women’s rights, secularism—and their former patron.
Chronicling a history of double-dealing, cynical exploitation, and humiliating embarrassment that continues to this day, Devil’s Game reveals a pattern that, far from furthering democracy or security, ensures a future of blunders and blowback.
