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CAMBRIDGE FORECAST GROUP ESSAY: MUSLIMS AND JEWS IN THE WORLD-SYSTEM IN SEPTEMBER 2009

September 25, 2009 on 5:24 pm | In Arabs, Development, Economics, Financial, Globalization, History, Iran, Islam, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Third World, World-System, Zionism | No Comments

MUSLIMS AND JEWS IN THE WORLD-SYSTEM IN SEPTEMBER 2009

The Long View of the Current “Global Traffic Jam”

We have already described how Muslims and Jews were “twisted up” by the colonial experience, using Algeria 1830-1962 as  one example.

MUSLIMS AND JEWS IN THE WORLD SYSTEM: THE EXAMPLE OF ALGERIA (1830-1962)

http://cambridgeforecast.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/muslims-and-jews-in-the-world-system-the-example-of-algeria/

See also: http://www.cambridgeforecast.org

“Muslims and Jews in the World-System”

The question becomes: how does this “triple helix” of Muslims, Jews, Western Imperialism, come out today in 2009.

The answer is:

There are two radical “anti-system” groupings, one Jewish, one Muslim that want to overturn the world:

1. Al-Qaida
2. Neocon/Zionists (who brought us the Iraq War and now want the Iran War)

The “empire” now represented by America, senses that it needs to move into a kind of developmental/ G-20 Summit/ Third World growth direction but is blocked from this avenue because:

1. Washington policy is still fundamentally under the control of Israel and the neocons who want America/Israel to subjugate the world (Bush-Cheney were the crystallization of this fantasy)
2. the American “political class” under Obama still believes that there might be a cheap neocolonial way to extract dominion and economic benefits from the Third World although the economic meltdown has made this option confused and murky.

In other words, the US keeps entering and re-entering a “global traffic jam” created by the neocons/Israel alliance resonating with the last stand of American colonial attitudes which have replaced their French and British predecessors.

The hinge or pivot of a new world direction is of course Palestine because it is the global symbol of neocolonial subjugation, dispossession, ethnic cleansing and land-grabbing.

Globalization made practical needs a post-Zionist lens and framework.

Until and unless President Obama comes to grip with this reality, there cannot be a successful global coordination which would break out of the current “global traffic jam.”

That means a nonstable world-economy ad infinitum.

MUSLIMS AND JEWS IN THE WORLD-SYSTEM IN SEPTEMBER 2009

The Long View of the Current “Global Traffic Jam”