An Interview With Alan Hart
It depends on which Arabs we are talking about. With few if any exceptions, the regimes and ruling elites of the existing Arab Order – corrupt, repressive and crumbling – will have the same feelings for my book as Zionists. They will hate it and, probably, will seek to suppress it and discussion and debate about its content. (If they do, they will be making common cause with Zionism!) Why? Because the book tells all of the knowable and uncomfortable truth, not just selected bits of it. And a part of the complete and comprehensive truth confirms the view the Arab masses have of their regimes – that, mainly because of their divisions, they are impotent and are doing, more by default than design, and in order to survive a little longer, the bidding of America-and-Zionism. As I say in the book, the main difference between Zionism’s leaders and the regimes of the existing Arab order is that the former always knew how to play the cards they had been dealt, the latter (with the main exception of Saudi Arabia’s King Feisal) never did. And still don’t.
But for “the Arabs” generally speaking, there is, or so I have been told, great comfort in my book. One explanation of why was given to me by the first Arab to read my manuscript. This man, long resident in the UK as a British citizen, said to me, “With this book you have returned to us Arabs our history.” He meant and went on to say that for Arabs living in the Judeo-Christian world, and because Zionism had succeeded in getting its version of history accepted as truth by the mainstream media of this world, Arab history, effectively, had been hi-jacked by Zionism. And real history for the Arab masses had been suppressed by their regimes. This man also said: “Your book will make all Arabs who read it feel better. I mean that they will be comforted by the knowledge that there is at last an outsider, you, who understands the cause of their anger, humiliation and despair and who can communicate why they feel as they do to the outside world.”
Given that your book is about the longest running conflict in all of human history and comes to grips with all aspects of it, regional and global, why did you choose ZIONISM: THE REAL ENEMY OF THE JEWS for the title – a title that could suggest your book is much more narrowly focused than it actually is?
As the jacket text says, the title reflects, in seven words, two terrifying truths of our time. The first is that anti-Semitism is on the rise again. The second is that a prime cause of the re-awakening of this sleeping giant is the behaviour of Zionism’s child, Israel. I also saw this particular title as a way of making by obvious implication a dramatic and important statement. Generally speaking, the Judeo-Christian world has been conditioned by Zionism to believe that the enemy of “the Jews” is “the Arabs”. That has never, ever, been the case. Almost all Arabs have always been aware that the Zionism they hate is not synonymous with “the Jews.” In that context I wanted a way of saying to potential readers – “You may think that the Arabs are the real enemy of the Jews but, actually, they are not. Zionism is.”
Are you concerned that the very length of your book – 1,200 pages in two volumes – will put off some and perhaps many potential readers, especially those you are most keen to reach out to – those you describe as so-called ordinary folk who would not normally even think of buying a book on the subject?
Not too much because I don’t share the view of mainstream publishing that so-called ordinary folk cannot be engaged in any serious way about issues that really matter. I think, have always thought, that most people of most nations are not nearly as indifferent to the great issues of our time as they are assumed to be by our politicians and our mainstream media and publishers. What must people are, I think, is shockingly under-informed. The difference between today and yesterday is that citizens are becoming aware of how much better informed they could be. And actually would be if the mainstream media was not hell bent on dumbing down.
And I subscribe to Noam Chomsky’s view. He said that 9/11 had made only half the people of America mad (meaning insane), and that the other half were asking – Why, really, did it happen? I think it’s not unreasonable to assume that, after 7/7, a lot of British people are asking the same question. My book will assist them to answer it for themselves..
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