An Interview With Alan Hart

May 10th, 2009 by admin

I could also adapt the line that comedians are fond of – it’s not the jokes that are so funny, “it’s the way I tell ‘em.” I was never less than completely aware that if I was to succeed in reaching out to so-called ordinary folk, the way I told the story would be as important as the story itself. And that’s why my epic book is written more in the style of a novel than a conventional historical work, and in everyday, earthy, conversational language. I write, for example, “If effect Ben-Gurion was telling President Eisenhower to get stuffed.” And from the feedback I am getting from so-called ordinary folk who have read or are reading an advance copy of the book, this approach seems to be going down well. People who would not normally even think of reading an apparently heavyweight book on the subject are telling me that it’s very easy to read and a “page-turner.” One of my test readers, a gentleman in his sixties, even said the book had made reading a pleasure for the first time in many years.

Alan, you are British, your book begins its public life here in Britain, I have to ask you, what’s your take on Prime Minister Blair?

I describe him in the book as being “as self-righteous as any Zionist”.

For associating himself with an unnecessary, illegal and counter-productive invasion of Iraq – a war for which the prime pushers were Zionists in association with America’s neo-cons – I think it is highly likely that Mr. Blair will go down in history as the most dangerously deluded of all British prime ministers. On the British 0 to 10 scale of stupidity in relation to the Middle East, I’d put Eden at 10 and Blair at 11.

I also think that, post 7/7, Mr. Blair was being devilishly disingenuous when he asserted that the bombings were a manifestation of a problem that is religious in origin. It is certainly true that violent Moslem fundamentalists are using and abusing Islam every bit as much as gut-Zionists have used and abused Judaism, but the roots of the problem are political not religious, with the deepest root of all being the unresolved problem of Palestine. Mr. Blair can’t admit that the best and most effective way to deal with Moslem terrorism is by addressing the unresolved political problems which energise and sustain it because he knows that, as things are, there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell of a political solution to the problem of Palestine.

You’ve written your book to make possible “the first ever informed and honest debate about who must do what and why if there’s to be a peaceful resolution of the Palestine problem.” Why do you think the debate for which you call is now so urgent and your book so timely?

My overall view is that unless debate can be refocused – to enable debate to take place on something other than Zionism’s terms – diplomacy is going nowhere because it has nowhere to go. This because Sharon’s decision to withdraw from Gaza was not for peace, but to defuse the demographic time-bomb of occupation, and to consolidate the Zionist state’s hold on about 58 percent of the West Bank and, effectively, control of about 82 percent of it. This is a recipe for catastrophe – for us all, and which, no doubt, will encourage the unleashing of the twin monsters of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. I wrote my book to assist the destruction of both.

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