Autobiography - The Galindo Group

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Ram Galindo THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN Page 86 in his fight to take over Palestinian properties in Israel, another case where a terrorist for one is a freedom fighter for the other. Had it not been for President Reagan’s clear determination to force all the warring factions out of Beirut, the Israeli leadership would have taken over that country too, as it was feared was their covert desire. An era of even greater violence would have ensued. Presently, we, as a nation, are standing semi-idle while Israel infers in the word Palestinian the same meaning as in the word terrorist. This exacerbates our already tenuous posture in the Moslem world and is a main cause to draw hate upon us. Over the years, not necessarily because it was a bad concept, but because of the heavily flawed way in which it was accomplished, the Israeli-Palestinian relationship has become the most de-stabilizing event in the fragile Middle East. Seen from the Palestinian point of view, where many of the seeds of wailing discontent originate, after three consecutive generations of continued hopeless misery outside their former homes, life is not worth living. For many of them and their Islamic brothers elsewhere, it has become preferable to die seeking revenge. Once endless despair becomes the prevalent sense of the people, it does not matter what arguments those outside the circle of despair can advance, even if they are logical and historically correct. Reason no longer works, only feelings; in this case the feeling of absolute hatred of the usurper-oppressor (Israel) and his accomplice godfather (USA). In Palestinian eyes we are the unrepentant suppliers of the instruments of torture and methods of oppression used against them. A terrorist to us is a freedom fighter to them. This is a case where bad policy, or better-said, badly executed policy, has begotten bedlam at its worst. The sad historical truth is that if the heads of all terrorist organizations and all of their minions were miraculously stamped out from the earth, within one generation their scourge would re-appear in full force, for whatever reason. If the source of despair were left untouched, the return of terrorism wouldn’t take a generation, it would never go away. Ireland is an example worth considering, the so-called “oppression” of Catholics in Northern Ireland is non-existent compared with the plight of the Palestinians, and yet terrorism is intractable in the British Isles. I agree now, I agreed when Che Guevara terrorized Bolivia, and I will always agree that a legitimate role of government is to find and destroy the perpetrators of uncontrolled fear on an innocent population. It should also be self-evident that the root-sources that may have caused such actions be eliminated as soon as possible, as we have done in America for our minorities. Cooler-head politicians and other opinion makers, including more than one Jewish friend, have privately recognized that to forestall Moslem terrorists in America, our government must force Israel to change its policies toward Palestinians. Once the Autobiography.doc 86 of 239
Ram Galindo THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN Page 87 Palestinians openly and formally agreed to recognize the right of the state of Israel to exist as a sovereign nation, the fairness equation requires that Israel do likewise with the Palestinians to obtain peace and balance. Just as pacts between individuals are more lasting and agreeable when they are made under no compulsion on either side, pacts among groups of people who think of themselves as equal are also more trustworthy when they are made freely. In my view, Palestinians deserve the right to pursue their dreams of self-improvement under the rule of their own law just as the Israelis do. American federal policy makers are elected and operate in a world heavily influenced by the pro-Israel lobby, contemporaneously the most powerful lobby in Washington. This lobby can make or destroy the political life of most elected and high-ranking officials, and both, the lobbyists and the politicians, know it. This is a fact that unfortunately skews the pronouncements coming out of Washington. Even President Reagan had great difficulty navigating his policies for this region when they did not coincide with Israel’s wishes. Ideally, the suggestion of granting the Palestinians their basic nation-rights on soil they can call their own, should be promoted by these powerful lobbyists. Smart as they are known to be, some I am sure, could support initiatives from within our government to move toward eliminating one of the root-causes of Islamic hatred. To grant the oppressed Palestinians the right to pursue their dreams in their own sovereign nation would be the act of true freedom fighters in Washington. As then President Reagan told the European parliament in June 1982, “Freedom is not the sole prerogative a lucky few, but the inalienable and universal right of all human beings….” It is my hopeful opinion that this view will become a vector of President George W. Bush and his Secretary of State Collin Powell’s policy in the Middle East, to the benefit of the great majority of the people involved in this mire and of all Americans. By so doing they will eliminate one of the root sources of terrorism emanating from that area. Though the red menace still exists in Mainland China, it appears to me that as long as we remain strong and vigilant around Taiwan and South Korea, it does not pose a clear and immediate danger to world peace. There appears to be some constraint in its past expansionist policies, and I think this is due to budding capitalism in certain parts of the country, which is slowly turning communism into socialism. Because of this, there is a good chance that the prevailing internal corruption endemic to socialist systems will destroy the body politic from within and a new, less paranoid and more market-oriented country will emerge. Signals that emanate from China make me hopeful that the occurrence of this transformation is in an accelerating path toward freedom and democracy. Autobiography.doc 87 of 239
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