The rulers believe that the superpower will support their rule. But what is happening in Iraq has undermined these beliefs. In Iraq, the world’s only superpower is facing strong resistance from the people of an underdeveloped country. They are defending their ruler and his regime, despite what we know about the oppressive policies of that ruler and his regime.

This leads us to the conclusion that a strong relationship between a people and its leadership is the real guarantor of a regime’s survival and safety. Dependence on foreign powers can be an unsuccessful policy, as events have shown that Western support will not be able to keep a government in power if the people strongly oppose it. The case of the Shah in Iran is an example.

But the situation in Iraq today is quite the contrary. Suppose Saddam Hussein had ruled his people in a different way — that is to say, benignly, instead of oppressing them. How much stronger could have been their resistance to the invading forces!

The question is: Will Arab and Muslim rulers learn from this example?

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I see the beginning of the failure of America’s international policy.

It gives rise to the speculation that, as these signs become stronger, the ruling elite in the United States will look for a scapegoat or several scapegoats to channel the anger of the American public, who will soon arise from their deep slumber to understand the enormity of the setbacks they have suffered.

The ruling elite is a group of rich capitalists, mostly of Anglo-Saxon origin, who are considered the real power in America, although there also exists a notion that the Jewish minority is the most powerful.

In Western societies, throughout history, minorities — especially Jews — have been easy scapegoats for societies to vent their anger over the mistakes and corrupt practices of their rulers.

That is what is happening in the US now, as the ruling elite exploits 80 percent of the country’s resources. The majority of American armed forces who sacrifice their lives in Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries come from the lower strata of society. At the same time, the Anglo-Saxons who have dragged them into these wars are enjoying themselves and getting richer.

The biggest group of personalities and think tanks who have been projected as supporters or instigators of the war on Iraq and America’s aggressive policies in general are from the Jewish minority.

This is not accidental, nor is it evidence of the power of the Zionist lobby in the US. It is to set up the Jewish community as a scapegoat, so that it can be made to take full responsibility for the failure of those policies. The American people will naturally show their anger toward these Jews without attacking the ruling Anglo-Saxon elite.

I expect that the Jewish minority in the US will be in a very uncomfortable situation.

The American people will discover how the Jews were cheating the United States when all the files that have been put on the shelves are opened. They include the files on the Israeli bombing on the American ship Liberty in the 1967 war, on Jonathan Pollard, the spy who sold American military secrets to China and Russia, and many others.

You will be amazed to see how quickly the American Jewish minority changes from a pampered group into an oppressed one. And this will naturally have a direct impact on the Israeli state.