"Beyond expectations"

Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert was very satisfied with his 3-day visit to Beijing, characterizing his talks with Chinese leaders as “surprising and encouraging, certainly beyond expectations”. The problem is, if it is encouraging for the Zionists, it cannot be encouraging for the Palestinian people, Iran and the Arab countries.

China does not want Iran to develop nuclear weapons. There is no problem with that, there is absolutely no proof that Iran is doing so. There was no need to fear Saddam's WMD because he didn't have any; there is no need to fear or oppose Iran's atom bomb, because the country is not developing any. Ayatollah Khomeini has said it loud and clear: possession of nuclear weapons is against Islam.

The problem lies with the Zionists and the neocons, or the Ziocons for short, to borrow a concept from James Petras (The Power of Israel in the United States). China always emphasizes dialogue and negotiations to solve international disputes. That is certainly to be preferred to waging war. The Ziocons however don't want any dialogue. They want to destroy the Palestinian people (like the Nazis wanted to destroy the Jews) and launch war against Iran, because Israel wants to wipe Iran of the map if it fails to install another Shah on the defunct Peacock Throne.

China has always warmly welcomed the Jewish people. In the 1800s Sephardic Jews were welcome to build business empires in the Middle Kingdom; following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, it welcomed Jews fleeing turmoil, including Ehud Olmert's parents who settled in Harbin and learned to speak Chinese. And before and during the Holocaust, Shanghai opened its gates to thousands of Jews – no visa required. No country did as much as China to save innocent Jews persecuted by the Nazis.

But in the 21st century we have to take a stand, certainly not against the Jewish people, only against the Zionists, because the Zionists are the Nazis and the Palestinians the Jews of the 21st century.

China should not have welcomed Olmert, a war criminal and corrupt element, despised not only by Palestinians, Arabs and Iranians, but even in his own country. China stood shoulder to shoulder with the Jews in the 1940s, it should stand shoulder to shoulder with the Palestinians today.