Lifelong Reject

Prince William has pledged to make peace in the Middle East his “lifelong project” after his historic trip to the region.

Lifelong project; how bemusing, however you cannot deter the grandiose gesture of good will to a region without feeling guilty, why I offer the Duke of Cambridge a heartfelt…good luck with that, comment. Yes, you can garner some genuine emotive here, it’s humanely justified to campaign for ‘just and lasting peace’ - henceforth. Palace sources inform us commoners his Highness is determined to solve Middle East frictions; apparently his trump card is he’s not a politician. As a polemicist I find myself mindfully grappling with the notion: maybe I am missing something, perhaps he’s sat in a bath and jotted down a soggy plan.

Unfaltering sincerity is rare, so when he said to his aide: “This is the start of something new. I will forever honour my commitments to the people I have met;”  you can only assume his words were always going to be published; we’re not looking for another peace pathway, just an indication the Duke is on the case and will make some calls and process a report or some workings that gives the impression ‘change is coming’ – he did anxiously ask to have some briefing on what the politics were that failed everlasting peace in the region; hardly a six hundred page dossier of Middle East occupation shenanigans baring human frailties in the rawest form. Then again, you it’s worth a glance through a Robert Fisk report explaining the complex militias and unspecified rituals that spore war.  Yes, a lifelong project indeed, although solving conditioned hatred is not exactly a job for a Duke to undertake. Political landscapes malfunction at a whim, perhaps the Duke should go closer to home and embark on solving street grime in Liverpool for a year just to get some experience in solving our own Body politic, before entering into precariously deistic states. I’m reminded of the royal tradition of haplessly getting involved with foreign affairs usually enabling a school to be erected, a removal of a landmine or three. A de facto of a royal is durable global appeal and this predominantly is for the good so actually wanting to reward a region with peace and prosperity with tokenism seems to work in practice. I’ve no doubt the Duke will inform an audience of his travels to the Middle East, the first of a monarch and yes, a tear may appear as he recalls the stories of the youngsters, cue echoes of his Mother’s compassion.  

You could say the press attempted to overplay the importance of the Duke’s visit. I doubt Mr Rivlin sent shockwaves round the world when he asked William to deliver a message to his opposite number President Mahmoud Abbas - the message was: ‘peace.’  Call it staged amateur dramatics; for one word means very little when you’re the aggressor; not recognising the struggles and civil liberties of another tribe wanting a brighter future. I actually read disbelieving that the Duke brought the two sides together; he didn’t, he simply paid them a visit. And announced: he wanted to do what’s right. Which leads me onto what needs to happen, to do what’s right… one being, have a balanced opinion on ME philosophy?  For a modern day perspective, there’s value by observing Western forces when they were sent to Beirut to bring stability following the June 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. However, the October 1983 attack helped convince the West to withdraw forces from Lebanon, by early 1984 - all had departed. Events earmarked / demonstrated that the West was too pusillanimous to endure a fight and inadvertently created the terrorists of 9/11 – namely Osama bin Laden; I am sure the Duke’s aides drew attention to suchlike; I am sure the thirty-six year old was exposed to the Eisenhower Doctrine and the Anglo-American intervention in Jordan and Lebanon whereby the West built a ‘special relationship’ with Israel, during this period they retained credit with the Arab league. In hindsight, it’s noticeably fractious and probably the reason why there was a failure of receivership; the result was a traditional jealousy, equating to a key note being: the ‘spheres of influence.’

Call it a hunch, herewith; an outsider may not exactly label this Western political will as progress for the region. Embarrassingly for the Duke I’d state this is a succession of lifelong projects opportunism to build legacy upon one’s self-importance or position. You won’t be surprised to learn more Doctrines were adopted, which engineered a recycling prose ready for anyone else to complex the tides of perversity… cue; Truman Doctrine. Without really pulling any punches you could allow yourself the thought that Western authoritarianism has had unsavory associations with ME networks and this education is backed up by scholars who’ve all come to the same conclusion; Western intervention causes disasters ---- for the Duke to relish this lifelong opportunity is due to getting gripped by a contagion of failures. Of course, Zionists would actually pray for, or encourage the monarch to keep the momentum flowing, why he used peculiar terminologies of: ‘to do the right thing.’  

May I alert you to the pulsating essay: ‘Imperialism without Splendor;’ written in 1982, by Fouad A. Ajami, nevertheless, a conscious warning that the European concepts of rule and order; had been transmitted imperfectly; to put it politely. Covertly, Ajami was rather perplexed by ‘Pax Britannica’ (1968) Jan Morris claiming that UK’s century of non-combated roles entitled the nation’s authorities to play global hegemon. ‘Peace’ therefore in British rule is employed stylistics, romantics and visionaries by which every citizen apparently knew the components by default. In truth, this was a remarkable piece of global propaganda after the Napoleonic Wars; ultimately, the quest is to not gauge the plight of the Middle East by effectively causing provocation in this transparent world, why garnering a judgement is impossible; if anything the Duke should do this project if he must by hankering onto a clandestine spirit. Done in a non-committal conjuncture, a far cry from his published analogies of wanting to tell us about the remarkable stories he has heard on his Israel / Palestine travels.

Our inveterate interference odiously has created traditions in the region which warrants no introduction, yet Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis who is the chieftain of all British Jews; exalts the Duke’s lifelong project as something automatically unique – revering William ‘a figurehead for the younger generation.’ This actually is in the interest of Mirvis who seeks a new Zionism meaning… To clarify, it’s a movement to re-establish the deeper protection (s) of Jewish communities ubiquitously; to elongate its cause is to have churches all inclusive. As Israel doesn’t recognise the Palestine State as part of their community, there rolls on the anti-Semitic slurs.  Mirvis is haplessly poking the hornet’s nest effectively via announcing the Duke’s intentions are honourable and so the whole world (which isn’t 100% part of the Jewish community) should unite behind his peace mission. For a start, and I’m putting it out there… let’s not refer to the Palestinians as a community in Occupation of a region; allow them to have human rights prior to proceeding with good intentions instead of adhering to ill-plights and foreign policies since 1948. Ultimately, the core position is fragile prior to any peaceful route-map if the status quo remains.

Either the Duke knows very little of the atrophy that’s affiliated to ME doctrines, political turmoil and human deprivation, especially thanks to the West’s meddling; or the Diana legacy is immortal, to the point the Duke simply cannot ignore it. A burden that I wish no monarch to have let alone embellish, for her legacy has a beautification essence, and for the sake of humanity requires to be underwritten as ‘valueless’ when it comes to resolving Middle East wars. My head spins at the thought that an imperialist Duke is serious about replicating good Western gestures in such regions. Projects to suit his impending ruling is archaic monarch conditioning and the rest of us have to live through it; biting our lip and ascertain Ajami’s ‘value – free’ pathway. What is undeniably fact is that ‘peace’ has no winners nor zero commercial gain, or has any thrills to evoke high romantic notes, ‘remarkable stories’ or warrants a listening ear. Forget Morris’s ‘Farewell the Trumpets’ fanfare – what’s apparent is an inertia utopia; the shocking reality is… it has no voluntary sector and reflects a disinterested humanistic value.

Coexistence is never easy but the simplistic ideology is possible, unlike the greater one. If this lifelong project is to carry any water the Duke has to deconstruct idiotic deism, get under the skin of those re-establishing the term Zionism and figure out their evil motives ---- Before entering into the violent religious fascist mind-set to offer them a well trampled doctrine to which can only be described by Zionists as being a perverse ideology that’s unfit for intellectual debate --- if it creates a chink in the armour then and only then there will be progress. My advice to the Duke is: stick to writing a memoir about rescuing hill climbers and seafarers, it’ll move me very deeply.