Beyond WW2 War Aims

This short book was written by Salim Maloof, posted on January 05, 2024

Abstract

It is not possible to practice liberal democracy under any form of monarchism. The victors of WW2 (the old powers) counselled their political successors (their children) to observe the work program suggested in the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in the aftermath of WW2 to prevent the voice of truth from reaching global public opinion and challenging their global dominant role. The voice of truth liberates people from false beliefs. This is because law and political order are not natural but human creations. Accordingly, the standards and norms integrated in the UN Charter and the UDHR were the means that were supposed to prevent the voice of truth from liberating people and systematically challenge their (the victors of WW2) superiority. That is to say, make people disinterested in prioritizing ethics in public life, and hence avoid making moral and humanitarian issues the core of political thought and, in light of their changes, judge the policies adopted. The chaos that has swept the world since 1945 confirms how the victors of WW2 are incapable of applying forward-looking policies to rejuvenate their powers and how they are staying bogged down by backward-looking planning. The only challenge with shrinking the number of people who follow the voice of truth is that this strategy makes people aware of the hypocrisy of the victors of WW2, including giving them insight on what they can and cannot do. In other words, it makes people reconsider political thoughts that prioritize human freedom over domination. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a crisis that embodies this reality. The old powers counselled their heirs to ensure that no person (society, nation, or monarch) seeks any territorial gain in the new world order, which they sketched its outline in the UN Charter unlawfully. Yet the heirs of the old powers (their children) believe that if they disallow the Iraqis from annexing Kuwait or prevent the Russians from annexing Ukraine, such a deed will eliminate the impact that such a threat can have on their power later, but letting the Israeli-Jews expel the Palestinians from their homes and annex their land is an opportunity!

This book tries to understand if the decision of the western European monarchs and republics (the victors of WW2) to prolong the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (i.e., to let it go on so it can give newborns or new people around the world perspective on the problems of the present) is useful to them to rejuvenate their power; or if keeping this conflict unresolved (i.e., not killing all the Palestinians, once and for all, since as of 1948 they do not want them to have rights to nothing) is freeing people from continuing to want to live under their domination and the domination of all their servants (governments and international institutions) that revolve around them, starting with the United States. The objective is to understand if the victors of WW2 are better off preserving their dominant role by keeping their critical thinkers and servants (governments and international institutions) behaving arrogantly, prideful, with hardened hearts, and ignorant of the importance of observing the commands suggested in the UN Charter and the UDHR (starting with the United States in its role as global policemen), or if they are better off keeping those critical thinkers and servants humble, unselfish, and benevolent as the rulers and political class in the United States (US) were from 1776 to 1917 (date when the US entered WW1) is better. This is to avoid that all those critical thinkers and servants do not gang on them (the victors of WW2) and make them taste the same humiliating punishment that kings before them tasted when they (Kings in antiquity) taught that people were not watching what they were doing. Most importantly, to avoid mankind losing the most precious culture that humanity needs to pollinate with future generations so our successors do not return to their state of nature-the American culture!