The Bickering 4th Crusade
The Yemen Times compares modern world politics to the Fourth Crusade.
“Time and again this observer (and many others) stated that, for all intents and purposes, the White House is run by remote control by the international Zionist Establishment. It was not enough that George W Bush, in his sloppy press conference of Tuesday (April 13, 2004) showed his enmity for the Moslem World by pointing out all the Moslem countries that he finds require the attention of his administration in its expandable anti-terrorism war or what is turning out to be the 4th Crusade. We really had no illusions about Bushs (and the Bushies clique) absolute hatred for almost all things east of the Atlantic and south of the Mediterranean Sea (save of course for that evil Zionist concoction of Israel). But one would not believe that Mr. Bush W. would go on to make this hatred official policy of the United States and not merely a personal complex nurtured by Zionist-Evangelical chauvinism.”
In 1193, Pope Innocent 111 initiated a Fourth Crusade after the death of Saladin. On its way east, the crusading army became embroiled in a dispute regarding the succession to the Byzantine throne. Grasping the opportunity to destroy their greatest economic rival, the Venetian leaders of the crusade diverted to Constantinople (Istanbul) and sacked the great city Byzantium in 1204.
