by The Angry Arab
I am outraged by US war crimes in Fallujah, and am more outraged by the lack of outrage that I encounter here in the US, and the silence of the corrupt and tyrannical Arab governments (and I am not excluding any one government; I include them all: Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria, Jordan, puppet Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Morocco, Yemen, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, etc). All are scared of the US government, and are willing to butcher their people to win points with Bush.
Whenever you hear the word "democracy" in relation with the Middle East, especially from the mouth of Israelis or Americans, place it between quotation marks. They mean something else by it.
NBC aired the report of the shooting of the injured and unarmed Iraqi man. But NBC had to preface it with a "context" report that all but justified the killing.
Somebody was talking about how the Arab world would receive a female secretary of state. Give me a break or a potato. I really hate it when some American male pontificates about sexism of Arab/Muslim men. I say: excuse me? You are giving lessons in feminism?
They talk about [the] "window of opportunity" now presented by the death of Arafat. What kind of bankrupt policy it is that is predicated on the death of one man?
2 comments:
Arafat is a "monster" for the same reason he won the Nobel Peace Prize: he cut a deal with Washington to keep his people in line, in exchange for the kind of treatment normally extended to third-world elites. That meant being the token Palestinian in the West for the past 10 years. At first it made him into a respectable statesmen, celebrated, revered, etc. Later, he was cast as a traitor, no longer able or willing toe the Washington line, or control radical fundamentalist groups like Hamas. His death is significant to the West as "a window of opportunity" to find someone more transparently committed to fulfilling US/Israeli policy goals.
I still always read your blog, and share your outrage and hope... lets talk soon, ok?
Katie
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