The 2012 Country Reports on Human Rights: Has honesty gotten the
better of the American State Department?
'Washington Indicts
Itself' with Annual Human Rights Report (Al Hayat Al Jadidah, Palestinian Territories)
"It is
laughable for Assistant Secretary Uzra Zeya to deny her
nation's support for parties and new regimes suppressing liberty, particularly religious
liberty. All of us know that these dark forces greatly resemble those that
were ousted in the first place. They oppose human rights, practice oppression,
curtail liberties and because of their ignorance and their narrow understanding
of religion, put the free minded on trial. ... Both today and yesterday, U.S. policy is the first and only sponsor of oppression and occupation in the region. Its admission that such violations are those of regimes and governments it supports is an indictment of U.S. policy."
In its section on the Near East, the annual Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices was full of violations against minorities
and women in countries that are Washington's allies or the so-called Arab
Spring countries. In introducing the report, Secretary of State John Kerry noted
that the key factor that brought on the Arab uprisings and the Egyptian
revolution was not religious in nature, but a respect for dignity and freedom.
But he ignored how Americans backers of these revolutions opted
for the Muslim Brotherhood as a leader of the Arab Spring's new regimes - and
not because they love Islam, but because they want to use the Muslim
Brotherhood against patriotic nationalist forces and those of Islamic jihad, which
are hostile to Washington.
Thus, in addition to its support for Israel, Washington supports
the violation of human rights in the Middle East. The report touches on Israeli
violations of our people in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, the indigenous and
original land owners, and toward minorities, women and African foreign workers.
But it is laughable for Assistant Secretary Uzra
Zeya to deny her nation's support for new parties and regimes suppressing liberty,
particularly religious liberty. All of us know that these dark forces greatly
resemble those that were ousted in the first place. They oppose human
rights, practice oppression, curtail liberties and because of their ignorance
and their narrow understanding of religion, put the free minded on trial.
Posted By Worldmeets.US
Both today and yesterday, U.S. policy is the first and only sponsor
of oppression and occupation in the region. Its admission that such violations are
those of regimes and governments it supports is an indictment of U.S. policy.
Washington's support of satirist BassemYoussef is not the same as supporting genuine
democratic forces or opposing the forces of darkness. Both in the past and present, America has sponsored the
violation of human rights, and is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of
thousands of people in Arab lands.
Prolonging the crisis in Syria may also be a byproduct of
these American policies. Just as it had no desire to save the Iraqi, Egyptian,
Libyan or Tunisian peoples, rather than seeking to save the Syrian people, it is
trying in vain to replace one tyrannical regime with another.
