[The
Economist, U.K.]
Al Wahdawi, Yemen
Arabs Should Not
Pin Their Hopes on Obama - Or McCain
"If U.S. foreign policy is
changed, it will only be a negative change, because Israel is joined to
America's hip and its security has already been guaranteed by both presidential
candidates. ... We Arabs must not build our dreams on the fact that Bush is
leaving and Obama coming in."
EDITORIAL
Translated By Nicolas Dagher
September 9, 2008
Yemen
- Al-Wahdawi - Original Article (Arabic)
In 1964, the British Labour Party won the elections and some Arabs were
overjoyed and partied to celebrate the fall of Prime Minister Eden 
and his fellow conservatives, who took part in
the Suez Campaign against Pan-Arab Egypt in 1956 .
Their joy was not the result of a correct and conscious reading of the events
but was based on ignorance while thinking that the "Tories" would
side with the Arabs - so they thought!!!
[Editor's Note: The crisis
over the strategically-important Suez Canal was triggered by a military attack
on Egypt by Britain, France, and Israel, after Egypt nationalized the Canal.
Interestingly - it was the United States which stepped in stop the
British-French-Israeli invasion ].
A few years later,
specifically in 1967, came the Six Day War ,
in which the Labour Party, in addition to the United
States and France, played a central role in support of the Zionist aggression.
Arabs discovered that they were wrong about their Tory "Friends."
[Editor's Note: The Israeli
version of the Six Day War is diametrically opposite to the views of this
editorial. Partly as a result of the perceived Israeli aggression during the
Suez crisis, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, along with forces from Iraq, Saudi
Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria - amassed to invade Israel. The
Israeli pre-emptively struck the Egyptian Air Force and in the end, Israel
gained control of the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem
and the Golan Heights ].
[Guardian
Unlimited, U.K.]
Today, the U.S. elections are
fast approaching. The race between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John Mc
Cain is tense, so we have numerous Arabs beating the drums, applauding and
siding with Obama, considering him a non-Anglo-Saxon, non-Protestant - exempt
from the worst influence of American racism - and fancying him a colored
Catholic!! Some Arabs long for the 20th
of January to witness George Bush leaving the White house and Obama going in,
as if to grant him victory in advance!! Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
Whether Obama is better than McCain will only affect American citizens and not
us, since in the first address by this "Colored Catholic," he will
express support for "Israel" and the safeguarding of its security,
which is synonymous with the security of the United States.
[Editor's Note: Why the
author considers Catholics less racist than Protestants - or why he says Arabs
consider Obama a "colored Catholic" rather than a Protestant - we
cannot ascertain. In fact, Obama is a Protestant. As anyone who has watched the
campaign knows, Obama has until recently been a member of the Trinity United
Church of Christ, which is categorized as Congregationalist Protestant].
It's true that
whoever wins the election, American foreign policy will witness some changes,
but those changes will not be in our favor [on favor of Pan-Arabists]. Because, for example, if changes occur in Afghanistan, Israel isn't
located there; and if changes toward Iran and North Korea take place, Israel
isn't in their neighborhood. If U.S. foreign policy changes in the Arab
World, it will only be a negative change, because Israel is joined to America's
hip and its security has already been guaranteed by both U.S. presidential
candidates (and even if it wasn't, some Arabs have also guaranteed it).
Posted by WORLDMEETS.US
It's true that
since the Democratic Party won the majority in the House and Senate, they have
opposed the foreign policy of the Republicans presided over by Bush and his
junta, accusing him of pursuing failed policy in Afghanistan and Iraq. And it's
also true that the Baker-Hamilton report [the 9-11 Commission] made several
proposals and suggestions to White House decision-makers and that the promises
and statements of both candidates are that they'll change American foreign
policy. This may all be true, but these changes will be in the interests of
American citizens and their strategic "Zionist" allies and focused on
American interests overseas, particularly the control of oil resources and the
further opening of weapons markets, as well as countering the Russian bear
which is awakening. For all these reasons, the Americans will create a new
September 11.
Meanwhile, the Zionist entity
is taking advantage of our disunity and weakness, hoping to participate in a
new world order in which new entities come to power and where ruling regimes
fall - even those who have been historically loyal to their American masters.
As for us "real"
Arabs, we look toward the insurgents and resistance, hoping that the day comes when
Arabs make their own choices without waiting for decisions from the White
House.
It is said that once upon a
time, a man went to sea and experienced its storms and high waves. Then he went
to sea again and found it to be calm with just a pleasant breeze. The man said
to the sea:" I won't be fooled or tempted by your placidness, for I have
seen your waves, which horrify and terrify."
Therefore, we Arabs have to
learn from this man and not build our dreams on the fact that Bush is leaving
and Obama coming in. Let us have no doubts, our problems will not be solved by
the Democrats under Barack Obama and his deputy Joe Biden; or by the
Republicans led by John McCain or his deputy, Palin.
Our problems will be solved
only when we make real the true dream - that of national reconciliation, Arab
solidarity and opposition to Zionism. In so doing, we will restore our pride
and dignity. And ever after, the enemy - any enemy - will have to reckon with
us on that basis. Ever after, we'll no longer beat the drums for anyone else.
Glory Be to the Arab Nation
…Victory to its people … Paradise to its Martyrs … and Allah Akbar [God
is Great].
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VERSION
SEE ALSO FROM YEMEN:
Alsahwa, Yemen
Arabs Must Let Go of
Conspiracy Theories …
http://worldmeets.us/alsahwa000001.shtml
Al-Wahdawi,
Yemen
Palestinians Must Campaign
to 'Alter Obama's Position' …
http://worldmeets.us/alwahdawi000001.shtml
[Posted by WORLDMEETS.US
October 2, 5:46pm]
