Women assail government-funded militia as they beat a protester

on the streets of Tehran, Saturday, June 20.

[news@gooya.com]

Dar al-Hayat, Saudi Arabia

'Let Ahmadinejad and the Supreme Leader Continue'

"The majority still believe in the ideas of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Ahmadinejad: the U.S. is in retreat in Iraq. It's bogged down in Afghanistan. It wages a direct war with the Taliban and a proxy war in Pakistan. And for the first time, its chief ally Israel senses an existentialist threat. Why make concessions now? Let Washington begin the bazaar if it wants to help us. Let it be the one to pay the price. Ahmadinejad is the best leader to implement this plan."

By Mostafa Zein

June 16, 2009

Saudi Arabia - Dar al-Hayat - Original Article (English)

The people of the Middle East and many of their governments still can’t believe that President George Bush's mandate is over. They act as though the United States still lives in the era of adventurism and military blunders that drowned the region in chaos. This feeling is heightened by the fact that successive American administrations, Republican and Democrat, have treated Middle East people with so much disdain; and that all American presidents depend on a balance of institutions controlled by Congress, weapon manufacturers and various other lobbies.

Posted by WORLDMEETS.US

This feeling was made more tangible by the Israeli then the Iranian elections. In the hope of waging new wars to avenge the defeat in Lebanon and restore their army’s stature and deterrence capability, the Israelis brought their most extremist leaders to power in order to revive Zionism. They never imagined that Washington would let them down and cut off the vital artery of support it provides. Since Israel was established, Tel Aviv got used to this to such an extent that they never differentiated between their capabilities and those of the world's sole superpower. They became used to having unquestioned White House support for all of their policies: waging wars, seizing land, committing massacres, uprooting Palestinians, delaying and eluding the peace process, violating international resolutions, covering up their nuclear weapons program, destroying Iraq's reactor in the early 1980s and striking a Syrian location some time ago ...

In Iran, the people renewed the mandate of hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who disappointed reformers seeking to change Iran's political and social life through relations with the West, particularly the United States. Ahmadinejad perceives such a change as being against the Islamic revolution as envisioned by the Ayatollah Khomeini. All of Iran's civil and military institutions rushed to defend these achievements. The majority still believe in the ideas of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Ahmadinejad: the U.S. is in retreat in Iraq to escape the quagmire there. It's bogged down in Afghanistan. It wages a direct war with the Taliban and a proxy war in Pakistan. And for the first time, its chief ally in the Middle East, Israel, senses an existentialist threat. Why make concessions now? Let Washington begin the bazaar if it wants to help us. Let it be the one to pay the price. Ahmadinejad is the best leader to implement this plan. Let him be the President. Let him continue the path with the Supreme Leader.  

Posted by WORLDMEETS.US

In the greater part of our Arab world, people are voiceless. They cannot dismiss an extremist official or appoint another advocate of change through rapprochement with the West. Lebanon is an exception. It has been a laboratory for Washington during and after Bush’s mandate. Its president was elected abroad and then approved by Parliament. Its house of deputies was elected to make points for being a model for Arab moderation. As long as this benefits the main stakeholders, Lebanese will end up forming a “no winner, no loser.” government.

Fellow demonstrators struggle to stop the bleeding of a young girl

shot down by plainclothes members of Iran's Basij - vigilantes that

act as enforcers for the Iranian regime. The video shows the blood

gushing from her head and neck as life slipped away. This video is

not for children: CLICK HERE OR CLICK PHOTO TO WATCH

If Arabs maintain this identity, Arabs will find themselves in trouble. Moderate Arabs are torn between two extremisms: Ahmadinejad’s Iran and Netanyahu and Lieberman’s Israel. Choosing between them is hard. Defiant Arabs, for their part, wager on Israel’s intransigence to banish the saying that Iran is the enemy and not Israel. Help arrived through the person of Netanyahu. He rejected the two-state solution and left it to the host countries to solve the problem of Palestinian refugees on their territories. He called on the world to recognize Israel’s Jewishness. Indicators of the U.S. retreat surfaced quickly. The White House welcomed his ideas. France found them to be positive. Others will follow suit.

The fear now is that Israeli maneuvering and a deadlock in Iran in the face of Obama’s ideas of peace could evolve into an inter-Arab crisis which would comfort Netanyahu and help him christen Tehran as the “joint” enemy of Jews and Muslims.

SEE ALSO ON THIS:

L'Orient Le Jour, Lebanon: Mr. Obama's Push of Dialogue and Openness Kicks In
Dar al-Hayat, Saudi Arabia: Worrying Times for Iran's Supreme Leader
Les Dernieres Nouvelles d'Alsace, France: 'Iran's Ayatollahs are Doomed'
Gazeta, Russia: Kremlin Balanced 'Between Two Chairs': Iran's and the West's
Yemen Times, Yemen: 'Zionists and Their Puppets' Assail Barack Obama
The Asia Times, Hong Kong: Beijing Cautions the U.S. Over Iran

Jerusalem Post, Israel: Iranian Protesters 'Cast Adrift' By Obama and E.U.
Debka File, Israel: White House is Divided on Iranian Protests

[Posted by WORLDMEETS.US June 22, 1:19pm]