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Le Quotidian d'Oran, Algeria

Bush At the Knesset: Pure 'Hate and Fabrication'

"In front of Israeli deputies, the president of the United States indulged in exaltation about 'the chosen people,' while expressing his loathing for those Arabs who refuse his diktat. … The spectacle offered in Jerusalem deserves to be seen and appreciated: it bluntly exhibits ridicule for the 'moderate Arab' states - first and foremost Saudi Arabia - where Bush went after pouring out his gall at the Knesset."

Editorial By K. Selim

Translated By Sandrine Ageorges

May 16, 2008

Algeria - Le Quotidian d'Oran- Original Article (French)

In front of Israeli deputies, the president of the United States indulged in exaltation about “the chosen people,” while expressing his loathing for those Arabs who resist his diktat. The speech exuded pure hatred coupled with the fabrication of prophecy. [watch speech in photo-box, right].

In the chamber there was an ecstatic atmosphere, shared in and supported by an audience at the height of contentment. The performance by George W. Bush could be summarized as a defense and an illustration of American-Zionist solidarity, which included an assertion that 300 million Americans stood alongside seven millions Israelis threatened by the same enemy.

It's a shame that since 1948, history only designate the other war maker [the Arabs] rather than the Zionist entity and its ally [the U.S.]. But at this level of disconnection, truth and history carry very little weight. Beyond the Arab-Muslims - the enemy which was so clearly identified but never named - the message was addressed to the American people. And particularly to Barack Obama, whose campaign rhetoric is certainly less foolhardy than the bellicose “flights of fancy” of a president whose international record is an appalling trail if blood, and whose economic results are a recession the likes of which haven’t been seen since the 1930s.

The spectacle offered in Jerusalem deserves to be seen and appreciated: it bluntly exhibits ridicule for the “moderate Arab” states - first and foremost Saudi Arabia - where Bush went to after pouring out his gall at the Knesset.

It's impossible not to take note of such fervent hatred which is worthy of John Hagee, the fanatical Zionist-Christian evangelist who is ready to exterminate all the Arabs of Palestine - and everywhere else, for that matter. Bush aroused the frenetic enthusiasm of Israeli parliamentarians, who began the session by expelling the few Arab members of the Knesset. Bush's display would not have been disavowed by even the most restive - or the crudest - radical Imam in the Afghan mountains.

JOHN HAGEEE ON THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION

It was a passionate speech of detestation made while at the same time, black balloons launched by the people of the Nakba [the catastrophe] rose to the heavens. A few miles from this mystical happening [at the Knesset], tens of thousands of Palestinians were demonstrating to denounce the criminal injustice they have endured for the past 60 years.

There was not the slightest hint of compassion for these poor human beings who possess such unbearable "otherness." The fact is that a powerful army of invaders which was equipped so fully by the West, liberated itself from its own history of pogroms and genocide by indulging in ethnic cleansing, the theft of property and the dispossession of an indigenous people, all of which has been glibly disposed of by the Powers into the dustbin of history. Of course the President of Civilization magnanimously - and fleetingly - referred for the umpteenth time to the creation of a state for the Palestinians. It's all part of the ritual.

Palestinians in Bethlehem prepare to release black ballons to commemorate the

"Naqba' or the "Catastrophe" - the foundation of the state of Israel 60 years ago.

That same day, the Israeli foreign minister declared that consideration of the creation of this state would be delayed until a settlement of the issue of nuclear weapons in Iran could be reached. Is there need to express the least surprise at the inanity of this argument? Not really … The intentions of the Zionists aren't hidden: to extend the fait accompli until they can impose by force what is based on the arbitrary. 

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The formerly colonized peoples - we Algerians are well-placed to know - have all experienced the same tactics and the same methods. We know how it ends: the conflict in the Middle East will not escape the rule. And all the preaching in the world, as exalted as it may be, won’t change a thing.

[Editor's Note: Reporters Without Borders rates Algeria's media as "Situation Difficult "].

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