Obama’s administration has legitimately lost credibility. Last week the US was the only country out of 15 nations to veto the Arab resolution at the United Nations Security Council that condemned Israel for building illegal settlements in Palestinian territories. Even Britain backed the resolution.
What’s shameful is American politicians have spent two years criticizing Israel for continuing to build the illegal settlements as an act that defies any prospect for peace. Israel considers expansion as an instrument that insures security and recognition.
Also in Mid-East news: Israel attempts to scramble the international community together to respond to Iran’s crossing of the Suez Canal. We are already beginning to see fairness now that Hosni Mubarak has been ousted. According to BBC, Egypt approved Iran’s passage through the canal, confirming that under international agreements, Iran is permitted to cross. However, this hasn’t been attempted since Iran’s revolution of 1979.
Iran’s supply ships are headed to Syria to deliver a frigate and conduct yearlong training. So, what’s the paranoia about? Iran is nowhere close to having a nuclear weapon, that is, if they are even working towards the creation of one.
Israel on the other hand has up to 200 nuclear warheads and refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty while rejecting UN inspections.
BBC also uncovers Israeli spies that have been linked to the assassination of Iranian scientists who were working toward clean nuclear energy that would benefit our planet. If Iran’s protests are truly studied and acknowledged, it is a product of economics during harsh fiscal times impacted by American sanctions influenced by Israeli coercion.
When Obama spoke in Cairo on June of 2009, many refused to believe that Egypt was ruled by a tyrannical puppet who received the second largest amount of US funding, with first place being Israel.
And there was George W. Bush on a mission to develop democracy in the Mid-East by invading Iraq knowing there were no weapons of mass destruction, but still insisting there were.
President Bush’s administration went on to facilitate democratic elections in Palestine, only to fall short by punishing Palestinians for choosing the party that would best protect their aspirations as honest as possible.
America imposed the harshest sanctions and forced eternal suffocation on Palestinian Christians and Muslims in Gaza by persuading Mubarak to shut the border and giving Israel the right to patrol from sky, land and sea. The odd part about it is Palestinians voted for the same group that Israel once created. This is how American democracy was being spread in the Mid-East.
Al-Jazeera recently released “Palestinian Papers,” which exposes American backed Palestinian leadership who publicly protested the construction of Israeli settlements, but were privately willing to give Israel all of East Jerusalem. Israel still rejected the offer! This is proof that the Israeli government is not willing to pursue peace. Rather, Israel is on a quest to take land by force and attempt to justify its ownership while pretending to meet Arabs halfway for harmony.
Protests in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Yemen, Jordan, Oman, Algeria, Sudan, Mauritania, Syria, Kuwait, Palestine, Morocco and Saudi Arabia shows our generation’s anger toward hypocrisy.
From America’s support of Pol Pot to creative and crafty slogans like “bomb-bomb Iran,” mutual respect, fairness, integrity, the pursuit of knowledge and voidance of greed is how we are to establish unity, peace and understanding.
Khalil Daniel Sheikh is a senior liberal study major and a contributing writer for the Daily 49er.
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