>>Many in America, like me, know how this respected Egyptian feels<<
Many in America, like me, think he's as full of baloney as the Iraqi Information Minister. Saying something widely believed doesn't make it true.
>>The problem, he said, is that the war on Iraq is widely seen in the Arab world as an attack on all Arabs, meant to serve the interests of Israel with no compensating outreach to aggrieved Arabs.<<
I know, I know, and an attack on the US is seen outside the Arab world as an attack on the West. The bit about Israel is the usual red herring -- "no, no, you cannot do anything until you solve Israel/Palestine, and you shall never solve Israel/Palestine while I have breath in my body."
>>While the 1991 Persian Gulf war, under Mr. Bush's father, was waged with the understanding that the United States would engage itself in the search for peace, he said, this war was launched without a parallel American effort to compel Israel to forge a genuine peace with the Palestinians.<<
Repeat: "no, no, you cannot do anything until you solve Israel/Palestine, and you shall never solve Israel/Palestine while I have breath in my body."
>>"The United States has played a destructive role by giving direct or indirect green lights to the Israeli government to do what it pleases," Mr. Aboulmagd said. "This is ruining Israel's future in the area. And whatever, even if all the Arabs sign up, this is a truce, this is a ceasefire, this is not peace. It is not peace. If you want peace you must have genuine desire for peace."<<
Repeat: "no, no, you cannot do anything until you solve Israel/Palestine, and you shall never solve Israel/Palestine while I have breath in my body."
>>If the Iraq war comes to be seen as an American war against Islam, he added, President Bush may be partly to blame. "He believes he was chosen by the Almighty to fulfill a Christian mission," Mr. Aboulmagd said. "Or at least he was made to believe that by the people around him."<<
Bullshit walking, bullshit on stilts, doesn't matter, it's still bullshit.
Believe it all you want. Lots of people believe that Elvis is alive and little green men take people up in spaceships.
President Bush goes to church and prays during the day, even in his place of work. So what? |
