Mubarak: Arabs Hate U.S. More Than Ever
Oh, really? And how do you think we feel about you?
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Quoted, in part, of a Reuters news story:
PARIS (Reuters) - Arabs in the Middle East hate the United States more than ever following the invasion of Iraq and Israel's assassination of two Hamas leaders, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said in comments published Tuesday.
Mubarak, who visited the United States last week, told French newspaper Le Monde that Washington's actions had caused despair, frustration and a sense of injustice in the Arab world.
"Today there is hatred of the Americans like never before in the region," he said in an interview given during a stay in France, where he met President Jacques Chirac Monday.
He blamed the hostility partly on U.S. support for Israel, which assassinated Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi in a missile strike in the Gaza Strip Saturday weeks after killing his predecessor, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
"At the start some considered the Americans were helping them. There was no hatred of the Americans. After what has happened in Iraq, there is unprecedented hatred and the Americans know it," Mubarak said.
"People have a feeling of injustice. What's more, they see (Israeli Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon acting as he pleases, without the Americans saying anything. He assassinates people who don't have the planes and helicopters that he has."
Israel says such killings are self-defense. But Mubarak said the assassination of Rantissi could have "serious consequences" and that instability in Gaza and Iraq would not serve U.S. or Israeli interests.
"The despair and feeling of injustice are not going to be limited to our region alone. American and Israeli interests will not be safe, not only in our region but anywhere in the world," he said.
You know, this brand of saber rattling is getting to be a real pain in the ass. First, let's set some things straight:
A) Holding a Palestinian passport within the Arab world basically puts you at the amoeba level on the Arab food chain. You're nothing. You aren't allowed passage into other Arab countries. You can't receive medical care. You're an untouchable; ostracized by the very people who then use your name and plight for bemoaning the injustices of the U.S. and Israel. What has Egypt done to change this? Nothing.
What the hell has Egypt done to facilitate peace along the Gaza strip other than churn out blind hard-line, hate-mongering Muslim clerics at a mind-boggling rate? Nothing. Nada. Zip.
C) When has Mubarak ever joined a front of moderate Muslims to decry the senseless and inflammatory nature of suicide bombings run by Hamas? When has that same front ever called for the Palestinian government to raise a hand to the terrorists in their midst? Again, if you're keeping count, never (mostly because there doesn't seem to be such a thing as moderate Muslims willing to take a stand against even the most extreme in their midst).
I believe Mubarak is scared. Scared that what countries and their leaders are unwilling to deal with, the U.S. will, especially along the lines of turning a blind eye to terrorists and their ilk. So, when you shrug your shoulders because some hometown kid was brainwashed by some hard-line religious zealot posing as a schoolteacher into blowing up himself and twenty of the nearest bus passengers, you start to look over your shoulder. And you try to gain support by acting as the populist: Ranting and raving like you have an idea of what the hell is going on.
Regardless of what kind of diplomacy the U.S. tries, we'll never be loved by the Arab nations. Heck, the Arab nations don’t even love each other, and it really shouldn't change the nature of what we do. I'm not saying the U.S. is right in everything it does. There are so many different levels to what is actually happening when foreign policy is scripted, it's almost best that you try not to think about it. But, I do believe, that common thugs, when they wrap their half-baked thoughts of what is right and wrong in the world and wrap a religion around it, and then decide to kill off a few thousand Americans, well, that shit has got to stop, and I could care less what a multi-generational syphilis-carrying camel fucker has to say about it.
PARIS (Reuters) - Arabs in the Middle East hate the United States more than ever following the invasion of Iraq and Israel's assassination of two Hamas leaders, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said in comments published Tuesday.
Mubarak, who visited the United States last week, told French newspaper Le Monde that Washington's actions had caused despair, frustration and a sense of injustice in the Arab world.
"Today there is hatred of the Americans like never before in the region," he said in an interview given during a stay in France, where he met President Jacques Chirac Monday.
He blamed the hostility partly on U.S. support for Israel, which assassinated Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi in a missile strike in the Gaza Strip Saturday weeks after killing his predecessor, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
"At the start some considered the Americans were helping them. There was no hatred of the Americans. After what has happened in Iraq, there is unprecedented hatred and the Americans know it," Mubarak said.
"People have a feeling of injustice. What's more, they see (Israeli Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon acting as he pleases, without the Americans saying anything. He assassinates people who don't have the planes and helicopters that he has."
Israel says such killings are self-defense. But Mubarak said the assassination of Rantissi could have "serious consequences" and that instability in Gaza and Iraq would not serve U.S. or Israeli interests.
"The despair and feeling of injustice are not going to be limited to our region alone. American and Israeli interests will not be safe, not only in our region but anywhere in the world," he said.
You know, this brand of saber rattling is getting to be a real pain in the ass. First, let's set some things straight:
A) Holding a Palestinian passport within the Arab world basically puts you at the amoeba level on the Arab food chain. You're nothing. You aren't allowed passage into other Arab countries. You can't receive medical care. You're an untouchable; ostracized by the very people who then use your name and plight for bemoaning the injustices of the U.S. and Israel. What has Egypt done to change this? Nothing.
What the hell has Egypt done to facilitate peace along the Gaza strip other than churn out blind hard-line, hate-mongering Muslim clerics at a mind-boggling rate? Nothing. Nada. Zip.C) When has Mubarak ever joined a front of moderate Muslims to decry the senseless and inflammatory nature of suicide bombings run by Hamas? When has that same front ever called for the Palestinian government to raise a hand to the terrorists in their midst? Again, if you're keeping count, never (mostly because there doesn't seem to be such a thing as moderate Muslims willing to take a stand against even the most extreme in their midst).
I believe Mubarak is scared. Scared that what countries and their leaders are unwilling to deal with, the U.S. will, especially along the lines of turning a blind eye to terrorists and their ilk. So, when you shrug your shoulders because some hometown kid was brainwashed by some hard-line religious zealot posing as a schoolteacher into blowing up himself and twenty of the nearest bus passengers, you start to look over your shoulder. And you try to gain support by acting as the populist: Ranting and raving like you have an idea of what the hell is going on.
Regardless of what kind of diplomacy the U.S. tries, we'll never be loved by the Arab nations. Heck, the Arab nations don’t even love each other, and it really shouldn't change the nature of what we do. I'm not saying the U.S. is right in everything it does. There are so many different levels to what is actually happening when foreign policy is scripted, it's almost best that you try not to think about it. But, I do believe, that common thugs, when they wrap their half-baked thoughts of what is right and wrong in the world and wrap a religion around it, and then decide to kill off a few thousand Americans, well, that shit has got to stop, and I could care less what a multi-generational syphilis-carrying camel fucker has to say about it.