Peace In the Middle East: Can Mr. Obama Really Do It? 1/2

The events that unfolded in the United States over the last decade have been at best unpredictable and at worst tragic. America can be said to have witnessed one of the worst periods in its history since a combination of both the Post Civil War period and the period of the Carpetbaggers, and the period of the Great Depression. In addition, the George W. Bush epoch of calamity and despair, with its unabashed and unrelenting execution of the designs of the Conservative New Right and the highly active prodding of the Zionist lobby led by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and its puppets within the Bush-Cheney Administration have actually created an unpleasant venue for any President to work in. Mr. Barack Hussein Obama put forth all the aspirations of the American people in a sweeping campaign for the highest political office in the country. When the campaign for the Presidency of the United States began, there were actually no indications that Mr. Bush was going to leave his office with his country in a total mess politically, economically and socially. While no one had any illusions that Mr. Bush was a flip-flop in all the sense of the word, it is really distressing to hear the former constituencies in the Republican Party rush to point out all the errors and failings of the ''Obama" Administration. Even veteran politicians in the Congress are quick to point out that Mr. Obama has been untrue in his assessment of his own strengths. "He promised this and he promised that! Well where is it folks?" they say.
All one can say is that there is simply no fairness in these people. An American who recently came to Yemen was heard by this observer trying to explain to a few Yemenis, who had some knowledge of English in varying degrees that "Mr. Obama has actually spent in his first 100 days in the White House more than all the money that George W. Bush spent in all his eight years in the White House". I could not help but wonder why all this effort to undermine the Presidency of a man, who for the first time rose to the Presidency without the moral, financial and political backing of any of the icons of the American socio-economic and political establishment. Mr. Obama arose from the grass roots, by the grass roots and for the grass roots of the American people, who were the hardest hit by the follies of the Bush Administration. Never mind that the latter was guided more by the "security of Israel" and the "ability of Israel to defend itself" from the totally repressed victims of an ongoing aggression and occupation that has been slowly chewing at all the fabric of the Palestinians, who have not yet been driven to the Diaspora of the refugee camps, emigrant communities and graves of the thousands of innocent victims that were targeted by one of the most violence prone regime since that of Adolf Hitler, who they claim is their raison d'être. Of course many of these in the grassroots of the American social fabric, had no idea that Israel was in the end going to cost thousands of American lives, trillions of US Dollars and the credibility and reputation of the United States as a fair and just broker of peace and international stability. Yet it is a fact that the Israelis were not mindful of what comes out of all this calamitous behavior that characterized the Bush Administration, as shown recently by the visit of Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House. The latter had the audacity to come to urge the White House to start pointing its guns at Iran "before Iran's nukes become the world's greatest danger to the western world". Never mind, that Mr. Obama has a haunting economic crisis to overcome. Never mind that Israel itself has over two hundred nukes at its disposal and its human rights record has not justified at all the right to possess such an arsenal, especially when considering that the Arabs for all practical purposes do not pose any military threat to speak of to Israel, and are far from annihilating the mutant state that was implanted in their midst. The Israeli Prime Minister's Brooklyn mentality actually made him believe that he could put Mr. Obama to the first Zionist challenge of his Presidency: either you go by what AIPAC dictates or we will show you what the the instruments of the Israeli lobby can engineer against an unyielding American President. Thus the right wing conservative political machinery and AIPAC worked diligently to block the closure of Guantanamo Bay, even with the backing of the majority of the American Democrats in the Senate. This is how the Zionist lobby works even against those ideals that are what Obama considers to be the backbone of American political philosophy: America will not have torture camps, etc. For AIPAC and friends that is anathema to the entire social and political rhetoric upon which Zionism thrives and insists others should accept. With 11,000 Palestinians locked up in Zionist Concentration Camps, it is understandable why AIPAC and its friends would rather hold off the closure of Guantanamo Bay. Does this make sense? There is more on this to follow.


Hassan Al-Haifi may be blogged at: http://com-senfromyem.blogspot.com/