uruknet.info
  اوروكنت.إنفو
     
    informazione dal medio oriente
    information from middle east
    المعلومات من الشرق الأوسط

[ home page] | [ tutte le notizie/all news ] | [ download banner] | [ ultimo aggiornamento/last update 01/01/1970 01:00 ] 74588


english italiano

  [ Subscribe our newsletter!   -   Iscriviti alla nostra newsletter! ]  



Obama Treats Egypt like a Banana Republic


February 3, 2011 - President Barak Obama calls on President Mubarak to immediately arrange for transfer of power, and that a transition of power must begin 'now' not only sounds hypocritical but also disingenuous. Not to defend President Mubarak or his regime, but Obama and many in his administration, in bossing and pushing Mubarak around like a little boy shows the true face of a U.S administration when it deals with its Arab allies. Obama’s sudden lionized rhetoric against Mubarak is not driven by his concerns about the Egyptians right to free speech, free assembly and to have access to the Internet or by a sudden awakening of his human rights impulse. Obama visited Egypt in 2009 and met with Mubarak then, but did not raise the issue of human rights with him, nor did he urge him to ease his grip on power. President Mubarak rule over Egypt is the longest since Mohammad Ali ruled the country from 1805-1849. It is time, therefore, for the Egyptian people to be able have a choice of their own and to improve their shattered lives without U.S patriarchal U.S intervention...

[74588]



Uruknet on Alexa


End Gaza Siege
End Gaza Siege

>

:: Segnala Uruknet agli amici. Clicka qui.
:: Invite your friends to Uruknet. Click here.




:: Segnalaci un articolo
:: Tell us of an article






Obama Treats Egypt like a Banana Republic

By Ali Younes

3mubarak_obama.jpg

February 3, 2011


President Barak Obama calls on President Mubarak to immediately arrange for transfer of power, and that a transition of power must begin 'now' not only sounds hypocritical but also disingenuous. Not to defend President Mubarak or his regime, but Obama and many in his administration, in bossing and pushing Mubarak around like a little boy shows the true face of a U.S administration when it deals with its Arab allies.

Obama’s sudden lionized rhetoric against Mubarak is not driven by his concerns about the Egyptians right to free speech, free assembly and to have access to the Internet or by a sudden awakening of his human rights impulse. Obama visited Egypt in 2009 and met with Mubarak then, but did not raise the issue of human rights with him, nor did he urge him to ease his grip on power. President Mubarak rule over Egypt is the longest since Mohammad Ali ruled the country from 1805-1849. It is time, therefore, for the Egyptian people to be able have a choice of their own and to improve their shattered lives without U.S patriarchal U.S intervention.

No doubt that Egypt under Mubarak is a country in decline. Its economy is fragile, it is dependent on foreign aid for sustenance, and its middle class have all but disappeared due to high inflation and high unemployment. The people of Egypt deserve to have real change, not just "transfer of power" which means another U.S ally who will continue to commit Egypt to circle in the U.S orbit in exchange for an injection of 1.5 billion USD per year which mostly goes to U.S companies for buying U.S military hardware.

When comparing the stances of president Obama and others in his administration, like secretary of State Hilary Clinton, on the issue of Israeli settlements or their dealing with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Obama was practically reduced to begging Netanyahu who insulted him and his vice president and his secretary of state. The reaction of the U.S government to the Israeli humiliation was by turning the other cheek.

Furthermore, The U.S administration did not raise the issue with Israeli leaders over killing hundreds of Palestinians in their war on Gaza in 2009. On the contrary the Obama administration was instrumental in undermining the Goldstone report that charged Israel with committing war crimes in Gaza. So how one is supposed to believe a U.S administration that claims that it is concerned about the Egyptian people rights and freedoms while helps Israel denies it to the Palestinians?

Administration rhetoric with the Egyptian government and President Mubarak makes Egypt look like a banana republic, not a country with over 4000 years of history and is one of the oldest continuing political states in the world. By using the Egyptian people’s revolt, Obama is attempting, practically, to remove Mubarak from office and install another U.S ally in his place. Obama’s main objectives are to maintain Egypt under Mubarak or not as the U.S main Arab satellite state.

The Egyptian people actually deserve much more than that, but one cannot fail to see how this administration is trying to capitalize on the grievances of the Egyptian people in order to secure its own objectives in post Mubarak Egypt. The U.S policy in the Middle East must shift its orientation to have more of a human rights posture as oppose to supporting dictators and police states.





:: Article nr. 74588 sent on 04-feb-2011 06:05 ECT

www.uruknet.info?p=74588



:: The views expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of this website.

The section for the comments of our readers has been closed, because of many out-of-topics.
Now you can post your own comments into our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/uruknet





       
[ Printable version ] | [ Send it to a friend ]


[ Contatto/Contact ] | [ Home Page ] | [Tutte le notizie/All news ]







Uruknet on Twitter




:: RSS updated to 2.0

:: English
:: Italiano



:: Uruknet for your mobile phone:
www.uruknet.mobi


Uruknet on Facebook






:: Motore di ricerca / Search Engine


uruknet
the web



:: Immagini / Pictures


Initial
Middle




The newsletter archive




L'Impero si è fermato a Bahgdad, by Valeria Poletti


Modulo per ordini




subscribe

:: Newsletter

:: Comments


Haq Agency
Haq Agency - English

Haq Agency - Arabic


AMSI
AMSI - Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq - English

AMSI - Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq - Arabic




Font size
Carattere
1 2 3





:: All events








     

[ home page] | [ tutte le notizie/all news ] | [ download banner] | [ ultimo aggiornamento/last update 01/01/1970 01:00 ]




Uruknet receives daily many hacking attempts. To prevent this, we have 10 websites on 6 servers in different places. So, if the website is slow or it does not answer, you can recall one of the other web sites: www.uruknet.info www.uruknet.de www.uruknet.biz www.uruknet.org.uk www.uruknet.com www.uruknet.org - www.uruknet.it www.uruknet.eu www.uruknet.net www.uruknet.web.at.it




:: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more info go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
::  We always mention the author and link the original site and page of every article.
uruknet, uruklink, iraq, uruqlink, iraq, irak, irakeno, iraqui, uruk, uruqlink, saddam hussein, baghdad, mesopotamia, babilonia, uday, qusay, udai, qusai,hussein, feddayn, fedayn saddam, mujaheddin, mojahidin, tarek aziz, chalabi, iraqui, baath, ba'ht, Aljazira, aljazeera, Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Palestina, Sharon, Israele, Nasser, ahram, hayat, sharq awsat, iraqwar,irakwar All pictures

 

I nostri partner - Our Partners:


TEV S.r.l.

TEV S.r.l.: hosting

www.tev.it

Progetto Niz

niz: news management

www.niz.it

Digitbrand

digitbrand: ".it" domains

www.digitbrand.com

Worlwide Mirror Web-Sites:
www.uruknet.info (Main)
www.uruknet.com
www.uruknet.net
www.uruknet.org
www.uruknet.us (USA)
www.uruknet.su (Soviet Union)
www.uruknet.ru (Russia)
www.uruknet.it (Association)
www.uruknet.web.at.it
www.uruknet.biz
www.uruknet.mobi (For Mobile Phones)
www.uruknet.org.uk (UK)
www.uruknet.de (Germany)
www.uruknet.ir (Iran)
www.uruknet.eu (Europe)
wap.uruknet.info (For Mobile Phones)
rss.uruknet.info (For Rss Feeds)
www.uruknet.tel

Vat Number: IT-97475012153