CAIRO,
July 7 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - The editor of a state-owned
Egyptian daily denounced Sunday U.S. Mideast policies, particularly
the calls for the ouster of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, as the
work of "amateurs."
"The
administration for countries' affairs should be the responsibility of
professional, specialized politicians and not the responsibility of
amateurs," wrote Galal Dawidar, editor-in-chief of Al-Akhbar.
Otherwise,
Duweidar wrote, "We find that amateurs take things in hand as
[happened to] the policies of the United States under the leadership
of current President [George W.] Bush."
He
called the U.S. policies in the Middle East unbalanced, adding that
such policies are not serving the U.S. interests in the area.
Duweidar
criticized the "hawks of the Bush administration" for
forcing U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell to turn against
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, "the one man able to bring the
peace process to a successful conclusion."
The
"hawks", whom Duweidar named as U.S. Vice President Dick
Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, national security advisor
Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, had
pushed for positions "against all the advice of the professionals
of the State Department."
He
blamed the "hawks" for the "philosophy of the Bush
speech on June 24, described by some U.S. writers as though it
crystallized the thoughts of [Israel Prime Minister Ariel]
Sharon."
Bush,
in his speech, called on Palestinians to dump Arafat as a condition
for the United States to support a future Palestinian state.
