Bush does not want to see the real roots of terrorism - unbalanced and unjust U.S. policies: analysts

Report by Khaled Mamdouh, IOL Staff

CAIRO, September 12 (IslamOnline) – The first anniversary of last year’s 9/11 attacks on the United States grabbed the headlines of major Arabic newspapers published Thursday, September 12, in the Middle East. Sympathy with the almost 3,000 innocent victims, killed under the rubble of the devastated twin towers of  the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and the plane crash in Pennsylvania, could not be missed.

However, almost all editorials, comments, reports and analyses put the blame, at least partly, on the U.S. administration, for not adopting balanced and just policies worldwide.

Moreover, the Bush administration is warned against more terrorist attacks on U.S. interests in and outside the American soil unless it moves to dry up the roots and resources of what is termed by the U.S. as “international terrorism.”

In his editorial, Chief Editor of state run Al-Akhbar daily, Galal Dwidar, while condemning “the criminal, terrorist attacks of 9/11”, reminded the world of “other and more victims of human rights violations that fell following those attacks”.

“That criminal act made the U.S. lose its mind and commit more mistakes against the Arabs. This led the sole superpower to fall in the trap of the Zionist lobby, whose only aim is the illegal interest of Israel, even if that meant damaging the U.S. interests.

“That lobby managed to convince the badly-hurt Bush administration to equalize terrorism with the Palestinian people’s legitimate right to resist the fascist Israeli occupation,” Dwidar wrote.

“Washington does not want to understand – willingly – that it has no real problem with the Arabs. The only problem is Washington’s hostile stance against lawful rights of the Arabs in the face of unlawful Israeli aggressions.

“The right thing to be said on the anniversary of 9/11 is the only way to stop the devastating phenomenon of terrorism is a sincere effort to dry its roots and deprive it from its justifications.

“The whole world, on top of which comes the U.S., is urged to adopt justice, reject aggression, so as to preserve peoples’ dignity, rights and stability,” he added.

The same opinion was reflected in Al-Ahram mass-circulation daily. In his daily column, famous Egyptian writer Anees Mansour, also voiced Arab and Muslim identical view with the Americans “as far as terrorism was concerned.”

“They [Americans] hate terrorism. We do hate it, too. We have been hit by it long before them. However, we disagree with them [the Bush administration] as far as Palestine is concerned.

“We [Middle Easterners, Arabs and Muslims] can not agree with them that the Palestinians are terrorists. The Palestinians are resisting occupying [Israeli] tanks and sophisticated U.S.-made weapons with stones. They [the Palestinians] prefer death to humiliation.

“We also disagree with [U.S. President George W.] Bush that [Israeli Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon is a man of peace. We do not accept, for the American people, to be actually ruled by a dwarf like Sharon,” Mansour wrote.

Another editorial by the Arabic language, London-based newspaper, Al-Quds Al-Arabi, was more blunt in blaming the United States for the attacks of September 11, and even anticipating more attacks against the U.S., citing “no change of Uncle Sam’s unjust foreign policies.”

The paper cited the major changes resulting from the historic attacks, on top of which came the fact that “Osama bin Laden and Mulla Omar are still alive.” Also, the instability of the security situation in Afghanistan, giving the almost daily explosions and attacks against foreign troops, in general, and U.S. ones in particular.

Al-Quds, an independent newspaper, also said that the huge U.S. nuclear, atomic and traditional arsenal of weapons did not manage to protect the U.S. citizens abroad, or even at home.

“The 9/11 attacks proved that those who used to interfere in world affairs and not be punished for it (clear reference to the Americans), will no longer enjoy that privilege. Those attacks may encourage other peoples, suffering U.S. domination, to follow suite,” the paper wrote.

“The current U.S. administration refuses to listen to wise allies, and insists to beat the drums of war. This is a clear sign that Bush and his hawks did not grasp the lessons of 9/11 attacks,” the paper concluded.

On the other hand, headlines and editorials of major U.S. and British newspapers focused on Bush’s plans to strike Iraq, and his speech, later Thursday, September 12, before the General Assembly of the United Nations.

Some papers, like the Washington Post, and the Guardian, however, cited some reservations, on the course of their editorials, about any unilateral military action against Iraq.

One year after 9/11, it seems the Bush administration has made its mind to keep the wheel of war running till the end of “terrorists and tyrants”. The question remain though, is that really possible? And more importantly, who can judge?

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