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Bush promised Sharon what neither “owns” or “deserves”
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CAIRO,
April 16 (IslamOnline.net) – As the whole world continued Friday,
April 16, to express outrage at U.S. President George Bush’s flagrant
violation of International Law and his adoption of Israel’s demands,
Arabic and foreign papers teemed with articles slamming the dangerous
shift of policy or what some termed “Bushfour Promise”.
“Once
again… This who owns not gave (something not his) to this who deserves
(it) not. Bush handled the land and rights of the Palestinians as if
they were his forefathers’, armed with his country’s position as the
world’s superpower,” political analyst and IslamOnline.net political
consultant, Mohamed Gamal Arafah wrote Thursday.
In
his analysis entitled “Bushfour Promise.. New Challenge To Arab
Leaders”, the Egyptian analyst recalled the infamous Balfour Promise.
Some
87 years ago, British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour, promised
the Zionists a home in Palestine, with the “Balfour Declaration” of
1917.
The
famous Arab saying was later introduced to the political dictionary,
“That who owns not gave to that who deserves not”. The first being
the British Balfour (as Britain did not own Palestine), the latter are
the Zionist group as it definitely did not deserve expelling a people to
take over their land.
The
same message – Bushfour – was reiterated by the chief of Egypt’s
mass circulation and state-run daily al-Ahram, Ibrahim Nafie, who also
likened Bush’s guarantees to Israeli Premier Ariel Sharon to the
infamous Promise of 1917.
All
Arabic papers and magazines grilled Bush’s flagrant bias to Israel
that brought up tragic memories and reminded the world of the
catastrophe of the Palestinian people both under occupation and in
diaspora.
French
President Jacques Chirac branded the Sharon plan, endorsed by Bush, as
“dangerous” and setting up a “troubling precedent”.
"For
the borders, I consider that international law must be respected. I have
reservations about any unilateral or bilateral undermining of
international law," Chirac said.
"If
circumstances or men start playing with international stability and the
rules of international law, it is a troubling precedent," Chirac
said. "It's dangerous."
“Legitimizing
Terrorism”
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Launching
a staunch attack against Bush’s guarantees to Sharon, British famous
writer Robert Fisk entitled his Friday article in The Independent
saying, “By endorsing Ariel Sharon’s plan, George has legitimized
terrorism”.
“What
better recruiting sergeant could Bin Laden have than the President of
the United States?”
“So
President George Bush tears up the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan and
that's okay. Israeli settlements for Jews and Jews only on the West
Bank. That's okay. Taking land from Palestinians who have owned that
land for generations, that's okay. U.N. Security Council Resolution 242
says that land cannot be acquired by war. Forget it. That's okay,”
Fisk wrote.
British
dailies, however, focused more on what is seen as “humiliation and
defeat” to Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Entitled
“Sharon's triumph is Blair's defeat”, an article published by The
Guardian, that is summed up, “By backing Israel's land grab, Bush has
humiliated the Prime Minister”.
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