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