President Obama said: "the people of Egypt have spoken.....", they indeed have, they have spoken with the power that smoulders in every big group of the people, the power that can overthrow ANY regime. They have showed how powerful people can be, and it looks the world needed this reminder, as our so called representatives forget very quickly who they represent.
Nearly 40 years ago another important American official said something else, something probably much more close to real Western point of view. This man was Henry Kissinger, very powerful and very influential man, even though he does not hold any official position any more. What Henry Kissinger said was: "The Arabs had been weak; now they were strong." (1) That was any answer for the question why did not USA support any sort of concession from the Israel side after 1967 war, in short: USA do not talk to the weak. And exactly the same president Obama showed during last 3 weeks, neither him, nor his administration was thrilled when first demonstration took place in Tahrir Square, i am sure you still remember this, don't you? USA did not and still do not want any sort of democracy in Middle East, and they will not support any such movement, nor will Europe, because that will mean that governments would have at least partially follow the will of the nations. This is why Arab (and not only) nations have to take their fate in their own hands. because Arabs and all other people of the world do deserve freedom and decent lives. So does Palestinians.
There is no accident in the fact that USA support Israel so extensively for decades now, and it is not that USA likes Israel so much that they are worried about them so much, no way...... Powerful Israel in the middle of Arab countries prevents them from united policy, this is still the policy of divide and rule that was mastered by British Empire, sometimes the policy of the stick (more often) and the carrot, but always a policy, no accidents. It is called realpolitik, the policy based on power and practical issues rather than moral ones, which means: Palestinians can starve and die (so can Tibetans for example) as long as interests of USA are preserved...... or shall I say interests of global companies rather, because it does not look at all that any recent administration or government really represents the people that gave them the power.
If Arabs want to be really independent they have to be strong, as it was put more than clearly by Henry Kissinger.
Saturday 12 February 2011
Monday 7 February 2011
Importance of street sweepers
Egyptian revolution can change the world, this is what nearly everyone already knows> Egypt is an important country, both to the region and to the world, but its importance is not just geostrategically. What Egyptians are now doing, though I believe they do not even think about it now, is fighting western colonialism in the form of globalization, as they fight exploitation of so called developing countries by those who are developed already, they fight all those negative stereotypes which are willingly believed in the West and they fight racist assumption that are wide-spread through Europe and America (oh, yeah, I know it is not politically correct to talk about it, but me being white I know what other white people say...... and that grieves me a lot).
Europe and USA still have a huge problem with accepting independence of countries in Asia, Africa and South America, we still try to interfere, justifying it with protecting our interests. But... what about about the interests of Arabs, Latinos (heard those "jokes" on "Top Gear" about Mexicans? ), Indians, Black People of Africa etc? Because protecting our interest means that someone is loosing out a great deal. Like USA and UK protected the interest of their companies in Iraq, I do not believe that most of Iraqis are very happy with what happened, and this is just one example.
problem is that none of the western governments is going to accept independence of those countries just on the moral ground, they have mouths full of freedom and liberties, but what they actually do is protecting the interest of global companies, as they ALWAYS did. And they do not even talk on the behalf of the people of Europe and USA, as we never had any benefit of exploitation Africa, Asia or South America.
Hopefully we are witnessing another breach is New World Order, another blow to the system designed to enrich rich and enslave all the others.
Many so called experts claim that there is a danger of turning Egypt in some sort of theocratic dictatorship, but they do not give us any proofs of such assumption, they cannot give us any proofs, because from leaders and thinkers of Muslim Brotherhood say you just cannot draw such an idea, so they just made it up, exactly as they made up Massive Destruction Weapons in Iraq. Muslim Brotherhood is not any more radical that Tea Party (ever heard or read Sarah Palin? she's much worst than Tariq Ramadan in my opinion).
Of course, any government that will emerge in Egypt will face a very hard task of fulfil people's demands, and people are not very patient (though Egyptian might be different ;) ), but this revolution gives them a huge chance of improving their lives from a street sweeper to an university lecturer, because society does not only consist of businessmen.
Europe and USA still have a huge problem with accepting independence of countries in Asia, Africa and South America, we still try to interfere, justifying it with protecting our interests. But... what about about the interests of Arabs, Latinos (heard those "jokes" on "Top Gear" about Mexicans? ), Indians, Black People of Africa etc? Because protecting our interest means that someone is loosing out a great deal. Like USA and UK protected the interest of their companies in Iraq, I do not believe that most of Iraqis are very happy with what happened, and this is just one example.
problem is that none of the western governments is going to accept independence of those countries just on the moral ground, they have mouths full of freedom and liberties, but what they actually do is protecting the interest of global companies, as they ALWAYS did. And they do not even talk on the behalf of the people of Europe and USA, as we never had any benefit of exploitation Africa, Asia or South America.
Hopefully we are witnessing another breach is New World Order, another blow to the system designed to enrich rich and enslave all the others.
Many so called experts claim that there is a danger of turning Egypt in some sort of theocratic dictatorship, but they do not give us any proofs of such assumption, they cannot give us any proofs, because from leaders and thinkers of Muslim Brotherhood say you just cannot draw such an idea, so they just made it up, exactly as they made up Massive Destruction Weapons in Iraq. Muslim Brotherhood is not any more radical that Tea Party (ever heard or read Sarah Palin? she's much worst than Tariq Ramadan in my opinion).
Of course, any government that will emerge in Egypt will face a very hard task of fulfil people's demands, and people are not very patient (though Egyptian might be different ;) ), but this revolution gives them a huge chance of improving their lives from a street sweeper to an university lecturer, because society does not only consist of businessmen.
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