America Is the Plague

Published in Sot al-Iraq
(Iraq) on 17 May 2021
by Shakir Farid Hassan (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Naaima Abarouch. Edited by Jamye Sharp.
Our late great Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, was right when he said, “America is the plague and the plague is America,” in his poem “In Praise of the High Shadow.”

Indeed, this is what America has always been about. Despite its changing leadership, its policy has never been updated accordingly. America is still anti-Palestinian and undermines the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to a homeland. Add to this its conspiracies to liquidate the Palestinian national cause. One of them is the recent “Deal of the Century,” which is completely biased toward Israel in all its positions and wars against Arab peoples and states, and the Gaza Strip. Moreover, all the conflicts and global wars are caused by America, a country that also supports the world forces of terrorism, forces that led to the creation of Islamic State.

Mistaken are those who believed, imagined or bet that the new U.S. president, Joe Biden, would be the savior, and that he would adopt a new policy that differs from the policy and approach that former President Donald Trump and all his predecessors drew up.

Continuing the American policy of holding double standards, Biden and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visibly and explicitly declared, regarding the insane and iniquitous Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, that Israel has the “right to defend itself.” They did not say, however, that Gaza had the right to defend its people, Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa and Palestine.

That said, American policy with respect to the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has not changed, nor will it. This is due to the fact that the United States' actions and positions are driven by strategic interests, and its political decisions are determined by political considerations that favor Israel and its aggressive policy of occupation.


أمريكا هي الطاعون

بقلم: شاكر فريد حسن

صدق شاعرنا الفلسطيني الكبير الراحل محمود درويش عندما قال في قصيدته “مديح الظل العالي” :” أمريكا هي الطاعون والطاعون أمريكا”.

فهي فعلاً كذلك طوال الوقت، ولم تتغير سياستها رغم تغير قياداتها السياسية. إنها معادية لشعبنا الفلسطيني وللحق الفلسطيني المشروع، وتحيك المؤامرات لتصفية القضية الوطنية الفلسطينية وأخرها مؤامرة صفقة القرن، وهي منحازة بالكامل لإسرائيل في كل مواقفها وحروبها ضد الشعوب والدول العربية وضد قطاع غزة، وكل الصراعات والحروب الكونية من صنع أمريكا، وهي الداعمة لقوى الإرهاب في العالم، التي صنعت “داعش”.

ويخطئ من اعتقد أو توهم أو راهن على الرئيس الامريكي الجديد “بايدن” بأنه سيكون المخلص، وسيعتمد سياسة جديدة مغايرة لسياسة ونهج الرئيس السابق ترامب وكل ما سبقه من رؤساء سابقين.

واستمرارًا للسياسة الأمريكية القائمة على ازدواجية المعايير، فقد أعلن بايدن ووزير الخارجية الأمريكي بشكل جلي وواضح بخصوص العدوان الاسرائيلي المجنون الغاشم على قطاع غزة أنه “من حق اسرائيل في الدفاع عن نفسها”، ولم يقل من حق غزة الدفاع عن شعبها وعن القدس والأقصى وفلسطين.

وعليه، فإن السياسة الأمريكية تجاه القضية الفلسطينية والصراع الفلسطيني الاسرائيلي لم ولن تتغير، لأن المصالح الاستراتيجية هي التي تقود التصرفات والمواقف الامريكية، وقراراتها السياسية تحددها الاعتبارات السياسية المؤيدة لإسرائيل وسياستها العدوانية والاحتلالية.
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