While Washington Worries

Washington is uneasy because of what is happening in some Arab countries. Has anyone asked about the motives and reasons for concern, or, rather, has anyone really examined this behavior? Consider Sudan, which for years has enjoyed the favor of American concern. Are the areas of U.S. interests significant, and are they reaping what their concern has sown?

Perhaps it is not necessary to consider these questions, only to realize that successive U.S. administrations used to express concern about the language of diplomacy, often embracing the contradictions of the significance, direction and even the position of language. Washington is uneasy because of what is happening in Arab countries, but what it is not concerned about is what is happening in the occupied Arab territories — especially the practices of Israel, because in most cases it is a result of U.S. policy that has been practiced over the decades. They treat it as choice, doctoring the results.

Therefore, it is obvious that the voicing of the concern of the U.S. is really an invasion. Today, trends open the doors to the possibility of motives and goals that have pushed American diplomacy so far both in terms of timing or content that hardly say what their intentions were. Arab affairs generally have not received concern except to incite our great hunger, our pain and our problems. Our problems did not just appear out of the blue, only to get the balls rolling in a position to not rest until the day of departure of these governments has become a gateway for the blindness and lies.

Thus, American diplomacy has prepared itself to live with what is inevitable, without a way out, and some in the U.S. diplomatic community went a little further when they found that underneath the pattern of strangeness, foreigners have pain, fears and desires just as they do.

Over the years, the U.S. proposals were not shocking in the area concerned, which carried only the outcome that is expected where the goods sold are marked with Israeli fingerprints.

U.S. concern is not neutral now. It never has been. The pattern of decades of bitter experience proved it, often revealing what was behind this concern.

The rule of this concern is that we all know the U.S. has always had strings to pull, including those on or near the magnitude of the carpet-bombing of endless calculations and deliberations, but the reason for this concern is a mystery.

What is interesting today is the area of U.S. concern on what is happening in the Arab arena. It has enough intensity to signify that the U.S. has something to hide, so that it extends from the Western nation to the Eastern ones, passing through all the ups and downs of their countries, hardly making a distinction among them. The U.S. concern has been now particularly focused on the protests.

Usually it was some of the questions that worried us; today, it seems that the answers are troubling, and I stepped back to evade the noose of sentimentality, to maintain our perspective, to keep us as witnesses to what is going on and evidence of what is to come.

From the perspective of history, these seem just a part of the continuing accumulation of obstacles. But some are worse than others, especially those that concern the U.S., as it comes to look for something and also to hide something.