Israel’s Resemblance to America
Published in Shorouk
(Egypt) on 17 March 2012
by Salama Ahmed Salama (link to original)
There are several organizations in the West, but in the Arab world, people stand by while raids and brutalities are waged by Israel on the Gaza Strip. Moreover, these American factions, which lead the call for human rights and peoples’ liberation, lead international efforts to topple the Syrian regime in light of the massacres and oppressive means which it uses against its own people. In Syria’s latest remarks after meeting with U.S. ambassadors in the Middle East, Syrian officials reaffirmed Washington’s position in support of organizations that fight for freedom in the region!
During the air strikes recently launched by Israel into Gaza, the number of civilian causalities reached more than 50. Neither Washington nor the Quartet on the Middle East issued statements of judgment or condemnation. Meanwhile, Egypt does not remain shy concerning its attempts to calm and persuade Israel to cease its raids in Gaza.
This is the tolerance of the barbaric Western countries which now seems typical when compared to the massacres in Afghanistan. The U.S. soldier’s removal of machine guns and loaded, automatic weapons from an Afghan village and his horrific murder of 16 men, women, and children for no apparent reason has no justification except that it corresponds to the brutal devastation, as reported by the Afghan officials, of the maniac soldier who sprayed three villages with bullets, killing nine children in the Kandahar region. The Times says that the American soldier is married, has two children and has done three tours in Iraq.
U.S. officials are not ashamed to admit the horror of the incident. It seems that the wars in the U.S. have created a generation of cruel and uncouth Americans. Yet every time these alleged accidents occur, officials attribute it to the work of an individual or to sudden frenzy.
The recent massacres and incidents proved to be a failure of the U.S. administration in terms of implementing its plans for withdrawal by the end of 2014 after securing a security agreement with the Taliban.
Earlier, some U.S. soldiers burned a number of Qurans and recorded Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban members during battle.
It is well known that the United States has nearly 90,000 troops. Including the number of NATO troops, they total 130,000. They argue that America and the West should occupy Afghanistan so that it will not become a springboard for terrorist operations carried out by the Taliban and al-Qaida. It is not so that they commit American atrocities at the heart of the Afghan people or that the troops become more hated and incite the desire for revenge.
It was not so the experience of the occupation of Afghanistan carries the legacy of bitterness, betrayal, and slaughter or that they repeat the same mistakes U.S. forces committed in Iraq which claimed tens of thousands of Iraqi lives and those of several thousand American soldiers. America has so far been unable to escape from the mire into which it sank during the Iraq chaos and sectarian division which it created. It is now repeating the same tragedy in Afghanistan. America will not be able to get out before paying a high price, as it has already started to pay premiums in the form of suicide operations carried out by the Taliban forces against NATO.
It is clear that Israel is taking a similar approach as the U.S., as one can judge by its colonial occupation of Palestinian lands, its use of excessive force in suppressing Palestinians, and its bombing of civilians in Gaza which are as rampant as the truces Palestinians make themselves.
Therefore, it is not surprising that the U.S. policy in the Middle East should face distrust and suspicion regarding its handling of the crisis in Syria. Every case in which the U.S. intervened in Arab affairs pertained only to calculating the dominant Zionist forces and the capabilities of the United States or to benefiting the global monopolies of the wealth of the occupied countries, such as in Iraq and Afghanistan.
America has lost its credibility in recent decades and no longer stands for the principles of freedom and justice, by which it only benefits itself.
During the air strikes recently launched by Israel into Gaza, the number of civilian causalities reached more than 50. Neither Washington nor the Quartet on the Middle East issued statements of judgment or condemnation. Meanwhile, Egypt does not remain shy concerning its attempts to calm and persuade Israel to cease its raids in Gaza.
This is the tolerance of the barbaric Western countries which now seems typical when compared to the massacres in Afghanistan. The U.S. soldier’s removal of machine guns and loaded, automatic weapons from an Afghan village and his horrific murder of 16 men, women, and children for no apparent reason has no justification except that it corresponds to the brutal devastation, as reported by the Afghan officials, of the maniac soldier who sprayed three villages with bullets, killing nine children in the Kandahar region. The Times says that the American soldier is married, has two children and has done three tours in Iraq.
U.S. officials are not ashamed to admit the horror of the incident. It seems that the wars in the U.S. have created a generation of cruel and uncouth Americans. Yet every time these alleged accidents occur, officials attribute it to the work of an individual or to sudden frenzy.
The recent massacres and incidents proved to be a failure of the U.S. administration in terms of implementing its plans for withdrawal by the end of 2014 after securing a security agreement with the Taliban.
Earlier, some U.S. soldiers burned a number of Qurans and recorded Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban members during battle.
It is well known that the United States has nearly 90,000 troops. Including the number of NATO troops, they total 130,000. They argue that America and the West should occupy Afghanistan so that it will not become a springboard for terrorist operations carried out by the Taliban and al-Qaida. It is not so that they commit American atrocities at the heart of the Afghan people or that the troops become more hated and incite the desire for revenge.
It was not so the experience of the occupation of Afghanistan carries the legacy of bitterness, betrayal, and slaughter or that they repeat the same mistakes U.S. forces committed in Iraq which claimed tens of thousands of Iraqi lives and those of several thousand American soldiers. America has so far been unable to escape from the mire into which it sank during the Iraq chaos and sectarian division which it created. It is now repeating the same tragedy in Afghanistan. America will not be able to get out before paying a high price, as it has already started to pay premiums in the form of suicide operations carried out by the Taliban forces against NATO.
It is clear that Israel is taking a similar approach as the U.S., as one can judge by its colonial occupation of Palestinian lands, its use of excessive force in suppressing Palestinians, and its bombing of civilians in Gaza which are as rampant as the truces Palestinians make themselves.
Therefore, it is not surprising that the U.S. policy in the Middle East should face distrust and suspicion regarding its handling of the crisis in Syria. Every case in which the U.S. intervened in Arab affairs pertained only to calculating the dominant Zionist forces and the capabilities of the United States or to benefiting the global monopolies of the wealth of the occupied countries, such as in Iraq and Afghanistan.
America has lost its credibility in recent decades and no longer stands for the principles of freedom and justice, by which it only benefits itself.