Bush’s visit to the Middle East is perfectly showing the world where Bush stands concerning each and every Arab country, and is proving -yet again- how unfair and unjust his statements, decisions, and most importantly his actions have been and continue to be regarding the region.
But still, one way or the other, Bush is made hero by his fans, and whatever he does is to them, wise, courageous, and right. Some even BELIEVE that Bush’s actually “leaving a formidable legacy behind him“!!! come again?! a formidable what?

Now I know anything I’d say contradicting this would make me look like an angry Arab who’s never happy with whatever comes from the west, but it’s not like that at all. It has to be made clear that positive change, just regulations, and laws to spread tolerance and  co-existence are all welcomed by Arabs,that yes, not the biased interference that serves anyone but the victim!

[Source: RTE, Via: EI]

Let’s take his visit to “Israel” for example. An excellent article written by Sam Bahour summarizes how Bush’s visit dealt with the Palestinian side in total ignorance, while supporting the Israeli side.

“As a matter of fact, the reality that Israel has successfully placed 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, over 50 percent of them children, in the dark and under the most draconian siege in recent history did not even make it to the margins of either leader’s speeches.” Bahour writes.

“Much more important issues were on Bush’s agenda. The need to realize and work on a “vision” for the future was in the forefront of Bush’s mind. “The parties” should now sit down and “negotiate a vision” — the parties being Israel, the fourth strongest military might in the world and a forty-year-long occupier, and the Palestinians, a stateless people who have been dispossessed by Israel for sixty years and under brutal military occupation by their colonizers for over four decades.

“Olmert was nearly jumping for joy as he praised Bush for increasing the comprehensive US aid package to Israel to a whopping $30 billion.”

I came across another wonderful article written by Mohammed Ali, describing the terrible situation in Gaza.He says: “What drives me and other Gazans crazy is that the international community can see all of the human rights violations being committed in Gaza and yet they choose not to take any action and instead remain silent. In the past I remember hearing the international community condemn such Israeli violations, but now, nothing.
One must conclude they are in favor of the Gaza siege because they support Israel’s declaration that Gaza is an “enemy entity” since Hamas took over the Strip, ignoring that there are civilians living in Gaza that cannot be blamed for anything other than residing in Gaza”.

And to show how USELESS Bush’s visit to the region is proving itself to be, the Gaza Strip remains with no running water, no enough food to feed its people, and is still suffering regular long lasting power cuts . As for peace, it’s not there either. Just this morning the Israeli army raided Gaza.

And what goes for Paletsine goes for the rest of the Middle East. To Bush, Arabs are the ones causing terror, instability, threats to the west and themselves. It’s not important that his “war on terror” brought only more terror and division among Arabs, leaving their countries suffering more pollution and destruction than ever; it’s not important that his plans to “implement democracy” in the region brought only more power to Israel and weakened other Arab countries while stripping them from their basic rights of expressing themselves lest they’ll be condemned of, again, terror; what really matters to Bush at the moment are two things: the high oil prices, and the “Iranian Issue”, yes those seem to be Bush’s main concerns.

Let’s wait and see what would Bush’s visit result in!

“After the big success of Al Kasaba International Film Festival 2006, Al Kasaba Theatre and Cinematheque in Ramallah is pleased to announce its International Film Festival II, which will take place on November 17-30, 2007.

Al Kasaba International Film Festival was organized under the tremendous political, economic, and social pressures that have become routine for the Palestinian people due to the ongoing Israeli siege and aggressive actions against them. In addition to the cultural message, the festival intends to also communicate a political message”.
Source: This Week in Palestine

Watching the heart-breaking news of violence in Gaza, showing Palestinians fighting each other and causing the death of so many innocent people, it’s so easy from the comfort of one’s own home to “condemn”, or call Palestinians different kinds of things such as “stupid”, or “uncivilized” or “savages”.
But what did we really do to prevent this from happening? did we at least support Palestinians with regard to the sanctions they’re suffering from? Did we help them convince the world to respect their elections and their choices? Did we ask to give them a chance? no, we only wait and watch and then comes our favorite part: condemning.

Clashes broke out following the Palestinian president’s decision to have early presidential and parliamentary elections.
And now we have Fatah and Hamas fighting… such a big mistake!
This reaction is so wrong, yet as disappointing, as wrong, and as saddening as their reaction is, I can’t but find myself understanding it.
I mean, what do we expect of people suffering under occupation, starving because of stupid sanctions that took place only as collective punishment to teach people a lesson: democracy is just a theoretical term, used only as an excuse to interfere in your own affairs and to fulfill our own interests, but if you apply this term in a way that contradicts our interests then there’s a high price to pay, and then we’ll be ready to watch your society fall apart and starve to death.

Few months ago, when no Palestinian-Palestinian fights took place, and when Palestinians were suffering from sanctions to the extreme, no damn country interfered to support or to help the starving people, no one including the Arab World.
But now, when there’s a chance that the sanctions have proven themselves “useful” and there is finally “hope” that new elections will take place and will be as undemocratic as the –you know who- wish them to be, then the current situation has immediately became of interest to the whole world, including the Arab world, and is now considered “a matter of security”, as they prefer calling it, and so we find everyone interfering to “calm Palestinians down” and to “urge Palestinians to work as one hand” and to “find a solution”,well, at least they’re finally interfering… positively.

Fact 1: Few care whether Palestinians have no work, no food, no water, no electricity, no freedom or no dignity, and those few do nothing but watch or throw speeches, and rarely make a difference.
Fact 2: No democracy allowed to be applied in Palestine (or elsewhere in the Arab world unless it meets the interests of certain democracy-making-countries).
Fact 3: No one cares if Palestinians exterminate themselves as long as they elect the “right” ones, those being the ones who are ready to cooperate with outer interference anyway this interference wishes, even if it contradicts the interests of Palestinians or deny them their most basic rights on any level of life.
Fact 4: Those fights are understood as a reaction, but are not accepted as a solution and are SO WRONG and should stop now. But in order to make them stop, Palestinians should be supported: a) by canceling the unfair sanctions, and b) by letting Palestinians practice democracy the way its occupier and the rest of the “democratic” world practice it.

Following the recent Israeli attacks on Palestinian CIVILIANS, with rockets aiming at homes of innocent people killing huge numbers of unarmed citizens; some Israeli officials decided to express their “apologies” for this “regrettable incident”, Tzipi Livni: “The Israeli military does not intend to harm civilians – that is never our aim”. Aljazeera
Yet all attacks seem to be targeting civilians… now what are the odds!
Ehud Olmert, said in a statement that he regretted the attack but said that Israel’s army had fired in an attempt to prevent Palestinians from firing rockets into Israel. In other words, he’s saying: Israel did this for self-defense.
And I saw on CNN today an Israeli official commenting: “we ask the Palestinian people: Why don’t you use your power as people and influence the resistance to stop killing Israelis?”

It’s just the same old scenario, Israel ends up justifying its massacres as “self-defense”. I’m really tired of explaining why this whole “self-defense” thing is nothing but a big fat lie, and I’ve lost hope in getting people to understand that innocent Palestinians, including harmless children are being butchered in the name of self-defense, so this time I’ll assume that Israeli claims are right and comment accordingly.
Assuming that Israel wishes for peace and those massacres took place only in response to Palestinian missile attacks, and let’s say Israel wants to deliver a message to the Palestinian authorities and decision makers, why murder civilians? Did the small amount of “smuggled” Palestinian missiles cause massacres as the ones your high-tech best-quality missiles cause every time they hit a spot? Isn’t one massacre enough? Why do you have to terminate the whole population?
Why when Palestinians reply to an attack with a similar one _ equal in concept not in power that is- why are they accused of violence and terrorism, whereas Israeli attacks and massacres are called self-defense?
How can you blame the Palestinian people and ask THEM to stop what you’ve started, when those people are: 1) under your occupation, 2) suffering from International sanctions that left them starving, with no food, no money, no medical supplies and NOTHING!
How come you ask suffering people to make a difference when your people, with all the International support and sympathy they’re getting, are not able to influence their government to stop war crimes and murders?!

Let me make this unforgivable mistake and believe that Israel is defending itself and is in favor of peace… why can’t I see any record in history, or a single present attempt, to give this claimed peace a shot! Israel didn’t, not for once, give any peace process or truce a chance, it always managed to end any attempt by claiming it’s defending itself!

A Message to Arabs:
We’re big in quantity, but when it comes to actions, WE SUCK!
Knowing that we lack no brains, no power, and no conscious –or at least that’s what I think- what the hell are we waiting for?
Why don’t we show some dignity and self-respect and do something?!
Can’t we stop sponsoring our precious disgusting video clips and stupid reality shows for a while and support suffering people? Why don’t we interfere to lift sanctions and make sure Palestinians have medical care and food supply?
If we can’t do that, I see no point of our existence, and I think it’d be better if we simply dig one huge deep hole and bury ourselves alive!
Shame on us!

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