Local Editor The British journalist at the Independent UK Robert Fisk slammed Europe and the United States' recent attitude of "smiling supplicants" and rendered the so-called "Israeli"-Palestinian peace process as non-existent. "The British fled Basra, the Americans deserted Iraq. Now we are all preparing the Retreat from Afghanistan. The "sneer of cold command" catches so well the Muslim view of our colonialism and of the only colonial power left in the region: "Israel"," Robert Fisk remarked.  "Never before has America joined in our European submission. Take the Obama policy, constructed on the colossal wreck of Bush's New American Century. Barack Obama held out his hand to Iran. They bit his hand. He supported Mubarak. Then he no longer supported Mubarak. He supported the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt after he won the elections. And he - and the repulsive Tony Blair - now support the Egyptian army," he said. "So now we arrive in the Middle East as smiling supplicants, blessing any "people's change" (unless it is in Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Oman or any other monarchical autocracy of the Gulf)," Fisk commented. Remarking the US Under-Secretary of State William Burns statement to Egyptians saying "We don't take the side of particular personalities or particular parties," the British journalist believed the reason to be that "America no longer has the will to take a moral stand with its "friends in the region"." On the American humility to "Israel", Fisk said, "US policy over "Israel" - which is, let the "Israelis" walk all over you, write any blank military cheque demanded of you and apologize for telling the truth if the "Israelis" get upset."  As to the European Union decree on the so-called peace process between "Israel" and Palestine, which conditions all future co-operation agreements with "Israel" on a directive that they not include "Israeli" settlements in occupied territory, Robert Fisk believed that "EU citizens are sick to death of "Israel's" creeping and utterly illegal colonization of Arab land in the West Bank, [al-Quds] and the Golan Heights - and intend to let "Israel" know how angry they are." "The reference to the non-existent "peace process" is almost insulting since it does not exist, save in the minds of the EU, Obama and others who think you can colonize the people you are making peace with," he added. Addressing the Americans and Europeans, Fisk further wrote, "It's one thing to withdraw, quite another to do it so ignominiously. Retreat by all means, but not in so cowardly a way. If you no longer have a sword, at least show a bit of moral courage." Source: The Independent UK, edited by website team |
22-07-2013 | 11:36 |
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Robert Fisk: If We Are Going to Retreat, Must We Grovel?
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