Bush At the Knesset: Pure ‘Hate and Fabrication’

If President Bush’s goal on his last trip to the Middle East was to enrage the entire Arab world – not to mention U.S. Democrats – he could not have done better than the speech he delivered to the Israeli Knesset on Thursday.

One of the many examples of Arab discontent posted on WORLDMEETS.US is this from K. Selim, who writes for Algeria’s Le Quotidian d’Oran:

“In front of Israeli deputies, the president of the United States indulged in exaltation about ‘the chosen people,’ while expressing his loathing for those Arabs who resist his diktat. The speech exuded pure hatred coupled with the fabrication of prophecy.”

Touching in the U.S. Presidential campaign and comparing President Bush to Barack Obama, Selim writes:

“It’s a shame that since 1948, history only designates the other war maker [the Arabs] rather than the Zionist entity and its ally. But at this level of disconnection, truth and history carry very little weight. Beyond the Arab-Muslims – the enemy which was so clearly identified but never named – the message was addressed to the American people. And particularly to Barack Obama, whose campaign rhetoric is certainly less foolhardy than the bellicose ‘flights of fancy’ of a president whose international record is an appalling trail if blood, and whose economic results are a recession the likes of which haven’t been seen since the 1930s.”

Selim then addresses the Palestinians, who commemorate the day of Israel’s founding as the ‘Naqba’ or ‘catastrophe’:

“There was not the slightest hint of compassion for these poor human beings who possess such unbearable ‘otherness.’ The fact is that a powerful army of invaders which was equipped so fully by the West, liberated itself from its own history of pogroms and genocide by indulging in ethnic cleansing, the theft of property and the dispossession of an indigenous people, all of which has been glibly disposed of by the Powers into the dustbin of history. Of course the President of Civilization magnanimously – and fleetingly – referred for the umpteenth time to the creation of a state for the Palestinians. It’s all part of the ritual.”

Editorial By K. Selim

Translated By Sandrine Ageorges

May 16, 2008

Algeria – Le Quotidian d’Oran- Original Article (French)

In front of Israeli deputies, the president of the United States indulged in exaltation about “the chosen people,” while expressing his loathing for those Arabs who resist his diktat. The speech exuded pure hatred coupled with the fabrication of prophecy. [watch speech in photo-box, right].

In the chamber there was an ecstatic atmosphere, shared in and supported by an audience at the height of contentment. The performance by George W. Bush could be summarized as a defense and an illustration of American-Zionist solidarity, which included an assertion that 300 million Americans stood alongside seven millions Israelis threatened by the same enemy.

It’s a shame that since 1948, history only designate the other war maker [the Arabs] rather than the Zionist entity and its ally [the U.S.]. But at this level of disconnection, truth and history carry very little weight. Beyond the Arab-Muslims – the enemy which was so clearly identified but never named – the message was addressed to the American people. And particularly to Barack Obama, whose campaign rhetoric is certainly less foolhardy than the bellicose “flights of fancy” of a president whose international record is an appalling trail if blood, and whose economic results are a recession the likes of which haven’t been seen since the 1930s.

The spectacle offered in Jerusalem deserves to be seen and appreciated: it bluntly exhibits ridicule for the “moderate Arab” states – first and foremost Saudi Arabia – where Bush went to after pouring out his gall at the Knesset.

It’s impossible not to take note of such fervent hatred which is worthy of John Hagee, the fanatical Zionist-Christian evangelist who is ready to exterminate all the Arabs of Palestine – and everywhere else, for that matter. Bush aroused the frenetic enthusiasm of Israeli parliamentarians, who began the session by expelling the few Arab members of the Knesset. Bush’s display would not have been disavowed by even the most restive – or the crudest – radical Imam in the Afghan mountains.

READ ON AT WORLDMEETS.US, along with continuing translated foreign press coverage of President Bush’s trip to the Middle East and the U.S. election.