New Nazis

(7) Colonialism revisited

What Washington and Tel Aviv both seem to constantly ignore are some of the inescapable facts what they also are up against in the Middle East. For instance, 60 per cent of the population in the Gulf region is under the age of 25. The Arab work force will double by the year 2020. In Saudi Arabia alone, 3.3 million people are unemployed. In 2020 eight million additional jobs are needed. The Economist (March 23, 2002) pointed out that Saudi Arabia alone has 5 million students in its universities, which is eight times as many as in 1970. King Fahd is incapacitated by a stroke. His stand-in Crown Prince Abdullah (78) has not quite the appeal that enables young Saudi's to look up to in reverence. That honor is reserved for bin Laden, whose tape-recorded speeches are hot items for young people throughout the Arab world. New wave young Muslims are waiting for reasonable future in an ever more crowded part of the globe. They know their crooked leaders are playing ball with the new colonial mandarins in Washington.

Michael Elliott described the June 24, 2002 address on the crisis between Israel and the PLO like ‘a speech given by a colonial governor.’ He added, ‘Bush set out the conditions they had to meet before winning approval from the Great White Father. Imperialism is back in vogue.’ (Time, July 8, 2002). His national security advisor, Condoleezza Rice, is primarily a specialist in Soviet affairs and the Cold War. This young lady defended her boss on ABC television with the words, ‘This is the most experienced administration in foreign policy in quite some time. This president is leading a brilliant war against terrorism.’ Fortunately, Miss Rice is quite an accomplished piano player and classical musician. When she leaves the White House with her Republican boss in 2005 for good she will be contracted by the Woman's Club of Sheboygan, Wisconsin to come and play Chopin. For the moment she is telling TV viewers unmitigated nonsense about her boss. Bush is reinventing wheel in foreign affairs. He is even dictating Palestinians what they have to do before the US would recognize a Palestinian state. He will never get away with his presenting colonialist prerequisite conditions to Arab freedom fighters. Time's Elliott was a bit mild when he called the Bush approach to Arafat ‘all mighty odd.’ It actually was crazy.