The neoconservatives are all in agreement when it comes to animosity towards Arabs and Muslims, and the advancement of Israel's interests, even above U.S. interests themselves. However, they seem to be in disagreement when it comes to the developments in Egypt. Some of their figures, such as Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, and Elliott Abrams, Senior Director on the National Security Council for Near East and North African Affairs in the Bush administration, both welcomed the departure of President Hosni Mubarak. On the other hand, others like John Bolton, Bush's ambassador to the United Nations, and members of the Jewish lobby group AIPAC, expressed concern that the alternative may be worse to Israel than the ‘cold peace' that was Mubarak's policy, as the latter did not visit Israel in 30 years except once, when Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. The material on this topic is almost excessive, and so I will select some headlines and notes that explain them, with brief commentary, in the hope that I will give the Arab readers an idea about the stances of neoconservatives and their ilk. Dan Senor, former spokesperson for the U.S. occupation in Iraq, said that there are two scenarios for Egypt after Mubarak. Either a democratic secular pro-U.S. government will emerge, or an Islamist government will. He also expressed his regret because the limited capabilities of the U.S. prevent it from intervention in the second scenario…in other words Senor learned nothing from Iraq and Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Bolton remains one of the most extremist advocates of Israel. In a radio interview with the right-wing Fox Network host Sean Hannity, Hannity asked Bolton a question which already contained the answer to it. He agreed with Bolton that Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei ‘ran cover' for the Iranians when he was the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and asked him whether Israel has much longer to wait. Bolton said that the fall of the Egyptian government will certainly bring forward the date of the Israeli strike on Iran. In another article, Bolton stressed that “Lebanon, not Egypt, may determine the fate of democracy in the Middle East”, on the basis that the ‘terrorist group' Hezbollah may control the government in Lebanon. While I do not want Hezbollah to run the political scene in Lebanon, I stress that Hezbollah is a national liberation movement, and that Israel is a terrorist state led by a gang of war criminals, and that all those who support this state have the blood of women and children on their hands. Meanwhile, the Likudnik Charles Krauthammer not only opposes Hamas in Gaza and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, but he also considers that ElBaradei in power would be a disaster, in light of his stances on Iran at the IAEA, and his current cooperation with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Krauthammer is a disaster for U.S. interests, just like Israel which he supports is. While I do not want the Muslim Brotherhood to rule Egypt, and do not want Mohamed ElBaradei to rule through them, the Muslim Brotherhood is a thousand times more honorable than the extremists in Shas, and ElBaradei is a thousand times nobler than the entire Israeli government to the point that I find any comparison between them to be shameful. American right-wing extremists all drink from the same foul well. The radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh referred to President Obama as a "pharaoh", applying this description to him after it had been used on Hosni Mubarak, while the other extremist Glenn Beck said that President Obama resembles Mubarak, implying that Obama was exhibiting "signs of a dictator." Ross Douthat, who writes in known Likudnik publications and also in The New York Times where he succeeded Kristol, wrote an article entitled “The Devil We Know” […] In the first paragraph, he wrote, “It's quite possible that if Mubarak had not ruled Egypt as a dictator for the last 30 years, the World Trade Center would still be standing.” This is arrogance personified. The writer fails to mention the first and most important cause for the spread of terrorism, or specifically, the establishment of Israel on the land of the Palestinians, and the occupation of the rest of their lands and its subsequent Nazi-like crimes against women and children. This is not to mention the fact that the Jewish lobby has hijacked U.S. foreign policy in order to support Israel with arms and financial aid, enabling it to continue its occupation and murder. This is what gave the terrorists the excuse to engage in terrorism, not Hosni Mubarak whose country suffered many terrorist attacks and who was personally the target of an assassination attempt in Ethiopia. Another article caught my attention. The article, entitled “How Democracy Became Halal”, was written by the Likudnik Reuel Marc Gerecht from Israel, which is his real country, and not any European country or the United States. I did not read the article, because Gerecht is an extremist Likudnik and is not ‘Kosher'. I also stumbled on an article written by the other Likudnik Joshua Muravchik, who proposed three possible scenarios in Egypt. I did not read the article either, because I never agreed with him on anything ever since I heard his name for the first time. Also, Egypt is my country, not his. There are other writers, but I prefer to present their ideas another day. [email protected]
