It's all over the news. Obama delivered his noble message of peace to the Arab and Muslim world through an Arabic TV channel. He even used the word "respect" seven times, analysts say. I am not impressed. I still remember all the sweet Bush talk about Islam being a religion of peace and the hollow rhetoric about the well-being and prosperity of Palestinians and Iraqis.
What disappointed me in the interview was not Obama's old commitment to Israel's security and the US-Israeli alliance, but his unexpected adoption of rotten Bushism:
If the time is appropriate? Serious partnership? Isn't this the same Bush nonsense? Isn't this what the Sharon-Bush duo came up with during the second Intifada? Sharon then invaded the West Bank and declared that Yasser Arafat was no longer a peace partner. The peace process was stalled for years because there was no "serious partner on the other side of the table", while Bush's "man of peace" went on tormenting the Palestinian people. In search for that "serious partner", Arafat was set aside and forced to appoint Abbas as prime minister. Then Abbas was forced to hold "democratic" elections, and then there was no partner again.
Arabs have to deal with Israel's political trash (Sharon, Olmert and Netanyahu in a couple of weeks) while Israel gets to pick a "serious partner". A puppet partner is what they want. And then the time might be appropriate for so-called peace.
So much for a change.
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