LaRouche in the Middle East: Coverage in Al-Bayan, Al-Watan, Asharq Al-Awsat, Al-Sabah, and Daily Star
In the week of Dec. 12-20, there was an explosion of coverage of Lyndon LaRouche in the leading Arabic press, witnessing an escalated interest in LaRouche's ideas and his campaign to save the U.S. Presidency from the pitfalls of a new Thirty Years' War, and the global financial collapse. In Dubai, Unite Arab Emirates, in Saudi Arabia, in Beirut, Lebanon, and in Palestine, the talk was of LaRouche. For more information, visit the LaRouche movement's Arabic website at http://www.nysol.se/arabic/sida.html
Al-Bayan: At least four major articles and reports were published in Al-Bayan the leading daily in Dubai, UAE. On Dec. 13, Al-Bayan reported with a large headline: "Sources close to U.S. Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche reveal Sharon assigned Rafi Eytan to carry out a major terror operation against the U.S." The report is a translation of an EIR article published some months ago. But renewed interest in EIR's warning, came together with the exposé of the Mossad dirty operation to create an al-Qaeda group in the Palestinian territories. The Al-Bayan report carries the translation of the full text of the article "Mossad Exposed in Phony 'Palestinian al-Qaeda' Caper," (from the EIR Dec. 20, and EIW, Issue 42,) emphasizing that the exposure of this operation is part of the LaRouche campaign to stop the war crimes of "Sharon the butcher."
In another article in Al-Bayan, Egyptian senior military analyst Brig. (ret.) Hosam Swelam gave the readers a thorough briefing (almost one full page) on LaRouche's recent writings under the title "American Politician Exposes the Clash of Civilizations Conspiracy."
Swelam begins by saying: "Lyndon LaRouche is considered as one of very few reasonable American voices in the U.S., who have warned, since the Sept. 11 events, against the provocative propaganda of the Zionist lobby and Israel inside the U.S. He has given a precise description of this war [of civilizations] in a series of articles recently."
Swelam references a whole range of articles by LaRouche, and gives the name of Executive Intelligence Review in English letters. His article is dedicated to LaRouche's ideas and analysis of the strategic situation.
On Dec. 17, Qatar University Prof. Dr. Ahmed Al-Kedidi wrote an op-ed in Al-Bayan under the title "Democracy at U.S. Missiles Point," in which he attacked U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's announcement at the Heritage Foundation of a "program for democratization in the Middle East." Kedidi admitted that there are problems with democracy and freedoms in the Middle East, but that democracy cannot be brought about via the threat of American missiles. He referenced discussions he had with "one of the prominent American intellectuals in the U.S., Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche." He also referred to a discussion he had with New York Times writer Thomas Friedman in a recent conference in Doha, Qatar, on "dialogue between Islam and America." In that conference Dr. Kedidi intervened to argue for the viewpoints of LaRouche.
Also in Al-Bayan, staff writer Khalid Abu Krayim wrote a lengthy piece on LaRouche's and EIR's warnings against the Moon cult operation in the United States. The article was titled "Moon-gate Shakes America and Leads the World into Dark Ages." Abu Krayim tells the whole story about Moon and his corrupting operations as reported in EIR, and the Moon links to organized crime, Ariel Sharon's Likud Party, and Israeli intelligence.
Al-Sabah: The Al-Bayan report on the EIR's exposé of the phony al-Qaeda was reprinted in the Palestinian daily Al-Sabah, which supports Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat.
Asharq Al-Awsat: On Dec. 20, an adviser to the Arafat (and his long-time right-hand man), prominent political leader and PLO veteran Bassam Abu Sharif, wrote an op-ed arguing that LaRouche's analysis is the clue to the Bush Administration's confusion in the Middle East.
Abu Sharif, in his article titled "Ignoring Palestinian Aspirations Paves the Way for Destructive Explosions," thoroughly reviews a history of U.S. initiatives to ease the Israeli-Palestinian war situation during the Bush Administration. From Sen. George Mitchell Commission, to Gen. Anthony Zinni's Plan, to CIA Director George Tenet's Plan, all the way to the latest "Road Map Plan," he says, that at every point, the Bush Administration succumbed to Israel's rejection of these plans. Abu Sharif concludes with the big question: "The Palestinian people are subjected every day to war crimes committed by the Israeli occupying forces. So, why doesn't the U.S. President order the dispatching of international peace-keeping forces or American military forces to protect the Palestinian people on one side and to provide security for the Israeli people on the other?
"The explanation may lie in what former [sic] Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche has declared. But, even if LaRouche is not 100% correct, Bush, in order to serve the interests of the American people, has to search his own house thoroughly, so that the U.S. itself does not become a victim of his own actions. On this, LaRouche says: 'The U.S. President is subject to a dangerous plot by the agents of Israel inside the White House. The plans to attack Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime were presented by the agents of Israel and were rejected by President Clinton in 1996. Those agents returned in order to put Bush in the same trap outlined by Israel in 1996.' This same team is involved in pulling President Bush into wrong situations in Palestine in particular and the Middle East in general for the service of Israel. I have already written about Elliott Abrams, who was recently appointed by Bush as chairman of Middle East desk in the National Security Council. Abrams is the fanatic Zionist whose hands are stained with the blood of hundreds of Nicaraguans. However, the Israeli network working actively in sensitive positions inside the Bush Administration includes: Elliott Abrams (National Security Council), Richard Armitage (State Department), John Bolton (State Department), Doug Feith (Department of Defense), Fred Ikle (Defense Policy Board), Zalmay Khalilzad (White House), Peter Rodmann (Defense Department), Donald Rumsfeld (Secretary of Defense), Paul Wolfowitz (Department of Defense), David Wurmser (State Department), Dov Zakheim (Department of Defense), and Richard Perle.
"Once again, I say, to close the door of hope in the face of Palestinians, and submit to the Israeli demands will hurt the interests of the American people, in addition to being a historic injustice and a violation of all international laws and norms."
Daily Star: On Dec. 27, the Lebanese English daily, The Daily Star, reprinted the above article by Abu Sharif, in its electronic online edition.
Al-Watan: The Saudi daily Al-Watan published two articles by EIR's Jeffrey Steinberg on Dec. 13 and 20. The first was titled "Democracy for Sale in Israel" and quoted from "Lyndon LaRouche's publication EIR" on the dirty financing operations to buy the elections for the Likud with Christian fundamentalists' money. The second article is titled "Israel Joins the War on Terrorism, on bin Laden's Side," and takes up the EIR report on the Israeli Mossad operation to set up a phony al-Qaeda operation in the West Bank and Gaza.
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