The new Middle East

The new middle east

About 17 years ago when I was still living in Holland I tried to start my own company for translations and press services and I called it “the new orient” my feeling was and still that the Dutch people is fed with wrong or distorted information on the Arab East and suffer from many stereotypes about this region of the world and it’s people. But because I’m a bad business man and other reasons I stopped. A Dutch friend advised me, in view of the fact that I can cook delicious Palestinian food, to start a catering company and he promised me this time to succeed because Dutch people like foreign food. Again I called to this new company “the New Middle East”. But for the same reason it didn’t succeed.
Why I mention this introduction? I simply wanted to say that I personally thought about new Middle East long before Bush and Rice knew where the Middle East is located on the map. And I can say for sure that all those who emigrated from the Middle East to Europe or to other places dreamed about a new Middle East.
But the new Middle East which Bush and Rice talk about and which most people in the Middle East talk about it are completely two different things. We dreamed about Modern, prosperous calm peaceful Middle East while they talk about Middle East full of wars (qwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Lebanon). We talked about free, united and independent Middle East. But the talk about a middle east under American-Israeli hegemony. We talked about rich and just Middle East where the population can enjoy this richness and have a better life. While they talked about Middle East as a source to get more profit for multi national oil and other companies. We talked about a clean middle east from corrupted leaders. While the adopted all corrupted leaders if they accept their hegemony. No one can be convinced here that Mubarak, king Abdullah of Jordan or Saudi is better than Asad or Saddam Hussein. If the last 2 accepted the American – Israeli hegemony probably they would continue to be friends of the USA until today.
Bush and Rice reject immediate cease fire because they want to build with Israel their new Middle East on the dead bodies of the children of Gaza and south Lebanon. They want to build their Middle East on the rubble of the destroyed homes of the people of Jenin, Nablus, Gaza, Rafah, Bent Jbail, Tyre, Beirut and other hundreds of towns and villages. Exactly as the Zionist movement built its monstrous state Israel on the rubble of more than 500 Palestinian villages in 1948.