Thursday, May 19, 2011

The best and the worst Obama

In his speech at the State Department, we have never seen the best and the worst Obama. The best: great speaker, excellent analyst, Democratic indisputable. Has been impeccable reading of the causes and objectives of the democratic Arab riots and the role therein of a youth hungry for freedom and dignity and skilful in the use of modern technologies.

His support for democratization in the Arab world has been as clear as mountain water. And Bin Laden has said rightly that it was politically defeated by the Arab democratic revolution before being gunned down in Pakistan by U.S. elite troops. The worst: the evidence that his action is limited by the interests and traditional American commitments.

Although his vision of peace between Israelis and Palestinians is correct, two States in the 1967 borders, were the last ones that have been the coscorrones of Obama. United States can not support the proclamation, on next September at the UN General Assembly, the Palestinian state. Palestinians must continue to rely on the goodwill of some Israeli leaders that Obama has not even explicitly asked to stop forever the colonization of the territories occupied since 1967.

Obama has been very strong in supporting the democratization process in Tunisia and Egypt, which has also offered an attractive package of financial aid. And he pointed out as the villains of the moment to five specific regimes of North Africa and Middle East. In that order of evil: Libya (no solution without leakage Gaddafi), Syria (stern warning to Bashar Asad), Iran, Yemen and Bahrain.

As for others, those who opt for democratic reforms, he said, will have the full support of the United States. Fully successful also two specific references: the defense of religious freedom in the area, the Copts should be able to pray without problems in Cairo just as the Shiites in Bahrain, and the fight for equality for women.

Some believed that Obama was going to bypass the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in this speech, but has not done. Are just words, like those of Cairo two years ago, about "the suffering and humiliation" in which Palestinians live "under occupation and deprived of access to their own nation." Was also accurate description of the formula that would resolve the conflict: two states, "a viable and secure Israel" in the 1967 borders, all to be corrected through the negotiation of the parties, pending two problems tough issues: Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees.

And honestly has been the recognition that two years later, his government has failed to move an inch on this issue and have even continued Israeli settlements. But while the Palestinians have been offered a direct rejection of its initiative to be recognized in the UN in September, the Israelis just been reminded that the "status quo is unsustainable." In any case, the positive is that Obama's vision of Arab and Muslim world is based on his deep belief in the truth of that quote from the Declaration of Independence United States that has evoked the end of his speech: "All beings humans are created equal.

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