A very thin margin separates between the ideological propaganda-aiming
political discourse and the one depending on reality facts and what these facts
can allow or not… the speech of the American president Trump before the United
Nations is of the first kind… that kind of speech which has been always rejected
by strategic experts here in Egypt and in the West… they used to – and maybe they
still do – describe such speech, in case it is delivered by someone here or in
countries opposing the savage capitalism, as a mean type of cheap populist demagogy.
Although Trump did not point to the terrorism Egypt
suffers or to its efforts in fighting it… also its role in integrating
thousands fleeing Syria, Iraq, and Libya… and before them the thousands that
fled Sudan, he did not hesitate to praise the Zionist state and consider any
threat against it as an act against humanity.
Trump talked long about the failure of socialism and danger
of communism… he talked about terrorist Islamic fundamentalism and the non-democratic
regimes and forgot about the manifestations that indicate there are deep-rooted
basis of the Zionist Christian fundamentalism in his country, also a profound
base of sectarian, religious, and ethnic racism and how these roots have a wide
dynamic public presence represented in the supporting stance absolutely biased
towards the Zionist state and which not only is it based over the common
interests and strong alliances, but also depends on what we can call a Torah commitment
of that Zionist Christian fundamentalism that has its religious discourse including
that the Christian who does not believe in the prophecies of Torah, reconstruction
of the Temple, and the massacres that shall take place against Aghiyar
or Goys in order to achieve such thing, is not a true Christian… and that if
the fundamentalist Christian shall choose between believing in those prophecies
and their inevitability to come into reality and believing in human rights,
respecting their charter, and rejecting bloodshed not matter what, he should
choose what comes from Torah and not what is human.
Moreover, a few weeks ago, Trump himself witnessed
what his country have been through in a racist strike against the black people in
one of the states after that account of the statue… it was so violent that
Trump spoke as a president of the United States and many considered what he
said as not appropriate because he did not totally condemn those racists.
He also spoke of nations ruled by regimes he
considered as adopting an antagonist stance towards its peoples including Iran,
Venezuela, and Cuba… he also presented an ideological evaluation containing absolute
moral judgments than having any slight scientific or even logical analysis while
ignoring that the Cuban people resisted for more than half a century against
the ugly American blockade and presented an example of self-dependence and accomplishing
tremendous progress in some fields like medical treatment, medications, and
food sustainability as well, and did not kneel before the United States.
He also disregarded the fact that not only did socialism
and communism not stand in the way of China and Vietnam to achieve progress,
but also China was able to make it at the forefront of nations economically and
technologically developed and became a fierce rival before the whole capitalist
world… furthermore, the other side reading what is going on in North Korea says
– despite with its ideological and political structure rejected by Trump – that
it represents a developed model in the field of technologies of manufacturing
strategic weapons, and those technologies reveal possessing a scientific
progress in a way or another.
Besides, Trump, due to his weak cultural composition,
did not and will not pay attention to the long history of massive human
struggles in Asia, Africa, and Latin America during eras of old capitalist
imperialism when some of its colonialist countries were known of their ugly
blatant racism experienced in Angola, Congo, and South Africa… also in the
times of new imperialism.
He will not also perceive that the world – especially Europe
and his country – paid dear price on the economic level and more than seventy
million people were killed in the first and second World Wars… this number may
double if we added what happened in the side wars that broke out in our region,
middle and east Asia, Africa in the sub-Saharan area, and Latin America… these are
small wars unlimited to count including some triggered by the United States, in
which whole nations were destroyed… Iraq is a concrete example of how American
racist imperialist orientations and decisions turned out to be false regarding
what they were based upon of allegations of possessing chemical and nuclear
weapons by those devastated countries.
Trump speech came as a declaration of war against
political doctrines, others religious, countries, societies, and groups while
his country is suffering from devastating natural disasters, it is definite that
the course of capitalism and its technologies were a cause of those disasters due
to the increase of planet temperature as a result of industrial activities and
perhaps due to space activities… such activities that were connected to the growth
of capitalism whose some of its states are still refusing to commit to the
rules governing containing the phenomenon… such states are suffering as well
from domestic crises that hit the heart of the American social cohesion.
Despite all this, the key question, regarding our
situation as a state going through a furious fight over five fronts; north,
east, west, south, and in the heart… also engaged in a fierce struggle on all
fronts of economy, services, production, infrastructure, and behavioral and cultural
composition of its people, arises: What should we do before this clear American
bias toward the Zionist state and the capitalist approach and mechanisms… also
towards what the United States releases of threats to all who deal or cooperate
with a state of those Trump attacked in his speech?
Will we cut our relations with and participate in
attacking those nations like Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and others or will we be
able to adopt balanced stances nearer to independence and achieving our goals
first and before anything else like the United States does when it looks after
its interests in the first place and before and after anything?
I believe what was written here last week about
heading toward the East and regaining our role is part of the answer for which
we should exert all efforts all the time.
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
This article was published in
Al Ahram newspaper on September 21, 2017.
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