Friday, May 20, 2011

Egyptian revolt leaders react to Obama's speech

This is what Egyptian youth leader, Asma' Mahfuz, said about Obama's speech to the pro-American Saudi mouthpiece of Prince Salman, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat:  "I don't understand the reason for Obama's glorification of Arab revolts as his administration and previous administrations of the US have supported dictatorial regimes in the Middle East over the past years.  And we heard such words from Obama's speech in Cairo.  We say to Obama: go play another game...And we believe that this speech comes as an attempt to break the isolation of Israel and to support it after it has felt a total siege.  And he has repeated more than once and stressed the friendship between the US and Israel while expressing his fear from the reconciliation agreement between Fath and Hamas which Egypt played a big role to achieve."  This is a representative reaction: if you read other reactions by Arabs in Maryland or in Virginia by people favored by spokespeople of US administration in mainstream US media you may ignore.