Sunday 19 August 2012

Rage

I was reading the US department statement regarding the pussy riots verdict, on Alec Ross Facebook wall .
And I was highly disappointed .
Other than the fact that entering a church and shouting against Mr. Putin, can't be called as an example of freedom of expression, one needs also to acknowledge that Russia is not a third world country with a puppet government as Americans tend to point .
Russia is a sovereign country . It can't be urged to review a verdict, as it was issued by a court which is highly qualified to do that .

When living for some time in the M.E., one develops a certain feeling of disappointment .
It can be against bureaucracy or sponsorship .
In general it is against injustice .
If you are not inclined towards rage, sooner or later you will become .
It's mostly against Israel or the USA .
People in the West think that it is a specific attitude of the Muslims .
In my opinion it is something cultural, rather due to history .
It comes from frustration, to see how things are not that good at home and outside also, and will never change .
The Palestinian issue, is of course the genesis of this frustration .
If one ponders, it can't be just a coincidence or bad luck, and not even the governments mismanagement only .
People see how their rulers are dependent on America and British governments, which on their part, are tied to Israel, and come to the conclusion that it is all their faults .
Local governments know this, and try to use it for their own benefits, so people's rage is against America and not against them .
On the other hand, they use al Qaeda threat, or at least they did before the springs, in order to convince the US to remain on their soils and to provide more arms .
It is a snake biting its tale .
It is all around the fact that Gulf governments have never been able to establish a partnership with Western countries, based on terms of equality .

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