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The Tragedy of Egypt
By
Evgeny
Satanovsky This interview given by the President of
the Institute of Israeli and Middle East Studies
(Moscow / Russia) goes far beyond the Middle Eastern issues. It also contains
an interesting opinion regarding US President Barack Obama. |
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February
03, 2011
Below please find some excerpts from the interview taken
by Alexander Privalov translated into English ____________________________
— I often mentioned that while being
interviewed by US radio programs, so why should I be shy here? Barack Obama
is a dead hand of Michael Suslov[1],
an “anti-imperialistic project” of the Soviet Union financed by the
Ideological Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. That
is where his mom and dad were introduced to each other. That is what it is, unfortunately... — I hope you are kidding? — No, absolutely not. Those were the 60s
when white girls did not give birth to the kids from relationship with the
Africans from Kenya too often[2].
Even if the Africans were from Southern Luo tribes[3].
That was our anti-imperialist hangout. Nowadays there is no Soviet Union and
no Suslov anymore, but Obama is the President of the USA. I know his entourage: all those Trotskytes,
Anarchists, Anarcho-syndicalists... all for them coming from the wealthiest
families, Graduates from Harvard. All those people… — Oh, that disease is incurable, I agree. — …Those people… Oh, no. It is definitely
incurable. Some of those people had some experience in Palestine, Israel,
America, but they all are really loaded and still adhere to their theories.
So they are trying to put their theories into practice. You know that the
October revolution in Russia was also financed by the rich. ____________________________
— I just wanted to ask you about the role of
various external factors in the current events in Egypt. —
First and foremost, there is a decision-making club in Washington[4]. It acts and it
has a genetic tradition that I find pretty weird. It is a tradition of US
Presidents to betray their most reliable allies. They count on some kind
of virtual, theoretical democracy that
empowers the most radical, the most anti-American forces. — I am sorry, but haven’t they learnt their lesson
in Palestine? —
Come on! They all are hopeless! Look, Jimmy Carter with his patriarchal
simplicity opened the door for the Islamic revolution in Iran with his own
hands by forcing the last Shah to avoid violence and dictatorship. A bit
later he took another genius step: he supported democratically elected
Cambodian leader Pol Pot against Vietnamese invaders and later got his Nobel
Prize for that. And if we go further
we will see how Ronald Reagan created Al-Qaida with his own hands by killing the only
adequate President of Afghanistan. I mean that KGB General Najibullah. But
listen, Aliev and Shevardnadz[5]e
also had higher ranks than Colonels and both of them were also in KGB. After
that glorious Bill Clinton encouraged Intifada of Al-Azhar University [6]and
before September 11 empowered Taliban in Afghanistan and Arafat in Palestine.
We know what happened after that. Then we remember President Bush getting rid
of Saddam who was terrib;le and a tyrant but instead of one mad tiger we got
10 000 mad rats as a result. I had an honour of talking with Mr. Bush about
that just before the invasion of Iraq, but our dialog was absolutely useless.
Now Al-Qaida has a perfect training ground in Iraq. — All right, let us forget the past, but what do
the US President and his Secretary of State are demonstrating today? it is
lile a weird ballet. They are clearly indecisive and lost. Nobody expects
that from a real decision-makers’ club[7]. — Listen, what ballet? The last example is
Pervez Musharraf and Pakistan. Musharaf was the only man that was capable of
keeping the Islamists under contol in Pakistan, the country with some 70 to
80 nuclear warheads. Within the frameworks of democracy. Not to mention Afghanistan.
It is all very clear. And as of today Barack Husseinovich Obama[8]
and Ms. Clinton are strangling Israel with their own hands by trying to
zombify Palestinian statehood. I say “to zombify” because one cannot
re-animate the dead corpse. One can only zombify it. ____________________________
Look,
nobody learnt any lessons. After September 11 Obama joyfully said: “And now
let us erect a mosque on Ground Zero! That will demonstrate our democratic
values!” That mosque would be the monument of Osama bin laden’s victory.
After his speech in Cairo... during which he sincerely gave his hand to the
Arab world and expected it to be shaken so that he would become the leader of
Islamic world as well. And let me quote what Egyptian newspapers wrote after
that: “White dog or black dog – it is still a dog”. So politically incorrect!
But that was their reaction to the Cairo speech of the US President ____________________________
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We have a wonderful ambassador in Cairo, one of our strongest ambassadors in
the Arab world. That is Mikhail Bogdanov whose daddy was well-known in some
other spheres. You know, when General Leonid Bogdanov paid a visit to a
certain country there was usually a coup there that followed. Afghanistan was
on of the examples. But that was 30 years ago. I do not think we have any
other ways left but I would enthusiastically welcome if the treasures of the
Cairo Museum that are not stolen yet would be moved somewhere like our
Hermitage Museum... We
used to play those games and thank God we stopped that because the results
were not good. Last time that was a joint operation in Somalia during the
fall of Siad Barre, for which we were criticized by everyone. That was the
joint rescue operation performed by the Green Berets, our GRU Spetsnaz and
French combat divers. We were just evacuating all whites from there as well
as the Chinese and Japanese no matter what their origins and statehood was.
After that our Western partners got medals while our own soldiers were
“awarded’ with cross-interrogation regarding their possible “high treason” in
favour of the Americans during the battles in the streets of Mogadishu. ____________________________
To read the whole article which is, unfortunately,
available in Russian only, click one of the below buttons Originally published
at: http://www.expert.ru/2011/02/3/sovet-kota-leopolda/
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[1] Mikhain Suslov was a soviet statesman
and one of the chief ideologists of the
USSR in 1944-1976 (Ed.)
[2] We are sorry for translating that
phrase but that is what he said. Do not forget that he is Russian and Russia
does not have anything resembling our “political correctness” (Ed.)
[3] This is probably an example of a very
specific Russian humour (Ed.)
[4] Here Satanovsky uses Russian
expression “Obkom” – an abbreviation for the Provincial Committee of the
Communist Party. Today it is an ironical Russian expression to denote any
decision-making club whose decisions and opinions are not to be questioned.
Those who use it often use the expression “Washingtonsky Obkom” that is exactly
translated as”Washington Provincial Committee of the Communist Party” (Ed.)
[5] Aliev and Shevardnadze are
ex-Presidents of Azerbaijan and Georgia knpown for their service in KGB during
the Soviet period and vocal pro-Americanism after the end of the USSR (Ed.)
[6] Egyptian university that produces
radical Islamic clerics and ideologists (Ed.)
[7] Here the interviewer again used the
expression “obkom” (see above explanation)
[8] It is ironical Russian tradition to apply traditional Russian patronymics to the famous non-Russians. Here it is a clear hint to Muslim background of Mr. Obama’s father (Ed.)