but I wonder if I will ever be able someday to declare my love."
An op-ed in the New York Times by ALAA AL ASWANY took my breath away in it's clarity. So clearly illustrating the attitudes in the Middle East towards America.
I want to see as serious effort made in achieving a peace in the Middle East. But, to this point I see we, the US, will walk a line as we have in the past.
We saw Mr. Obama as a symbol of this justice. We welcomed him with almost total enthusiasm until he underwent his first real test: Gaza. Even before he officially took office, we expected him to take a stand against Israel’s war on Gaza. We still hope that he will condemn, if only with simple words, this massacre that killed more than 1,300 Palestinians, many of them civilians. (I don’t know what you call it in other languages, but in Egypt we call this a massacre.)