Yesterday, President Donald Trump received in the Oval Office of the White House a terrorist formerly linked to Al-Qaeda, the organization responsible for the September 11 attacks, the terrorist attack that killed more than three thousand Americans.
Bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, who was pursued by American forces for 10 years, ended up dead in Pakistan. At the time of September 11, the United States invaded Iraq under the pretext of having weapons of mass destruction there to fuel terrorism.
It wasn’t there. It was a flimsy pretext to seize Iraq’s oil wells, overthrow dictator Saddam Hussein and hang him after a show trial. Then President George W. Bush declared victory.
Until recently, the United States was offering a large reward to anyone who helped it capture Al-Hamad Al-Sharaa, born in Saudi Arabia to Syrian parents, who also committed atrocities as an Islamic State fighter.
It turns out that Bashar al-Assad’s bloody dictatorship in Syria has finally collapsed. Whoever rules the country today as an unelected president is Al-Hamd Al-Sharaa. The terrorist, who never ceased to be, gave way to the former terrorist whom Trump welcomed.
With support from Türkiye and Saudi Arabia, Al-Sharaa facelifted his image, began wearing Western clothes, and signaled to Trump that he could do business and align with US interests. Trump is drooling.
On the other hand, Trump threatens to invade Venezuela, which has the largest oil reserves in the world, to overthrow the regime of Nicolas Maduro, whom he accuses of drug-related terrorism. There are warships and planes in the Caribbean Sea waiting for Trump’s order.
Yesterday’s terrorist may become tomorrow’s ally, don’t forget. A good terrorist is not always a dead terrorist. A good terrorist suspect is not always a dead suspect. It depends on who calls them. This depends on how they act.
During his life, Yasser Arafat, born in Egypt to Palestinian parents, was accused by Israel, the United States and other Western powers of being a terrorist. Leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, died in Paris in 2004.
But ten years ago, Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize along with Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres. In an agreement sponsored by the United States of America, they pledged to join efforts to achieve peace between the two peoples.
The agreement did not result in anything, except for the killing of Rabin at the hands of Jewish extremists, and the political isolation of Arafat.
All columns from Noblat’s blog at Metropoles
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