11 November 2010 By Stephen
Lendman While slaughtering Muslims
abroad, supporting Israeli's illegal occupation and
genocidal Gaza siege, as well as waging domestic war
on Islam, Reuters, on November 9, headlined, "Obama
says US earnest, reaching out to Muslim world,"
saying: From Indonesia, the world's
largest Muslim country, "President Barack Obama said
Tuesday that Washington's effort to reach out to the
Muslim world was earnest and would help improve
security, although he acknowledged that there was
still more work to do." At a news conference with
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhovono, he
said, "With respect to outreach to the Muslim world, I
think that our efforts have been earnest and
sustained. We don't expect that we are going to
completely eliminate some of the misunderstandings and
mistrust that have developed over a long period of
time, but we do think that we're on the right path." On August 31, he wreaked of
duplicitity declaring an "end to the combat mission in
Iraq," saying: "Throughout this remarkable
chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq,
we have met our responsibility." No matter that after two decades
of war, sanctions, occupation, millions of deaths and
displacements, disease, and insecurity, Iraq no longer
exists. Divided in three parts (the Basra south,
Kurdish north, and Baghdad center), it's unsafe,
corrupt, terrorized, tyrannized, contaminated, and
permanently occupied like Afghanistan and wherever
else America shows up, the scourge of the Muslim
world. On November 9, New York Times
writer Sheryl Gay Stolberg headlined, "Obama, in
Indonesia, Criticizes Israel on Housing," saying: "This kind of activity is never
helpful when it comes to peace negotiations, and I'm
concerned that we're not seeing each side make the
extra effort involved to get a breakthrough." More duplicity by a president who
partnered with Israel's occupation project, funds its
wars, supplies billions of dollars in annual aid, more
on request, plus the latest weapons and technology. A
president with no interest in peace or Palestinian
rights. One spurning his own people, especially the
poor, disadvantaged, and millions of American Muslims.
Who chides Netanyahu's construction plan for 1,000 new
homes in the West Bank Ariel settlement, besides 800
more in East Jerusalem (all on stolen land). Who
provides annual aid to fund them. Who now extends
outreach to world Muslims with policies that betray
them. Obama plans a formal November 10
address, either at the University of Indonesia or a
Jakarta mosque, venues that should spurn, not welcome
him. So should Seoul, South Korea when he arrives
Thursday for the G-20 conference, its agenda planning
exploitation, not help for global millions in need,
especially victims of US imperialism and persecuted
Muslims everywhere who reject Obama's rhetoric, the
same fake populism his agenda exposes. Stephen Lendman lives in
Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and
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