Democracy in the Middle East? Not so much

Remember back in June of 2009, President Obama delivered a speech to Muslims in Cairo about democracy in the Middle East?

How has that worked out for the President thus far?

According to White House Spokesman Jay Carney, the President will deliver a speech concerning democracy in the Middle East sometime in the next few weeks. I’m curious if the President will talk about any of the real issues that have taken place?

Over the last five months, the uprising throughout the Middle East has resulted in the overthrow of the governments in Tunisia and Egypt, an illegal NATO air strike over Libya and countless other countries including Syria, Yemen and Bahrain experiencing similar revolutions.

I suppose in some regard, the President got what he wanted.

As the mainstream news media supported Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, they paid little attention to the Muslim Brotherhood presence in Egypt during the protests. It seems as though it was just a funny coincidence that after Mubarak resigned, the Muslim Brotherhood presence continued to grow and its clerical leader, Yusuf al-Qaradawi returned to Egypt for the first time in twenty years and spoke to the crowd of protesters in Cairo, encouraging Muslims to unite, work against Israel and open the borders to the Gaza Strip.

What happened? The Gaza Strip was opened up. Hamas and Fatah formed a new alliance and for the first time in thirty years, Iran and Egypt began to have diplomatic relations. That is Shiite and Sunni Muslims respectively.

But apparently, the news media is looking at this as forms of “democracy”.

It really isn’t. Qaradawi has vowed to see the extermination of Jews in Israel. On January 28^th, 2009 Qaradawi told Al-Jazeera news: “Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the Jews people who would punish them for their corruption...The last punishment were carried out by Hitler. By means of all the things he did to them – even though they exaggerated this issue – he managed to put them in their place. This was divine punishment for them...Allah willing; the next time will be at the hand of the believers.”

Additionally, Qaradawi has outspokenly supported Shiite Muslim terrorist groups including Hezbollah, because they also want to destroy Israel. Iran, which also backs Hezbollah, has largely been outspoken on its attempts to destroy Israel and while President Obama diverted the establishment of missile sites in Poland and the Czech Republic, this actually favored Iran more time to its developing nuclear program. Not to mention that Iran has missiles of its own that it received from North Korea.

Is this President Obama's idea of democracy in the Middle East? Surely he can't be that ignorant as to what is really going on over there? A completely destabilized region of the world largely becoming infested in radical Islam and terrorist groups? For whatever reason, the President is completely reluctant to mention anything about the negative developments that have materialized in these countries.

Just imagine Israel is a lamb, surrounded by a pack of wolves. Eventually, the wolves are going to stop circling the lamb and go into attack mode. The United States has seemingly ignored Israel’s repeated calls for help. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated many times, the Middle East looks at Israel as the ‘little Satan’ and the U.S. as the ‘bigger Satan’.

The interesting development of all is the United Nations attempts to recognize Palestine as an independent State by the end of the year. It is possible that President Obama’s ‘so called’ attempts at democracy in the Middle East are to favor a Palestinian nation. The same Palestine that supports Hamas.

The big loser here will be Israel. This is not democracy in the Middle East. This is basically what appears to be the beginnings of a new World War and an extension of the Nazi Holocaust.