Praise is due to the New York Times. And traffic, too.
Alaa Al Aswany on today’s Times Op-Ed page:
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.) We expected him
to address the reports that the Israeli military illegally used white
phosphorus against the people of Gaza. We also wanted Mr. Obama, who
studied law and political science at the greatest American
universities, to recognize what we see as a simple, essential truth:
the right of people in an occupied territory to resist military
occupation.
But Mr. Obama has been silent.
