Haikal: The U.S. to stay in Iraq for 12 years

This is pub­lished on many Arab news­pa­pers today, the speech of Moham­mad Has­sanein Haikal in which he explains the sit­u­a­tion in the Mid­dle East and Arab coun­tries, sadly we don’t have the full speech except some brief­ings and Three min­utes video.

Iraq

On the U.S. occu­pa­tion of Iraq, Haikal said that the U.S. goal and its pol­icy is the long pres­ence in Iraq to seize the resources [Oil], despite the coura­geous Iraqi resis­tance and the Amer­i­can eco­nomic losses in Iraq.

Haikal said: “The prob­lem is that Wash­ing­ton is try­ing to inter­na­tion­al­ize the war in Iraq”, expect­ing the pres­ence of Arab mil­i­tary forces in Iraq in the com­ing two years under the slo­gan “Arab solidarity”.

The Amer­i­cans would not with­draw from Iraq for 12 years, because they are occu­py­ing one of the largest Oil exporter coun­try in the world and the Amer­i­cans want all the Oil in the world.The U.S. is a coun­try with poli­cies and insti­tu­tions and not a “Banana coun­try” as we are.

Lebanon

Rais­ing Hezbollah’s com­mu­ni­ca­tions net­work was a very seri­ous cri­sis which started with the assas­si­na­tion of the party’s most pow­er­ful com­man­der Imad Mugh­niyah, whom secu­rity ser­vices of three Arab coun­tries coop­er­ated to kill him after he defeated Israel.

The pro-government brought a mili­tia of 600 men and with the sup­port­ive Amer­i­can and French posi­tion they thought Hezbol­lah will take any action. Hezbol­lah moved deci­sively because the party is fac­ing a ques­tion of life or death.

Syria

Haikal explains that he has a prob­lem with the rul­ing regime in Syria because of the “inheriting-system”. I am wor­ried about the regime in Syria it is the ther­mome­ter of the whole region. Assad the father was a very clever man he knew that there is no use of nego­ti­at­ing with Israel.

He explained that Iran is sup­port­ing Syria because of the absence Egypt­ian role, but Syria must find it’s own geo­graphic weight in the region.

As for the Syria — Israel peace nego­ti­a­tions, he said that Olmert is not seri­ous he is just win­ing time.

Arabs

We in the Arab world, we don’t know where we are head­ing to and what we want. I don’t under­stand why Egypt don’t rec­og­nize Iran, and why there no diplo­matic rela­tions between both coun­tries so far.

I don’t under­stand why we as Arabs afraid from Iran obtain­ing a nuclear bomb after eight years from now, while we are not afraid from 150 Israeli bombs ready to be used.