Obama’s trick in Cairo University — Arab media preview

AlHayat poll [left side­bar] shows that the major­ity of the Arabs (34% till writ­ing these lines) think that Obama’s speech is only words well put together but don’t change the reality.

On the same news­pa­per Walid Shuqair acknowl­edge the impor­tance of the speech say­ing that this the first time a US Admin­is­tra­tion includes a self-criticism on its pol­icy in the region … However:

This speech was incom­plete regard­ing the Pales­tin­ian — Israeli con­flict. It shows that despite Obama’s semi-firm tone about the con­tin­u­ing build­ing of set­tle­ments in Israel and ignor­ing the two-state solu­tion, the US — Israeli rela­tion never been sub­jected to some kind of preview.

To improve the US image in the Arab and Mus­lim world is to improve the poli­cies and not a failed PR campaign.

We can feel this (Good … but) men­tal­ity in Bari Atwan op-ed on Al-Quds Alarabi also saying:

There is no doubt that Obama’s inten­tions are good, and his desire for rec­on­cil­i­a­tion is seri­ous, but inten­tions alone are not enough,

For Subhi Hadidi: Obama is try­ing to sell a bad wine in new bottles.

The writer crit­i­cizes the White House Blog entry “

The US – Islam rela­tion can be sim­ply put as: Total US bias to Israel. The writer did not count the role of the same US pres­i­dents in legit­imiz­ing the Israeli occu­pa­tion of Palestine.

As for Qatari news­pa­per AL-Sharq editorial:

In our opin­ion, the con­tent of Obama’s speech did not include a fun­da­men­tal change in Amer­i­can poli­cies on the Pales­tin­ian issue. It focused mostly on the need to con­sider Israel a “Jew­ish state”, which is the same agenda of the Israeli right extrem­ists by link­ing the sta­bil­ity and the devel­op­ment in the region with rec­og­nize and nor­mal­ize the rela­tions with Israel.

Al-Bayan gives us a gen­eral view on the speech saying:

Over­all his speech was like rec­om­men­da­tions, rather than promises, but it is clear that he does not have the for­mula to solve the prob­lems and the hatred between the Islamic nation in gen­eral and espe­cially the Arab; and the United States. He did not come with any­thing new.

Al-Arab AlY­oum says:

The speech did not reach the expec­ta­tion level, con­tains many already known and agreed upon issues, with­out the annun­ci­a­tion of deci­sions or pro­grams related to the these issues.

Al-Khaleej asks: What Obama wants?

Stop the resis­tance against Israel and much more than the Arab Peace Ini­tia­tive, the recog­ni­tion of Israel by Arab coun­tries, which means more con­ces­sions from the Arabs.

The details arti­cle pub­lished on Mid­dle East Online writ­ten by Adil Al-Georgi called “

The real­ity is that Obama’s project matches exactly the Big Mid­dle East project which is on table since Clinton’s Admin­is­tra­tion (1992–2000):

The Amer­i­can pres­i­dent spoke about democ­racy, while he is a guest of a Pres­i­dent in office since 1981, and was a guest of the King (Saudi), a rem­nants from the Mid­dle Ages, any cred­i­bil­ity to his words about democ­racy, jus­tice and dignity?